Fallout 3 Thread

[MrAngryFace]

If I just discovered the citadel, how much longer do I have to beat the game? I'm trading it for SR2 actually, and it has to ship out on Monday.

Youre very close if you stick to main quests. You'll have to go get the GECK and then from there its very fast. In fact, for those in the thread who are looking to do more quests, this is the best time to not follow the main quest. Of course if youre good karma you'll wanna do the GECK mission to find Fawkes so you can do side missions with a super mutant friend.

[MrAngryFace]

dunwich building was spookier than the entirety of condemned 2

took the animal friend perk because i was tired of every nuisance mole rat impeding my fast travel

plu yao gaui are relentless

fought my first deathclaw, they're no joke - tore my shit up and i'm at level 15

Deathclaws tore me up at level 19 in tesla armor, its crazy haha

[cool breeze]

Dunwich building was awesome.  If it wasn't awesome, I would have been a bit ticked off that I did all that for a stupid bobblehead.

And currently at lvl 20 (I haven't played it in the past few days) I can slaughter Deathclaws like it's nothing at all.  Three shotgun blasts to the face and they're dead.  I even went to the Deathclaw cave and fought the whole lot of them.

[Eric P]

dunwich building was spookier than the entirety of condemned 2

took the animal friend perk because i was tired of every nuisance mole rat impeding my fast travel

plu yao gaui are relentless

fought my first deathclaw, they're no joke - tore my shit up and i'm at level 15

Deathclaws tore me up at level 19 in tesla armor, its crazy haha

yeah they're nuts

i kind of missed shooting their eyes out then fleeing the map

[MyNameIsMethodis]

If I just discovered the citadel, how much longer do I have to beat the game? I'm trading it for SR2 actually, and it has to ship out on Monday.

Youre very close if you stick to main quests. You'll have to go get the GECK and then from there its very fast. In fact, for those in the thread who are looking to do more quests, this is the best time to not follow the main quest. Of course if youre good karma you'll wanna do the GECK mission to find Fawkes so you can do side missions with a super mutant friend.

I can't get Fawkes though because that stupid bug with Charon (and you can't throw away his contract smh) But thanks for the answer, i'll finish it today probably then.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

There beat it. For some reason the game decided to be nice to me and let me recruit Fawkes

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that whole sequence was awesome, blowing up the President lol . Also the Optimus Prime scene was fucking awesome too. Everything was awesome until you actually enter the memorial, then you get to kill some envlace soldiers and one easy "boss" as the epic end fight followed by a stupid ending. smh. What did you guys do? I killed myself then reloaded and had Lyon die. I liked the first one better. The ending depressed me but I really wish we got to see what the purifier actually did instead of a stupid black and white montage.

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Oh well.

[MrAngryFace]

I sacrificed myself, I cant do evil things in games that much. Feels weird

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Yeah same here, I can't do evil things either

[Brehvolution]

Those Talon asshole are raping my stimpacks.
They come in numbers. I'm starting to get cap strapped by stimpacks.

The game has crashed on me a few times lately. It can come from just pulling up the pip boy or moving into a gate. I'm always saving now before a gate.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Don't worry, the game crashed at me in the last five minutes of the game 

[Great Rumbler]

*Warning: Fallout 3 ending spoilers*

This is probably one of the best videos I've ever seen on Youtube:

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[TakingBackSunday]

Damn, I was in the Archives stealin the Declaration and more, and one of the robots totally zapped that Sydney girl to dust...jesus

It worked out great though--I got the entire reward AND got her 10mm RPG gun without taking a dip in karma. woot

[MyNameIsMethodis]

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That robot ending was a buggy POS for me. Paladin Var?? kept getting stuck, so the other team members wouldn't move, and Optimus Prime would just get stuck waiting for Lyons to catch up. Smh.

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[Great Rumbler]

Dude, did you buy the extra special bug-filled version or something?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Probably. Glad I don't own it anymore and instead own SR2

although I won't lie, I kinda miss it in the same way you miss beating an ex-gf when she bites your dick

[Brehvolution]

I just got the Declaration of Independence back to rivet city. Bill of Rights too. I can't tell if he gave me a reward or just gave it to the girl partner. Maybe I missed something. Should I have killed her just prior?

Things are looking up in the wastes.

Any advice going forward from the EB elite to just some n00b?

[MrAngryFace]

I got a little TOO immersed in the world of Fallout 3. I kept having fucked up dreams.

[cool breeze]

Dreams are nothing.  Try sitting and class and thinking "I should really tell Gob about his family in the Underworld, maybe I can even help him out to go there if I buy his contract" or even planning where to go in the future.

[The Sceneman]

okay Im completely in the dark about this game. What kind of game is it? Im quite interested, all this discussion makes it sound very cool. Call me a nub, I never played a Fallout game

[littlemathletics]

Is the PC version an unstable piece of shit for anyone else?

[Brehvolution]

Is the PC version an unstable piece of shit for anyone else?

No but sometimes, yes. it cums and goes.

[The Fake Shemp]

okay Im completely in the dark about this game. What kind of game is it? Im quite interested, all this discussion makes it sound very cool. Call me a nub, I never played a Fallout game

First person RPG.  It's badass.

[demi]

I just got the Declaration of Independence back to rivet city. Bill of Rights too. I can't tell if he gave me a reward or just gave it to the girl partner. Maybe I missed something. Should I have killed her just prior?

Things are looking up in the wastes.

Any advice going forward from the EB elite to just some n00b?

It splits between the two but yeah you could kill her prior if you want

As for Vault 112, I think thats where the story is and if you didnt do the story quests prior then it completely skips them - but thats not much concern if you dont care for achievements, i think the story missions before are lame, Tranqulity Lane rox

[Brehvolution]

I did all the story quests and 112 looks to be the place to find more info on the dad. I just read earlier in this thread that 112 changes some stuff.

[TakingBackSunday]

Yeah just did Tranquility Lane today

h-h-h-holy shit

awesome part is awesome

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The Chinese invasion...fucking hilarious

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[Joe Molotov]

The Tranquility Lane bad karma path is awesome too. I did both of them, for the kicks.

[TakingBackSunday]

The AI is fucking dumb in Tranquility Lane though--I killed Martha Simpson in the middle of the street and then Mr. Nuesbumb or whatever was just like "Good Mornin', kiddo!"

lol

[Don Flamenco]

The AI is fucking dumb in Tranquility Lane though--I killed Martha Simpson in the middle of the street and then Mr. Nuesbumb or whatever was just like "Good Mornin', kiddo!"

lol

yeah, they gotta work on that.  Killed all of megaton, except one person.  Went and talked to them and they said something like "Oh look, it's the bad guy!  Don't cause any trouble now.  So....'sup?"

[TakingBackSunday]

For some reason I always remembered Morrowind NPC's running after you if you did something wrong, for like, the entire game.

Granted, I played it like 5 years ago.

[Robo]

I gave drugs to some dude in Rivet City and found him dead a few hours later. 

[TakingBackSunday]

I gave drugs to some dude in Rivet City and found him dead a few hours later. 

Is it the owner of that chem store?

[Robo]

Yeah.  His wife doesn't even acknowledge that he's dead.

[TakingBackSunday]

It's all that jet in her system 

[Brehvolution]

Found my dad. Now I'm being his bitch. Got into a fight with my first enclave dude. But the game crashed as I pulled up the pip boy to change guns.

Until tomorrow cums.

[Brehvolution]

Oh shit, I forgot, I did the tranquility shit and that was just.....
A slashers' gotta do what a slasher has got to do.

[demi]

I didnt even slash anyone, I found the old lady who was like OMG SECRET and I found the musical items and just guessed the sequence

[MrAngryFace]

ditto, the fact that all the musical items are in the same room within reaching distance, and the bzzt noise pretty much tells you whats up.

[Joe Molotov]

I slashed everyone, then activated the computer, which brought them all back to life to be killed again.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/420-Fallout-3

Totally agree.

[Eel O'Brian]

that guy reminds me of that fast talker who used to do the micromachine commercials on saturday mornings

fuck that guy

[TakingBackSunday]

He hates everything though, and his favorite game is Portal

[Jansen]

this game is badass.

only asstards will hate it.

[MrAngryFace]

I loved Fallout 3, goty for me by a mile

Pretty sure the escapist's goty is saints row 2, which i totally understand, its definitely one of my favorites of the year

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I can't wait for Saints Row 2

  Johnny Gat

[MrAngryFace]

Johnny Gat is awesome

[Mrbob]

I love how you can run off course in this game and still find things to do.

I planned on hitting up the Vault Tec headquarters to find out where other vaults are located, and got sidetracked searching in downtown DC.  Found a hotel couldn't get up to the upper level so I left and hit the hospital down the road.  Burned through the super mutants and and the top level of the hospital found a door outside with a passage way back to the top level of the hotel I couldn't get into.  Went inside and hit the Reilly's Ranges side mission.  Took a long ass time too fighting my way to the top of the building where the rangers were located.  Got to the top, helped all the rangers escape, and now have to find the camp so I can get my reward!   

The nice thing I hit paradise falls right before I went on this epic sidequest, speeched my way into the place without having to get any slaves, and talked to the guy about giving him the chinese assault rifles.  I found about a good 10 of them in the hotel fighting my way to the rangers and gave them away.  I better get some sweet ass gear from this guy for giving him 20 chinese assault rifles or I'm blowing his head off with my shotty! 

I feel sorry for the people who just blow through the main quest and do nothing else.  There are so many cool subplots in the wasteland which you miss out on if you don't search around. 

[Brehvolution]

I found this doctor out in the wastes. Bought a couple stimpacks and started walking away. We got attacked by raiders and they killed the doctor before I killed them all. I searched the doctor and  I got 53 stimpacks off him plus like 25 mentats 22 rad-x and around 450 caps.

I saw mah dad die. :'( I got my power armor training.
I'm currently on Murder Pass toward Vault 87 to get some GECK. I'm really loving the scoped .44. Spladow! Heads be separatin'.

This game is starting to effect my work. It's keeping me up too late.

[Robo]

Is there an easy way to get a lot of bobby pins without scavenging for hours?  I have nearly 100 lockpick and, after looting the ever-living shit out of Rivet City, 0 bobby pins.

[Mrbob]

Yeah I wish I knew.  I have 90 locks picked, and am down to 18 pins.  Getting a bit worried.

I installed Fallout 3 onto my 20GB hdd, 5.9gb.  Game loading is slightly faster now, but not by much.  However, hearing no noise out of my system at all while the game is playing is great. 

[Eel O'Brian]

ghouls often have bobby pins on them, go on a ghoul hunt in the subways for a little while

[MyNameIsMethodis]

ghouls often have bobby pins on them, go on a ghoul hunt in the subways for a little while

 

[Robo]

That's what I was trying to avoid.   Doesn't anyone sell them?  How the hell did I have so many at one point?

[muckhole]

Same boat. Who knew bobby-pins would be so in-demand after a nuclear war? I keep hoping I'll stumble across an unbreakable lockpick like they had in Oblivion.

[Jansen]

when in the hell will i be strong enough to wipe out towns?

also where the F is better armour?

the plasma rifle you can get from the replicated man quest is badass. i just wish i knew where to get more ammo for it 

[demi]

That's what I was trying to avoid.   Doesn't anyone sell them?  How the hell did I have so many at one point?

Cause you're absolute shit at lockpicking.

[Brehvolution]

Hey look! A raider from the wastes posts here on EB.

[Eel O'Brian]

"hide from meeeeee?  this is gonna be fun!"

[Brehvolution]

Did I just finish the game?

I followed the robot to the purifier. Decided to go in the rom and put in the code. But nothing seemed to happen. I kept taking rad-x and shit but eventually I succumbed to the radiation.

But then it cut to an end scene where it said the purifier was activated, though I wasn't sure I put in the right code to begin with.

The credits rolled.

Are there multiple endings? I haven't even touched the north east side of the map.

Fawkes is by my side. Did I end this prematurely?

[Joe Molotov]

It's over whenever you're done with it. Reload a save game, start up a new game and be evil, whatever.

[Brehvolution]

My question is, was this an ending?
The credits rolled so I can only assume this is one way to end the game. I have so much more to do. I have yet to see Tenpenney tower much less the total to right quarter of the map.