Car. Hell Yes!

[Bebpo]

I just got a car in Fallout 2 and it's pimped out FAST, FURIOUS AND UMMM MORE FAST.  NO MORE SLOW WORLD MAP WALKING.

Why the ____ wasn't this in Fallout 3.


PS.  Unlimited storage space in Trunk.  Again.  Why not in Fallout 3???

[Bebpo]

oh, you were gone Borys so you missed me playing my first non-Bioware wrpg with Fallout 3 (and then Fallout 1, and now I'm halfway through Fallout 2.  Will do a big lttp for the series when I finish 2).  I had a lot of issues with the game so I used a ton of mods including the Motorcycle mod.

But the motorcycle mod was kinda glitchy (maybe I used the wrong one.  it didn't look like those pics).  To take the motorcycle off you had to hit the tab button menu and it was sooooo glitchy and would randomly come up after 20 seconds.  Also you'd take immense fall damage all the time so I had to keep quicksaving.  But it still helped for mapping out the world map so I could just quick travel everywhere. 

But Fallout 2's version where you still travel but FAST and have awesome trunk >>>>>> the mod.  Bethseda should've had a real car but they suck at game design so oh well...


PS.  Glad to have you back.  Been too long!!

[Bebpo]

Have not been yet!

Been through Arroyo, Klamath, The Den, Modoc, Vault City, Gecko and done all the sidequests so far.  After leaving Gecko I went back and fixed up my new ride and I'm now heading down to Redding, Broken Hills, New Reno and New California Republic.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I've been trying today to get into the first Fallout with difficulty. I can't seem to make a character that isn't complete garbage. Also, the game is way too low res in its standard form, and waaaay too high res with the high res patch. I wish you could choose a res, because playing the game in 1680x1050 is just insane.

[Bebpo]

Play in 800x600.  That's what the high res patch recommends and that's what looks the best.

Also yeah, small guns + speech + lockpick.  Make sure you have high AG for action points and high INT for skill points.  Once you get small guns up a decent way so you never miss, start pumping into Energy Weapons since they make up the last 1/2 or 1/3rd of the game and destroy all.

Fallout 1 is my favorite of the 3 so far.  Once I beat it I dove right back in and played 8 hours straight of a 2nd game that became unbeatable because I tried to speedrun it & dick around and those don't work together.  Plus my character sucked.

[Smooth Groove]

Isn't it weird that modders are more capable of creating attractive character models than Bethesda?

[Smooth Groove]

Play in 800x600.  That's what the high res patch recommends and that's what looks the best.

Also yeah, small guns + speech + lockpick.  Make sure you have high AG for action points and high INT for skill points.  Once you get small guns up a decent way so you never miss, start pumping into Energy Weapons since they make up the last 1/2 or 1/3rd of the game and destroy all.

Fallout 1 is my favorite of the 3 so far.  Once I beat it I dove right back in and played 8 hours straight of a 2nd game that became unbeatable because I tried to speedrun it & dick around and those don't work together.  Plus my character sucked.

Looks like you're finally starting to get PC rpgs.  You should try the Baldur's Gate series next. 

[Bebpo]

Nope.  Haven't played any wrpgs besides Kotor/Mass Effect/Fallout series and 10 hours of Oblivion which I hated.

Wouldn't mind playing BG, Icewind Dale, Planescape, NWN2, down the line.  Will play Kotor II when the fanpatch that restores the last part of the game is released (private RC is already done, so public release can't be too far).

[Smooth Groove]

Baldur's Gate 2 + the expansion is superior to the original in every way but your experience in BG2 would be much fuller if you had played BG1 first. 

[bork]

Isn't it weird that modders are more capable of creating attractive character models than Bethesda?

It was like that in Morrowind too.  I remember reading that one particular modder created a bunch of new character model types with faces that not only looked much better than Bethesda's, but used less polygons too!

Seeing as how I still haven't played too much of Fallout 3 (want the 360 version, have the PS3 version), maybe I will just wait until I get myself a decent PC and play that version instead.  By that time maybe all the modding issues with the latest patch will be sorted.

[Smooth Groove]

Isn't it weird that modders are more capable of creating attractive character models than Bethesda?

It was like that in Morrowind too.  I remember reading that one particular modder created a bunch of new character model types with faces that not only looked much better than Bethesda's, but used less polygons too!

Seeing as how I still haven't played too much of Fallout 3 (want the 360 version, have the PS3 version), maybe I will just wait until I get myself a decent PC and play that version instead.  By that time maybe all the modding issues with the latest patch will be sorted.

There is one problem with FO3 - it's overflown with mods, there are literally hundreds of them already.

Not only that, they aren't even as easy to install as the Oblivion mods.  When I last played Fallout 3, all I used were some texture replacement mods and a simply mod that makes the Pipboy look better.

The motorcycle mods look pretty cool though.  I think I will install them the next time I play. 

[Cyanista]

mods do not count as a reason to play a game. 

[bork]

Isn't it weird that modders are more capable of creating attractive character models than Bethesda?

It was like that in Morrowind too.  I remember reading that one particular modder created a bunch of new character model types with faces that not only looked much better than Bethesda's, but used less polygons too!

Seeing as how I still haven't played too much of Fallout 3 (want the 360 version, have the PS3 version), maybe I will just wait until I get myself a decent PC and play that version instead.  By that time maybe all the modding issues with the latest patch will be sorted.

There is one problem with FO3 - it's overflown with mods, there are literally hundreds of them already. My advice to you and anybody is to play vanilla FO3 + offical patches + DLC first.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaybe use some HD textures mods but only the best ones (highest number of votes on Fallout3Nexus).

I'd just be interested in some of the texture mods, a few character/outfit mods, and that motorcycle mod.  That's about it.

[Bebpo]

Fallout 1 & 2 are cool and all that but why not try the real deal A.K.A. Planescape Torment?

I actually sort of agree with this statement but I will save my comments on the franchise as a whole until I finish #2.  Will play Planescape eventually.  Sooner than later.

[Bebpo]

Going by Borys's writeup I can see why everyone prefers Planescape.

If the other games are anything like Fallout 2, then talking to people with dialogue trees and solving quests through discussion >>>>>>>> solving quests through romps in shitty dungeons with a very average battle system.

[Draft]

Fallout 2's car driving music is like, my favorite game music ever.

[pilonv1]

I would play the first Baldurs Gate because I can't remember the last time I played a game that so perfectly captured the atmosphere of fear of wandering around as a low level character. The feeling of finding an awesome weapon (or say the Ankheg armour on the farm) and finally being able to visit the areas you couldn't before is fantastic.

I'm probably one of the few who enjoyed BG1 more than BG2.

[chronovore]

I miss Autoduel.

[Bebpo]

I don't like how when you become a made man in reno for any one group the rest of the mafias shoot you on site   Since I wanted to do all the quests, I'd do all the quests for one mafia and become a made man and then immediately kill that entire mafia family.  Then I'd do the quests for the next one and kill them and repeat.  I'm on the last family now and this time I'll just stay a made man for them since everyone else is dead.