Who's getting Fallout 3?

zegh · Post by **zegh** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:20 pm

Nemon wrote:AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!

(I just lost karma because of spamming)

oh look, a norskegian!

there, solidarity karma loss!

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:23 pm

Fallout 3 CS on its way...

http://bethsoft.com/bgsforums/

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:20 pm

sweeeet

i might actually have to go get the game now XD

aro101 · Post by **aro101** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:34 pm

Fallout Rebuilt, or rather Washington Rebuilt, lol.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:35 pm

man, we already have washington. Bmore ftw!

(for the record, baltimore would make a kickass expansion. tons of interesting stuff around here)

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:37 pm

I don't like necromancing but... am I the only one who thought Fallout 3 was a way better game than Oblivion?

Fugu23 · Post by **Fugu23** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:39 am

Nope. I've so far enjoyed it tons. The atmosphere is much better for starters.

Anyone gotten the GECK yet?

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:17 am

Yeah, almost exactly like the Oblivion CS, but tailored to fallout. A bit more powerful too, new scripting functions etc. Very very capable, with enough effort it could essentially handle almost anything one could want to make with a single player game. And the game has a decent ammount of non-scorched assets for building normal environments, speedtrees and all. So you could build a first person shooter/rpg in a non apocalyptic world. You could probably do a medeival/fantasy kind of world too, but without shields (unless there's a way to improvise them)

The game itself I find absolutely fantastic. Feels much more alive (albeit mutated) than oblivions or morrowind's world. People and groups wandering the wastes and randomly getting into fights, dismemberment, traveling merchants. Quests can be solved multiple ways, still not quite to the level of fallout 1/2 but I found with them, too many quests either became broken or unavailable way too easily if the player did the wrong thing.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:17 pm

Eraser wrote: The game itself I find absolutely fantastic. Feels much more alive (albeit mutated) than oblivions or morrowind's world. People and groups wandering the wastes and randomly getting into fights, dismemberment, traveling merchants. Quests can be solved multiple ways, still not quite to the level of fallout 1/2 but I found with them, too many quests either became broken or unavailable way too easily if the player did the wrong thing.

That's exactly what I thought. I also love the fact that in Fallout they didn't litter the gameworld with standard dungeons like in Oblivion. Every location is unique and interesting and has it's place in the world. And I love the fact that I can plant explosives.

daedren · Post by **daedren** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:47 pm

Just got it yesterday, I hope I can try it next week.
Though I prefer TES world, so Fallout is just another game. Never will get a game who beats any of TES.

EDIT: I've just started it our yesterday. Still in Tutorial, and I can say I'm pretty liking this game...! This much resembles oblivion engine system, and as I'm a hard fan of TES, I'm really enjoying the similarities between them.
Think my holidays are gonna be great...

Zalzidrax · Post by **Zalzidrax** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:09 pm

Add another vote to the hella fun side of the equation. They corrected many of the mistakes they made with oblivion while keeping the good stuff: They used a better variety of voice actors that made each character seem unique, made each location unique and interesting, and managed to keep away from the generic dungeon feel. Well some of the subways get a little monotonous after a while, but still. Exploring is a lot more fun than it was in oblvion. And somehow, shooting zombies in the face with a shotgun in slow-mo as the are leaping toward your character takes a long time to get old.

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:46 pm

I absolutely loved it, but I beat EVERY quest (I checked the game guide at barnes and noble because I thought I HAD to be missing tons of stuff, only missed two small ones) after only three weeks. the "hundreds of hours" argument is bullshit.

Again, though, I loved it to pieces while it lasted - it's just absolutely nowhere near as many as gameplay hours as elder scrolls. Sure you can argue that each quest is much deeper and can be solved in four different ways, but I kind of forgot about that depth when I HAD FINISHED EVERY FREAKING ONE IN JUST THREE WEEKS. :'(
Also, as far as I know, almost no quests branch off in different directions depending on your decisions; it's just "good karma ending, bad karma ending, neutral karma ending" for the most part.

And what'd I do after I realized i'd beat an entire bethesda game in under a month?

Went back to playing Morrowind, of course.

Post by **Haplo** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:28 pm

sirwootalot123 wrote:only three weeks. the "hundreds of hours" argument is bullshit.

Three weeks = over one thousand hours

Beave · Post by **Beave** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:29 am

aro101 wrote:Fallout Rebuilt, or rather Washington Rebuilt, lol.

Probably would be North America Rebuilt (NAR) as Tamriel is a whole continent.

Or, perhaps we could expand this project to the whole planet of TES: Nirn Rebuilt (NR)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then it would be Earth Rebuilt (ER) for FO3.

Of course, then we might not have the lore to built all of the other continents (Akavir, Yokuda, Aldmeris...)

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:17 am

I don't think TR is gonna branch out to Fallout. TR modders are still free to join a Fallout project as well if they want of course (many of our best modders are active in several projects).

Beave · Post by **Beave** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:29 pm

Well, I certainly didn't think TR was going to go out of the ES world (even though I heard something about FO3 being Oblivion with guns). Although, you never know about Nirn Rebuilt

...

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:34 pm

Nirn Rebuilt?

The starting ambition was "create the entire continent for Morrowind", it was then toned way down to "create one province per game", so it's not going to be toned up to "create the entire world, mwahahahaha!"

Even if TES5 comes with even better landscape generators that do a perfect job for creating the entire world, the concepting, modeling, texturing and animating required to create all the stuff that will go in said landmass is staggering.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:49 pm

I got Fallout 3 for Christmas... its a shame that the textures.bsa file won't install

bamman62 · Post by **bamman62** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:10 pm

I got Fallout 3 with Christmas money.

I also downloaded the GECK, loads fast compared to the Oblivion CS (Not to mention tons of extra options for custom weapons).

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:32 pm

Haplo wrote:
sirwootalot123 wrote:only three weeks. the "hundreds of hours" argument is bullshit.
Three weeks = over one thousand hours

According to steam, my brother and I combined have 84 hours total playing FO3; he plays a bit more than I do, so i've got no more than 45 hours. It's alot of game, but for bethesda (oblivion has at least 80, AFAIK), it's highly disappointing. I just hope that this downward trend doesn't continue on to the next elder scrolls. :-/

Post by **Haplo** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:16 am

sirwootalot123 wrote:According to steam, my brother and I combined have 84 hours total playing FO3; he plays a bit more than I do, so i've got no more than 45 hours. It's alot of game, but for bethesda (oblivion has at least 80, AFAIK), it's highly disappointing. I just hope that this downward trend doesn't continue on to the next elder scrolls. :-/

That's not really relevant to my quote... Also, 45x2 = 90, not something less than 84. 84/2 = 42, and if he's played more than you, than you could have something like no more than 42 or 40 hours, perhaps. Your math in this thread is worrisome.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:49 am

Man, Fallout 3 is boring.

PoHa! · Post by **PoHa!** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:52 pm

Nemon wrote:Man, Fallout 3 is boring.

[Equips Reservist Rifle]

[Enters VATS mode]

[Switches target from "Haplo" to "Nemon"]

[Targets "Groin"]

[Queues 3 shots]

[Accepts]

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:47 pm

There's no groin shots in Fallout 3.

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:22 pm

Since I started playing Team Fortress 2, I haven't felt the urge to return to my cowgirl sniper in some time.

PoHa! · Post by **PoHa!** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:02 pm

Gez wrote:There's no groin shots in Fallout 3.

I have a mod that says otherwise.

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:07 pm

OMG where?!

Well, it depends how you play, you can rush through oblivion fairly easily too. I walk everywhere, scrounge and explore, get lost and I'm several hundred hours into my char and I haven't even been near a good half of the map.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:03 pm

After running a test, Fallout 3 cannot run on my PC (integrated graphic chipset too old), so I won't be getting it any time soon.

Aiwyn the Breton · Post by **Aiwyn the Breton** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:22 pm

A little OT...

sorry, but I couldn't resist

[url=http://abadir.deviantart.com/art/Lady-Nerevar-playing-Fallout-111214714]link[/url]

No offence, Lady N. I just can't help to change the colors when I saw the original picture... XD
Maybe an idea for the Baltimore Expansion...

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:48 pm

not offended, its absolutely adorable

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 4:33 am

Ok, I know I'm bumping this and you can chew me out later, but:

Fallout 3 was fucking amazing. I felt that it was surpassed Oblivion in some respects (but not Morrowind, obviously). I'm fascinated with post-apocalyptic settings to begin with and Fallout 3 was pretty much pure, unadulterated, sex.

Yeah, Arth's two cents...or caps.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:27 am

Well then it means my laptop can't get it up.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:18 pm

oh, the irony...
[url=http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5838/img9531.jpg][img]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5838/img9531.th.jpg[/img][/url]

im on the left, sorry its so blurry (forgot flash).
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Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:23 pm

Ah... That looks cool. Where is that, by the way?

Did you not use your fancy new camera for that picture?

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:30 pm

no way would i be carrying that thing around NY the day after i got it

it was in some music/video shop (cant remember the name) in times square. the shop was going out of business, so i was actually considering buying the statue. the issue of transport back to baltimore would have been difficult however...