Fallout 3 manual on the tubes. Spoiler warning, fucktards.

Well now I want to play it just to see if I'm able to kill children. I thought of that right after reading the Child At Heart perk.

 

Just a touch.....

 

Considering the average mindset of the people around here, not only is that comment innocuous, it was kind of expected. If you hadn't said it, I probably would have.

 

I've just about had it with Bethesda and their stupid immortal characters. First unstopable guard captains and now this? What comes next, tag contests in stead of fighting?

 

Last I checked, we've had capture-the-flag in our games instead of fighting for a long, long time.

 

I give it two weeks till someone at NMA or DAC cracks this nut with a custom patch.

 

Did they at least leave Gigalo and such in (I don't've a pdf viewer on this machine, and can't open that file)?

 

If you mean GIGOLO, then no, I didn't spot it.

I did like the Chemist one though. As a person who's been playing a homebrewed Alchemist in D&D for about four months now, I heartily approve of anything to do with chemicals. Especially if they explode.

 

I kind of like the idea of eating. I noticed there was a little sidebar about it somewhere, but I couldn't find anything else about it. Is eating going to be a component of the game? I think it would be nice if we had to eat to keep our stats at the right levels. Not so great if they did the usual thing and just made it heal you though.

 

Gamespot gives it a 9.0, so it sounds like it will be worth a playthrough. I guess I'll go pick it up tonight.

 

Of course gamespot gave it a nine! Its a fucking spam factory, I wouldn't a critic like those cocksuckers to give a decent objective if my life depended on it.

My own First Impression of Fallout 3.

It was fucking awesome. (first impression really gotta stop being fooled by that.)

Upon reflection. Well lets see. Heres whats seriously wrong with that game.

Ok you get a perk, every level and all the traits have been changed into perks. Essentially what this means is that with you cannot have any real character flaws in the game. Oh and Jixed is smacked right out of the ball park. As far as I can tell there is no level cap. So that means you can attain a level that would allow you get all of your skills to 100(and 100 is maximum) and thus obtain all of the perks. I would also like to point out that one of these perks, that you can obtain straight from the very first time you level up is called, Intensive Training. Which allows you to increase a stat of anysort once. First of all how does one intensively train up their luck? Secondly because there doesn't appear to be a level cap it means that once again. You can create a character that will ultimately become just like every other, with the only differences being your name, race and sex. Because everything else about your physical appearance ia changable in gameplay. Well done bethesda you've done it again.

Thats just the tip of the iceburg. The cities, whilst they may look impressive are really just that, pretty looking. I don't really feel convinced that the people would actually set up shop there. Take the town of megaton for instance. Its essentially a fancy version of junk town. Except Killian Darkwaters black and seems to be entirely useless Gizmo's skinny irish and runs a bar/brothel and the town is situated around an atomic bomb. The question that itches at the back of my skull is how the fuck do these people get food? They don't appear to own any crop or ever Brahmin. I'd say they trade for their food but trade what? They don't actually produce anything except beer and hookers and highly unlikely that only at Moriarties saloon. Then again its populated by about five people so go figure. Best way to deal with that little game design no no is to watch it go boom from atop Ten penny tower. You'll be glad you did .

You can't kill kids. Well forgive me for sounding psychotic but that ain't right. Further more you can't target any point in VATS mode with a melee weapon and even further still you can't target the groin anyway so fallout loses the one thing that made it unique from any other RPG. The will and the way to kill and innocent human child by hitting them in the groin with a sledgehammer. The VATS combat modes got a lot of other flaws as well. The main one being if your stuck in a really sticky fire fight with about eight individual opponents you lock on to one and proceed to fill his cranium with hot lead, all the while your itching to turn you gun on the next lot but you have to sit there and watch your opponent die a dramatic death while the rest stand around shooting you silly.

According to the marketing the little cartoon PIP boy is now called vault boy. This makes me so mad for reasons I cannot quite fathom.

For a desolate nuclear wasteland the area sure is overpopulated. Goodness me I would've they would of cut back a little on the hostile encounter but you can bare go five meters of a raider camp without stumbling upon another one not to mention the eightmillion mole rats that inhabit the spaces between those places. Some animals may have been affected by the FEV but not bloody all of them! Yeesh! Furthermore, and correct me if I'm wrong about this, as I may yet have more exploring to do but, deathclaws? Where in the hell are the deathclaws? Shit! One'll do, make it the size of the white house I don't fuckin care just put one in there for christ sake!

The inhabitants don't seem to be anymore hostile that your original vault inhabitants, I was expecting life in the wastes to harsh and create a harsh sorta people. But nope are hard working friendly individuals who'd let you marry their sister if only the game'd let you have sex in it. Shit its not hard to do that. Just pay a hooker make the screen go black for a few seconds and then back on the raider capping at least go that simple. What happened to the anarchistic community that lead uneasy peace abrought about by the fact that everyone owns body guards and everyone else is too drugged up to be of use to anyone? When did ghouls always have two sets of working eyes? Why is there no negotiating with 99.9 percent of the super mutant population? I think it would've been awesome if you could become one in the game. Why do most if not all the dialog options ultimately lead me to the same location the no real variety.

No nudity? Sigh guess a mod'll have to do then. No biggy would've added a bit of realism though.

The endings are rubbish, still nobody since Troika seems to have realised that there are more outcomes to assess than the main story line. Gah that was incredibly dissappointing.

Oh and the atmospheric music is just, just aweful!
It sound like I've made a wrong turn on my way to the provence of cyrodiil and ended up falling into a time portal but luckily I had my theme music on 8-track. Jeez Mark Morgans music of the orignal fallout was fucking brilliant. Why the hell didn't they just rehire him to do it.

The radio stations was a good idea that was poorly executed. Three dog and President Eden have very little to say so their tirades become dull and repetitive. The music would be bearable if it didn't sound like the radio was busted. The other radio frequencies are really just gimmicks and don't seem to hold any importence towards anything as far as I can tell.

And finnally your father James. Oh how I long for the day when they make an RPG where father doesn't fucking talk you like he's a jedi master to your padiwan no irony intended. Its not that it was a poor voice acting job. Its just that I'm sick of this My son... Be safe.. Don't do this.. attitude how is my character supposed to grow up to become are reckless unrepenting arsehole If his father gives him this much support? I see good blossoming out of a characters with an abusive father as well as bad, but not really bad from a caring one.

Also there are too few grey areas. Theirs the right way and the wrong way to do things. And the wrong way in most cases i.e all of them seems incredibly far fetched and usually out of your favor. You can be good you can be bad and you CAN be neutral but in a really fucking stupid sorta way.

In short this while, not technically bad, still holds no place, no where near the old fallout and arcanum. No with a ten foot fucking pole.

That being said Liberty Prime was funny though. "Iniatiating dircective 7. DESTORY ALL COMMUNISTS!" Ahahahaa. Outrageous. Still no in jokes so boo.

Oh a and Tim Cain was the only one I saw who got special thanks from the old gang.

 

Ogatai, while you have right in some things, and you are definitely right about FO3 not coming near Arcanum or FO 1/2, after reading through your post I can only come up with one thing to ask you.

Have you really played the game fully?


EDIT:
Finished the game. Suggest that Ogatai does the same before giving full game reviews.

Killed a death claw, befriended a Super Mutant, learned their origin, killed everyone that wasn't "pure human" and let the girl sacrifice herself for greater good so that I could survive.

Still couldn't play any more though.

 

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING SPOILER WARNINGS?!?! GODDAMNIT!

 

WARNING: If you dislike spoilers, do not read the previous replies please.

 

Ok so I was wrong about the level cap and I have found a death claw now. It was slow. very very slow. Then I found one the could actually hit me. Ouch.

I did finish the game. Its too short. And I'm pretty sure that the little cartoon character was called the PIP boy as well.

 

Ok so I was wrong about the level cap and I have found a death claw now. It was slow. very very slow. Then I found one the could actually hit me. Ouch.

I did finish the game. Its too short. And I'm pretty sure that the little cartoon character was called the PIP boy as well.