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  • I just realized one of the things I like here compared to Oblivion. Liked it from the start but only now realized what it is.

    The scale just works much better for the game's setting. Oblivion has you playing in the capital province of a mighty empire. But then the Imperial City, the famous capital of the empire, is populated by under 200 NPCs and you're unlikely to see them all on a single playthrough. And in any specific area there won't be more than a dozen NPCs. That does sort of ruin suspension of disbelief. In Fallout 3, the scale just makes more sense. When there's a small settlement that is inhabited by 4 families... well, in a post-nuclear-war wasteland I can see how 4 families might build rough shacks next to each other and live there.
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    • An hour into it and I'm extremely unimpressed.

      I was in Megaton stealing some stuff, cause I'm bad like that. I got caught, fine. But then within like 20-30s I had a dozen or two men with machine guns shooting me. When I respawn, I'm in the middle of town and everyone with ****ing machine guns kills me again. It's effectively a game over, I can't do ****.

      I've quit the game and now I've no desire to ever play it again.
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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      • Originally posted by Asher
        An hour into it and I'm extremely unimpressed.

        I was in Megaton stealing some stuff, cause I'm bad like that. I got caught, fine. But then within like 20-30s I had a dozen or two men with machine guns shooting me. When I respawn, I'm in the middle of town and everyone with ****ing machine guns kills me again. It's effectively a game over, I can't do ****.

        I've quit the game and now I've no desire to ever play it again.
        Have we learned our lesson about stealing Asher?
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        • Welcome to America, Asher. We don't need cops, because we've all got guns.

          There should be a bit more proportionality to it. Maybe you're just supposed to run for your life.
          John Brown did nothing wrong.

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          • Originally posted by Felch
            Welcome to America, Asher. We don't need cops, because we've all got guns.

            There should be a bit more proportionality to it. Maybe you're just supposed to run for your life.
            Tried to, there's no way. A dozen or so men from all directions who run slightly faster than you with machine guns fix that up pretty quickly.
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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            • From your taste in games, it's quite obvious that Fallout 3 isn't the type you'd enjoy anyway.
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              • Why? I loved Oblivion. And Fallout 1 & 2.

                I'm curious what the hell is going through your head. I love open-world open-ended games and a cursory look at the threads I post in would make that obvious.

                It's fine to be ignorant, just keep your ignorance to yourself. There's a reason we don't speak Latvian out here, it's because we don't care to hear from you.
                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                • Maybe try it again with no stealing?

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                  • For one, from what I remember, you have low fault-tolerance, you tend to get unhappy with a game when you spot some problems... which Fallout 3 of course does have, in classic Bethesda styles. And I think you said, in a Mass Effect thread, that you think most games don't do backstories about in-game stuff too well, so you usually don't care enough. Sorry if I'm wrong on that one.
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                    • Originally posted by Solver
                      For one, from what I remember, you have low fault-tolerance, you tend to get unhappy with a game when you spot some problems... which Fallout 3 of course does have, in classic Bethesda styles. And I think you said, in a Mass Effect thread, that you think most games don't do backstories about in-game stuff too well, so you usually don't care enough. Sorry if I'm wrong on that one.
                      I accept your apology, but only if you promise never to be wrong again.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                      • And Asher, you sometimes seem to have the worst luck ever. Having played for a few days, I also encountered a glitch with a bunch of friendly NPCs turning hostile after I looked too much at items I don't own (didn't take any). Not that it was game over in any sense.
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                        • Originally posted by Solver
                          And Asher, you sometimes seem to have the worst luck ever. Having played for a few days, I also encountered a glitch with a bunch of friendly NPCs turning hostile after I looked too much at items I don't own (didn't take any). Not that it was game over in any sense.
                          I had all kinds of fun installing it on the PC. The Installer told me I need to go into Add/Remove Programs to add ".NET Framework 3.0 x64" which is curious because it is most certainly added, and in fact I've also got the SDK installed for it.

                          I've also had two video card driver crashes so far (8800 Ultra with the latest Nvidia drivers).

                          Starting to wish I bought this for 360 afterall.
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • I found the quote that makes me believe Fallout 3 isn't your style:

                            I usually hate story in games (as I've posted here before), but the depth of the story in Mass Effect is there and it's genuinely very interesting. I love the ideas behind some of the races in this game.

                            [..]

                            This game also features the best character models, by far, I've seen in any game. And I think that's a huge part of the experience, the graphical fidelity and immersiveness.


                            There's a fair bit of story and backstory in Fallout, of course. And character models are traditionally the worst part of Bethesda games graphically, something everyone seems to agree isn't great in Fallout 3, either. The actual models thankfully don't look like they come from a 3-year old game but the animations are still often weaker than the rest of the graphics.
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                            • So because I don't normally pay attention to backstory in games, and because Fallout 3 has a backstory, I wouldn't like it?
                              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                              • Originally posted by Asher


                                I had all kinds of fun installing it on the PC. The Installer told me I need to go into Add/Remove Programs to add ".NET Framework 3.0 x64" which is curious because it is most certainly added, and in fact I've also got the SDK installed for it.

                                I've also had two video card driver crashes so far (8800 Ultra with the latest Nvidia drivers).

                                Starting to wish I bought this for 360 afterall.
                                From what I see on the forums, you've avoided the worst issues so far. The game apparently locks up / crashes often if certain media codecs are installed. Myself, I've had it freeze twice in the same location near Megaton but other than that it's treating me fine so far. Though I've encountered an idiotic animation bug if your weapon breaks after you fire the last round in your current magazine.
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