Fallout 3

[asleepathewheel]

Done. Ending was lame.

I went through without any companions other than at specific quest points.

missing a few achievements, the different karma levels-was good at all 3 trigger levels.

will let it sit for a bit and then go through again.

I think I had 100pts in 7 or so skills without much work-thankfully you can't really screw up yoru build like in oblivion.

[Standup]

Some interesting points about the ending in this thread at the official forums - some major plot spoilers though so I wouldn't browse it unless you've finished the game.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Yeah, the main storyline definitely suffered from "last minute dev rush". But the actual choice you have to make at the end at Project Purity was perfectly in keeping with the Fallout tone. Fallout1 had a very bleak message at the end, and compared to that, FO3 is quite upbeat. FO2's ending was much more triumphalist, but then again that game had a far less serious tone about its whole plot than its predecessor did. (Though the Holy Hand Grenade was indeed kickass.)

[Guynemer]

I really can't read her lips, Ali.

Anyway, just finished it myself, and yeah, it seems very off, especially if you've got Fawkes or Charon with you. Especially after the big deal they make about Fawkes getting the GECK for you.

I don't mind the overall tone or story or anything, but it is just an awfully gaping plot hole.

[Alinestra Covelia]

The first two words she's saying are "touch" and "my" but I can't make out the last word.

I think the DLC should have pandas in it. It would be awesome and also make perfect sense.

The Chinese were trying to smuggle pandas into the D.C. area as part of a secret plot to irradiate the entire US capital. Before the pandas left China they had been given radioactive strontium tablets mixed with bamboo. This made them nuclear pandas but also gave them really bad constipation. When they got to the US they all took a massive synchronized panda dump (they had special training for this, from the same coaches that help the Chinese keep winning medals in synchronized swimming and diving). The total atomic energy they shat out, mixed with the fiber in US bamboo, turned the American capital into the American CRAP-ital overnight.

Only, after the fallout had settled some politically correct people thought that "Crapital" was offensive to turds and so they changed the name to WASTE-land instead.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Also, this thread is funny. The 14th post down made me laugh really hard.

"It's weird. I used to be Protestant but after 3 hours of playing Fallout 3 I now drink goat blood and nun urine martinis."

[El_Cid]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I saw this on offer for the 360 last night and got it. I'm having a long break over Christmas and this will be one of the games I play.

Didn't fancy the PC version? I think i've seen that on offer too.....like £10 off or something?

[Space05us]

Got it and pretty much lived on my couch this weekend. I'm not disappointed, it does feel like another Fallout.

Something I don't though understand is why you cannot continue to play after completing the main quest. In the first two Fallouts you can continue, and in the Elder Scrolls series you can play until you die of old age in real life, so why cut it short now?

Oh and do any of you have advice for deathclaws? I've only found one so far and it slaughtered me. I'm thinking of laying down a minefield between it and me, then shooting it with the fat man from a few miles away. I'm assuming of course that I will see it before it sees me next time we meet.

[Alinestra Covelia]

FO1 you could not continue after completing the main quest, if my memory doesn't trick me. But FO2 let you do that (with a very tongue in cheek special item too!).

In FO3 there is a very good plot reason why the end of the main quest is THE END. You can probably guess what it is now but suffice it to say it's pretty compelling.

I've never had problems with Deathclaws, but that might just boil down to timing - I was already pretty high level before I met them. Combat Shotgun blasts to the face from up close will kill them pretty fast, but you'd better have the hp to absorb their melee attacks.

Fat Man has very little range. It's actually a pretty tricky weapon to use well. Its projectile does fall normally unlike the Missile Launcher, and its area of effect is pretty broad. I never used it much in my games.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
FO1 you could not continue after completing the main quest, if my memory doesn't trick me. But FO2 let you do that (with a very tongue in cheek special item too!).

In FO3 there is a very good plot reason why the end of the main quest is THE END. You can probably guess what it is now but suffice it to say it's pretty compelling.

I've never had problems with Deathclaws, but that might just boil down to timing - I was already pretty high level before I met them. Combat Shotgun blasts to the face from up close will kill them pretty fast, but you'd better have the hp to absorb their melee attacks.

Fat Man has very little range. It's actually a pretty tricky weapon to use well. Its projectile does fall normally unlike the Missile Launcher, and its area of effect is pretty broad. I never used it much in my games.

Maybe you used the wrong Fat Man Tool

I have it on good authority, while it is a single fire weapon and takes a longer time to reload, it is VERY effective at target coverage , one must just make sure one learns how to hold it and aim, pretty simple, look down the barrel and slowly ease the trigger back and pump a round down field

[snoopy369]

Deathclaws I had trouble with only at a very low level - as AC says, if you can survive being hit by them a few times you are fine. If you can't, then you can use the sniper rifle to the head strategy, or use the hunting rifle from a distance if you're out of .308, and then retreat to a high location they can't reach (if you're in the area with a lot of them).

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Deathclaws I had trouble with only at a very low level - as AC says, if you can survive being hit by them a few times you are fine. If you can't, then you can use the sniper rifle to the head strategy, or use the hunting rifle from a distance if you're out of .308, and then retreat to a high location they can't reach (if you're in the area with a lot of them).

Snoopy369, is a deathclaw something on someone or an actual monster type?

[Quillan]

It's an actual monster type. There's a screenshot of one I posted earlier in the thread. It's here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=5455849#post5455849

The middle picture.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Quillan
It's an actual monster type. There's a screenshot of one I posted earlier in the thread. It's here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=5455849#post5455849

The middle picture.

thats a gnarly looking thang

[Alinestra Covelia]

My big problem with the Fat Men are that they like to go on top, which leaves me walking funny and rather slow to boot. I like to get my finger around the trigger and ease off a nice slow shot, which covers the entire area nearby, but if I'm too close it can blind me and all I see is bright whiteness.

The main problem is maintenance. After a few dozen massive discharges, the Fat Man isn't up to its usual performance and I have to hunker down and use my Repair skill to grease up the moving parts so it'll shoot again.

I like the name too. I don't even want to get into what I do with Little Boys...