If I don't preorder the Limited Edition kit, will I be able to walk into a store on Tuesday and pick it up? If not, I'll probably pay for Release Day shipping from Amazon.com. There are a Best Buy and a Gamestop within walking distance of work, sooooo....
We recieved them last week, they're just street dated for the 28th. So yeah, the game will definitely be there.
I am just wondering if the stores will have any left. It seems like a triple-A title, but
Gamestop can be hit or miss, but try Wal Marts, Meijers (or similar supermarket, Meijer is only in a few states), Targets, FYEs, even give Sears a try in a pinch. I've usually had no trouble finding tripple A titles on launch day, even if Gamestop is a lost cause.
Well, aside from Spore, which the local Gamestop didn't get for a week after launch, even for pre-orders, and some stores still have never had on the shelves.
If I don't preorder the Limited Edition kit, will I be able to walk into a store on Tuesday and pick it up? If not, I'll probably pay for Release Day shipping from Amazon.com. There are a Best Buy and a Gamestop within walking distance of work, sooooo....
We recieved them last week, they're just street dated for the 28th. So yeah, the game will definitely be there.
I am just wondering if the stores will have any left. It seems like a triple-A title, but
Go pre-order one. Yes, it's a marketing thing to guarantee repeat customers, but it DOES make it so you can get one. I don't know how many CEs we've gotten at our store, but for big ones like that we usually only get the preorder amount plus about maybe one or two.
EDIT: We usually get our preorder copies plus maybe one or two extra on the day of release with most titles, and a second shipment the day after. It can vary a lot when the street date is seperate from the ship date, so I can't say much about when they might get a second shipment of this. Keep in mind we rarely to never get additional shipments of CEs.
It wouldnt suprise me of the oblivion construction set could be used for fallout with some modifications. bet fans will have it running long before bethesda
My conspiracy hat tells me they will never release mod tools after they saw how many idiots bought horse armor
My conspiracy hat is pink and has a feather sticking out of it.
Mine has a satellite dish made of glued together popsicle sticks
No tin foil? Amateurs.
Tin foil is so cliche, they'll have figured out a way of working around tin foil by now!
That's what they want you to think!
Seriously though, anyone have this on PC yet?
Maybe not after idiots bought horse armor
but maybe they will after they saw how many nude/naked/sex mods there were. I bet bethesda is full of perverts.
Rule #34 is one of the founding tenants of the universe at this point, right next to entropy - Mod tools need not be present.
Why do people shop at Gamestop anyway? If a drug kingpin just got back from a trip running a child sex slave ring in taiwan because the taiwanese couldn't tolerate his cannabilism, and he opened a game store, it would be a less evil establishment.
Also he works for the RIAA.
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Are Wal-Mart and Best Buy any better? Not to mention they don't carry anything except the latest and greatest AA and AAA titles.
I mean, yeah, it seems sooo evil but what's the alternative? Paying $5 in shipping for every older game you want to play? Not everything is on Goozex.
I buy new games at Gamestop if there's no alternative. The Wal-Mart I work at is TERRIBLE about getting new product on the shelves (trying to transfer into that department), so the Gamestop that within walking distance is an attractive alternative.
I'm calling it right now, there will be 5 Total Conversion projects announced this week, and no TCs will ever be completed. In fact, only the XP Cap Removal mod and the Weapons With Poor Texturing mod will make it to beta.
I'm calling it right now, there will be 5 Total Conversion projects announced this week, and no TCs will ever be completed. In fact, only the XP Cap Removal mod and the Weapons With Poor Texturing mod will make it to beta.
I'm getting the LE for the 360. Gamestop left me a message that I can pick it up tomorrow at midnight, but I think I'll just get it after class on Tuesday.
Why do people shop at Gamestop anyway? If a drug kingpin just got back from a trip running a child sex slave ring in taiwan because the taiwanese couldn't tolerate his cannabilism, and he opened a game store, it would be a less evil establishment.
I work for GameStop, and I can safely say that they are much less evil than you think, and are instead retarded by a similar degree.
I usually don't mind Gamestop, but yesterday one of the employees was telling someone that in the Call of Duty beta you can blow up walls and make holes to shoot out of. You can't.
So, I've left myself relatively in the dark about this game since I've heard about it, and I've never played the previous games.
I know that classes don't exist in Fallout, but what are the general play styles you can go as in this game? For instance, in Oblivion you essentially went down the stealth/ranged build, the melee build, or the magic build and went from there. I know Fallout has guns..... but thats about all I know about it.
So, I've left myself relatively in the dark about this game since I've heard about it, and I've never played the previous games.
I know that classes don't exist in Fallout, but what are the general play styles you can go as in this game? For instance, in Oblivion you essentially went down the stealth/ranged build, the melee build, or the magic build and went from there. I know Fallout has guns..... but thats about all I know about it.
They'll probably have some 'classes' constructed, just a few pieces of statistical framework people can build characters from.
Also I will be a master of unarmed fighting who is also a hacker and I will be calling myself a Techno Monk.
Hrm, I probally didn't phrase that right. What I basically want to know is what kind of shit you can specialize into.
Your skills (Small guns, Big guns, Hacking, Repair, Science, etc.) will be based on your statistics (S.P.E.C.I.A.L.) similarly to Morrowind/Oblivion, but I don't think there will be a Melee/Magic/Stealth-esque category system. Check the Steam manual that was posted a page or two back, though, I might be wrong.
I have a badass PC... but I've grown fond of just kicking back and playing a game on a controller.
I keep hearing about the mod community, but were the mods for Oblivion really that substantial?
Oblivion had a lot of problems, and thus a lot to fix. They seem to have learned from a number of those large mistakes, and have corrected them for Fallout 3. For instance, there are companions, no horrid level scaling, a better level-up system, and there appears to be a lot of loot (one of my beefs with Oblivion was a lack of variety). Oblivion's locations were often dry and if you visited one cave or ruin, you visited them all. That doesn't appear to be the case with Fallout 3, either. Personally, there's no mod off the top of my head, from what I've seen of Fallout 3, that I'd really need.
I have that same choice, and people here seem to be telling everyone to go for PC, but just go with what seems more enjoyable for you. I want to play it on my incredibly comfy couch without getting carpal tunnel and on my large screen television. And no, hooking my PC up to my computer is not an option. There's no word if we'll even get a construction set like we did for Morrowind and Oblivion, so there's no telling how many or how good or game changing any of the mods would/will be.
You could always get the game for PC later down the road, when it's cheaper, if any real worthwhile mods come out. Right now, there's no way to tell if that will happen.
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Perhaps. However, the question is, as I said above, how worthwhile will they be? How worthwhile will they be without the mod tools? We might see a lot of re-skinning and a mod that removes cars from exploding, if that's possible without the construction set. Oblivion, I think, is somewhat of a bad example because of how many design decisions bugged a lot of people. From everything I've seen, they've done away with what bugged me.
The problems I had with Oblivion that I wanted modded were essentially three things - level scaling, lack of variety in location, lack of variety in loot. That terrible level scaling system is gone in Fallout 3. Locations and dungeons look far more interesting and varied from what we've seen from footage, and previews mention a ridiculous amount of things to grab and find. You can make your own weapons from said loot. I also liked the companion mods for Oblivion, but Fallout 3 already has those, and I think they'll be more than just pretty cat women with no dialog (I did like that cat woman, though; I gave her leopard bikinis!).
The other mods weren't as game changing as those - better textures or more clothes to put on my cat girl or some clocks or traveling salesmen. There were plenty of mods, but most of them changed things in less important ways than the ones I listed in the above paragraph. So I don't think people should entirely worry about getting the 360 version over the PC version. Hell, like I did with Oblivion, I'll probably own the game twice anyways. :P
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The best thing about the Oblivion (and Morrowind) mod community was that just about everything people complained about in the game, there were mods to fix. You could download a dozen mods just to fine tune the gameplay to your preference before you got into actually adding or changing any content.
I have a badass PC... but I've grown fond of just kicking back and playing a game on a controller.
I keep hearing about the mod community, but were the mods for Oblivion really that substantial?
Oblivion had a lot of problems, and thus a lot to fix. They seem to have learned from a number of those large mistakes, and have corrected them for Fallout 3. For instance, there are companions, no horrid level scaling, a better level-up system, and there appears to be a lot of loot (one of my beefs with Oblivion was a lack of variety). Oblivion's locations were often dry and if you visited one cave or ruin, you visited them all. That doesn't appear to be the case with Fallout 3, either. Personally, there's no mod off the top of my head, from what I've seen of Fallout 3, that I'd really need.
I have that same choice, and people here seem to be telling everyone to go for PC, but just go with what seems more enjoyable for you. I want to play it on my incredibly comfy couch without getting carpal tunnel and on my large screen television. And no, hooking my PC up to my computer is not an option. There's no word if we'll even get a construction set like we did for Morrowind and Oblivion, so there's no telling how many or how good or game changing any of the mods would/will be.
You could always get the game for PC later down the road, when it's cheaper, if any real worthwhile mods come out. Right now, there's no way to tell if that will happen.
I would almost bet my cock that there will be a construction set for Fallout 3 either officially or unofficially. You should never underestimate the power of people wanting to see naked boobies and the ability to look like Cloud Strife.
I have a badass PC... but I've grown fond of just kicking back and playing a game on a controller.
I keep hearing about the mod community, but were the mods for Oblivion really that substantial?
Oblivion had a lot of problems, and thus a lot to fix. They seem to have learned from a number of those large mistakes, and have corrected them for Fallout 3. For instance, there are companions, no horrid level scaling, a better level-up system, and there appears to be a lot of loot (one of my beefs with Oblivion was a lack of variety). Oblivion's locations were often dry and if you visited one cave or ruin, you visited them all. That doesn't appear to be the case with Fallout 3, either. Personally, there's no mod off the top of my head, from what I've seen of Fallout 3, that I'd really need.
I have that same choice, and people here seem to be telling everyone to go for PC, but just go with what seems more enjoyable for you. I want to play it on my incredibly comfy couch without getting carpal tunnel and on my large screen television. And no, hooking my PC up to my computer is not an option. There's no word if we'll even get a construction set like we did for Morrowind and Oblivion, so there's no telling how many or how good or game changing any of the mods would/will be.
You could always get the game for PC later down the road, when it's cheaper, if any real worthwhile mods come out. Right now, there's no way to tell if that will happen.
I would almost bet my cock that there will be a construction set for Fallout 3 either officially or unofficially. You should never underestimate the power of people wanting to see naked boobies and the ability to look like Cloud Strife.
I would almost bet my cock that there will be a construction set for Fallout 3 either officially or unofficially. You should never underestimate the power of people wanting to see naked boobies and the ability to look like Cloud Strife.
People still do this?! FF7 is over ten years old now, I have to believe the retarded teenage-modder crowd is probably focused on something else more in their age range by now.
Justin Timberlake and Tom Cruise and...blast! Who the devil do teenagers like these days? Morgan Freeman....
I would almost bet my cock that there will be a construction set for Fallout 3 either officially or unofficially. You should never underestimate the power of people wanting to see naked boobies and the ability to look like Cloud Strife.
People still do this?! FF7 is over ten years old now, I have to believe the retarded teenage-modder crowd is probably focused on something else more in their age range by now.
Justin Timberlake and Tom Cruise and...blast! Who the devil do teenagers like these days? Morgan Freeman....
I have a badass PC... but I've grown fond of just kicking back and playing a game on a controller.
I keep hearing about the mod community, but were the mods for Oblivion really that substantial?
Oblivion had a lot of problems, and thus a lot to fix. They seem to have learned from a number of those large mistakes, and have corrected them for Fallout 3. For instance, there are companions, no horrid level scaling, a better level-up system, and there appears to be a lot of loot (one of my beefs with Oblivion was a lack of variety). Oblivion's locations were often dry and if you visited one cave or ruin, you visited them all. That doesn't appear to be the case with Fallout 3, either. Personally, there's no mod off the top of my head, from what I've seen of Fallout 3, that I'd really need.
I have that same choice, and people here seem to be telling everyone to go for PC, but just go with what seems more enjoyable for you. I want to play it on my incredibly comfy couch without getting carpal tunnel and on my large screen television. And no, hooking my PC up to my computer is not an option. There's no word if we'll even get a construction set like we did for Morrowind and Oblivion, so there's no telling how many or how good or game changing any of the mods would/will be.
You could always get the game for PC later down the road, when it's cheaper, if any real worthwhile mods come out. Right now, there's no way to tell if that will happen.
I would almost bet my cock that there will be a construction set for Fallout 3 either officially or unofficially. You should never underestimate the power of people wanting to see naked boobies and the ability to look like Cloud Strife.
Yeah, I don't know how their statement that the mod kit won't be available at launch has transformed into there never being any modding for it Evar!!1! Oblivion didn't have a mod kit right when it released either, and the original fallouts didn't have one at all, and yet mods were still done
Wow, I'm looking through the perk's, and they are pretty awesome and funny.
Mysterious Stranger is something I will HAVE to get.
Edit: And Contract killer. OMGAWESOME.
Edit 2: Aww, wtf... I figured they would have some targeting for melee attacks too.... I mean, its pretty obvious that you can hit a guy in different locations with your huge ass power fist, they will likely die no matter where you hit them, but I would like the option to take off their head, shatter their ribcage, or maybe destroy their balls. Seems reasonable.
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Ah fuck I knew those minimum reqs would be exaggerated.
Wow, I'm looking through the perk's, and they are pretty awesome and funny.
Mysterious Stranger is something I will HAVE to get.
Edit: And Contract killer. OMGAWESOME.
Edit 2: Aww, wtf... I figured they would have some targeting for melee attacks too.... I mean, its pretty obvious that you can hit a guy in different locations with your huge ass power fist, they will likely die no matter where you hit them, but I would like the option to take off their head, shatter their ribcage, or maybe destroy their balls. Seems reasonable.
They do. Or at least, I'm pretty sure they do. You have to have a certain level in the melee skill to do it though.
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Wow, I'm looking through the perk's, and they are pretty awesome and funny.
Mysterious Stranger is something I will HAVE to get.
Edit: And Contract killer. OMGAWESOME.
Edit 2: Aww, wtf... I figured they would have some targeting for melee attacks too.... I mean, its pretty obvious that you can hit a guy in different locations with your huge ass power fist, they will likely die no matter where you hit them, but I would like the option to take off their head, shatter their ribcage, or maybe destroy their balls. Seems reasonable.
They do. Or at least, I'm pretty sure they do. You have to have a certain level in the melee skill to do it though.
No, they don't. They decided it was too unbalanced or something. You still do shit like pop someone's head off, but you can't specifically aim for it.
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Anyway, I'll be enjoying my copy of Fallout 3 a full three hours before any of you dirty west coasters can.
Hah, whatever. REAL men wait till Friday for the Australian release date.
Gamestop can be hit or miss, but try Wal Marts, Meijers (or similar supermarket, Meijer is only in a few states), Targets, FYEs, even give Sears a try in a pinch. I've usually had no trouble finding tripple A titles on launch day, even if Gamestop is a lost cause.
Well, aside from Spore, which the local Gamestop didn't get for a week after launch, even for pre-orders, and some stores still have never had on the shelves.
Go pre-order one. Yes, it's a marketing thing to guarantee repeat customers, but it DOES make it so you can get one. I don't know how many CEs we've gotten at our store, but for big ones like that we usually only get the preorder amount plus about maybe one or two.
EDIT: We usually get our preorder copies plus maybe one or two extra on the day of release with most titles, and a second shipment the day after. It can vary a lot when the street date is seperate from the ship date, so I can't say much about when they might get a second shipment of this. Keep in mind we rarely to never get additional shipments of CEs.
Rule #34 is one of the founding tenants of the universe at this point, right next to entropy - Mod tools need not be present.
Why do people shop at Gamestop anyway? If a drug kingpin just got back from a trip running a child sex slave ring in taiwan because the taiwanese couldn't tolerate his cannabilism, and he opened a game store, it would be a less evil establishment.
Also he works for the RIAA.
I mean, yeah, it seems sooo evil but what's the alternative? Paying $5 in shipping for every older game you want to play? Not everything is on Goozex.
Otherwise, it's Goozex or Steam.
Ohh man, the sad part is I agree.
3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
Get it for PC
We can mod! And its cheaper!
3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
I work for GameStop, and I can safely say that they are much less evil than you think, and are instead retarded by a similar degree.
I know that classes don't exist in Fallout, but what are the general play styles you can go as in this game? For instance, in Oblivion you essentially went down the stealth/ranged build, the melee build, or the magic build and went from there. I know Fallout has guns..... but thats about all I know about it.
They'll probably have some 'classes' constructed, just a few pieces of statistical framework people can build characters from.
Also I will be a master of unarmed fighting who is also a hacker and I will be calling myself a Techno Monk.
Your skills (Small guns, Big guns, Hacking, Repair, Science, etc.) will be based on your statistics (S.P.E.C.I.A.L.) similarly to Morrowind/Oblivion, but I don't think there will be a Melee/Magic/Stealth-esque category system. Check the Steam manual that was posted a page or two back, though, I might be wrong.
I have a badass PC... but I've grown fond of just kicking back and playing a game on a controller.
I keep hearing about the mod community, but were the mods for Oblivion really that substantial?
Oblivion had a lot of problems, and thus a lot to fix. They seem to have learned from a number of those large mistakes, and have corrected them for Fallout 3. For instance, there are companions, no horrid level scaling, a better level-up system, and there appears to be a lot of loot (one of my beefs with Oblivion was a lack of variety). Oblivion's locations were often dry and if you visited one cave or ruin, you visited them all. That doesn't appear to be the case with Fallout 3, either. Personally, there's no mod off the top of my head, from what I've seen of Fallout 3, that I'd really need.
I have that same choice, and people here seem to be telling everyone to go for PC, but just go with what seems more enjoyable for you. I want to play it on my incredibly comfy couch without getting carpal tunnel and on my large screen television. And no, hooking my PC up to my computer is not an option. There's no word if we'll even get a construction set like we did for Morrowind and Oblivion, so there's no telling how many or how good or game changing any of the mods would/will be.
You could always get the game for PC later down the road, when it's cheaper, if any real worthwhile mods come out. Right now, there's no way to tell if that will happen.
There will be many mods for FO3.
If NMA get thier way they will make it isometic, turn based and super buggy :P maybe then it will be fallouty enough.
Couldn't you buy a wireless adapter for the PC and use the X-Box 360 controller with the PC version?
Perhaps. However, the question is, as I said above, how worthwhile will they be? How worthwhile will they be without the mod tools? We might see a lot of re-skinning and a mod that removes cars from exploding, if that's possible without the construction set. Oblivion, I think, is somewhat of a bad example because of how many design decisions bugged a lot of people. From everything I've seen, they've done away with what bugged me.
The problems I had with Oblivion that I wanted modded were essentially three things - level scaling, lack of variety in location, lack of variety in loot. That terrible level scaling system is gone in Fallout 3. Locations and dungeons look far more interesting and varied from what we've seen from footage, and previews mention a ridiculous amount of things to grab and find. You can make your own weapons from said loot. I also liked the companion mods for Oblivion, but Fallout 3 already has those, and I think they'll be more than just pretty cat women with no dialog (I did like that cat woman, though; I gave her leopard bikinis!).
The other mods weren't as game changing as those - better textures or more clothes to put on my cat girl or some clocks or traveling salesmen. There were plenty of mods, but most of them changed things in less important ways than the ones I listed in the above paragraph. So I don't think people should entirely worry about getting the 360 version over the PC version. Hell, like I did with Oblivion, I'll probably own the game twice anyways. :P
Well... controller + couch + achievements
The manual for the PC version of Fallout 3 says it supports the use of a 360 controller. It has the button layout pictured and everything.
And yes, mods for Oblivion were amazing.
Wait, you're saying Oblivion was better on consoles?
o_O
PC will be getting achievements as well, it's a Games for Windows Live title.
I never asked for this!
Oh god.
Oh god no.
People still do this?! FF7 is over ten years old now, I have to believe the retarded teenage-modder crowd is probably focused on something else more in their age range by now.
Justin Timberlake and Tom Cruise and...blast! Who the devil do teenagers like these days? Morgan Freeman....
Honestly I could do this all day.
I never asked for this!
I respect your hustle, man. But I have to say - those are terrible, each in new and terrifying ways.
And I wouldn't have it any other way :P
Mysterious Stranger is something I will HAVE to get.
Edit: And Contract killer. OMGAWESOME.
Edit 2: Aww, wtf... I figured they would have some targeting for melee attacks too.... I mean, its pretty obvious that you can hit a guy in different locations with your huge ass power fist, they will likely die no matter where you hit them, but I would like the option to take off their head, shatter their ribcage, or maybe destroy their balls. Seems reasonable.
Oh well, FO3 at 640X480 with 10 FPS for me!
They do. Or at least, I'm pretty sure they do. You have to have a certain level in the melee skill to do it though.
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No, they don't. They decided it was too unbalanced or something. You still do shit like pop someone's head off, but you can't specifically aim for it.