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I just got Fallout 3

DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
edited September 2010 in Social Entropy++
Fallout 3
My awesome wife bought us a ps3 for my birthday. My birthday is not for another 9 days, but dudes are coming to calibrate our TV this week, so we wanted to get it. Anyway, she also bought me Fallout 3.

I feel like I could benefit from some advice, and discussing games is always fun with you dudes.

Man, this is a kickass game. I got a taste of it when I visited my brother last year, but I never made it out of the Vault. Holy crap, this game is ginormous. I've probably played it for 10 hours or so, my guy is level 5. So much to do! Quest after quest show up!

I really love the look and feel, the aesthetics of the universe in here. The whole 50s Sci-Fi Space Age thing is really great, and the parts that make you feel like you are playing one of those drive-in only B-movies (attack of the fire breathing giant ants!) are wonderful.

I'm playing as a good guy, who does some stuff for free if the person is poor and charges some caps some times. He's a vaguely Asian Clark Gable type with orange hair.

New Vegas
Klash wrote: »
I got bored and thought I'd compile all the New Vegas videos I know of, into a list:

Fallout: New Vegas Teaser Trailer
Fallout: New Vegas Trailer - E3 2010
IGN - Fallout: New Vegas Preview
IGN - Fallout: New Vegas - Developer Interview
Fallout: New Vegas Demo - IGN Live E3 2010
Gametrailers - E3 2010: Developer Walkthrough Part I
Gametrailers - E3 2010: Developer Walkthrough Part II
G4TV E3 2010 Live: Fallout: New Vegas Demo

The gametrailer stuff posted earlier/here basically covers everything the other stuff does. But who doesn't want to hear the golden words of Chris Avellone and Josh Sawyer repeated endlessly?

I'll never get tired of hearing about grenade launching machine guns and being shot in the head and left for dead.

Edit: How do I make the videos just links, instead of full sized videos?

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    you will soon have more bottlecaps than you know what to do with

    same with ammo, guns, stims, etc

    this game has a sharp difficulty curve that gets easier really quick

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    you managed to kill burke and keep simms alive?

    without knowing about it beforehand?

    Squall on
  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    The first time I played F3 I wandered into the area with the fire-ants almost straight after coming out of the vault (I was a little eager in exploring) and, unsurprisingly, kept dying ooover and over. I hated it so much.
    Then I went back to it and did it properly and whaddayaknow, loved it.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    you managed to kill burke and keep simms alive?

    without knowing about it beforehand?

    I did the same thing the first time I played through...well technically, I'm still playing through as I've never quite finished the game.

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You'll be drowning in caps later in the game. So just go and let them repair your stuff.
    The caps start flowing once you've found the best place to sell your sutff, which is Rivet City.

    Platy on
  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I got bogged down in mothership zeta

    I should go back and finish it so I can do broken steel

    but ME2 is just so much more interesting

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Maxing out repair is the best way to save yourself a lot of caps while also letting you do decent damage, especially in the early game. Also figure out what weapon you want to specialize in early.

    As far as making caps, I've found your best bet is to find as many "everytime you bring me X item I'll give you Y caps" repeatable quests. There's a ghoul that wants sugar bombs, several people that will take any nuka cola quantums off your hands, blood bags, et cetera.

    In fact, I don't think I've bought anything from a merchant ever, aside from stimpaks when I was running low once because I never level up endurance till the later levels. You can become pretty fucking rich while still having very quality equipment just by scavenging on the wasteland

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    Maxing out repair is the best way to save yourself a lot of caps while also letting you do decent damage, especially in the early game. Also figure out what weapon you want to specialize in early.

    As far as making caps, I've found your best bet is to find as many "everytime you bring me X item I'll give you Y caps" repeatable quests. There's a ghoul that wants sugar bombs, several people that will take any nuka cola quantums off your hands, blood bags, et cetera.

    In fact, I don't think I've bought anything from a merchant ever, aside from stimpaks when I was running low once because I never level up endurance till the later levels. You can become pretty fucking rich while still having very quality equipment just by scavenging on the wasteland

    no, the best way to get caps early is to farm weapons off raiders (other enemies later)

    get repair up to one hundred fast, then sell perfect pistols and rifles and armors for hundreds of caps

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Skull Man wrote: »
    you will soon have more bottlecaps than you know what to do with

    same with ammo, guns, stims, etc

    this game has a sharp difficulty curve that gets easier really quick

    Sweet, because right now I have somewhere between 100 and 300 all the time.

    I have a bunch of kickass guns, all in need of maitainance though. I whacked an enclave dude (with grenades) to get a laser rifle and some kickass power armor I can't use yet, I blew up a raider with grenades to get a sweet shotgun with a drum, I stole laser pistols from the Raider hideout in the Super Duper, I killed a Super Mutant for his chaingun. I killed Burke and got his suppressed 10mm pistol. And I have Chinese pistols, hunting rifles and the assualt rifle.

    I keep repairing my guns with duplicates, I usually sell the Chinese pistol when I get it repaired a bit.

    The Sheriff died the first couple of times when we confronted Burke, so I got between the Sheriff and Burke, with my assault rifle out. As soon as Burke drew his pistol, I shot him in the head a bunch of times. Skipped VATS and just dumped bullets in his face.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Skull Man wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Maxing out repair is the best way to save yourself a lot of caps while also letting you do decent damage, especially in the early game. Also figure out what weapon you want to specialize in early.

    As far as making caps, I've found your best bet is to find as many "everytime you bring me X item I'll give you Y caps" repeatable quests. There's a ghoul that wants sugar bombs, several people that will take any nuka cola quantums off your hands, blood bags, et cetera.

    In fact, I don't think I've bought anything from a merchant ever, aside from stimpaks when I was running low once because I never level up endurance till the later levels. You can become pretty fucking rich while still having very quality equipment just by scavenging on the wasteland

    no, the best way to get caps early is to farm weapons off raiders (other enemies later)

    get repair up to one hundred fast, then sell perfect pistols and rifles and armors for hundreds of caps

    There are very few merchants out there that carry more than a few hundred caps at a time. This will only lead to many wasted caps.

    It also takes merchants awhile to recover their funds. Sell too often and you're just going to run out of buyers.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Maxing out repair is the best way to save yourself a lot of caps while also letting you do decent damage, especially in the early game. Also figure out what weapon you want to specialize in early.

    As far as making caps, I've found your best bet is to find as many "everytime you bring me X item I'll give you Y caps" repeatable quests. There's a ghoul that wants sugar bombs, several people that will take any nuka cola quantums off your hands, blood bags, et cetera.

    In fact, I don't think I've bought anything from a merchant ever, aside from stimpaks when I was running low once because I never level up endurance till the later levels. You can become pretty fucking rich while still having very quality equipment just by scavenging on the wasteland

    no, the best way to get caps early is to farm weapons off raiders (other enemies later)

    get repair up to one hundred fast, then sell perfect pistols and rifles and armors for hundreds of caps

    There are very few merchants out there that carry more than a few hundred caps at a time. This will only lead to many wasted caps.

    It also takes merchants awhile to recover their funds. Sell too often and you're just going to run out of buyers.

    sell, wait three days, sell again

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    fuuck i need to install this again

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Nooooooooo

    I have to finish FF XIII first before I get back into this noooooooo.

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  • Captain CthulhuCaptain Cthulhu Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I need to buy this on PC and play it again there. I don't know why I bought it for 360 to begin with but it's still fun. My latest play through is an all evil dude that specializes in unarmed combat. He seriously can't shoot a gun for shit. It's a fun way to make it more difficult, since you have to let your friends lay down some cover fire while you and Dogmeat dodge bullets and run right up into their faces for some slow motion punching action.

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  • TLHTLH Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I'm thinking about re-buying this for the PC, this time with all the expansions. Unless someone is aware of a cheaper route to get them all?

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  • ShenanigansShenanigans Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    This was a solid game.

    I started playing Point Lookout but had to stop because I couldn't handle the pressure.

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Fawkes was my first companion. I had to look up where I could find Dogmeat.

    Platy on
  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I got Broken Steel, reached the new level cap, and finished the story. I have quite a few quests left to do, but once you reach the level cap the game gets stunningly boring.

    I loved the process of getting there, though.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I got the game of the year edition, which has a bunch of the DLC included. Maybe all of it, I am not sure.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I managed to skip the GOAT.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I got the game of the year edition, which has a bunch of the DLC included. Maybe all of it, I am not sure.

    It does.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    I got the game of the year edition, which has a bunch of the DLC included. Maybe all of it, I am not sure.

    It does.

    Sweet.

    Also, thanks for the tips about caps, guys. I will focus a little more on repair.

    I'm torn about restarting, because I found out about these bobble head dolls, which boost your stats or something, and I missed the first one, which is somewhere in the Vault according to a FAQ.

    I wish I didn't have to go to work now, I want to play some more.

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You'll visit Vault 101 again in due time, don't worry.

    Platy on
  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    the only companion I had was the murder happy dude jericho from megaton

    about 30 seconds into our partnership I killed him

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You missed the Vault bobblehead?

    how

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    everyone i know did their first time through

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Javen wrote: »
    I got the game of the year edition, which has a bunch of the DLC included. Maybe all of it, I am not sure.

    It does.

    Sweet.

    Also, thanks for the tips about caps, guys. I will focus a little more on repair.

    I'm torn about restarting, because I found out about these bobble head dolls, which boost your stats or something, and I missed the first one, which is somewhere in the Vault according to a FAQ.

    I wish I didn't have to go to work now, I want to play some more.
    You'll visit Vault 101 again in due time, don't worry.



    Sweet

    also, what are you guys talking about partners and followers and a dog?

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY INVEST IN ALL THE MERCHANTS


    DO IT NOW


    DOWNLOAD THE MOD THAT MAKES THEM ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS EVEN

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  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I played the hell out of Fallout 3 when it came out. 60 or more hours. I loaned it to a friend and dropped by one night. He was just heading into DC for the first time, a place I knew pretty well when a woman ran up to him screaming "I HAVE A BOMB I HAVE A BOMB ON ME OH GOD HEEELLLPPPPP." We both just blinked for a second. She blew up.

    Had no idea that was in there. I've replayed it and been to that exact spot a few times but she's never reappeared. That is why Final Fantasy XIII being so linear made me a grumpy man.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    everyone i know did their first time through

    How

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    just spent the last 2 days playing this on my friends laptop

    point lookout and the pitt are crazy hard compared to the other dlc

    partners: you can get npcs to follow you around, like Dogmeat, mercenaries, etc

    full list at this site

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    because if you're playing it for the first time you dont typically notice things around you very easily?

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    however my greatest achievement was managing to kill fawkes

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I hate how he becomes invincible because of a bug in Broken Steel. I know he wouldn't go down even without this bug, but it just doesn't feel right anymore using him.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    I stopped using Fawkes because he made the game too easy.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Balefuego wrote: »
    everyone i know did their first time through

    How

    I did, too.

    I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for them early on in my first playthrough.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Plus 101 (and all the vaults) really are designed like a big fucking maze

    it's rather simple to miss a small novelty item sitting on a desk if you're not actively searching for it.

    I mean, I found it quite simply, but that's just me

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I assumed everyone searched every corner of every room compulsively for fear of missing anything.

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    plus the only time you really got a chance to do that amata is all you gotta get out of here and you're like ohhh shit gotta get outta here

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You really only start doing that when you find out that there is actual shit to miss

    which, if fallout 3 was your first of the series, is a very distinct possibility.

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