What's the game about?
Fallout 3 is a futuristic post-apocalyptic CRPG set in an alternate universe based on 50s sci-fi pulp fiction, as if the world had stopped in the optimistic 50s and found itself on a dystopian post-apocalyptic reality. It is a sequel to the games Fallout and Fallout 2.
The Player Character is a young inhabitant of Vault 101, a fallout shelter in the Washington D.C. area. The vault has reportedly been sealed for 200 years until the player's father opens the only door to the outside world and disappears without any explanation. The Vault Overseer believes that the player was involved in their father's escape, and sends the vault's security force to arrest him. This leaves the player little choice but to also escape from the vault, with the hope of locating
her father and finding out why he left......
DLC information
Broken Steel will be first since the main story play though kinda overlaps with this one.
Broken Steel
Official Description: Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements.
What it is: New and exciting environments to explore like metro tunnels and factories......hmmm, wait a minute. The raised level cap is nice though.
Mothership Zeta
Official Description: Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the massive Mothership Zeta, orbiting Earth miles above the Capital Wasteland. Mothership Zeta takes Fallout 3 in an entirely new direction – outer space. Meet new characters and join with them in a desperate bid to escape the Aliens’ clutches. To do so, you’ll wield powerful new weapons, like the Alien Atomizer, Alien Disintegrator, and Drone Cannon, and deck yourself out in brand new outfits, like the Gemini-Era Spacesuit and even Samurai Armor.
What it is: It's basically Raven Rock with aliens.
Operation: Anchorage
Official Description: Enter a military simulation and fight in one of the greatest battles of the Fallout universe – the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. Gain access to unique armor, weapons, and exotic gadgets while you build and command interactive Strike Teams to win the battle and defeat the Chinese base.
What it is: A way to level the playing field by stripping you of all your equipment
Point Lookout
Official Description: Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland – a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet.
What it is: A decent sized open world environment to explore, the setting being a cross between Fallout and Deliverance. It will make you squeal like a pig boi!
The Pitt
Official Description: The Pitt allows you to travel to the post-apocalyptic remains of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and become embroiled in a conflict between slaves and their Raider masters. Explore a sprawling settlement ravaged by time, neglect, nuclear radiation, and moral degradation. The Pitt is filled with morally gray choices, shady NPCs, new enemies, new weapons, and much more.
What it is: Adds an interesting enough quest line and a nice new area to explore, it's what Paradise Falls should have been.
VideosOriginal Playthrough
The Main story line has now been completed with all the marked side quests completed, some unmarked ones and the collection of all bobble heads (and many Teddy Bears)
Opening Movie
Set 1: Penny's Quest
Set 2: Yummy Vanilla!
Set 3: As Gay as Twilight
Set 4: Bethesda and Bugs
Set 5: Minesweeper
Set 6: Mole Rat Massacre
Set 7: Great Bugs of Fire
Set 8: Paradise Fallen
Set 9: Support your local library
Set 10: Do Protectrons Dream of Electric Sheep?
Set 11: Bow to the Survival Guru
Set 12: American History X-pert
Set 13: All Ghouls are Created Equal
Set 14: OnePenny Tower
Set 15: Getting a Head
Set 16: Crime Fighter Extraordinaire
Set 17: Bobble Fest
Set 18: Gary!
Set 19: Going Solo
Set 20: Big Trouble with Small Mines
Set 21: Nuka Threesome
Set 22: Reilly's Retardation
Set 23: Got Wood?
Set 24: DISHing Out Damage
Set 25: Games Inside Games
Set 26: The Waters of Strife
Set 27: Vault lol
Set 28: Pick and Mix
Set 29: Wazers! pew pew!
Set 30: Beginning of the end
Set 31: Prime is my Homeboy
Broken Steel
Set 1: How's it feel to be DLC?
Set 2: Electric Boogaloo
Set 3: 1 vs 100!
Mothership Zeta
Set 1: Steamy Aliens
Set 2: Avenging my Anus
Set 3: I hate forcefields
Operation Anchorage
Set 1: My Beautiful Weapons
Set 2: Invisible Bastards
Set 3: They're Listening...
The Pitt
Set 1: Brimful of Ashur
Set 2: Baby in my pocket
Set 3: Lights Out!
Broken Steel Side Quests
Point LookoutSet 1: Asian Invasion
Set 2: Penny and the Brain
Set 3: I feel so betrayed
Posts
Until now. The first few minutes are... interesting.
Liking it so far. As you've gone GOTY, are you going to make any pitt stops (hurhurhur)?
Edit: Looks like the vids got fixed.
I'll be sure to include some when I do this. <_<
I just started playing this again myself tho, so this'll be interesting to watch.
Having said that, this is gonna be one amazingly long ass LP if dude does even close to everything there is to do, with all the quests and all the DLC's.
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Most of the F3 experience is the mods, especially on PC, but they're all very subject to personal taste, so it's probably for the best to leave them out for now. I mean, I don't really like a bunch of hi-tech assault rifles and desert combat fatigues kicking about the wastes, but a lot of people seem to.
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Definitely one of the better mods that was shared with me in the Fallout thread was the RTS one. It was something I felt should have featured more in the main game, settlements and making improvements to them like one does to the personal rooms.
What?
No.
For one "especially on PC" doesn't even make sense because there are mods only on the PC.
And I would argue that the massive game and the DLC for it would qualify as "most of the F3 experience" over some random mods made by the community for one of the 3 platforms the game was released on. I suspect it wasn't even the highest selling platform. A quick google search confirms that, at least for the launch numbers. So "most" of the people who experienced FO3 did it mod-less.
Look, mods are fine and dandy, but there's a point when it's not even the game you bought and it just becomes an engine that people use to make their own shit.
It just gets tiring to listen to people go on about how you're playing FO3 wrong if you're not using mods when the majority of people playing FO3 can't or don't use mods at all anyway. It's just a dumb statement and it's just factually incorrect.
EDIT: In summary people need to not give the person doing the LP shit for playing the game that they bought and that is in the title.
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Also your voice isn't terrible so far! Great success!
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yeah, I love the opening, the start where the camera slowly pans out to reveal the wasteland still gives me a little shiver of excitement.
hehe, thanks.....I think.
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Looking forward to the rest of the LP, modded or not.
There are some really good mods that don't actually change the game. Just add fluff stuff or tweak stuff. Retextures, lighting, etc.
Then there are things like Conelrad which are the best thing ever. (I liked the music so much I burnt a bunch of it to CD and listen to it every time I'm in my car.)
This needs to be gotten out of the way: If you're playing this game without mods, you are doing it wrong. If you're playing on the console, you're not necessarily doing it wrong other than the previous statement.
Now, what level of mods people use is of course up to their own discretion. However, the Unoficial patches fix so much stuff that there really is no reason not to use them, and there are some mods that actually make characters look less terrible and still others that improve the graphics quality.
No need to change the gameplay with mods (though really I highly recommend FOOK2 to anyone) to use them, but they do vastly improve the vanilla experience of the game.
That said, I can't wait to start watching this tonight after work. I have played the crap out of Fallout 3 and yet still I'm interested in seeing how someone else does it.
In any case, the first set of videos was pretty great. Can't wait for more!
So the vast majority of people who bought and played the game and the DLC's on both consoles, and likely quite a few on the PC who never touched mods did it wrong?
Those poor poor millions of people.
Lets see, an article I read last night said they shipped something like 4mil units of the game at launch and only about 18% of those were PC sales.
A quick glance at Fallout Nexus shows the highest endorsed download is simply the mod manager at 200k unique downloads. The next highest endorsed file that's not fake porn is MMM at a whopping 90k unique downloads.
So bare minimum 3.9 million people played the game wrong and 90k played it right!
Awesome.
Again, there's nothing wrong with mods. Use em, enjoy em, whatever. But the game is absolutely full and complete on its own and the DLC's just expand on it and make it better. If you play without mods you're doing it right and you're playing the game you bought, not just some engine to dick around with.
So stop.
EDIT: Sorry, this is a LP thread, not the FO3 thread. I'll stop so the person can do their LP in peace.
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Yes.
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Limed so hard.
Anyways, not long now before I get to leave work... will probably watch this while eating dinner. Can't wait!
Already liking the tone in the first set, keep them coming sir.
I usually play a male in games, what being one and all..., but I did a female character with black widow or whatever that talent is to do the extra pain with ma LAZERZ. I still love every time a guy disappears into a pile of ash...
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Regarding your skills, I agree you should keep small guns, but I guess repair (a skill I tag almost always) isn't so useful to you since your stuff isn't going to degrade all that fast. Still, it'll be good to have in order to make sure your weapons are of as high a quality as possible.
Since you're going kinda sneaky, you probably don't really need Medicine since, even with the skill in the mid/low 20s, Stimpacks heal for a bunch. Melee is likewise kinda meh because even without skill you can really beat the hell out've things if you need to and have a good weapon like the Shishkabob or Ripper.
So I'm voting for Small Guns, Sneak, and either Lockpick or Repair. Probably Lockpick.
Well set 2 is now up, recorded them before I saw these but it's pretty much the way I'm going, except the medicine thing but it's so early in the levelling process that I can veer off any way really. Once we get to level 4 and get the comprehension perk I'll be looking out for manuals more so all the skills will get a nice little boost.
I've personally started so many characters in F3 that I've lost count, and almost always go small guns because they're so fun and diverse... especially with mods like FOOK2.
Pretty much anything not really big, is a small gun. I kind of felt like maybe their should have been more of a pistol/smg proficiency and a rifle proficiency, but whatever.
Got some trinkets in it.
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