Ending of Fallout 3 (Saving/Spoilers)

[NezumiiroKitsune]

What were Bethesda thinking?! Making a game with a locked end! If you save in Jefferson your screwed, like me! 69 hours in, played trhough most of the missions apart from a couple and I was planning on finishing off the last Behemoths then the game fucking locks me in! I hate Todd Howard right now with a vengence... Especially after hes screwed us good PS3 owners over. Broken Seal would fix this, it'd make the game continue, but no, we dont get it for some bizarre arbitrary reason. Never say its because of coding problems, taking the limits of the leveling system and just fiddling with perks is not hard to code (especially for professional games developers), so what the fuck they think they're doing I have no idea. They give a half arsed effort to our port, dont give us fixes for the bugs, dont offer DLC like EVERYONE else gets and we have to pay the same as everyone else. Im outraged at Bethesda, and wish PS3 owners and general supporters of platform equality (with exception, I dont expect to see Halo 3, MGS4, or Fable 2 on the Wii... Well maybe the last one, heh), to do something. Boy cotting them for screwing people over, not fixing there games, we pay good money and I have good things to say about them too dont get me wrong, I have some gleaming praise for there games but the big glaring idiotic things they do. Urgh.

Anyway, anyone know a way to get round the RETARDED lock in. Apart from the PC patch. Or a way to port the patch, though again this is pipe dream talking, but who knows, some of you guys out there are pretty nifty coders.

Thanks.

 

[Dudemeister]

I got trapped too :'(
Had to restart the whole game.

 

[Nivag the Owl]

This is pretty much the exact reason I hated Fallout 3. Well, I didn't hate it whilst I was playing it. I hated it after I finished. I know there's a way on PC to completely remove the level cap, and I expect by now there is one to continue the game after finishing the main quest line but I am yet to see it (that is because I haven't looked into the modding community AT ALL yet, though).

 

[Xojins]

Luckily, I watched a friend play the ending before I started. Now I'm just doing all the side quests before I finish the story.

 

[Zersy]

so whats the ending ?

 

[CrazyBerk]

Yeah i got trapped aswell, MAN that was a pisser! Fucking stupid, couldn't let us play after the ending or something? Just to piss around, it's irritating...

 

[Iceman23]

I would recommend keeping multiple save files in the future, I did and it's probably what saved me from getting myself trapped there as well.

You should keep that current save file though, as you will probably be able to continue from there after Broken Steel is released in March.

 

[ygetoff]

Why do you care so much? Many, many other games don't let you play after the ending, but when Fallout 3 does it, you throw a fit? The game ends, so what? Restart and do the quests you missed if you didn't get them. The way to play around in the world is to do it as you play, instead of planning what you're going to do on your first or second playthrough. You can always just start again.

On a lighter note, I'm sure that Bethesda will release a patch incorporating the "changed ending" part of Broken Steel.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Fallout 3 ending gets to me for a few reasons, but I guess the major 2 are from a fan stand point, the the previous game which I love greatly didn't entrap us like Fallout 3 does, and most importantly its an "open ended", "endless" (They called it endless, not my words) game. To find that after many many hours of grinding effort and late nights, while fun, to be told your character is now useless, start again hahaha. Well its a little grating. Other gmaes end, but you expewct an end, if you didnt get one in the case of a linear FPS youd be pissed off because youd be stuck in a broken level. Well an open ended RPG locking you in at the end, is sorta like the reverse of that. Im upset because my characters now useless to me.

Also I do sorta fail yes But I didnt expect it, so its not my fault. PS3 does make an auto-save but I didnt notice, and saved anyway. Good practice, saving often. In this case I got shat on.

Erm... someone else asks why we got screwed over on PS3. The port is worse, couple more bugs, the memory leaking is outragous, and the quality of the presentation against 360 and PC versions is poor. Its still a nice looking game but Bethesda really didnt try with this port. Also we dont get any of the DLC. Not even the DLC that is aguably so easy to code its embarassing that we're being made to pay for it.

The game ends when you either fix project purity, let it go to hell, or make someone else fix it. Also theres a couple of other options involving a FEV virus, and the like. Also allies get unique dialouge lines to the situation... sorry Im trailing. Anyway you go to Jefferson Memorial with a robot and the Brotherhood of Steel to shoot stuff

Also you can kill president Eden. Fun times. Make sure you get the Energy Weapons Bobble head from area 2C of Raven Rock before going to see him.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Also got locked in, rather pissed so Im selling it to a mate

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Or if Portal hadnt ended. Actually Im not sure about that one. I may have died very happy =D

 

[The_Deleted]

To be honest, there is so much to do you can play the main game again as an afterthought to all the other quests and still get a lot out of the experience. I agree with you about usPS3 owners getting shafted again, though.

 

[WolfThomas]

What I hated was that you can't send one of your companions into the chamber, there are three better options then you.

1. Fawkes, crazily resistant to radiation
2. The Robot (forget his name), immune to radiation
3. Charon, HEALED by radiation.

 

[videot76]

I have never seen any ending recieve so much hate in forums, and it actually deserves every single last drop of it. I am happy that I wasn't alone in my assessement of it being total, utter crap...
In fact, I propose that "Effohthree" henceforth could be the adjective for describing game-breaking, enjoyment-crushing, removal-of-willingness-to-ever-pay-the-developer-a-single-penny-again type of writing.

 

[Colodomoko]

makes you think what the fuck was the point of leveling up, dosen't it.

 

[Shiki101]

The game is completely awesome until I got to the end and like you all, i got trapped >.<
Course i dont understand why you would make a game that ends like that unless you want them to be annoyed. But on the other hand i didnt really mind. I did all the main missions and none of the side quests, so when i started over i got the chance to do them and get the bobble heads

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

so whats the ending ?

You die of radiation even though you could have easily left the radiated area before you started melting but for some reason our vault hero doesn't like that idea.

 

[SkinnySlim]

Yeah, I got lucky and was warned by my buddy. i also hate the level cap. I maxed out way early, so it was a major irritation. That could have been a top game for 2008 for me, but it dropped way down the list because of stupid issues like this. fuck their DLC, I'm trading my copy in and picking up Gears 2.