Fallout 3 MindFuck

[Atvomat_Nikonov]

Probably the Invinicble Dogmeat that comes with Broken Steel. One of Besthesda's developers messed up, and made dogmeat level with you up to level 30. The result is this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKd0V2yZ4iY]. Another midfuck is the skeletons that hurt you when you walk into them. Always makes me jump, because I never remember that it happens.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I can't remember which vault it is, but there's an abandoned vault you can go in where your character starts to go crazy, I guess. In different rooms, all the colors turn into shades of blue and look as clean as vault 101 in the beginning of the game. And then there's the computer terminals that say a bunch of random things and then stop working. I couldn't figure out if there was any point to that vault. But it definitely screwed with your head.

If you know what I'm talking about, does that vault have any significance or is it just meant to make your character temporarily insane?

If you read the terminals in the Vault you start to get the backstory as to why it was the way it was.

One of the scientists working in there left thier bobblehead behind too...

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

We can rebuild him!

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!!!

The King of Spain?

 

[cowbell40]

Sometimes random objects will error in some way and get propelled skyward, sometimes landing miles away.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Kind of off topic, but did anyone ever find the tame enclave deathclaws? I remember there was a few enclave checkpoints that I seen them in, they looked the same as normal deathclaws, except they had "horse blinkers" on, I've seen them twice now.

Yep...

If you get Broken Steel you can acquire a device that turns them into your new cute pet, and they are damn good guard dogs...

 

[geldonyetich]

I must have played too many games. Bugs don't confuse me at all. I'd be like, "okay, Deputy Weld is alive again, I guess that's how it works." Or "Oh, look, I guess the Antagonizer is a wandering spawn now, that's neat." Or "Oh, look, those flying Deathclaw are bugged. I bet I can still kill them, and I wouldn't be surprised if the corpse hovers right there."

 

[EnglishMuffin]

The only mindfuck about fallout 3 is why so many people find it an enjoyable experience.

It's quirky, funny, and yet in places, dark and gritty, with that delightful brand of 50's Science! Plus, power armour, mutants, and unfeasible guns all combine with that addictive levelling up to provide, in my eyes at least, a very fun game.

I think you are confusing fallout 3 with the first 2 fallout games. First off, what the topic starter is describing is simply bad programming and game design(shocking). Secondly the game has about 3 quirky and or funny moments, all on green screen computers and about 3 dark and gritty moments. But I guess the 12 year old audience that loves asplosions and cool guns n' shit think it's a fulfilling experience. As we all know to make a game excellent you just need lots of weapons and a leveling system. Who needs well written dialogue or a compelling story and lovable characters. Fuck that shit, give me lots o' guns and badly designed power armor with a capped and badly balanced leveling system. Woot!

Your position is one of the cynic, I see. Ok, so it's not Fallout 1 or 2, but did you really expect another top-down, 2d isometric view from a mainstream game company?
And yes, I'll agree that there's some moments of awful programming, but then hasn't that been the case with all of the Fallout games? I've lost count of how many times Fallout 2 crashed on my PC, but I love it anyway.
And yes, the power armour is a far cry from the ultimate god-armour it was in the previous games, but that means you then have an incentive to try the other range of gear available.
And comparing Fallout 3 to the next boomfest is laughable, as most battles, with the exception of the Operation Anchorage DLC, are small to mid-level skirmishes at best, or a gauntlet at worst. But again, that's in the spirit of the previous Fallout games, and is certainly less tedious to handle. You can go to war against a town's worth of guards without having to pack a lunch.
I'll also agree that the actors are wooden and the characters are mostly forgettable, but to me, it has a kind of cheesy charm in that respect, the so-bad-it's-good quality. Yeah, it's not the original Fallout games, but I've played all three, and I enjoy them all.

So fallout 3 is so bad that it is good for you. Whereas for me it is so bad that it is bad. As long as you know it is a steaming pile of shit, I guess I don't mind if you enjoy it. You are not delusional. I have never had fallout 1 or 2 crash on me, once but fallout 3, oh god. Also I don't judge fallout 3 on its perspective, I was actually interested and happy about that. At the same time there is nothing wrong with a general top down 3d point of view either. However, there is no spirit of fallout in this game other than it being a post apocalyptic world. So basically all that fallout 3 has is combat, which is pretty mediocre at best. Again, as long as you know the game is a pile of shit, I don't mind you enjoying it.

 

[Elurindel]

The only mindfuck about fallout 3 is why so many people find it an enjoyable experience.

It's quirky, funny, and yet in places, dark and gritty, with that delightful brand of 50's Science! Plus, power armour, mutants, and unfeasible guns all combine with that addictive levelling up to provide, in my eyes at least, a very fun game.

I think you are confusing fallout 3 with the first 2 fallout games. First off, what the topic starter is describing is simply bad programming and game design(shocking). Secondly the game has about 3 quirky and or funny moments, all on green screen computers and about 3 dark and gritty moments. But I guess the 12 year old audience that loves asplosions and cool guns n' shit think it's a fulfilling experience. As we all know to make a game excellent you just need lots of weapons and a leveling system. Who needs well written dialogue or a compelling story and lovable characters. Fuck that shit, give me lots o' guns and badly designed power armor with a capped and badly balanced leveling system. Woot!

Your position is one of the cynic, I see. Ok, so it's not Fallout 1 or 2, but did you really expect another top-down, 2d isometric view from a mainstream game company?
And yes, I'll agree that there's some moments of awful programming, but then hasn't that been the case with all of the Fallout games? I've lost count of how many times Fallout 2 crashed on my PC, but I love it anyway.
And yes, the power armour is a far cry from the ultimate god-armour it was in the previous games, but that means you then have an incentive to try the other range of gear available.
And comparing Fallout 3 to the next boomfest is laughable, as most battles, with the exception of the Operation Anchorage DLC, are small to mid-level skirmishes at best, or a gauntlet at worst. But again, that's in the spirit of the previous Fallout games, and is certainly less tedious to handle. You can go to war against a town's worth of guards without having to pack a lunch.
I'll also agree that the actors are wooden and the characters are mostly forgettable, but to me, it has a kind of cheesy charm in that respect, the so-bad-it's-good quality. Yeah, it's not the original Fallout games, but I've played all three, and I enjoy them all.

So fallout 3 is so bad that it is good for you. Whereas for me it is so bad that it is bad. As long as you know it is a steaming pile of shit, I guess I don't mind if you enjoy it. You are not delusional. I have never had fallout 1 or 2 crash on me, once but fallout 3, oh god. Also I don't judge fallout 3 on its perspective, I was actually interested and happy about that. At the same time there is nothing wrong with a general top down 3d point of view either. However, there is no spirit of fallout in this game other than it being a post apocalyptic world. So basically all that fallout 3 has is combat, which is pretty mediocre at best. Again, as long as you know the game is a pile of shit, I don't mind you enjoying it.

I don't really think I can agree with you about the spirit of it. I think there are some real moments in there that you can believe that this game is Fallout. Like the radio transmissions, hanging on to a bygone age of hope and optimism in a cruel, inhospitable world, or the Enclave forever hanging a shadow over things, and for once, radiation is an actual danger.
Maybe I'm remembering things wrong here, but apart from the Glow in Fallout 1, I don't remember a single time when radiation was really a problem. In Fallout 3, radiation is a part of life, in the food, in the water, the way it should be. It makes you think about the name of the game. Fallout.
So, mostly-bad acting, bugs and crashes aside, I don't find a great deal wrong with it. Maybe I just have a lower tolerance for this kind of thing, but the way I see it, it means I can enjoy things more.

 

[Amarok]

Again, as long as you know the game is a pile of shit, I don't mind you enjoying it.

Sorry to barge in but I need to know, why would you "mind" anyone enjoying anything? I mean, what's it to you if the rest of the world don't like and dislike the exact same things that you do? Are you that self-centered?

 

[NoriYuki Sato]

We can rebuild him!

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!!!

we can make him better, faster, and stronger...but don't want to spend a lot of money

 

[nettkenneth]

We can rebuild him!

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!!!

we can make him better, faster, and stronger...but don't want to spend a lot of money

HEEEY you can't do that thats cheating

 

[One Seven One]

something that crazy has never happened to me (dangit), well that could have something to do with me going into a genocidal rage and killing most of the game, the only settlements still standing would be the republic of dave and the place with the mechanist and antagonizer. and all the places on the bottom right section.

the weirdist thing to happen was when i saw my first deathclaw fighting a bunch of people (raiders, settlers, regulators. i forgot which)

and all of a sudden it jumped in freakin flew into the air until i couldn't see it, it then came crashing down and slashed an enemy.

since this was my first deathclaw i thought, "do they always do that!?!"

 

[One More Frag]

Accidentally shooting the MIRV at the floor of Rivet City and watching my corpse fly through the ceiling and into the sky.

 

[barryween]

it's not a glitch per say, but i figured out how to get out of tranquility lane without killing anyone (i did make that kid cry though, coz that's pretty funny =P )

Like with the kill switch? Like radio gnome radio bottle gnome or whatever?
I did that too.
I also shot a Yaoi Gaui (or however it's spelled) and it flew directly up about 50,000 feet...

 

[Internet Kraken]

No idea how this happened.

 

[FallenRainbows]

The only mindfuck about fallout 3 is why so many people find it an enjoyable experience.

It's quirky, funny, and yet in places, dark and gritty, with that delightful brand of 50's Science! Plus, power armour, mutants, and unfeasible guns all combine with that addictive levelling up to provide, in my eyes at least, a very fun game.

I think you are confusing fallout 3 with the first 2 fallout games. First off, what the topic starter is describing is simply bad programming and game design(shocking). Secondly the game has about 3 quirky and or funny moments, all on green screen computers and about 3 dark and gritty moments. But I guess the 12 year old audience that loves asplosions and cool guns n' shit think it's a fulfilling experience. As we all know to make a game excellent you just need lots of weapons and a leveling system. Who needs well written dialogue or a compelling story and lovable characters. Fuck that shit, give me lots o' guns and badly designed power armor with a capped and badly balanced leveling system. Woot!

Your position is one of the cynic, I see. Ok, so it's not Fallout 1 or 2, but did you really expect another top-down, 2d isometric view from a mainstream game company?
And yes, I'll agree that there's some moments of awful programming, but then hasn't that been the case with all of the Fallout games? I've lost count of how many times Fallout 2 crashed on my PC, but I love it anyway.
And yes, the power armour is a far cry from the ultimate god-armour it was in the previous games, but that means you then have an incentive to try the other range of gear available.
And comparing Fallout 3 to the next boomfest is laughable, as most battles, with the exception of the Operation Anchorage DLC, are small to mid-level skirmishes at best, or a gauntlet at worst. But again, that's in the spirit of the previous Fallout games, and is certainly less tedious to handle. You can go to war against a town's worth of guards without having to pack a lunch.
I'll also agree that the actors are wooden and the characters are mostly forgettable, but to me, it has a kind of cheesy charm in that respect, the so-bad-it's-good quality. Yeah, it's not the original Fallout games, but I've played all three, and I enjoy them all.

So fallout 3 is so bad that it is good for you. Whereas for me it is so bad that it is bad. As long as you know it is a steaming pile of shit, I guess I don't mind if you enjoy it. You are not delusional. I have never had fallout 1 or 2 crash on me, once but fallout 3, oh god. Also I don't judge fallout 3 on its perspective, I was actually interested and happy about that. At the same time there is nothing wrong with a general top down 3d point of view either. However, there is no spirit of fallout in this game other than it being a post apocalyptic world. So basically all that fallout 3 has is combat, which is pretty mediocre at best. Again, as long as you know the game is a pile of shit, I don't mind you enjoying it.

Don't mind me enjoying it? What are you? I don't mind you enjoying it my god man. Oh no people have different tastes ZOMG!!!! Argh if you don't like the game don't join a thread for the sole purpose of being an ass. Unless you enjoy that, In which case carry on, lets see how life gets you on the philosophy. I love the game, my favourite, its massive, funny, and still immersive, Disagree? Guess what? I don't care what you think. Anybody else? Yeah sure as long as you don't act like your opinion is fact.

 

[barryween]

The only mindfuck about fallout 3 is why so many people find it an enjoyable experience.

It's quirky, funny, and yet in places, dark and gritty, with that delightful brand of 50's Science! Plus, power armour, mutants, and unfeasible guns all combine with that addictive levelling up to provide, in my eyes at least, a very fun game.

I think you are confusing fallout 3 with the first 2 fallout games. First off, what the topic starter is describing is simply bad programming and game design(shocking). Secondly the game has about 3 quirky and or funny moments, all on green screen computers and about 3 dark and gritty moments. But I guess the 12 year old audience that loves asplosions and cool guns n' shit think it's a fulfilling experience. As we all know to make a game excellent you just need lots of weapons and a leveling system. Who needs well written dialogue or a compelling story and lovable characters. Fuck that shit, give me lots o' guns and badly designed power armor with a capped and badly balanced leveling system. Woot!

Your position is one of the cynic, I see. Ok, so it's not Fallout 1 or 2, but did you really expect another top-down, 2d isometric view from a mainstream game company?
And yes, I'll agree that there's some moments of awful programming, but then hasn't that been the case with all of the Fallout games? I've lost count of how many times Fallout 2 crashed on my PC, but I love it anyway.
And yes, the power armour is a far cry from the ultimate god-armour it was in the previous games, but that means you then have an incentive to try the other range of gear available.
And comparing Fallout 3 to the next boomfest is laughable, as most battles, with the exception of the Operation Anchorage DLC, are small to mid-level skirmishes at best, or a gauntlet at worst. But again, that's in the spirit of the previous Fallout games, and is certainly less tedious to handle. You can go to war against a town's worth of guards without having to pack a lunch.
I'll also agree that the actors are wooden and the characters are mostly forgettable, but to me, it has a kind of cheesy charm in that respect, the so-bad-it's-good quality. Yeah, it's not the original Fallout games, but I've played all three, and I enjoy them all.

So fallout 3 is so bad that it is good for you. Whereas for me it is so bad that it is bad. As long as you know it is a steaming pile of shit, I guess I don't mind if you enjoy it. You are not delusional. I have never had fallout 1 or 2 crash on me, once but fallout 3, oh god. Also I don't judge fallout 3 on its perspective, I was actually interested and happy about that. At the same time there is nothing wrong with a general top down 3d point of view either. However, there is no spirit of fallout in this game other than it being a post apocalyptic world. So basically all that fallout 3 has is combat, which is pretty mediocre at best. Again, as long as you know the game is a pile of shit, I don't mind you enjoying it.

I don't really think I can agree with you about the spirit of it. I think there are some real moments in there that you can believe that this game is Fallout. Like the radio transmissions, hanging on to a bygone age of hope and optimism in a cruel, inhospitable world, or the Enclave forever hanging a shadow over things, and for once, radiation is an actual danger.
Maybe I'm remembering things wrong here, but apart from the Glow in Fallout 1, I don't remember a single time when radiation was really a problem. In Fallout 3, radiation is a part of life, in the food, in the water, the way it should be. It makes you think about the name of the game. Fallout.
So, mostly-bad acting, bugs and crashes aside, I don't find a great deal wrong with it. Maybe I just have a lower tolerance for this kind of thing, but the way I see it, it means I can enjoy things more.

I'd just like to say, why do people expect Bethesda to make a top down isometrical 2-d Turn based RPG where you have a time limit and all you have to do is level up (i.e. Grind), get better armor then go do the three main missions? Because that's what FO1 is. And I love it but you can't make a game exactly like a game from 1998 and expect it to sell well. It needs to adapt to the times. And you must be god if both FO1 AND 2 haven't crashed on you. Plus, FO3 has NEVER crashed on me.
And fucking Glow. i just got FO and have to restart because of the fucking Glow. I HATE IT!

 

[pffh]

The leader of the Regulator's, whats her face, once left the building and kept running west, I have yet to see her again and I am sitting on a few hundred fingers.

That happened to me too, I saw her again a few days later near the Oasis fighting a herd of brahmen and after she killed them she took off again.

 

[x434343]

No idea how this happened.

Add-on Broken Steel.