Fallout 3 MindFuck
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This one time I was just wandering around discovering places and it said that Flak or Shrapnel (I forget which one can't die pretty sure it's Flak though) was knocked unconscious and I wasn't any where near Rivet City. Days later (real days in game months) I see him just walking around presumably back to Rivet City. I wonder if it has anything do with me enslaving the other one (Flak or Shrapnel again I don't remember).
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.
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.EnglishMuffin said:
The traps glitching ends up getting a bit mindfuck for me. The swing trap in the trap house near the library stuck inside the ceiling even after Charon ran across the wire. I think it hated me, cos it just dropped out of the ceiling as soon as I walked underneath it, with the words "Insta-Kill" running through my infuriated mind. The Enclave I can handle, Muties are no problem, glitching traps?
Damn you Bethesda, making the game easy then rebalancing it by making the world itself hate me...
Damn you Bethesda, making the game easy then rebalancing it by making the world itself hate me...
Well I've certainly had my confusing moments, but I can't remember anything as bad as that. Things do seem to get misplaced a lot though, random creatures where they shouldn't be etc.
Super-bouncing deathclaws.
I was bored and decided to tour the National Mall. I entered the Capitol Building. A couple of Talon Company Mercs ambushed me, but I fought them off. Upon entering the Rotunda, I discovered BoS, Supers, and Talon Company all duking it out. There was even a Behemoth in the center of the room, swinging at everybody. BoS and Talon Company were firing rockets at it, and the three factions were trading small arms fire. It was total chaos.
I was doing the Superhuman Gambit quest, and I lured the Antagonizer to the Mechanist's lair, and killed her in epic battle, but I went to get Protectron's Gaze from the Mechanist, and he ran off somewhere. I looked for him for twenty minutes before finally giving up. Then I just thought "Fuck it, I'll just go loot the Antagonizer." But she had disappeared, and the robots were hostile again.
I was bored and decided to tour the National Mall. I entered the Capitol Building. A couple of Talon Company Mercs ambushed me, but I fought them off. Upon entering the Rotunda, I discovered BoS, Supers, and Talon Company all duking it out. There was even a Behemoth in the center of the room, swinging at everybody. BoS and Talon Company were firing rockets at it, and the three factions were trading small arms fire. It was total chaos.
I was doing the Superhuman Gambit quest, and I lured the Antagonizer to the Mechanist's lair, and killed her in epic battle, but I went to get Protectron's Gaze from the Mechanist, and he ran off somewhere. I looked for him for twenty minutes before finally giving up. Then I just thought "Fuck it, I'll just go loot the Antagonizer." But she had disappeared, and the robots were hostile again.
whenever i see a glitch like this i just wait for 1 hour and everything gets back to normal...
but the biggest mind fuck i have found is that i was walking in the wasteland with Charon and meatdog besides me, (i kept looking at them because i was cruising a rather difficult path and didn´t wanted them to get stuck) suddenly, the message came that Charon and Meatdog were death, i was all "WTF happened??" and looked around they werent anywhere i looked suddenly both their corpses fell from nowhere in front of me... weird, it has never happened again, but having to restore a previous save(wich was about 2 hours before) was tiring.
but the biggest mind fuck i have found is that i was walking in the wasteland with Charon and meatdog besides me, (i kept looking at them because i was cruising a rather difficult path and didn´t wanted them to get stuck) suddenly, the message came that Charon and Meatdog were death, i was all "WTF happened??" and looked around they werent anywhere i looked suddenly both their corpses fell from nowhere in front of me... weird, it has never happened again, but having to restore a previous save(wich was about 2 hours before) was tiring.
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!Elurindel said:
there is one shelter with 2 dozen plungers , some going up a wall like a ladder , and yes we also have six million caps between us , so start rebuilding , gee how the fuck did caps become money? but the biggest mind fuck is locked ammo boxes and med kits , hey just a sec i need a band aid ... i got a boo boo... and how the raiders have unlimited ammo but when you kill them you get half a clip
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?EnglishMuffin said:
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.
I has two stories for you.petey hunter said:
1- I must have been messing around with console command one day and spawned a bunch of Liberty Primes. As I spawned them, they walked away into the distance, thinking I'd never see them again. I was wrong.
About a couple weeks later, I am just walking around the wasteland (and by now, I had completely forgotten I spawned them) to my surprise I find 4 Liberty Primes, running at me with hostility. You could imagine how..scared I was
. I had to turn God Mode on to escape <.<Now my second story.
2- Before I went on the quests for broken steel, I thought I'd leave Fawkes behind in the Brotherhood Citadel, just in case. After I set out on my quest, I reach the final part of them, and without knowing, I must've accidentally hit the "Orbital Strike on Citadel" without knowing. Soo, I get in the Vertibird, fly back to base, and the Brotherhood turn on me. (which I thought was some "in-game" glitch, so I didn't know what I had done yet) I killed them and entered the citadel and my jaw dropped about 6 feet. Imagine my surprise when I find a Giant crater in the center of it.
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I thought I had lost Fawkes forever considering whenever I left DC, he did not return to the Museum of History, like he is supposed to.
Now 2 months later, I am just running around with no clipping on (Basically walking on thin air. Look up on youtube for visual description) and I see something in the distance. I start going towards it.
Guess what I found..
Fawkes
Guess where I found him..
On top of the Washington Monument
I was watching my friend play. We were at Evergreen Mills, preparing to fight the behemoth. He VATS throws 3 nuka grenades. The first one sends the behemoth straight up into the air, wasting the other two. We're pissed, complaining abot the waste of the grenade, when we start to walk away. 5 minutes of walking through the wastes later, the exact same behemoth lands right in front on my friend and dies from the impact.
It was frickin halarious.
It was frickin halarious.
I was in a random building in the wasteland, there was a couple of raiders inside, so I shotgunned them in the face. I started dragging their corpses around and noticed something weird. I looked at their faces and they started blinking every once in a while. I would have blown off their heads, had I not been low on ammo.
