Not Enough to do in Fallout 3

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I really liked Fallout 3. I have every achievement in it, and in only one playthrough(very nice, easy exploit to get the Karma achievements). I don't have all the weapons yet, as in the special ones, but I've played the crap out of it. I truly love the game, though I agree there's not that much to do and not that much that would bring me to play it again. I'm counting on the DLC to come out and give me a bit more fun.
 

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Alright, I've read liek 16 posts and think I can formulate a valid opinion.

I think you're an achievement hounder because if you want to play a game for the sake of playing a fucking game you would have found it more enthralling as oppossed to half done. How do I know this because I spent the entire first of the game out the vault I went the wrong fuckign way for half an hour and did some questing. If you paly it casually it's very good I think the game is good and I think the storyline is as good as any game that's come out so far though I think Half Life 2 was a great game. I feel now that fallout 3 is the best game I've played. I just bought oblivion but haven't played it.

To sum up : If you play the game for the sake of atmosphere and gameplay it's a definite shot to play and it's definetly the best fallout without saying. But to say it's half done is absoloutley prepostorous. There's so much you can do. And as for the game being short. Just try actually walking around instead of Pip-Boy Teleporting.
 

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MattKirby said:
Alright, I've read liek 16 posts and think I can formulate a valid opinion.

I think you're an achievement hounder because if you want to play a game for the sake of playing a fucking game you would have found it more enthralling as oppossed to half done. How do I know this because I spent the entire first of the game out the vault I went the wrong fuckign way for half an hour and did some questing. If you paly it casually it's very good I think the game is good and I think the storyline is as good as any game that's come out so far though I think Half Life 2 was a great game. I feel now that fallout 3 is the best game I've played. I just bought oblivion but haven't played it.

To sum up : If you play the game for the sake of atmosphere and gameplay it's a definite shot to play and it's definetly the best fallout without saying. But to say it's half done is absoloutley prepostorous. There's so much you can do. And as for the game being short. Just try actually walking around instead of Pip-Boy Teleporting.
I played the game for the sake of "playing a fucking game" and I didn't like it. How does that make me an achievement whore?
 

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How can ANYONE call the ending bad?!? It was like the Iron Giant going ramage on those Enclave bastards. The Iron Giant with a sense of HUMOR! Sure it sucks hard that you can't keep playing, even if you send her in, but just go back to a previous save...

Fallout 3 made up for the dissapointment of 2008, Far Cry 2.

"War, war never changes..."
 

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beastman227 said:
how do you have all the achievements without all the special weapons?
... you dont want to know

It involves moving your computer into the bathroom and at the same time moving in a freezer stacked with hot pockets and a microwave in the corner
 

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nilcypher said:
Higurashi said:
Fallout 2 is the best game ever made, and this is like its antithesis in thorough game design.
Care to expand on that point?
Certainly. The most obvious thing are the bugs, that appear in large numbers. The second painful realisation are the shallow characters and unimaginative areas. The story is pushed on with effort, but truly fades before other things to do. The intro is probably what I liked the most. The variety of weapons and armour is crippled down to a buzz, and there is little enjoyment in exploring the generic map with the obvious and predictable locations.
Despite all this, I remain at the point of saying it's not a bad game, but it reminds me a bit of Bioshock; trying to be more than it is, and ends up being shallow because it throws in so many things, few remain more than a passing memory. It feels slightly incoherent, but logical in its effort that ends up as a banality.
Fallout 2 purveyed the feeling of clear structure, and was interesting and deeper in every aspect 3 is not. No wonder though; it was rushed.
I tremble with righteous agitation at the thought of it.
 

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beastman227 said:
MattKirby said:
Alright, I've read liek 16 posts and think I can formulate a valid opinion.

I think you're an achievement hounder because if you want to play a game for the sake of playing a fucking game you would have found it more enthralling as oppossed to half done. How do I know this because I spent the entire first of the game out the vault I went the wrong fuckign way for half an hour and did some questing. If you paly it casually it's very good I think the game is good and I think the storyline is as good as any game that's come out so far though I think Half Life 2 was a great game. I feel now that fallout 3 is the best game I've played. I just bought oblivion but haven't played it.

To sum up : If you play the game for the sake of atmosphere and gameplay it's a definite shot to play and it's definetly the best fallout without saying. But to say it's half done is absoloutley prepostorous. There's so much you can do. And as for the game being short. Just try actually walking around instead of Pip-Boy Teleporting.
I played the game for the sake of "playing a fucking game" and I didn't like it. How does that make me an achievement whore?
not neccesarily who I was talking about, but then again you're not one of the people whos' post I read or I did and you obviously don't like games with depth.

But, you obviously don't care to elaborate because of your pathetic one sentence retort that really doesn't seem to do anything but cause a problem. I suppose you want me to give you a gold star that says "I play games because I enjoy them and still find quality ones with high budgets lacking, and as such I dislike them !"
 

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[quote/]not neccesarily who I was talking about, but then again you're not one of the people whos' post I read or I did and you obviously don't like games with depth.

But, you obviously don't care to elaborate because of your pathetic one sentence retort that really doesn't seem to do anything but cause a problem. I suppose you want me to give you a gold star that says "I play games because I enjoy them and still find quality ones with high budgets lacking, and as such I dislike them !"[/quote]
So because I played the game and didn't like it I CLEARLY hate big-budget games? I just don't like big-budget games that have horrible aim systems, 16 quests, limited character creation, and almost no character development.
 

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Yeah the game is half done. As you said you cant enter most of the buildings and the ones you can are freaking copy/pasted. I just cant wait till a decent amount of user mods gets released for it.
I'm just going to have to say this. Since virtually everywhere in the game has different bits scattered about in different areas, I'm going to assume you're ignoring those when you say 'copy/pasted'. Exactly how many variations on 'Box With Stuff In It' were you expecting? These things are all standardized in the game, but it's the same way in real life, and for the same reason - it's easier to construct something using the same plans (or with slight variations thereof) than it is to come up with a whole new one each time. If you really want to take this complaint up with someone, take it to the architects and city planners.

I would agree, though, that the ending is just an utter failure. The entire point of a free-roaming open world game is that it's free and open. If there's only one ending, then that just completely screws everything else over.

But what really kills it is the removal of the epilogue. Eg: "With the death of Lucas Simms, Moriarty slowly expanded his influence over megaton through blackmail and assassination until he owned the town." or, "With both the AntAgonizer and The Mechanist driven from Canterbury Commons, it became a wealthy trading center. But when raiders attacked later, there was nobody to defend it, and the town was wiped out." Nothing. You get this unflinching feeling that nothing you have done has had any effect. It just sucks all of the meaning out of the game.
 

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beastman227 said:
[quote/]not neccesarily who I was talking about, but then again you're not one of the people whos' post I read or I did and you obviously don't like games with depth.

But, you obviously don't care to elaborate because of your pathetic one sentence retort that really doesn't seem to do anything but cause a problem. I suppose you want me to give you a gold star that says "I play games because I enjoy them and still find quality ones with high budgets lacking, and as such I dislike them !"
So because I played the game and didn't like it I CLEARLY hate big-budget games? I just don't like big-budget games that have horrible aim systems, 16 quests, limited character creation, and almost no character development.[/quote]
I didn't think the aim was horrible, and if your complaining about VATS then I'll offer a few arguments against that: 1) Exploding Heads 2) Exploding Torsos 3) Slow motion exploding Heads.
The game also has about 25 sidequests, which while I agree, for a big budget RPG is a bit pitiful. But the small number allows them to be more fleshed out and creative then the quests you bumped into every second of Oblivion.
While I agree that the character development in the main quest was bad, you should walk around the wasteland and talk to some of the other quest givers, or even just random people in cities. They're not just info-machines with either nothing to say or a quest attached to them, but people with personalities.
Anyway, that's my two cents for now.
 

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Its a big game. I find it hard to believe you did everything in about 20 hours. I agree with you the amount of bugs make it feel rushed though, although I preferred it to Oblivion. Then again, having my testicles hammered flat would be preferable to Oblivion.
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Slayer_2 said:
How can ANYONE call the ending bad?!? It was like the Iron Giant going ramage on those Enclave bastards. The Iron Giant with a sense of HUMOR! Sure it sucks hard that you can't keep playing, even if you send her in, but just go back to a previous save...
What? Sure, the robot was funny but all I remember was following it pointlessly as it shot lasers at the Enclave. Was there a secret bit you played that I missed where you could actually do something instead of sit through 10 minutes of shameless, unnecessary padding? Everything after you found the G.E.C.K. sucked hard, and smacked of being really, really rushed.
 

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Spartan Bannana said:
I didn't think the aim was horrible, and if your complaining about VATS then I'll offer a few arguments against that: 1) Exploding Heads 2) Exploding Torsos 3) Slow motion exploding Heads.
Hahaha yes! I'll second this. Side note: exploding heads in Fallout made my girlfriend actually run to the bathroom to throw up (although she DID have the flu at the time...). Still, that is a triumph in my books.
 

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Allthough the main quest was rather, uh, short, I liked the game very much on my first playtrough. But as someone pointed out beforehand, I more or less roleplayed it through, giving the clock some more time to run. I finnished at around 19 hours played, which is a damn shame since I feel like I missed most of the good stuff, and I know I did.

But yes, the missions after G.E.C.K felt like "let's finnish this alredy". I would've definately liked to see some more to the main questline.

Exploding heads are awesome, though. Very awesome.

The very ending with the purifier I thought was absolutley fantasticly thought out though, but then again this is like my second RPG, so not many referancepoints, really. Without trying to spoil it too much, I wished my character would've been playable AFTER the purifier got turned on. Perhaps some kind of mega rad-away would've justified it.
 

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I love Fallout 3. Like it way more than Oblivion. Obliv seemed shallower somehow. I actually feel some emotional attachment to the characters and the places in FO3.

70 hours into the game so far. I finished the main quest but afterwards reverted to a save game so I could keep adventuring.

Also, there's supposedly a major content release slated for March that will expand the world. And Jan. and Feb. are s'posed to have releases, too.
 

Rhayn

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The Shade said:
I actually feel some emotional attachment to the characters and the places in FO3.
Forgot about this in my post. The picture of Sarah Lyons looking through the purifier door still comes to mind occasionally, giving me a feeling like I've been at a funeral of a close relative or something.

Which is rather disturbing, but still proves that I sitll have a soul.
 

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Also, did anyone else go to Andale? That little town with the ideal American families? Where everything seems too perfect and no one seems to notice they live in a nuclear wasteland?

J-just...don't l-look in th-the shed behind th-the house...*gulp*