DayDark said:
How so, I find that stats are very important, you aren't gonna open anything if you don't have the skills, you aren't gonna hit anything if you haven't got the skills, and you're chances of manipulating others are rather slim if you don't have skills.
When you're not in VATS skill doesn't affect accuracy with weapons, I took out a Super Mutant Behemoth using a degraded (11% condition) laser pistol and 14 in Energy weapons. Like I said aside from arbitrary limit (like with lockpicking and science) stats are generally unimportant.
It is also false that HP works like it does in Oblivion, In Oblivion, in order to gain the highest amount of HP you have to start with the highest possible endurance. In fallout 3, starting out with high end. or getting it later has the same outcome.
I didn't say HP works the same way. I said HP was the main gain from leveling. Like in Oblivion.
XP is one of the most different aspects of the game, I have no idea how you can say they end up working the same way. In Oblivion and the TES in general you train a skill, and the XP you gain only goes towards that particular skill, in Fallout 3 any XP you gain can be used on whatever skill you want, regardless of what skill you used to gain it.
In both games you level up by using skills. Sure the specifics are different but the end result is the same gameplay for the same reward at around the same speed.
Quality of dialog is subjective, and an opinion, the stat options aren't meaningless since they add diversity to the ways quests and obstacles can be handled in the game, and makes you're chosen stats count.
But they have no effect. Seriously aside from occasionaly getting arouund a speech check they serve no purpose, they're entirely superficial (and before you respond, I own the Fallout 3 guidebook it includes all of their uses in quests, never important ever).
Almost no consequence? their are several situations which bare heavy consequences dependent on how you approach them.
Name them. The main quest has a totally binary good/bad choice at the end and apart from that I don't see any. Listing the quests; Big trouble in Big Town has one solution, no choice. Superhuman Gambit all solutions have the same result. Wasteland Survival Guide one random wastelander lives or dies, wow big stuff. Those you get to choose wher the kid lives, thats it. Nuka Cola Challenge, either you get some pie or a stalker gets to impress a girl. Head of State slaves or slavers liv e, neither has any impact on anybody else. Replicated Man same as Head of state but only 2 people this time. Blood Ties, okay this ones slightly better, you set up a trade agreement or kill a bunch of mutants, it's better but it's still nothing truly significant. Oasis a few endings but you never get told the consequences and they never affect you. Power of the Atom fair enough this one is a big one. Tenpenny Tower either some irrelavent ghouls die or some irrelavent aristocrats die. Strictly Buisness only one ending. You Gotta Shoot 'em in the Head one ending again. Stealing Independence one ending. Trouble on the Homefront, multiple endings, same results. Agatha's Song one ending. Reilly's Rangers one ending. Maybe the DLC cam help, Anchorage has one ending. The Pitt the only difference is if the slaves or raiders are in charge. Broken Steel you can nuke the citadel but it doesn't seem to affect the brotherhood much. Point Lookout no real difference except if one person is alive or dead. Mothership Zeta one ending.
Difficulty is greater in Fallout 3, and Level scaling is practically only existent for the main quest.
Have you tried wandering the wasteland? You don't encounter You Guai in the early game, you only encounter Deathclaws in the late game, Super Mutants always scale to level (as do raiders and Enclave) and you only encounter Broken Steel enemies post level 30.
R Brink in 2010 thats all i have to say
