Said I, to my wife: "I'm buying Fallout 3."

[Kermi]

I bought Oblivion because everyone I knew was obsessed with it. I got bored with it. More interested in Fallout 3 even though it's only Oblivion with guns, but it's on the backburner until I'm done with Gears 2 and Saint's Row 2.

Gears of War was something I originally picked up based on hype - I hadn't actually been following new game releases before getting my 360 on the same day Gears launched, and it was the only title that seemed familiar when I was searching the shelves trying to make up my mind. Turns out, I had a pretty good time with it.

 

[Altorin]

Speaking of BioWare, they're one of the reasons I will never, ever in my life again listen to my wife's game buying advice. I despised Neverwinter Nights, even though my wife said "it'd be perfect for your tastes, you'll love it." She also told me I should buy The Witcher, but thankfully Yahtzee talked me out of that one.

Gods bless my wife, she's a gamer and a sweetheart, but I have to look at her taste in games (Blizzard, Nintendo, and not a hell of a lot else) and think she needs to use her brain more. She has a lifetime record of 0-43 playing me at Rise of Nations because she thinks "strategy" means StarCraft.

That scarily enough reminds me of my friend's GF. She never buys games and she never completed games but she always first points out all the flaws of a game and then says she likes it. Really hard to get in touch with that inner child when playing with my friends because of what she does when we try to do reviews. She is just afraid of saying all those bad things and lacks the confidence to rebute them from me or any of our review group.

you have a review group?

 

[GenHellspawn]

Almost none. I always try games before I buy them, regardless of positive/negative buzz.
Or just torrent it if there is no demo.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Well, I didn't like Gears 1 PvP very much, (co-op was decent fun, though), but I bought Gears 2 because my entire friends list was going to. And my friends list isn't full of random people, either. Same with Halo 3.
As for a forum convincing me to buy a game, I'd have to say that the internet has worked its magic and made me buy Disgaea and the awesomeness that is Puzzle Quest. That's all the internet has made me buy.

 

[GenHellspawn]

Almost none. I always try games before I buy them, regardless of positive/negative buzz.
Or just torrent it if there is no demo.

Do you buy them after if you find them good or just keep using with the pirated version?

Well, if I like it enough, I'll probably buy it and then just give it as a gift.
Although most games I torrent aren't even being produced anymore.

 

[TheDean]

Even so, i'm in Rivet City atm, and am a little bit afraid to leave, because i know i'll go back to battling mutant brutes with a baseball bat again.

The Super Mutants generally avoid the road by the river. There's a couple of bases, but if you run, you should get past them toot sweet and feeling fine.

I own Viewtiful Joe by the whim of Penny Arcade, who made a [a href=http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/7/7/]comic[/a] talking about how good it was.

And it was pretty good.

thanks for that, i'll avoid the road by the river liek the plague.

 

[TheDean]

Even so, i'm in Rivet City atm, and am a little bit afraid to leave, because i know i'll go back to battling mutant brutes with a baseball bat again.

If you're using Melee, you can get a sledgehammer from lucas Smith's house, and you can buy them in rivet city.

they're great.

fiddlesticks! I got a sledgey ofa brute, but sold it for caps.
The only reaosn i use the meelee is because i'm broke. It's hard to accumulate even 100 caps. In oblviion, i had 12,000 septims.

 

[Tartarga]

i bought resistance: fall of man because i heard it was good and now im planning on buying the second one

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

I probably got my entire gaming collection based on friends. In fact, I wouldn't own a single console if it wasn't for my cousin, who let me play his Wii one crisp morn, and I found console gaming! I'd been PC gaming for a while though...

Oh, wow. You must be new to the scene. I have been a console gamer since the Sega Saturn myself. I welcome you to the world of poor aiming, shitty gimmicks and fanboyism.

Anyway, I don't really know about Fallout 3. I've always been interested in the whole "what if?" scenario these games produces but do I care enough to buy it? Maybe. Probably after Christmas in the Boxing Day sales.

 

[goodman528]

More often than not, it's a case of "You just gotta play this!" Then I cycle over with a hard disk and copy off the ripped version he downloaded. Then I say a week later "Give me back the week you just made me waste!".

In defence of playing ripped games, with a ripped game you can just install it on a removable hard disk, plug it in via USB, and play multiplayer with many people in a school computer room! No disk, No DRM, No different patch incompatibilities, No hassle, plug and play. e.g. BattleField 2, Warcraft 3, C&C generals, etc.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

Don't buy fallout 3. The main storyline will bore the shit out of you, unless you are already braindead. I would spend your money on a good game, then again, it's not my money. Bethesda hasn't made a good game since Daggerfall.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

Bad storyline, bad voice acting, bad animations, bad AI, bad dialogue, non existent black humour(play fallout 1 and 2, then 3 and tell me, with a straight face that fallout 3 has black humour), hordes of bugs, fantastic scenery and endless exploration(the only good things, but you might as well buy farcry 2 for that), terrible skins, no real sense of roleplaying, the characters lack depth and are easily forgettable, clunky combat...

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. It is mediocre at best, AT BEST. I would wait till it goes in the bargain bin, then get it. The modders might be able to save it, but from the discussions I had with them this game is even harder to mod than Oblivion and looks like more of a rush job than anything else.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Well seeing as that is the first step on the road to dissapointment, I stopped picking things up solely on people's hype and over-rating in order to get me to play a game...but I wasn't dissapointed every time.

 

[COR 2000]

Well....

Mercenaries 2
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Civ. Rev. (coming soon)
The Orange Box
(Perhaps) Clive Barker's Jericho.
Blue Dragon

And that's all I can remember for now.

 

[Landslide]

Is it just me or has the threadstarter made this thread simply to brag about his wife being a gamer?

Just you.