Your most surprising Fallout 3 moment

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when i spawned like 300 gary 47 and 3 super mutant behemoths and whached them die then 300 super mutants and i lanched the MIRV at them and whatched them fly

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Snip.

If you convince them you were "just getting a snack" they will make you pies.

Really?!

I've got to do that next play though.

Also, forgot to mention the messed up scene in Point Lookout. That was brilliant.

But honestly I think I was most surprised by the Oasis. I met some mercenarys who where all talking about going there. They tried to attack me when I asked them about it and I killed them, 4 of them, 4 shots, all dead. Anyway, I now had the Oasis on my map, and I was just expecting maybe a an infected watering hole or something. When I finally found the place all could was stand there in awe saying "Trees! Look, there's trees! I can't believe it, trees!". Reallly great quest that one too, but kind of sad also. Harold was nice.

 

[Korey Von Doom]

When I stumbled across the raider compound with the super human behemoth in the middle. Watching that thing get out after you open the fence and bring death to the raiders was very satisfying.

Mine was in the same place when I killed all the raiders and set 30 land mines outside the fence and they took like 3 bars away from me and I started running, I was low level at the time

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

a funnier moment was when i went into a building to loot it, i found a robot on a circle platform with a computer on the wall, i acrivate the computer and chose the option for it to read a bedtime story, the robot got up, floated into the remains of some kids' bedroom and started saying a bedtime story to a burnt skeleton

I want to find this building, its a reference to There Will Come Soft Rains.

McClellan Family Townhome: 2026 Bradley Place in Georgetown North. Courtesy of the Vault Wiki.

Seriously, when it went into the children's room and recited that poem it creeped the hell out of me. But yeah... I'd have to say my most surprising Fallout 3 moment wasn't so much surprising as it was annoying. I was doing the Wasteland Survival Guide quest and was asked to go into Minefield. I go in and immediately someone opens fire on me. After some looking around I notice a fellow by the name of Arkansas with a sniper rifle. I also notice some rocks over-looking his perch.

So I left town, went around the rocks, shot Arkansas in the back of the head with my sniper rifle, looted his corpse and completed the quest. When I got back I was quite tempted to shoot Moira Brown in the face for lying to me.

Could you provide a link?
And on the topic of minefield I found the quest pretty easy, then I fast travel to megaton and my game froze. It goes without saying that I was pretty pissed.

Here you go: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/McClellan_Family_Townhome

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

The family in Andale lol that was pretty surprising

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

that bit in the vault with all the nutters. scared the hell out of me because it reminded me of F.E.A.R.. Either that or finding butch in a bar in rivet city, the bastard beat me there! Also i accidently stole from the church of atom and tried to get out of megaton with out killing anyone, i died 3 times trying to run away!

 

[Luelen]

When I figured out I could kill someone then cut off every one of the limbs with a knife...

 

[Connosaurus Rex]

When blowing up Megaton did not yield an equal number of missions. There I was thinking the developers that give two distinct paths (Good and Evil) would make them equal. Nope. Blowing up Megaton gives you about 3 missions with Tenpenny Tower, as opposed to all the missions you get in the Survival Book chain alone. And me without a save point prior. Sad day.

You know that Moria, or whatever her name is, survives the blast as a ghoul and goes to the underworld. You get her quest from her there.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I didn't want to blow up Megaton so I told Lucas that Mr. Burke was attempting to blow up Megaton and he runs up to try and arrest him and right as he was taking him away, Mr. Burke pulls out a silenced pistol and kills Lucas. My jaw dropped and I wanted to kill Mr. Burke for doing that but no one saw him and it was a silenced pistol. That was crazy.

 

[hewhoeatsall]

Most surprising: The mission in The Underworld where you need to assassinate the owner of the Hotel (or inn) that is also inside the Underworld. It needs to be taken care of "quietly", so a stealth kill is in order.

Needless to say, I learned that sledgehammers are the perfect assassination tool, very subtle and quiet, even with Bloody Mess Perk.

 

[Scaredpanther0101]

Stealing a teddy bear and then being stomped on by a behemoth o_0

 

[Delrah]

On my main game, I randomly fast traveled into Megaton in the middle of the night. I was walking towards my house when I found the very dead body of Lucy West near the bomb. Creeped the hell out of me and led to me spending not a small amount of time trying to find what had killed her...

 

[Goldbling]

When blowing up Megaton did not yield an equal number of missions. There I was thinking the developers that give two distinct paths (Good and Evil) would make them equal. Nope. Blowing up Megaton gives you about 3 missions with Tenpenny Tower, as opposed to all the missions you get in the Survival Book chain alone. And me without a save point prior. Sad day.

your supposed to go back, she will just be a ghoul and ask what happened and just direct her to the underworld. She will still give you TWSG quests and the book after completion.

 

[ShoryukenDude]

Going to drop off some Quantum with that one chick in Girdershade and finding an Albino Radscorpion had somehow made it's way into her house. Thank god for the Metal Blaster.

 

[lucario master of aura]

i did a fight against 100 behemoths and was out of health regeneration with about 60 left i fired 3 mini nukes, fire hydrants littered the ground

 

[smokeybearsb]

What momnet was most surprising to you in your time playing Fallout 3? Why did it surprise you?

My most surprising moment was when I stumbled across Oasis by accident. I was first surprised by the green plants that dotted the pathway to the gate. Then I finally got inside and was awestruck at what I saw: trees, living trees. However I was surprised the most when I met Harold and Herbert (aka Bob).

Honorable Mention is when you meet President John Henry Eden.

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You know, it's funny, I wasn't that surprised when I met the President... somewhere a long the line, I knew there was something fishy about him. I actually thought he was a permanent voice recording of some old president from before the war or something. I was surprised he was an artificial inteligence, but not that he was a comp. Which is why it wasn't my most surprising moment...

My most surprising moment was when I first fought a Yao Guai. It was night and I saw something killing a brahman. I went to investigate, only to hear growling noises behind me. Now, while I was playing, it also happened to be night in real life and I had no lights on in the room, so I turned around to see this fast moving monster coming right for me. It turned out, after he killed the brahman I was investigating, he had killed it's owner soon afterwards. At any rate, I first reacted with interest (nothing up to that point nor in any of Bethesda's other games attacked so quickly - normally I had the option to observe the enemy and devise a strategy), but then when it finished its charge and took a quarter of my health (I was still a very low level) I freaked out [literally screaming]. It was one of the first creatures I had used the shot gun on, which was saying something considering I had very low amounts of ammo for it and never used it on anything. I think I ended up wasting a few shots after I killed it just to be safe cause it scared the shit outta me so much. It was breath-taking.

Honorable mention would probably when I explored (I think) Vault 81.

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I was dungeon diving and I began reading some of the old computer terminals, only to find emails between this woman and her instructor. They had made several references about bringing instruments (they were musicians) to practice and spending extra time working on they're songs. After all these various musical terms, they finished the email by saying, "Oh, and don't forget your violin..." It was all one big sexual metaphor. I laughed so hard, it was amazing.

I've never had to kill a Yao Guai, suffice to say that I'm scared shitless of them. The first time I saw one was when this happened: I was wandering around the DC Wasteland, near L'Enfant Plaza killing some Raiders. Then a Spuer Mutant started attacking me, and I had very low health and I was like "Noooo!! I don't want to die!!" And right as I was about to, this huge monstrous creature came speeding across the screen and just hit the shit out of the Super Mutant. Here are my first two thoughts: "Yes! I'm not going to die!" and "HOLY SHIT I'M GOING TO DIE!!" Cause right after it killed the Super Mutant it turned towards me, but I was really surprised when it said "Scavenger's Yao Guai" and I looked around like "Wha-" and found a Scavenger and her dog. It was pretty cool, cause never since then have I seen a Scavenger with a Yao Guai.

I also don't think I've killed one either. The one run-in I've had resulted in me running away with my tail between my legs praying to Jebus that I didn't die. I think I respect them too much after what happened in my first encounter with one.

 

[Wormthong]

ehm you do know that those missions are still doable after that becouse the person you get the mission from becomes a ghoul and goes off to live in underworld after you go back to megaton and talk to her.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I've never had to kill a Yao Guai, suffice to say that I'm scared shitless of them. The first time I saw one was when this happened: I was wandering around the DC Wasteland, near L'Enfant Plaza killing some Raiders. Then a Spuer Mutant started attacking me, and I had very low health and I was like "Noooo!! I don't want to die!!" And right as I was about to, this huge monstrous creature came speeding across the screen and just hit the shit out of the Super Mutant. Here are my first two thoughts: "Yes! I'm not going to die!" and "HOLY SHIT I'M GOING TO DIE!!" Cause right after it killed the Super Mutant it turned towards me, but I was really surprised when it said "Scavenger's Yao Guai" and I looked around like "Wha-" and found a Scavenger and her dog. It was pretty cool, cause never since then have I seen a Scavenger with a Yao Guai.

I also don't think I've killed one either. The one run-in I've had resulted in me running away with my tail between my legs praying to Jebus that I didn't die. I think I respect them too much after what happened in my first encounter with one.

That's awesome. One time I saw a trader with a Yao Guai in his caravan. But all it did was just trail behind, nothing cool like killing a super mutant. They are pretty friggin' scary.

 

[ohgodalex]

Am I the only one who DIDN'T blow up Megaton.

Not at all. I pride myself on having only killed two innocent people in the entire game, one of which was a total jerk.

 

[smokeybearsb]

I've never had to kill a Yao Guai, suffice to say that I'm scared shitless of them. The first time I saw one was when this happened: I was wandering around the DC Wasteland, near L'Enfant Plaza killing some Raiders. Then a Spuer Mutant started attacking me, and I had very low health and I was like "Noooo!! I don't want to die!!" And right as I was about to, this huge monstrous creature came speeding across the screen and just hit the shit out of the Super Mutant. Here are my first two thoughts: "Yes! I'm not going to die!" and "HOLY SHIT I'M GOING TO DIE!!" Cause right after it killed the Super Mutant it turned towards me, but I was really surprised when it said "Scavenger's Yao Guai" and I looked around like "Wha-" and found a Scavenger and her dog. It was pretty cool, cause never since then have I seen a Scavenger with a Yao Guai.

I also don't think I've killed one either. The one run-in I've had resulted in me running away with my tail between my legs praying to Jebus that I didn't die. I think I respect them too much after what happened in my first encounter with one.

That's awesome. One time I saw a trader with a Yao Guai in his caravan. But all it did was just trail behind, nothing cool like killing a super mutant. They are pretty friggin' scary.

I'm not kidding man that thing saved my life. Now I get the animal friend perk as early as I can. I don't like having to confront them.

EDIT: I also just had something really funny happen to me. I told Jericho to wait, and I came back a bit later and he said "Where the fuck have you been? I've been waiting here forever!" That made me laugh.