Your most surprising Fallout 3 moment

[AutumnGold]

when i was in megaton a couple hours in i had on me a landmine. I wandered in to jerichos house to see what he had for a stash. Of course i did it at night cause its easier. I sneak in and find him sleeping. I pick pocket him and put a land mine in his pocket. Aproximetly a second later he shouts PINEAPPLE!!!!! and blows sky high.

 

[Rudix]

Wearing headphones turned up way to loud when I lit Harold on fire.

Oh, that scream...

Oh god I almost forgot! I accidentally shot him in the face when I tried talking to him and taking a bite of my sandwich at the same time. I just plain suck at multitasking and hit the wrong key, I screamed louder than him! xD

 

[erikvduyn]

Honorable mention goes to finding out The Family's secret.

I've heard people mention this all over the place, just what is it?
My surprising moment had to be the moment when I knocked Tenpenny over the rail with my baseball bat and he landed at the very edge of the estate, right against the wall.

 

[Scrythe]

I've heard people mention this all over the place, just what is it?

You find out when you do the quest to save Arefu from The Family. If you get on The Family's good side, you can ask Vance about who they really are. He then instructs you to figure that out on your own by learning their weird little credo. But you dislike suspense:

Spoiler

The Family are a group of flesh-craving humans that have embraced the lifestyle of mythological vampires (sucking blood, hunting at night, etc).

 

[Cowabungaa]

1: The stoned wastelander screaming "The world is GREEN!".
2: The Dunwich Building, especially that pre-war flashback.
3: Turning on Liberty Prime. Liberty or DEATH! Hell yea.
4: Putting a grenade in someone's pocket. "Holy shit! BOOM" Simple, yet so hilarious.

Possibly when i was shat out by my now deceased mother with a fully concious mind, and even more so when they asked me to decide my future apearance, without bothering to cut my umbilicol cord. AND THEN I chose to all of a sudden change my sex using the apearance machine. Do you know what it feels like to have your testicles instantly vapourised? I think not. Good day to you Sir!

Hahaha, that's one of the best first posts I've seen, and so true! That's indeed hilarious.

 

[Scrythe]

Turning on Liberty Prime. Liberty or DEATH! Hell yea.

Communism is a lie!

 

[FallenRainbows]

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 can still do the wasteland guide quest after it blows up, she turns into a ghoul. If memory serves me

 

[Sharpeye42]

In point lookout when the calvert mansion blows up, i was just minding my own business walking to the door then BOOM.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Meeting my first Deathclaw, thinking "No one can beat my Lincon Rifle!". After using all my AP in VATS and it didn't die. It closed the distance as I was running away, and shooting it, and it proceeded to leap 3 miles into the air. I was like "WTF? At least i'm OK now" the Deathclaw then landed behind me and cut my head off.

Also the time I had just killed some super mutants in the wastes. I turned around and a Behemoth was standing behind me. Naturally I ran away and tried shooting it with my Rocket Lancher (I'm a small guns guy, and so had a terible Big Guns level) after running out of Missiles, and trying do run away from it while chipping at it's health with a Chinese Assault rifle I finally got it's health down; one more hit and it's gone loads of XP Horray me!! Line up my trusty Lincon Repeater for my Signature VATS headshot (wearing Lincon's Hat and a suit of course), and a damn trader turns up and the guard finished the bastard off!!! Needless to say I didn't waste the next shot

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Possibly when i was shat out by my now deceased mother with a fully concious mind, and even more so when they asked me to decide my future apearance, without bothering to cut my umbilicol cord. AND THEN I chose to all of a sudden change my sex using the apearance machine. Do you know what it feels like to have your testicles instantly vapourised? I think not. Good day to you Sir!

Hahaha, that's one of the best first posts I've seen, and so true! That's indeed hilarious.

Why thankyou good sir. Honourable mention goes to either Vault 108 or Point Lookout for their exceptional mind-fuckery.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Mine has to be the time I told the cowering wastelander to go talk the priest into being quiet.

KA-BOOM!

It was raining fragmented wastelander for quite some time.

Oh, and in the Archives, I opened a door and something moved directly at me. With a girly scream valiant war cry I blasted it with a shotgun many times. When the smoke cleared, it was just a Brahmin skull on a pole being used as a battering ram, but my god how I jumped XD

 

[Bendebec]

There is a small town full of cannibals which act all friendly, and the inevitable shootout really surprised me

 

[Bendebec]

I don't know why everyone can't seem to hadle deathclaws, one dart gun anywhere on it, and it can only limp at a very slow pace, it makes it really easy to kill

 

[T-Bone24]

Spoiler

When dad died.

 

[xxginsuxx]

Several things

1. when i had just got you know who(i don't know how to put in spoilers)out of vault 112 i shot a mole rat as it pounced and it launched into the air really high up.

2. seeing a behemoth for the first time

 

[Internet Kraken]

I don't know why everyone can't seem to hadle deathclaws, one dart gun anywhere on it, and it can only limp at a very slow pace, it makes it really easy to kill

Well most people either don't have the dart gun or they are ambushed by a death claw.

 

[Clarkarius]

Killing a super mutant behemoth with a hunting rifle.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Finding "The Family" and finding out that they don't sparkle in the sunlight or are vegetarians. That seriously made me sob like a little girl.

 

[Scobie]

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[zacaron]

the first enemy I killed one of thouse little enclave radio bots I was out of pistol ammo so I went up and punched it then it exploaded and broke me arm I was pretty surprised