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N3rV[Green]
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omgbnetsux
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On February 16 2010 11:07 omgbnetsux wrote: Don't fail us again Obsidian. Again? When did they fail us the first time? Anyway, Obsidian seems at the very least well placed to fix one of the biggest faults of Fallout 3--which is the relatively poor writing quality. Certainly, they have the means to at least. | ||
Spazer
Canada8025 Posts
On February 16 2010 11:34 TheYango wrote: Compared to Fallout 2, Fallout 3 just felt kinda lacking. Most of this has to do with the fantastic setting created in the original Fallout games. Fallout 3, on the other hand, seemed to focus on the action part of action RPG at the expense of everything else.Again? When did they fail us the first time? Anyway, Obsidian seems at the very least well placed to fix one of the biggest faults of Fallout 3--which is the relatively poor writing quality. Certainly, they have the means to at least. Some issues I had with Fallout 3:
All that said, I am cautiously optimistic about this game. I look forward to executing more Plan C. | ||
ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On February 16 2010 16:07 Spazer wrote: Compared to Fallout 2, Fallout 3 just felt kinda lacking. Most of this has to do with the fantastic setting created in the original Fallout games. Fallout 3, on the other hand, seemed to focus on the action part of action RPG at the expense of everything else. Some issues I had with Fallout 3:
All that said, I am cautiously optimistic about this game. I look forward to executing more Plan C. And the sad part is that you can blame most of the problems with the game on Australia. | ||
ejac
United States1195 Posts
On February 16 2010 11:34 TheYango wrote: Again? When did they fail us the first time? When did they not fail us? All they've ever done at best is make okish bug ridden sequels to totally awesome original games. | ||
Athos
United States2484 Posts
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omgbnetsux
United States3749 Posts
On February 16 2010 11:34 TheYango wrote: Again? When did they fail us the first time? Anyway, Obsidian seems at the very least well placed to fix one of the biggest faults of Fallout 3--which is the relatively poor writing quality. Certainly, they have the means to at least. All I have to say is KotOR2. | ||
Spazer
Canada8025 Posts
On February 16 2010 16:12 ghermination wrote: Seriously? I thought all that Bethesda had to change for the game to be released in Australia was something related to "drug references" or something.And the sad part is that you can blame most of the problems with the game on Australia. | ||
Disarray
United States1164 Posts
you CANNOT blame kotr2 on them, they had a ton more content planned out, and the publisher made them push whatever they had out the door, really sucked. they had a whole droid planet and other npcs and shit | ||
Disarray
United States1164 Posts
http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=29764&st=0 | ||
georgir
Bulgaria253 Posts
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On February 16 2010 16:07 Spazer wrote: Compared to Fallout 2, Fallout 3 just felt kinda lacking. Most of this has to do with the fantastic setting created in the original Fallout games. Fallout 3, on the other hand, seemed to focus on the action part of action RPG at the expense of everything else. lol, as much as I agree with your rant, Bethesda made Fallout 3. Obsidian is making this. On February 16 2010 16:23 ejac wrote: When did they not fail us? All they've ever done at best is make okish bug ridden sequels to totally awesome original games. Uh, no. 1) Mask of the Betrayer, while an expansion, is still the best-written RPG since Planescape Torment. And being second to Torment is nothing to scoff at. 2) NWN's main campaign was tripe--the game was entirely driven by the mod community, and the fact that Obsidian has less fanboys to make good mods for it has nothing to do with the actual game quality. The two original campaigns were of similar quality, but the two expansions made by Obsidian were vastly better the two expansions made by Bioware. 3) KotOR 2 comes out even with KotOR 1 at worst. What it loses in polish is greatly made up for in terms of writing quality, character development, plot depth, and superior game mechanics, especially since bugs can be fixed and modded while poor writing/story is much harder. 4) Did you just call Bioware games original? Every Bioware game since BG2 has rehashed more and more elements from previous games. Maybe they were original at some point, but the titles that Obsidian decided to leapfrog off of were hardly original in their own right. At worst, we can say that Obsidian needs better QA before release. In terms of design, it's hard to fault Obsidian, particularly given the background many of their devs have had in the classics of the industry. On February 16 2010 16:26 omgbnetsux wrote: All I have to say is KotOR2. In all aspects other than general polish, KotOR 2 wins over KotOR 1, especially with the above-linked restoration mod (which phenomenally restores the ending to be decently satisfying). | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
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LordWeird
United States3411 Posts
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stalemate
United Kingdom24 Posts
Small things like this let down Fallout 3 for me, which while I thought it was a good game, it could have been so much better. | ||
omgbnetsux
United States3749 Posts
On February 16 2010 17:14 Disarray wrote: you CANNOT blame kotr2 on them, they had a ton more content planned out, and the publisher made them push whatever they had out the door, really sucked. they had a whole droid planet and other npcs and shit Regardless of timelines and ambitions, I felt the game was vastly inferior to KotoR in every respect. Its been a while, but I don't remember the writing being better at all. Playing it on the Xbox did not give me the luxury of patches/players fixing the buggy game. I heard NWN2 was terrible too. Anyways on topic, New Vegas was the most awesome area in Fallout 2 so I have high hopes on the environment for this expansion. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On February 17 2010 02:09 omgbnetsux wrote: Its been a while, but I don't remember the writing being better at all. This speaks more to how terrible the writing in KotOR 1 was, especially with respect to certain characters. Example: play a female PC and see the first few Carth romance dialogues. For a character supposedly ~30 years and formerly married, his lines sound like something out of a sappy high school romance. Plus, there's just the fact that the story is just more interesting in KotOR 2. The story in KotOR 1 is mostly a bunch of cliches and rehashes from BG2 duct-taped together--from the beginning of the game, you know exactly how it's going to play out. Become Jedi, kill BBEG, save/conquer universe, get girl/guy. KotOR 2, on the other hand, at least attempted to examine some of the deeper mysteries of Star Wars lore at the time, and how your actions (and the actions of your influence-guided companions) will eventually affect the crippled Jedi Order remains unclear until the end (in fact, they remain unclear until the game is played through with the restoration mod ). With some exploration, it becomes clear that even the lines of good/evil with regard to the main characters becomes blurred. Even the much-lauded plot twist of KotOR 1 is poorly used, as it's hardly original, and fails to affect the story in any meaningful way. It doesn't play into the outcome of the story, and is not used to introduce any moral or philosophical quandary. On all levels, it's just fluff for cheap shock value. On February 17 2010 02:09 omgbnetsux wrote: I heard NWN2 was terrible too. Only the main game, and in comparison to NWN1 it wasn't much worse. The first expansion outshines most RPGs since Planescape Torment, as mentioned, at least in the story department. | ||
eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On February 17 2010 02:58 eMbrace wrote: I simply never understood the appeal of Fallout 3 or Oblivion. I tried both of them and the worlds are just so impressively boring. well, I really didnt like Oblivion but loved Fallout 3. I guess it depends a lot of what kind of game you like :\ | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
plot wise from the trailer it seems we're gonna old story elements (NCR) come back into play, i'll look forward to this game as a fallout rip-off, not a true fallout series game. | ||
jalstar
United States8198 Posts
On February 16 2010 11:07 omgbnetsux wrote: Don't fail us again Obsidian. I honestly like Obsidian games better than the other two main RPG developers: Bioware and Bethesda. Then again I make sure to get patches to fix the bugs. More info from DAC: * The tagline says: "A Safe Bet for RPG Fans" * Hardcore mode: Stimpaks take a long time to heal, you need a Doctor's Bag to heal broken limbs, and you suffer from Dehydration so you need to carry water. * Dynamite is one of the first weapons you come across * Obsidian have focused much more on the story than Bethesda did with Fallout 3 * VATS now includes a special attack for every weapon * Weapons can be modded - one of the mods involves reducing the spooling time for miniguns. * All of your skills can be used to influence dialogue * A "Command/Companion Wheel" gives you control over your followers - the design of this isn't finalized yet * Nightkin are back and can cloak * The Hoover Dam is intact and produces electricity * Electricity seems to be one of the main things in the game * There are 3 factions - the NCR, Caesar's Legion, and (although unconfirmed) the Brotherhood of Steel * The Helios One solar tower controls an orbital laser platform * You can get a portable controller for the laser platform and use it throughout the game * Lots of "grey areas" in terms of actions and dialogue - a combined reputation and morality system means everything you do has an effect on something in one way or another. * New Vegas will have different endings, "instead of the single, potentially anachronistic 'man/woman saves the Wasteland' finale." * The overall theme of the game is about trying to find out who tried to kill you and why. * New weapon - The "All-American" - a rapid fire Sniper Rifle Sounds nice. Anyone else love 1 and 2 but couldn't get into 3? | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
anyone remember this suit of armor? + Show Spoiler + pretty awesome to finally see it in full 3D rendering and most weapons have the "classic" fallout looks like the Plasma Rifle and Laser Rifle, and ammunition types are back, and the new combat system looks slightly better than Fallout 3 now. this is the second most anticipated game for me this year after SC2, feeling pretty nostalgiac now since this will follow closer to the original series plot. remember this guy? + Show Spoiler + also, it looks like Felicia Day is the voice actress for one of the PC's companion, all in all i'm getting wiggly and jiggly can't wait for my copies to arrive in a couple of weeks time! | ||
skindzer
Chile5113 Posts
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Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
(a.k.a., the game is exactly the same basically) | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
*snif* kotor 1 was so good! | ||
jalstar
United States8198 Posts
no... KotoR 2 at least started out good, if they actually wrapped stuff up it would have been great, there's an LP of it that includes the developer's intent of how it was supposed to end. | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
It was just the same damn thing again and again and again, much worse than Oblivion (which sucked too), because at least in Oblivion there were different skills and builds to try. All Fallout 3 had were those retarded perks: "ooh, do I want to lockpick better to get more of the same damn items I don't need, or get more weapons skills so I do slightly bigger numbers of damage when I rape boring monsters in VATS?". Maybe if I was one of those guys who names my characters period appropriate names like Varlor Mailfist and writes down NPC backstories in a little notebook I would have had a better time, but I never really get into the story or characters in RPG's. I'm the kind of person who names their characters fuckhead so it looks funny in dialog and spends 2 hours trying to get the sheriff to glitch out and get stuck behind a bush so I can loot the entire town. I completely lost interest in Fallout and Oblivion when I realized that the only thing I was going to do the longer I played was advance some shitty storyline and make numbers go up, there wasn't even any high level items, skills, or enemies I could look forward too. lame. at least Fallout didn't have Oblivon's retarded leveling system...lol | ||
BG1
Canada1550 Posts
On October 02 2010 17:41 sob3k wrote: lol, Fallout 3 was one of my least favorite games ever, it was so repetitive I couldn't even handle it....The idea and the world were really cool and all, but after 12 hours of wandering around....finding the same random enemies...going into VATS...killing them...getting boring items that did nothing to change the gameplay.... It was just the same damn thing again and again and again, much worse than Oblivion (which sucked too), because at least in Oblivion there were different skills and builds to try. All Fallout 3 had were those retarded perks: "ooh, do I want to lockpick better to get more of the same damn items I don't need, or get more weapons skills so I do slightly bigger numbers of damage when I rape boring monsters in VATS?". Maybe if I was one of those guys who names my characters period appropriate names like Varlor Mailfist and writes down NPC backstories in a little notebook I would have had a better time, but I never really get into the story or characters in RPG's. I'm the kind of person who names their characters fuckhead so it looks funny in dialog and spends 2 hours trying to get the sheriff to glitch out and get stuck behind a bush so I can loot the entire town. I completely lost interest in Fallout and Oblivion when I realized that the only thing I was going to do the longer I played was advance some shitty storyline and make numbers go up, there wasn't even any high level items, skills, or enemies I could look forward too. lame. at least Fallout didn't have Oblivon's retarded leveling system...lol You should try Oblivion with Oscuro's mod, makes the game much better. | ||
Scaramanga
Australia8090 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 02 2010 17:59 Scaramanga wrote: I though fallout three was really good, does this mean that my brain will explode if i play fo1 and 2? if you haven't, you should really try them, your head might just explode... much much better than fallout 3 imo. | ||
ShaperofDreams
Canada2492 Posts
On October 02 2010 17:52 BG1 wrote: You should try Oblivion with Oscuro's mod, makes the game much better. whats Oscuro's mod? what does it change? | ||
HwangjaeTerran
Finland5962 Posts
On October 02 2010 18:14 Shizuru~ wrote: if you haven't, you should really try them, your head might just explode... much much better than fallout 3 imo. Remember to get the Restoration project patch for fallout 2 Also the game is kinda slow so it might get on your nerves, everything else is golden. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
I'm annoyed with it already though. It's been fucking available for preorder for like a year. Seriously, ridiculous. | ||
Dagobert
Netherlands1858 Posts
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BG1
Canada1550 Posts
On October 02 2010 18:59 ShaperofDreams wrote: whats Oscuro's mod? what does it change? From the site: "Considered by most to be an expansion rather than a mere modification, Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul completely re-designs and enhances the TES IV: Oblivion experience. It affects almost all aspects of the original game: Quests, Environments, Dungeons, NPCs, Creatures, AI, Combat System, Magic System, Thieving System, Containers, Spawn Lists, Loot Lists, Items, Books, Interface and Level Progression. It also adds thousands of new items, containers and lists, hundreds of new NPCs and creatures, sixteen new multi-level dungeons, dozens of new books, several new quests, realistic AI functionality and new PC abilities' features. Much of OOO's custom new models and textures were stand-alone mods that I later blended into OOO's design, changing them in order to fit in with the rest of the work. During the last month and a half of OOO's development I gathered a group of beta-testers that provided much input, ideas and help in the creation of new textures and models on top of their excellent quality-assurance work. Although I was responsible for the vision, design and implementation work of OOO, I am greatly indebted to them in helping me polish it into a professional-level expansion." | ||
Teeny
Austria885 Posts
But also hoping they make it different/better than fallout 3 and not just copy it. | ||
dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
Fallout 3 is very much different from 1 and 2. The writing...the atmosphere...the setting...the gameplay...I was extremely hyped up for Fallout 3 and got a new computer JUST for Fallout 3. To be honest, Fallout 3 is kinda of a disappointment for me...yeah...it's repetitive after awhile. Everything's practically the same to me and the quests seem to suck. In fallout 1 and 2, they had real towns and cities with their own cultures and ways of survival in a truly harsh land, making exploration so much more rewarding. But New Vegas is made by the guys who made 1 and 2. My expectation level for New Vegas is sky high. However, I will read the reviews prior to purchasing the game. Let's see if it's good or fail. As long as you are not a graphic whore (which you shouldn't if you liked Brood war...) and don't mind turn based combat, you will love Fallout 1 and 2. I honestly spent so much time modding Fallout 3 haha...just like I am doing with Oblivion... | ||
Fruscainte
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SweetNJoshSauce
United States468 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 16 2010 10:57 SweetNJoshSauce wrote: I'll wait a few days after release to see if Obsidian ruined this just like they did KOTOR and NWN KOTOR 2 was good, it just had a shit ending. The same people who made Fallout 1 and 2 are on this, so my hopes are high. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
Meanwhile, people buying through steam will not be able to play until Tuesday afternoon. | ||
HuskyBear
United States44 Posts
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TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
I played morrowind and oblivion and their expansions and loved it. I played my friends fall out 3 for 2 weeks before giving it back and i did enjoy it , although i didnt have time to explore the wastelands, so i guess it will be a '' wtf am i supposed to do'' experience for me | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
On October 16 2010 10:59 Fruscainte wrote: KOTOR 2 was good, it just had a shit ending. The same people who made Fallout 1 and 2 are on this, so my hopes are high. KOTOR 2's ending was shit because they weren't finished yet. I think in some special edition video (I have no clue where it can be found to be honest) they showed the original ending and how they would have wanted the game to end but they didn't have enough time. Shame really. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
That said, you don't have to do much to improve Fallout 3's writing, world building and storyline because it was pretty awful/generic most of the time. Since Obsidian working with fairly strong foundations and have a fairly strong track record when it comes to the non-actiony side of RPGs, this game should turn out fairly solid. To be honest, they're better off doing projects like this instead of creating their own game. Very often their games collapse because they're just so obviously flawed whenever action and combat occurs; by doing projects like this, they only have to worry about the world building, writing, and storyline. | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 16 2010 22:48 Womwomwom wrote: Obsidian is working with the Gamebryo engine so we can only really expect awful animations and AI, like those found in Fallout 3. That said, you don't have to do much to improve Fallout 3's writing, world building and storyline because it was pretty awful/generic most of the time. Since Obsidian working with fairly strong foundations and have a fairly strong track record when it comes to the non-actiony side of RPGs, this game should turn out fairly solid. To be honest, they're better off doing projects like this instead of creating their own game. Very often their games collapse because they're just so obviously flawed whenever action and combat occurs; by doing projects like this, they only have to worry about the world building, writing, and storyline. And since they got such a great foundation already for the story and writing, I can expect it to be top notch. | ||
TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
Either way the game is coming out tomorrow! ill be getting my copy at midnight and gunna start off with playing it on hardcore mode. Im far too excited for this. | ||
BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
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abominare
United States1216 Posts
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DJEtterStyle
United States2766 Posts
2010 has been a rough year for gaming (aside from, y'know, the release of StarCraft II). It's had one good RPG, which came out in January. I am starving for an RPG. | ||
Pobearo
United States351 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 19 2010 08:32 Pobearo wrote: I really hope it's at least as good as FO3. I'll be massively disappointed if the writing in New Vegas is "as good as FO3" | ||
chesshaha
United States1117 Posts
They only had less than a year to develop this game, they started few months after the release of the final DLC for FO3. Getting the game on PC of course, to play all the mods. DLC will be a few month later than 360. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 19 2010 09:23 chesshaha wrote: Game comes out in a few hours on steam. Anyone knows the exact time and time zone? midnight pacific time They only had less than a year to develop this game, they started few months after the release of the final DLC for FO3. huh? Obsidian worked on the game for over a year and a half. | ||
Seanly
Canada73 Posts
On a sidenote, I've never played FO1 and 2 but have heard great things from friends and such. Anyone know where I could purchase or download a copy of each game? Happy gaming to all! | ||
PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
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darklordjac
Canada2231 Posts
On October 19 2010 07:35 DJEtterStyle wrote: I'm hoping for the best, but as several other people have mentioned, Obsidian's track record is too spotty to purchase New Vegas before reviews are in. 2010 has been a rough year for gaming (aside from, y'know, the release of StarCraft II). It's had one good RPG, which came out in January. I am starving for an RPG. Same Ive just been downloading every rpg that seems interesting from piratebay, but just been going back to fallout 3. Can't wait for new vegas. | ||
chesshaha
United States1117 Posts
On October 19 2010 09:36 Mindcrime wrote: midnight pacific time huh? Obsidian worked on the game for over a year and a half. How long has Fallout: New Vegas been in development? Since before Fallout 3 was released Chris Avellone: No, actually. It was like a few months after the release of the last Fallout 3 DLC that Bethesda wanted to start up the next installment in the series. They approached us after that. http://www.vg247.com/2010/05/04/interview-obsidians-chris-avellone-on-fallout-new-vegas/ Mothership Zeta was released August 3, 2009. So yea... | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
Second, from J.E. Sawyer: The Mojave Wasteland started as a greyscale image turned into a "height map" for generating the raw clay of terrain that, in the final tally, hundreds of people labored over for a year and a half. http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/vault/diaries_diary14-10.18.10.html | ||
Durak
Canada3684 Posts
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chesshaha
United States1117 Posts
On October 19 2010 09:58 Mindcrime wrote: First: While Avellone is being unclear, you really need to read the rest of your own link. The game was announced in April 2009 and it has been known that Obsidian was developing since then. Second, from J.E. Sawyer: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/vault/diaries_diary14-10.18.10.html I read it, and understood that NV was announced in April 2009. Base on the interview, it seemed perfectly clear to me that he said they started developing the game "a few months after the release of the last Fallout 3 DLC". But I guess Avellone wasn't answering the question properly. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 19 2010 10:08 Durak wrote: Screenshots look very disappointing. I hope you're not judging the game based on screenshots... This was originally a Brood War forum... | ||
N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
On October 19 2010 10:50 lynx.oblige wrote: I hope you're not judging the game based on screenshots... This was originally a Brood War forum... Sorry this still is a BW forum. SC2 is still just a part xD | ||
Durak
Canada3684 Posts
On October 19 2010 10:50 lynx.oblige wrote: I hope you're not judging the game based on screenshots... This was originally a Brood War forum... I love Brood War. The graphics aren't terrible, they're just simple. Graphics are a reasonable part of an FPS atmosphere-based game. In this, the graphics and scenery just look ugly. Somehow, they don't even look as good as Fallout 3. I found Fallout 3 to get boring half way through the game. Since my first impression from the screenshots is bad, I expect this one to be even worse. | ||
yups
Denmark116 Posts
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:07 yups wrote: Fallout 1 and 2 are two of my all time favorite games. Fallout 3 on PC is, as a standalone, an ok game. As a sequel to the first two epic games its a piece of worthless trash that deserves to be rammed up the ass of which ever money hungering programmer that was responsible for its making. Chill out. Chill out. Why are Fallout 1/2 fans the most petulant of all? Maybe there are worse fan bases, but even BW loving SC2 haters seem much more amicable and logical to me. You even admit it is okay, but then decide to knowingly apply an unfair standard to Fallout 3. | ||
PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:20 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: Chill out. Chill out. Why are Fallout 1/2 fans the most petulant of all? Maybe there are worse fan bases, but even BW loving SC2 haters seem much more amicable and logical to me. You even admit it is okay, but then decide to knowingly apply an unfair standard to Fallout 3. fallout three really is so unlike 1 and 2. and thats why. it's pretty much a different game and genre/style set in the fallout universe (except even this is untrue as its east coast in FO3 and not west coast) thats why. | ||
Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:23 PrinceXizor wrote: fallout three really is so unlike 1 and 2. and thats why. it's pretty much a different game and genre/style set in the fallout universe (except even this is untrue as its east coast in FO3 and not west coast) thats why. I suppose but Metroid Prime seems pretty analogous and seemed to win people over eventually, and many over immediately. | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
loads of screen dump from the official game guide, lots of interesting information and the perks seems alot more interesting than Fallout 3... | ||
BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:20 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: Chill out. Chill out. Why are Fallout 1/2 fans the most petulant of all? Maybe there are worse fan bases, but even BW loving SC2 haters seem much more amicable and logical to me. You even admit it is okay, but then decide to knowingly apply an unfair standard to Fallout 3. I personally could apply so many unfair standards to Fallout 3 a sane person would think twice about liking the game. It was 85% previous fallout games, 10% fallout bible, 5% originality, and 100% done by people that didn't know what the hell Fallout was about. | ||
Lexpar
1813 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:20 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: Chill out. Chill out. Why are Fallout 1/2 fans the most petulant of all? Maybe there are worse fan bases, but even BW loving SC2 haters seem much more amicable and logical to me. You even admit it is okay, but then decide to knowingly apply an unfair standard to Fallout 3. Play fallout 1 and 2. Then, only then will you get it. | ||
Fraidnot
United States824 Posts
On October 19 2010 13:48 Lexpar wrote: Play fallout 1 and 2. Then, only then will you get it. You mean that turn based rpgs are neither fun nor lucrative? jk jk, i'm a fan of the old school but it's just to much to expect them to make a game that only 5 people will play. | ||
Lexpar
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.risingdragoon
United States3021 Posts
On October 19 2010 14:01 Fraidnot wrote: You mean that turn based rpgs are neither fun nor lucrative? jk jk, i'm a fan of the old school but it's just to much to expect them to make a game that only 5 people will play. Read this. http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2008/10/fallout-3.html | ||
PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On October 19 2010 12:26 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: I suppose but Metroid Prime seems pretty analogous and seemed to win people over eventually, and many over immediately. thats a difference in fanbase and reason for liking the games. Metroid fans love it for two reasons, the story and lore of the game, and nostalgia for the original metroid games. Fallout players like the grittyness (present in FO3) and the gameplay of 1 and 2 (not present) | ||
Ordained
United States779 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
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PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
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Grend
1600 Posts
I am one of the few who enjoyed F1, F2, FT, and F3. You just have to accept that how games are developed changes, and that thing progresses, even though you may not like it. This game is generally being hyped alot more by the hardcore fans too. Probably has alot to do with Mighty Avellone being involved along with alot of other old school Fallout Developers. | ||
Dooba
Croatia588 Posts
I'm in the "fallout 3 sucks" camp but this one... might. just. do. it! Hopes are high! | ||
Pobearo
United States351 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 19 2010 19:09 Grend wrote: This will be my christmas holiday game of 2010. So looking forward to wasting countless hours exploring a new wasteland ^^ I am one of the few who enjoyed F1, F2, FT, and F3. You just have to accept that how games are developed changes, and that thing progresses, even though you may not like it. This game is generally being hyped alot more by the hardcore fans too. Probably has alot to do with Mighty Avellone being involved along with alot of other old school Fallout Developers. I too enjoy all of them. I normally side with loyalists but I think Fallout is going in a great direction. | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
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Dooba
Croatia588 Posts
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Boblion
France8043 Posts
On October 19 2010 22:20 Dooba wrote: ^That are just a few bugs that a patch can fix easily. I want to hear more about the actual game. Can't seem to find any reviews at this time. # The Oblivion engine’s back! Now, the thing about the Oblivion engine is that it’s a bit of a charisma vacuum, and you have to work quite hard to make people not come across as stocky puppets. New Vegas doesn’t try very hard. In fact it tries so little that I’ve been having shootouts with people who maintain the same lazy smile or expression of doped boredom that they wear before the fighting starts. ??? I guess it will need more than one patch. | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 19 2010 22:20 Dooba wrote: ^That are just a few bugs that a patch can fix easily. I want to hear more about the actual game. Can't seem to find any reviews at this time. http://www.nma-fallout.com/ there are already shit tonnes of revies out there already... | ||
CidO
United States695 Posts
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
But that's FINE by me | ||
Tsuke
United States52 Posts
If I had a chance to demo the first hour or two I would probably put off buying until the price goes down. | ||
BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
In addition to redoing the work bench (you can see all recipes) they also added an ammo press not unlike the one from the Pitt. It works a bit different but it basically breaks down ammo into it's components and you take parts of the components and make new rounds. Oh and I'm afraid of Geckos...they don't hurt much but they have that Fallout 2 closing speed that makes you worry a bit. For me Fallout 3 never had that "okay I need to watch who I piss off" even in the early stages of a very hard play through. Fallout New Vegas (so far) has given me that "don't fuck about" feeling from he start (save pilfering some houses). Oh and mines are pretty damn scary right now. The distance I have to be to disarm them is a hair longer than the fuse. If I'm no crouch walking and hitting the disarm key it's cripppled legs and 50% life loss. Oh and the no stimpacks to heal broken limbs is a pain in the ass, thankfully you can construct Doctors bags to do the job out of the various medical equipment Fallout 3 had no use for. | ||
Pobearo
United States351 Posts
I also hope I can find some power armor in the near future, and a decent gun. pistols and leather armor aren't going to cut it much longer. | ||
jalstar
United States8198 Posts
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dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
For the record, Oblivion's crashes are killing me. (Disclaimer, I do have 30 mods installed) Bethesda need to do something about the instability of their engine. I have a lot of mods for Dragon Age too, and it never crashed on me. Oh, and I hate how I can't alt-tab to desktop without the Besthesda games crashing. Fallout 3 disappointed me a little, especially with the dialogues and storyline. I am willing to purchase a copy of New Vegas if its story telling is proven to be on par with Fallout 1 and 2. Basically New Vegas at this point is like a modded version of Fallout 3. It is no superior than Fallout 3 + mods. I will have to wait and read more reviews before deciding whether this game is worth my time. The deciding factor will be how people compare the central plot of New Vegas to Fallout 3. It will be tough to find out without getting spoiled. | ||
BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
You sir make no sense to me, such is life I suppose. Have gamers really come so far as to not want to experience a game on their own? Just play the damn thing and form your own opinion. God speed on not getting spoiled. | ||
Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5466 Posts
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On October 20 2010 11:21 jimminy_kriket wrote: For those who have the game - How does it run? I've heard some not so great things about it performance wise. i've just finished playing a good ten hours, m eyes hurt. but ill answer your question. Its crashed for me twice, running on windows seven. But other then those two incidents its been playing perfectly. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
HardwareHeaven's review it's minimal in too many spoilers | ||
BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
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Klapdout
United States282 Posts
On October 20 2010 11:50 semantics wrote: It's bad coding i would probably expect a patch soon. Nvidia users seem to get the worst of the buggy issues. Yea the game was completely unplayable for me. phenom ii x4 3.4 GHz GTX 260, latest drivers Windows 7 64 bit Even on the lowest settings I got ~10 fps with multiple nps, and horrible stuttering while moving around. I scoured the various forums for potential solutions and found one that works well for me. Open up task manager and set affinity to 2 cores. I'm now getting 30-50 fps, and no stuttering. Its now completely playable, hopefully it can help others. | ||
dronebabo
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FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
Look really nice so far I'll be able to talk more about the game tonight, I'll have a longer session of play | ||
snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
Does anyone know what weapons to use against Radscorpions? I've run out of mines and their armor is making all my weapons useless. | ||
Robeezy
United States33 Posts
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Vedic
United States582 Posts
On October 20 2010 11:21 jimminy_kriket wrote: For those who have the game - How does it run? I've heard some not so great things about it performance wise. From what I've heard, it's on the exact same engine as FO3, but with a few modifications for neon lights. Assume that you'll get nearly the same. | ||
Nokarot
United States1410 Posts
I've only played ~2 hours so far. While its fun, I dare say that because it is so similar to Fallout 3 in terms of gameplay (so far) that I'm a little underwhelmed. The interface is exactly the same, 90% of the perks/abilities seem exactly the same. I haven't been to Vegas yet, so in the wasteland, the graphics seem basically the same (in terms of textures/doodads/etc). This isn't necessarily a bad thing if you loved FO3, because more of the same is tons of new content and awesome stuff to play through. I just wonder exactly what kind of staff were hired on this project in particular- it seems like all they needed was a handful of people to design new levels and a couple artists. It's like a giant giant giant giant giant piece of DLC, or a stand-alone expansion that covers an entirely different story, if that makes sense. Too much of the same for what I was expecting, but being as that FO3 was fun, I will still enjoy it. | ||
Zorkmid
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snowbird
Germany2044 Posts
Unfortunately I couldn't bear to play it for long... the graphics are terrible and it's stuttering a lot. I'm still interested in the game though, so I guess I'll wait for a patch and pick it up again. | ||
StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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HuskyBear
United States44 Posts
btw has anyone shot children in the game? do they die this time or just run around? also anyone find dogmeat yet? if hes in the game. | ||
DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
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Disposition
Canada77 Posts
Copy this to FalloutPrefs.ini (in your My Games/FalloutNV folder) under controls fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0 fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0 fForegroundMouseBase=0 fForegroundMouseMult=0 Worked like a charm for me. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 21 2010 01:44 Zorkmid wrote: There's some sorta problem with Nvidia drivers or something. I have a machine that should SHRED the graphics on ultra for FO:NV. Auto-detect selected ultra high and the FPS is brutal, even when I go to minimal. Hopefully there's a fix soon. It's likely more like bad coding. This engine is old and nvidia ran flawless on Fallout 3 and the engine doesn't look like it changed at all. On October 21 2010 02:58 Disposition wrote: I'm surprised no one complained about the deadly mouse acceleration in the menus. Mine was ultra messed up but I found a change to remove acceleration if anyone decides to get rid of it. Copy this to FalloutPrefs.ini (in your My Games/FalloutNV folder) under controls fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0 fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0 fForegroundMouseBase=0 fForegroundMouseMult=0 Worked like a charm for me. Thank you I run at 3000 dpi lol that mouse accel was freaking impossible even went o toggled it down to like 400dpi. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 21 2010 02:41 DrainX wrote: Fallout 2 basically ran the same engine as Fallout 1 and both were still great games. What I'm looking forward to in New Vegas is not new flashy graphics or new gameplay elements. I want better story/dialog/writing which I have heard are there. I'm pumped as hell I've only seen a fraction of the game as a whole, but I'm pretty sure that I'm a good way through the main quest, and they are there. | ||
DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
On October 21 2010 03:22 Mindcrime wrote: I've only seen a fraction of the game as a whole, but I'm pretty sure that I'm a good way through the main quest, and they are there. Thanks for again confirming my hopes Just a few hours left until I can install it myself. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Vaporized
United States1471 Posts
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Cops
United Kingdom172 Posts
I simply never understood the appeal of Fallout 3 or Oblivion. I tried both of them and the worlds are just so impressively boring. This guy was spot on. | ||
Zerum
Sweden348 Posts
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skindzer
Chile5113 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On October 21 2010 05:28 skindzer wrote: No way im playing this at least till its properly patched, cant believe they didnt learn from Fallout 3. That game had so many bugs. I was never able to play it after the first 2 hours because it kept crashing. Crappy Bethesda. What look at this quality coding. | ||
shalamadoooo
78 Posts
The biggest issue is that it uses gamebryo and at times looks like balls. Like seriously bad sometimes. Other times, especially in the middle of the day with all of the HDR stuff, it is really atmospheric and works. This is bathesdas fault, the engine was never very good for this sort of game, and it sort of comes with all of the bathesda baggage. Fortunately, Obsidian seems to have tidied up many of the issues (especially concerning world feel) that it works. It feels more like a traditional game than a "blockbuster" targeted to casual gamers with gimmicks like fallout 3 was. Verdict so far: Get it. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
Definitely Definitely Highly Highly recommend if you liked Fallout 3 and even if you didn't like/play Fallout 3. Having tons of fun with New Vegas. Only other problem than that is I don't have enough time to play it as much as I might want lulz | ||
SyyRaaaN
Sweden136 Posts
On October 21 2010 05:33 semantics wrote: What look at this quality coding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ&feature=player_embedded He is trying to give fellatio? | ||
Lexpar
1813 Posts
Also. THIS GAME ROCKS SO GOOD. | ||
TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On October 21 2010 05:33 semantics wrote: What look at this quality coding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ&feature=player_embedded haha whatttt that didn't happen to me at all. ive had an increasing amount of crashes, and glitches, but nothing that bad. still i cant recommend this game enough. im pushing 16 hours into the game now, and still so much great dialoge and just the small touchs you see as you explore that make it so great | ||
Duke
United States1106 Posts
On October 21 2010 02:58 Disposition wrote: I'm surprised no one complained about the deadly mouse acceleration in the menus. Mine was ultra messed up but I found a change to remove acceleration if anyone decides to get rid of it. Copy this to FalloutPrefs.ini (in your My Games/FalloutNV folder) under controls fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0 fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0 fForegroundMouseBase=0 fForegroundMouseMult=0 Worked like a charm for me. thank you!! | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
Maybe you're cold, but you're so warm inside I was always a fool for my Johnny For the one they call Johnny Guitar Over. And. Over. Again. My God. | ||
Glasse
Canada1237 Posts
make sure you make the file read only, else it reverts back I cant believe any pc games would have mouse acceleration built-in.... that is the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen. | ||
Lexpar
1813 Posts
"With the big iron on his hiiiiippp... They tried to shoot him, but the man was quick, the man with the big iron on his hiiiiiipp" Get out of my head. | ||
dogabutila
United States1437 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
On October 21 2010 05:33 semantics wrote: What look at this quality coding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ&feature=player_embedded Oh my god that is the scariest thing ever. If that happened in my play through I would have rather played Amnesia Dark Descent. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + The cowboy ghoul prostitute took my money but didn't follow me upstairs like she said she would. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On October 21 2010 13:10 SayaSP wrote: sadness why bugs What it's an awesome bug i listed it makes the game 10000 times funnier and creepier because all NPC will do that. | ||
Vaporized
United States1471 Posts
obsidian are genuises when it comes to dialogue/characters. its surprising (and truly a shame) that in a game so packed with immersive details and locations that they can't get rid of the glitches (waiting for a crash is an annoying way to play a game). | ||
SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
On October 21 2010 13:58 Vaporized wrote: pleasantly surprised by the performance on my computer. seems to run a bit snappier then regular fo3, which is nice (a second or two lag when i brought up the pipboy in fo3 is gone). no bugs or other issues in about 5 hours logged today. lookin forward to diving back in tomorrow. obsidian are genuises when it comes to dialogue/characters. its surprising (and truly a shame) that in a game so packed with immersive details and locations that they can't get rid of the glitches (waiting for a crash is an annoying way to play a game). yeah man, i feel like its running better than fo3 | ||
Lachrymose
Australia1928 Posts
50 usd in america. 90 usd in australia. | ||
CheeseGrater
United States290 Posts
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speedphlux
Bulgaria962 Posts
Else, two things I like about this game - it's much more harder then Fallout 3 and the good and bad seems to be both quite washed into a big gray area and I can't seems to determine which is which at times. | ||
geno
United States1404 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:14 speedphlux wrote: Dang, how do you kill Deathclaws guys ? I shoot 'em in the head with my multiplas rifle. | ||
iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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Mooncat
Germany1228 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:12 CheeseGrater wrote: Fallout New Vegas Deboxing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt4ToY0CdU&feature=player_embedded Wtf | ||
TheMango
United States1966 Posts
I rescued the coward sheriff and made him follow me around, but he died. Should I bother reloading to an earlier save? Do you get a house or a place to permanently store your items early in the game like in fo3? What perks are you guys getting early on? (I got the fast reload and the +experience so far) | ||
Jopz
United States262 Posts
On October 21 2010 17:22 TheMango wrote: so a couple questions: I rescued the coward sheriff and made him follow me around, but he died. Should I bother reloading to an earlier save? Do you get a house or a place to permanently store your items early in the game like in fo3? What perks are you guys getting early on? (I got the fast reload and the +experience so far) If it's anything like FO3, you'll hit xp cap even without that perk, so it may prove useless. Personally, I'd take the +25%reload one at 2, the +skill points per level at 4, and the +skill points for magazines/books read at 6. | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:12 CheeseGrater wrote: Fallout New Vegas Deboxing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt4ToY0CdU&feature=player_embedded He's going to be playing Solitaire a lot. . . | ||
sob3k
United States7572 Posts
I thought Fallout 3 was utter crap because you did basically the same thing the whole time. There were very few weapons and items, and the ones they had didn't change the gameplay at all. The Skill perks were even worse, they did nothing period to change gameplay. So all you ended up doing was clicking on enemies heads in VATS for 28 hours. I hated it. Does this game have more variance in gameplay/customizibility beyond percentage buffs/enemies that you actually respond differently too? I honestly don't care about story at all, I just want to know if you can do fun stuff, find actually interesting items, and maybe even figure out a cool character build instead of slogging through endless hordes in VATS using the exact same strategy. Will I like this? | ||
ZaaaaaM
Netherlands1828 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:12 CheeseGrater wrote: Fallout New Vegas Deboxing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt4ToY0CdU&feature=player_embedded WHY doesnt he have a shirt on? * eyes bleeding* Enjoying nw quite a bit, altho has crashed for me 3 times already (using xp <3) | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 21 2010 17:46 sob3k wrote: I honestly don't care about story at all, I just want to know if you can do fun stuff, find actually interesting items, and maybe even figure out a cool character build instead of slogging through endless hordes in VATS using the exact same strategy. I'm pretty sure that this is the game you're looking for. | ||
Uriel_SVK
Slovakia427 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:08 Lachrymose wrote: steam prices are lolsy. 50 usd in america. 90 usd in australia. I was surprised to see that price on steam is 50eur and pre-order price for box at the shop is 40eur. Too bad I found out after I ordered from steam It was the same with Civ5. Looks like boxing is cheaper than uploading... | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 21 2010 17:22 TheMango wrote: so a couple questions: I rescued the coward sheriff and made him follow me around, but he died. Should I bother reloading to an earlier save? Do you get a house or a place to permanently store your items early in the game like in fo3? What perks are you guys getting early on? (I got the fast reload and the +experience so far) Definitely get the Educated perk ASAP (Gives you 2 skill points per level). Combo that with high intellect and you'll raise your skills really fast. Other than that I mean since there aren't any bobbleheads in this one, Intense Training might actually be worth it as well to get high INT early on. | ||
sob3k
United States7572 Posts
Too bad I've already spent approximately 659236841208 hours playing D2...need something fresh! | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
Also, I got my first crash just now. sadface( For those of you having the quick/autosave issue: http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1122859-attention-saves-arent-missing/ I was fortunate enough to get my hours back :3 | ||
Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
Even if you kneel >> | ||
aepal
Netherlands123 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
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Mofisto
United Kingdom585 Posts
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speedphlux
Bulgaria962 Posts
On October 21 2010 20:09 Fa1nT wrote: The game encourages VATs because 90% of the guns have shitty aim when you try first person Even if you kneel >> Not really. To be honest, I don't use the left mouse button when firing with most of the weapons. I use it only if I'm at a distance. Don't like to use VATS much as it kinda takes off the pressure away from me in 1 vs 2+ opponents. I do use it however to kill small bugs and flies coz they're annoyingly small and quick for me to kill them in a normal fashion. | ||
floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
On October 21 2010 20:09 Fa1nT wrote: The game encourages VATs because 90% of the guns have shitty aim when you try first person Even if you kneel >> I think it's the opposite in this, the range on VATs is a joke, you gotta be standing next to people to get a good chance to hit anything | ||
Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
Ofc it's easier with a mouse ._. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Therealdevil
Netherlands1021 Posts
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Ympulse
United States287 Posts
On October 22 2010 00:12 dronebabo wrote: what are these snowglobes for? Kinda like bobbleheads, but without the arbitrary +1 to everything you get with them. Edit: Bought the game, and iron sights are absolute win. The game is PLAYABLE now, thank god. The storylines seem to have more personality, and although it does throw you against stuff that's three times your level relatively early on, you aren't FORCED to go that way, you can billygoat the hills and bypass a lot of horrific encounters. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
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ZaaaaaM
Netherlands1828 Posts
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
On October 22 2010 00:42 Antisocialmunky wrote: How is hardcore playing out for you guys? Are the mechanics for not starving to death tedious? It's actually not too tough to stay alive, just drink toilet water! There's lots of food out there, and I think you can even cook stuff. It's not that bad. Alot of the food has buffs/debuffs like +str or -end etc. Looks like ammo is super complicated, you can even take bullets apart and cobble things together. For me the pain is the carrying capacity, but with those mail boxes, you can just send everything to one place. Hardcore isn't SUPER hard, I can't see any reason not to go for it. | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 21 2010 18:18 sob3k wrote: Too bad I've already spent approximately 659236841208 hours playing D2...need something fresh! How about this? It's kind of a watered down D2 in a post-apoc setting, but without the shitty story-line, dialog, gameplay, items, graphics, etc, etc, etc that Fo3 has. | ||
ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On October 22 2010 01:38 meathook wrote: How about this? It's kind of a watered down D2 in a post-apoc setting, but without the shitty story-line, dialog, gameplay, items, graphics, etc, etc, etc that Fo3 has. Wait wait wait. Borderlands doesn't have shitty story-line and dialog and is better than Fo3? I'll have some of what you're smoking. It does have better gameplay and an actual character build which is what sob3k is looking for but don't oversell the game. | ||
ULTRA[tor]
Spain20 Posts
The fact that it was so easy to "headshot" every enemy, and yet u needed to empty half a guns clip to kill a human with no helmet... And the totally non-human moving speed of almost everything in the game... | ||
PanN
United States2828 Posts
On October 22 2010 01:38 meathook wrote: How about this? It's kind of a watered down D2 in a post-apoc setting, but without the shitty story-line, dialog, gameplay, items, graphics, etc, etc, etc that Fo3 has. I'm gonna have to say borderlands was one of the worst games I have ever had to play. There is absolutely no story (aliens!), weapons boring, dialog slightly amusing at times, pretty often bad though. And I also like FO3's graphics compared to borderlands. | ||
Obsidian
United States350 Posts
There wasn't much character differentiation and since you were using guns, no real call for 'skills' but some of the dialog was the funniest I've ever heard. It's OK, wasn't game of the year, but a solid 7/10 I feel. It's a shame their multiplayer support is such crap though... granted that seems to be a problem recently.... if they aren't MMOs, their multiplayer support sucks. Front Mission Evolved also has crap multi-player. | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 22 2010 02:12 ZeaL. wrote: Wait wait wait. Borderlands doesn't have shitty story-line and dialog and is better than Fo3? I'll have some of what you're smoking. It does have better gameplay and an actual character build which is what sob3k is looking for but don't oversell the game. If you read sob3k's original post, he was asking for a game without story-line, just mindless hack-and-slash sort of deal and some character development.. that was fresh. Borderlands is exactly that: no story (but still manages to beat Fo3 story in every way imaginable) and has "good" - yeah, I use that word tentatively, but this is what ppl have to settle for these days - gameplay, also I don't remember there being any dialog.. but who knows.. | ||
buMf00d
Netherlands194 Posts
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TheDna
Germany577 Posts
Fallout 3 was really different and i liked it. I never used VATS and it was fine. But the main problem for me was its kinda challenging in the beginning but gets too easy too quickly. So when i m too powerful and have all the fancy weapons to one hit kill things i am simply too bored to play on and finish the game. Otherwise it was a really great game. | ||
arb
Noobville17915 Posts
On October 22 2010 05:17 TheDna wrote: Dont know what all the hate is about. I loved fallout 1, i thought fallout 2 was ok but too much similarities to fallout 1. I got bored too quickly with fo2 and moved on to different games. Fallout 3 was really different and i liked it. I never used VATS and it was fine. But the main problem for me was its kinda challenging in the beginning but gets too easy too quickly. So when i m too powerful and have all the fancy weapons to one hit kill things i am simply too bored to play on and finish the game. Otherwise it was a really great game. I played for about 10 minutes, said it was stupid the quit playing personally thought the game was another boring oblivion style game that they developed. then again i dislike games of this genre anyway | ||
myIRE
Belgium229 Posts
Conclusion is, not gonna pick up New Vegas, it seemed like they didnt really add/improve enough, just a new story. I might pick it up a year down the road when they release GOTY edition with all the DLC included already, although half of that DLC I probably won't even try out, just like in fallout3 I havent tried all of the DLC. | ||
shalamadoooo
78 Posts
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viraltouch
United States299 Posts
On October 21 2010 15:12 CheeseGrater wrote: Fallout New Vegas Deboxing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOt4ToY0CdU&feature=player_embedded is this guy forreal or trying to be funny? this is why NA gamers get bad names. calls poker chips pogs doesnt know how to say commemorating. doesnt know lyrics to sugar we are going down plays solitaire alone and no shirt T_T | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 22 2010 07:50 shalamadoooo wrote: It definitely doesn't feel like fallout 3, if that's what you are concerned about. Everything is hand placed, the quests are way more interesting, the map is significantly more interesting, and the locations are appropriately sized. Fallout 3 had huge buildings that were empty and boring, and they all felt the same. New Vegas's buildings are all reasonably thought out, manageable, interesting, etc.. It just works. It reuses the interface but the game feels totally different. I'd say that it looks similar in the screenshots and they advertised it as being just like fallout 3 but it is a totally different experience. Sounds like bullshit to me. The way the gameplay felt in Fo3 was one of the big factors of it being a God-awful, abhorrent game, and they are reusing the engine in Fo3: YEAH We're IN VEGAS, BABY!!111 or w/e it's called... it is as they say; you can polish a turd, but it's still a piece of shit. On October 22 2010 07:59 viraltouch wrote: is this guy forreal or trying to be funny? this is why NA gamers get bad names. calls poker chips pogs doesnt know how to say commemorating. doesnt know lyrics to sugar we are going down plays solitaire alone and no shirt T_T LOL. Quoting for posterity. | ||
shalamadoooo
78 Posts
Sounds like bullshit to me. The way the gameplay felt in Fo3 was one of the big factors of it being a God-awful, abhorrent game, and they are reusing the engine in Fo3: YEAH We're IN VEGAS, BABY!!111 or w/e it's called... it is as they say; you can polish a turd, but it's still a piece of shit. The engine is reused but the gameplay is different. No insta-headshots with vats. No scaling in the environment. If you sue hardcore mode no more free travel. No more boring totally empty places. No random people in the middle of nowhere without protection/etc. Ever play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines? Did that feel like hl2? It really is different, I hated fallout 3 but this one works. If nothing more wait for a discount or something. If you liked morrowind you'll like this. If you liked fallout 3 you may think "its boring" because every single character or quest isn't a joke. | ||
SonicTitan
United States249 Posts
On October 22 2010 07:59 viraltouch wrote: is this guy forreal or trying to be funny? this is why NA gamers get bad names. calls poker chips pogs doesnt know how to say commemorating. doesnt know lyrics to sugar we are going down plays solitaire alone and no shirt T_T Dude's not serious, it's a joke aimed at weird (creepy?) "unboxing" videos. The gf and I just watched it like, ten minutes ago and we couldn't stop laughing. I find New Vegas to be pretty kickass btw, but that may be because I didn't get to experience FO3 on a high-end gaming rig. I was always tempted to buy it again after I sold my xbox copy, but couldn't justify it as I'd already sunk 150 hours or so into it. New Vegas was the perfect excuse. | ||
jalstar
United States8198 Posts
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SonicTitan
United States249 Posts
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Mofisto
United Kingdom585 Posts
[QUOTE]On October 22 2010 07:50 shalamadoooo wrote: as they say; you can polish a turd, but it's still a piece of shit. [/QUOTE] yeah but you can roll it around in glitter instead | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
My only actual gripe is how easy it is to get rich with +6 or +7 luck in Casino's. I'm not kidding, it's not even fair. I went in to Gomorrah with 400 caps and always struggling with money, 10 minutes later from Blackjack and betting high, I was up to 3500. I left, got some new weapons and ammo and shit, and came back for another 20 minutes. I was up to 15,000 caps in 30 minutes of gambling before I got kicked out. I pretty much HAVE to set rules for myself (IE: No gambling) to make this game challenging. You literally can get unlimited money as soon as you get into the Vegas Strip if you know how to play Blackjack at all. Which is, as I said sort of earlier, I'm going to do a playthrough where I don't buy anything from vendors (other than food, water, etc. I need to make or gather all my ammo) and create my own food and not use fast travel (unless over retarded distances). EDIT: And I've noticed far less glaring glitches with the engine. It's still goofing out on me, but whatever. It's Fallout, I don't care. I'm not here for a Crysis engine, I'm here for post apocalyptic fun. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Lexpar
1813 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
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fishbowl
United States1575 Posts
On October 22 2010 05:20 arb wrote: I played for about 10 minutes, said it was stupid the quit playing personally thought the game was another boring oblivion style game that they developed. then again i dislike games of this genre anyway I'm pretty much on your level. Big fan of FO1/2, tried 3 out but didn't really like it. I finished the game but I found it extremely boring. Not sure if New Vegas is any different, but it isn't developed by Bethesda (thank god) so I have a glimmer of hope. I am considering picking it up. | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 22 2010 11:07 Lexpar wrote: I think you can have one human companion + robot/dog/other Ohh, good to know. Still awesome! There really might be 50+ hrs of side quests because some of them don't even pop up on the quest log. They just appear as notes but are definitely still side quests. | ||
Durak
Canada3684 Posts
On October 22 2010 11:38 Fruscainte wrote: I love that. A game with a 15-20 hour main storyline and more than 50 hours of side quests is being judged by the first 10 minutes of gameplay. That's rich. What if the first 10 minutes are a good indication of 70 hours of shitty gameplay? You expect someone to play through all of a game just to make sure every minute is bad? I haven't tried the game and have no opinion, but just sayin' | ||
UbOs
United States28 Posts
As my first play through I'm using an all melee hardcore character with no stealth, very fun haha. | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 22 2010 12:08 Durak wrote: What if the first 10 minutes are a good indication of 70 hours of shitty gameplay? You expect someone to play through all of a game just to make sure every minute is bad? I haven't tried the game and have no opinion, but just sayin' Actually, you're spot on. That noob doesn't understand basic hyperbole. ~30 mins (you reach Megatron city) is enough to understand what Fo3 is about and how it plays. | ||
Chewie
Denmark708 Posts
On February 17 2010 05:03 Shizuru~ wrote: Fallout 3 is a great game, but it failed to capture what truly made the first 2 fallout games legendary imo... maybe its the background/ambient music or the californian background or maybe even the top down screen scrolling gameplay, not quite sure myself but it felt alot different from the original fallout games. plot wise from the trailer it seems we're gonna old story elements (NCR) come back into play, i'll look forward to this game as a fallout rip-off, not a true fallout series game. My sentiments exactly. I believe it was the music and the writing. But then it was also the fact that Fallout 3 is infact very easy. They intentionally give you a nuke at the beginning of the game, so if things get too rough, you can always fall back on that. Just like Oblivion they havent balanced the game very well. Just made sure everyone could play it. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 22 2010 10:11 Fruscainte wrote: My only actual gripe is how easy it is to get rich with +6 or +7 luck in Casino's. I'm not kidding, it's not even fair. I went in to Gomorrah with 400 caps and always struggling with money, 10 minutes later from Blackjack and betting high, I was up to 3500. I left, got some new weapons and ammo and shit, and came back for another 20 minutes. I was up to 15,000 caps in 30 minutes of gambling before I got kicked out. I played blackjack briefly on my first playthrough, but in my second playthrough I'm banned from playing in Gamorrah, the Tops and Ultra-luxe. With decent luck, playing slots is easy money too. I hit grapex3 in both the tops and gamorrah. spent the vast majority of it on implants | ||
snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
On October 22 2010 10:01 SonicTitan wrote: I'd also like to add that, though I can't be sure just yet, I think that the hardcore mode will alleviate some of that "too easy" end game feeling that a lot of bethesda's games seem to have. I'm playing hardcore mode on very hard difficulty and I'm more than pleased. Here's a game that doesn't fuck around. Seriously man. The weapons feel like they are doing nothing at all! I'm popping dudes in the head and it'll take off like 2 stripes of health. A fight against 3 or 4 people will have my ammo running low. I'm saving before every fight because it's so easy to die. Love it! | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On October 22 2010 20:08 snotboogie wrote: Seriously man. The weapons feel like they are doing nothing at all! I'm popping dudes in the head and it'll take off like 2 stripes of health. A fight against 3 or 4 people will have my ammo running low. I'm saving before every fight because it's so easy to die. Love it! I agree. I also play it on very hard (not hardcore mode, will do on second playthrou) and if you face 2-3 guys that have an armor and you don't have armor piercing ammo, they just don't die. After 5-6 hours of play, I really like it. The only thing that I did dislike is when I needed to pass through the "Deathclaw valley" to be able to reach a quest destination. After 4-5 try to run pass them, I just gave up and will go on another quest. God deathclaw are killing machine. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 22 2010 20:16 FaCE_1 wrote: I agree. I also play it on very hard (not hardcore mode, will do on second playthrou) and if you face 2-3 guys that have an armor and you don't have armor piercing ammo, they just don't die. After 5-6 hours of play, I really like it. The only thing that I did dislike is when I needed to pass through the "Deathclaw valley" to be able to reach a quest destination. After 4-5 try to run pass them, I just gave up and will go on another quest. God deathclaw are killing machine. at least deathclaws finally live up to their name now... | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Happy.fairytail
United States327 Posts
I ask cuz I never played any of the fallouts (single player RPG is probably one of my least liked genres), but it sounds very very similar to Wasteland, which I freaking loved and played over and over. (Anyone else liked beating the game using Covenant + Brawling/Pugilism skill 8 + random blunt object?) So I'm wondering what you guys' take on how Fallout compares to Wasteland, and if I'd like it as well. | ||
AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
I also went down some random vault, vault 34 I think? Place is a freakin deathtrap and I used so many hp packs/radiation things only to get the bottom and require a key. Just got kicked out of all the casinos, think I made about 25K all up. Slot machines work too but they're as boring as hell, so I played blackjack instead. | ||
meathook
1289 Posts
On October 22 2010 22:14 Happy.fairytail wrote: just curious, anyone play the original Wasteland on the Apple IIe? I ask cuz I never played any of the fallouts (single player RPG is probably one of my least liked genres), but it sounds very very similar to Wasteland, which I freaking loved and played over and over. (Anyone else liked beating the game using Covenant + Brawling/Pugilism skill 8 + random blunt object?) So I'm wondering what you guys' take on how Fallout compares to Wasteland, and if I'd like it as well. Yes, Wasteland served as inspiration for the guys who made the original Fallouts. Brian Fargo, who is one of the main designers (iirc) for Fallout worked on both games. Wasteland is a great game, but it is quite different from Fallout, however, you will like Fallout 1 and 2 if you liked Wasteland. | ||
Johnny Business
Sweden1251 Posts
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SonicTitan
United States249 Posts
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Ympulse
United States287 Posts
On October 23 2010 01:19 Johnny Business wrote: Just made a huge mistake. http://i.imgur.com/0KhHD.jpg I vomited a little, in my mouth. + Show Spoiler + When dealing with the powder gangers, I decided to not give them the time of day and cleared out their base (choke abuse with explosives is the same in any game) and apparently me looting their base after I killed them all off is theft? Whatever happened to 'to the victor go the spoils'? =( | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On October 23 2010 02:13 Ympulse wrote: I vomited a little, in my mouth. + Show Spoiler + When dealing with the powder gangers, I decided to not give them the time of day and cleared out their base (choke abuse with explosives is the same in any game) and apparently me looting their base after I killed them all off is theft? Whatever happened to 'to the victor go the spoils'? =( There's a whole lot more of them than just the ones in the prison. | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 22 2010 18:14 meathook wrote: Actually, you're spot on. That noob doesn't understand basic hyperbole. ~30 mins (you reach Megatron city) is enough to understand what Fo3 is about and how it plays. I'm no scientist, but the time in Vault 101 was hardly indicative of how the rest of the game played out. | ||
KaoReal
Canada340 Posts
On October 23 2010 04:44 Fruscainte wrote: I'm no scientist, but the time in Vault 101 was hardly indicative of how the rest of the game played out. I don't know what this has got to do with being a scientist, but I agree fully. The next 2 hours after that drew me in and had me so hooked. | ||
snowbird
Germany2044 Posts
On October 21 2010 04:34 dronebabo wrote: ah yeah forgot!. this only worked for me when i did it in the fallout_default.ini (something like that) in my fallout folder tho so give that a try if it doesnt work if u do it in the my games ini The stuttering is gone now with update 2 and the mouse is actually usable too thanks to the trick above! | ||
optical630
United Kingdom768 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 23 2010 22:38 optical630 wrote: im finding the game extremly dull, its not pretty, and its just lonely running around ... You're definition of running around is another persons enjoyable exploration of a large world. | ||
HalfnHalf
United States90 Posts
On October 23 2010 22:38 optical630 wrote: im finding the game extremly dull, its not pretty, and its just lonely running around ... You obviously haven't gotten Boone as a companion because he is kick ass. | ||
dronebabo
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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irninja
United States1220 Posts
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Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
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AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
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dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
EDIT: AndyJay, you haven't even completed a third of it. Take a gander at your map, if you strictly follow the main questline you probably cover less than a fourth of the entire map. And most of the land you cover is just you passing through. The entire "main quest" takes place in Freeside/Strip, Hoover Dam, Novac, and small areas around it. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
Yeah imma do it hardcore mode with melee weapons lol be my little 6 month project or w.e or i just might try to blaze though it. | ||
Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
ATI HD4670 or something like that video card, and the game runs perfectly fine aside from the no-warning CTDs. | ||
semantics
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
Specifically I tried: change iFPSClamp=0 to iFPSClamp=60, manually place d3d9.dll, put bUseThreadedAI=1 and iNumHWThreads=2 into fallout.ini, and update graphics card drivers. No choppiness anymore, and haven't gotten a crash since. Having mixed feelings about the game. I've been to both Vegas and Hoover Dam IRL, though I can't relate to them as much as I could the greater Washington D.C. area, where I grew up. Still, I don't get much out of the atmospheric wandering around that happens when you walk on foot exploring the desert. I really would like to be able to at least ride a mountain bike or something (makes me miss my horses from Oblivion). On the other hand, the difficulty of combat has made the possibility of being jumped while on a stroll a lot more thrilling. Some of the "theft" mechanics are dumb, though. Sometimes I can sleep in the beds of the fallen but be morally condemned for eating their dog meat. I'm not terribly far, but so far I'm satisfied with the dialogue writing and the steps they took to portray immersion. I found it funny that I could heal my robot companion with Stimpacks. Shit, just give every damn Terran unit stim now why don't you. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
On October 24 2010 06:49 dronebabo wrote: lol anyone been in vault 11? man the terminal logs and the ending is fucking hilarious + Show Spoiler + i just finished it... rofl. that fight at the end was pretty tough though, good thing i had tons of grenades. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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dronebabo
10866 Posts
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On October 24 2010 16:08 dronebabo wrote: anyone with boone be advised that goin into a casino and gettin ur weapons temporarily held and comin back out might have boone's default hunting rifle disappear + Show Spoiler + On October 24 2010 15:46 Nitrogen wrote: i just finished it... rofl. that fight at the end was pretty tough though, good thing i had tons of grenades. + Show Spoiler + yea that fight almost killed me even tho i knew somthing would try to kill me. i built my char around sneak criticals tho so it might not be too hard for other ppl w/ more hp and endurance? goddamn robots always eat my .308s like its nothing. speaking of boone...SPOILERS + Show Spoiler + And the White gloves + Show Spoiler + You get the option to give the cannibals boone as a replacement for ted. is this actually possible? i worked at it for a good two hours before giving up and moving on, but I'm desperate to know how this turns out | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 24 2010 16:08 dronebabo wrote: anyone with boone be advised that goin into a casino and gettin ur weapons temporarily held and comin back out might have boone's default hunting rifle disappear + Show Spoiler + yea that fight almost killed me even tho i knew somthing would try to kill me. i built my char around sneak criticals tho so it might not be too hard for other ppl w/ more hp and endurance? goddamn robots always eat my .308s like its nothing. LOL also did anyone find cannibal johnson's cave? + Show Spoiler + dat enclave chest + Show Spoiler [cannibal johnson] + I saved killed him and opened it found shit he might have a mission where there is crap in it so i reloaded maybe i'll stroll over and try to get a quest out of him later. Can't you just give boone another rifle, i've been able to give my helpers armor and weapons sometimes they'll use them sometimes they wont. But seriously i gave veronica a power first or w.e does like 156dps, she is a beast 1 shooting everything even though she never levels up lol but it's cool i gave her power armor and crap so hes still durable. But always save before giving them shit sometimes items just vanish when you give it to them lol | ||
nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
On October 24 2010 16:39 KezseN wrote: can some1 explain whats so significant with vault 11? the curiosity is killin me :S it just has a funny side quest sorta thing where you read tons of notes... you gotta go see it for yourself. On October 24 2010 16:08 dronebabo wrote: anyone with boone be advised that goin into a casino and gettin ur weapons temporarily held and comin back out might have boone's default hunting rifle disappear + Show Spoiler + yea that fight almost killed me even tho i knew somthing would try to kill me. i built my char around sneak criticals tho so it might not be too hard for other ppl w/ more hp and endurance? goddamn robots always eat my .308s like its nothing. LOL also did anyone find cannibal johnson's cave? + Show Spoiler + dat enclave chest + Show Spoiler [vault 11] + i was expecting for a trap shotgun to pop down and just blast you in the face when you were sitting in the chair. fortunately when i had to do the fight i had 3 emp grenades (i think they were emp, they were the ones that give bonus vs robots) and basically one shotted all the robots except the sentrybot. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
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orgolove
Vatican City State1650 Posts
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dronebabo
10866 Posts
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orgolove
Vatican City State1650 Posts
Damn, just as I'm finishing my last mod for Dragon Age lol Geez there's no time to actually PLAY the game hahahaha | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 24 2010 17:23 dronebabo wrote: ya i could give him another gun but that would mean i have to give him ammo too which is lame. only has infinite ammo w/ default gun @johnson - + Show Spoiler + if he's involved in any quests then you would have gotten a quest failed message so theres probably no quest he's involved in unless its one of those misc note quests just beat the main quest + Show Spoiler + disabled house - didn't kill him, just disconnected him from the computer and left him to rot. had upgraded sentry bots and uploaded yes man to the mainframe. diverted power to the east so that the sentries would come to the dam. after the battle at hoover dam general oliver comes to congratulate me and oh fuck the dialogue options were hilarious. i also passed enough speech check to have yes man throw him off hoover dam hahahaha Wells that's lame i'll just stick to ED-E and veronica i don't need to do anything but repair her weapon i give her every once and awhile. | ||
amanet
Croatia334 Posts
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Pibacc
Canada545 Posts
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 24 2010 22:50 Pibacc wrote: Is anyone else having extreme trouble killing NCR rangers? no gun i have works well against them and i die in like 5 hits Gauss Rifle works wonders. And make sure you're high enough level. Rangers are level 22. | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35124 | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
that president was a pain in eventually i just sniped him from a distance with a gauss rifle | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
On October 25 2010 03:45 dronebabo wrote: hm theres a cannibal quest afterall lol looked it up on the wiki. i should do it in my next playthrough Yeah you can offer them to eat veronica :> | ||
hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
On October 25 2010 01:42 EchOne wrote: Someone mentioned a problem with Veronica leveling up. I just stumbled on this while browsing for mods, hope it helps: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35124 thanks for the find dude! | ||
tacrats
476 Posts
Its really unfortunate that people think games like F3 are amazing. if only they could have experienced some of these older games they would have been blown away and realize how much better the old ones really were, and that these new games never do the originals justice. People will never go back and play games like baldurs gate/fallout1/2 etc because of the bad graphics and slower turn based gameplay. If bioware/interplay remade these games with a few adjustments, they would crush every game that has been out in the last 5 years. Especially since the vast majority have never played them. Those games were nothing but gems. | ||
StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On October 25 2010 08:25 tacrats wrote: Fallout 3 was a big disappointment for me. F1 and F2 were EPIC. F3 was just a shooter with some pretty graphics and slow motion dismemberment for the console kids. Its really unfortunate that people think games like F3 are amazing. if only they could have experienced some of these older games they would have been blown away and realize how much better the old ones really were, and that these new games never do the originals justice. People will never go back and play games like baldurs gate/fallout1/2 etc because of the bad graphics and slower turn based gameplay. If bioware/interplay remade these games with a few adjustments, they would crush every game that has been out in the last 5 years. Especially since the vast majority have never played them. Those games were nothing but gems. If you play fallout 3 and just play for shooting you're doing it wrong, your suppose to be side questing and reading up on the stories going on in the game. Fallout 3 wasn't about impressive shooting game mechanics but about story and rpg elements, to me Fallout 3 will always be about exploration and adventure not about combat that's always secondary. | ||
dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
I like what I am reading thus far. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 25 2010 08:51 semantics wrote: If you play fallout 3 and just play for shooting you're doing it wrong, your suppose to be side questing and reading up on the stories going on in the game. Fallout 3 wasn't about impressive shooting game mechanics but about story and rpg elements, to me Fallout 3 will always be about exploration and adventure not about combat that's always secondary. story? Fallout 3? :[ | ||
hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
... Just waiting for Diablo 3 to release... that'll be the day I part ways with the outside world | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Lexpar
1813 Posts
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778 Helped me loads. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
What did you do in fallout 3 just click past ever form of dialogue to finish a quest. lol if you don't pay any attention to the stories in the sidequest or main quest all you're doing is griding in a rpg which isn't fun. I mean you can fuck around with people and crap but if you're not paying any attention to the story you might as well open up one of those physics maps in crysis and blow shit up. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 25 2010 10:35 semantics wrote: What did you do in fallout 3 just click past ever form of dialogue to finish a quest. lol if you don't pay any attention to the stories in the sidequest or main quest all you're doing is griding in a rpg which isn't fun. I mean you can fuck around with people and crap but if you're not paying any attention to the story you might as well open up one of those physics maps in crysis and blow shit up. Oh, you think I ignored it? No, I endured every painful second of Fallout 3's terrible, terrible plot. | ||
Uriel_SVK
Slovakia427 Posts
On October 25 2010 10:25 Lexpar wrote: If you're getting weird fps drops on a newer machine, try this out. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778 Helped me loads. Yeah, helped me a lot too. It completely removed the lag that appeared when I was near any NPC. The game is playable now. | ||
Kaneh
Canada737 Posts
Vegas on the other hand actually feels alive. Every place is connected or affected by the places around it and the stuff going on around it. The map and locations make sense (the old highways are a very natural touch that links things). The way the factions are set up mean you have interactions with nearly everyone from the get go. It actually feels like you're doing stuff around the wasteland and becoming this famous figure around all of the wasteland, instead of woop, local hero at this site, time to move on to the next one that acts like they've never heard of me. vegas actually brings back the feel of a good solid story-driven rpg. One where what decisions you make and how you go about it mean so much more than how good you are at fighting stuff. First game in awhile actually wish i had put more points into utility skills and not taken 2 weapon skills. | ||
hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 25 2010 12:28 dronebabo wrote: thats nice and all but we're not asking for nostalgic gamers to tell others what their opinion should be. if u dont like the games then dont click on the thread. no need to be a hater while we're enjoying the game. call of duty is a shooter, fo3 was far from one for 'console kids' Guy A: Well I felt that Sequel wasn't as good as Original Game, mostly because- You: NOSTALGGGGIIIIAAAAAA No, Fallout 3 was just mediocre. I have an image macro that sums up all of the flaws without ever mentioning Fallout 1 or 2, but unfortunately I probably can't post it here, so let me just recap: The engine is buggy and quests and NPCs are poorly coded which results in hilarious situations, the FPS elements are completely awful (lack of iron sights, baffling nonsensical aiming mechanics, etc), the RPG elements are completely awful (you can fire nuke launchers with 1 STR and talk coherently with scientists with 1 INT and CHA is basically completely useless, you can win back all of your karma after blowing up Megaton just by giving water to the homeless guy right outside), the dialogue and writing were completely awful (par for the course for Bethesda, actually), the animations were atrocious and everyone walked around like they were on valium. Even Tim Cain (guy who made Fallout 1) agrees Fallout 3 was a complete disgrace to the name of Fallout. Which is actually a shame since Fallout 3 wasn't awful, just thoroughly bland, and if it was a completely new IP unrelated to the Fallout series, it probably would've been a lot better in terms of creative freedom, instead of taking a nice steamy dump all over the existing Fallout lore. Now, New Vegas comes a lot closer to Fallout 1-2 than 3 did and is actually a very impressive game - this is what Fallout 3 should've been. Completely agree with that guy though that someone should make a full, new engine, faithful recreation of the Fallout/Infinite Engine games. There's some fangroup remaking Baldur's Gate 2 with the Dragon Age toolset, last I heard they were progressing pretty slowly though. | ||
BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On October 25 2010 14:24 Krigwin wrote: Completely agree with that guy though that someone should make a full, new engine, faithful recreation of the Fallout/Infinite Engine games. There's some fangroup remaking Baldur's Gate 2 with the Dragon Age toolset, last I heard they were progressing pretty slowly though. remake BG2 from scratch with a tool? rofl. this will never be finished. and i doubt it its worth it. BG2 might be the best RPG ever made but i doubt you can catch even a glimpse of its awesomness with some tools/in the DA engine. vegas is pretty damn nice so far. more equip, more lively areas ,less travel and pretty huge options to take evrywhere. got it on sat and already spend like 20 hours on it <.< some questions tho 1. are party buddys important for story/quests? i really prefer going around alone. always liked the " im the longely stranger that will either kill you and your whole family or help you nicely" feeling in fallout3 and i didnt like how easy some stuff became running around with support. (playing on hard) 2. + Show Spoiler + is the decision what to do with mr house/the chip alredy the "main" turning point? cant decide what to do between taking evrything over myself and helping the different factions. keep doing side quests or go for it now? 3. anyone knows a fix for the vats bluescreen? sometimes after playing for a while when i go into vats a nice bluescreen pops up with a instant reboot following. oh and if anyone else gets buggy locked out of the strip :+ Show Spoiler + you can workaround by getting a key from the security bots. kill one(emp grenade yay!) loot and run. bit infamy but your game isnt fucked ~ | ||
LoveBuzz
Canada28 Posts
On October 25 2010 14:24 Krigwin wrote: Even Tim Cain (guy who made Fallout 1) agrees Fallout 3 was a complete disgrace to the name of Fallout. Which is actually a shame since Fallout 3 wasn't awful, just thoroughly bland, and if it was a completely new IP unrelated to the Fallout series, it probably would've been a lot better in terms of creative freedom, instead of taking a nice steamy dump all over the existing Fallout lore. Now, New Vegas comes a lot closer to Fallout 1-2 than 3 did and is actually a very impressive game - this is what Fallout 3 should've been. My biggest complaint is that this is what F3 should have been 2 years ago. The engine is really feeling dated - the character models were horrid when F3 came out, never mind now - and it is sooooooo buggy. I like it, I want to love it, but if you look at the Mass Effect series and see how much they could improve their game in ~2 years, it really makes me wonder how much effort Obsidian put into New Vegas. | ||
bluesoup
Macedonia107 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + They asked me how much I knew about theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said I am hired. I love Fallout series... | ||
Therealdevil
Netherlands1021 Posts
his weapon is a rifle with scope, that I can't use cause i don't have the weirdass bullets it requires, but seems like a nice rifle. But my question is, is there a known way sollution for this? Also if i give him one of my guns and I tell him to use ranged he'll still run around with a machete(?) | ||
AeroGear
Canada652 Posts
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 25 2010 19:33 LoveBuzz wrote: My biggest complaint is that this is what F3 should have been 2 years ago. The engine is really feeling dated - the character models were horrid when F3 came out, never mind now - and it is sooooooo buggy. I like it, I want to love it, but if you look at the Mass Effect series and see how much they could improve their game in ~2 years, it really makes me wonder how much effort Obsidian put into New Vegas. Now, maybe I'm just more skilled in pattern recognition than most, but when I saw this was an Obsidian game, I naturally expected it to have good plot and writing and RPG elements and terrible coding and lots of bugs. In this case, you even get more advance warning since it uses the awful gamebyro engine and if you played Fallout 3 you should know exactly what to expect. You can't really compare Obsidian with Bioware, who has a history of quality assurance for their games. Obsidian should really just collaborate with other companies that actually know how to make a good engine and solely do all the writing, but I guess too many of them remember from their Black Isle days exactly how that turned out. | ||
dronebabo
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Athos
United States2484 Posts
From what I've read it seems like more of the same which is honestly fine for me. Also, modding solved many of the bugs/glitches people had in Fallout3. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
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tacrats
476 Posts
On October 25 2010 08:51 semantics wrote: If you play fallout 3 and just play for shooting you're doing it wrong, your suppose to be side questing and reading up on the stories going on in the game. Fallout 3 wasn't about impressive shooting game mechanics but about story and rpg elements, to me Fallout 3 will always be about exploration and adventure not about combat that's always secondary. i shouldnt have to go out of my way to experience the majority of a game's content. In F1/2 the greatness was always in your face, following you around wherever you go. In f3 i HAVE to do side quests and explore to get the best experience? Sounds wrong to me. The main quest arc was pretty lame you have to admit. I never said F3 was about shooting. But one of the things they promoted so much was VATS because it looked awesome. Face it, f3 pales in comparison to its predecessors. The exploration and adventure aspects in f3 are pretty minor. People who find the game so vast and open are people who really haven't experienced other games who do it right. When my friends start freaking out about how awesome Mass effect and fallout were because of their RPG elements, storylines, quests, decisions, etc. im just like... welcome to the 90s... noobs dont realize its all been done before, and done much better in the past. At least some people in this thread agree, at least i dont feel like banging my head on my desk because nobody else gets it. On October 25 2010 12:28 dronebabo wrote: thats nice and all but we're not asking for nostalgic gamers to tell others what their opinion should be. if u dont like the games then dont click on the thread. no need to be a hater while we're enjoying the game. call of duty is a shooter, fo3 was far from one for 'console kids' Ahhh... the old nostalgia argument. never heard that one before. if u enjoy mediocre games then that is your prerogative. Im happy to know that i have played better and it takes high quality to impress me. | ||
BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
What NV does (and Fo2 for that matter) is a sort of semi-linear progression, which can be compltely ignored if you want. It's like, you wake up in Goodsprings, you learn where Benny is going. You can stick around and explore and do a quest or two, btu then it's off to Primm. At Primm, you do a quest, learn where Benny went. Stick around a bit more, fuck around, but still, it's off to Mojave Outpost West. Ditto, then Nipton. Ditto, then Novac, Ditto, then Freeside, Ditto, then The Strip. Then it forks into 3 paths, and the linearity basically dies at this point. At each place you can stop to do sides, and explore. You can also just plain explore if you want. The main quest is more of a guide around the wasteland, showing all the areas off, all the people. That's NV's biggest difference. NV has a fuckload more communities and people and groups then Fo3, and NV is all about dealing with them. And exploring and dying to Cazadors as well. It combines both traditional FO3 "what's over there?" and Fo2's "What does he want?", into one package. Honestly? I wasn't enjoying how awesome the game was until I hit the Strip. Then the awesomeness factor increased 10-fold. I suppose once I got my answers, I didn't feel obligated to finish the main quest quite as much, and could take more time off to look around and explore shit. Good times. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
The whole karma thing seemed odd because i sure as hell wasn't 'very good' I felt it should have been longer, if i streamlined the main quest it really wouldn't take that long at all it seems. But im sure a DLC or two will change that. I found it toi be a great game though! it was too much fun and i did manage to log in 50 hours for my first play through. Time to start over and make a melee character :D | ||
N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
You may now only post stories IN CHARACTER about something that happened today in your fallout world. My dude is a sneaky ass crafty nigger (seriously, lockpick sneak and survivalism) SO me n my buddy Boone were out lookin fer some loot, down by that big ass river. Boone spots a couple big ole things down by the water, and yells "get some drugs Nerv! We can't take those things sober!!!!" Thankfully, back in one of those towns I sacked we found a turbo stash, threw boone a bottle downed one myself and went to town. Oh my...Turbo, one of my favorites. You just feel so fast, and so slow...all at the same time. Regardless some crazy ass blue ball thing nearly took my head off, but it was really slow and I was really fast. Shot the three things to death and just kept shootin till the drugs passed. Think there are some more ranger camps to pillage down the river. They always got some fine ass stuff locked away behind something, I'll just leave Boone at some bar for a few hours. (Play on hardcore mode you pussies) | ||
PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
New Vegas definitely outclass FO3 by a huge margin. The delivery and setting is fantastic and I can see myself playing it 2-3 more times. + Show Spoiler + I especially like how at some point in the game, diplomacy is thrown out the window and the game goes full forward. Which makes complete sense, there's only so much diplomacy one can do. There's four big factions, and littered with so many minor ones, its awesome! Played through helping Mr.House all the way. Though I don't like his "autocratic" ways, I like his vision to progress mankind. Perhaps will reload this save to try the "Yes" man route, sensing a big plot twist here Planning next to play through helping Caesar's Legion all the way with a female character, which will be interesting considering how big the entire NCR faction is on the map. Considering Caesar's Legion militant and misogyny ways, it will be interesting to help the Legion with a female toon, if only to see the dialogues. Gonna make it a ninja lol! On October 26 2010 09:53 TryThis wrote: Well i just finished NV. The whole karma thing seemed odd because i sure as hell wasn't 'very good' I felt it should have been longer, if i streamlined the main quest it really wouldn't take that long at all it seems. But im sure a DLC or two will change that. I found it toi be a great game though! it was too much fun and i did manage to log in 50 hours for my first play through. Time to start over and make a melee character :D Well it feels short probably because you didn't scout enough. There's tons of things to do, I have clocked 50+ hours too and I have to drop some explorations because I was too tired of bringing food/water around. Next will definitely be just a casual playthrough lol | ||
dronebabo
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H
New Zealand6129 Posts
I played and LOVED Fallout 1/2, I fucking grew up on those games, but I don't post here solely to shit on people who enjoy another game. Next person who pulls that shit gets a ban. It's like people who walk into the BW forum and say "hey BW is dying!!! move on to SC2 fags lol" You sound like an idiot. Been playing NV for a couple hours now, never played FO3. Seems pretty cool imo, hoping to pick up some big guns later on and minigun some shit to death like in 1/2. | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
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Casta
Denmark234 Posts
Anyway I havn't bought new vegas yet because I heard it had quite a lot of bugs and needed some patching up, is this true? Im kinda tired of bying incomplete games at the moment. | ||
Therealdevil
Netherlands1021 Posts
On October 26 2010 01:14 dronebabo wrote: first of all your whole guy a you thing is completely off. this is how it went: Guy A: your game is for console kids who enjoy nothing but excessive violence. fallout 3 is nothing but a shooter. totally different from your guy a. if he doesnt list any constructive reasons and ends it at that what else is there besides pointing out his nostalgia goggles? i've no interest in arguing whether fallout 3 was mediocre or not. just dont come into the thread with nothing but a FALLOUT 1 AND 2 WAS BETTER and imply everyone who disagrees is an immature console player. replace all his fallout 3 and f1/f2 with bw and sc2 and you'll see what i mean-- it's annoying and does nothing but make the thread turn sour this is what i did: unequipped all of his armor and other important stuff, then i opened console, left clicked him w/ my crosshair on him and typed resurrect. i think this will restart his companion quest though so if you already did that i'm not sure if it's best. and like i said earlier in the thread, companions only have infinite ammo w/ their default weapon so you need to equip the corresponding ammo for any other gun I got it for the ps3 so I'm screwed | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Ympulse
United States287 Posts
Instant reroll. >_> | ||
N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
That singer is amazing. He tells one mean story. | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
This song man. This freaking song. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
I decided to stay south for a while and hoard Stealthboys and finish some sidequests. I miss the Dartgun from FO3 so bad right now. | ||
DminusTerran
Canada1337 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:38 tofucake wrote: Getting to the Strip was a bitch. Of the available paths, I could either go through the west and get fucked up by a bunch of giant moth things and Deathclaws, through the east and get fucked up by a bunch of Deathclaws and even more Deathclaws, or go far east, spend 3 (real) hours of my life holding forward to swim up the Colorado, and probably still end up getting raped by Lakelurks and Deathclaws. I decided to stay south for a while and hoard Stealthboys and finish some sidequests. I miss the Dartgun from FO3 so bad right now. If you just follow the advised path for the main quest line you'll get there easy, granted it'll take longer. It's even mentioned by npcs near the beginning of the game that all other routes are pretty f'd up. | ||
Infectum
United States19 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:38 tofucake wrote: Getting to the Strip was a bitch. Of the available paths, I could either go through the west and get fucked up by a bunch of giant moth things and Deathclaws, through the east and get fucked up by a bunch of Deathclaws and even more Deathclaws, or go far east, spend 3 (real) hours of my life holding forward to swim up the Colorado, and probably still end up getting raped by Lakelurks and Deathclaws. I decided to stay south for a while and hoard Stealthboys and finish some sidequests. I miss the Dartgun from FO3 so bad right now. what i did to get there fast and easy was go along the right side of deathclaw valley i just stayed up on the ridge and it was easy peasy | ||
ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:38 tofucake wrote: Getting to the Strip was a bitch. Of the available paths, I could either go through the west and get fucked up by a bunch of giant moth things and Deathclaws, through the east and get fucked up by a bunch of Deathclaws and even more Deathclaws, or go far east, spend 3 (real) hours of my life holding forward to swim up the Colorado, and probably still end up getting raped by Lakelurks and Deathclaws. I decided to stay south for a while and hoard Stealthboys and finish some sidequests. I miss the Dartgun from FO3 so bad right now. Yeah I tried getting to the strip the fastest way possible and I was like ffffffuuuu. And then I just went to Novac and headed north along that road and was like "lol I should listen to NPC's". | ||
bobblify
Finland46 Posts
Either way, I got annoyed enough to reroll after like 1.5h of play and went with melee instead, tho now I'm loving the game. | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:44 DminusTerran wrote: If you just follow the advised path for the main quest line you'll get there easy, granted it'll take longer. It's even mentioned by npcs near the beginning of the game that all other routes are pretty f'd up. Not really. There's only one mandatory quest that you have to do to advance the main quest, and that's rescuing the deputy guy in Primm, and that's a one-floor dungeon with like less than 10 enemies, that's hardly going to take hours. After that you can go straight to Nipton, ignore the Legion, then go straight to Novac, read that guy's terminal (no science skill required) to advance the quest, then go to Boulder City and kill like 4 enemies, and then go straight to the Strip from there. From character creation to entering the Strip I'd say it would probably take less than 1 hour if you were booking it, although if you go straight there without doing any quests you probably wouldn't have enough caps to enter. And going it the right way also gets you tons of explored locations, from all the towns like Primm, Nipton, Novac, Boulder City, 188 Trading Post, Crimson Caravan Company, to all the side locations like Mojave Outpost, the Gun Runners, etc. It's also much easier and you don't have to run from Deathclaws or anything. I don't get why people have such a hard problem playing games normally. | ||
Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:18 Krigwin wrote: This song man. This freaking song. Doesn't compare to fallout 3's Jingle jangle is great tho! | ||
Lexpar
1813 Posts
New vegas has been great so far though. Going around making my dude super slick before going into the last mission. So fun. Hope the next game corresponds with your actions at the end of this one. | ||
N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
Right now I have my sneaky crafty ass nigger (black dude with lock pick, sneak, and survivalism. basically I'm a sneaky ass black dude, stealing everything and anything that isnt bolted down in every town I find. He's also the kinda dude without any real direction...I mean sure he was pissed he got shot in the head, but every little black arrow is another chance at more pillaging. My other dude is a straight up meat head. Unarmed, melee, and explosives xD So far he has made it to novac without firing a single bullet. BTW if you stop thinking of ammo as ammo, and start thinking of it as a different form of caps....good lord you make money. Well over 2k caps before novac xD My thought for this guy is he thinks he's the bees fucking kness, nobody is better than me and I shall rule the land when my time is over. Also I feel that everything in the world already belongs to me, so stealing it shouldn't be any kind of problem. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
KasPra
Estonia983 Posts
Im also really sadistic, i sometimes wipe out small towns. I like to steal, too, but i hide all of this from the people i haven't killed yet and try to keep a good, classy reputation. I often help people out from tight situations and then just slaughter them and in addition to guns, i like to use weapons like meat cleavers when they are helpless. Most importantly, i have a bad ass mother f'in stache. btw: anyone knows where i could get my hands on a white hat that goes with my suit? | ||
hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
On October 27 2010 09:13 KasPra wrote: I'll try that then: My dude is really classy, i use guns and i also have a lot of points in speech. Since he is classy as hell i dont like to sneak and stuff. My s.p.e.c.i.a.l points are in charisma and intelligence. No synergy there i guess but its really fun. Since im not playing with a challenging difficulty i like to dress as a slick gunslinger or something like that, lol. Im also really sadistic, i sometimes wipe out small towns. I like to steal, too, but i hide all of this from the people i haven't killed yet and try to keep a good, classy reputation. I often help people out from tight situations and then just slaughter them and in addition to guns, i like to use weapons like meat cleavers when they are helpless. Most importantly, i have a bad ass mother f'in stache. btw: anyone knows where i could get my hands on a white hat that goes with my suit? ew ginger | ||
semantics
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Rebornlife
Canada224 Posts
Im at the part where you first encounter the vegas strip while looking for the man that shot you. I really don't wanna pay 2000 caps to get in, and ive been contemplating just killing the damn guards. I already have a horrible rep with freeside, those creepy guys that crucified nipton and a couple other groups. Can i get through the game just killing fuckin everything haha? I want to keep NCR on my side tho, they seem too spread apart. | ||
StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:14 Rebornlife wrote: Got a concern for you guys that are farther than me. Im at the part where you first encounter the vegas strip while looking for the man that shot you. I really don't wanna pay 2000 caps to get in, and ive been contemplating just killing the damn guards. I already have a horrible rep with freeside, those creepy guys that crucified nipton and a couple other groups. Can i get through the game just killing fuckin everything haha? I want to keep NCR on my side tho, they seem too spread apart. You don't have to pay 2K in caps. You just have to have that much on you to get let in. It's so they don't let bums into the Strip who don't got money to spend. It costs nothing to get in. | ||
TheMango
United States1966 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:14 Rebornlife wrote: Got a concern for you guys that are farther than me. Im at the part where you first encounter the vegas strip while looking for the man that shot you. I really don't wanna pay 2000 caps to get in, and ive been contemplating just killing the damn guards. I already have a horrible rep with freeside, those creepy guys that crucified nipton and a couple other groups. Can i get through the game just killing fuckin everything haha? I want to keep NCR on my side tho, they seem too spread apart. There's two other ways that I've found to get in, one is to get a fake passport (I forget who offered it though - maybe ralph/nick?) and the other way is to do quests for the King. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:23 TheMango wrote: There's two other ways that I've found to get in, one is to get a fake passport (I forget who offered it though - maybe ralph/nick?) and the other way is to do quests for the King. I did fort mcaarian quests? the place with the monorail and that thing with the prisoner and stuff. purposely being vague. Anyways i got in though the monorail to ncr hq and didn't run into any troubles. i think i spend way too much time going out of my way side questing. | ||
MTF
United States1739 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:23 TheMango wrote: There's two other ways that I've found to get in, one is to get a fake passport (I forget who offered it though - maybe ralph/nick?) and the other way is to do quests for the King. It's Ralph, yeah. You can also just hack your way in (through conversation) if you have a high enough (80) Science skill. That's how I got in. | ||
Kaneh
Canada737 Posts
On October 27 2010 02:53 bobblify wrote: So how do you guys cope with hitting with guns in this game? I've played a ton of first-person shooters but I just cant hit anything in this darn game -.- I guess VATS would be another option, but then I'd need a lot of agi and thus energy weapons would still not be that great? Either way, I got annoyed enough to reroll after like 1.5h of play and went with melee instead, tho now I'm loving the game. You have to 'snipe' with any single shot gun, even pistols. which kinda makes sense, you're not going to try to hit a guy with a hunting rifle when he's 5 feet from you =/ otherwise, load up the smg and start spraying lol On October 27 2010 14:26 semantics wrote: I did fort mcaarian quests? the place with the monorail and that thing with the prisoner and stuff. purposely being vague. Anyways i got in though the monorail to ncr hq and didn't run into any troubles. i think i spend way too much time going out of my way side questing. yeah, just go into the NCR base next door and take the monorail in for free. I dunno if there's a reputation requirement, but since you said you want to stay friends with the NCR, i assume you'll have the rep requirements. ralph and mick in freeside do sell fake passports if you pass a speech check. 500 caps still, cheaper if you pass a barter/speech check | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Rebornlife
Canada224 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
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dronebabo
10866 Posts
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BarneyEX
Malaysia98 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:58 Shizuru~ wrote: any of you guys went for hardcore mode? is the food/water/sleep mechanics more of a hassle or does it actually makes the game more interesting? quoted from rock paper shotgun The way it sounded in previews, Hardcore mode was going to provide New Vegas with an additional, survivalist dimension. Instead, it’s just a handful of weak extra rules that have little impact on the rest of the game. Hardcore mode is, at least, ripe for a modder to come along and fix up, which I suppose describes a lot of New Vegas. | ||
PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:58 Shizuru~ wrote: any of you guys went for hardcore mode? is the food/water/sleep mechanics more of a hassle or does it actually makes the game more interesting? It makes the game A LOT more interesting. My first playthrough is in hardcore mode and you have a lot more to think about. I highly recommend going for hardcore mode, adds to immersion as well My current playthrough is on casual mode, and it's a lot less fun. I disagree with his PoV, ammo weight really made a big difference to me. I didn't use any companions and this rule severely limits the weapon options. Pack rat and Strong back became essential for players who want to use heavy weapons. Even energy weapons became a luxury as MF Cells are so heavy compared to traditional ammo. Fast travel is rubbish, as anything lesser than medium gets you killed so fast even if you are combat build (due to no stimpack-tanking) Food/Water/Sleep all impacts in small ways, which is kinda realistic anyway. I don't expect myself to collapse after one day without sleep, but one day without sleep+water+food is definitely crippling. | ||
hkfosho
Canada213 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:58 Shizuru~ wrote: any of you guys went for hardcore mode? is the food/water/sleep mechanics more of a hassle or does it actually makes the game more interesting? it really doesn't make the game that much harder, but I never played the normal mode so I can't really compare the level of difficulty. This is my first playthrough and I just decided to go for hardcore with very hard difficulty lol. And tbh, it's really not that hard since caps are easy to come by in the game (buy tons of purified water, maize is a nice food to have, and lots of stimpacks + sunset saspirilas) | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I decided to kill Mr House and use my robot minions to take over the world. Muahaha. But somewhere along the way, my save file got forked. I had to backtrack to a (4 hour!!!) older save and go through again. Pre-Corrupted Save: Yes-Man told me to go visit all the tribes I hadn't seen yet, and whatnot. Was working on that when the friggin Omerta's casino got all glitchy and crashed my save file. Post-Corrupted Save: Went though and did everything exactly the same, and Yes-Man is installed in Mr House's mainframe....and won't talk to me anymore. He just goes "HIYA" and my only convo option is "Goodbye" and it makes me sad. How am I supposed to take over the world now if my source of power won't even talk to me!! Also I accidentally punched Caesar in the face while spamming click cause I picked the wrong convo option and was listening to some crazy monologue. LOL those little bomb-fist things on the Legion are awesome! I died SO fast. | ||
Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
On October 27 2010 14:07 semantics wrote: What he has is radiation poisoning. personally i liked FO3 music more because more of the songs sounded old 50's 60's which is a theme of style that FO3 had but they also lyrically matched the a depraved post apocalyptic world. I don't really feel for the music in new vegas I liked the FO3 radio in general much better. ThreeDog was less annoying (hate Mr New Vegas...) and he was like some freaky stalker dude. It would be like... *Steals a beer* "And in other news, our wasteland hero stole some alcohol..." WHAT THE HELL *looks around frantically* I am hours and hours and hours past the beginning town and Primm area and this guy is still like. PRIMM INSTALLED A NEW SHERIFF TODAY.... Though Black Mountain Radio is pretty awesome. DUMB DUMBS. | ||
PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
On October 27 2010 15:24 Torenhire wrote: Spoilers below D: + Show Spoiler + I decided to kill Mr House and use my robot minions to take over the world. Muahaha. But somewhere along the way, my save file got forked. I had to backtrack to a (4 hour!!!) older save and go through again. Pre-Corrupted Save: Yes-Man told me to go visit all the tribes I hadn't seen yet, and whatnot. Was working on that when the friggin Omerta's casino got all glitchy and crashed my save file. Post-Corrupted Save: Went though and did everything exactly the same, and Yes-Man is installed in Mr House's mainframe....and won't talk to me anymore. He just goes "HIYA" and my only convo option is "Goodbye" and it makes me sad. How am I supposed to take over the world now if my source of power won't even talk to me!! Also I accidentally punched Caesar in the face while spamming click cause I picked the wrong convo option and was listening to some crazy monologue. LOL those little bomb-fist things on the Legion are awesome! I died SO fast. HAHAHAHA Me too! + Show Spoiler + I went to wipe out Caeser's Legion, and when I get to the weather station, I got killed during my first vat cutscene from three of those bastards! POW POW POW DEAD! lol real shocking as everything was easy before them. (Kinda my fault as I am merely wearing combat armor then) | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 27 2010 15:29 Torenhire wrote: I liked the FO3 radio in general much better. ThreeDog was less annoying (hate Mr New Vegas...) and he was like some freaky stalker dude. It would be like... *Steals a beer* "And in other news, our wasteland hero stole some alcohol..." WHAT THE HELL *looks around frantically* I am hours and hours and hours past the beginning town and Primm area and this guy is still like. PRIMM INSTALLED A NEW SHERIFF TODAY.... Though Black Mountain Radio is pretty awesome. DUMB DUMBS. Yeah... I don't feel like the NV radio updates very promptly at all :\ | ||
duckii
Germany1017 Posts
So I went for a cannibalistic melee character who loves to smash faces with his Supersledge: Oh Baby! :p | ||
GTR
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PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
On October 27 2010 18:56 GTR wrote: Just acquired this and going to install. However I never finished the original Fallout 3 (although I played a good chunk of it, didn't pay attention to the story line). Will my experience of FNV be tarnished by not playing F3 all the way through? Not at all! Don't remember seeing any reference to FO3. Enjoy! | ||
KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
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Lachrymose
Australia1928 Posts
On October 27 2010 19:35 KezseN wrote: hey GTR, how much does FNV cost in aussieland? 90 usd. yep. | ||
AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
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Therealdevil
Netherlands1021 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + SECRET BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL BUNKER + Show Spoiler + And I murdered all of them. You may think, why would you do such a thing? Obviously because NCR has a slightly higher influence in the wasteland then this brotherhood outpost.At first I crushed the radio though, but apparently that doesn't mean hes gonna leave. So I figured I'd just destroy the brotherhood pplz cause they have nice loot 'n stuff. But I would suggest you guys do otherwise cause the bunker is quite huge and it appeared to have quite the quest line. Oh and caps are really easy to get in this game, weapons and armor are rediculously expensive, I currently hold 19k caps and have just met mister house. | ||
duckii
Germany1017 Posts
On October 27 2010 19:56 mercurial wrote: i just got to the + Show Spoiler + SECRET BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL BUNKER + Show Spoiler + And I murdered all of them. You may think, why would you do such a thing? Obviously because NCR has a slightly higher influence in the wasteland then this brotherhood outpost.At first I crushed the radio though, but apparently that doesn't mean hes gonna leave. So I figured I'd just destroy the brotherhood pplz cause they have nice loot 'n stuff. But I would suggest you guys do otherwise cause the bunker is quite huge and it appeared to have quite the quest line. Oh and caps are really easy to get in this game, weapons and armor are rediculously expensive, I currently hold 19k caps and have just met mister house. You can do the quests first to get Power Armor etc. + Show Spoiler + and then kill them all with the self destruction sequence :p | ||
Therealdevil
Netherlands1021 Posts
On October 27 2010 19:59 quarky wrote: You can do the quests first to get Power Armor etc. + Show Spoiler + and then kill them all with the self destruction sequence :p Aw I am so missing out I'll grab it on the second playthrough | ||
AndyJay
Australia833 Posts
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Johnny Business
Sweden1251 Posts
On October 27 2010 19:56 mercurial wrote: Oh and caps are really easy to get in this game, weapons and armor are rediculously expensive, I currently hold 19k caps and have just met mister house. If you want lots of caps you just need to get 10 luck and go to the casino. Banned at every casino | ||
KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 27 2010 15:24 Torenhire wrote: Also I accidentally punched Caesar in the face while spamming click cause I picked the wrong convo option and was listening to some crazy monologue. LOL those little bomb-fist things on the Legion are awesome! I died SO fast. Those Ballistic Fists (what the Legion guys use) are actually the highest damage and DPS unarmed weapons, as well as one of the highest DPS weapons in the game. If you get a fully repaired one and give it to Veronica - my god. Punching out Legendary Deathclaws. She's way more gamebreaking than Boone and his magical headshotting rifle, in my opinion. Speaking of Veronica, give her a Chinese Stealth Armor as well - my god. And I'm not just talking about dat ass. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 28 2010 00:35 Krigwin wrote: Those Ballistic Fists (what the Legion guys use) are actually the highest damage and DPS unarmed weapons, as well as one of the highest DPS weapons in the game. If you get a fully repaired one and give it to Veronica - my god. Punching out Legendary Deathclaws. She's way more gamebreaking than Boone and his magical headshotting rifle, in my opinion. Speaking of Veronica, give her a Chinese Stealth Armor as well - my god. And I'm not just talking about dat ass. Yeah i gave veronica a ballistic fists she usually 1 shots everything, I also gave her power armor so he hardly ever dies. And the good thing is that she doesn't change from melee to ranged for no reason then i have to reset her like i do for boone | ||
Ympulse
United States287 Posts
...Maybe I should have actually talked through Boone's quest instead of having him kill Manny because I wanted his hunting rifle... | ||
iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
Definitely playing this game about as evil as you can. | ||
aepal
Netherlands123 Posts
ps. that explore the wasteland perk so you see everything on the map is pretty cool when you finished the game and want to explore it all. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Chesner
Iceland817 Posts
On October 28 2010 05:02 aepal wrote: TT I think im the only one that played the game without able to find a ''partner in crime'' like Boon ? who the hell is that :D And i played it as socially as possible maxing my speech perk. ;( i think i will re roll soon.. ps. that explore the wasteland perk so you see everything on the map is pretty cool when you finished the game and want to explore it all. Yeah, speech is really really really needed for soooo many quests. I had Cass as my partner, she was kinda useless tho | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On October 28 2010 06:11 Chesner wrote: Yeah, speech is really really really needed for soooo many quests. I had Cass as my partner, she was kinda useless tho Balls to that. It's not needed at all, it just opens more paths. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
Boone doesn't like people who kill the NCR veronica will leave you if you kill the brotherhood which if you're evil you can't let them survive. cass will die due to questing if you're doing it the evil way Arcade gannon i'm pretty sure leaves you if you side with Caesar Which lives lily, and raul. | ||
SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
im loving the regeneration perk you can buy from the clinic. Combined with the iron skin and skeleton perks i pretty much cant die. It kinda rocks. | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On October 27 2010 05:45 Chesner wrote: Doesn't compare to fallout 3's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMMV_RoEMxE Jingle jangle is great tho! Fallout DC felt really dark for some reason, even though it has the same engine and all. That song really added to the emptiness, takes on a whole new emphasis when in the game. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 29 2010 09:29 tofucake wrote: Caesar summoned me and I went to the Fort, then I left because I was like "well I wanna see every option I have" and I went and met House and he's like "well fine do whatever you want" and my quest point is to accept House's job (so I can find out what I need to do) arg fuckdammit. ...Did you meet with the NCR ambassador as well as explore Benny's room yet? There are 4 major branching paths you can take in the game that all have about 5-6 different endings each depending on how you deal with the lesser factions. | ||
Dwar3xwar
39 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 29 2010 09:58 Krigwin wrote: ...Did you meet with the NCR ambassador as well as explore Benny's room yet? There are 4 major branching paths you can take in the game that all have about 5-6 different endings each depending on how you deal with the lesser factions. 5-6 endings for each of the four main factions? You're severely underestimating that number. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On October 29 2010 11:56 Dwar3xwar wrote: Just got the game today. This is my first Fallout game so would anyone be nice enough to provide a newbie with some tips =)? Sell all the pre-war money you find until you hit the casinos for easy cash. High INT is a good stat to start off with since it increases the amount of skill points you get per level. Intense Training seems to be more worth it now since that Almost Perfect perk isn't available anymore. Comprehension is good if you take it way early on or save all the books/magazines you find that give permanent increases. Educated is another great perk to take very early on. Everything else seems to be up to preference. | ||
Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 29 2010 15:28 Nitrogen wrote: where do you guys go to sell your shit? i have lots of stuff on all my characters but all the merchants i talk to have like no caps anymore. merchants have infinite caps, what are you talking about? | ||
GTR
51135 Posts
sigh i guess i'll start over again. | ||
PandaPolice
Australia86 Posts
On October 29 2010 15:28 Nitrogen wrote: where do you guys go to sell your shit? i have lots of stuff on all my characters but all the merchants i talk to have like no caps anymore. Just stash rubbish at any of your houses around, merchant caps refill slowly iirc. There's so many merchants around as well, Gun Runner and Van Graf both hold lots of caps. | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 29 2010 16:10 Shizuru~ wrote: merchants have infinite caps, what are you talking about? what are you talking about once you go over the amount of caps they have they don't give you anything you're just giving away shit. You don't want to buy anything while you're selling? that increase the amount of crap you can sell before you start giving it away. On October 29 2010 16:12 GTR wrote: lol i refused to give mr house the platinum chip now i can't advance any more in the game. sigh i guess i'll start over again. this is why i keep like 30 saves so i can go back several hours to undo something if shit like that happens i already lost like 2 hours when veronica glitched out one time. Also how does that end the game? can't you peruse a ceacar, personal or ncr ending. | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 29 2010 16:12 GTR wrote: lol i refused to give mr house the platinum chip now i can't advance any more in the game. sigh i guess i'll start over again. huh? You don't need to give him the chip. | ||
nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
On October 29 2010 16:12 GTR wrote: lol i refused to give mr house the platinum chip now i can't advance any more in the game. sigh i guess i'll start over again. Don't! you dont wanna give him the chip anyway, go to caesar's fort and it should progress the game | ||
Elegy
United States1629 Posts
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Splunge
Germany925 Posts
On October 29 2010 15:28 Nitrogen wrote: where do you guys go to sell your shit? i have lots of stuff on all my characters but all the merchants i talk to have like no caps anymore. yeah i have the same problem. Also, i cant find someone with stimpacks anymore.. Is there a place in Vegas where you can repair your stuff? | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On October 29 2010 03:16 TymerA wrote: Does anyone know where you can find the naughty nightwear? I found it somewhere on my first playtrough ( I think it was a shop... around 250 caps). would be lols if i could find it again + Show Spoiler + I think i got mine near when I track benny to new vegas, | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 29 2010 18:30 Devanthar wrote: yeah i have the same problem. Also, i cant find someone with stimpacks anymore.. Is there a place in Vegas where you can repair your stuff? I use the place on the far bottom left of the map the ncr base where you find cass not the same building though if you talk to a lt at the front desk there you can get repair from him, the first 3 usually are 100% repairs it goes down after awhile but if you don't use him for a few days it goes up back to 100. Else i just use the brotherhood guy that also does 100. | ||
WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On October 29 2010 16:12 GTR wrote: lol i refused to give mr house the platinum chip now i can't advance any more in the game. sigh i guess i'll start over again. wrong, you can talk to yes man if you found him and he will tell you all your options. | ||
Elegy
United States1629 Posts
Repairs...Mojave Outpost, the Major in the non-bar building (go right after you enter the compound) Gun Runners are really good for selling as well, map marker takes you RIGHT to the robot vendor and they have a really high cap limit. | ||
SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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Elegy
United States1629 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I'm playing fallout 3 right now. Should I just skip it and play NV? Nah, I really enjoyed FO3. It's a matter of taste really, I love open-ended RPG sandbox style games where I can just go and do whatever the hell I want whenever I want to do it. Also, FO3's atmosphere is pretty different in terms of the factions, music, and environment. Maybe "darker" is the word. My only issue with FO3/NV is that I HATE the stupid VATS system so much, just give me open-ended post-apocalypse survival mode (scrounging for ammo, etc) and I can die happy | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I'm playing fallout 3 right now. Should I just skip it and play NV? nah.. keep Fallout 3. It's really good and then if you really liked it, you can by new vegas for less in a couple of month ! | ||
kariido
Saudi Arabia179 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Went with the Yes Man route and took out the NCR and the Legion. It was kind of retarded that none of the MKII Securitrons come with you into the Legion camp. Had a hard time there and barely made it. In my second playthrough I'll side with the NCR, I hate the Legion. | ||
kariido
Saudi Arabia179 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I'm playing fallout 3 right now. Should I just skip it and play NV? NO! as good as NV is FO3 is a very very good game as well. In fact throughout my NV playthrough I had at times thought about FO3 and how good of a game it is. | ||
WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I'm playing fallout 3 right now. Should I just skip it and play NV? skip it cause the amount of stupidity contained in that game will lower your IQ. or if you liked it, it would give you completely the wrong expectations for NV | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:29 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I'm playing fallout 3 right now. Should I just skip it and play NV? if u played the first 2 fallout games, ur gonna appreciate new vegas more than fallout 3... for u guys that are fans of the NCR Ranger Combat Armor, check this mod out, it makes the visors glows and customisable with different colors, and also doesn't disguise yourself as NCR... http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35176 | ||
TheDna
Germany577 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:34 Elegy wrote: Nah, I really enjoyed FO3. It's a matter of taste really, I love open-ended RPG sandbox style games where I can just go and do whatever the hell I want whenever I want to do it. Also, FO3's atmosphere is pretty different in terms of the factions, music, and environment. Maybe "darker" is the word. My only issue with FO3/NV is that I HATE the stupid VATS system so much, just give me open-ended post-apocalypse survival mode (scrounging for ammo, etc) and I can die happy Why do you use VATS? I mean i never did. You can easily play on hardmode and hardest difficult without any VATS. My chars name is Machete and guess what weapon i use? I had to switch to combat knife lategame tho. Meele works very well its almost imbalanced. Hardest are some of the robots but still fairly easy to own them with a bit of strafing. I was blown away when i found out you could take over Vegas. Also thought its a pretty free sandboxish game. And i was really disappointed when i found out that it actually isnt :p + Show Spoiler + I dislike that you cant really take over Vegas yourself it sucks.. Could have been so good.. | ||
Elegy
United States1629 Posts
NV with no VATS + not playing "gimmicky" like abusing the broken casino system is pretty awesome. | ||
heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On October 29 2010 22:38 Elegy wrote: I don't use VATS, I used it in the original FO3 though. NV with no VATS + not playing "gimmicky" like abusing the broken casino system is pretty awesome. Bah, the game pisses me of without VATS. Weapons do almost no damage that way, the only way you can actually kill anything without wasting 10x the ammo and time as with VATS is to use shotguns. Not to mention the fact that you can't hit anything if you stand further than 10 feet away lol. | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On October 29 2010 20:34 Elegy wrote: My only issue with FO3/NV is that I HATE the stupid VATS system so much, just give me open-ended post-apocalypse survival mode (scrounging for ammo, etc) and I can die happy Nothing that forces you to use VATS, my second play-through of FO3 i never entered VATS mode, found it just silly when using melee weapons. And now in NV i stay away from VATS most of the time. I assume you like the "hardcore" mode in NV where ammo has weight and you need to drink regularly or get dehydrated? Not tried it myself yet, figure it would make for an epic second play-through. | ||
Cantankerous
114 Posts
I've played for absolutely ages but I really don't know how far into the storyline I am - I feel like it's ridiculously long and complex. I love it. One thing I really love is that there are essentially no good/evil no-brainer dichotomies. It isn't a choice between helping the poor old grandma look for her son or help the devil torture him for all eternity. It really feels like each person has an agenda, and I've had moments where I've really not known which side to support. It's also the first game I've ever played where I actually feel like I'm doing my own thing. I have literally never played a game and felt that I'm not just following their path, and then only choosing whether I want option A:Evil, or option B:Good near the end. [MINOR SPOILERS] I'm now at a point where three major factions are competing for power, and each one offers me a chance to join them, but I chose to play them off each other and usurp the power myself (I would have wished that the yes-man plot was a little bit harder to get to, and wasn't put forth as "go to yes man to see if you can take over vegas yourself" in the quest log). While I doubt that I'm the only one that did this it really makes you feel like you got there through your own deviousness, and no other game has provoked that feeling for me. | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On October 29 2010 22:47 heishe wrote: Bah, the game pisses me of without VATS. Weapons do almost no damage that way, the only way you can actually kill anything without wasting 10x the ammo and time as with VATS is to use shotguns. Not to mention the fact that you can't hit anything if you stand further than 10 feet away lol. You can kill things just fine outside of VATS if you can actually aim manually... I find that i have higher % to hit something manually as long as it is not right up in my face spacing out. If you have a companion that prefers melee it is piece of cake to hit things manually, they keep em busy at a nice distance while you lay down the damage. | ||
Biochemist
United States1008 Posts
On October 29 2010 22:38 Elegy wrote: I don't use VATS, I used it in the original FO3 though. NV with no VATS + not playing "gimmicky" like abusing the broken casino system is pretty awesome. I usually use VATS for really close range stuff because my character has a decent amount of AP. the Vats accuracy is so low (at least for me) past about 20 yards that it's far better to just line them up in your sights. Headshots outside of VATS almost always seem to be one-hit kills. Do you need agility at all if you're playing without VATS? | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On October 29 2010 23:03 Biochemist wrote: Do you need agility at all if you're playing without VATS? Assuming NV works same way as FO3 Agility is the base for small guns and sneak, but that is a pretty minor benefit. Directly linked to AP as you said, also a requirement for some perks that is pretty useful. Like Silent running requires at least 6 Agility. | ||
Cantankerous
114 Posts
On October 29 2010 09:19 ZeaL. wrote: Fallout DC felt really dark for some reason, even though it has the same engine and all. That song really added to the emptiness, takes on a whole new emphasis when in the game. I completely agree with this - I loved that song in fallout 3 and I actually think I might go as far as saying that song by itself created the atmosphere of the game. I imagine the song playing on the radio, the sound blocked out by the cheers and optimistic laughter of people witnessing the birth of atomic power. And then, 300 years later, that song can still be heard on the radio, in the midst of the shattered remains of civilization. | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 29 2010 23:03 Biochemist wrote: I usually use VATS for really close range stuff because my character has a decent amount of AP. the Vats accuracy is so low (at least for me) past about 20 yards that it's far better to just line them up in your sights. Headshots outside of VATS almost always seem to be one-hit kills. Do you need agility at all if you're playing without VATS? The reason the aiming is super non-sensical is because there's some kind of coding in game where even if you have 100 guns skill sometimes the bullets fly in random directions completely different from what you were aiming at (that's not how guns work, Bethesda). This mod: http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34723 fixes that and makes it so that aiming outside of VATS, even with a low gun skill, is much easier. With the bottle shooting tutorial in Goodsprings for instance even without guns as a tagged skill you can easily get each of the bottles on your first shot. | ||
Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On October 29 2010 23:07 DND_Enkil wrote: Assuming NV works same way as FO3 Agility is the base for small guns and sneak, but that is a pretty minor benefit. Directly linked to AP as you said, also a requirement for some perks that is pretty useful. Like Silent running requires at least 6 Agility. Agility also allegedly affects AP regen rate, weapon draw speed, weapon reload speed, and maximum run speed. | ||
Ympulse
United States287 Posts
On October 30 2010 03:25 Krigwin wrote: The reason the aiming is super non-sensical is because there's some kind of coding in game where even if you have 100 guns skill sometimes the bullets fly in random directions completely different from what you were aiming at (that's not how guns work, Bethesda). This mod: http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34723 fixes that and makes it so that aiming outside of VATS, even with a low gun skill, is much easier. With the bottle shooting tutorial in Goodsprings for instance even without guns as a tagged skill you can easily get each of the bottles on your first shot. I hear playing in first-person and turning true iron sights on does the same thing as that mod. The guns skill in NV regulates damage, accuracy in vats, accuracy from the hip/zoomed without iron sights, and your ability to use certian weapons. Iron sights puts the bullet in a softball-sized cone at (roughly) 100ft. Guns skill narrows that cone to point of aim-point of impact at 100. [edit] Mindcrime: Agility does affect all of that except for run speed. Run speed is the same across all builds (unless you get the perk that allows you to run faster in light armor) | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
If you think thats it, there was a toy car... It doesn't say its a toy car though... it just says E) take And you can't grab it!!! ( easter egg) So what would i do as the intelligent person i am? http://www.wegame.com/watch/fallout-new-vegas-satanic-car/ Hope i am not making a fool out of myself with this xD Edit: Sorry thats its on wegame, but its legit , don't worries. As for screenshots, they don't work for some reason. All i get is a black screen in paint. | ||
SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
The screenshots that is | ||
Fruscainte
4596 Posts
Jesus Christ this thing is awesome. For those who don't know, it's a side quest you do where you get the Gomorrah's to start buying some weapons for this guy in Freeside again. When you complete it, you get a new Pip Boy that is pure gold and has diamond studs in it and it has a whole new interface when you bring it up. | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On October 30 2010 08:02 Fruscainte wrote: Did anyone else get the Pimp Boy 3 billion? Jesus Christ this thing is awesome. For those who don't know, it's a side quest you do where you get the Gomorrah's to start buying some weapons for this guy in Freeside again. When you complete it, you get a new Pip Boy that is pure gold and has diamond studs in it and it has a whole new interface when you bring it up. keep on pimpin' yo! | ||
MagisterMan
Sweden525 Posts
On October 25 2010 08:30 StorkHwaiting wrote: Holy shit, I been playing 20+ hours and Fallout New Vegas is head and shoulders above FO3. As a diehard fan of the original FO's, this one does it for me. I'm hooked. I couldn't play FO3 past the museum... It was shit... Totally agree. F3 never felt like a fallout game to me. I don't know if it was the setting in DC or whatever. NW really feels like a fallout game, but I'll have to wait until I've played through it before i can give a thumbs up. | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
DAYUM SHAME, JIMMAY | ||
WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On October 30 2010 03:25 Krigwin wrote: The reason the aiming is super non-sensical is because there's some kind of coding in game where even if you have 100 guns skill sometimes the bullets fly in random directions completely different from what you were aiming at (that's not how guns work, Bethesda). This mod: http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34723 fixes that and makes it so that aiming outside of VATS, even with a low gun skill, is much easier. With the bottle shooting tutorial in Goodsprings for instance even without guns as a tagged skill you can easily get each of the bottles on your first shot. there is no "stupid coding" in the game, theres a "spread" statistic tied with each weapon, detailing how accurate it is. with sniper/hunting rifles, when you aim through a scope they're pretty much 100% accurate. | ||
MTF
United States1739 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I got some nice little feelings while moving across Hoover Dam, hearing about Camp Forlorn Hope and Camp Golf holding off attacks. :p Overall, New Vegas is definitely a big improvement over Fallout 3...and I loved Fallout 3. | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
On October 31 2010 03:34 WiljushkA wrote: there is no "stupid coding" in the game, theres a "spread" statistic tied with each weapon, detailing how accurate it is. with sniper/hunting rifles, when you aim through a scope they're pretty much 100% accurate. In the gamebyro engine bullets occasionally curve or fly in a random direction completely different than where you were aiming - this is in addition to the normal spread of a gun. Don't believe me? Start a new game and try out the varmint rifle bottle shooting tutorial without the mod, then with it. It has nothing to do with guns skill or true iron sights (which doesn't seem to do anything, from all my testing). There's a ton of similar mods for Fallout 3 which also fixes the problem with the auto aim not adjusting correctly over very long distances. jesus, what is this, the Bethesda defense force? If you don't believe in mods then don't use them. | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
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TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
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Beavo
Canada293 Posts
I never really understood the Yes Man option can some one explain it to me? | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
On October 31 2010 06:39 TymerA wrote: need some help with vault 34, How the hell am i gonna get into the armory? unlock it from the overseers terminal? | ||
GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
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Cush
United States646 Posts
On October 31 2010 06:39 TymerA wrote: need some help with vault 34, How the hell am i gonna get into the armory? It was a serious pain to get in the armory, You first on the lower leverl have to find a flooded room, swim in there, and find a dead ghoul. Take the key card on the ghoul and find a second underwater room, get the keycard from there. Go to utility and open the door. You should see a terminal, go in the terminal and punch in drain water or something like that, then go in the first underwater room you went in a go to the room in the right. I think you then find out how to unlock the overseers door. Go in the overseers office, and kill the overseer, then take the password off his dead body, then go to the terminal next to him and unlock the armory door, go to the armory and get guns like the Marksman Carbine or the pulse Gun ^_^ | ||
nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
On October 31 2010 07:42 GreyKnight wrote: The licensed songs in this game aren't that great but the ambient music is fantastic. I swear I heard songs from fallout 1 and fallout 2. yeah if there's one thing fallout 3 did better than new vegas (and it's most likely only one thing, F3 was shit) it's the radio music ~~ really would have loved some more songs | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
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dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
On October 31 2010 07:52 nttea wrote: yeah if there's one thing fallout 3 did better than new vegas (and it's most likely only one thing, F3 was shit) it's the radio music ~~ really would have loved some more songs There are mods out there for Vegas that add a great deal more music to the radio station. That's the benefit of PC version, mods that debug and improves upon the original. | ||
Durak
Canada3684 Posts
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On October 31 2010 09:06 Durak wrote: Any recommendations on mods for my first playthrough? I'm just freshly installing the game and I'd like to enjoy it as much as possible. Mods that fix bugs and add nice features would be greatly appreciated. Some basic ones to look up would be the fix for Veronica's leveling, one that centers the 3rd person camera, and the auto-aim removal one. Then there are more preferential ones that affect balance, graphics, or audio. For example, there are some mods that make nighttime lighting more realistic and dark, the most prominent being URWLNV. In audio, there are new radio stations, mods that get your companions to shut up (Lily for example sometimes plays her stealth dialogue regularly like every 10 seconds while you're stealthed which can get old fast), and new weapon sounds. And of course there are scores of weapons, armor, and player houses that may or may not be balanced or stylish. I have a somewhat unrelated question to all who have played: is it just me or are melee weapons' impact sounds... nonexistent? Not even like SC2 zergling nonexistent, I just plain hear only the sound of my victim exploding in a gory mess, which the sounds the same as if he spontaneously died. This, plus uninspiring melee/unarmed combat animations, makes melee combat very viscerally unsatisfying for me. | ||
Tethyrian
33 Posts
On October 31 2010 03:30 Krigwin wrote: DAYUM SHAME, JIMMAY wut how did you manage this? | ||
Durak
Canada3684 Posts
On October 31 2010 12:17 EchOne wrote: Some basic ones to look up would be the fix for Veronica's leveling, one that centers the 3rd person camera, and the auto-aim removal one. Then there are more preferential ones that affect balance, graphics, or audio. For example, there are some mods that make nighttime lighting more realistic and dark, the most prominent being URWLNV. In audio, there are new radio stations, mods that get your companions to shut up (Lily for example sometimes plays her stealth dialogue regularly like every 10 seconds while you're stealthed which can get old fast), and new weapon sounds. Cheers mate. Going to try out the game tomorrow. :D | ||
Graham
Canada1259 Posts
I played and loved Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but I found myself getting bored quite quickly when I played Fallout 3. I was worried that it would be the same case with this game, but I've already racked up over 30 hours and theres still countless things I want to do/is to do. The fact that all weapons have iron sights is awesome (not to say that I hate storyline, but it helps to make long-range combat a lot more realistic then trying to hit someone a mile away without a sight). Another huge thing for me is the seemingly lack of game-breaking bugs. Sure it has handfuls and handfuls of bugs, but FO3 was almost unplayable because of how often it would randomly crash/freeze up, where-as I've yet to experience a crash in NV. Can't wait for some "big" mods to be created/released! :D | ||
dronebabo
10866 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
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Qzy
Denmark1121 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Death over ceasar, NCR and Mr. House! | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
Figured I would since I can't get on Bnet due to "temporary service outage" (since Wednesday...) | ||
Sulla
23 Posts
On October 31 2010 19:29 Qzy wrote: Completed it - funny ending if you choose an evil, more self-centered ending =) ! + Show Spoiler + Death over ceasar, NCR and Mr. House! That's not really evil. Fuck the oppresing governments of the NCR and Legion! | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
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OutlaW-
Czech Republic5053 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Lim Yo-Hwan Speech/melee weapons/sneak bitch 10 hours played, about to enter the strip.. Damn this game is so good. I always hate knowing I have a lot of walking and questing to do, and I have no idea why but I was in joy whenever I got a new quest here, this game is so awesome, I can't stop playing it... edit: also, to anyone going melee, if you go to jamestown to fix king's dog, there's a quest to go to a cave just outside of the city, you will find a hammer with 200 dps I think was it? Game's 3rd or 2nd best melee weapon and it's pretty easy to get. | ||
ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I felt so bad with the ending I immediately rerolled a character. I actually had a chance to just kill House straight up when I wandered off in the Lucky 38. That fucker is creepy as hell but I already destroyed the BoS bunker and just wanted to see what the ending is like so I ended up just reloading a save. Next time I play this through I'm getting speech 100, I really don't want to have to kill everybody =[. | ||
WiljushkA
Serbia1416 Posts
On October 31 2010 14:46 dronebabo wrote: gomorrah ate This Machine on my Rose....even though i told her to wait outside the casino thank god for console commands nothing ever ate This Machine on boone for me, but the casinos keep eating veronica's ballistic fists. thank god you can buy them (relatively) easily, cause i usually notice like half an hour after its happened and i cant be bothered to load really old saves :D | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
Don't worry, I'm sure given time there'll eventually be Marine Armor mods, and W40K Space Marine mods, etc. etc. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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Jimbooo
203 Posts
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
the legion are just morons with pseudo-noble values. sure when they burned through... what was the town called? where ghost from the mojave outpost sends you to see what happened. anyways, sure the guy leading the attack on that town said some very true things, all of the people there were basically moral whores, but does that give you the right to simply kill or enslave them you fucking idiot? go die in hell. the NCR seemed fine at first but when I was supposed to look for a new sheriff in primm, I first went to the NCRCF and talked to that ex-sheriff about it, but shortly before finishing the quest after getting his pardon letter, I decided to see how the NCR side of the coin would look like. It actually went really well at first: "hey of course we want to protect these people, it would also be a good strategical position for us, but we don't have the manpower right now. ask our pals at the outpost if they can help us out" I go up to the mojave outpost and talk to knight, he says alright, I can see the wisdom in that and sends a squad down there. but then, talking to hayes again of course in the last fucking sentence he says something like: "but of course the people of primm would have to become proper NCR citizens and pay apropriate taxes [or some shit like that]"... hell yeah, I can see where that is going... please die in a gazing fire. Fortunately though I found out that you could make that robot inside the casino the new sheriff. this way I didn't need to go with neither the ncr or the powder gangers. OK, that deputy was a little disappointed since he wasn't deputy anymore, but whatever, we're in a postapocalyptic warzone you idiot, stop whining and be happy you're alive, I just saved your fucking ass one or two days ago. and finally, the powder gangers are just a bunch of assholes who run around, stealing from and killing people who're in their way. yes I wouldn't support opressive pseudo-governments either, but the way they go about fighting for their freedom isn't for me. If I could decide, I would just blow all of them to hell. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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kuresuti
1393 Posts
On November 02 2010 07:36 heishe wrote: have played maybe 5-6 hours. I can't decide which faction to join (only got to know the ncr, the legion and the powder gangers though, haven't been to vegas yet), all of them piss me off. the legion are just morons with pseudo-noble values. sure when they burned through... what was the town called? where ghost from the mojave outpost sends you to see what happened. anyways, sure the guy leading the attack on that town said some very true things, all of the people there were basically moral whores, but does that give you the right to simply kill or enslave them you fucking idiot? go die in hell. the NCR seemed fine at first but when I was supposed to look for a new sheriff in primm, I first went to the NCRCF and talked to that ex-sheriff about it, but shortly before finishing the quest after getting his pardon letter, I decided to see how the NCR side of the coin would look like. It actually went really well at first: "hey of course we want to protect these people, it would also be a good strategical position for us, but we don't have the manpower right now. ask our pals at the outpost if they can help us out" I go up to the mojave outpost and talk to knight, he says alright, I can see the wisdom in that and sends a squad down there. but then, talking to hayes again of course in the last fucking sentence he says something like: "but of course the people of primm would have to become proper NCR citizens and pay apropriate taxes [or some shit like that]"... hell yeah, I can see where that is going... please die in a gazing fire. Fortunately though I found out that you could make that robot inside the casino the new sheriff. this way I didn't need to go with neither the ncr or the powder gangers. OK, that deputy was a little disappointed since he wasn't deputy anymore, but whatever, we're in a postapocalyptic warzone you idiot, stop whining and be happy you're alive, I just saved your fucking ass one or two days ago. and finally, the powder gangers are just a bunch of assholes who run around, stealing from and killing people who're in their way. yes I wouldn't support opressive pseudo-governments either, but the way they go about fighting for their freedom isn't for me. If I could decide, I would just blow all of them to hell. Find a guy named Yes Man, he'll agree with you | ||
Krigwin
1130 Posts
On November 02 2010 06:52 Retgery wrote: Why is there no lightsabre? http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35168 | ||
TymerA
Netherlands759 Posts
(neurofunk) + Show Spoiler + yeah 8) | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
I liked: -The modding community, and the wiki, forums, etc. The game shipped with a host of bugs, but periodic googles helped work around them. Since NV is so similar to FO3, many excellent FO3 mods were ported over to NV shortly after release, with more probably on the way once the Script Extender is available. I personally love tweaks, mods, and all sorts of out-of-game ways to enhance the experience, but others might not. Certainly having to alt-tab often to continue plowing through bugs may harm immersion. -The world lore-wise and production-wise. With a few tweaks, the wasteland looks brilliant, sometimes blinding. The factions dynamic and pieces of lore tying into a greater history really help immersion. I haven't played Fallout 1 since I couldn't find a decent mirror for all the unofficial patches, but the NV world got me interested in reading about the Fallout world at large. The lore in FO3... didn't. I didn't like: -Melee combat. Melee combat is most satisfying when it plays like a fighting or action game. NV's melee combat, like FO3's and to a lesser extent Oblivion's, just looks and feels boring, unrealistic, and uninspired. Your options are few, the animations are dry, repetitive, and don't engage actors' lower bodies. I remember Oblivion had some decent combat mods to spice up melee combat into something more complex, but in NV, melee combat just feels like an aberration, regardless of how effective it can be. -Some believability issues. How is the hero so effective, and what compels him to be so motivated and invested in the fate of the Mojave? How is reputation disseminated so rapidly? How do covert acts get attached to the hero's reputation? Why is Caesar's death so inconsequential? How was Mr. House able to conduct diplomacy without admitting people into the 38? -Unsatisfying story. Even the individual quests are sparse and include several painfully simple quests. A good number are actually pretty interesting, complex, and feel consequential, but there is little connectivity save for that inherent in the world. The journey to the Strip presents an interesting narrative, but everything after that is a collection of disjointed explorations. Judging by his actions, it appears the hero's only goals are to accrue power and to impress his moral compass (or lack thereof if he's totally self-inconsistent, but I don't find that persuasive in role-playing) on his surroundings. Ugh I'll sort these thoughts better after a little sleep. | ||
bakedace
United States672 Posts
Is this game seriously choppy for you guys too? I have a pretty good system, gtx 260 quad core 4gb ram, and I dont own a game yet that doesn't run smooth on highest settings... but this game is majorly choppy. I have the settings all the way down, and its a bit bette, but still... what gives?!. | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On November 03 2010 15:34 bakedace wrote: Im just passed the first town, loving the game... but.. Is this game seriously choppy for you guys too? I have a pretty good system, gtx 260 quad core 4gb ram, and I dont own a game yet that doesn't run smooth on highest settings... but this game is majorly choppy. I have the settings all the way down, and its a bit bette, but still... what gives?!. The game has numerous technical issues. This fix may be the most appropriate for you: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778 Though there are a lot of other measures to look into. Just google New Vegas Stutter or something like that. | ||
bakedace
United States672 Posts
On November 03 2010 15:37 EchOne wrote: The game has numerous technical issues. This fix may be the most appropriate for you: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34778 Though there are a lot of other measures to look into. Just google New Vegas Stutter or something like that. woow, thanks. so much better. | ||
kuresuti
1393 Posts
On November 03 2010 15:20 EchOne wrote:+ Show Spoiler + Just cleared Yes Man ending. I feel like spewing a little review for the hell of it. I liked: -The modding community, and the wiki, forums, etc. The game shipped with a host of bugs, but periodic googles helped work around them. Since NV is so similar to FO3, many excellent FO3 mods were ported over to NV shortly after release, with more probably on the way once the Script Extender is available. I personally love tweaks, mods, and all sorts of out-of-game ways to enhance the experience, but others might not. Certainly having to alt-tab often to continue plowing through bugs may harm immersion. -The world lore-wise and production-wise. With a few tweaks, the wasteland looks brilliant, sometimes blinding. The factions dynamic and pieces of lore tying into a greater history really help immersion. I haven't played Fallout 1 since I couldn't find a decent mirror for all the unofficial patches, but the NV world got me interested in reading about the Fallout world at large. The lore in FO3... didn't. I didn't like: -Melee combat. Melee combat is most satisfying when it plays like a fighting or action game. NV's melee combat, like FO3's and to a lesser extent Oblivion's, just looks and feels boring, unrealistic, and uninspired. Your options are few, the animations are dry, repetitive, and don't engage actors' lower bodies. I remember Oblivion had some decent combat mods to spice up melee combat into something more complex, but in NV, melee combat just feels like an aberration, regardless of how effective it can be. -Some believability issues. How is the hero so effective, and what compels him to be so motivated and invested in the fate of the Mojave? How is reputation disseminated so rapidly? How do covert acts get attached to the hero's reputation? Why is Caesar's death so inconsequential? How was Mr. House able to conduct diplomacy without admitting people into the 38? -Unsatisfying story. Even the individual quests are sparse and include several painfully simple quests. A good number are actually pretty interesting, complex, and feel consequential, but there is little connectivity save for that inherent in the world. The journey to the Strip presents an interesting narrative, but everything after that is a collection of disjointed explorations. Judging by his actions, it appears the hero's only goals are to accrue power and to impress his moral compass (or lack thereof if he's totally self-inconsistent, but I don't find that persuasive in role-playing) on his surroundings. Ugh I'll sort these thoughts better after a little sleep. You should spoiler that, people are still playing You've got some good points though. How do covert acts get attached to the hero's reputation? I'd love it if they didn't, but when you do get caught the consequences would be severe. How is the hero so effective, and what compels him to be so motivated and invested in the fate of the Mojave? He/She isn't really. You want to find the guy who shot you, no one is forcing you to continue beyond that, actually no one is forcing you to find the shooter either. Other than that I agree with what you said, the plotholes will probably not get fixed, but hordes of mods should improve the gameplay by quite a bit. | ||
snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + This is the Mr. House ending for Fallout: New Vegas. Originally I did the NCR ending but I felt a benevolent monarchy would be better for the people than a sprawling, uncoordinated and at times corrupt empire. The problem with monarchies is the issue of succession where it's possible to get an asshole ruler, but obviously House doesn't have that issue. This ending is very reminiscent of the Helios ending in Deus Ex. This playthrough took 44 hours on Very Hard (Hardcore). | ||
omgCRAZY
Canada551 Posts
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maltime
Australia3 Posts
Hear it's pretty buggy, hopefully it doesn't annoy me too much, I love Fallout. | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On November 03 2010 19:33 maltime wrote: Just got this game earlier today, probably gonna try it out tomorrow when I get some free time. Hear it's pretty buggy, hopefully it doesn't annoy me too much, I love Fallout. it depend of the hardware and the paltform. On my PS3, I froze only twice in about 25hours of gameplay. I see some visual glitch (line a big white line in the middle of a rock montain) but not much. On another note, I don't know how you guys already finish the game. I know I don't play alot but still, after 25hr of play, I still have so many quest to do :O and so many place to see. Such a nice game | ||
muse5187
1125 Posts
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Phearlock
Norway400 Posts
Currently running around in the lovely remnants power armor (Yay for fallout 2 advanced power armor). Also I'm in love with the Plasma Caster, was a huge fan of the the fallout 1 & 2 turbo plasma rifle so finding the plasma caster was like discovering an old friend and then going off to have adventures in the wasteland together. <3 (also meltdown is a super fun perk). + Show Spoiler + While I liked how the toughest enemy in the game was a deathclaw, (deathclaws are cute & lovable!) it was a bit sad that it died so fast. Oh well. Legendary cazador was a joke too tbh, died to 3 plasma caster hits, silly bug. Edit: cause I fail at grammerrrr | ||
TsoBadGuy
United States221 Posts
I got a 27 Gun Sniper (good), 20 Melee (evil), Ninja, 27 Energy Weapons Sniper (Good, mostly :D). About 80 hours. I love the atmosphere and tuning characters. I've been makings Snipers since Fallout 1, and this didn't disappoint. After playing so long I couldn't help but notice a lot of glitches though. Some quests become impossible because of them. Boone flat out disappears. Arcade likes to not trust you no matter how much you do with him in certain instances. You'll be frozen in Casinos at the strip if you shoot the doorman (Namely Gammorah). AI is most questionable at times. (Who gathers around someone who just got shot in the head when the shooter?) I have it for PC and relied on console to do lots of mending toward the end, in my most quest driven run through. With it's many quirks it's still a great game though. | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On November 03 2010 19:54 muse5187 wrote: I can't stop restarting the game around level 7 when I get to the hoover dam area. I just get so bored lol. Are there any notable quests around there besides "come fly with me" the zombie mission? I hope to finish it this time. What's everyones favorite quests so far? Well, so far, your zombie mission is the one I found the must fun do finish (not to do). Quest finish spoiler + Show Spoiler + I still lol when I see the rocket crash into each other xD The one with the solar power is also fun to finish + Show Spoiler + Die NCR DIE !!!!!! By Solar power !!!!!! mouahaha !!!!!! | ||
muse5187
1125 Posts
On November 03 2010 20:59 FaCE_1 wrote: Well, so far, your zombie mission is the one I found the must fun do finish (not to do). Quest finish spoiler + Show Spoiler + I still lol when I see the rocket crash into each other xD The one with the solar power is also fun to finish + Show Spoiler + Die NCR DIE !!!!!! By Solar power !!!!!! mouahaha !!!!!! haha you're right both of those endings are funny. What level did you guys make it to new vegas? | ||
kuresuti
1393 Posts
On November 03 2010 21:32 muse5187 wrote: What level did you guys make it to new vegas? First playthrough I don't remember, the one I'm on now, level 1 :3 Just use a stealth boy and run through the Deathclaw land. | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
And playing it on my PC and so far i have not encountered any major bugs, level 22 iirc. Just some GFX bugs. And (Legion spoiler) + Show Spoiler + was pissed while still loving it that my female character was not allowed to fight in the gladiator ring at the legion base, instead i was told to get to the kitchen. Loving that they did it and the attitude from the guard, but pissed that they lacked an option for me to splatter his head on the ground while not making an enemy of the entire faction. Still awesome. | ||
heishe
Germany2284 Posts
And how do you use the console? | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On November 04 2010 00:36 heishe wrote: Can you guys give a list of console commands that I should keep ready in case something breaks? And how do I notice that a quest broke and I didn't actually do anything wring? And how do you use the console? To use the console, press ~ and type in a command. Depending on your resolution you may not see what you're typing. To manipulate quests and NPCs you'll need their IDs. You can find these at the Fallout Wiki. NPCs have Ref ID and Base ID, and quests only have Base ID. The most useful console fixes I found were to summon my followers if they somehow bugged out or disappeared randomly. If your NPC disappears: prid <ref_id> -targets the NPC so you can use a targeted command on him. moveto player -moves the targeted NPC to you. If your NPC bugs out (I used this when E-DE became dysfunctional after his upgrade. He essentially froze and was unable to move or attack after entering combat.): disable -gets rid of the broken instance of that NPC. Target him with prid first. player.placeatme <base_id> -creates a new NPC at you. If you need to move your quest along to a specific stage: setstage <base id> <Quest Objective> -the ID is the quest's ID. You'll need to look up the number corresponding to the quest's stage. The Fallout Wiki has some of these (like http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Still_in_the_Dark) but for some quests you might have to google more. I actually never needed to use this. NV uses mostly the same commands as FO3 so this is a good general reference: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_console_commands NV also has commands to manipulate its reputation system but the time I looked into it I couldn't find good documentation. | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On November 03 2010 21:43 kuresuti wrote: First playthrough I don't remember, the one I'm on now, level 1 :3 Just use a stealth boy and run through the Deathclaw land. I think around 10-12? I didn't pass throw the deathclaw tough :\ | ||
BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
jsut went thru vault 11... sick stuff. just love that game for all those little great sidestorys. trying to see as much of the game as possible , took the explorer perk after saving jsut to see how many locations i still havent seen and wow... there really is a shitton :> | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
On November 04 2010 02:11 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: yep was around 12 for me too. jsut went thru vault 11... sick stuff. just love that game for all those little great sidestorys. trying to see as much of the game as possible , took the explorer perk after saving jsut to see how many locations i still havent seen and wow... there really is a shitton :> Vault 11 is fun, Vault 3 is really fun cool enemy | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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OutlaW-
Czech Republic5053 Posts
edit: orm aybe explosives? | ||
heishe
Germany2284 Posts
Why are there so many NCR facilities or checkpoints in this game? I keep getting tons and tons of NCR related quests, but I don't want to do them since I don't want to help them lol. With the smaller cities that were overrun it's easier, I simply kill all legionaries that I see. But I don't just want to kill everyone at the NCR sites. Lots of civilians there, and lots of idiots who simply joined the NCR because they chose the less-est evil. Damnit, I keep having that feeling that I miss out on 90% of all Quests and side-stories in F:NV just because I hate all of the big factions. (Haven't met this "Yes-Man" and Mr. House yet though, since I'm not in New Vegas yet). | ||
Lexpar
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tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On November 04 2010 07:39 heishe wrote: lol, awesome game. Why are there so many NCR facilities or checkpoints in this game? I keep getting tons and tons of NCR related quests, but I don't want to do them since I don't want to help them lol. With the smaller cities that were overrun it's easier, I simply kill all legionaries that I see. But I don't just want to kill everyone at the NCR sites. Lots of civilians there, and lots of idiots who simply joined the NCR because they chose the less-est evil. Damnit, I keep having that feeling that I miss out on 90% of all Quests and side-stories in F:NV just because I hate all of the big factions. (Haven't met this "Yes-Man" and Mr. House yet though, since I'm not in New Vegas yet). You are. There's no way to complete every single quest in a single run through. The fun of the Fallout games is playing them multiple times to change the world in different ways. | ||
TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
On November 04 2010 08:18 tofucake wrote: You are. There's no way to complete every single quest in a single run through. The fun of the Fallout games is playing them multiple times to change the world in different ways. too true, i'm working on my second play though right now, this time all melee, and siding with legion. fun times. | ||
koslain
United States70 Posts
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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
Compared to fallout 3, which is a 3d shooter (just like halo) except in a wasteland, fallout NV actually makes you feel like you are in a post apocalyptic world instead of a really dirty country. | ||
KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
I'm currently trying to get the NCR combat armor, I've searched it up online and they said to get an anti materiel gun n snipe out an NCR at the camp delta. Problem is that i cant manage to find one. So theres really two solutions here: 1. Wait at the Gun runner shop until it pops up,, which could b a waste of time since its random 2. Buy one at the BOS from the hidden bunker area.. I tried to start solution 2 but i can't the dead bodies of the BOS in the Nellis Air force base,, anyone know where those bodies are? | ||
SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
On November 06 2010 17:14 KezseN wrote: Hey TL, Ive got a couple of questions, hoping some1 can answer them in detail I'm currently trying to get the NCR combat armor, I've searched it up online and they said to get an anti materiel gun n snipe out an NCR at the camp delta. Problem is that i cant manage to find one. So theres really two solutions here: 1. Wait at the Gun runner shop until it pops up,, which could b a waste of time since its random 2. Buy one at the BOS from the hidden bunker area.. I tried to start solution 2 but i can't the dead bodies of the BOS in the Nellis Air force base,, anyone know where those bodies are? dunno if this spoils but w/e + Show Spoiler + the bodies are around the homes where the boomers start raining mortar shells on you the first time, thats basically how the brotherhood patrol died. also your quest marker should kinda lead you there. | ||
kuresuti
1393 Posts
On November 06 2010 17:14 KezseN wrote: Hey TL, Ive got a couple of questions, hoping some1 can answer them in detail I'm currently trying to get the NCR combat armor, I've searched it up online and they said to get an anti materiel gun n snipe out an NCR at the camp delta. Problem is that i cant manage to find one. So theres really two solutions here: 1. Wait at the Gun runner shop until it pops up,, which could b a waste of time since its random 2. Buy one at the BOS from the hidden bunker area.. I tried to start solution 2 but i can't the dead bodies of the BOS in the Nellis Air force base,, anyone know where those bodies are? I see Anti Material rifles fairly often at the gunrunners shop. Just go about your business and check the shop between quests, it will show up sooner or later. As for the BoS bunker, I haven't done any quests there, I've killed them all once though and lots of them had the weapon in question. | ||
KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
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Shingles
Denmark12 Posts
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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
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nemahsys
Canada457 Posts
On November 06 2010 19:00 heishe wrote: damnit, i talked to mr. house and gave him the chip already. then i started to wonder: when the fuck am i going to find yes-man? so i looked it up on the fallout wiki and it turns out that while I shouldn't have stormed in there and killed benny so fast, the yes man should still be driving around somewhere near that casino. but I can't find him (or it) anywhere. yes-man should still be in his room if you havent talked to him. its on the same floor as all the other apartments. theres one room with a hole in the wall leading to a secret room full and yes-man should be chilling in there. | ||
Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
In fallout 3 the main character is a banished vault dweller from vault 101 that is banished from his vault etc. IT makes sense that he / she is abit of a blank slate at the beginning. But this, your a frikken delivery boy shot in the head. Give him a backstory for christ sake, relatives, past relationships. ANYTHING that roots this guy / gal SOMEWHERE. It is not fun being evil as in there is no megatron to blow up or major awesome rainbow of evil sparkle anywhere. Its not fun being good because there is no major awesome rainbow of good sparkle anywhere. It is not fun persuading people to do your bidding because there is no situation where doing so would be more fun than seperating heads from body.. I dont feel cheated but there are few locations and far in between conversations i can call epic with a lackluster culimination of player effort. My min max build is to go 9 endurance and 10 int taking points from luck to do so, you dont need to put any points in strength because of the "nerdrage" perk that gives you 10 str and damage resistance when low on hp. Take the heavy hitter special perk that gives you more autoattack damage and less critical damage because if you have taken all your points away from luck you dont even intend to crit anyone. Get the bloody murder, and black widow, cherez de la femme for more % damage against everything with a gender) as well as the 50%damage against wildlife. Max lockpick, speach and science in that order to gain access to everything anytime and get the educated perk for max points gained per level and start working on medicine and melee weapons. sell most of your guns and misc for ammo, dont ever bother with repair (above 35) or any of the other junk like barter (ololol you get infinity money anyhow). and then you are pretty much set. | ||
Fireflies
United Kingdom211 Posts
On November 06 2010 17:14 KezseN wrote: Hey TL, Ive got a couple of questions, hoping some1 can answer them in detail I'm currently trying to get the NCR combat armor, I've searched it up online and they said to get an anti materiel gun n snipe out an NCR at the camp delta. Problem is that i cant manage to find one. So theres really two solutions here: 1. Wait at the Gun runner shop until it pops up,, which could b a waste of time since its random 2. Buy one at the BOS from the hidden bunker area.. I tried to start solution 2 but i can't the dead bodies of the BOS in the Nellis Air force base,, anyone know where those bodies are? Do you really need an anti-material rifle? + Show Spoiler + There's a Ranger at camp Forlorn Hope in a tower you can kill, I just killed him in one shot with a normal sniper rifle and none of the other NCR there reacted at all. | ||
Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
On November 07 2010 02:33 Retgery wrote: Does anyknow know who to complete the quest given to you by the NCR chick at the Hoover dam to "deal" with the Bros o' steel + Show Spoiler + All brothood of steel bunkers have a self destruct mechanism. Easy way to gain entry is to reqruit Veronica and go to the hidden valley bunker for a free pass inn, hard way is to use the old password used by the brotherhood of steels dead scouting parties, earn their trust and then self destruct the bunker. Im unsure if you can get them to sign a treaty with the NCR, it might be possible, unlike with House who just wants them gone. | ||
Ympulse
United States287 Posts
You need to have kept the old BoS elder in command, done Veronica's quest, and completed all other BoS quests for the option to have the BoS ally with NCR. At least, that's what I ended up doing. On a side note, Bloody mess and the AMR make for happyfuntime when hunting NCR. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
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Liquoid
United Kingdom275 Posts
On November 07 2010 03:00 tofucake wrote: And Bloody Mess is actually good this time! Instead of just making exploding people, it gives you +5% damage, regardless of if they explode or not. If I recall correctly, Fallout 3 did have the Bloody Mess perk giving 5% damage too as well as Fallout: New Vegas. | ||
Kalpman
Sweden406 Posts
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Ympulse
United States287 Posts
On November 07 2010 08:09 Kalpman wrote: Can't believe why they are continuing with this franchise... Fallout is great and all but The Elder Scrolls series were just that much better, these guys need their priorities fixed You should do some research before trolling. It makes it more believable. =) | ||
KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
On November 06 2010 17:14 KezseN wrote: Hey TL, Ive got a couple of questions, hoping some1 can answer them in detail I'm currently trying to get the NCR combat armor, I've searched it up online and they said to get an anti materiel gun n snipe out an NCR at the camp delta. Problem is that i cant manage to find one. So theres really two solutions here: 1. Wait at the Gun runner shop until it pops up,, which could b a waste of time since its random 2. Buy one at the BOS from the hidden bunker area.. I tried to start solution 2 but i can't the dead bodies of the BOS in the Nellis Air force base,, anyone know where those bodies are? Do you really need an anti-material rifle? + Show Spoiler + I've read somewhere in the fallout forums that the AM rifle is one of the best uniquq weapons in the game,, plus the cover guy has one so it makes cool ^^ BTW which spot do u fire at in camp forlon? the very top tower? | ||
bakedace
United States672 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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bakedace
United States672 Posts
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Sarkasar
United States21 Posts
On November 07 2010 02:38 Madkipz wrote: + Show Spoiler + All brothood of steel bunkers have a self destruct mechanism. Easy way to gain entry is to reqruit Veronica and go to the hidden valley bunker for a free pass inn, hard way is to use the old password used by the brotherhood of steels dead scouting parties, earn their trust and then self destruct the bunker. Im unsure if you can get them to sign a treaty with the NCR, it might be possible, unlike with House who just wants them gone. You can get them to sign a treaty. You just need to do a few of their quests, and not usurp the current elder. His replacement will not side with the NCR, no matter your standing with the BoS. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
On November 08 2010 14:33 bakedace wrote: ive missed out on alot of RPGs it sucks. I played dragon age and have have been RPG crazy since.. The only other RPG I played was baldurs gate 2 so I got lucky and didnt miss the best one Dragon Age was absolutely amazing. Fallout really isn't very much like Dragon Age or BG but if you like it as you approach Vegas, you'll probably only like it more as time goes on. | ||
Uriel_SVK
Slovakia427 Posts
On November 09 2010 19:45 lynx.oblige wrote: Dragon Age was absolutely amazing. Fallout really isn't very much like Dragon Age or BG but if you like it as you approach Vegas, you'll probably only like it more as time goes on. Oh, crap. This post made me think about Dragon Age, and now I would like to play it again, maybe downlad some DLC... Sigh... There goes my laddering again... | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On November 09 2010 19:45 lynx.oblige wrote: Dragon Age was absolutely amazing. Fallout really isn't very much like Dragon Age or BG but if you like it as you approach Vegas, you'll probably only like it more as time goes on. Agreed, DA was amazing, expansion not so much (but i am biasad since a bug forced me to replay 5 hours of played time). Plenty of other great RPG's, if you aint into JRPG (japanese-style) the first i would reccomend is Mass Effect and Mass effect 2, both on the same level as DA and F:NV in my opinion, also developed by Bioware. Also The Witcher is a fairly recent amazing RPG, dark game. Loved it, but get the enhanced edition (can DL and upgrade for free if you get standard one). Bit older (but not as old and classic as Fallout and Baldurs Gate) RPG's that are still worth playing would be Morrowind, Oblivion, SW:KotoR 1/2. | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
House told me to go see him but, since they already hated me, I killed everyone but I can't enter his tent since 8 ppl crush me right as I enter it's a trap | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On November 09 2010 20:25 FaCE_1 wrote: Well.. I think i'm stuck with Ceasar now :\ House told me to go see him but, since they already hated me, I killed everyone but I can't enter his tent since 8 ppl crush me right as I enter it's a trap You need to clear that tent, leave and do some sidequests, level up, get your companions, get better gear and come back (drop diff if you just cant manage). If you are villified by the legion at this point the solution is killing spree, and that includes the tent. | ||
Phearlock
Norway400 Posts
On November 09 2010 20:25 FaCE_1 wrote: Well.. I think i'm stuck with Ceasar now :\ House told me to go see him but, since they already hated me, I killed everyone but I can't enter his tent since 8 ppl crush me right as I enter it's a trap Entering and exiting followed by a well placed + Show Spoiler + Archimedes II blast I didn't have much problem with them but then that was on normal/hardcore and decked out in power armor & stuff ^^ | ||
nitram
Canada5412 Posts
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On November 10 2010 05:14 nitram wrote: Alright so I decided to change the leader of the bos. Does this mean i'll never get to wear power armor? If so, the developers fucked up bad. Nah he gives a different final quest that will ultimately unlock power armor training and give you a suit of stock BoS power armor. You can also get better power armor and the training by completing Arcade's character quest. | ||
bakedace
United States672 Posts
On November 09 2010 19:54 Uriel_SVK wrote: Oh, crap. This post made me think about Dragon Age, and now I would like to play it again, maybe downlad some DLC... Sigh... There goes my laddering again... They are making a Baldurs Gate 2 mod for the dragon age engine. I really hope they finish it.. http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1836 | ||
Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
On November 10 2010 05:20 EchOne wrote: Nah he gives a different final quest that will ultimately unlock power armor training and give you a suit of stock BoS power armor. You can also get better power armor and the training by completing Arcade's character quest. Dont wear BoS power armor everywhere you go as most factions dislike them outright xD | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On November 10 2010 05:14 nitram wrote: Alright so I decided to change the leader of the bos. Does this mean i'll never get to wear power armor? If so, the developers fucked up bad. No, but there is a way to double-complete the BoS quest line which WILL prevent you from getting power armor (I did it on my first play through T.T). | ||
nitram
Canada5412 Posts
On November 10 2010 06:13 tofucake wrote: No, but there is a way to double-complete the BoS quest line which WILL prevent you from getting power armor (I did it on my first play through T.T). Right now none of them are talking to me | ||
ramen247
United States1256 Posts
besides exp what is the benefit? | ||
Ympulse
United States287 Posts
Also, the remnant's bunker requires some science skill. | ||
DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
Spoiler: + Show Spoiler + After you complete the quests for Hardin and he says he has enough to remove McNamara he asks you to come back after a few days. If you leave and come back and McNamara is still there and Hardin still says something similar you just need to give it more time, i think i waited 48 hours and still got the same thing before growing restless and doing some other quests. When i returned later Hardin was in charge and you can ask to join, he gives you a new quest to do, complete it and he teaches you to wear power armor. | ||
heishe
Germany2284 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + I wonder if the fifth guy who did not commit suicide will be part of a DLC | ||
Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
How crippling are the bugs in the game? I loved Fallout 3, but eventually had to abandon the game before I could finish it due to critical bugs causing my game to crash repeatedly and become completely unplayable. I'm not willing to play the Xbox version because the keyboard / mouse peripherals provide a much richer experience to me in these types of games, so for me it's PC or bust. Is F:NV wholly playable, in your experience? Or does it become unplayable at times due to bugs? | ||
Ympulse
United States287 Posts
On November 11 2010 05:24 Zato-1 wrote: A question to those of you who are playing / have played the PC version of this game: How crippling are the bugs in the game? It depends completely on your rig, wether or not you allow the game to update from steam, and if you use the GECK or mods. So far on my rig (which is close to top of the line) I haven't run into any lockups, graphical crashes, or anything like that. Of course, after a couple mods and toying with the GECK, I crashed once or twice, but that comes with the territory. All in all, stock on a decent rig, you should'nt experience any real issues. I loved Fallout 3, but eventually had to abandon the game before I could finish it due to critical bugs causing my game to crash repeatedly and become completely unplayable. There are a lot of fixes for FO3 on the Nexus, and a couple for FONV as well. I'm not willing to play the Xbox version because the keyboard / mouse peripherals provide a much richer experience to me in these types of games, so for me it's PC or bust. Is F:NV wholly playable, in your experience? Or does it become unplayable at times due to bugs? I agree that mouse/keyboard is a necessity for this type of game, as well as richer graphics. See above for points on the bugs and whatnot. | ||
nitram
Canada5412 Posts
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semantics
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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
On November 11 2010 07:44 semantics wrote: one bug i hate is when i pick up quest items but already done teh quest or did it a different way it gets stuck in my inventory and often they have weight. Console commands can delete items. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On November 10 2010 07:54 ramen247 wrote: is thre any point in hacking terminals? i just hacked one and all it does is let me disengage a lock? besides exp what is the benefit? Mostly experience. In some situations you can disable security bots or reset/deactivate defensive turrets. In other cases there are just bits of cool side-story info. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18773 Posts
On November 11 2010 05:24 Zato-1 wrote: A question to those of you who are playing / have played the PC version of this game: How crippling are the bugs in the game? I loved Fallout 3, but eventually had to abandon the game before I could finish it due to critical bugs causing my game to crash repeatedly and become completely unplayable. I'm not willing to play the Xbox version because the keyboard / mouse peripherals provide a much richer experience to me in these types of games, so for me it's PC or bust. Is F:NV wholly playable, in your experience? Or does it become unplayable at times due to bugs? If you have an ATI card, not at all. The only times I've crashed my game were when I was futzing with my console (2000000 hp = crash, btw). I did run into a problem with the BoS storyline, but the console can fix that. | ||
Blobskillz
Germany548 Posts
I think it's the armor you can buy from the BoS vendor got myself the 51b one and Boone got the 45 dunno if it was mentioned allready, but your buddies can wear any kind of armor doesnt matter if you are trained to use it ( powerarmor ) | ||
semantics
10040 Posts
yeah but i really shouldn't have to resort to that. | ||
SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On November 11 2010 07:36 nitram wrote: Im on windows 7 and haven't experienced any big bugs. Maybe some flying units and units clipping from time to time but nothing to really fuck the game up. On XP myselft but same here. Some GFX bugs, some weird stuff but nothing breaking the game or crashing it. Only resorted to console commands once and that was to remove a perk that sucked horribly and made me kill my dog constantly.... | ||
Angra
United States2652 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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LV_426
Poland432 Posts
even on very hard + hardcore i can beat this game wearing no armor [normal clothes] with right perks/skills. There are no real challenges except few spots like caves with legendary deadclaw or this unmarked locations with bunch of alpha/mother deadclaws, but still you can kill them with 1/2 shots in sneak mode with a.riffle or b.fist. Sneak is overpowered. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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DROPPINBOMBS
United States312 Posts
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Butcherski
Poland446 Posts
On November 11 2010 21:14 DROPPINBOMBS wrote: What is the general consensus on this game? I'm probaly picking this up or Medal of Honor, any ideas If I should get this over Medal Of Honor? Definitely New Vegas IMO. MOH's capaign is like 4 hours and the multiplayer is like any other generic shooter out there ,,, but NV with some mods is really enjoyable and has a shit load of content to explore I recommend to everyone this mod : http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6104 Also here's my char : + Show Spoiler + | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
On November 11 2010 21:51 Butcherski wrote: Definitely New Vegas IMO. MOH's capaign is like 4 hours and the multiplayer is like any other generic shooter out there ,,, but NV with some mods is really enjoyable and has a shit load of content to explore I recommend to everyone this mod : http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6104 Also here's my char : + Show Spoiler + is that a mod for desert rangers combat armor? haven't played MoH, but from the looks of it that MoH multiplayer with frostbite engine isn't gonna play that much different from Bad Company 2, with wacked out bullet hit registering i've already had enough of that... New Vegas though, i'm sure that you can easily squeeze out almost endless hours of entertaintment out of it easily if you're into RPG's, this ain't a generic FPS so comparing MoH to this isn't exactly quite make sense though lol.. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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DROPPINBOMBS
United States312 Posts
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Butcherski
Poland446 Posts
is that a mod for desert rangers combat armor? Its a chineese stealth suit mod or smth like that. It also gives you a Predator-like cloacking field while sneaking :D Just go to the site i linked and sort all the mods by rating. Anything near the top is worth downloading, just read the descriptions ... | ||
kuresuti
1393 Posts
On November 11 2010 22:17 DROPPINBOMBS wrote: Alright yeah, I'll deffinitly pick it up then, however my time is mostly devoted to staring out my window, waiting for that big brown truck that has my Black Ops on it. I completely agree with what everyone said, but MoH and this are very different games. Don't expect a fast paced FPS where you mow down enemies. It isn't THAT slow paced, but it is nowhere near MoH or CoD for example. | ||
Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On November 11 2010 20:35 Angra wrote: After going into Legion territory and having Boone say that he wasn't going to follow me, when I go back to pick up Boone again and have him follow me around again, he gets stuck in this endless loop of talking to me over and over, like as if I were to activate him to try to talk to him, only it happens over and over without me doing anything. Is there any way currently to fix this, with console commands or any kind of tricks to break him out of this? I've tried searching on google but haven't really been able to find any helpful results yet. From my earlier post: If your NPC disappears: prid <ref_id> -targets the NPC so you can use a targeted command on him. moveto player -moves the targeted NPC to you. If your NPC bugs out (I used this when E-DE became dysfunctional after his upgrade. He essentially froze and was unable to move or attack after entering combat.): disable -gets rid of the broken instance of that NPC. Target him with prid first. player.placeatme <base_id> -creates a new NPC at you. Try disabling him and respawning him until he works. | ||
ramen247
United States1256 Posts
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
And not all of what they have to offer seems to be just hot air. I accidentally became liked by the faction (I didn't fully realize that I'm improving my reputation with the NCR by doing Crimson Caravan jobs) and in my first fight with fiends outside of New Vegas, an NCR Ranger actually appeared and helped me, giving me a radio transmitter+receiver that I can use to call for help. He actually said: "You're not alone out here. The NCR got your back". I'm now completely unsure if I should side with the NCR or with the Yes Man. | ||
OutlaW-
Czech Republic5053 Posts
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CuttyFlam
Belgium523 Posts
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1903 Posts
I loved this quest because one of the things I disliked about Fallout 3 was that the radiation was never really a concern. | ||
OutlaW-
Czech Republic5053 Posts
On November 15 2010 02:42 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Oh man I am level 11 and I just did the "Hard Luck Blues" quest. That quest was finally a real challenge. I have a melee char and so far my best weapons are the lead pipe and sledgehammer so not really good ones and don't have all the good melee perks yet. I went in the Vault with lots of equipment and healthy. I got lost so many times in there =). Boone died in there quite early so I had to melee all the vault dwellers alone. When I finally got out of the vault I used like 20 stimpacks, 20 Rad-X and 15 Rad-Away. I had no Rad-Away left and got out with 890 RAD poisioning. Got some nice loot in there though. I loved this quest because one of the things I disliked about Fallout 3 was that the radiation was never really a concern. btw, go to the mountain on the top left side of the map, there is a quest with super mutants that tells u to go to a cave where theres the best melee weapon (improved super sledge) | ||
BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On November 15 2010 00:42 OutlaW- wrote: The radio add on isn't working, any ideas why? My fallout might be outdated as I downloaded it try zoning around abit. showed up on the 3rd try or something for me. | ||
REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1903 Posts
On November 15 2010 02:48 OutlaW- wrote: btw, go to the mountain on the top left side of the map, there is a quest with super mutants that tells u to go to a cave where theres the best melee weapon (improved super sledge) Thanks but I think the game will be to easy that way. I am not gonna look up item locations in a wiki or stuff, takes away the fun. I already got myself the pyromanic perk, I hope I can find Shishkebab soon :D | ||
zaMNal
Mongolia384 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
On November 15 2010 02:42 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Oh man I am level 11 and I just did the "Hard Luck Blues" quest. That quest was finally a real challenge. I have a melee char and so far my best weapons are the lead pipe and sledgehammer so not really good ones and don't have all the good melee perks yet. I went in the Vault with lots of equipment and healthy. I got lost so many times in there =). Boone died in there quite early so I had to melee all the vault dwellers alone. When I finally got out of the vault I used like 20 stimpacks, 20 Rad-X and 15 Rad-Away. I had no Rad-Away left and got out with 890 RAD poisioning. Got some nice loot in there though. I loved this quest because one of the things I disliked about Fallout 3 was that the radiation was never really a concern. THAT. FUCKING. QUEST. Goddamn that place was convoluted as hell and every second you wait you're getting fucking irradiated while you try to understand where the fuck you need to go. Wasted so many Rad-X and Radaways cause I didn't have a fucking Rad suit. I finally get to the armory and loot it and when I try to leave the cave there's like 10 Golden Geckos just chilling. I'm like alright, I'll just fight. They bite me and its like ok, use some stimpacks but the MOTHERFUCKERS GIVE YOU RADIATION. I'm at ~900 rads with no stealthboys, no rad aways no nothing. Took me like 3 hours to get out of that cave. Fucking vault. | ||
titaniumnuts
United States38 Posts
On November 09 2010 20:25 FaCE_1 wrote: Well.. I think i'm stuck with Ceasar now :\ House told me to go see him but, since they already hated me, I killed everyone but I can't enter his tent since 8 ppl crush me right as I enter it's a trap Did you take Boone with you? A messenger gives a pass, allowing you to not be attacked, but if you take Boone, you're still kill on site. If you take Veronica then you shouldn't be attacked. | ||
Hittegods
Stockholm4640 Posts
On November 15 2010 02:03 CuttyFlam wrote: Boone keeps employing his basic melee weapon (hatchet?) even if he is set to ranged attack.. somebody knows how to handle this? thx Tell him to use melee and then back to ranged and he'll re-equip his rifle. | ||
Drake
Germany6146 Posts
On November 16 2010 06:41 Hittegods wrote: Tell him to use melee and then back to ranged and he'll re-equip his rifle. i do this but i have to do this quite often any possibility he stop using his knife ? | ||
FaCE_1
Canada6117 Posts
* Getting Veronica while having another human companion: ps3ps3 xbox360xbox360 (PC unknown) Anytime after completion of her quest I Could Make You Care dismiss her. Pick up another companion, travel to the 188 Trading post where you first found her. The dialog option "What did you want to talk about earlier?" Should still be available. Select it and ask her Why doesn't she go back alone?, then tell her you think she should go alone. Afterwards you should be able to get Veronica and one other human companion, this can also be combined with a non-human companion so it is possible to have three in your party. ^ Doesn't always work. Sometimes she just says, "Whats up?". Doesn't work, even if you try different endings for her, or get companions whose endings you had already done. Anyone tried that ? I would love to have her + the medic | ||
Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
First DLC announced, titled "Dead Money" on 21st december this year! | ||
Jaw
United States274 Posts
Dead Money, will be available exclusively on Xbox 360 for 800 Microsoft Points. | ||
lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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ZaaaaaM
Netherlands1828 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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ZaaaaaM
Netherlands1828 Posts
On November 21 2010 23:42 lynx.oblige wrote: Not sure if it will fix it but XP is getting dated, ever considered upgrading to w7? Other specifications can affect your game play as well Yeah, you're right. But I can play all the other new games just fine (Black Ops, MoH and NFS). God i want this fixed, I love this game:D | ||
kuresuti
1393 Posts
We'll probably get it later. | ||
jalstar
United States8198 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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zaMNal
Mongolia384 Posts
On December 12 2010 22:03 SnK-Arcbound wrote: I have the 4 dt bioupgrade, 6 dt from perks, and a set of t-51b power armor on, and cazadors still kill me in about two hits (when I don't blow them up with a grenade launcher that is). And when they are far away, they move around like they're on crack, fucking impossible to snipe one. cazadors and deathclaws have piercing attacks which ignores all your dt. thats why they are the most dangerous foes in this game. | ||
Scaramanga
Australia8090 Posts
Recommendations? | ||
AT_Tack
Germany435 Posts
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KezseN
Singapore1450 Posts
Gun repair and science is good too. Get speech if you can cus it saves time. | ||
Billy_
461 Posts
Here is the New Vegas version of CONELRAD Could the guy who posted the wrong version be more careful in future please... I'm sure that I'm not the only person who is completely new to this modding thing. | ||
stalking.d00m
213 Posts
1- This game has very stupid dialogues/characters. In one quest you meet a 'man who is infused with a tree by some kind of radiation!!!!'. I mean seriously WTF. Not all of us are 8 year olds with spiderman obsession. They could have used the death of civilization to create a memorable and deep game experience but they went to cheap circus route. 2- They used the apocalypse as a excuse rather than an opportunity. There is almost nothing for kilometers no npc/ no structure except couple of non-interactive buildings. 3- No frigging transport. I mean there are helicopters being operated by a faction and rebels build a 'Giant Robot with Deadly Lasers' but you never get even a cycle. You can speed travel but you have to discover locations first. So you end up walking for 15 minutes over and over again without much to do or look for and this is aggravated by )...... 4- Lack of radio tracks. If you are making a game which is this much empty I mean rarely are you given a quest, terrain is empty and NPC are so damn scarce AND there is no transport then you must at least give something to listen to but all I got was repeated Loops of approx. 20 minute length. The govt. channel was even shorter. 5- Again stupidity in game made me sad how they think of gamers as idiots. You see a fight between 'Ant agonizer' an ant controlling dude (yeah he got his power by radiation) and some robot man or something like that. So they used this setting as a lousy excuse to make stupid characters. What a waste. | ||
Liquoid
United Kingdom275 Posts
On January 05 2011 21:22 stalking.d00m wrote: + Show Spoiler + I never understood why this Fallout 3/Vegas is said to be good by some guys. I played Fallout 3 to the end and was massively disappointed. Here are my reasons- 1- This game has very stupid dialogues/characters. In one quest you meet a 'man who is infused with a tree by some kind of radiation!!!!'. I mean seriously WTF. Not all of us are 8 year olds with spiderman obsession. They could have used the death of civilization to create a memorable and deep game experience but they went to cheap circus route. 2- They used the apocalypse as a excuse rather than an opportunity. There is almost nothing for kilometers no npc/ no structure except couple of non-interactive buildings. 3- No frigging transport. I mean there are helicopters being operated by a faction and rebels build a 'Giant Robot with Deadly Lasers' but you never get even a cycle. You can speed travel but you have to discover locations first. So you end up walking for 15 minutes over and over again without much to do or look for and this is aggravated by )...... 4- Lack of radio tracks. If you are making a game which is this much empty I mean rarely are you given a quest, terrain is empty and NPC are so damn scarce AND there is no transport then you must at least give something to listen to but all I got was repeated Loops of approx. 20 minute length. The govt. channel was even shorter. 5- Again stupidity in game made me sad how they think of gamers as idiots. You see a fight between 'Ant agonizer' an ant controlling dude (yeah he got his power by radiation) and some robot man or something like that. So they used this setting as a lousy excuse to make stupid characters. What a waste. I sincerely hope you are trolling On the off chance that you're not, here goes: 1) Ghoul with the tree (Harold with Bob) is a reference to the original Fallout / Fallout 2 storyline 2) Once again, the world as you see it in Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas is a tribute to how the original Fallout represented the game 3) There is fast travel. The "walking option" differs from TES IV: Oblivion (this game's engine predecessor) because the original Fallout didn't have transport. The Lone Wanderer, the first Fallout's protagonist wouldn't be called Wanderer. 4) There are community mods which bring tracks from Fallout 3 (The GNR), and custom music too. Hell, Oblivion (Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas predecessor) didn't have radio either, all it had was theme music. 5) The craziness of some people (e.g. Lily in Fallout: New Vegas, evil professor in Tranquility Lane) can only be explained by the specific quest designers, mind you. Yes, not only some NPC's are crazy, but some random encounters too. It's just the way it's been throughout the Fallout franchise. On January 05 2011 20:31 Billy_ wrote: + Show Spoiler + Why does this shit (CONELRAD crash on launch? I have followed the instructionx to the letter and it's not working. Tried it with the patch, tried it without the patch and it still broke the game. Been sending the data folder to C:Steamsteamappscommonfallout new vegas Have I misunderstood the instruction? I deleted the male old folder as I wwas asked. I'm playing it on Windows 7 as administrator if that helps. ========================================= Installation & Uninstallation Instructions ========================================= 1. Extract the DATA folder from the archive 2. Drop the DATA folder into your install folder (typically \Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3\) 3. Overwrite files When prompted 4. Delete folder: \Data\Sound\Voice\CONELRAD 640-1240.esp\MaleOld01 5. Enable "CONELRAD 640-1240.esp" plugin on the "Data Files" section of the Fallout 3 Launcher (or in your 3rd party launcher) You would be better off asking on the nexus forums, mate. | ||
Blobskillz
Germany548 Posts
On January 05 2011 17:44 Scaramanga wrote: energy weapons/meele/guns? Recommendations? take energy weapons and dont take the Funny Wasteland perk at the start of the game. then you go straight north from New Vegas and get yourself the special Gauss Rifle and then you just go easymode through the game | ||
stalking.d00m
213 Posts
On January 05 2011 22:06 Liquoid wrote: I sincerely hope you are trolling On the off chance that you're not, here goes: 1) Ghoul with the tree (Harold with Bob) is a reference to the original Fallout / Fallout 2 storyline 2) Once again, the world as you see it in Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas is a tribute to how the original Fallout represented the game 3) There is fast travel. The "walking option" differs from TES IV: Oblivion (this game's engine predecessor) because the original Fallout didn't have transport. The Lone Wanderer, the first Fallout's protagonist wouldn't be called Wanderer. 4) There are community mods which bring tracks from Fallout 3 (The GNR), and custom music too. Hell, Oblivion (Fallout 3 / Fallout: New Vegas predecessor) didn't have radio either, all it had was theme music. 5) The craziness of some people (e.g. Lily in Fallout: New Vegas, evil professor in Tranquility Lane) can only be explained by the specific quest designers, mind you. Yes, not only some NPC's are crazy, but some random encounters too. It's just the way it's been throughout the Fallout franchise. You would be better off asking on the nexus forums, mate. So anyone who doesn't think of Fallout 3 as a good game is a troll? If this thread was named something like 'Post your Fallout 3 praise here OR Why I like fallout 3' then criticism would be trolling but if a thread is about a new product and someone is posting his opinion about that product then you are 100% wrong in calling that guy a troll. Also, to your reply- 1- It doesn't make it right just because it is an 'reference'. Perhaps companies shall create talking mutant rats that can shoot blue lasers while shouting 'Kamihamihaaaaa!' and people would be like "Hey that's not stupid. That's an reference/tribute to DBZ" 2- Ditto. And nothing is changed. Its still an almost empty game with *very very small* number of quests. Just look at any other RPG, heck look at Oblivion. I loved that game and there was so much to do and hundreds and hundreds of quests, look at Two Worlds 2 and enormous number of quests it gives you. Now look back at shallowness that is Fallout 3/Vegas. But its OK since it an 'tribute' to old games. (Note : Sarcasm) 3- Please read my post. I mentioned 'Fast travel' in my post. Also, saying no vehicle/ride is excusable just because the hero is named 'Lone Wanderer' is .... well let me just ask you if I create a game with hero named 'Blind wanderer' and the game has nothing but a black screen will you defend me too? 4-Oblivion and most RPG's dont need radio as they have so much content. If they are forcing us to travel on foot on a blank-ish landscape then they should at least give us something to listen to. 5- Dude insanity is one thing while ant controlling villains, people that got merged with tree is just absurd. Finally, if you like this franchise so much then wouldn't you want it to become better, have more content, quests and have less expansions? | ||
Liquoid
United Kingdom275 Posts
Regarding having to explore a location before being able to fast travel to it: that's the way it was in Oblivion. Additionally, if you really feel bent over by the fast travel system, you could always use the console code for gaining the Explorer perk, or you could choose it at level 20. Regarding Harold and Bob (again), you have to have played the previous Fallout games to understand Harold's relationship with the tree. It's just way beyond any explanation, you'd have to experience it in-game to understand (imho). | ||
NukeTheStars
United States275 Posts
On January 05 2011 23:44 stalking.d00m wrote: 2- Ditto. And nothing is changed. Its still an almost empty game with *very very small* number of quests. Just look at any other RPG, heck look at Oblivion. I loved that game and there was so much to do and hundreds and hundreds of quests, look at Two Worlds 2 and enormous number of quests it gives you. Now look back at shallowness that is Fallout 3/Vegas. But its OK since it an 'tribute' to old games. Fallout is supposed to be mostly empty. That's why it works. About 20 minutes into the plot guiding you along, you're supposed to go "Screw this" and strike out on your own. After doing that, I easily spent 50 hours just exploring - stumbling upon weird situations and getting into wacky adventures wearing pajamas, a party hat and sunglasses. Post-apocalyptic explorers don't need a quest hidden behind every tree. | ||
Jstor
United States107 Posts
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stalking.d00m
213 Posts
On January 06 2011 01:30 Liquoid wrote: I thought you were trolling because you didn't recognize Harold, not because you didn't like the game. Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Regarding having to explore a location before being able to fast travel to it: that's the way it was in Oblivion. Additionally, if you really feel bent over by the fast travel system, you could always use the console code for gaining the Explorer perk, or you could choose it at level 20. Regarding Harold and Bob (again), you have to have played the previous Fallout games to understand Harold's relationship with the tree. It's just way beyond any explanation, you'd have to experience it in-game to understand (imho). Dude I played that game long ago and thus can't recall some names. I don't like to google for names when they are pretty irrelevant. Thx for urself clear. Yeah I know how fast travel works. My point was that the travelling part were must since you will have to go to locations at least once to spare yourself the agony. Cheating is not an option. I am not an cheater and I am proud of it. Its pretty clear you love this series and thus I suggest we leave it here. I have my opinion and you have your. HF. | ||
Cush
United States646 Posts
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
On January 06 2011 01:43 NukeTheStars wrote: Fallout is supposed to be mostly empty. That's why it works. About 20 minutes into the plot guiding you along, you're supposed to go "Screw this" and strike out on your own. After doing that, I easily spent 50 hours just exploring - stumbling upon weird situations and getting into wacky adventures wearing pajamas, a party hat and sunglasses. Post-apocalyptic explorers don't need a quest hidden behind every tree. While there is a lot to explore, there's so much that you can't even explore. When you leave the Vault in Fallout 3, and you see the Wasteland, you're like "WHOA! LOOK AT ALL THAT! I CAN EXPLORE ALL THAT STUFF!" Then you actually get close to the city, and you can't even go in most of the buildings and most of the streets have rubble in the way. My point is, that the stuff is amazing from a distance, but once you get close it's boring. Imagine how much better the game would be if you could go in like every building in the DC area and explore it. | ||
Sanski
United States57 Posts
New Vegas on the other hand is way better. Obsidian developed it (consisting of some of the original games' design team) and was successful in emulating the feel of the originals. | ||
Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
On January 09 2011 04:23 Sanski wrote: Fallout 3 sucks, period. Bethesda just made an Oblivion with guns mod. New Vegas on the other hand is way better. Obsidian developed it (consisting of some of the original games' design team) and was successful in emulating the feel of the originals. Is it still glitchy as hell? That's the only thing that's kept me from buying it so far. | ||
BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On January 09 2011 04:24 Ferrose wrote: Is it still glitchy as hell? That's the only thing that's kept me from buying it so far. heard aton was fixed. but i personally pretty much had no problem outside of two things: 1. access to NV bugged out so i had to kill a securtronthingy for keys 2. the starting sqeuenze of the silver bla weapon guys bugged out so i coluldnt do their quests. on minor,one annoying but not that big. rest worked fine (outside of some crashes with vats but most new released games do that these days) so def try it if youre interested in it. | ||
Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
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BlueBird.
United States3889 Posts
Any mod recommendations for first play through that add to the experience? Thanks guys.. btw I glanced at the nexus, saw a few that interest me, just probably gonna run that stuff on second play through. | ||
Sanski
United States57 Posts
On January 09 2011 04:44 BraveGhost wrote: I just got this game installed... I was a huge fan of Oblivion, but mostly for the mods. I only played vanilla Fallout 3. Do you guys recommend a vanilla play through on try 1, or are there some really \ good mods out yet(seems kind of like a young game for there to be anything in it like Francescos or OOM). Any mod recommendations for first play through that add to the experience? Thanks guys.. btw I glanced at the nexus, saw a few that interest me, just probably gonna run that stuff on second play through. if you're a fan of the original fallouts, new vegas vanilla is loads better than fallout 3 (with or without mods) in terms of capturing the atmosphere and vibes. At least for me, there were moments where i go like omg! this really feels like fallout, which i NEVER did in fallout 3 (even with the ridiculous harold reference). I I can't remember the name of the mods i used for vegas, but mostly they're for interface and graphical tweaks plus radio. I do recommend hardcore mode for your 2nd play through though. | ||
jcroisdale
United States1543 Posts
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Liquoid
United Kingdom275 Posts
On January 09 2011 13:12 jcroisdale wrote: Okay i love fallout franchise but was disappointed with New Vegas. Honestly the game would so much better if the communication with NPCs was fixed lots of them feel so much alike its like they hired two horrible voice actors for all the characters this really kills the game for me. You need to explore more, my friend. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fallout:_New_Vegas_voice_actors | ||
Sanski
United States57 Posts
On January 09 2011 13:12 jcroisdale wrote: Okay i love fallout franchise but was disappointed with New Vegas. Honestly the game would so much better if the communication with NPCs was fixed lots of them feel so much alike its like they hired two horrible voice actors for all the characters this really kills the game for me. Lol. I knew voice acting would suck coming in. I enjoyed it mainly because it brings back the nostalgia (at least some of it). Oh and also the fallout humor is spot on unlike in fallout 3 where it's cheesy and 'retarded'. | ||
Scaramanga
Australia8090 Posts
On January 05 2011 23:44 stalking.d00m wrote: So anyone who doesn't think of Fallout 3 as a good game is a troll? If this thread was named something like 'Post your Fallout 3 praise here OR Why I like fallout 3' then criticism would be trolling but if a thread is about a new product and someone is posting his opinion about that product then you are 100% wrong in calling that guy a troll. Also, to your reply- 1- It doesn't make it right just because it is an 'reference'. Perhaps companies shall create talking mutant rats that can shoot blue lasers while shouting 'Kamihamihaaaaa!' and people would be like "Hey that's not stupid. That's an reference/tribute to DBZ" 2- Ditto. And nothing is changed. Its still an almost empty game with *very very small* number of quests. Just look at any other RPG, heck look at Oblivion. I loved that game and there was so much to do and hundreds and hundreds of quests, look at Two Worlds 2 and enormous number of quests it gives you. Now look back at shallowness that is Fallout 3/Vegas. But its OK since it an 'tribute' to old games. (Note : Sarcasm) 3- Please read my post. I mentioned 'Fast travel' in my post. Also, saying no vehicle/ride is excusable just because the hero is named 'Lone Wanderer' is .... well let me just ask you if I create a game with hero named 'Blind wanderer' and the game has nothing but a black screen will you defend me too? 4-Oblivion and most RPG's dont need radio as they have so much content. If they are forcing us to travel on foot on a blank-ish landscape then they should at least give us something to listen to. 5- Dude insanity is one thing while ant controlling villains, people that got merged with tree is just absurd. Finally, if you like this franchise so much then wouldn't you want it to become better, have more content, quests and have less expansions? All i see from your posts is "hurr durr quests are stupid cause i think i could make better ones and i hate listening the radio" When you have complaints don't give them in essay form and repeated twice | ||
Scaramanga
Australia8090 Posts
any suggestions of what to do? | ||
Blobskillz
Germany548 Posts
On January 10 2011 21:14 Scaramanga wrote: Ah man i tried to find the ratslayer but alas the gun isnt where its suppost to be any suggestions of what to do? go to helios 1 send the energy to Archimedes 2 go to the kids that run around in the area north of the strip buy the weapon oneshot everything | ||
dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34868 It really improved my Fallout experience as the graphical enhancement that it brings is quite extraordinary. But I do emphasize the monster PC part. It kills FPS like popcorn and seem to favor Nividia cards that are using the new beta driver. For a little extra FPS boost, be sure to check out 3GB Fallout NV Enabler PLUS. It enables you to use more than 2gb for New Vegas. And most importantly, you can use New Vegas Script Extender unlike a certain other popular memory extender mod. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38644 As a fan of the Fallout Franchise, I must say that New Vegas is much much better than Fallout 3. Everything is way better connected, not just a junk yard of "cool shit" thrown together and inserted randomly. | ||
Obsidian
United States350 Posts
I recently just finished killing off a Legendary Deathclaw. That thing's scary, but fortunately a .50cal to the head a few times (as he tears apart my ED-E) works just fine. | ||
Liquoid
United Kingdom275 Posts
On January 11 2011 02:29 dukethegold wrote: Those with a beast of a PC, be sure to check the Enhanced Shaders Mod: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34868 It really improved my Fallout experience as the graphical enhancement that it brings is quite extraordinary. But I do emphasize the monster PC part. It kills FPS like popcorn and seem to favor Nividia cards that are using the new beta driver. For a little extra FPS boost, be sure to check out 3GB Fallout NV Enabler PLUS. It enables you to use more than 2gb for New Vegas. And most importantly, you can use New Vegas Script Extender unlike a certain other popular memory extender mod. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38644 As a fan of the Fallout Franchise, I must say that New Vegas is much much better than Fallout 3. Everything is way better connected, not just a junk yard of "cool shit" thrown together and inserted randomly. I'm getting a brand new i7 with a Sapphire HD6850, will be sure to check it out! | ||
zeidrichthorene
Canada83 Posts
I think that Fallout 3, however is more interesting for aimless wandering and exploring. New Vegas was actually a little disappointing in that respect, where once I finished the main quests and the side quests attached to them I had seen pretty much everything. The other points of interest were mainly empty and uninteresting. Especially on the river bank, there's a bunch of campsites and whatever that show up as map markers, but they don't hold anything more interesting than some tin cans, a SS star cap, and a skill mag. Not to mention, I found if you do go exploring in new vegas, you're reasonably likely to screw up a quest. I went and did vault 34 for instance before I knew about the quest related to it, and I got to the "special" activator before I recognized the signifigance of it, and was forced to make a choice as to what to do with it. New Vegas played a lot more like a normal game in that locations all had a well defined purpose. If effort was put into a place, it either had quests attached to it, or maybe a unique weapon in it. Fallout 3 played a lot more like TES 4 to me, where there were a lot of locations to explore, and not all of them had anything useful, in fact, most of them didn't. But then you ran across one seemingly innocuous place and it had something awesome in it. Nobody's going to send you there though. And a lot of the "awesome" things weren't even items, maybe just tidbits of story or implied story. Different styles. Both cool in my opinion. New Vegas was easier to get hooked into. Fallout 3 was harder to get sucked into but could keep my interest longer just putzing around. | ||
EchOne
United States2906 Posts
On January 11 2011 02:29 dukethegold wrote: Those with a beast of a PC, be sure to check the Enhanced Shaders Mod: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34868 It really improved my Fallout experience as the graphical enhancement that it brings is quite extraordinary. But I do emphasize the monster PC part. It kills FPS like popcorn and seem to favor Nividia cards that are using the new beta driver. For a little extra FPS boost, be sure to check out 3GB Fallout NV Enabler PLUS. It enables you to use more than 2gb for New Vegas. And most importantly, you can use New Vegas Script Extender unlike a certain other popular memory extender mod. http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38644 As a fan of the Fallout Franchise, I must say that New Vegas is much much better than Fallout 3. Everything is way better connected, not just a junk yard of "cool shit" thrown together and inserted randomly. I have to recommend these shaders as well. I used them for my playthrough some months back, and I don't know how good they are now, but when I used them they made the game look so much more amazing graphically. My machine is not monstrous, though, so the game didn't run as smoothly as it would without the shaders, but it was a fair price to pay to make the game gorgeous. | ||
SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
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SnK-Arcbound
United States4423 Posts
Honest Hearts takes you on an expedition to the unspoiled wilderness of Utah’s Zion National Park. Things go horribly wrong when your caravan is ambushed by a tribal raiding band. As you try to find a way back to the Mojave, you become embroiled in a war between tribes and a conflict between a New Canaanite missionary and the mysterious Burned Man. The decisions you make will determine the fate of Zion. It is set to release on May 17, 2011. I'm excited because I actually enjoyed Dead Money. Lots of details at http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Honest_Hearts | ||
KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On July 04 2011 04:28 Torte de Lini wrote: I've never played a single Fallout game ever. Should I play original Fallout or New Vegas? What kind of game should I be expecting? you should play New Vegas but Fallout 3 was not bad either. What you should expect is Oblivion with guns, a better storyline and better dialogue options | ||
Mr. Wiggles
Canada5894 Posts
On July 04 2011 04:28 Torte de Lini wrote: I've never played a single Fallout game ever. Should I play original Fallout or New Vegas? What kind of game should I be expecting? Well, The new Fallouts (3+New Vegas), play like a sort of RPG shooter, while Fallout 1+2 play as more traditional RPG's with turn-based combat. Besides that, I'm not intimate with the differences, as I have not played the first two yet and most of my knowledge comes from just reading. Also note, that the latter games (3+NV) were developed by Bethesda, while the first two were developed by Black Isle Studios. | ||
Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
I liked Oblivion, but not to the extent as everyone else. | ||
wzzit
United States201 Posts
I highly recommend playing through both Fallout 3 and NV. They're probably my two favorite RPGs ever. Anyway, has anyone played through the DLCs yet? I thought Dead Money was pretty good, but Honest Hearts was awful. Joshua Graham was a gigantic disappointment. | ||
brobrah
220 Posts
On July 04 2011 04:28 Torte de Lini wrote: I've never played a single Fallout game ever. Should I play original Fallout or New Vegas? What kind of game should I be expecting? Well the first two Fallout games are extremely different from Fallout 3/New Vegas. The first two are analogous to the old isometric RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. They were made years and years ago. Then Bethesda bought the rights to the Fallout IP and made Fallout 3 as a RPG/FPS hybrid thing. If you've ever played Oblivion you can expect much the same save for the setting/story. People like to say that Fallout 3/New Vegas are "Oblivion with guns" because they are so similar on the surface. Expect a lot of dialog, quests, running around, killing things, etc. It's a FPS but not as accurate or responsive as say a Call of Duty or a Battlefield. It's way more of a RPG than either of those. You can also build your character to do other things such as lockpicking, repairing, melee, etc. so it's not entirely about shooting things. If you've ever played games like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale or Planescape: Torment then I'd recommend the first 2 Fallout games to you before going to the new ones. If you've never even heard of those games, I say go right for Fallout 3/New Vegas. There are some references to the first 2 games in both Fo3 and NV but playing them isn't required to understand the story or anything. Fallout 3 has a game of the year edition out which includes 5 pieces of DLC. Little isolated story lines that last for a couple hours and reward you with some unique items, raise the level cap, add perks, and whatnot. I would get the GotY edition if you decide 3 is what you want. New Vegas' run of DLC is still in progress, having only 2 out so far with plans for at least 3 more. It would be safe to assume that they'll do 5 for NV then have a GotY edition for it as well. I would wait and get the GotY edition for NV if you would rather this over Fo3 or if you finish 3 before the GotY edition is out. You'd save some money if having that extra content interests you. That's what I plan on doing. Comparing the two newer games, I like NV better than 3. They're very similar but the main thing is that the writing is better in NV. There are still some really cool moments in Fo3 but if you could only have 1, get NV. As iNcontroL would say, I know I'm long-winded but I hope this was helpful. | ||
Qwann
United States28 Posts
Not looking to do advertising or anything just an opportunity for those that want it. | ||
myopia
United States2928 Posts
On July 04 2011 04:28 Torte de Lini wrote: I've never played a single Fallout game ever. Should I play original Fallout or New Vegas? What kind of game should I be expecting? 3 was fun in it's own way, but Fallout 2 blows it out of the water (haven't played NV). 2 takes some work to get into though, and it's an older game. If you don't have the patience then you won't appreciate F2 for what it really is. My recommendation would be to get the Fallout 3 GOTY edition for cheap during this steam summer sale, then if you like it, go for NV. If you want Fallout 2, get it from GOG.com. It's on sale for $3 until tomorrow. | ||
Fruscainte
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GoonFFS
Denmark323 Posts
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Taktik
Poland680 Posts
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Czarnodziej
Poland624 Posts
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Taktik
Poland680 Posts
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
Just the few i recommend are "A world of pain", "Mo mod", "Mission mojave" and Project nevada. Really adds some depth, difficulty and variety to the game, tons of new areas and content to explore while getting your ass handed to you. The HD packages etc also are a musthave, but thats a given! :D | ||
BlitzerSC
Italy8800 Posts
On August 20 2012 23:26 Capped wrote: this game gets no love compared to skyrim, doesnt anyone play it? It has some awesome mods. Just the few i recommend are "A world of pain", "Mo mod", "Mission mojave" and Project nevada. Really adds some depth, difficulty and variety to the game, tons of new areas and content to explore while getting your ass handed to you. The HD packages etc also are a musthave, but thats a given! :D I still play it and I started a new playthrough today with a SMG/Unscoped Rifle character. These are my mods: + Show Spoiler + I never really got into Skyrim for some reason, and I think that FNV F3 and Oblivion are just better. edit: Also I plan on starting a new game on Fallout 3, this time with mods =) | ||
TigerKarl
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kimchikim
Austria32 Posts
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Obstikal
616 Posts
Any recommended a site to do research on builds n sich ? I wanted to go for some sort of laser rifle/flamethrower build with heavy armor but the walking is killing me sometimes since i only but 4 into agility I have the " big iron on his hip" song stuck in my head and i think its pretty funny lol | ||
Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day... | ||
Monochromatic
United States986 Posts
On November 09 2012 11:25 Obstikal wrote: Are mods free? If so what should I get ?? I just got the game two days ago from newegg for 5$ with free shipping and put in about 6+hours. Im really enjoying the progression and im only level 5. I went for a laser sort of build. Been trying to do some research but I only got the game with no dlc's or mods so its hard to follow what other people are talking about. Any recommended a site to do research on builds n sich ? I wanted to go for some sort of laser rifle/flamethrower build with heavy armor but the walking is killing me sometimes since i only but 4 into agility I have the " big iron on his hip" song stuck in my head and i think its pretty funny lol Mods are 100% free. Get your mods here. You don't really need a build, but my favorite is the 1 charisma build. Basically get 1 point in Charisma (It only affects followers damage.) so you can increase your important stats. Some mild spoilers for better stats: + Show Spoiler + You get "Implants" at a clinic near New Vegas. Their is one for every SPECIAL stat, and two special ones: One provides slow health regen, the other increases your DR if I recall correctly. Be sure to get the perk that gives you an extra special point (Forget the name, extreme training or something) as your first perk. As your second (If you can, can't really remember the level.) get "Comprehension" I believe it is called. Get Educated as soon as you can too. If you have DLC (I only got Old world blues) then you get some extra stuff. Old World Blues adds in more traits, best one is "skilled" (+5 to all skills, -10% to xp growth) and the ability to craft one of each skill book. Lonesome road gives you another special point. I am probably forgetting a ton of things, but here is a list of which starting stats I believe are best: 6 Strength 4 Perception 6 Endurance 1 Charisma 9 intelligence 5 agility 5 luck This isn't what I choose though, but it should still be very good. Early the game you get a follower, Eddie, but spelled odd. His special perk is that you get 10 perception if he is following you. 9 Intelligence is because that is how you get skill points. You can get 10 if you buy the implant. Don't lower luck, or playing the slots at NV will be a nightmare. (Best way to get caps, hands down, and Implants are expensive, so this is the only reliable way to get that many quickly.) I probably forgot a ton of stuff, but oh well, hope that this helps you. | ||
Obstikal
616 Posts
On November 09 2012 11:33 Shady Sands wrote: I remember spending all of Thanksgiving 2010 building a melee-oriented Caesar's Legion character. Fun times, miss this game that sounds like sick fun lol... Im really loving this game and how it seems you can be what ever you want and still play the game.Im playing on hard and hardcore. Ive been looking for a game that keeps me wanting more after 2-3 hours and earlier this morning I put about 5 easily.I have a feeling ill be playing this a second time around which is rare for rpgs for me. What builds did everyone have the most fun? I wanted to do a sneaky/dagger type but was unsure of how hard it would be but im having lots of fun so thats what counts right ?Maybe i can save it for the 2nd time around and become a legion :D. I still havent even decided if I want to be good or bad but I have a feeling I'm going to need to make up my mind soon >.< Edit:It seems i have a lot of research to do for the mods, oh and I didnt get the training perk because I thought it would be better to get the 10+xp one as i thought it would pay off in the long run | ||
Shady Sands
United States4021 Posts
On November 09 2012 12:13 Obstikal wrote: that sounds like sick fun lol... Im really loving this game and how it seems you can be what ever you want and still play the game.Im playing on hard and hardcore. Ive been looking for a game that keeps me wanting more after 2-3 hours and earlier this morning I put about 5 easily.I have a feeling ill be playing this a second time around which is rare for rpgs for me. What builds did everyone have the most fun? I wanted to do a sneaky/dagger type but was unsure of how hard it would be but im having lots of fun so thats what counts right ?Maybe i can save it for the 2nd time around and become a legion :D. I still havent even decided if I want to be good or bad but I have a feeling I'm going to need to make up my mind soon >.< Edit:It seems i have a lot of research to do for the mods, oh and I didnt get the training perk because I thought it would be better to get the 10+xp one as i thought it would pay off in the long run The three other builds I really, really enjoyed were a) sniper -- maxed out guns, maxed out sneaking, the rest into repair; as much agility as I could; used jury-rigging + gobi rifle b) bomber/trapper -- maxed out explosives, maxed out sneaking; extensive use of setting traps and reverse pickpocketing live grenades/C4 into people c) energy weapons maniac -- no guns skill--all energy weapons, some science, some repair; overload perk, used loads of energy weapons like laser RCW, gatling laser, plasma caster to become a walking tower of DPS | ||
Pibacc
Canada545 Posts
On November 09 2012 11:33 Shady Sands wrote: I remember spending all of Thanksgiving 2010 building a melee-oriented Caesar's Legion character. Fun times, miss this game definitely doing that on my next play through. | ||
Obstikal
616 Posts
On November 09 2012 12:25 Shady Sands wrote: The three other builds I really, really enjoyed were a) sniper -- maxed out guns, maxed out sneaking, the rest into repair; as much agility as I could; used jury-rigging + gobi rifle b) bomber/trapper -- maxed out explosives, maxed out sneaking; extensive use of setting traps and reverse pickpocketing live grenades/C4 into people c) energy weapons maniac -- no guns skill--all energy weapons, some science, some repair; overload perk, used loads of energy weapons like laser RCW, gatling laser, plasma caster to become a walking tower of DPS LOL WHAT ? Planting live grenandes into people ? MADNESS! would have never thought! | ||
tokicheese
Canada739 Posts
I did enjoy Fo3 much more than NV though. The atmosphere in that game still gives me chills. I love how every single location on the map had a little story. Dunswich building had that creepy side story with Pointlook out and the cursed book for example. Walking through the DC ruins is incredibly creepy fighting wave after wave of super mutants around the capital building. Three Dog also had much more personality than Mr. New Vegas.It felt way more organic too you would find many small settlements with distinct personalities. Megaton vs. the Republic of Dave vs. Bigtown/Lamplight it felt like every new city had some crazy background and some secrets it was hiding. NV had so many useless marks on the map like one quarry without the Death Claws I was looking for a building to enter or anything that would make it more than just useless filler but thats all it was. It was also to "post apocalypse" for my tastes. Walking into the Strip for the first time was like HOLY SHITTTTTT but after that it was just cheesy the level of desperation you could almost taste in the Capital Wasteland was gone. The settlements were too sturdy and safe for my liking. One thing I wonder about the next games is what they will do about society rebuilding. Eventually it would just be a standard dystopia once they rebuild enough and at that point it really isn't a Fallout game any more. | ||
CaM27
Belgium392 Posts
I've been late in playing this game. Just started it up, the atmosphere is awesome. Few questions comes in mind tough. I've installed latest patch. Is it possible to run in this game? I realize you can use capslock to walk and to run but it seems really slow the 'running'.. Are there some MODS that are really necessary for improving gameplay/graphics, the overall experience? Thanks ! | ||
Oghren .
Germany33 Posts
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Beavo
Canada293 Posts
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
On December 30 2014 06:14 Beavo wrote: Just bought this again on the steam X mas sale. I beat it about 3-4 x when it first came out and haven't touched it since. I remember very little about it, just did the primm part, the nostalgia of this game is awesome. I always keep this game installed and modded on my PC for when i feel like playing :D Such a great game. Unfortunately for me i feel the compulsive need to mod my games to a ridiculously high difficulty and end up getting stuck for days before dropping it again haha. In my latest run i made it to Novac i think before getting rekt by super ghouls at that powerplant, still intend to go back and beat it | ||
Aceace
Turkey1305 Posts
http://fallout.bethsoft.com/ http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda 8 hours left. Hype is real! | ||
LtCalley
United States244 Posts
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malcram
2752 Posts
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bosshdt
Afghanistan98 Posts
On June 03 2015 14:16 Aceace wrote: Guys... I know this topic is about New Vegas but... We're gonna get Fallout 4 soon.. I think we should open a new topic for new game. http://fallout.bethsoft.com/ http://www.twitch.tv/bethesda 8 hours left. Hype is real! Yes fallout 4 topic plz | ||
JazVM
Germany1196 Posts
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