Review Edward R Murrow's Dissertation on Fallout 3

[denizsi]

Can we stop having two threads for news posts; one content feedback and one news feedback?

 

[Volourn]

No. This is the Codex way!

 

[raving nincompoop]

No. This is the Codex way!

Also -

It's quite a complex situation which probably deserves more discussion.

R00fles!

 

[Mister Arkham]

Check that Chuck Norris vid - oh god I want to play this game so badly.

It's rather sad how much more fun the game looks when you play it as Internet Superman.

Nevertheless, I wish to do so now.

 

[bozia2012]

Great review BTW.

 

[Chefe]

What? Do you mean the difference between 75 AP at the "average" Ag of 5 and 85 AP at 10 Ag seems very significant?

No, I meant that while posting that my reading comprehension went out the window.

I feel the problem with stats, especially Strength and Agility, should be pretty obvious based on the formulas. Instead of an important value like AP being determined to a large degree by a stat, it's primarily based on a static value. In Fallout, you could almost double your AP by maximizing Agility. Strength had an even greater impact on carrying capacity. In FO3, these dynamic elements are dwarfed by a large buffer.

What's the context? At max strength that's an additional 100 points of carrying capacity, which does seem like a lot, even if the base is 150.

He probably didn't think an explanation was necessary. I didn't feel like I needed one. He did point out that you can max several skills relatively fast, so that implies that any skill up you recieve at the beginning would not be very significant.

I'm just saying a brief description of how the skill ups worked would have been beneficial.

 

[Claw]

What's the context? At max strength that's an additional 100 points of carrying capacity, which does seem like a lot, even if the base is 150.

Yeah, you can carry quite a bit more at maximum strength than at minimum strength, but at the same time, having minimal strength isn't really terribly limiting. In Fallout 3, the minimal carrying capcacity is higher than the average one in Fallout!

 

[Hazelnut]

What's the context? At max strength that's an additional 100 points of carrying capacity, which does seem like a lot, even if the base is 150.

Yeah, you can carry quite a bit more at maximum strength than at minimum strength, but at the same time, having minimal strength isn't really terribly limiting. In Fallout 3, the minimal carrying capcacity is higher than the average one in Fallout!

Also you can't use guns without having the minimum strength, yet Fallout 3 allows weaklings to stand there firing a minigun from the hip. (correct me if I'm wrong)

 

[Ausir]

Also you can't use guns without having the minimum strength, yet Fallout 3 allows weaklings to stand there firing a minigun from the hip. (correct me if I'm wrong)

You're not.

 

[Dahoon]

I just stumbled on the site (yay!) and i must say that this review give me hopes that there's still people giving honest reviews. Too bad i didn't trust my gut feeling about the game or found this review before i got the game...

 

[wex]

I had to check the wikia to find out what the mysterious reward for the "You Gotta Shoot Em In The Head" quest is, and half of the page is the buglist! How did they manage to implement so many bugs in one bloody quest!? I assume that's the proverbial "thing Bethesda does best"...