Fallout 3 - Codex Opinions Thread

[Nicolai]

Where did you find that kick-ass revolver? I need one of those.

 

[Melcar]

He's dead, but he's still standing there.

That's a weird and silly pose to have. And, is that his head? ZOMBIES!!!!

 

[elander_]

Wtf that's the most stupid thing in the world to put a riffle scope in a magnum pistol. I can't even imagine myself getting that scope close to my face and be able to fire the gun properly.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

You can blow every single fucking limb off of your enemies if you want to. I predict that I'm going to see millions of heads explode before the game is over.

I just reached Rivet City where Liam Neesons assistant tells me my dad was here but I just missed him. She asks me not to follow my dad. Boom, dialogue option: Where did he go? Oh, my old lab downtown. Thanks, I'll make sure to not go there.

Jesus crotchgrabbing Christ, if I knew this was what we were getting, I would have been happy with "rumors" and "dad."

 

[corky842]

Where did you find that kick-ass revolver? I need one of those.

It's a "Scoped .44 Magnum" and I can't remember where I found it.
edit: Billy Creel (the child molester or something?) has one.

 

[MetalCraze]

Emil Pagriarulo is the most talented writer you will ever find, bitch.

 

[uhjghvt]

bethesda's writers are complete morons

you have to actually be smart to write dialog that sounds like someone smart is saying it, when you rewrite a sentence with a thesaurus it just comes out sounding like awkward nonsense. too bad they couldn't find someone smart to write this for them!

SECRET BETHESDA DIALOG WRITING TIP: if you can't think of anything insightful to write for an [Intelligence] line, just make the other choices dumber instead

yeah ok

 

[uhjghvt]

this document does not exist, the US never declared war on germany, it was germany that declared war on the US and the US never reciprocated (and didn't need to)

lrn2history, shitheads

 

[MetalCraze]

As much as I don't like to do it - I have to give a credit for Bethesda for perfectly knowing how dumb their fanbase is. What is even more ironic - bethtards won't even notice that Beth just called them dumb straight in their face.

 

[Nicolai]

Where did you find that kick-ass revolver? I need one of those.

It's a "Scoped .44 Magnum" and I can't remember where I found it.
edit: Billy Creel (the child molester or something?) has one.

Ah, OK. The name Billy Creel sounds familiar.. I'll keep an eye out for him.

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Anyone know where to find a motorcycle handbrake? It's the last part I need for my burning sword.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

You can find one outside the Springdale school. Hint: look for a motorcycle.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

How good is Fallout 3 from a 'I just wanna fuck around in a post-apoc setting' kind of way?

 

[Mister Arkham]

How good is Fallout 3 from a 'I just wanna fuck around in a post-apoc setting' kind of way?

Not bad if you've got a machine to run it. The world is seriously overcrowded though. It makes STALKER look like a ghost town.

 

[DiverNB]

How good is Fallout 3 from a 'I just wanna fuck around in a post-apoc setting' kind of way?

Not bad if you've got a machine to run it. The world is seriously overcrowded though. It makes STALKER look like a ghost town.

Well, to be honest, I'm glad they filled it with something because walking around with just the environments would have been much worse. There's not a whole lot to look at / explore. Almost 70% of the buildings are boarded up.

Aside from that though, there are quite a few locations in the game, and the play area is rather large itself. So some positives and some negatives.

 

[Suchy]

You can add original Fallout music to data\music folder (and remove the shitty orchestral combat tracks). Gets kind of... better.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Holy shit, you can replace the music? Well, now I know what I'll do as soon as possible...

 

[poocolator]

Fallout 3 is a giant penis raping me in the ass: I kinda like it, but I know it ain't right.

For example, Bethesda got the environment down well (aside from how tiny the "world map" is) but dialogue sucks. I have a feeling they basically turned their oblivion-style, one-word dialogue options into dimwit sentences, and threw in an extra few dialogue options of no consequence: In Rivet city, for one, once the player discovers that so-and-so has a drug addiction, speaking to other NPCs shows a new dialogue option:
"Hey, did you know so-and-so is addicted to someshit?"
to which the NPC responds, "blah blah blah too bad, such a nice guy," and any further development ends right there. Like wtf? Space-filler much? This sort of shit makes me feel as if Bethesda added it as an afterthought and at the last minute.

And whoever said you could beat the game without killing anything but a radroach must have been on some grade-A quality crack, because, unless you enjoy painstakingly bypassing every. single. lump of raider-infested ruin, you'll end up giving up. Hell, you could even have bypassed all of the enemies in Duke Nukem 3D with only killing the final bosses, but the game wasn't meant to be played that way.

 

[HanoverF]

Isn't there a segment where you've gotta grab the fatman and nuke the behemouth, or does he eventually die from the brotherhood guys or get bored and leave?

 

[Andyman Messiah]

I killed him with my assault rifle, ducking and covering. Thank god for unkillable npcs with infinite energy ammo. I didn't even know about the nuke, because only after I had killed him did I get the quest to pick it up. Of course, that's how you were supposed to handle the situation in the first place... I NEED MY QUEST COMPASS TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO AT ALL TIMES!! :wink:

edit: btw, I'm now really super awesomely nice so random people come up to me and give me stuff for free.

 

[Hamster]

How good is Fallout 3 from a 'I just wanna fuck around in a post-apoc setting' kind of way?

I just played through Vault 101. I don't remember laughing so hard at any other game.
You can shoot people's heads off with small pistol, looks absolutely hillarious. Interaction with NPC is also very fun, with lots of illogical and retarded dialogue options.
It's a huge improvement over boredom that was Oblivion's opening.
If entire game is like that it might be pretty entertaining in "so bad it's good" way.
Still sucks as RPG though, but we knew this all the time.

 

[darthdarther]

How good is Fallout 3 from a 'I just wanna fuck around in a post-apoc setting' kind of way?

I just played through Vault 101. I don't remember laughing so hard at any other game.
You can shoot people's heads off with small pistol, looks absolutely hillarious. Interaction with NPC is also very fun, with lots of illogical and retarded dialogue options.
It's a huge improvement over boredom that was Oblivion's opening.
If entire game is like that it might be pretty entertaining in "so bad it's good" way.
Still sucks as RPG though, but we knew this all the time.

You could blow people's midsections out in the previous Fallouts with pistols, too, if I recall correctly.

 

[Rosh]

You could blow people's midsections out in the previous Fallouts with pistols, too, if I recall correctly.

Except in Sellout 3, it seems that the Bloody Mess perk is always on, because to do so otherwise normally in Fallout 1/2 you needed a "pistol" like a sawed off .223 rifle.

 

[darthdarther]

You could blow people's midsections out in the previous Fallouts with pistols, too, if I recall correctly.

Except in Sellout 3, it seems that the Bloody Mess perk is always on, because to do so otherwise normally in Fallout 1/2 you needed a "pistol" like a sawed off .223 rifle.

I used no other pistol but the magnum because it was so badassed, especially with Magnus' Weapons Redone mod, and got gory kills half the time.

 

[Slobbergoat]

As far as I can tell, as long as a bullet weapon can cause a critical it can cause bodily explosions; even the BB gun (Red Ryder LE and normal) can cause the "half my torso fell off" death animation.

 

[SuicideBunny]

dear gods of the abyss, i just found the ufo crash encounter. wtf were they thinking?