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Watch me play a shitty game (Fallout 3) (COMPLETED!!)
- Thread starter DriacKin
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[Intelligence] You can use Wordpress for imagines.
Junior Boy
Educated
dolio said:
Nah dude it isn't like that. That raider is really a good raider and was an outcast in her raider homeland for being a good raider. Maybe you haven't read the series of novels associated with her, but it's all very rebellious and bold.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Raider with a bat attacking the guy with an assault rifle...
Everyone in this world just begs you to kill them, Driackin, because they can't live like that anymore.
DO IT
Everyone in this world just begs you to kill them, Driackin, because they can't live like that anymore.
DO IT
Brother None
inXile Entertainment
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Methinks it's a good thing they didn't artificially lock off Daddy-Vault. The only big problem is that if you stumble upon it by accident, the game still pretends as if you followed the entire DC-route, not changing any dialogue lines or adding extra explanations for the confused player.
Frau Bishop
Erudite
It's good to know it's safe. Always thought it makes me a bit dumber with every hit.
But seems to be ok. Thanks for this thread.
Marijuana’s Impact On Brain Function “Minimal,” New Study Says
But seems to be ok. Thanks for this thread.
Marijuana’s Impact On Brain Function “Minimal,” New Study Says
poocolator
Erudite
Someone should make a mod that gives NPCs VATS or at least simulates it. That would make for some serious lulz.
catfood
AGAIN
I have been reading both this and the Mass Effect LP and while I haven't played any of the games, I got the impresion Fuckout 3 makes Ass Effect look good by comparison.
Micmu
Magister
You're not the only onecatfood said:
catfood said:
Mass Effect has better dialogue. Other than that, they are about the same.
Brother None
inXile Entertainment
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I never finished ME, as it bored me out before I could. I did finish Fallout 3.
While I'd say ME is definitely better written, and a bit tighter in design, it is significantly more boring than Fallout 3. At least Fallout 3 kind of promises fun times, even if it never delivers all that well. ME doesn't even do that.
While I'd say ME is definitely better written, and a bit tighter in design, it is significantly more boring than Fallout 3. At least Fallout 3 kind of promises fun times, even if it never delivers all that well. ME doesn't even do that.
Yeah. Also, Fallout 3 has better gameplay than Mass Effect. Seriously, I'd rather do some inane quests, explore silly places (with some really athmospheric locations occasionally) and collect loot than to sit through one cutscene after the other.
DriacKin
Arbiter
Part 11 – Titanic
This, imo, was one of the most boring sections of the game. But, nonetheless, let’s play it and get it over with.
At the end of the previous episode, Three Dog told us that our daddy was in Rivet City.
While we’re travelling to Rivet City, we find a bunch of ruined cars:
In the city, there are a lot of ruined cars, like this one.
Back in the war 200 years ago, lots of nukes were dropped and all the cars exploded.
Explosions are cool!!
We decide to fire off a few rounds at the destroyed vehicle.
Despite the fact that this car already exploded centuries ago, it goes up in flames after just 5 rounds from our assault rifle.
How exactly does this make sense? I mean, the car already exploded 200 years ago.
Who cares? Explosions are fun!!
But, why is this thing on fire? What’s burning? Shouldn’t all the fuel have burnt out decades ago?
A few seconds later, the car’s nuclear engine (which already exploded 200 years ago) explodes again.
EXPLOSION!! :D
...
Anyway, we keep travelling and finally reach Rivet City:
This is an old beached aircraft carrier that got turned into a city.
We use this bridge to enter Rivet City.
Yay!! Another city!!
Unfortunately, there’s no side quest to kill all the folks who live in Rivet City (like there were in the previous two towns).
Here’s Rivet City’s market district. There’s a bunch of merchants here.
Meet Flak. He sells ammunition and firearms.
And this chick is a drug dealer.
Meet Angela. She owns a restaurant. Apparently, there’s also some stupid side quest involving her and some dude she has a crush on.
WTF is this? When the hell did Fallout 3 turn into a soap opera?
I agree. This shit is boring. Let’s ignore her.
Unfortunately, most of the other NPCs around here are just as dull and boring...
This is Paulie. He’s a druggie. If you give him some drugs, you’ll lose some karma.
Meet Mr. Lopez. He’s really emo and suicidal.
These people suck.
I agree. Let’s just find Dr. Li. Apparently, Daddy Neeson came to Rivet City to find her.
Dr. Li is a doctor. Therefore, we head over to the Science Lab to find her.
This is the town’s Laboratory.
In the science lab, we find another <s>moronic</s> awesome bobblehead!
:sigh:
Anyway, we find one of the scientists and ask her if she’s seen our dad.
Hey, you didn't happen to have seen any middle-aged men around here, did you?
FACT: Anna is a bitch.
Doctor Li is the head scientist around here, right? Maybe we’ll finally get to meet an intelligent person...
Everyone else we’ve met is fucking inane. I agree. Being better than all these people isn’t saying much.
So, does Dr. Li live up to her amazing reputation? Let’s find out:
You talking about daddy?
You knew mommy?
Your mother was, well she was a good woman; a very dedicated scientist. Your father loved her very much.
She died from complications at childbirth. None of us were expecting it; we weren’t as prepared as we could have been.
What the hell kind of a dialogue option is that? I mean, who the hell would actually say that in real life?
Whatever. Mommy probably would’ve been a stupid bitch anyway.
Dude, you’re fucked up. You know that?
FACT: Regardless of which dialogue option we picked above, she gives us just about the same response.
So, what were you guys working on before mommy died?
It was called Project Purity.
We stopped working on it after your mother died and your father left.
So... my birth single-handedly destroyed Project Purity and likely caused thousands of people to suffer by continuing to drink irradiated water? :twisted:
So, where’s Daddy Neeson right now? Can we talk to him?
Ugh... this is gonna mean doing yet another contrived mission to find him, right?
Your father was here not long ago. He insisted that we return to work on Project Purity. I tried telling him too much time has passed; there’s no way it would work.
Why do I get the feeling that once we head over to his old lab, he probably won’t be there either?
Anyway, where’s your old lab?
Obviously, Fallout 3 doesn’t give us any option but to follow our dad’s footsteps and continue looking for him.
Whatever. Let’s just head over to their old lab. This place is boring.
This is the old Jefferson Memorial Building. It’s fairly close to Rivet City.
Inside, we find some old lab equipment. Presumably, daddy was performing some research here recently.
The place is also infested with Super Mutants.
Wasn’t Daddy Neeson here just recently? What did he do about all the super mutants? How the fuck was he able to do research with all these Super Mutants running around?
I don’t know? Maybe, they killed him?
We search the building some more, until we find:
Conveniently, Daddy Neeson left a bunch of tapes that document work he’s done since coming here.
Apparently, the Super Mutants ignored him for long enough to make these tapes...
Let’s just listen to the tapes.
The tapes are entirely audio, so I don’t have any screenshots. Here’s the general gist of the audio on the tapes:
One night, after I broke into the Overseer’s office, I hacked his console and gained access to his restricted files. There was one name that stood out, Dr. Stanislaus Braun. He was Vault-Tec’s leading scientist.
It was there that I learned of his involvement in Vault-Tec’s Societal Preservation Program and his work on something there called GECK, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
It was nothing short of a miracle: it was a terra-forming module, capable of creating life from complete lifelessness.
According to the files, the GECK was actually distributed to several of the vaults to be used after the war. V101 was sadly not one of these vaults.
Dr. Braun lived in Vault 112 during the war. He could have easily completed his research while he was there. I’m off to V112 to search for any of Braun’s research.
End of tapes.
Dude, this search for Daddy is getting really tedious.
I agree.
Nonetheless, we head to Vault 112 next update!!!
End of Part 11
I apologize for the lower quality of this update, but this section of the game was really boring. I’m glad it’s over.
This, imo, was one of the most boring sections of the game. But, nonetheless, let’s play it and get it over with.
At the end of the previous episode, Three Dog told us that our daddy was in Rivet City.
While we’re travelling to Rivet City, we find a bunch of ruined cars:
In the city, there are a lot of ruined cars, like this one.
We decide to fire off a few rounds at the destroyed vehicle.
Despite the fact that this car already exploded centuries ago, it goes up in flames after just 5 rounds from our assault rifle.
A few seconds later, the car’s nuclear engine (which already exploded 200 years ago) explodes again.
Anyway, we keep travelling and finally reach Rivet City:
This is an old beached aircraft carrier that got turned into a city.
We use this bridge to enter Rivet City.
Here’s Rivet City’s market district. There’s a bunch of merchants here.
Meet Flak. He sells ammunition and firearms.
And this chick is a drug dealer.
Meet Angela. She owns a restaurant. Apparently, there’s also some stupid side quest involving her and some dude she has a crush on.
This is Paulie. He’s a druggie. If you give him some drugs, you’ll lose some karma.
Meet Mr. Lopez. He’s really emo and suicidal.
Dr. Li is a doctor. Therefore, we head over to the Science Lab to find her.
This is the town’s Laboratory.
In the science lab, we find another <s>moronic</s> awesome bobblehead!
Anyway, we find one of the scientists and ask her if she’s seen our dad.
FACT: Anna is a bitch.
So, does Dr. Li live up to her amazing reputation? Let’s find out:
FACT: Regardless of which dialogue option we picked above, she gives us just about the same response.
Obviously, Fallout 3 doesn’t give us any option but to follow our dad’s footsteps and continue looking for him.
This is the old Jefferson Memorial Building. It’s fairly close to Rivet City.
Inside, we find some old lab equipment. Presumably, daddy was performing some research here recently.
The place is also infested with Super Mutants.
We search the building some more, until we find:
Conveniently, Daddy Neeson left a bunch of tapes that document work he’s done since coming here.
The tapes are entirely audio, so I don’t have any screenshots. Here’s the general gist of the audio on the tapes:
End of tapes.
Nonetheless, we head to Vault 112 next update!!!
End of Part 11
I apologize for the lower quality of this update, but this section of the game was really boring. I’m glad it’s over.
poocolator
Erudite
Why don't altruists just provide free Butler Robots to hand out clean water? It's not like there's a shortage of it...
I guess I'll go completely against the grain here and say I enjoyed, and still enjoy, this game. The OP has managed to draw out every single stupid aspect of it very well, and indeed, it is very stupid on occasion, but in terms of athmosphere and giving you a feeling of having to survive in a tough environment, it really does succeed. Crank the difficulty level up to hard, keep your repair skill low so that you will have to pay a considerable amount of money for fixing your gear and you're in for a challenge. At least that's how I've experienced it so far. I'm currently at level 11 and still enjoying the experience. Just wandering through the wasteland discovering new locations is fun, and I think Bethesda has done a wonderful job at creating variety in terms of encounters, locations and scenery. And also, getting rid of level scaling was the single best choice they made. FO3 is actually sometimes like Morrowind, where you can really find yourself knee deep in shit if you go to the wrong place before you're strong enough. I still remember my first encounter with a deathclaw at level 7. Good times.
And regarding the silliness, it's really nothing I can't cope with. Some games aren't meant to be analysed at a deep level. I'm actually kind of astounded that some people here will bitch and moan about every little inconsistancy instead of just enjoying the many good parts of this game.
And regarding the silliness, it's really nothing I can't cope with. Some games aren't meant to be analysed at a deep level. I'm actually kind of astounded that some people here will bitch and moan about every little inconsistancy instead of just enjoying the many good parts of this game.
The Wizard
Educated
killing a supermutant with a hunting rifle while still being on level 5. truly a struggle for survival.
that was on "very hard", by the way.
that was on "very hard", by the way.
?
I've never, ever been able to do that. I can take on maybe 2 mutants at a time on Hard, at level 11, with considerably better weapons. On level 5 I died. I guess you got more F3 skillz than I do, or maybe you're just exaggerating in order to join in on the bashing.
Super Mutants aren't that hard. Deathclaws on the other hand could kill me easily at low level. First encounter with a Yuan-Ti was horrible.
I also admit to having enjoyed and still occasionally enjoying the game, but some quests are seriously facepalm-inducing. Recently I found some city where there are one supervillain and one superhero fighting each other. LOLWAT. It's so extremely unfitting in a postapoc setting, it must've been written by a 12-year-old.
I also admit to having enjoyed and still occasionally enjoying the game, but some quests are seriously facepalm-inducing. Recently I found some city where there are one supervillain and one superhero fighting each other. LOLWAT. It's so extremely unfitting in a postapoc setting, it must've been written by a 12-year-old.
JarlFrank said:
Yup. It's utterly stupid and unfitting, and most of the other quests are too. But they can be taken with a grain of salt and enjoyed anyway, at least from where I stand. Setting and consistency will always take a backseat to actual fun, which is why I just can't bother getting riled up anymore about FO2/3 anymore, even if they (especially 3) are pretty dumb.
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