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Watch me play a shitty game (Fallout 3) (COMPLETED!!)

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Play fallout 1. Seriously.
 

FeelTheRads

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Just drop your standards and all you believe in and enjoy the new shit. It's what the cool kids do, everybody must do it.
 

Vibalist

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FeelTheRads said:
Just drop your standards and all you believe in and enjoy the new shit. It's what the cool kids do, everybody must do it.

Do whatever the hell you feel like. If I can sit down with a game and enjoy it it's good enough for me.
 

Brother None

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:( if you're skipping the android quest, Dria. Shitty in idea, not too bad in design.

And yes, Rivet City's inhabitants...they're a bit stupid. The town location, concept and design are solid, but what do you spend your time on? Convincing some old guy not to commit suicide. Getting two kids to get married (essentially by helping the woman rape the man and guilttrip him into marriage, but that's neither here nor there). Seriously, Bethesda, seriously?

john said:
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.

[Intelligence] Ah, so if I artificially cripple myself it's a challenge.

Look, I want a game to provide fun gameplay by itself. The challenge is certainly something Fallout 3 lacks, the fact that I could take out 2 supermutants with a broken-ass laser pistols at level 3 (on normal difficulty) says it all...

It's great fun that you can artificially crank up the challenge. Heck, I could also LARP that I'm living in Megaton and no doubt have grand times decorating my house, wearing appropriate clothing, going through daily rituals, y'know, the Sims bullshit. Only what I'd be doing is completely divorced from whether or not Fallout 3 is a good game.
 

GarfunkeL

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john said:
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.

Fuck you, I was lvl3 when I killed 3 super mutants in a row with a hunting rifle and the 10mm pistol. And that was on Hard.

VATS on, headshot headshot headshot,
RUN AWAY until AP regenerated,
VATS on, headshot headshot headshot,
RUN AWAY... rinse & repeat.

So you suck donkey balls John.
 

JarlFrank

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
The game was mostly enjoyable to me, but... some places were just so utterly retarded that I went like LOLWUT and stared at the screen in disbelief for a while.
Also, what's with Bethesda and cannibals? There were those "vampires" who were former cannibals, then there were cannibals in some other town too. Which were utterly retarded since they pretended to live as perfect 50's families as if the war never happened. WHAT
 

1eyedking

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This game is unbelievably bad. The dialogue is the absolutely worst I've ever read, and that alone should have dragged it to failure.

It didn't. Thenceforth I lost my faith in this industry.
 

Carceri

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People told me that I have to take the game for what it is in order to enjoy it.


I took it for what it is.


It is a piece of shit.
 

Vibalist

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Brother None said:
[Intelligence] Ah, so if I artificially cripple myself it's a challenge.

Look, I want a game to provide fun gameplay by itself. The challenge is certainly something Fallout 3 lacks, the fact that I could take out 2 supermutants with a broken-ass laser pistols at level 3 (on normal difficulty) says it all...

I guess it's just not such a huge deal for me to intentionally create a build that gives me a bigger challenge. All I really need to do is to not spend points on a particular skill that's overpowered, and it's not as if I need to go to great lenghts to do this.
I can definitely see your point, and it's true that a truly great RPG doesn't require that you go a specific route with your build in order to enjoy it. Still, this issue is small enough that it doesn't ruin the game, as it's one overpowered skill out of many. Right now I'm playing a character with focus on speech (which has actually given me some cool advantages), small guns and demolition (which is a very fun skill to play around with). Overall, it feels balanced and challenging. I rarely have more than a 1000 caps on me or more than a few rounds for each weapon. And i'm not tossing money away or anything, I just haven't been able to make more so far.

GarfunkeL said:
john said:
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.

Fuck you, I was lvl3 when I killed 3 super mutants in a row with a hunting rifle and the 10mm pistol. And that was on Hard.

VATS on, headshot headshot headshot,
RUN AWAY until AP regenerated,
VATS on, headshot headshot headshot,
RUN AWAY... rinse & repeat.

So you suck donkey balls John.

Good for you, man. All I can say is that I've gotten my ass handed to me plenty of times and I'm fine with the difficulty level. Maybe I just suck at fps'es, I don't know.
 

FeelTheRads

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john said:
FeelTheRads said:
Just drop your standards and all you believe in and enjoy the new shit. It's what the cool kids do, everybody must do it.

Do whatever the hell you feel like. If I can sit down with a game and enjoy it it's good enough for me.

Cool story. Now how about you stop preaching it? Nobody cares to what lows you have to take yourself so you can squeeze every last drop of goodness out of the little you have. Go to Gamespot, or IGN, I'm sure there they wouldn't dare to bash Fallout 3.
 

Vibalist

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FeelTheRads said:
john said:
FeelTheRads said:
Just drop your standards and all you believe in and enjoy the new shit. It's what the cool kids do, everybody must do it.

Do whatever the hell you feel like. If I can sit down with a game and enjoy it it's good enough for me.

Cool story. Now how about you stop preaching it? Nobody cares to what lows you have to take yourself so you can squeeze every last drop of goodness out of the little you have. Go to Gamespot, or IGN, I'm sure there they wouldn't dare to bash Fallout 3.

Not trying to preach anything, I'm simply giving my opinion on F3 in a F3 thread.

And if this was a case of me trying desperately to squeeze just a tiny bit of fun out of the game, I would have moved on ages ago to play something else. I actually, genuinely enjoy Fallout 3. Sorry that it offends you so fucking horribly. I guess that's life for a basement dwelling asshole with nothing bigger to worry about.
 

FeelTheRads

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I'm simply giving my opinion on F3 in a F3 thread.

Oh really? I was under the impression this was an LP, not a "tell me what you think about Fallout 3 and whine that people don't like it" thread.
 

Secretninja

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What the hell do you need to spend money on? Ammo is everywhere, weapons are everywhere, stimpacks are everywhere.
 

Vibalist

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FeelTheRads said:
I'm simply giving my opinion on F3 in a F3 thread.

Oh really? I was under the impression this was an LP, not a "tell me what you think about Fallout 3 and whine that people don't like it" thread.

Cool. If the OP wants the discussion to stop I'll stop. So far I was under the impression that it was cool to comment on the game, as people have more or less been doing it throughout the whole thread.

Secretninja said:
What the hell do you need to spend money on? Ammo is everywhere, weapons are everywhere, stimpacks are everywhere.

Yes, but you usually don't find a lot of items in one place. A raider camp may contain two or three stims, which you'll all use the next time you're badly hurt, along with maybe 25-50 rounds for your assault rifle, which are used up on one or two enemies.
 

PrzeSzkoda

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It was a shame that she died. She had been excited to meet you.

She died from complications at childbirth.

Definitely worthy of the "best writing" award. It's worse then The Witchrar in Engrish.

Also, this:

He says he can prove it will work, and headed off to the old lab.

CarnivalBizarre: change yar avatar, mang. :P
 

DefJam101

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jesus
 

Pliskin

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DriacKin said:
...This shit is boring... Unfortunately, most of the other NPCs around here are just as dull and boring... These people suck.. .I apologize for the lower quality of this update, but this section of the game was really boring. I’m glad it’s over.

Sums up Rivet City nicely.

When I first saw it (which was fairly early in the game actually, as I skipped out on Megaton and headed south rather quickly), I was pretty exited. Wow --- a city in an aircraft carrier! Shit must be jumping in there!

Ummmm, no.

The NPC's here are even more robot-like than in yr average Bethesduh product --- and that's saying a lot. There aren't even any real quests to speak of. Most "requests for assistance" consist of one line of dialogue, followed by a fairly easy one-step solution, with no pay-off. It's like they're place-holders for real quests that never got fleshed out.

(OK, there is one real quest here --- the Replicated Man quest finishes up in Rivet City. But it didn't start there, so that doesn't count).


This is Paulie. He’s a druggie. If you give him some drugs, you’ll lose some karma.

I gave him some psycho, and he keeled over dead in the hallway. Right in front of a cop. He ignored it. Even his wife seemed oblivious. What's the point? Again --- the hallmark of most sidequests in Fallout 3: No follow-through. Choices without consequences. It's over, purge from memory, on to next pointless quest...

Meet Mr. Lopez. He’s really emo and suicidal.

If you meet him up on the bridge, you can push him off --- assissted suicide, as it were. Quite cathartic. I'm surprised there's no Achievement for it: "Dr. Kavorkian of the Wasteland".

Rivet City was probably the biggest disappointment in the game. So much potential --- and nada.

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john said:
I guess I'll go completely against the grain here and say I enjoyed, and still enjoy, this game.

Shouldn't you be off defending the awesomeness that is Alpha Protocol, or some shit?
 

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