Are any mods out yet? I want a nude mod so I can strip and humiliate those Raiders that attack me without provocation. 
I loved DaggerFall, became addicted to Morrowind (bought an XBox just to play it), and enjoyed Oblivion (bought a 360 just to play it).
But I’m really, really enjoying Fallout 3, easily as much as I did Morrowind. Even though I know it’s the same engine, the move away from “old-tyme elven” to a more modern theme has really made the game more…relatable, I guess. FWIW, I also prefer City of Heroes to WoW, so I guess that’s no surprise. But it’s not just setting - the quests are so much more believable; no “gather me 10 pods of crab meat”, but rather "find out where the fire ants are coming from and PLEASE GOD STOP THEM!
I came in to mention that the ghoul Charon is well worth my buying price. He’s good in a firefight without being too good. I wish I had bought him earlier (I’m level 14, about 32 hours in).
My gamer friend has a problem with her Fallout 3. About 90% of the time when she tries to play it, she gets an error message that there is no disc in the drive. Even when she does play it, it doesn’t run smoothly. Should I open a new thread on this or just discuss it here.
Either way, I’ll add more details the next time she & I talk. She just wanted me to throw this out in case someone has some advice.
PC or 360?
Has she tried physically cleaning the disc?
Does she have similar problems with any other disc?
In any case, she should probably do her best to exchange the game for a new copy as defective. Some stores are bastards about that though and won’t even give exchanges on any product once the shrink wrap is opened. She might have to dispute the purchase with her credit card, or something, if that’s the case. I don’t even know how it’d work.
But in all the reading I’ve done about this game, I’ve never heard any similar complains about a disc that stutters or can’t be read.
Edit: if it’s the same gamer friend as here, it sounds like the problem is her computer.
Does she have CD/DVD drive emulators running? Disabling them might help.
That too. Not so much that I want to see nude NPCs, but when I strip a raider out of the armor that she’s fairly obviously not wearing anything under, I’m not going to take the time to put underwear on the corpse.
There are nude mods already available on Fallout3Nexus.
Gah. The Dunwich Building gave me a headache and an attack of nerves. Bloody ghouls in the darkness.
And yer man who lives in the broken bow at Rivet City is a booby-trapping little sod.
At least I’m up to 25 Nuka-Cola Quantums (and that with only one of the three shipments I know exist).
Yes, I did just now. Took 5.9 GB of space. No noticeable difference to speed, but it’s a lot quieter (HD rarely spins noisily).
Weird. After beating the game once I half-heartedly tried a few extra characters - but I just can’t see how taking anything other than Small Guns/Energy Weapons, Speech, and Lockpicking would really change the dynamic that much. Then again, perhaps the reason behind the game’s relatively low difficulty factor is precisely so unorthodox builds can succeed.
I dunno. I’d really love to get some more pre-war music, though. Generally I’m a pragmatic gamer (I stick pretty closely to the main intended “gameplay”) but FO3 even made me start exploring for the sheer thrill of seeing the world. A longer songlist would probably severely hurt my grades as I’d wander the wastelands, heaving a backpack bristling with weaponry, grenades hanging from my tattered, human-skin belt; whistling cheerfully as I do.
Try playing unarmed, or at least restrict yourself to melee-based combat. Put lots of points in sneak and unarmed and melee, and go for stealth kills. Sure, there are some instances where you really need a big-ass gun, but you can at least try to take on all comers with your mighty kung-fu.
The song is entitled A Kiss To Build A Dream On. We had it as the Bridal Waltz at our wedding; I chose it specifically because it was the theme song to Fallout 2, and a perfect wedding song as well!
We also had the Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark as our Exit Music from the ceremony as well, FWIW. 
A quick tip; South of Megaton you’ll run into the ruins of Fairfax. West of Fairfax is Fort Independence; the HQ of the Brotherhood Outcasts. The head honcho will offer you 5.56mm ammo, frag grenades, RadAway or StimPaks for tech items. A full set of Enclave power armour nabs you 14 StimPaks.
Anyone checked out any of the mods on Nexus yet? I’ve glanced through them but probably won’t put any on until after I finish the first game.
Yeah, that would be a cool song for a wedding as well. I don’t know what it is about it but hearing it just sends a shiver down my spine. Thanks for the help on the title btw.
-XT
I think you guys mean this- the intro to fallout 2
*A Kiss to Build a Dream On- Louis Armstrong
Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on…*
[remainder of lyrics removed by moderator]
How do you install it? Is that a hack or is it something I just don’t know how to do yet?
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Please don’t post the entire lyrics to a song. It’s against board rules because of copyright issues. I’ve removed all but the first stanza from your post.
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[tangent]
It’d be interesting to find out if Armstrong’s music is now in the public domain or not. I know that, for instance, the movie Night of the living dead is in the public domain, and it’s younger than A kiss to build a dream on. Is there a Bricker in the house? [/tangent]
Both my girlfriend and I heard it the same way. In fact, it took us a couple listens of that song to finally figure out the woman is singing “corny”. It also made a lot more sense that way.
(I was trying to figure out what would make people in Kansas so horny in August.)
And in the category of weird coincidences…
Yesterday the movie City Hall with Al Pacino and John Cusack was on cable. Good movie and I stopped to watch some of it while getting ready for work. In it the Rodgers and Hammerstein loving corrupt borough chief ( or whatever he was ) played by Danny Aiello duets with a waiter buddy at a restaurant. That. Exact. Song.
Good thing I’m not superstitious :p.