When you hear the whackin packin smackin song in a movie or on TV…THEN be afraid. Be VERY afraid…
-XT
So, I saw that Fallout was 53 dollars used at GameStop. I should get it?
It almost seems like the whole soundtrack to F3 is public domain. I guess this is one way to keep your development costs down. I’ve been searching on archive.org and there’s plenty of it available…
Crazy He Calls Me & Easy Living
I Don’t Want to Set The World On Fire
Many more of the songs from F3 available there too, just more then I can be arsed to link to.
Interesting. So if they’re public domain, we should be able to post their lyrics in full. Ah well, such is life.
LOUNE: yeah, it’s worth it at full price. If you like RPG’s with a strong dose of sandbox but which also reward exploration, give it a try. I personally don’t get the console hate and I’ve been able to move/aim/shoot just fine with the standard 360 gamepad.
I’m a bit curious of why they decided to use some kind of retro pre-war setting (I don’t know the exact era of the music and overall style, but anyway) when the story claims the war broke out in 2077, and the game plays out in 2277. I do like the atmosphere and have no issues with the choice in that sense, but it doesn’t add up.
Does anybody know how it turned out that way?
The original had a very deliberate retro-futuristic vibe and design. I assume it was just a stylistic choice, but it is one I’ve always appreciated. It’s a 1950’s movie vision of the post-apocalyptic future. I think one can safely assume it’s set in a parallel universe :).
And yeah, I think it’s worth full retail…
I’ve tried on both XBOX360, a good PC and my own, bottom line PC (6800GT), and I prefer the PC. A lot.
Also, I just got a bit peeved.
Doing an evil character now, and I’m finding it a bit tricky to roleplay properly. So, I’ve fixed the ant problem in Grayditch, and I go to tell poor Bryan that his father’s dead. He asks me to find him a place to live, so I say ‘Sure’, smirking evilly. ‘I’ll find you a place to live, with lots of friends and never a dull moment.’ I shoot him with my Mesmetron only to discover that the brat is immune. WTF? He was gonna give me good money, too.
There is a way to sell him to slavers. First, go to Paradise Falls. Then, talk to Eulogy Jones. Get a collar for Bryan and go back to Greyditch, and convince Bryan to put the collar on.
The Fallout Universe splits from ours in about 1948. Instead of history proceeding as we know it, in the Fallout universe all that awesome World Of Tomorrow Retro-Futuristic stuff that we shake our heads amusedly at really happened- flying cars, robot butlers, lasers. Culturally/Stylistically, America remained in the 1950s, but technologically everything was well ahead of what we have now (Fusion powered cars, robots, laser guns, power armour, that sort of thing), but still looking like an odd cross between Disney’s Tomorrowland and Pleasantville.
In the 2050s most of the world’s oil finally ran out, sparking the Resource Wars. To cut a long story short, China invaded Alaska in the 2060s, the US annexed Canada, and in October 2077 the nukes started flying. The first Fallout is set about 120 years after this (IIRC), the second Fallout is 50 years after that (again, IIRC), and Fallout 3 is about 30 years after that (200 years after the war in total).
A lot of the “colour” and backstory are explained in the Museum of Technology- the Moon Landings took place in November 1969 in a “Virgo II” moon lander; the US, Russians and Chinese all put people in space about the same time, and so on. It’s worth reading all the exhibit plaques to get an idea of the history of the game world, and there’s other information in various places throughout the game world as well.
You’re very bad people. See if you can pimp Bryan out.
I just somehow set fire to a bunch of comic-printing presses, and never did get any copies of Grognak. Urgh.
I love this game. It’s hurting my productivity. I haven’t had a game I’m into this much since. . . Halflife 2? Fallout 2? I do wish one could add songs to the playlist-- I suppose I could just have an iPod hooked up with all Cab Calloway or something.
Thanks FinnAgain! I blame it on having played through once before, so I skipped part of the process in my head.
I decided to go more for big guns this time around, and I’m regretting that decision already. The minigun is useless!
This interested me as I have Fallout 3 in Australia and I thought, well it can’t have been banned, so I looked into it and found that it had originally been denied a classification but Bethesda offered a revised version which was accepted. I was then a little annoyed as it appeared that the Fallout 3 I am playing may not be the same one that the rest of you are playing, however it turns out there was no special edition of Fallout 3 for the Australian market but rather the entire world-wide release was revised.
It seems the problem stems in part from the Australian laws having no higher classification for games than 15+, so if a game is deemed inappropriate for 16 year olds but appropriate for 19 year olds, there is no provision under the law for an 18+ rating. If the classification board decide the game is not suitable for a 16 year old, then it is unclassified and effectively banned.
So on behalf of Australia I say “sorry”. I am sorry the inadequate laws of the country prevented you guys from having a visual of shooting-up, and I am sorry that it prevented you from being able to take “morphine” in-game.
Seriously it sucks that the game has to be designed for the lowest common denominator, on the other hand I’m not getting short changed, yay!
Ok, in the old Fallouts, if you’d picked up an NPC henchman you could make them schlep stuff around for you by pickpocketing them and monkeying with the inventories. Is that option working in this one? (I never get pickpocket option, just the talking option, even if I’m sneaking)
There should be a dialog option for “Let’s trade equipment.” You can have your henchman schlep your stuff. He will use or wear items you give him though.
Theres an evil resolution to that plot: You can sell him to slavers. Child killing is definitely not allowed though.
Completely useless. It actually takes me more attacks to kill something with the mini-gun than with the Chinese Assault Rifle! 
The first time I trotted it out was against a deathclaw and I figured I’d pretty much just vaporize the beast. Ha! 3 VAT shots to the head and then the thing was on me. I fired out of VATS into it at point blank range while backing up and the thing nearly killed me before I dropped it…and it took close to a thousand rounds to do it in! Granted, my big guns isn’t all that high (65)…but still. In the old Fallout games the mini-gun (and the laser Gatling) were some of the best weapons in the game (the best weapon was the Gauss sniper rifle IMHO).
Still, big guns is worth getting if for no other reason that to get the rocket launcher up high enough to hit turrets with…those are usually one shot kills and is the main reason I bring a rocket launcher along with me.
-XT
Try it on Fire Ants and Radscorpions.
I’ve tried it on the giant radscorpions and it doesn’t seem to be very effective…though nothing really kills them quickly in any case. What works best on deathclaws? And is there anything worth looking for in the fortified town in the North East part of the map where they seem to hang out? I’ve been in the town but there are deathclaws everywhere and I haven’t seen any openings to any of the buildings.
-XT
Slow 'em down by taking out their legs. Then you’re free to lob grenades at 'em, trick 'em into walking over mines, or whatever.
This also works on wide receivers and hot women in bars.
You may want to ease off on the mines for the latter, though.