So I’ve been lax in my RPG buying. I just got Fallout and I want to blow through it and finish it before the new one comes out. Tell me where the best stuff is and the fastest way to get there, please.
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Well…the main quest is pretty short. If you just stay on track with that it should only be a few hours.
But seriously Fallout 3 is not a game to blow through. The joy is in the endless things to do and all the mini quests. There’s always something weird to see or interesting to do.
Also by ‘best stuff’ do you mean the most interesting quests or the most overpowered gear or the most amusing situations?
For instance there’s a quest where you track down an android. You can turn him over to his hunters for a good reward, you can warn the android and get a good rifle off of him. Or you can do what I did and warn the android for the gun, turn him in for the reward but plant a bomb on the hunters and laugh as they explode on their way out the door (saving the android). For me figuring things like that out was the ‘best’ stuff.
Sure. Good stuff. Gimme.
Make the Rock-it Launcher. It’s the best part of the game.
Do NOT blow through FO3. Play it and all its DLC to the fullest.
If you’re worried about playing a prequel to a game that’s coming out soon: Don’t. It’s not a Prequel. Fallout New Vegas is apparently not related to FO3. It used the same graphics engine and XP system, but it’s not related to the story of FO3.
So you could play both games. in any order.
There’s no blowing through Fallout 3. It’s a Bethesda game. The fun is wandering around and finding all the ridiculous amounts of detail in the massive world. Also, you can play your character any way you like so there’s no real best stuff really. I’m on my third character now (over 70 hours each in the other two) playing as an utterly evil bastard. I blew up a whole town with an atomic bomb, got in good with the slavers, bought a slave companion, am out catching slaves all over the place, stealing everything in site and killing folks willy nilly just for the hell of it. As for best stuff? I mean it depends how you build your character. The best lighter armor is the Ranger Combat Armor. For non stealthy play you’d want Brotherhood Power Armor. There’s one unique set that you can get by double crossing these three people, getting one to kill the other then killing the other two. I forget what it’s called but it’s the best armor outside the expansions. Weapons? Again, it depends how you build your character. Weapons are classified into Big Guns, Small Guns, Energy Weapons and Melee Weapons. Hell, you can even make a workable character that fights Unarmed. If you try hard enough you can make a workable character that kicks ass in negligee.
As for best quests? Geez, there’s too many. Not to mention the hundreds of locations that have nothing to do with quests. You’ll just stumble onto crazy stuff. The Dunwich Building for instance. One of my favorites. Inside the building you start finding peoples bodies with horrible things done to them and holotapes from a son who was following his father who was obsessed with a book. Every now and then the scene flashes for a second to what the building once looked like. Once you finally make it down to the basement, after the holotapes make it apparent that the father went mad (and the son did too after reading the book), you find the son, now a ghoul, with other ghouls worshiping this monolith covered in skulls and tentacles and human bodies. Utterly brilliant shout-out to HP Lovecraft from the designers. No quest, no nothing, just one of endless details Bethesda put into this game.
I have a police baton. I was meant to have a BFG 9000.
A quick note. If on your first play through you shoot first and ask questions later you will miss a lot of quests. The only people that can’t die in this game are the ones tied to the main quest. And that’s only a few actually because there are multiple ways to keep it moving. Just blowing up Megaton like I did (which you can do at level one if you put at least 25 skill points in explosives) wipes out a shit load of quests. Particularly The Wasteland Survival Guide which is a great quest for low level players with good rewards, though it’s given to you by the most annoying character in the game.
Maybe someone has or will create a BFG 9000 mod.
YES!
I can still play the memory of her voice in my head. I haven’t played FO3 for many months.
Yes. Moira. Even worse? Blowing up Megaton DOES NOT kill her! Even an atomic bomb is insufficient to eliminate her hideously overwrought perkiness. If you go to Underworld some time after destroying Megaton you will find her there as a ghoul.
Tell me more about this. I am…intrigued.
You have to buy the schematics for the gun (it counts as a Big Gun as far as skills) and also have the parts to make it on hand. It’s a gun that shoots anything you happen to have. My personal favorite blasting someone to bits with a teddy bear.
Here’s where you can get the schematics:
* Can be bought off Moira Brown in Megaton for a price of 799–1200 bottlecaps (depending on Barter skill level).
* In the armory of Rivet City, located in the ship's bridge tower.
* Can also be bought (or stolen via pickpocketing) from the traveling merchant Crazy Wolfgang.
* Another copy of the schematics can be found in the "Framed Quote" within the Vault 101 clinic.
From: Schematics - Rock-It Launcher | Fallout Wiki | Fandom
Which is an awesome FO3 resource.
Well I liked her. I thought she was nice, even if she kept talking my character into playing in traffic.
And expanded upon in the DLC:There’s a quest in Point Lookout in which you’re asked to retrieve the book and return it to its rightful owner or, for good karma, return to Dunwich and destroy it.
The combat overall is kinda underwhelming, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some genuinely cool situations. For instance, when I discovered the Fairfax ruins, I rolled up at night with my badass scoped revolver (the name of which I can’t remember because I haven’t played in awhile) and a pocket full of Stealth-Boys. I just snuck around all night ambushing raiders and blowing their brains out. There are a couple of traps and sniper nests you have to deal with that made it even more fun.
In case you have more grenades then you know what to do with: at a point southwest of Fort Bannister and northwest of Evergreen Mills is a raider base. Walk up the hill to take out the sniper, then lob grenades through the roof and try to time them so they explode inside.
AFAIK, the Survival Guide quest does not get wiped out. As someone else has already mentioned, Moira ends up in Underworld. I’m pretty sure she can still give out the Guide quests. I’ve never blown up Megaton, so I don’t know from firsthand experience, though.
When I saw that, I think I laughed harder than I ever did before playing a game.
Another stupid grenade trick: between Wilhelm’s Wharf and The Citadel is a raider base under what I assume is supposed to be Memorial Bridge. Explosions in there can cause a random object to carom all over the place!