Fallout 3: First look.

[Johnzgame]

Ok, so now that i have internet again, i just wanna say, I am on my 3rd character and i have 70+ hours clocked in.

[monty slick]

33 hours on my fist run-through. Looking forward to ending the main quest and starting over with a new character. This didn't suck me in quite as good as Oblivion did (never played any Morrowind games before then) but it's still got a good hold of my attention which is why I haven't been TF2ing as much lately. I wonder how much better it would have been w/o consolitis.

[Levichan]

I thought the game wasn't so good. Like it was missing something.

[luckylpf]

I'm about 15 hours into it and I'm at the radio station.

I kinda like it, kinda don't.

I really don't know if I would recommend it to a friend.

[zBeeble]

I'm about 15 hours into it and I'm at the radio station.

I kinda like it, kinda don't.

I really don't know if I would recommend it to a friend.

At the radio station? I assume you mean GNR --- because there are a lot of radio stations in the wasteland. Did you enjoy your first giant super mutant fight? It goes a lot better if you pick up the "fat man" (portable mni-nuke launcher).

I actually went out to find all the giant super mutants to get the achievement. It's easier if you have the poison dart gun (to slow them down first) and the fat man to finish them off. Topically, the one in the capitol building is entertaining, but if you get to level 20 before going there, the mercs on the scene can finish him off for you (because they're leveled up at that point).

Fallout (now that I've finished it and am wating for more content), while being first person and having lots of guns is really more role playing than FPS. "What would you do" sorta thing. I have trouble being the complete asshole in these games --- even though it opens up interesting opportunities and more achievements.

Unlike Oblivion, some of the decisions you make are positively gruesome ... even if you are playing a good character. The primary goal of Fallout --- and maybe the only holdover from the original series is that most of your decisions are from a palate of hard-to-distinguish greys not black and white.

To many games (most of them FPS-ish) offer "decisions" in the game that are black-and-white ... almost starkly so. Bioshock: kill the little girls or save them, Mass Effect: Sum of honorable (paragon) netted against the sum of harshly pragmatic (renegate)... and so on.

In some ways (trying to sum up the times a pithy way), do the ends justify the means (Jack using torture in 24) or is saving the universe meaningless if we arn't still human?

In Fallout, in all of then "endings" the job gets done. You being evil or good doesn't affect the outcome of the universe. It does affect individual people. It affects you. Can you live with the shade of grey you choose?

[WiseGuy]

i love this game - i beat it once - started a new character and am about to blow megaton.

[zBeeble]

i love this game - i beat it once - started a new character and am about to blow megaton.

Is the blowing of megaton any bigger than the other nukes you can detonate?

It seems to me that the cars and the fatman and the nukes you can drop from one of the satellite towers are all pretty much the same in magnitude. Come to think of it, blowing up the enclave base is pretty much the same explosion.

[Pharmacy]

Yeah, the megaton nuke is HUGE

[Levichan]

Calculate the distance between Megaton and Tenpenny Tower.

Now imagine that you can see the explosion rise in the horizon from that distance.

[Dogpyle]

This game is quite good, but I agree not as immense as Oblivion.

I had issues with my computer crashing with this game on the PC until I realized it was my 8800GT overheating and being unstable. Now it runs almost perfect, still get the occasional hiccup.

Second time through, I'm enslaving as many people as I can.