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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 6, 2011 16:23:10 GMT -5
My wife doesn't understand why everything is still so messed up. Like, why can't someone just tidy up a bit.
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Post by jrcz on Sept 6, 2011 16:23:57 GMT -5
My wife doesn't understand why everything is still so messed up. Like, why can't someone just tidy up a bit. PA rule no 1: In post apo nobody f***ing cares
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 6, 2011 16:27:51 GMT -5
One lesson I learned the hard way was to make sure you up your repair skills and make sure you repair all your weapons as much as possible. Having your weapons as close to 100% as possible helps a great deal. Also make sure your armor is repaired as well. I liked both games but I liked Fallout 3 better. The DLC for New Vegas was pretty terrible (but the last one looks pretty interesting). The only thing is, New Vegas has to be the must buggy game I have ever played. I really enjoyed Dead Money, but Honest Hearts was kind of a waste of money. OWB is fantastic.
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Post by Dat Dude on Sept 6, 2011 17:59:46 GMT -5
My dad loaned it to me for a month. I loved it. Then he asked for it back...damn him lol.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2011 18:10:23 GMT -5
My favorite armor in the game was the Vault 101 Security Armor. I loved running through the railways and the sewers with that, fighting ghouls and mirelurks and all that. Kind of like playing RE except with better controls and better weapon variety.
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Post by twiggy101 on Sept 6, 2011 18:43:56 GMT -5
I love playing as a renegade assassin wearing a hooker's outfit. You figure that the Silver Rush guys with their heavy armour and laser weapons would be tough but not when I'm using the stealth boy and decapitating them all with a machete.
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Post by Starshine on Sept 6, 2011 20:54:01 GMT -5
I actually prefer New Vegas to a degree simply sue to the main storyline being more openended. Also the DLC is generally a lot better than the offerings for Fallout 3.
Also I love the setting and the whole future western motiff it has going on.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 6, 2011 21:30:35 GMT -5
My wife doesn't understand why everything is still so messed up. Like, why can't someone just tidy up a bit. HAHA! I swear to God, I had that exact thought last night. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the setting in 2277 and the bombs dropped in 2077? That's like 200 years of nobody bothering to clean up anything. Lazy asses. One thing that bugs me about the story is I don't understand the 1950's motif. I'm sure it's explained in one of the games, but for the longest time I thought that the bombs must have dropped in the 50's and that's why things from that era were around...I think I'm going to look this up now. EDIT: I looked it up and I'm still massively confused. Some people say it's what people in the 50's imagined the world would have become if there was a nuclear war...but the nuclear war didn't happen until 2077. I still don't get why all the 50's stuff is around but nothing after that.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Sept 7, 2011 4:07:10 GMT -5
But one thing I'll give New Vegas the edge over is how it guides you in quests. When I first played Fallout 3, I got to Megaton, got a few quests that I was way too underpowered to do at the time, and just wandered around lost. Reason? I had no clue that Moira Brown existed, that stores close up shop at a certain time, and that her quests were basically the "tutorial/free xperience quests" you get from most RPGs. It took me actually going to a friend's house who was familiar with the game and to walk me through the first few quests for me to get a feel on what I was doing. New Vegas tells you where you go, who to meet, and does everything to put you on the right path right away, so I'll definitely give that game the edge when it comes to new people diving right into the game. That's probably the reason I preferred Fallout 3, in Vegas I felt restricted by what I could do. My gut instinct on first playing vegas after talking to the doc and helping the woman in the bar was to take a left and go north, which sent me straight into a nest of Cazadors, which killed me. This just annoyed me as in Fallout 3 in the open wasteland the creatures you meet were generally levelled with you, so if I head west from Vault 101 I'm not going to run into Yuao Guai or giant Radscorpions and be mercilessly butchered. So yeah a lack of true free roam made Vegas less appealing to me.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Sept 7, 2011 8:39:09 GMT -5
My wife doesn't understand why everything is still so messed up. Like, why can't someone just tidy up a bit. HAHA! I swear to God, I had that exact thought last night. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the setting in 2277 and the bombs dropped in 2077? That's like 200 years of nobody bothering to clean up anything. Lazy asses. One thing that bugs me about the story is I don't understand the 1950's motif. I'm sure it's explained in one of the games, but for the longest time I thought that the bombs must have dropped in the 50's and that's why things from that era were around...I think I'm going to look this up now. EDIT: I looked it up and I'm still massively confused. Some people say it's what people in the 50's imagined the world would have become if there was a nuclear war...but the nuclear war didn't happen until 2077. I still don't get why all the 50's stuff is around but nothing after that. basically, all the death and destruction of infrastructure makes it impossible to clean everything up. there's not enough people, and society is way too fragmented to organize a cleanup of the entire country. hell, it took almost 150 years for the NCR to get together and clean up California/Northern Mexico. and look what happened when they got to the Mojave. the Enclave had the resources, but they were too busy being the 4th reich and trying to rule the world to actually make anything better. as for the 50s motif, the designers basically envisioned what a post-nuclear world would be like to someone who lived in the 50s.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Sept 7, 2011 8:54:14 GMT -5
My wife doesn't understand why everything is still so messed up. Like, why can't someone just tidy up a bit. HAHA! I swear to God, I had that exact thought last night. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the setting in 2277 and the bombs dropped in 2077? That's like 200 years of nobody bothering to clean up anything. Lazy asses. One thing that bugs me about the story is I don't understand the 1950's motif. I'm sure it's explained in one of the games, but for the longest time I thought that the bombs must have dropped in the 50's and that's why things from that era were around...I think I'm going to look this up now. EDIT: I looked it up and I'm still massively confused. Some people say it's what people in the 50's imagined the world would have become if there was a nuclear war...but the nuclear war didn't happen until 2077. I still don't get why all the 50's stuff is around but nothing after that. You're reading the right quote, but taking it the wrong way. Basically, imagine if technology and society hadn't developed along the path they did that lead to where we are now, but instead, everything turned out like 1950's sci-fi writers imagined it would. And you have your explanation for the motif of the Fallout world.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 7, 2011 9:11:36 GMT -5
Society advanced technologically but not socially from the 1950s on, so there was still anti-Communist paranoia, 50's style and music, etc.
No word on how black people fared pre-bomb.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 7, 2011 17:02:44 GMT -5
HAHA! I swear to God, I had that exact thought last night. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the setting in 2277 and the bombs dropped in 2077? That's like 200 years of nobody bothering to clean up anything. Lazy asses. One thing that bugs me about the story is I don't understand the 1950's motif. I'm sure it's explained in one of the games, but for the longest time I thought that the bombs must have dropped in the 50's and that's why things from that era were around...I think I'm going to look this up now. EDIT: I looked it up and I'm still massively confused. Some people say it's what people in the 50's imagined the world would have become if there was a nuclear war...but the nuclear war didn't happen until 2077. I still don't get why all the 50's stuff is around but nothing after that. You're reading the right quote, but taking it the wrong way. Basically, imagine if technology and society hadn't developed along the path they did that lead to where we are now, but instead, everything turned out like 1950's sci-fi writers imagined it would. And you have your explanation for the motif of the Fallout world. So basically people in the 50's imagined that there would be stuff like robot butlers and plasma rifles, but never considered that there would be new styles of music, clothing, or anything else? I guess that sounds about right. I'm definitely not complaining about it though, because I think the 50's stuff adds so much to the game. I just wish they were a little more clear on why exactly it's there. Then again I guess it could be in the manual but I don't have it so I wouldn't know.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Sept 7, 2011 17:41:17 GMT -5
My most notable highlight was beating the shit out of Mr. Burke (the guy that wants to blow up Megaton) and then killing him, after he told me of his plans to nuke the town.
Yeah, I haven't gotten far, yet.
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Post by Bishblast on Sept 7, 2011 18:01:26 GMT -5
Yeah, one of my favorite parts of Fallout 3 was going to Tenpenny and wiping it clean, then letting the Ghouls in, then killing all of them. One thing I hated about Fallout 3, though, was the anticlimactic let down of an ending. Following the giant thing and then the very last scene... just, such a letdown.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 7, 2011 21:57:02 GMT -5
Yeah, one of my favorite parts of Fallout 3 was going to Tenpenny and wiping it clean, then letting the Ghouls in, then killing all of them. One thing I hated about Fallout 3, though, was the anticlimactic let down of an ending. Following the giant thing and then the very last scene... just, such a letdown. Yea I agree about the ending. The first time I beat the game I didn't even realize I was at the end. When the credits started rolling I was like "oh wtf? I guess I'll be playing through it again". It's still an amazing game though, and a wonderful introduction into the next generation of gaming for somebody like me that doesn't have much experience with newer consoles. I actually think this is the first game that I have beaten and then immediately started a new play through. I'm about to beat it for the second time and based on some stuff I've read in this thread, and things that my friend has told me, I plan on playing through it for a third time. It sucks that the level cap is 20 though. I really would like to buy the DLC that moves it up to level 30, but I'd rather just buy some new games when I get some dough. It's just so heartbreaking to kill enemies/finish quests/discover locations and not get any experience.
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