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Ooh, Fallout 3. I'm not playing it personally, but one of my housemates is, and I love being a video game spectator- it's fun to hang out on a couch watching people do cool stuff. The game is really nifty, and I spent like half of Sunday night on the Fallout wiki reading up about the Vaults, Vault experiments, everything. I'm not sure who wants him to finish it more, me or him.
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Join Date: May 2004
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One trick to picking locks is to pay attention to how far you're able to move the lock before the bobby pin starts wiggling. If the pin starts jiggling immediately, then you should turn it a significant distance in one direction or another. If it turns a fair amount before it starts to wiggle, then you're close and you'll only need to make minor adjustments.
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Join Date: May 2004
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I have 100 lockpick skill, almost every lock is just a twist of the right analog stick.
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As far as I can tell, your lockpick skill doesn't change the difficulty of the lockpick minigame. All it does is let you attempt to pick higher level locks. Same with hacking.
I have noticed, though, that the hacking puzzles on "Hard" terminals are indeed more difficult than the ones on "Medium" and "Easy" ones. I imagine the same applies to locks. Again, your own lockpick skill level doesn't affect the difficulty, only which ones you are allowed to try. Picking a difficult lock does require more precision than picking an easy one. |
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EDIT: But experience does help... User formally known as Sh0eWax |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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I thought this as well, but, then I noticed that almost every easy,average and hard lock I encounter now is solved by rotating only the right analog stick, and leaving the bobby pin at 12 o'clock.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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I beat the game last night. It was cool but the ending was rather abrupt and anticlimactic. My biggest problem is that, after the game ends, you can't just keep playing like in most RPGs. You have to load a previous save and specifically avoid going to one certain location. If you don't have a previous save and just use the autosave, you're out of luck - you have to start over from the beginning.
Lucky for me, I do have old save files available. I want to explore the wastes more. Then I'll do an evil character |
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After being super slack and not even bothering to go to town to get Fallout 3 I had it delivered today from a place in Hong Kong. Even with import duty, shipping etc. it still worked out cheaper than buying here, and only about $5 more than the US price.... Plus I get a $5 discount on my next order so that will go towards Little Big Planet!
What with super cheap and tasty delivery food, internet banking and now this I never need to leave home ever again... except for weed! I am sure my wife will nix those plans... but I can dream! It's sitting there still wrapped in it's cellophane, calling to me.... But I have also just downloaded the Bad Company map updates.... What to do this weekend!?!?!! 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Last night I got into the "Those!" quest. What a good bit of running around that is....
For those that picked Megaton, make sure you do the Survivalist Handbook quest. It'll take a good bit of time, but it's well worth it. The perks are pretty good. |
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Is that part of the Main Quest or a Side Quest? I haven't seen it yet.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Florida
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They are both sidequests. Those beings if you find a kid running around the supermarket southeast of Megaton. The Survival Guide starts by talking to the Moira in the Megaton store.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Just finished the game.
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Still, the game was incredibly enjoyable to play, but although it has a zillion replay options, I don't imagine I will be firing it up again anytime soon. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yuppp, same thing happened to me Wrao. Bogus.
I started a whole new character now. I'm that bored. |
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Overall, the game leaves me with the impression that, Bethesda, in their SPECIAL allotment put too many points in 'atmosphere', 'immersion', 'environment' and 'choices' at the cost of knocking a few away from 'plot', 'storytelling' and 'lulz'.
Don't get me wrong, I would still rate this game a solid 9.4/10 or so, if one were to pay me to rate video games, and I eagerly await Fallout 4. Just... one of those things. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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I'm very much with you there, Wrao. First of all,
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I agree that the ending is by far the worst part of the game. It comes too suddenly and it doesn't give you enough choices or flexibility. And it's just stupid. The rest was great though. Exploring the wastes is fun. |
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Its like as if by the time they got to the ending, everyone at the studio was tired and they just wanted to go home.
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It doesn't surprise me for the ending. I played Morrowind and Oblivion and both endings were the worst I've ever seen. So I guess it's a Besthesda trademark now.... shitty ending.
Still, I'll probably buy the game anyway so I will be able to tell if it's worst or equaly shitty to the other endings Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Well notwithstanding the ending, which is a long way off for me, whatever it is..
It's awesome.. I am sucking up any mission, no matter how small.. VATS if fun. Not got bored of that yet. And I doubt I will! And after reading the reviews I was really worried about PS3 glitches, and wooden animation / flat textures etc... With the latter it probably helps that I have been playing a lot of Half Life 2, and not so much MGS4 recently.. But overall it seems solid, really well put together, and I am loving loosing myself in this world.. 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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For anyone who has taken the Nuka-Cola Challenge:
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minnesota
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Another problem. NPC pathfinding is some of the worst I've ever seen in a game. You'll get access to some NPCs eventually (I only got one, just before the end of the game), but they're horribly stupid.
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Sigh... I just wrote out a very long reply, and it was lost due to timing out my login or something like that.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Agreed. Star Paladin Cross (from the Citadel) joined me, but I couldn't for the fcuking life of me get her to a) not cause a ruckus and shoot enemies while I'm trying to sneak (ergo wrecking the surprise), or b) use a weapon other than her stock laser rifle and/or super sledge (even though I gave her much better weapons).
Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Yeah I mentioned this above somewhere.. mine kept getting lost. They would disappear for a couple loads, then magically reappear after a load.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Okay, How I think Fallout 3 should have gone:
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Haha, I like your style.
I don't use plasma at all, is it really that overpowered? I didn't get to max out the energy weapons... Spoiler (click to toggle):
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Ok.. I have now spent an entire weekend playing this game very very thoroughly.. I have no idea how far I am through, not far I suspect / hope as I am exploring everything and anything, and taking my time with it all. I intend to hold off on the main quest as long as possible and do all the optional stuff wherever I can.. I am even learning about quests and leaving them alone until I decide it's time to do them, so as to try and maximize things I won't be able to do after closing off certain story lines..
The only thing I cheated on was getting some hints about the location of Dog Meat early on so I could make sure I didn't miss the chance of getting him. Some reviewers said they managed to complete the game without finding him, which seems a shame to me. I am not one of those to play a game through again so I need to make sure the first run is a good one. Quite simply it's the best game I have played so far *ever*. I was always attracted to Oblivion but am not into Sword and Sorcery anymore, so this kind of game put into a different time line is a very cool thing from my POV. In order of games that have affected me in recent years.. Halo was the first computer game I played for a long while after getting fed up with the whole gaming industry for a good 5 - 6 years and ignoring it. It had a profound effect on me and got me back into both writing and playing games.. The next game to really float my boat was the last Resident Evil on PS2. I was depressed when I finally finished that... After that BioShock and Mass Effect. I think I preferred the styling of BioShock (which is similar to Fallout 3 in many ways), but enjoyed the setting / story of Mass Effect more. Neither are a patch on Fallout 3. I am looking forward to Fallout 4 more than I am looking forward to a sequel to any of the above games. In fact I can't wait for a sequel to Fallout 3. I am scared what's going to happen when I finally finish the damn thing... I'll be banging on Bethesda's door, and I hope this thing does not revert to Black Isle. I know it has bugs. And I have crashed it this weekend.. Dog Meat has got stuck because he can't get to people on a bridge above him, and I've had to go kill them before he'd move one.. I've also got stuck in a corner in a tunnel and had to blow myself up with a rocket launcher to get out of the game.. That was fun.. I piled about 20 frag mines under myself and then let rip... But it is quite simply the best thing I have played in a long long long time.. I am totally immersed when I play it. Love the depth, love it love it, and I love it when I jump when the radio crackles and I am sneaking down corridors... It's just super super amazing to play. Just one thing.. Anyone know a sure fire place to find Bobby Pins? I seem to spend a lot of time skulking around trying to find them.. Initially I seemed to have loads, but now I am always looking for them, and no-one seems to sell them... I keep having to sneak into dodgy people's houses and steal them!! Throughout the day yesterday I went from a little angel to an evil murderer with a bounty on my head! I also seem to have got addicted to all the medications and drugs in the game.. Ah the irony! 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Dogmeat is great, but he died on me the other day and I didn't feel like reloading the autosave mainly because, well... Spoiler (click to toggle):
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