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What are some of the cooler things that happened to you or you discovered in Fallout 3 *Spoilers Ale
ginetti
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I'll start:
I was in an abandoned Museum or some place like that, and some girl was hiding behind a makeshift bunker. I joined her, we took out some mutants, and she introduced herself as a relic hunter.
So we went on to loot the place together lol, was great fun.
Also, i found a hooker who i brought back to my apartment, she stayed for 5 days, called me a lier and left hahaha.
Heaps of other great things... what are yours?
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Shot a raider's head off with a rifle and it got stuck on an open door. Closing the door resulted in a disembodied floating head that would spin and fly around when shot, punched, hit with a bat, and then return it's original position.
Was fun for about 5 minutes.
Harold and Bob. Nothing and noone is cooler than Harold and Bob.
I haven't gotten far really, trying to take my time with everything to make the game all the better
I thought figuring out what happened to Grayditch was cool, after I discovered the kids father was dead, i went through his neighbors houses and went through the terminals to discover that the problem was their was a nest of fire ants, now I just gotta get down there and clean it out, or perhaps discover something else?
I don't know, I thought it was neat that i actually decided to go out of the way to find out what happened, do my own little investigation, and then the game throws a quest at me, that was awesome.
Discovered an Alien pistol called Firelance and some of its ammo nearby, made clearing out a bunch of Mirelurks much easier.
Not to be confused with the other Alien pistol...
O_o o_O
#1 Roaming the wastes, I ran into one of the many power relay stations. Flipping the switch on one of the towers caused a "new" radio frequency to pop up, an automated distress call.
I was eventually able to pinpoint the source location.
Shortly after the bombs began to fall, a small family took shelter in a sewer maintenance area. Their son was badly injured, and lacking medical supplies, soon died. Sometime afterwards, the parents apparently gave up and took poison. I found their bodies still locked in a lover's embrace.
#2 In one of the secondary vaults you can explore, you actually find survivors... sort of. Every last one of them has been driven insane by an experimental hallucinogen, one that was intended to keep people calm and controllable. Traces of the drug are still in the air apparently, because as you are going through the vault, you continue to have visions, mainly flashbacks to when the vault had seen... better days. You also encounter and kill Billy and the tunnel snake gang from vault 101, or their hallucination equivalents at any rate.
Note: for a full list of vault locations and the codes to enter the things, visit vault tec HQ in the DC ruins. You can also start the quest "Agatha's Song" to get a waypoint to the location of the mainframe inside.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Hemingway
i was kind of dissapointed in fallout. i finished the main quest in my first go round(way too short IMO) and was pretty mad the game just ended, i figured id be able to cruise around afterwards and explore.
so second time i figured i'd min/max and explore, ignore the main quest. everything is way too easy even on the hardest setting. all skills are at 90+, all stats but INT and CHA are 9 or 10.
when i find the rest of the books it will all be 100. everything dies with a couple 'The Terrible Shotgun' shots to the skull.
i've read about mods coming out that severly limit the resources, which is good. just doesn't feel like that 'wasteland' when ive got 20k caps, 250 stimpacks and 1000+ of every ammo.
coolest thing though, probably the friendly super mutant. funny everyones whining about super mutants and your cruising around town with one.
Yeah, Fawkes is... interesting
He sucks at maintaining a low profile though. I'm trying to sneak up on a group of raiders and he is screaming at the top of his lungs and blasting everything in sight every 2 seconds. Makes for a decent distraction at least.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Hemingway
Poor Harold they hear what he says but never listen, if you know what i mean.
Yea loved that charecter too.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
Tranquility Lane with annoying Betty
Also enjoyed the same things others have already posted.
fulmanfu: may I ask, since you are right the game is pretty easy if you go into most combat oriented skill sets, have you considered challenging yourself more?, meaning instead of min/maxing combat oriented skills and perks, try using things you might never have thought of using. As far I am aware with the game it aint possible to max ALL skills, unless a person is using cheats, but then if a person is using cheats what would be the point of even playing a game?.......I did use a mostly combat approuch the first time when I finished the game due to playing mostly it's mainstory, but like you I felt it was pretty easy but knew the game had more to offer, lots more even thought the first time I did some hefty exploring, yet the second time I played I still kept discovering small area's/quest's/building I never saw the first time.
The second time I got into the game the only combat skill I progressed into 50 was melee, all other combat skills are 15, as I try to use a mininum of combat, but then I have to admit with a game like Fallout I am more into the RPG elements of the game, especially the second turn, as with these type of games finishing the mainstory, teaches me the basics of the game, that when I return I already know the basics and just can enjoy what the game has to offer without the need for that main storyline, the second time around will be my story in that world (sort of speak), kinda my way with most RPG's, as for me when I am in the mood for combat I honostly prefure something like CoD/WaW, the combat in Fallout 3 suites the game well, but it's the other things with the game that makes the game cool to me and very enjoyeble to play.
My biggest surprise was finding "Dogmeat". Dogmeat is a dog which accompanies you and finds all kinds of items that you may need like food chems ammo and he is tough in melee combat.
You can give him the following commands like:
"Find food"
"find chems"
"find ammo"
"find weapons"
"wait here"
"follow me"
"It's too dangerous here go to vault 101 and wait for me there"
"Good boy"
"bad boy"
I found him in the scrap yard between megaton and the mine field doing the research quest.
He has perma death. And never let him alone in your house since he messes all item positions when you are away
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no, no cheats. and yes, all skills are up above 85 now and i don't think ive found half the books. everything from barter to speech to explosives.
bobblehead+skillbooks+comprehension perks= 60 for every skill possible, for someone that likes to explore and has to go to every burnt house, sewer, or landmark they see.. you will get alot of those(not all unless you look them up, which i haven't yet)
so thats 60 not even counting the 15 you start with, the extra for stats you increase when you make your char or find bobbleheads/quest perks(like the +1 luck lucky 8 ball), not counting tag skills, or w/e you get from the perks you pick.
i mean, i guess i could just not put any points in combat skills to make it hard but thats silly. you can't play a game and try to not be as strong as possible.
edit-just looked, i have 147 skillbooks, theres 324 supposedly so i don't have half yet. so thats 350 or so skill points left out there to find yet.
no, no cheats. and yes, all skills are up above 85 now and i don't think ive found half the books. everything from barter to speech to explosives.
bobblehead+skillbooks+comprehension perks= 60 for every skill possible, for someone that likes to explore and has to go to every burnt house, sewer, or landmark they see.. you will get alot of those(not all unless you look them up, which i haven't yet)
so thats 60 not even counting the 15 you start with, the extra for stats you increase when you make your char or find bobbleheads/quest perks(like the +1 luck lucky 8 ball), not counting tag skills, or w/e you get from the perks you pick.
i mean, i guess i could just not put any points in combat skills to make it hard but thats silly. you can't play a game and try to not be as strong as possible.
edit-just looked, i have 147 skillbooks, theres 324 supposedly so i don't have half yet. so thats 350 or so skill points left out there to find yet.
I have to agree with everything you've said so far, the game is far too easy.
Out of curiosity what gun did you use the most, for me it was the Combat Shotgun, blow off a humans head in one shot most of the time, especially owns when you can stack like 4 headshots in vats. After that I used the Plasma Rifle a fair bit, really good for medium-long range targets. And off course you got the Alien pistol which just owns anything.
The strangest thing I found in the game was that small guns are far more effective than big guns because you get so much more vats out of them, minigun and flamer require sustained fire which usually means you get hurt and the missile launcher is just used for the 'lolz'. Energy weapons are only good if you follow the main quest, whereas I was already lvl 20 before I finished it.
But yeah everything you've said I found the same, 1000's of caps, 1000's of ammo, like 500 stimpacks, 20 stealthboys, I had wayyy to much at my disposal.
O_o o_O
usualy i run around with lincoln's repeater or ol'painless(hunting rifle).
if its a group of mobs that get closer range, i pull out 'the terrible shotgun' (combat shotgun) but that weapon is almost unfair.
earlier in the game i got that unique plasma rifle from the quest in rivet city that i used alot too but its on the shelf now.
alot of unique weapons i have not found yet ill probably change it up when i do. that alien gun is one i still have to find dont tell me where it is!
I always run around with hunting or sniper rifle out in the open.
Indoors, i switch between combat shotgun and chinese assault rifle depending on how restrictive/open the corridors and rooms are.
I love this game btw. Oh yeah, I just found out, when you blow up Megaton, you know the merchant girl with the accent?
She becomes a ghoul lol
I felt bad
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Finding dogmeat, at L 20,haha he was getting attacked by 6 Raiders,by the time i ran up and VATS one of them the rest were already dead, i know i didn't kill them.
Well with a FPS game you are right, but I am feeling this game as a RPG and see no need to max combat skills as they are not needed to be maxed. And yes I chooce not to use all books even when found, especially if the books give me more combatskills/perks, as like you said the game is pretty easy.
But hey don't worry, I am a old school gamer and definitly found that my playstyle is VERY different compared to that of the majority of people playing games, as with games that are to easy I love to challenge myself and not take the best of the best of the game as that would make a game boring to me.
Well with a FPS game you are right, but I am feeling this game as a RPG and see no need to max combat skills as they are not needed to be maxed. And yes I chooce not to use all books even when found, especially if the books give me more combatskills/perks, as like you said the game is pretty easy.
But hey don't worry, I am a old school gamer and definitly found that my playstyle is VERY different compared to that of the majority of people playing games, as with games that are to easy I love to challenge myself and not take the best of the best of the game as that would make a game boring to me.
I'm considering rerolling a character and only using melee and unarmed weapons/perks, maybe also heavily sneak orientated, perhaps with high charisma and speech to see what sort of options I can get. Hmm..
O_o o_O
One thing I really hate is the linearity of the game. Sure, it is an open world, but I started out most of the game doing quests for the chick in Megaton (for the Wasteland Survivors Guide). That's all I did (except find where my Dad went from the bartender).
By the time I got to chapter 3 of the book I had to go to Rivet City to find out about its history. I ended up talking to Dr. Li and she goes on about how I am the spitting image of my father and I should look for him at Project Purity. The only dialog option for me to respond was "I already went to Project Purity and he wasn't there." Obviously I had not gone to Project Purity, in fact, I had no idea what, or where, it was. The same thing happened on a few other quests. I shut down the game and stopped playing since.
ah ok. im pretty old, but never knew if i was a true 'old school' gamer. guess im not, if basicly try to suck = old school?
but hey don't worry, ill let the mobs hit me for a 10 count before i fire back, so i can challange myself. old school !
seriously though i could see your point if you had to make choices. but you don't.
even with a low skill and a good gun nothings a challange, do you just throw away The Terrible Shotgun because it blows things away too easy? run thoug the game with nothing but a 10mm pistol for the challenge? makes no sense to me. Would you pass on loot rolls or give away all your stuff in w/e mmorpg you play, to make it more of a challange? Or steer in mario kart wii with your feet because its too easy with your hands?
While running away in the Alaska memorial, (I think that is where I was) found an underwater entrance to it. There was a creature that looked similar to the "Creature from the Black Lagoon"