Fallout 3

[Drexxus Maximus]

Article here: http://pc.ign.com/articles/800/800570p1.html

Just found this article, has some good info on Fallout 3. I can breathe a little easier now, sounds like Bethesda has really stuck with the "feel" of the Fallout series. It's not technically turn based, but in a way it is, you just gotta read the article. And I'm really starting to love the idea of a huge seemless Fallout world.

The way the game begins is also kick ass. Apparently it starts with your birth, then your 1st birthday, 10th birthday, 16th then 19th...then you actually leave the vault and the real game begins.

It's here that you start your life. Literally. The game begins with your father, an influential doctor and scientist played by Liam Neeson, attending your birth. As the good doctor shepherds you into the world, you'll be confronted with your first meaningful decision -- what are you going to look like? There's a gene projector on hand so you can determine just what you'll look like as adult and, as an amazingly cool touch, the game also ensures that your dad's appearance is based on the choices that you make.

From there your life plays out in a series of key moments in your childhood. On your tenth birthday, for instance, your parents present you with your very own Pip Boy, a device you wear on your forearm that acts, among other things, as a radio, a radiation counter and an in-game character sheet. As you make your way through the game, you'll learn to rely heavily on the information your Pip Boy provides, so it's nice to see it introduced as part of the story. Your birthday guest list also includes a number of bullies who signal that life in the Vault might not be as good as people are saying.

The different uses for your trusty 'ol Pipboy sounds cool also:

While it's pleasant enough to listen to the radio and hear someone talk about how important you are, there are more important uses for the radio. The Galaxy News Station helps to keep you up to date on the goings on in the world. More significantly, you might even be able to use the Pip Boy's radio to pick up isolated transmissions in the wasteland. Some might lead you a new quest, others might alert you to the presence of a nearby Slaver patrol. We're not sure yet if you'll have to actively seek out these transmissions or if the game will alert you when there's something interesting to listen to. Either way, it's an intriguing way to introduce new content into the story.

That's just a taste of the article, it's full of good info. All serious Fallout fans should definately read the whole thing.

I absolutely love this screenshot, at least I hope this is an in-game shot.
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/568/56...g_4665139.html

Peace,
Drexxus

[Fabolous]

I'm officially excited by this game. RPG to die for, I'm hoping. Huge ooen world, post-nuclear style, classic RPG elements. Wooh, I'm video game pumped.

[Giorgos]

yeah, i read the article. Sounds good but i've been let down before. The bugs, the bugs worry me...

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

3 new images of the PS3 version.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/901/901269/imgs_1.html
The gore looks very sweet and background on the image with the black guy is what I'm looking forward to seeing in fallout 3, destruction.

[Chaigidel]

this game will be the most awesome game to ever game.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Been playing Fallout 2 lately, man the bugs are annoying but still good.
Anyone know how you can get more character points or raise any of those skills ??

[Serious Spamurai]

I just started playing fallout 2 again yesterday, I'm doing stuff for the slavers guild, it's the only easy way to get weapons after I killed the vendor guy in the Den, shouldn't have done it but he annoyed me. I really hope there's plenty of violence in fallout 3, one thing I won't miss if they take it out is turn based combat, sometimes, if you start a fight in a city it takes about 10mins just for the npcs to finish walking about. Also, critical hits to the head with any fire-arm should be lethal, especially if you walk up behind them and open fire, sometimes it says something like "Drug addict was critically hit in the head for 11 points" but they don't die.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Try using the combat speed slider and put it on fastest.
No more slow battles

And the violence seem to be in FO3, just look at that screenshot in the link I posted, that is some tasty effect.
All I want is the post-nuclear war world to look as cool as ever(which judging from the screenshots, I'm very pleased so far) and the adult nature of the game.
I picked a female character in FO2 and right now she is pretty much a prostitute.
I found a guy at the Den(the bar called "the hole") that will pay 200 bucks for sex.
And what is nice is that he doesn't run out of money either, just give him 2 days to rest and you can have sex for money again with him.
Probably an exploit tho but a damn funny one and it is this sort of things I wanna see in FO3.

[Praxil]

sometimes, if you start a fight in a city it takes about 10mins just for the npcs to finish walking about.

There is combat speed in game preferences. Is yours set at fastest?

[Serious Spamurai]

Nah, just changed it, much better. I'm starting a new game as a female character, gunn try and focus more on firearms from the start, before I just trained up close combat, nice early on, but when you keep missing with guns, it's annoying.

[The Black Reaper]

3 new images of the PS3 version.
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/901/901269/imgs_1.html
The gore looks very sweet and background on the image with the black guy is what I'm looking forward to seeing in fallout 3, destruction.

hmm not necessarily on the PS3 if you look at the PC version and the PS3 versions of the screenshots they look exactly the same. I doubt that they actually are gonna look the same graphically so its probably just a pre-build

[Cluny the Scourge]

I am also replaying "Fallout 2" right now - I'm going the big-party route. I have Cassidy, Vic and Sulik on team all armed to the teeth with serious firepower - they cut the enemy down before I even have to.

The peculiar humour is excellent. Miria tumbled me into bed with her in Modoc and her Pa' forced us to get married and she followed me around calling me 'Pooky' until I blew her head off with a shotgun. Then I reloaded the game and found that it's even funnier if you 'marry' her gay brother who has sex with Brahmin-cows, who gives you 'The best orgasm you've ever had', and his father's reaction when he finds you is hysterical.

I also tricked this guy who was pleading for help for his dying town into thinking my people sealed bargains by cutting off their pinky finger - he said it was a small sacrifice to make for his people and did it - then I told him to saute it in garlic for a tasty snack and he screamed 'Laugh this off, mother****er!' and pulled a shotgun.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

How did you manage to free Vic ??

[the_mango55]

You have to bring him the radio from his shack in Klamath, and then pay Metzger $1000 (or have sex with him if you're a hot female).

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Ah, figured it would be something like that.

[Cluny the Scourge]

How did you manage to free Vic ??

I went to New Reno and murdered the gunshop-owner there to get some good weapons, then loaded up on ammo and chems, armed Sulik effectively, and stood outside the slaver's guild around the right-hand corner out of sight and attacked the first guard and drew them all out. There was a hard fight and I had to use a grenade at point blank range, and I had to try several times also to win, but eventually I waxed the whole ****ing lot of them and freed all the slaves. And Vic joined up because my character is a Charisma/Speech specialist.

Of course you can just get the radio parts and the money for Vic also, I expect, as Metzger wanted.

You have to bring him the radio from his shack in Klamath, and then pay Metzger $1000 (or have sex with him if you're a hot female).

I didn't know that about letting him screw you - I haven't played as a chick. I did get the same thing as payment myself for a desperate woman outside Vault City last night...she wanted me to help save her husband and I demanded sex first.

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

Did slaughtering the slavers give you good karma or bad ??

[Serious Spamurai]

I remember I ****ed up 2 slave runs in a row and all the guys with me got smoked (accidentallly shot one of them in the head), I went to see metzger like normal. He started talking about how they're like brothers etc. and asked if I respected that, I said yes, then he said "what would you do if you found someone had betrayed us" I chose the option "make 'em pay", he said "then you'll understand" and every mofo in the room opened up, I just had enough time to blow metzgers head of with a shotgun, then I got killed. I've started again, got quite high skill in small weapons, but I was planning on making them a sharpshooter, got high Perception, so far I can down most enemies with a single pistol headshot.

[Cluny the Scourge]

Did slaughtering the slavers give you good karma or bad ??

Either good or neutral - I didn't think to check the score at the time. Going on slaving runs for them is definitely bad. You get 1500 XP for waxing Metzger as a special bonus, plus whatever his innate XP value as a kill is, and the XP kill value for all the others as well. You definitely get good karma for freeing the slaves afterward, though, and more XP.

[the_mango55]

Also, Becky gives you $1000 if you let her know you were the one who killed him.