Who here has Fallout 3?

[99MustangGTman]

I am most likely going to buy it soon. I found it on ebay for a good price. I've read the reviews and it looks pretty awesome. Anyone here own it? What do you think of it? Thanks!

-Ray:)

[Denholm]

I am most likely going to buy it soon. I found it on ebay for a good price. I've read the reviews and it looks pretty awesome. Anyone here own it? What do you think of it? Thanks!

-Ray:)

I have it on PC. The first couple of hours are fun, but I quickly got bored with having to 'talk' to all the different characters just to progress. If you lived in Australia I'd send it right to you. I'm done with it.

[99MustangGTman]

I have it on PC. The first couple of hours are fun, but I quickly got bored with having to 'talk' to all the different characters just to progress. If you lived in Australia I'd send it right to you. I'm done with it.

I appreciate the kind gesture lol.

[spoon man]

I've had it since release day I’m pretty blow away with the ps3 version if you want to talk/read more about it have a look on the console games section ;)

[shfreelance]

I will be picking it up with the PS3.

[UltraNEO*]

I have it!!
But my PC ain't fully built yet... just missing a few things.

Arghhhh :mad:





the postal service in the UK SUCKS!
1st Class is sooooo damn f$%kin Slooooooooooooooow!!!! I think they've gone POSTAL!

[wvuwhat]

I think I'm going to go ahead and pick it up for PS3 this week, but it may be a bad idea, considering that KillZone 2 will be out in a few weeks.

[Dagless]

I have it for PC. Don't normally play games like this (mostly a Valve fanboy, mostly) so I'm getting lost a bit :D Great game if a little slow paced.

y'know there's a games board (http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=101) here.

[DoFoT9]

i have it, havent played that much.. only just got out of the vault! it seems very hard to play and find your way around, im not a very good adventurer i more like the killing thing haha. seems pretty good so far though, it will take time for me to finish it! plus a new GPU... maybe an 4870x2 or something... the 8500GT is taking a hit!

[No1451]

Great game, haven't played it since school started much.

Edit: Its funny that it got moved to the Apple Games section considering that it hasn't seen a release on the OS X platform:).

[Scarlet Fever]

A mate of mine got it for xbox a few months ago. He loves it. He's spent a lot of nights awake until the morning playing it.

[muldul]

I got it on release date, finished it in a week (school holidays) and i sold it to some one at school for more than i bought it for. Sadly now i miss it, and so I'm looking at buying it again.

[Verto]

Have it for the 360. Great game, a lot of fun. My only complaint would be the main plot: it's really good at the beginning, but it seems like halfway through the developers ran out of time so they hastily crammed the last half into an hour or so of gameplay. Still, there's loads of side quests to do, and future expansion packs promised.

[MacRumorUser]

, but it seems like halfway through the developers ran out of time so they hastily crammed the last half into an hour or so of gameplay.

Yeah the last bit is really rushed, too easy and leaves you feeling utterly underwhelmed by the time you get the ending/s.

The fact the game ends as soon as the main quest ends, also leaves you with the feeling that the multiple ending scenarios make no difference to the outcome, unlike a game such as Fable 2 where all your actions have repercussions after the main quest finishes.

Overall a great game though.

[99MustangGTman]

Thanks for the input guys, I don't think i'm going to buy it for my notebook, i'm just going to get it for my xbox.

[The Red Wolf]

Really enjoying the game, I run it in my bootcamp partition. I'm also really looking forward to the Downloadable content. There have been rumblings that the PS3 may not DLC, but only rumors for now. XBox 360 and PC versions are slated to get it. I highly recommend the game.

[Dagless]

Really enjoying the game, I run it in my bootcamp partition. I'm also really looking forward to the Downloadable content. There have been rumblings that the PS3 may not DLC, but only rumors for now. XBox 360 and PC versions are slated to get it. I highly recommend the game.

It's not rumblings or rumours, it's true.
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/14/fallout-3-dlc-will-not-be-available-on-ps3/

[JackAxe]

I have it for the PC and played it for a few hours and started to see some things I liked... But, I got distracted with The Witcher, then Mass Effect. I plan on getting back to F3 soon. It just didn't pull me in like the other mentioned games.

[The Killer Fuzz]

Oh, Fallout. Man I love that game, i have about 100 hours on it and still want more. I own the 360 version; the first piece of downloadable content comes out tomorrow. Its called Operation: Anchorage. It's a simulation of the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from the Chinese in 2077. It will cost 800 Microsoft points ($10). I highly suggest it, it is the best game I think I have ever played. By the way, If you played Oblivion, It's a whole lot like that (on account that they were both made by Bethesda).

[marclapierre13]

I have it for PS3. I am selling it, its mint.

[aki]

like some other people....i loved playing to start...great look and the scenes of the broken cities are amazing and combats fun.....but then it got boring coz the story and plot is not strong enough and there isnt much real rp compared to movie-style games like mass effect

also only the same ten or so enemies over and over and over and over again

it was better than oblivion for me but similar problems

[99MustangGTman]

Thanks for the input guys, I went ahead and bought it for my 360.

[Mr. lax]

:D Great game if a little slow paced.


That is 100% right, if you have a couple weeks off school (work) its great. i can play 5-8 hours and just lose track of time. Its slooowww, but then you find some real tough super mutants, and its great for like 30 mins. Then its slow again for 30, it just goes in and out like that

[allbrokeup]

THE DAMN GAME, never lets me get to Tenpenny Tower to blow up Megaton. I try to get there, follow the map (there IS NO marker to help me) and I get eaten by stupid mutant Mole Rats, get shot to death if I walk on the road, and get eaten by Wolves at night.
So, I quit and don't play it anymore. Unless I find a useful walkthrough. Not one that says "just walk southwest". :D:D:D:D

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Oh yup, and I ported it to Mac with Cider ! ! ! ! !

[MacRumorUser]

^ Ten Penny Tower. Your best bet is to approach it from the North. Approaching from the South East (which is where you would in normal course of things) is much longer.

Here's a map........ I wont post it as an image as it may be considered a spoiler for those that haven't got that far.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2B5tvTbqM8/SRSIDvIgJ_I/AAAAAAAADmU/q3JVfGpsas8/s1600-h/fallout+3+map.bmp

[txa1265]

I have it ... and my review was published yesterday at RPGWatch (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=103&ref=0&id=154), if you are interested. Be warned ... it is 5 pages, and not skimpy ones.

[Supaklaw]

If you are dying because of Mole Rats, probably best to quit the game... lol.

[Huntn]

ok, this is how it went for me...

I LOVE Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, therefore I jumped right into Fallout 3. I really tried, but FO3 just didn't do it for me. Now it's been a year since I've played Oblivion. I burned out with it on the last expansion Shivering Isles. After throwing in the towel with FO3 I decided to give Oblivion another look. As soon as it came on the screen I was wowed (again) at how beautiful it is as compared to FO3. Granted it's a much different environment, as FO3's setting is post armaggedon and Oblivion's is fantasy woodsey, hilly, temperate climate, but there (in FO3) is really nothing (at least in the first 5-15 hours of game play) to love. Now I'm back finishing Oblivion. It's hard to compare the two games. Yes the game mechanics and structure are similar, but I've found FO3 hard to enjoy. It's as if Oblivion's environment is so powerful you can overlook it's short comings, but not so for FO3. :(

[ronainsworth68]

I have it for the 360 and love it. I finished the main quest way to fast so I went back to a saved game. I have over 130 hours invested now and I am still playing it out. It has to be the largest game I have ever seen on a console.

[JackAxe]

ok, this is how it went for me...

I LOVE Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, therefore I jumped right into Fallout 3. I really tried, but FO3 just didn't do it for me. Now it's been a year since I've played Oblivion. I burned out with it on the last expansion Shivering Isles. After throwing in the towel with FO3 I decided to give Oblivion another look. As soon as it came on the screen I was wowed (again) at how beautiful it is as compared to FO3. Granted it's a much different environment, as FO3's setting is post armaggedon and Oblivion's is fantasy woodsey, hilly, temperate climate, but there (in FO3) is really nothing (at least in the first 5-15 hours of game play) to love. Now I'm back finishing Oblivion. It's hard to compare the two games. Yes the game mechanics and structure are similar, but I've found FO3 hard to enjoy. It's as if Oblivion's environment is so powerful you can overlook it's short comings, but not so for FO3. :(

Seriously try this game (http://www.amazon.com/Witcher-Enhanced-Pc/dp/B001AH8YSW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1233116319&sr=8-1) out.

[Supaklaw]

ok, this is how it went for me...

I LOVE Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, therefore I jumped right into Fallout 3. I really tried, but FO3 just didn't do it for me. Now it's been a year since I've played Oblivion. I burned out with it on the last expansion Shivering Isles. After throwing in the towel with FO3 I decided to give Oblivion another look. As soon as it came on the screen I was wowed (again) at how beautiful it is as compared to FO3. Granted it's a much different environment, as FO3's setting is post armaggedon and Oblivion's is fantasy woodsey, hilly, temperate climate, but there (in FO3) is really nothing (at least in the first 5-15 hours of game play) to love. Now I'm back finishing Oblivion. It's hard to compare the two games. Yes the game mechanics and structure are similar, but I've found FO3 hard to enjoy. It's as if Oblivion's environment is so powerful you can overlook it's short comings, but not so for FO3. :(

Oddly as much as I liked Oblivion (I put in easily 100+ hours) the terrain got REALLY boring after a couple weeks. (especially on a 360 which can't render the terrain as well as a PC) Fallout to me is more consistent in that it's supposed to be all barren, and I sort of like that fact. It's personal taste but I find wandering through craggy rocky destroyed areas very peaceful.

My only complaint is restarting FO3 is a chore, Oblivion restarting and making new characters is fun, and probably had about 7-8 characters I was happy with... FO3 I'm on my second and don't see myself playing through too many more times.

[aznguyen316]

Seriously try this game (http://www.amazon.com/Witcher-Enhanced-Pc/dp/B001AH8YSW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1233116319&sr=8-1) out.

thanks I've heard a lot about witcher, so may I ask were you a fan of oblivion b/c I loved oblivion, I like FO3 a lot too 20hours in, but environment bores me. I like fantasy LOL

[omegaphil6]

I fell in love with this game. Probably one of the best game i have ever played. For me, if i get drawn into a game to where i feel like i am part of the game and i can relate and identify with situations i will love the game. The idea of what life would be like after a nuclear apocalyptic war is very interesting and this game puts you right in it... I love the retro-future architecture, when you walk around you really feel like you are looking at a city that once was and is now truly a wasteland... I felt alll kinds of emotions while playing this game, it was a rollercoaster, just freakin awesome! I have it on PS3. My only complaint is that once you beat it you cant continue play after it ends... I made the mistake of completeing a mission that lead to the final cut scenes of the game and i hadnt finished all the side quests yet... i guess the xbox version is getting DLC that will extend gameplay after where the original game ends but the PS3 wont be getting that anytime soon, so i havent played it since. But I got so wrapped up in it i was playing it 8-10hours a day and i have even downloaded the 40's-esce soundtrack and i listen to it all the time.. I love the game...

[JackAxe]

thanks I've heard a lot about witcher, so may I ask were you a fan of oblivion b/c I loved oblivion, I like FO3 a lot too 20hours in, but environment bores me. I like fantasy LOL

:o

I tried the Oblivion demo, but because it was sooooo stiff, I didn't care to pick up the whole game. The only reason I bought Fallout 3, is because of a review on Shacknews praising it as a PC game and not another poorly ported afterthought. It's also fairly stiff. :o

After playing games like Ultima UnderWorld 1 and 2 in the early nineties, which set a standard for me, I've always been taken back at how simplified and in some cases unrefined most other 3D RPGs have been in comparison. I liked that I could swing a sword in UnderWorld at many varying degrees based on my mouse's vector and speed. I haven't played any other similar game that has come close.

When the first Elders Scroll came out about the same time as UW2, it was a huge step back, so I never gave Bestheda high marks, but obviously they're doing something right, because they're still around and many love their games. So when I tried Oblivion, it didn't feel much better than their earlier games, so that was another reason I wrote it off.

Having said that, I'm going to buy Obvliion, because there are parts of F3 that I really like and it's only $19 at Frys. My friend has also praised the game quite a bit and I respect his opinion. I just want to finish The Witcher and F3 first.

The Witcher Enhanced's enviroments are very rich in all areas. The game looks great, the sound production is great, and the music is very fitting and there's lots of history for everything, which adds to the richness, if you like details -- zero punctuation ripped on this, saying it was a game his father would like.

Anyways, The Witcher is a different type of RPG than Bestheda's formula. The thing I really noticed, is that things feel somewhat real in TW, where as in Fallout 3 people feel a bit generic and fake and I never really care to help them with their problems. TW is a very gray game, where as from what I've played in Fallout 3 is black and white. Anyways, it's just another game that's worth its time if you love RPGs. It's very story driven, as the whole game was built around one character named Geralt. It has the cliché memory loss bit, but beyond that, the game is very consuming and believable.