fallout 3

[aarond]

Just been hearing about this game opinions seem good, so was off to get it then i had news my dad just got a ps3 now i dont know what to get on the 360 or the ps3 any opinions?

[zsv650]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxbbbbbbbbbbbbbbboooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x it's the best game since oblivion how can you manage hours on a ps3 anyway with those godawfully uncomfortable light nastily made controllers anyway.

[the_lone_wolf]

PC:rolleyes:

trying to bind all those controls to a console controller will be like riding a bike using only your thumbs, plus the controller will cripple the FPS style of playing...

[Kilted Ginger]

Best RPG / FPS since oblivion, racked up about 20 hrs on it (360) not even on the same planet as the likes of farcry2 which i percivered with for 1 hr before trading in. Complete freedom to go / do what ever you want, accidentally blew the world up earlier and had to go back to a previous save, must think about why doing things rather than just doing them cause i can.:rolleyes:

Very good handicaping of which weapons affect which creatures / armour types and accurately calculates damage and range factors, much more accurately than the likes of COD where you can snipe across an entire map with a sub mc gun:confused:

could be the basis for the first free flowing online rpg / fps on the 360, certainly make you more carefull about getting into a battle if you were likely to lose (say 50% of ) your weapons / salvage.

Loved Oblivion, this definately looks to be better.

[zsv650]

Best RPG / FPS since oblivion, racked up about 20 hrs on it (360) not even on the same planet as the likes of farcry2 which i percivered with for 1 hr before trading in. Complete freedom to go / do what ever you want, accidentally blew the world up earlier and had to go back to a previous save, must think about why doing things rather than just doing them cause i can.:rolleyes:

Very good handicaping of which weapons affect which creatures / armour types and accurately calculates damage and range factors, much more accurately than the likes of COD where you can snipe across an entire map with a sub mc gun:confused:

could be the basis for the first free flowing online rpg / fps on the 360, certainly make you more carefull about getting into a battle if you were likely to lose (say 50% of ) your weapons / salvage.

Loved Oblivion, this definately looks to be better. it's good but better than oblivion i don't know:)

[ThEGr33k]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxbbbbbbbbbbbbbbboooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x it's the best game since oblivion how can you manage hours on a ps3 anyway with those godawfully uncomfortable light nastily made controllers anyway.

TBH Obivion for me was dull... Played it for a while but I just got bored with it. IMO these open world games suck :( Not my cuppa. Give me a story line any day. Compaired to the first 3 fallouts I dont like it after the hour I played it.

PC:rolleyes:

trying to bind all those controls to a console controller will be like riding a bike using only your thumbs, plus the controller will cripple the FPS style of playing...


Indeed PC. Xbox 360 and PS3 are just playing at it... But if you HAVE to choose then 360 as the PS controller sucks :(

[Kilted Ginger]

Sorry guys, have to disagree, only games i prefer on the pc are strategy, C+C, LOTR etc, and i remember back to real rpgs where the trick was to type, "troll bump rock" rather than push, move, hit, shove, those were the days, bring back elite (now that's going back a bit) loaded off a 5.1/4 inch floppy.:smt003

new fangled wireless thingybobs, bah humbug.:smt099

All time favourite game Rivwer raid on the atari, closely followed bu jungle strike on the Sega, Its like wagon wheels as big as your face when you were wee, no matter how good things get they just cant compete with memories..:rant:



Go's off for a walk down nostalgia lane......:grouphug:

[zsv650]

TBH Obivion for me was dull... Played it for a while but I just got bored with it. IMO these open world games suck :( Not my cuppa. Give me a story line any day. Compaired to the first 3 fallouts I dont like it after the hour I played it.




Indeed PC. Xbox 360 and PS3 are just playing at it... But if you HAVE to choose then 360 as the PS controller sucks :(
only problem though is it costs alot of money to keep a pc playing the latest games smoothly if you buy a 360 at least you know you can play everything and it's gonna work properly.:)

[slark01]

Started playing it the other day..got out of the bunker went to the small town, got bored!
Will carry on after i've finished....
Jericho
Dead space
Call of duty - world at war
Grid
Far cry 2
Flatout ultimate carnage
Sooo maybe awhile off :-)

[G]

Seriously you need to play it just that little bit longer.

I was the same, when I had no weapons, no armour and had just started I thought the game was abit crap and couldnt get into it......then I played it a little bit longer and started meeting supermutants and got to the Citadel.......the game is just amazing and you have probably only see 2% of the entire world map if you have only got to Megaton.

[Ceri JC]

I don't like traditional RPGs much. I've never been into Orcs/barbarians/what have you fantasy settings. I have, however, always enjoyed the fallout games. Very nice surreal humour that somehow adds to, rather than detracts from the gritty struggle of life in a post-nuclear world. It's not really a traditional RPG, neither is it really an FPS. The game that sprung to mind most in terms of comparison was the original Deus Ex. They've managed to make a fantastically detailed, yet vast game world and you could spend hours just exploring and not doing any quests. The choice/free will element is excellent and I can really see myself playing through it a second time in order to make different choices, because it would be so different.

This is easily in my top 10 games of all time and I play it far more than even GTA IV (which I bought at the same time).

[the_lone_wolf]

only problem though is it costs alot of money to keep a pc playing the latest games smoothly if you buy a 360 at least you know you it'll be outdated compared to PC hardware even on the day of release and none of the hardware is upgradable
corrected for you...;)

[SoulKiss]

Sorry guys, have to disagree, only games i prefer on the pc are strategy, C+C, LOTR etc, and i remember back to real rpgs where the trick was to type, "troll bump rock" rather than push, move, hit, shove, those were the days, bring back elite (now that's going back a bit) loaded off a 5.1/4 inch floppy.:smt003

new fangled wireless thingybobs, bah humbug.:smt099

All time favourite game Rivwer raid on the atari, closely followed bu jungle strike on the Sega, Its like wagon wheels as big as your face when you were wee, no matter how good things get they just cant compete with memories..:rant:



Go's off for a walk down nostalgia lane......:grouphug:

Heres a map to nostalgia lane for ya

http://www.twinbee.org/hob/play.php?snap=elite&scale=3

[slark01]

Seriously you need to play it just that little bit longer.

I was the same, when I had no weapons, no armour and had just started I thought the game was abit crap and couldnt get into it......then I played it a little bit longer and started meeting supermutants and got to the Citadel.......the game is just amazing and you have probably only see 2% of the entire world map if you have only got to Megaton.
Ok I shall have another attempt this weekend.
:smt067:bom:

[jimmy__riddle]

corrected for you...;)

lol +1

even at the date of release the 360 and PS3 had VGA cores which were a class old. doesnt the PS3 use Nvidia 7950 equivalents?

[the_lone_wolf]

lol +1

even at the date of release the 360 and PS3 had VGA cores which were a class old. doesnt the PS3 use Nvidia 7950 equivalents?

7800gt was what i heard apparently from sony techs

i run an 8800ultra and it's old hat now, mmm, 4870x2s in crossfire, tasty:mrgreen:

[suzsv650]

I bought Fallout and tbh it isnt that good you gotta do a lot off running about and the game is soo slow...

I was thinking about trading it in for Farcry

[the_lone_wolf]

I bought Fallout and tbh it isnt that good you gotta do a lot off running about and the game is soo slow...

it's an RPG not an FPS

as for a lot of running about... fast travel much?;)

[suzsv650]

it's an RPG not an FPS

as for a lot of running about... fast travel much?;)


yea i worked that out now but when i bought it i thought it was going to be a FPS.

I think i just need to play it more and get into it

[zsv650]

corrected for you...;)
hardly if you think it's good to be buying £7-800 worth of pcs and components every 6 months to keep up they kind of start to lose their shine.

[the_lone_wolf]

hardly if you think it's good to be buying £7-800 worth of pcs and components every 6 months to keep up they kind of start to lose their shine.

every six months?

:smt043

[zsv650]

seemed like it every time a new game comes out oh wow that looks ace oh look at the specs never mind i'll get it for 360 now the pc only gets used for total war (which rules).

[the_lone_wolf]

seemed like it every time a new game comes out oh wow that looks ace oh look at the specs never mind

the G80 architecture was released more than two years ago, my 8800 Ultra was purchased used and it still comprehensively urinates all over the most powerful console hardware...

just because PC hardware has moved on in leaps and bounds since the last console release, and games *can* use massive resources doesn't mean you have to ramp up all the settings, the majority of titles can be run on low graphical settings on a lower end computer so you get that authentic console experience;)

[slark01]

I have 2 8500gt's running in combi, as you might guess i've had them for quite awhile. Also if you look at my previous post regarding what i'm playing at the moment you will see that most of them are relatively new.
No need to spend lots of money every couple of years.
My basic setup:
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2411 MHz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP x64 (Service Pack 2)
DirectX version: 9.0c
GPU processor: GeForce 8500 GT
ForceWare version: 175.16
Memory: 256 MB
Bus: PCI Express x16
GPU processor: GeForce 8500 GT
ForceWare version: 175.16
Memory: 256 MB
Bus: PCI Express x16
Ram : 2gb

[ThEGr33k]

the G80 architecture was released more than two years ago, my 8800 Ultra was purchased used and it still comprehensively urinates all over the most powerful console hardware...

just because PC hardware has moved on in leaps and bounds since the last console release, and games *can* use massive resources doesn't mean you have to ramp up all the settings, the majority of titles can be run on low graphical settings on a lower end computer so you get that authentic console experience;)

Tee hee indeed. :p

The only game that will eat almost any setup is Crysis :( Im pretty sure if they tried to run this on a console you would soon have a heap of molten metal and slag :p

[the_lone_wolf]

Tee hee indeed. :p

The only game that will eat almost any setup is Crysis :( Im pretty sure if they tried to run this on a console you would soon have a heap of molten metal and slag :p
or to simulate the experience you could try playing any game on a 360 and just wait 90 seconds until it bricks;)

[zsv650]

my pc runs crysis fine.

[ThEGr33k]

my pc runs crysis fine.

Aye at what setting though?

[ThEGr33k]

or to simulate the experience you could try playing any game on a 360 and just wait 90 seconds until it bricks;)

Well yes 360 reliability isnt too great. Though mine survived a dousing of Cyder ha ha. Well it needed drying then it worked again. lol. I do prefer consoles for racing games... That I got to give them due for. But online FPS, PC ALLLLLL the way. UT3 BABY! :smt003

[zsv650]

pretty good settings obviously not full on but good.

[Balky001]

Fallout 3 (got it on xbox 360) looks fabulous but there's something about riding a horse and sword fighting that feels better for me. The one thing I cannot get used to is the maps, they are so hard to read, Oblivion's were much clearer. But the more I play it the better it gets.

For PS3 I got Far Cry 2 and disappointed, now that can be a pain going from place to place for missions. COD WoW is just brilliant. Wish I'd got it for 360 as servers seem better but my mate only has PS3 and I wanted to do Co-op mode.

Dont forget FIFA 09!

[the_lone_wolf]

Aye at what setting though?

or more importantly what resolution...

1024x768 with medium settings isn't anything near the kind of hardware destroying full settings at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 with things like soft shadows or reflective water enabled

[zsv650]

or more importantly what resolution...

1024x768 with medium settings isn't anything near the kind of hardware destroying full settings at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 with things like soft shadows or reflective water enabled
dude may i be the first to say what the bloomers are you talking about all i know is it runs it looks good i can play it thats good enough for me.:smt024

[ThEGr33k]

or more importantly what resolution...

1024x768 with medium settings isn't anything near the kind of hardware destroying full settings at 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 with things like soft shadows or reflective water enabled

i can run at 1680x1050 with high settings no AA though... saying that you dont really need it at these resolutions imo (Cant do highest, kills the system 15fps :-? :() and get about 30-40 fps at all times on the 9800GTX. So looks pretty good :)

[the_lone_wolf]

dude may i be the first to say what the bloomers are you talking about all i know is it runs it looks good i can play it thats good enough for me.:smt024fair enough, some people actually like to adjust their settings in order to improve the image quality of the game or increase the framerate though;)

[zsv650]

processors a top range phenom if that helps if you wanna take the mick then go ahead but it does a damn good job.

[the_lone_wolf]

processors a top range phenom if that helps if you wanna take the mick then go ahead but it does a damn good job.

i wouldn't take the mick out of someone's hardware unless they were trying to unjustifyably defend it, the phenom does it's job just fine

so anyway... back to fallout 3 - i finally decided to sit down and play for a couple hours tonight and after bit of exploration ended up at the:

***possible spolier***

GNR HQ, finally the game starts to get a bit more interesting, the mutant behemoth was fun and the temptation to ice one of the knights and steal their armour was almost uncontrollable;)

[Kilted Ginger]

just bide your time oolong the mutant and hell kill a knight for you, also took wounded knights armour once he died.

[the_lone_wolf]

just bide your time oolong the mutant and hell kill a knight for you, also took wounded knights armour once he died.

yeah tried that, made it all the way up to the museum of technology and the room where you nick the sattelite dish until i realise it said i need to be a higher level something to use it and i was fighting super mutants in my boxers:rolleyes:

[ThEGr33k]

I just been looking at the armour and weapons available in the game. Its not got as many weapons as fallout 2. The armour doesnt look as cool and bulky either :(

The Super mutants dont look at ace as they did in fallout tactics. A shame!

Might give this game a go eventually...

[slark01]

LMAO!
Tried to kill a couple of mutants with a 10mm pistol!
won't be doing that again :-)

[aarond]

what level is everyone im level 4 just now just now killing those mututant things is hard anyone have idea where can get some decent weapons, also where can i find some money on it?

[slark01]

i've basically just started, so no help from me sos.

[instigator]

I got it yesterday but am tired already of it's role playing habits.

Very drolé in my opinion. I'll try and stick it out though. The storyline and graphics are amazing though.

[the_lone_wolf]

I got it yesterday but am tired already of it's role playing habits.

Very drolé in my opinion. I'll try and stick it out though. The storyline and graphics are amazing though.

i almost gave up soon after starting as it was "just another RPG" - get going on the "follow in his footsteps" quest and get into the city the GNR HQ and things improve

perhaps it's just me coming from FPS games or playing through the first time on easy mode (i seem to have amassed a haul of stimpaks and ammo like some kind of one man army now though), but the supermutants aren't that hard to kill are they? get their attention, lure them close then three shots in the head with the hunting rifle, search the corpses and you get 5/6 rounds back, rinse and repeat

now the brutes are a different story, bloody miniguns...:p

[G]

Lazer rifle and Tesla suite = unstoppable

Cant remember if I have the Tesla Suit or Enclave Power Armour equiped at the moment.

[DanAbnormal]

Those who claim you need to upgrade a PC every 6 months to play games clearly know very little about PC's then!

My PC was 18 months old and still ran Crysis at High settings at 1660x1050, ran HL2 with ease maxed out and pretty much any other game you care to mention. Don't fall for the hype that a 6 month old machine is outdated. Build your own system and it'll last two years easy and still beat most consoles in the GFX dept.

I know have 2 4870 X2's in Crossfire. The limiting factor is now heat dissipation!

:smt003

[zsv650]

Those who claim you need to upgrade a PC every 6 months to play games clearly know very little about PC's then!

My PC was 18 months old and still ran Crysis at High settings at 1660x1050, ran HL2 with ease maxed out and pretty much any other game you care to mention. Don't fall for the hype that a 6 month old machine is outdated. Build your own system and it'll last two years easy and still beat most consoles in the GFX dept.

I know have 2 4870 X2's in Crossfire. The limiting factor is now heat dissipation!

:smt003 built my own ok it lasted longer than 6 months but no way near the value of a console higher start price lower life for minor graphic benefits i cant see the benefit so i dont bother now this latest pc ive got will be the last i have for a while:D

[the_lone_wolf]

thought i'd revive this thread as lost my save game due to a HDD crash:rolleyes: so had to start over and played through the first 6 hours or so yesterday and today

anyone got dogmeat following them around now? call me soft but it's the first time i've ever felt emotionally attached to an NPC:rolleyes: - reminds me savagely of the dog in "i am legend" - i'll admit i was welling up when he died so i had to cheat amd make dogmeat immortal:D

[aarond]

thought i'd revive this thread as lost my save game due to a HDD crash:rolleyes: so had to start over and played through the first 6 hours or so yesterday and today

anyone got dogmeat following them around now? call me soft but it's the first time i've ever felt emotionally attached to an NPC:rolleyes: - reminds me savagely of the dog in "i am legend" - i'll admit i was welling up when he died so i had to cheat amd make dogmeat immortal:D


yeah just got dogmeat yesterday immortal tell me more, and how do you get to carry more stuff i can only carry 200

[the_lone_wolf]

yeah just got dogmeat yesterday immortal tell me more, and how do you get to carry more stuff i can only carry 200

i think you need to increase your strength to carry more, no sure how, i just take over an abandoned raider house and use it as a base to launch forays into DC so i store all my junk there, apparently if you

disarm the bomb in megaton you get given a house there

to make dogmeat immortal you press the ` key, above left tab, and enter "setessential 0006a772 1" without the quotes and hit enter. this makes him an essential character and although he can be knocked out he won't die

[aarond]

i think you need to increase your strength to carry more, no sure how, i just take over an abandoned raider house and use it as a base to launch forays into DC so i store all my junk there, apparently if you

disarm the bomb in megaton you get given a house there

to make dogmeat immortal you press the ` key, above left tab, and enter "setessential 0006a772 1" without the quotes and hit enter. this makes him an essential character and although he can be knocked out he won't die

bugger have it on ps3 so dont think can do that!

[zsv650]

can this be done on xbox with a keyboard.

[the_lone_wolf]

ah, sorry you guys, almost certain you can only mess with the config files on the PC version unfortunately

he's pretty tough, just after exiting the scrapyard he demolished a rad scorpion without my help and once he's finished fighting his health regenerates, just keep him away from supermutants with sledgehammers or other tough melee enemies and he should be fine

[zsv650]

who says you cant fiddle with the xbox one you tried it im gonna try it it's worked on others.

[aarond]

well you give it a go and let me know!

[the_lone_wolf]

who says you cant fiddle with the xbox one you tried it im gonna try it it's worked on others.

do you install an xbox game in the same way as a pc game? ie: copy files to the HDD and open them from there

the game config files need to be edited, whether it's within the game itself or externally, if they're on a DVD that you insert each time you play then you won't be able to edit them

[zsv650]

now well yes yes you do.

[the_lone_wolf]

now well yes yes you do.

well good luck hunting, i can't find any reference to the idea on an xbox360

[zsv650]

hey if you dont try you dont get.

[ThEGr33k]

ZSV650... Sorry but its not going to happen :(.

I started playing Fallout (the origional) again. Got Fallout 1,2 and Tactics for £6.41 lol. Anyway, wow what a COOOL game. I forgot how good it was. I love it :D :D :D

I just got into a place called the Glow, so called because its radio active as hell! Guess a bunker buster Nuc must have smashed the place. Anyway I used a rope to climb down into the bunker, it was littered with burnt bodies. I used Rad-X for the radiation and started looking about for some proof that I had been there so I could join the Brotherhood of steel. Found a dead brotherhood fella and got a hard drive looking thing off of him. Then went further in activating backup power as main was down. Managed to get down to level 6 but couldnt activate a lift to get to level 5 (level 5 is on a seperate lift).

This lift for level 5 though wouldnt work with just the backup power so I had to find the main generator and fix it. Managed to find it and after a few attempts at fixing it and reading some books to get better at fixing. managed to get the generator back up and running and made my way towards the lift. I then found a super computer, talked to it about what the bunker was for and found out that it belonged to the company that made power armour for the government and they also produced the FEV virus (this makes supermutants). I then had a few games of chess (not in real life unfortunatly, would have been a cool mini game :)) with it and left it for the lift.

Got up the lift and was met with robots which had been activated when I turned on the main power. I managed to beat them, thanks to me having a shed load of stim packs (over 90, steal skill is soooooo worth it) and made my way to the armoury. Was a little gutted to find there was no power armour there but I got combat armour a plasma gun, plasma and laser pistol, mini gun an a bit of other madness. Woot. Only think it I had 10% with energy and heavy guns :smt019. So I been working towards Energy weapons since. So after this I made my way out of the bunker and back to the brotherhood to show what id found and see if they would let me join. :D

Get the origional, its BRILLIANT... as long as you dont mind isometric views and turn based gaming, it does work though I can tell you.

Take care out there :p

ta taa

[gettin2dizzy]

Oblivion bored me to death. There's only so much rat killing you can do.


Is this going to please a COD4 fan?

[slark01]

No!
I love all of COD games!

[gettin2dizzy]

Doh!

I'm trying to work out which game is next on the list....


I feel a new thread coming on ;)