Fallout Games, specifically 3

t121anf · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Karma :

just a quick question, are the fall out games like COD in the sence that you have a set story to follow allbeit it with "challenges" or are them more a FPS where you have to unravel the puzzles?

thanks in advance

Trylski · Scooby Slapper Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Karma :

Its simmilar to Oblivion, Two worlds or Fable. There is a set story BUT you can explore the world, do other side missions before doing the main missions. Its mostly FPS styled. I wouldn't exactly called them challenges or puzzles... More like an FPS RPG. Most FPS's force you to head in a single direction to follow the mission. Fallout lets you attack from any angle or find other routes into buildings.

Fawkes is awesome btw Razz

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AngelGrinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Karma :

Fallout 3 is amazing.

Basically you start off as a child, and learn how to play the game. After 30mins or so you leave the tutorial bit, and are basically left to do what you wish.

If you want to hunt down the main quest - you can. I actually stumbled upon a later main quest - which meant I jumped forward earlier quests.

If you get bored of this, you can hunt out other missions, help people out, become the President of a town, decide the fate of settlements, collect scraps to build your own weapons, make friends who will fight alongside you......basically, play it how you want to....if you don't get 20 hours out of it, I would be VERY suprised.

Get it, one of the best gaming experiences ever IMO.
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I'm fairly sure my last fallout game had 50+ hours and I hadn;t got to the end. (had done both the first 2 expansion packs)
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t121anf · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Karma :

hmmm doesn't really sound like my cup of tea.

i thought i like "on rails" games but after playing some on the wii i decided they are too restrictive, on playing COD i was impressed, last FPS shooter I played was Wolfenstein years ago and I hated the puzzle aspect of walking about trying door after door in hope of finding your way.

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The Artist · Super Spammer Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Karma :

Fallout 3 is too Americanised. Didn't like it.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl is amazing.
30km square of free roaming. Realistic game considering it was first designed back in 2003 so graphics are not tip top but I have had so many hours of gameplay with that. Loads of mods for it aswell.
You can get a copy for a few quid off ebay for PC.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear sky is also brill.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat is out soon which looks to be awesome.

WildGoose · White Van Man Joined: 21 Mar 2002 Karma :

From what i've seen of Fallout 3 I'm not too keen, I havent yet played it, and I will probably buy it regardless when I get round to it because i'm a massive fallout nut. I enjoyed Oblivion until I got sick of the stupid levelling system and Fallout 3 is made with the same engine by the same people.

I completed Fallout 1 for the first time last year, and it is now probably one of my favourite games ever, having never been in to RPG's before, never caught on to baldurs gate or neverwinter nights. It takes a fair investment of time to get going, not as pick up and play as Fallout 3 i'd imagine (I originally picked up fallout about 5 years ago, and dismissed it after 20 minutes because I didn't understand RPG's and didnt read the manual).

I'm approx half way through fallout 2 at the moment, i've probably put more hours into it than 1 already as its much larger and much more difficult to get going, but its also much more bugged, feels much more patched together with a less cohesive story lines, and too many areas are just rehashed from the first game. So it feels less epic and less enjoyable, but considering it was released only a year after the first I guess you couldn't expect perfection.

Fallout 3 is NOT what the fans of the first two games were waiting for, which is why there is such a massive opinion divide over it between the younger, instant gratification shiny graphics xbox360 generation who thought fallout 3 was the best thing ever, and the older geeky more hardcore pc role playing types who were expecting more of the same from 3 as the first two games.

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picked up the GOTY edition today (had the standard (off t'net)) but thought i'd pay for this one. the DLC disc auto load is the biggest pile of wank ever, it's just taken half an hour to start the install the main disk had finished by then Evil or Very Mad

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