I just realized. Fallout 3 next week !!! :D
 

I already preordered mine so I cant wait until it comes in :).

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I'll take a miss on that piece of crap.

Fallout 3
 

Just got back from the store with the Collector's Edition and the Collector's Edition guidebook. Anyone else got it? Anyone planing to?

I'm about to install it. I'll report back later with more info but I have to say the stuff in the Collector's Edition Lunchbox is pretty nice, everything is themed had lots of details.

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Luvian, I plan on getting it. I would love to hear your gaming impressions, etc. There were so many naysayers even before it was released. I certainly don't trust Official Website Reviews; I always listen to people who actually play it.

I read on another forum of one who got it and is now playing it and love it.

Let us know how it goes.

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It looked so terribly disjointed on all of the leaked footage; things didnt make sense and often were seemingly contradictive. Eg. a crater of a nuclear bomb that did not explode.

Could you give some comments on this and how it appears to you?

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Well, if the impact was great enough you could get a crater from unexploded ordinance.

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Except that that would entail the bomb dropping at meteor like speeds... :rolleyes:

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Gameplay wise it's not a Fallout game like the two previous ones, but that was pretty obvious.

The game so far is fun, well crafted, they put a lot of attention on the details and ambiance. Gameplay is interesting, there are full dialogues with choices and all.

The one thing that's still up in the air is content. I'm not far enough in to know if the game will be long or short, if there's lots of stuff to do, if the game has a good balance of rpg and action etc. I'm still doing the quests in and around the first city but what I've seen so far is great. Oh and I liked the tutorial/prologue in the vault.

The game is well crafted there's no doubt about it. Just don't expect to be playing the old Fallout and you should like it. I think they did an overall good job of recreating the setting but this is a different game.

They did manage to find a good balance between real time and turn based. It's nice to be able to pause the game and order your character to shoot your enemy's flamethrower, and then watching it happen.

Edit: About the bomb; if you're talking about the one in the middle of the first town, the crater is really small. It seem reasonable to me to think it could have been created from something heavy being dropped from a plane or something. It's not a missile, it's a big cartoonish thing, think of a big boulder as far as mass and shape goes.

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Nice review. Thanks for keeping us uptodate. You're echoing what many players on the 'net are experiencing. seems many are very pleasantly suprised.

Here is a link to some other player reviews:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

* Let us know what the gaming is like in the Wasteland. :hehe:

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Actually that is what the first nuclear bombs looked like. Little Boy and Fat Man come to mind. ;)

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I'm with JrK. Looks like utter garbage - an insult to the originals.

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Well, i got the game on the 28th and so far i really like it. There are only a few annoyances i can think of.

Game is HUGE and the local map on the pipboy is entirely inadequate. Because the local map sucks it can be very hard to find what your looking for and very easy to get lost.

Repair system is icky too - i apparently need to have the same items in order to repair them, which is very annoying since a lot of the time people arent carrying combat shotguns but my gun really needs to be fixed.

World map is good except for the fact that you cant fast travel to new places on it - you have to walk, which can be a real pain when there are cities in the way that have many impassable areas.

Does anyone know where to find more schematics for things you can create yourself with your workbench? would be nice if I could theorize or puzzle things out with the workbench, but it seems i must buy recipes to use.

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Are you playing it on the PC or console? The local map is working ok for me. It's not the most detailed map ever but it shows you the limit of the play area and it shows you exit/entrances. You could be losing details if you're playing on a console without HD.

Yeah apparently when you do the repairs yourself you must have two of the item so you can salvage one for pieces. I use the traders myself because they don't need a double and it's relatively cheap.

It can be frustrating at times when an npc tells you of a point of interest and you can't find a direct way to it, but don't you think it would be unrealistic if you could basically teleport to a location half the way across the map in an area you have never been to just because someone told you it was in that general area? It make sense to me that you would have to scout out the way first.

Most are from random encounter merchants or are quest rewards. You can get one for a fire sword by peacefully completing the Blood Ties quest which is started in Megaton. There's also a couple hidden in power stations so investigate those when you come across them.

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Well, i finally managed to get to the endgame, and now i need to know the project purity code to type in; i found online that supposedly 216 is it but it doesnt work, i just end up getting blown up (or is the screen supposed to go to white and skip to the ending scenes at the end?)

*edit* nevermind i just wasnt standing close enough to the console for the button to actually be pushed.

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I am in the first part, just got the game today. The crater was actually there before the bomb fell according to lore. It just didnt explode but the settlers there hid there during the war to survive.

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I never played the original Fallout, but I did go thru' Fallout 2 twice. I've just installed and played Fallout 3 for the last couple of hours. Imo, it's looking good so far.

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Okay, I have just played this game since last friday (thats roughly 4 days). Here is my opinion having played and loved fallout 1 and 2.

1.) I was annoyed how the controls worked until I adapted to it
2.) I thought I only had 1 companion DogMeat (apparently I was wrong)
3.) Maps are huge and a pain to travel back and forth (until you can use your pipboy like the old fallout and travel places instantly
4.) Local Mapping is terrible
5.) Graphics are really good and AI is decent (such as they hide when they reload), and the targeting (VAT) is actually helpful that i use it all the time. Its not only for show, they give you better critical hits
6.) Junk now actually has its uses
7.) Food and Water also has its uses (two things I found out was Vitals and HP are 2 seperate things)
8.) There is adult language but adult content has been diminish (biggest gripe here)
9.) Jokes are pretty rare in this game
10.) Sex appeal and content are nonexistent (another gripe)
11.) There doesnt seem to include any extra jobs (like merchant guard or pimp) compared to old fallouts
12.) Money is scarce and so is weight. Best thing here though is that the items you leave behind they will be still there when you come back, plus so are the dead bodies!
13.) Just one picture of the game to show you the graphics. I dont know how to do frontal shots yet.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31...ar/Fallout.jpg
:)

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Some screenies from my game. The first one is when I first emerged from the Vault, the 2nd in Megaton.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...r/FO3/Moon.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...er/FO3/Neo.jpg

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Does it still have a 1950:s retro-future bent to it?

Is Dogmeat there?

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I might check it out if it'll run on my laptop. It's not like the originals, but then again, they wont make games like those again.

BTW, I currently play FO II with the Restoration Project 1.2. I reccomend it if you ever want to replay the game again.

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Dogmeat is there and you can have him tag along. In my opinion there isn't as much of a retro future bent as the original but they try.

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yup dogmeat is here. :)

and yes its 1950 type retro theme still.

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Some of the songs are addictive.

So bongo, bongo, bongo I don’t want to leave the congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle I’m so happy in the jungle I refuse to go