Fallout 3 Open World: What Can You Do?

First of all... No Jamaicans come close to Sanka. Second, you can do anything in Fallout. Any thing. Rob people. Break into houses or stores. Hack computers. Take over networks and robots. Kill anyone. Do or not do anything. WAY more so than Fable2. It doesn't have that social interactivity that fable has (the love and friendship kinda deal). But it has a real breathing CRAZY world. It's a freaking good game.

It's alot like Oblivion (said that on purpose cause you never played it). Seriously though, it is alot like post nuclear war Oblivion.

 

Oblivion is a great, and I mean a great game. It is about as vast as a console game can be. In many ways it is WoW without the PvP, a smaller world, but better graphics.

 

It's funny that you chose these 3 games as I initially compared them as well.

For starters Fallout 1 and 2 were the original do anything go anywhere games. They were epic in their length and depth at the time, you could pick of NPC's to follow you, steal, kill, use speech skills, poison, plant dynamite on someone, pick locks, get a car, etc. Many of those gameplay mechanics are still employed today in RPG's. While I just opened Fallout 3 and am just wandering the wastes right now I expect it to be just as epic.

I haven't spent much time on Oblivion but Morrowind 3 (its' predecessor on the XBOX) was my favorite game on the system. It was absolute HUGE. It had a giant world, full customizable characters, long great story, very open ended, allowed you to play as you wanted, etc. It was just a great game with an incredibly open world.

After reading previews of Fable 1 (I haven't played 2) I was very excited to get my hands on it. Long story short after having played Morrowind I was incredibly disappointed with how linear Fable was. The interaction and time effects were cool but as a world it paled in comparison to what Morrowind gave me. Had I not played Morrowind I probably would have loved Fable...but I did and it kind of ruined the experience.

 

1st thing you should do when you get FO3 is go buy yourself a "rat on a stick" in game. LOL. Woohoo, game is released today and I'm leaving work early to go home and get it.

 

will be purchasing this game in about 2 hrs...cant wait .

 

Free Strategy Guide and $10 Giftcard when you buy it at Circuit City

 

Guess, I will have to get it at a CC instead of Gamestop today.

 

my wife just picked it up for me, can't wait to get home

 

I'm trying to raise enough money to nail the hooker in Megaton.

 

I want to get this game. I only played a little of FO1 and 2. I mostly played Fallout Tactics back in the day. Should I play 1 and 2? Or can I just dive into 3.

 

you can dive into FO3. the game is worth getting so far. i have a SLI 260 and maxed out all the settings and it looks sweet.

 

you shouldve bought any 2 games regardless and returned them (within 45 days) for the above 2.

 

that was a waste of 120 caps

 

so i'm about 7 hours in right now...is anyone else not really feeling this game?

 

thank god, i thought i was the only one noticing this.

 

i'll probably just trade it in towards gears cause im just too lazy for all that.

 

That wont work for me anymore. The Walmarts around here wont take a game back without a receipt. I guess they are changing their polices.

 

Getting rid of Fallout 3 so soon???

 

it does start out pretty slow, after a few hours it picks up a bit. It seems slow because you honsetly don't have anything to do when the game starts

 

Yeah, i tried to get an hour or so in before I went to bed the first night and put in about 4 because it started so slow. Really fun now though.

 

I think it's because a lot of the new Fallout players have never played Fallout 1 or 2. And while story-wise you dont need to.... Traditional Fallout players know that the beauty of the game design is it's open-ness. This massive world that you're exploring. You have no leads, no help, and no idea. You make your way by exploring, meeting people, and trying things. It's a huge unforgiving world... Like a post apocalyptic world would be.

I think the game is amazing.

 

agreed. after getting to Megaton and getting some quests it's picked up, it's just a grind at first having to talk to every single person you meet trying to get a hint or clue to do something.

 

This game reminds me of Oblivion with guns so much. I agree with other posters that the game starts off so slow. Coming from a Wasteland & FO1/2, the game doesn't feel like the original FO but i didnt expect it to.

I got far as Megaton and started over again. found some cheat codes and now im sporting a SMG & Assualt Rifle in Vault 101. BOOM HEADSHOT! hahahha i'm loving it.

 

also im an employee of a gamestop *cough*

15% discount on all games for me. I only pay $52 for new games.

 

How do you like working at GS*.

You can PM if it would be a problem to tell the "truth".

 

Its sick. All i do is stand around all day and push reserves on people. I mean im a college student i work part time so really, it works great for me. Plus the discounts are awesome. 15% off new games, 25% off used games. The job practically pays me in games.

BUT, my manager is a friend of mine from a long time ago. That's probably why i like it so much. Most Gamestop managers are *****. It's not totally their fault though. The whole company, from the top to the bottom, is forced to get a certain percentage of reserves. the more you get the better. And managers who don't hit their sales numbers are at risk of getting canned all the time. So, all in all, being a manager just sucks.

Then you get crap like Guitar Hero 4, where activision doesn't ship enough units to meet the amount of reserves a gamestop store gets, and then being a manager goes from sucky to just plain horrible.

 

I always thought it was a dream job. I've just heard bad things.

 

I am considering beefing up my PC to get this game.

 

With the wrong manager it could be hellish, but otherwise its easy and you get to talk about games all day. You just have to deal with trying to get reserves and subscriptions to gameinformer all day.

Some people just hate trying to sell things, especially with no compensation for it. It's understandable. but then again, the big games sell themselves.

 

The start is kinda slow but it gets pretty good pretty fast...It almost makes me wish I had never played Oblivion because I find the fallout universe much more compelling and I spent som much time on Oblivion that Fallout has a little bit of a "deja vu" effect for me right now.

 

same here, bro. When I started playing I was thinking I was playing Oblivion again, but I've forgotten about Oblivion now, this game is so much better, the aimed shots in VATS are awesome.

on a side note, is there anyway to pick up and arrange things on tables and shelves like in Oblivion?

 

I'm 14 hours in now. its finally getting interesting.

 

i believe you push the right stick inward.

 

I can't pick locks for ****...any helpful tips ?