I haven't played any of the other Fallout's but would like to try this. But yeah do you have to play the first 2 for it to make sense? (I've played oblivion so i know that sense)

or is it more like 'heh reference to the other game' in some places.

I find it somewhat odd that not one person has questioned me about the Super Mutant with the Beam Machine Gun who follows me around everywhere.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've done all of the side quests except the Nuka Cola Challenge. I regret selling all of that Quantum. Then again, they're pretty useless. So I'm just getting around the exploring all of the vaults. I was quite pissed off to find out that a couple of them aren't very accessible if you don't have high lockpick/science skill.

and im a melee character.

I tried that. It worked for awhile until people started using shotguns.
Now I hide behind a Chinese Assault Rifle and a Reservist's Rifle.

I haven't played any of the other Fallout's but would like to try this. But yeah do you have to play the first 2 for it to make sense? (I've played oblivion so i know that sense)

or is it more like 'heh reference to the other game' in some places.

I found it pretty comprehensible without much research on the other two games. Though, if you look back at the other two games there are a few plot holes. None the less.

What I find particularly interesting is that this thread has 13 pages, whilst the thread for Gears of War 2 (Which was released a week after) only has 2. Also there has been a lot more fallout-related talk amongst myself and friends in real life than there has been for gears, although, I admit some people have admitted a desire to play it.

It would be insteresting to see the sales figures for the two titles. It is pretty weird that the 360's flagship shooter (this is where someone says Halo is, but when you think about it that first came with the 1st generation of xbox) isn't talked about so much here.

because Fallout 3 is an RPG, rather controversial, followup to pretty much the quintessential cult classic series and GoW2 is just a third person shooter. if there was a topic for Final Fantasy VII-2 it would have more replies than a topic about DOOM 4.

come on crumply thats kind of obvious! it's not because GoW2 is worse or GW hates it, a lot of the posts in this thread are about how bad this game is. it's just because there's more to discuss. I don't think we even had a Halo 3 topic.

Gears 2 isn't anything to talk about really. It's Gears of War. It sold a lot though.

Fallout 3 has shipped over 4 million copies, but it's been released on 3 different platforms so comparing the two would be kind of pointless. But there has been a lot of talk about it more than most other games for me too. I'm glad the game is doing as well as it is.

because Fallout 3 is an RPG, rather controversial, followup to pretty much the quintessential cult classic series and GoW2 is just a third person shooter.

Not only that, but consider the scale of difference in these sequels:
Gears of War 1 & 2:
Fallout 2 & 3:

obviously there is more to discuss about a game that can suck away 50 hours than a game that can be BAGGED AND TAGGED in five.

Gears of war the lost levels

I did the same thing. If you're adventurous, you can skip around a bit. I was just checking out a couple of locations I hadn't explored yet before getting back to the main quest line and jumped ahead...again.

All you really skipped was Three Dog's quest to get his bandwith boosted by putting a transmitter on the Washington Monument, a trip down to Rivet City, and then the treck back to Vault 112.

Yeah, you skipped pretty much half the story.

LOL, are you serious? wow I am not going there then... well not yet anyway...

LOL, are you serious? wow I am not going there then... well not yet anyway...

Yeah that's pretty much the free reign thing.

You can do whatever you want, and you can find your dad on your own. It's actually weird to know that there's a game where they don't limit you from cutting into the story wherever, though it's also bad to skip half the story so who knows!

Yeah that's pretty much the free reign thing.

You can do whatever you want, and you can find your dad on your own. It's actually weird to know that there's a game where they don't limit you from cutting into the story wherever, though it's also bad to skip half the story so who knows!

Yeah that's exactly what I forgot to say, it's FALLOUT you could also do the same in the previous games, in Fallout and Fallout 2 I remember someone here posting how they accidentally done the same thing.

If you want to be/are an evil character, but you still want to get that Plasma Rifle, it's easy. Just be an asshole. Go to the android, be nice to him, get the rifle of him, and then go and tell Zimmer who the android is. You get more of a Karma drop for double-crossing the android.

and yeah, you can finish Fallout 3 pretty fast. I'd say you could finish it in under an hour and a half quite easily, you just need to go to Vault 112 and find out about the GECK then go to Vault 87 and get captured by the Enclave and then skip to Rivet City, then do the end part. Pretty easy.

Also, does anyone know if you can go straight to Vault 87 and skip the entire "find your dad" part?

Does this mean that the storyline could be altered in someway so that your Dad lives?

Well I actually did meet three-dog and did his quest, and I did go to rivet city to meet Doctor Li.
I just didn't go to the Franklin memorial to find dad, so I guess I didn't miss much


and thx for the tip Ears, ill do just that

You only missed a tape that basically says "go there".