The scariest moment for me so far was running into a Centaur, I wasn't sure if these guys were going to be in the game and they were pretty terrifying, especially when I only had 3 shots of ammunition left in my hunting rifle. I thought it was a human from a distance so I holstered my weapon and started walking towards it, I could see it coming towards me but there was no dramatic music or anything. All of a sudden this mutated pink guy is hurling mucus at me and screaming.

the centaurs and all the weird aliens were pretty horrifying in fallout 2.  it's never explained properly but the basic premise is that the american government, which formed the splinter unit Enclave after the world blew up, wanted to restart mankind in space and the entirety of the vault program was designed as a test of mans ability to adapt.  Every vault in the country had a specific problem... ironically vault 13 was the only flawless vault and the broken water chip was a complete mistake.  the spaceship outside of china town was a prototype but after a test launch they brought "something" back which began infesting the ship the enclave used to move back and forth between their oil rig hideout so they abandoned it.

basically, one of the overarching themes of fallout is nihilism and failure.  Fallout was originally supposed to have an alternate bad end for every one of your actions (like the Junkland mayor goes insane and turns it into a fascist state) but it was modified towards the end of its release although Fallout 2 contains the more somber endings (like no matter what you do, Gecko either ends up as a smoking crater or they're assimilated into a totalitarian government and worked as slaves).  Everything about the series ends with you, as the main character, failing.  Even when you try to change the wasteland for good, the people just don't fucking care and your plans usually backfire on you. 

I loved helping the mutants out in Necropolis only to have them get wiped out by Super Mutants a month later.  Shit was fierce.

Just bought and started installing...  how long does it take, because I've been sitting here for about 5 minutes and it's still on the first bar...

EDIT: nvm...  it's going now

ugh.............

this game is bad. i think i could list a lot of things that make this game bad, but i will just use arefu. arefu is the worst thing i have ever seen in a video game. there is one character in arefu named braillie euwen or something, i can't remember what exactly it was, but she is the worst character in a game. she is horrible. aaaaaaa she is bad. but that's really not the worst thing about arefu. i hope you guys don't mind if i spoil things, but i think i really should both to illustrate how this game is bad and to just tell you not to do this part.

the VAMPIRE SHIT is the gayest thing ever. when you find the two dead bodies in arefu and it says there are bite marks and the blood is drained, i honestly didn't believe it had anything to do with vampires because that is just so, so gay and they wouldn't put that in fallout. i am not one of those guys who goes around preaching the sanctity of fallout but man, VAMPIRES. jesus. so you find their secret vamp hideout and their leader is basically the guy from every single vampire movie ever. hmph, foolish mortals simply don't understand us... EXCEPT HE'S NOT A FREAKIN' V-PIRE!!!! HE'S JUST PRETENDING!!!! jesus christ aaaaaaaa i almost just killed them all  because it was all so unbelievably gay.

this... hunger... i have this unexplainable urge that i can't... control... when i was 10 years old i jumped at the throat of a wandering merchant and drank his blood... i... i just blacked out... i don't remember any of it, i just... drank his blood.

bethesda really, really cannot write. and they have bad ideas.

this game sucks ass. don't pplay it.

no dude, there are things i like about this game. i like exploring and even though the slow motion thing is very obnoxious, i like vats. the writing is very, very not good and there are all these i guess DESIGN FLAWS that are really, really obvious. or i guess compromises. everything in this game seems so half-assed or maybe just dumbed down. i don't know. but yeah, i guarantee no matter how you feel about this game, you will cringe when you get to arefu. maybe not when you get to braillie euwen, but definitely when you get to the vampires.

i don't know. you walk into the first town. there's a power struggle between rugged black cowboy/lawmaker simes (or whatever his name is) and gangster pimp moriarty. simes is good, moriarty is bad... whojse side do you choose?? also the dialogue is not good at all. there are dialogue trees that give you really stupid choices (good answer, bad answer, let me think about it later!) and when dialogue trees are more complex than this, they ultimately don't matter because they take you right back to the dialogue tree you were in before you started the current tree. good and bad are completely polar. not only this but there really aren't any situations presented to you in which there could even make an in-between choice (blow up the town... or save the town? (ps this happens at the very beginning of the game, why would something so potentially huge happen atthe very beginning?)). basically NOTHING MATTERS!!! it is very much oblivion with guns. the world is static, except, i guess, if you blow up the town, in which case you are evil and i am sure that if you get enough EVIL POINTS through other means you would get the same reaction out of people.

butttt i am trying to get over how awful and shallow the dialogue is. i do enjoy exploring and the combat. i have only been to like two dungeons so i have no idea if they are all repeats like in oblivion, but they seem pretty interesting to me so far. one thing that happened in a dungeon (i'm not sure if you can call it a dungeon because it was a big shopping store with one giant room) was that i wiped out a bandit camp, and after searching the dungeon for a little while, some more walked in and said something like "we got the supplies you guys - something's wrong here!!". the dungeon was not static, it was an actual bandit camp where guys came and went. i liked that a lot and i hope to see more good ideas like that.

Everything has to have vampires now Chef.  They are really gay and terrible in almost everything they get shoved into, but there just must be vampires these days

I got to arefu and it was just really weird. I got my medical skills up just to see what happened and all it was were bite marks. I don't even know if it was necessary to do that or not. I don't know what to do though, I'm level 3 and I'm still on that blood ties quest. It's impossible at this level.

This is a pretty solid game, though. I really really hate walking everywhere, even with the radio it's boring. There is an occasional fight here and there, but this "wasteland" loses it's appeal after 5 minutes. But vats is awesome, the dialogue options are great especially with speech, and I'm enjoying the freedom of the game.

this... hunger... i have this unexplainable urge that i can't... control... when i was 10 years old i jumped at the throat of a wandering merchant and drank his blood... i... i just blacked out... i don't remember any of it, i just... drank his blood.

TUNNEL SNAKES RULE

also i liked the intro tutorial thing. i thought the g.o.a.t. was awful, they made the conflict between your dad and the overlord extremely black and white, and the butch thing at the end was really dumb (heh, sweet irony *cracks knuckles*), but overall this was a really good way to start a game. THATS HOW YA DO IT! it wasn't even that long, it was like 20 minutes. but yeah, it was good!

but mostly when i play this game, all ican think is "i could have done this better".

Chef's team would consist of GZ with an infinite supply of BAWLS.

The game would be finished in a year and take off to reach Pokemon levels of success for no apparent reason.

I thought the vamps were just genetically mutated dudes that wanted to eat people but decided to drink blood instead?

how is the music. i heard one song and it sounded basically like the battlestar galactica soundtrack, which is not a terrible thing but makes sad/intense middle eastern-esque music into a cliche if it is all like that. i mean it sounded good, but how is the music overall?

i think i'll watch 5 minutes of dialogue gameplay before i decide if i'm getting this. my hopes are low, but i really want to explore a wasteland a lot. i'm not gonna buy it if that is the only perk though.

s'pose





sh'was s'pose t'be a crazy w'man


but yeah if this is anything like oblivion, all the characters (or almost) feel really bland and boring, just because their dialogue is so bad
(i guess it is, listening to you guys)

Do the people all sound the same in Fallout3? I hated in Oblivion how there were like only 3 guys voicing all the male characters in the game. I talked to some guy who was whispering to me trying to get me to do something, then I clicked "Rumors" and he talked in this loud booming voice all of a sudden.

Do the people all sound the same in Fallout3? I hated in Oblivion how there were like only 3 guys voicing all the male characters in the game. I talked to some guy who was whispering to me trying to get me to do something, then I clicked "Rumors" and he talked in this loud booming voice all of a sudden.

Oblivion had two or three actors for every race both male and female and Fallout 3 has the same (you have like 4 "caucasian" actors, 1 black actor, 1 "evil" actor, and a few for other minor characters).  It's amazing because both Oblivion and Fallout 3 have like 50,000+ lines of spoken dialog which is more than any other game on the market.  I feel bad for the half dozen guys who actually have to read it and it's no small wonder that it all sounds the same because their entire job for a year consists of reading from a 2,000 page script.

how is the music. i heard one song and it sounded basically like the battlestar galactica soundtrack, which is not a terrible thing but makes sad/intense middle eastern-esque music into a cliche if it is all like that. i mean it sounded good, but how is the music overall?

It's all licensed oldies tracks but the occasional (as steel puts it) postrock with violins inon zur composed track.  I do like the radio stations, though, and no one can say that they hate Butcher Pete.

HE'S HACKIN' AND WHACKIN' AND SMACKIN'