oh yeah there is one part where you're at the museum of technology.

When you walk into a room this space pod thing starts spinning around and talking about man's endeavors into space travel and future plans and some other stuff. Then these big supermutants blow open the doors and come running in screaming, "WE ARE THE FUTURE"!

its probably the coolest encounter I've gotten into yet.

this is good i am really enjoying it ignore the h8rs

I like this talk of random encounters and stuff. It sounds nice. I'll wait later and buy this so hopefully it'll be a game of the year thing with extra content.

have you done anything but play this game in the past five days

pretty sure i saw him log on TF2 through steam, so at least video games aren't his life

LOL After I blew up Megaton, there was this guy called Willy begging for water. I had given him water before this, and I kind of figured I could eventually heal the guy or someshit. Though, after a long expedition into the wild, I came back and the guy looked really sickly. I went upstairs to my penthouse and fetched some purified water, grabbed a nap, went downstairs to good ole' willy and there was just his corpse awaiting me. hehehe poor douchebag.

Ah, and I'm just past finding my dad (lol a dog) that part was hilarious.

i think anyone who is a die-hard fallout fan may not be 100% pleased with this game but it's a worthwhile title in the series. you can say what you want about the game, but there's no way you can say this game is bad unless you do not like games in this genre. i have been a fallout fan, and very skeptical about this game, but not because if it would be TRUE TO FALLOUT but if it would be GOOD. i'm not really going to disagree with the line of thought that this could easily be called WASTELANDER or some other name to this effect but this game still does a decent job representing the fallout series.

the game seems fairly long, and to say that some of the quests are bad is not really being fair. if you have a ton of quests to do, of course a lot are going to be terrible. the game does a good job of letting you choose not to do quests or the multiple ways in which you can do them. the arefu quest is probably the worst i have done in the game, but at least you can kill those guys instead of following along with the lame vampire bullshit. so i don't think these are completely fair arguments, because i would rather have these terrible quests in the game rather than not at all (because it's optional).

this game has some problems, bunnymilk and headphonics outlined most of them. there's a lot of cool things people haven't been mentioning though. if you look at something like the weapons, i don't think i've ever played a game that had this many. a lot of games that have a ton of weapons usually just recolour the weapon or do a terrible job at differentiating the weapons, but every weapon in this game looks unique and has a good feel to it. the comparison about being oblivion with guns is a valid, but i think this game does everything oblivion did but is better in nearly every respect. i really don't think this is a bad thing, because fundamentally oblivion wasn't a bad game, it just had poor execution. look at something like ranged combat too, which in oblivion consisted of only bows and magic (both of which i thought were terrible in oblivion, and every spell was a different coloured flying ORB).

this game doesn't have top notch ranged combat you'd expect from a FPS, but it does an adequate job. it has body specific aiming, meaning head and limb shots actually DO something. most games only have HEAD SHOTS, and some games don't even HAVE body specific aiming (PROTIP: mass effect which was a SHOOTER by nature did not even have body specific aiming and people apparently loved the game). unlike oblivion which i felt was essentially MASH MOUSE ON RAT all day, i think the combat is pretty fun because you can approach it so many different ways especially with the many weapons. it actually requires a little thought and oblivion completely lacked this.

all this said, even if you played oblivion this game should be fairly enjoyable if only to explore and mess around in.

yeah im trying not to fall into what i always do with morrowind/oblivion which is just pickpocket/lickpick a ridiculous amount of shit and acrue an insane amount of money which pretty much makes the games waaayyyy too easy and imo is abusing game mechanics in a way

This is the 3rd best Fallout game.

i never use vats, you can do limb aiming without it. many shooters don't even have limb aiming in any capacity so i am pretty surprised you are saying it isn't very significant when it's more in-depth than most pure shooters. really, enemies actually have weaknesses and you can target certain areas so that you can make the most of shots. they even have shooting out guns and shock animations (ie. SHOOT LEG and they flinch, tell me how many games have this and you will be surprised). you are really undermining the combat by saying HEH NOTHING SPECIAL when REAL SHOOTERS don't have these features. maybe you do not like the fact that it's a FPS combat system but it's far better than you are saying it is.

COOL EDIT: to anyone who is using vats a lot, i would suggest you try not using it for a certain period of time and see how you like it. at the start of the game i used vats and found the game far too slow and the difference between fast-paced shooting and the vats system did not sit well with me. i find the game a lot more fun just by using pure real-time combat and you can aim just as you would in vats, but real time and without the slowdown and breaking the game flow.

SUPER EDIT: i recall talking to you about MASS EFFECT and you thought the game was GOOD / ALRIGHT and in my opinion the fallout combat is many times better than that. i am unsure how you could think mass effect had a reasonable battle system and this doesn't when this game is basically everything mass effect had and more (limb aiming, flinching, optional vats system, better damage types, etc.).