Fallout3 - Frustration...

[Starbug]

Is this prototype more useful than a regular Power-Armour? Yes!
Is the little American flag on it's shoulderpads actually kinda neat? Yes!
is it still too annoying to keep? Oh yes!

hmmm oh dear! Ah well, Hang in there son! (gives Rod another dose of morphine) 

Be careful though, the inhabitants are all long gone and the city is occupied by a rather large nest of DeathClaws.
The armour itself is found in Olney's sewers on the body of a Brotherhood Iniate (you can reach them from the city streets) and are also filled with DeathClaws.

Is there anywhere which Isn't filled with Deathclaws? 

[Rod]

Is there anywhere which Isn't filled with Deathclaws? 

Honestly, I remember thinking to myself about the severe lack of Deathclaw encounters before stumbling into Old Olney.
And then it happened... And they were everywhere... Literally...

And I started hitting my mouse-button while crying "Why won't they just die?" 

[oRs]

*Fallout Frustration*

I tell you what, *I'm* frustrated - I don't have fallout...  I don't even have an Xbox.  Which, you know, kinda helps if you wanna play the game.  I also have no TV, so in order to enjoy the fun-filled fabulous and frolific...  ..fentertainment that is fallout, I have to SELL MY SOUL.

Which I wouldn't of coz.   Well.  Mebbes.

.Anyhooo...  I think this game is quite possibly one of the best games of it's time (and probably some other times as well)  Visited one of me mates who has this game, made a new character and then promptly spent the next 4.5 hours going "weeeeeeee" whilst doing my patented gummy-bear impersonation.  IT'S FUCKING GREAT. Love this game - SO - much.

So please, enjoy it.. think of me when you bounce irrationally

[Zap]

Hehehe..  Just downloaded Operation Anchorage - The new download content for fallout   stay tuned for a review once i find out how to use it

[oRs]

I HAS NO FALLOUT FRUSTRATION!  \o/   w00t

So yeah, I got meself a copy of Fallout, and promptly became more addicted to it than the sun is to being hot!

God... what a game, I swear, possibly the best I've ever played - it encompasses all the funky Morrowind stuff which I liked (being a D&D initiate in my early years), FPS stuff, random strategy, planning, sweat-inducing fits of panic, and an all-round general sense of "woah"  ..awesome. Just awesome.

I've re-read this thread and now most of it makes sense, and I'm happy to say that "wooo, it works on my machine!!" I don't have an amazing resolution, antialiasing, bloom effects etc (you know, all the stuff that makes you go "oooo"), however it works, does funky water reflections and ripples, and satisfyingly "gah!" body explosions    I'm also happy to say that I haven't encountered Deathclaws yet.  I've followed the main quest up to the point where I've sorted the satellite dish for the GNR, done a random sidequest in Megaton (the Blood Ties one for Lucy west), and basically spent a while wandering around.

Has been amazing fun.. The atmospherics are sweet-as..  bouncing about near the washington monument area, all those buildings.. all that devastation..  all the funky little wisps of dust-cloud flittering around the buildings - just sweet.  I've stuck to my usual character designation of being a sneaky theiving swine, blagging everything I can to get muchos caps, and generally being told by everyone "That's secure for a reason / don't even think about it" (Bleh)

The gameplay style was real easy to get into (being morrowindy), and the mood of the character/world-setting was even easier - *very* believable (even though there's many debates regarding "why would water still be radioactive after 200 years??!/?!!11/"), very realistically portrayed regarding the state of the devastation of buildings / roads / highways.  I love the concept of creating your own weapons using schematics and random crap that's lying about - Morrowind had loads of shit lying about, but it was primarily useless other than as graphical aesthetics - but actually being able to collect that crap and make something from it?  Nice nice.  Rock-it Launcher - Teddybears to the face - nuff said

And yeah.. the dialog between characters - *very* well done - the general flow of asking someone questions and your responses works very well - the whole "Choose your own adventure" element kicking right into place with a pair of jack-boots and 300psi.  So much better than Oblivion (and indeed Morrowind), where characters would randomly just act like imbeciles, with tones of voice not reflecting their disposition in even the remotest of ways.

Yeah..  I frickin love it.  Totally addicted and I've only had it for a few days.  I think I'd even venture far enough to say that the adrenaline rushes are better than the ones I used to get when playing Wipeout2097, and the emotional responses to solitude/wilderness/FREAKING RANDOM ANIMALS THAT COME FROM NOWHERE AND TRY TO RIP YOUR FACE OFF/etc are better than any I've ever experienced in any other game.

Also.  Behemoths.  Two words - "HOLY SHIT".  I know there are about 4 or 5 of them in the game, but when I met the 1st one when I was at the GNR building..  Man.. Let me set the scene..

Here's me; apparently limping slightly, one arm appears to be covered in flashing red dots, I've just spent the last few (hours/lifetimes) crawling and sneaking about through some random train tunnels, having a jolly good time with some fcked-up ghoul things.  I've just met the brotherhood troops, managed to *somehow* survive the random mutie attacks on the way to the GNR building, and am now sauntering casually towards the building.  I'm in super-gaming mode (whereby, reality doesnt exist, has never existed, and will never exist) - all there is, is Fallout.  I'm hyper-tense, armpits are damp, hands are starting to suffer from mouse-fatigue, and I'm *just* beginning to relax ever so slightly - cos I think "From here on in it must be ok".  The mad bint in the brotherhood goes "You can tag along with us".  I think "sweet".

Half a second later, literally, half a second, and "FRACKAFUCKSAKEBOO M" - there's an almighty fucking monster taking up my *entire* vision, and making me think "I wish I'd emptied my bowles earlier" - followed swiftly by me shouting "Gaaaaaa RUN AWAAAY" whilst actually not managing to run away at all.  I'm not looking forward to my next meetings with them...

Truly the best. Ever.

Also - the GF is into games a bit and seems to enjoy watching me jumping about, randomly hitting F5 and going on a killing spree (before screaming in a relatively feminine way and trying to hide beind cars, then screaming in a definite feminine way as the CAR FCKIN EXPLODES) - before finally going "*Sigh* That was fun" and reloading.  So that's a bonus

I've not tried any of the downloadable content yet - I figure that I'll play this character through to the end of the mainquest - by that time I'll have a new PC, and a better idea of what I'm doing, then I'll be able to enjoy the whole lot all over again but with shinyshiny graphics.

So yeah.  I'z indeed a happy chappy

[iLLuzi0n]

Damn, Id just got through the first streets of Old Olney before i stopped playin this on my PC! Those Deathclaws are indeed a severe pain in the arse, I thought I was quite a handy character before I ran into 3 or 4 of those mofos at once in a confined space!!! Got it on 360 now but Ive not really got back into it due to the 'been there, done it before' aspect. Im one of those anal feckers who tries to do all the side quests I find first time round as I rarely play a game of this scope twice...in situations like this though it utterly ruins the second time through, Id explored tons of places far and wide and really cba exploring it again and going back to pisspot weapons/armour 

We'll see, and in the meantime I think its time to hammer out some Borderlands 

[Zap]

Dude, if yer playing on xbox add me. (d0k RA)

Me kaze and pandor have been playing borderlands  

[iLLuzi0n]

cant fella, not got meself a new xbox since MS banned my ass :-D