Suicide Boy Declares Fallout 3 "Worthy Successor" & Slams Shortcomings

[Suicide Boy]

This is the highest possible praise an old-school Fallout fanatic can possibly bestow upon the new title. Nothing more needs to be said.

Some highlights:

• mutants
• whores
• gangsters
• huge insects
• jumbo rodents
• lasers slicing people in half
• heads exploding
• pants exploding
• drugs and junkies
• can't swing a stick without hitting liquor
• plenty of guns and ammo
• swearing fit to shame sailors
• shit blows up frequently
• stealing everything that isn't nailed down
• fucked-up/insane/homicidal characters
• slavers enslaving people
• raiders raiding people
• weird doomsday cult(s)
• 1950s shellac on everything
• Vault Boy and Vault-Tec
• Power Armor
• baseball bat beheadings
• filthy garbage all over the place
• filthy children rooting through garbage
• miniguns, plasma rifles and rocket launchers
• a boy and his dog

In other words, buy it. Thank God Todd Howard was on staff for F3.

LK, upgrade your fucking computer!

[NinJAH]

It's good. Damned good.
I just need a better computer to stop the wild crashes.

*sigh*

[Suicide Boy]

If you want to hate the game no matter how good it is, simply read a few threads on No Mutants Allowed.

Those fellow old-school fans have spent many years brainwashing themselves into believing the game would be horrible. If they were Christians instead of Fallout fans, they'd find fault with Christ's second coming even if He descended from Heaven accompanied by an army of naked Asian girls and thousands of cigar-smoking dogs riding unicycles.

[Suicide Boy]

I feel it's important to mention that Bethesda has corrected 90% of the annoying mistakes they made in Oblivion, mistakes that would have completely and utterly ruined Fallout 3.

I should also stress that even though the it's clearly a Bethesda game and can be compared to the Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3 neither feels nor plays like any of those games at all, save for some inevitable telltale giveaways.

• Cookie-cutter locations and dungeons do not exist in F3.
• Randomization of loot is subtle enough to be unnoticeable and isn't all-pervasive.
• Enemies leveling with you is very subtle and, again, isn't all-pervasive.
• While there are some shared dialogue trees among NPCs, their responses to the same questions are different and there's far more variety and personality in F3's NPCs than has ever existed in any Elder Scrolls title.
• The S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system, Perks, and skill system remain mostly faithful to the original. In fact, it's superior in F3 because there are far fewer throwaway attributes.
• The combat does NOT feel like a first-person shooter. As some guy said somewhere, it damned near feels like you're fighting a turn-based, bloody gentleman's duel.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Suicide Boy

LK, upgrade your fucking computer!

I'm still deciding if to get (new) furniture or pc upgrades first. It'll only make 2 weeks difference at most.

Hmm.

[Suicide Boy]

Upgrade your computer first. You won't notice your furniture (or lack thereof) for the next two weeks anyway, because you'll be too busy playing Fallout 3.

Also, beware prams in dilapidated subway tunnels bearing gifts. When you hear a clicking sound and the baby doll starts crying, it's not a sign that delicious candy will be dispensed.

EDIT: I just realized that for UR staff, it will be impossible to see Vault Boy in the game without thinking of me. That's so cute.

[NinJAH]

Not really for me, I was a fallout fan before I even joined ogrish in the first place.

It's bloody good so far. Seems the fail crashing was due to shitty codecs I had, reinstalled and it's been running like clockwork.

[Suicide Boy]

Originally Posted by NinJAH

Not really for me, I was a fallout fan before I even joined ogrish in the first place.

Yeah? Can you name the three most prominent members of the original Black Isle development team without cheating and using Google? What sex toy do you find in Marcus' house in Broken Hills?

Fuck, what am I saying? I have both of those games memorized. I know the layout of every building, the position of every town on the world maps, 75% of the dialogue, and even the actual contents of lockers and coolers.

It's not just a game to me. It's a religion! I'm the fucking Fallout POPE here!

It's bloody good so far. Seems the fail crashing was due to shitty codecs I had, reinstalled and it's been running like clockwork.

Codecs? What codecs? The graphics engine utilizes codecs?

I should look into this myself, see if I can improve performance. It's already excellent for me, but I can turn more sliders up with more wiggle room.

[Suicide Boy]

http://www.inonzur.com/

This is the site of the composer who wrote F3's music.

I'm linking it because his site plays the Fallout 3 intro MP3 (at least it does today, not sure if he changes it daily).

[Suicide Boy]

For those of you not getting the best performance with Fallout 3, tweaking it can truly help you get better FPS and enable you to set the sliders higher at the same time.

A big one I just did was defragging my hard drive after installation of the game. I strongly recommend doing this. It significantly increased my performance in outdoor areas and removed a lot of micro-stuttering. My hard drive didn't need defragmenting in and of itself, but doing so "tidies up" the game files on the hard drive, allowing the game to access them more quickly and efficiently.

If you're getting crashes, ffdshow codecs may be the culprit if you have them (NinjaVideo users, this means you!). I just straight uninstalled mine, though I haven't been getting crashes anyway. Use Google to find out how to fix ffdshow problems for F3.

As usual, make sure you've got no viruses, adware or spyware on your system. Ensure that your video drivers, audio drivers, and DirectX are up to date. Make sure that scanning applications, instant messengers, and junk/CPU-intensive processes aren't running in the background.

Finally, for tweaking your F3 .ini, use The Oblivion Tweak Guide. F3 uses nearly the same engine and 90% of its .ini settings are identical.

Also check out the Tweak Guide Tweaking Companion PDF.

[Suicide Boy]

Max bulls-eyeing mole rats with his T-16 laser pistol.

Shoop filters used for comic book/pulp effect.

[Tri]

Installing it as am typing.

won't be able to run it full spec atm but I will get me 4gb of mermory for xmas.

[Suicide Boy]

• You can hire a prostitute for 120 caps. End result? She curls up on your bed. That's it. No innuendo, no conversation, no visuals of any kind. We're taking a step backwards from Fallout 2 here.
  
• Aside from this one prostitute, you can't really seduce anyone else that I'm aware of. You can't become a porn star, either.
  
• Power Armor has been nerfed. I'm sure mods will fix this sooner rather than later, but Bethesda's versions offer less protection, lower strength bonuses, and an agility penalty. Unacceptable.
  
• The skin textures and tints for ghouls and super mutants are a bit off. This should be easily fixable once Bethesda releases a construction set... provided they actually do release one.
  
• Also, Nuka-Cola is supposed to be blue. So are the labels on Nuka-Cola bottles.
  
• While there are children in the game, they are not killable. God damn it! This will probably be fixed with user-made mods. I never killed kids anyway, but I want the option to be there so that I'm making a conscious choice.
  
• The path-finding AI for Dogmeat is atrocious. Otherwise, Dogmeat is awesome.
  
• They did not include Gauss or pulse pistols/rifles in the game, though admittedly there are a number of all-new weapons not seen before in the franchise. Even so, I'm not happy with this omission.
  
• They kind of fucked up on what the Brotherhood of Steel's philosophy is supposed to be. They're SUPPOSED to be insular, rude, xenophobic technology hoarders, not white knights protecting the people of the wasteland from evil super mutants.

Here is a bonus screen shot of me ordering a frosty beverage from some twat, whilst seeing a man about a horse:

[ShitFuck]

Originally Posted by Tri

Installing it as am typing.

won't be able to run it full spec atm but I will get me 4gb of mermory for xmas.

it looks and runs fine to me on the lowest settings

[Tri]

Originally Posted by ShitFuck

it looks and runs fine to me on the lowest settings

I run it under a small resolution and it runs fine too. I get a lag time to time when am outside but that's it.