Haha a similar thing happend to Eva Bree once, so I understand the frustration! Haha

Welcome to the forums BTW

I have jumped off that bridge on purpose and nearly died too, so don't feel bad!

Hey CT! Welcome! Have some cake. I promise it's rad-free Heh heh.

I didn't want to admit it, but since you're here I will say it now: Marge N. Overra (the lady in my profile pic over at Beth's forums) died awhile back; maybe 2 weeks ago. She got killed by this big dinosaur-looking creature, which Lopov told me is a deathclaw, I think. It sucked. The thing came up from behind and I panicked--hit the wrong set of buttons. Marge was in sneak-mode at the time (sneaking up on a bunch of raiders) and the deathclaw only had to hit her 3 times.

I have a new character I'm forming; I think he'll be semi-evil, or at least kind of a pr!ck. He'll have a low Personality (I forget what this stat is called). His name will be Ben D. Banana. I think I got that name from The Simpsons, when Bart makes his prank calls he asks for funny names and stuff.

Heh! I thought you´d gone AWOL on us, Renee!

Too bad Marge died, she seemed to be a nice lady Stupid Deathclaw Btw, did you see that pic I took of you in Point Lookout?

Sorry to hear about Marge. That is why some of us do not play dead is dead...

Started again yesterday, from the save before leaving the vault. I'd just bagged a deathclaw courtesy of one of those random events, and then made a second attempt at clearing the bridge I fell off yesterday. Only to fall off it again backpedalling to get away from a grenade.

I think I'm just going to stay the hell away from that bridge from now on.

I´m still not sure if I´m gonna move my stuff from the Duchess to the new home I found out west in Lookout. I may just haul it all back to Megaton

Sneaking around the motel

You're not playing FO3 dead-is-dead?



I am just glad we made it as far as I did, being a n00b new player and all. I didn't expect to get that far, seriously.



This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Oct 3 2013, 03:07 PM

Yeah, I'm playing Dead is Dead, I just don't see a reason to go through the tutorial everytime in Fallout 3. Without a skill based leveling system the only differences between characters that aren't from the character confirmation screen are the contents of the inventory, and that doesn't really change much. Might as well skip all that and create my character just before leaving the vault.

Edit: Fired up my new game, new character by the name of Gregor. He's cleaned out Springvale, didn't kill Silver, did kill all the raiders in the elementary school, netting himself a sawed off shotgun and a hunting rifle. And in the barn near the "Bridge of Doom" he found something that caught me totally be surprise. A dead Wastelander, dreesed as a roving trader, carrying a Fatman! Plus a mini-nuke and an instruction manual for it. Gregor learned the basics of handling nuclear devices from the manual, and so was able to disarm the bomb in Megaton when he returned. So now he's got somewhere to live, and to store spare weapons. And he's reached level 4.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Oct 3 2013, 04:48 PM

And we don't actually have to do this every time, anyways, since FO3 allows us to change stuff just before leaving the vault; it's just like in Oblivion. Only for TES: V Skyrim did they change this.

What about FO:NV? Can we change characters just after exiting any sort of Tutorial?

Yes, you can but IIRC you can change your character once you wander a distance away from the starting town, not directly after a tutorial.

Skipping the tutorial in Oblivion does have it's downsides though. I generally go through the tutorial with every character I start just to make sure the skill usage is right. Otherwise it would bug me.

If I recall correctly in FO:NV once you leave the area you start in it gives you the option to finalise your character, but it's been a long time since I played, so I could well be wrong.

Edit: Seems I'm not. Apparently Lopov's been taking some ninja training.

Damn was that game a mess.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Oct 4 2013, 09:07 PM

Now you've got my attention! I want to try FO: NV now!

The radscropions walking around doing handstands on their forelegs were hilarious. But the submersible scorpions - who were under the ground, except for their tails - were not. You could not shoot them because you hit the ground. But they could still sting you with their periscopes tails. Of course who can forget the dog with the external eyes?

That's a must! Although FNV relies more on story than on exploration IMO, it's for me far better than FO3, maybe also because it was produced by some original FO developers.

Whatever you do, don't get it for the 360! When I had that game it started out with gamebreaking bugs, and became less stable with each successive patch. By the time they finished "patching" the game it was so unstable that I only had a 50% chance of getting out of character creation before it completely froze.

While Obsidian have made some fantastic games, including one of my all time favourites, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, they are awful when it comes to bugs.

And of course, we can just "rp" this as a dog which has been mutated to the point of no return.



Oh really? Yes, I read all about the early days of Fallout, and how they were on the verge of bankruptcy and stuff. It's cool some of the original devs got their job back, at least.



I'll probably get it for 360. I'll just deal with the bugs I guess. These next few months years are gonna be devoted to modding OB and Skyrim, I won't have time to get involved with FO. The vanilla game seems like it'll be fine for me for a very long time. So much to explore.

Whoa, a ghost dog!

I might pull a reversed-Renee and get meself a 360, just to play New Vegas Or I might get a PS3 to play Skyrim!

Bah, just stck to Fallout 3. 90% of the fun, 1% of the bugs, glitches, and instability.

@Mirocu: Sure you will, right after you start a new character in Oblivion

I have got to agree with Call here. I did not try FONV until about six months ago, so I missed the really huge game slaying bugs it shipped with. But even with the final and supposedly fixed version of it, it really was buggy. Most it was just weird things like scorpions doing handstands, or the dog with his eyeballs floating in midair beside his head. But there was one completely game breaking one involving the vault that was overgrown with plants. If not for the command console, I would not have been able to escape that one.

But even bugs aside, FONV is literally half the game FO3 is. The right and left sides of the game map are completely inaccessible, so you can only explore the part running down the middle. When it comes to locations, FO3 has much more to places to explore, things to kill, and loot to scav.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Oct 5 2013, 09:27 PM