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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #80 on: November 02, 2008, 12:00:04 AM »

It's an uncommon urban myth that a certain type of soft drink is actually able to help prevent radiation poisoning.

... Red wine too.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #81 on: November 02, 2008, 01:23:13 AM »

Reminds me of glowing mountain dew.

Check youtube for that, it's neat.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #82 on: November 02, 2008, 03:49:07 AM »

So what, it'd be more plausible to get healed by regular old diabetes-in-a-can?
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #83 on: November 02, 2008, 04:01:13 AM »

NUKE A COLA?

REALLY?

RADIOACTIVITY = HEALING NOW?

the rest is ok... bad memories of oblivion keep shining through

love the picture descriptions of the upgrades and whatnot

the map is huge, one of the only GOOD elements of oblivion's engine

combat's not bad, but damn does the chaingun gobble ammo... good thing i'm the obsessive fucker who whips every candle/collects every coin/checks every corpse for paperweights and bottlecaps

Nuka Cola has been a staple of fallout since day 1.

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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #84 on: November 02, 2008, 04:37:26 AM »

There is also something special about targetting someone in the chest with a BB gun and getting a crit when they're down to one sliver of health, leaving not enough of them to bury in a soup can.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #85 on: November 02, 2008, 05:50:43 AM »

It feels a little weird how common energy and big weapons are, but taking my nostalgia goggles off for a moment I think I can call that a good thing. It was a bit more realistic before, but now more builds are viable. I'm basically playing my most common build from earlier Fallouts. Small guns, Lockpicking, and Speech with a focus on rifles. No Sneak, really, just absurd accuracy.

If I were to make a ven diagram of where the game falls for me in terms of design it would be in the overlap between Fallout 1/2, Oblivion, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

I kind of wish they had chosen another city. I think the ruins are more affecting not when it's monument after monument, but when it's just everyday America. You could still do something recognizable, but it's a little hamfisted to use D.C.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #86 on: November 02, 2008, 07:31:28 AM »

It feels a little weird how common energy and big weapons are, but taking my nostalgia goggles off for a moment I think I can call that a good thing.

Yeah, this. Playing a heavy weapons character in Deus Ex is also impossible, for the same reason -- i think that there are a cumulative total of 32 shots in the ENTIRE GAME for the plasma rifle, and you don't get it until about the mid-point of the game.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #87 on: November 02, 2008, 08:11:26 AM »

Yes but it also sucks when the rocket launcher has phosphorous rounds.

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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #88 on: November 02, 2008, 08:48:43 AM »

I kind of wish they had chosen another city. I think the ruins are more affecting not when it's monument after monument, but when it's just everyday America. You could still do something recognizable, but it's a little hamfisted to use D.C.

Hey, to some people the DC Metro area is everyday America.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #89 on: November 02, 2008, 09:02:24 AM »

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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #90 on: November 02, 2008, 09:59:56 AM »

Having a high luck means better trash.  Also it is almost essential to take the perk that lets you find more ammo.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #91 on: November 02, 2008, 10:02:47 AM »

I see other people are getting THE HAT.

THE HAT is just pure /style/ when you wear it on Enclave armor.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #92 on: November 02, 2008, 11:00:59 AM »

I kind of wish they had chosen another city. I think the ruins are more affecting not when it's monument after monument, but when it's just everyday America. You could still do something recognizable, but it's a little hamfisted to use D.C.

Hey, to some people the DC Metro area is everyday America.

Of course, when the area labeled "Falls Church" is in the middle of Arlington on the map ...
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #93 on: November 02, 2008, 11:21:35 AM »

Has anyone successfully pirated this yet? I've tried three installers and two cracks and I keep either getting lock-ups or some Russian garble of what looks like a keycode that the cracks do nothing about.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #94 on: November 02, 2008, 11:34:56 AM »

83.5%.  It's pretty popular.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #95 on: November 02, 2008, 11:38:05 AM »

It's possible you downloaded a russian language version and are trying to use english language installers. I've had trouble with pirating games before where I ended up with the french version or some such nonsense. You may have to go download another version.

Or you could, you know, BUY the game. It's seriously worth the $50, I'll tell you right now.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #96 on: November 02, 2008, 12:10:43 PM »

Has anyone successfully pirated this yet? I've tried three installers and two cracks and I keep either getting lock-ups or some Russian garble of what looks like a keycode that the cracks do nothing about.

I pirated it on release day using the 7.9 gb Russian-English torrent. You have to fuck with regional and language settings before you do the install, and after that's been done you have to find a working crack, which you can get from gamecopyworld (get the russian exe)

I understand there's a lot of fakes / broken copies being seeded intentionally. If you don't mind the extra work, the russian version works just as well when you install it right, with all the menus/text/voice/video in english and everything.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #97 on: November 02, 2008, 12:55:31 PM »

I honestly have every intention of someday paying for this, if only for the Vault Boy lunchbox. Right now, though, that $50 out of my bank account means I can't get the train to school for a week.

Also, from what I've seen there are no English versions around because of the DRM, and the russian installers are only russian in that they have the language pack installed, which you can just delete to revert it to English.

edit: I just realized I never posted this because I got the "new post" thingy and minimized too fast to notice. Thanks, Shin, I hadn't checked GCW.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #98 on: November 02, 2008, 04:28:26 PM »

OK, so all through the development of this game I varied between being dubious, and being outright disgusted with what I saw, but I must say that I am really loving this game. I've never enjoyed a Bethesda game before now, but they really hit it. Before I obtained the game I was searching high and low for the opinion of someone who hated Oblivion, but loved the old Fallout games, finally just resorting to myself. So if you were dubious, and looking for a similar opinion, know that it's not the Fallout you knew, but it is very, very good.
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Re: Fallout 3
« Reply #99 on: November 02, 2008, 06:52:45 PM »

Anybody know if the songs used in the game are public domain?  I kind of want to make a mix CD of the stuff Three-Dog plays.
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