Fallout 3: Broken Steel Comments by Christian Donlan

Charlie the Choo Choo? Blaine is a pain.

Soudns ace.

I'd love to know if Bethesda are planning a disc based version of the expansions, like they did with the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine for Oblivion.

Puppies \o/

So what kind of new weapons are available to those of us with small arms and explosions? Laser guns are for pansies.

That puppies perk means I am actually going to pick up Dogmeat now. I want a canine follower but don't want to worry about him being killed and vanishing.

Sounds awesome :D

So what kind of new weapons are available to those of us with small arms and explosions? Laser guns are for pansies.

I'm maxed out in all guns types. Mwahahaha.

Shame you won't hear me when I sneak up from behind and put a silent cap in your head. I'll then go and charm your family out of all your property.

Sounds good - but I want all the DLC on disc. No disc, no sale, so come on, Beth!

why - whats wrong with downloading it?

I cant wait for this - im hoping that it isnt plagued by gamestopping bugs like the recent Pitt though.

Because my ability to lose data knows no bounds, but I still have discs from a decade ago that I still use. I'm a gaming packrat, I like my stackable solids!

I've been holding out so I can get all the new expansions all in one package, think that'll happen?

Just having an extra ten levels to mess around with is good enough for me. Going to the White House also sounds rather nifty.

I'd prolly be on level 30 now as i got to 20 about a third of the way through and having done most of the rest of it + the pit and anchorage... bugger.

Havnt got round to playing Fallout 3 yet, am i better to wait for this before i start it?

Blaine is the truth.

Blaine is the truth.

What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck, and that is the truth.

Blaine is the truth.

You have to watch Blaine all the time, Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.

I'm pretty sure that Blaine is dangerous, and that is the truth.

Unless all you plan to do is rush through the main story then you might as well start now. The 5th May isn't far away. I've had this game since Dec - granted I started playing about a month ago - and am nowhere near the end of the non-DLC stuff.

Me = Customer.

At long last my game can resume and then, I presume, conclude properly. Based on the achievements, I suspect it involves some kind of communications dish... To call in help from the West Coast, or perhaps from an orbital weapon like the BOMB-001 that was meant to be in the original Fallout 3. And yet the game still assumes I want to help the BoS and not the Enclave.

"Just having an extra ten levels to mess around with is good enough for me. Going to the White House also sounds rather nifty."

hang on - i've been in the ruins of the white house though?

"this will recifty the problems people had with the ending to Fallout 3"

fallout 3 shouldve ended with this but instead i have to pay £7 to finish my game off

Going to look a bit here I'm sure but...

I am the one I am the one
The godlike terror train
The superior, artificial brain
Feel free to call me Blaine

@Bloodhunter

Fallout 3 could've ended abruptly with a picture of Bethesda shitting on your Nan and you'd still have had more of an experience in that game than you would in most others released over the past five years. Fallout 3 is excellent value for money whichever way you look at it, and this is better DLC for the money than most other developers are providing.

Power to them (although a little more money to their bugtesting department wouldn't go amiss).

Yes yes yes yes yes!!!

Personally rather liked the fallout 3 ending, as the story was based from birth to death so felt like a good place to end.

Fiqure they should have made the last 5-6 levels a lot harder to achieve, as i can understand people being pissed with it once theyd hit max, as it was too easy to get to that point compared to the old fallouts.

God. Damn. PUPPIES.

/instabuy

"fallout 3 shouldve ended with this but instead i have to pay £7 to finish my game off"

There is always one isn't there.

It had DAMN well better let me side with the Enclave.

"there's a range of new perks, the only one revealed so far being Puppies, which allows you to collect a fresh (and identical) relative of Dogmeat whenever you're careless enough to let him get killed"

Sorry, what?

I couldn't in good conscience continue my save if Dog Meat dies and just pick up another dog. I mean ffs. >:/

I don't even take doggie with me most of the time in case he dies. Seriously, this would have been a good opportunity for Bethesda to release doggie armour for free or as part of the Broken Steel DLC.

>So what kind of new weapons are available to those of us with small arms

Prosthetics.

/b

So already we know it's 'more important' than the pitt and anchorage... yet it costs the same. Why weren't the other two put together? or made cheaper? Were getting up to 20 quid for DLC! Madness!

This last DLC seems to be the most worthwhile, at least.

And I second the doggy armour! It was instant reload if dogmeat became dogmeat for me, too.

Edit: Maybe a pistol attached to the head would work?

hang on - i've been in the ruins of the white house though?

Not completed the game yet so I might be wrong here, but are you sure you're not confusing Capital Hill (which is in the game) with the White House?

blaine is a pain but you have to take the train

All sounds great, now just need it on a special edition CD for PS3... dont want to get it for PC

@ FWB

The white house is a location you can visit too. I've been there, there's some tunnels with an amusing scene of death for someone years back and a few mini-nukes in the white house itself. Not much exciting considering, but hopefully i can fast travel there now for the new dlc :-)

Can't understand the hate in some of these messages.

Fallout has proven (as Oblivion did before, albeit not to the purist taste) that DLC is the way forward. I don't like having to wait until part 3 to get the lvl cap but hey ho life goes on.

DLC is here to stay. My sons generation will be amazed that people had to queue for games and that (to me) means advacement and technology.

personally I cannot wait for BS - 3rd character from scratch in the total world that was foreseen - I just pray that TES5 is an advancement on FO

readily looking forward to 05/05/09 - phsycic holiday planning ftw!!

Instead of puppies, why not have the robodogs from Fallout 2?

"Whirrrrr.... I am... not... a ... daggit"

is it coming to PS3?

OMG OMG!

Any word on when dog armour will become available?

I have checked the achievements for this and they add again the lvl 30 with good karma ,evil ,neutral.......WHY??????
But the dlc looks truly nice!!

I can't wait!!! Fallout 3 has been one of the best games I've played on the 360. Then again, I also think that about CoD3, so you may not want to take my PoV so seriously :)

Want, I like the idea of it using a lot of the same locations from the main game. Gives more depth to the original world.

That's why I liked knights of the nine so much in oblivion, almost all of it took place in the main game's maps.

I liked shivering Isles too, so hopefully broken steel is the equivalent of knights of the nine and we are yet to see a shivering isles sized bit of dlc for fallout 3? (maybe that's what 'fallout: new vegas' is).

Three paragraphs in and you're handing our plot spoilers with no warning? Very professional, Donlan - thanks a bunch. Some of your readers may be interested in downloadable content for a game they're still in the middle of playing, y'know.

I'm genuinely very annoyed about this. Any chance we can get an edit, retraction or warning?

Love all the Dark Tower love :D

@imephisto

just save the game somewhere when you are level 29 good,get your level 30 good,reload start killing people but not too many to get neutral...get your level 30 neutral,reload and kill some more until you are very evil,and go for the level 30 again...then reload and be good for the rest of the game ;)

@ jack_klugman

Hey man, I feel your pain even though I've finished the game myself. Particularly because it is such a long game.

To be fair though, there isn't really much in the way of spoilers there. I wouldn't panic, you'll still get plenty of compelling stuff out of the story. Even though the ending itself isn't all that great, this will hopefully make a nice change!

On another note, I'm not a big fan of the 'reach level X good evil and neutral' achievements either. It all seems slightly lazy to me.

Anyway, who out there has bought the last two DLC packs? If you have, how would you honestly rate them? I still have so many areas to look through in the game, but I don't feel the urge to sinse I maxed 20 so early in the game (played on hard mode). Upping the cap to 30 would encourage me to get back out there.

Why does Bethesda have such a huge problem with the PS3?

They should be seriously supporting the PS3 instead of the 360, simply due to its open platform.

100% community modding and keyboard/mouse support alone would make it sell very well on the PS3.

@ Vistrix

"100% community modding"

What?

I haven't purchased the other two packs yet, just haven't got round to it. I have the points card ready though. Maybe I will buy them tonight. Been a long time since I played the game so will have to re-acquaint myself with the controls.

@ metallicorphan

Yeah thanks for the tips i did the same for lvl 20 as well but still they are annoying achievements they could add something different.