Fallout 3 DLC dated, detailed Comments by Robert Purchese
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"Finally, Broken Steel arrives in March. Here, players will be recruited into the Brotherhood of Steel, and be swept up in the furious termination of all Enclave supporters in the Capital Wasteland."
\0/ "Broken Steel takes Fallout 3 past the conclusion of the main quest." Oh *g* thanks for that spoiler, now I can make a pretty educated guess at the end of the story. |
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Snakehips76
26/11/08 @ 09:11
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Sounds good enough reason to get back into F3 for me.
i didn't think that there were enough side quests in the initial release. With 3 DLC chapters about to be released in the next few months i get the impression that the original release game was left deliberatly under-cooked. Still that is Bethesda's perogative - it worked for them on Oblivion so let them milk the cash cow a little longer provided the content is worth it. |
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Perhaps I've not investigated the Wasteland enough, but there doesn't seem to me to be nearly as many quests or content in Fallout 3 as there were in Oblivion. I've even cross-checked against the Fallout Wikis and don't seem to have missed very much.
In many ways, much much better than Oblivion. But more of it would have been great. |
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CapnCloudchaser
26/11/08 @ 10:06
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Still not played Fallout 3 yet, despite the lunch box sitting on my shelf for ages now. I'll get round to it over Christmas in time for the DLC.
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Something that really riled me - on the official fallout 3 forum, there's a big set of rules about ABSOLUTELY NO nude mod content to be posted, linked to, etc.
It's been mentioned a million times before, but I still don't understand how in American culture it's ok to show a character's head being caved in with a sledgehammer, in close-up slowmo, with parts of their brain bouncing out and off the walls, but it's not ok to show a girl's boobs. I mean, what the hell is up with that part of the world? |
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I loved Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360, it was a slow burner for sure but by the time I'd got to the end of the main quest after 50 hours of playing the game, I was well and truly hooked. Never encountered any bugs/glitches with the game either nor did I experience any crashes (unlike the pre-patched Oblivion for example!). Nice. Wish Bethesda would add a V-Sync On option for the 360 version though, that's my only real complaint about that game as the screen tearing can be quite ugly at times and they occur in the places I wouldn't expect them to.
Definitely interested in the DLC... but do I get it for the 360 or PC version? |
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Sounds like those of us with the PS3 version could actually be missing out on some pretty good DLC here (unlike say what was promised for GTA4, which I have a feeling I'm not the only one who stopped caring about after a couple of weeks? Has it even been released yet?).
Well, I was sort of planning on getting a gaming PC again in January anyway, so I guess there'll be mods and DLC when I buy the PC version of Fallout 3. |
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As with everyone, I was annoyed at how there was no option to continue after the credits (ala Oblivion) - strange decision.
I rolled back to my save 5-minutes before and ran off back to the wastes, leaving the Brotherhood and the robot to hold the monument while I complete inane quests :P Stunning game, though; looking forward to the DLC (don't see how the same character could continue after the main quest... unless they sacrifice wasername to the radiation @guernican For my first ~100 hours, I pretty much stayed in the city, where there aren't too many quests. I then went outside (starting with a quest in Megaton obviously intended to get you used to the game - which I wiped as a level 15 :P) and found quests EVERYWHERE. Well worth going for long treks in random directions, if you can put up with the annoying random encounters with pointless rad* creatures (or get the Animal Friend perk). |
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brockenheimer
26/11/08 @ 11:47
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What format(s) will the DLC be available on? And why is this info seemingly hard to come by?
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metalangel
26/11/08 @ 13:21
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looks like I too will be holding off completing the main quest so my character can have these adventures too. Even FO2 let you keep exploring after the ending, albeit with everyone slapping you on the back and thanking you.
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Will they up the difficulty and level cap with the DLC? Still kicking myself for accidentally finishing the main quest over the weekend (easy to get caught-up and accelerate your progress in the latter stages). even going to my prior save my character was maxxed out and nothing short of a surprise attack by several deathclaws is going to prove much of a challenge.
Also kicking myself for getting the 360 version where the PC one might have offered more customisation to spice up any replays (to mop up the unfinished quests). Will the PC crowd have to pay for the DLCs?
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most recently on 26/11/08 @ 15:14
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..Main bugs I saw were mostly to do with NPCs, mostly dogmeat who wouldn't stay put for very long (even in my shack). Kept reappearing at some random location near me or more likely outside 101 where he'd meet a sticky end due to the random deathclaw around there. Equally most of my roving traders kept getting wiped out by a pair of deathdclaws that seemed to phase in&out around the metgaton main gate, wondered how that effected my trader side-quest(s)? only time I got to see my traders was tripping over the odd internal organ (which lucky still contained some of his stock ;).
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I too wish it were possible to continue playing after the ending. though obviously that would have been a bit difficult, given what happened at the end. So I had to go back a few saves so that I could explore the rest of the wasteland - which I am still doing. Also I have Fawkes following me around. He makes an awesome bodyguard!
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