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Cakester
They call me Bum Tickler

Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Posts: 422
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:24 am |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:26 am |
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I've got a set of T-45d and T-51b, but no Enclave. Also, Power Armor Training is back (boo, hiss!). |
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rad resistance
Striding Hero


Joined: 17 Dec 2008
Posts: 1435
Location: Penn's Woods
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:52 pm |
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Haven't found shit yet, still wandering around Goodsprings. |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:36 pm |
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Just found a bigass Chainsaw in Vault 3. Brutal. The set-up of Vaults is way cooler, they actually make sense in purpose and layout. |
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Kickstand27
Desert Wanderer


Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 517
Location: Old California Republic
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:53 pm |
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im only just to freeside.. havent done a lot of venturing off of the MQ path just yet.. |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:08 pm |
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Kickstand27 wrote: | im only just to freeside.. havent done a lot of venturing off of the MQ path just yet.. |
It is difficult to deviate because the Main Quest is actually good this go round. You can get Euclid's C-Finder in Freeside off of a kid for 1k. Not bad if you you're an energy specialist. I highly recommend you rip off the Silver Rush, just don't loot any of their armor or it'll be stuck in your inventory.
If you hate a companion but love their perk, you can park them somewhere safe and you'll still get the perk. Check in every few days and cycle the wait/follow command to prevent them from going home and you're golden. |
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Stainless
Living Legend

Joined: 18 Apr 2002
Posts: 3036
Location: Melbourne, Futureland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:08 am |
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So, just to clarify you're not all being Obsidion Fanboi fgts and this is actually a good game worthy of my paper money? |
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SenisterDenister
Living Legend


Joined: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 3086
Location: Cackalackyland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:37 am |
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To further the question, is it worth buying now or waiting for the inevitable DLC? |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:37 am |
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Stainless wrote: | So, just to clarify you're not all being Obsidion Fanboi fgts and this is actually a good game worthy of my paper money? |
It takes paper money to find out. Also, I think it we're all certified cynical cunts, we'd have been run off by now if that weren't the case.
SenisterDenister wrote: | To further the question, is it worth buying now or waiting for the inevitable DLC? |
As much as DLC seems to throw a monkey wrench into game functionality, I'd just buy the regular edition now and play the fuck out of it til you can trade it in for the GOTY. |
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Taco-Hero
Strider of the Wastes


Joined: 13 Apr 2009
Posts: 913
Location: Minnesota
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:38 am |
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I haven't bought it yet. I bought shoes instead. |
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SenisterDenister
Living Legend


Joined: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 3086
Location: Cackalackyland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:48 am |
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Aonaran, it'd be a PC copy, so no trade in. |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:56 am |
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Fuck it, buy it anyway. DLC is kinda retarded anyway, it isn't a part of the main story otherwise it would have been in the original game. Play the game as it was intended, THEN fiddle about with wanky, game breaking DLC. |
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SenisterDenister
Living Legend


Joined: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 3086
Location: Cackalackyland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:19 am |
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Zounds gut. I reckon I'll pick it up some time in the next week. |
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Retlaw83
Goatse Messiah


Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Posts: 5327
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:31 am |
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I'll write up a review once I've visited the Strip. I've been playing for about 11 hours and have only now gone to Vegas; there's that much to do.
Also, I've setup my character like I setup my Fallout 1 and 2 characters. Normally it's big guns, small guns and speech for tag skills, but this time I've chosen guns, speech and repair; animals you have no way around blowing away, but I've defused more bad situations (and created quite a few) with my speech skill than with bullets. |
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SenisterDenister
Living Legend


Joined: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 3086
Location: Cackalackyland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:44 am |
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In my fallout games I always tag small guns, and speech. The third tag is usually energy guns because I invest points into it over the game so that way by the time I get energy weapons I can just pick them up and go.
I like the fact that it sounds like Obsidian put so much effort into speech, though. That was a part I was sorely disappointed with in Fallout 3. |
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Aonaran
Striding Hero


Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 1261
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:52 am |
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Yeah, you're pretty much fucking yourself if you don't front load your character with a shit-ton of points in Speech. Science also has a surprising amount of applications and Lockpick finally feels useful. |
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Psychoul
Elite Wanderer


Joined: 25 Nov 2007
Posts: 625
Location: Oil Rig
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:58 am |
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Yea.. the lack of inginuity of the speech skill in Fallout 3 is what made it horrible. Dialogue was USELESS.. for the most part, there were a few quests that werent written by DERP DERPS and they were quite interesting.
REGARDLESS...i didn't expect New Vegas to be a decent game.. im looking forward to gathering some moneyzz and getting the game so i can playzorz..
*derpderp* |
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S4ur0n27
Mamma's Gang member


Joined: 01 Jun 2002
Posts: 15177
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:58 am |
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SenisterDenister
Living Legend


Joined: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 3086
Location: Cackalackyland
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:59 am |
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Nope, just the actual Fallout 3. |
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Retlaw83
Goatse Messiah


Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Posts: 5327
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:09 am |
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As I wrote on MCA's Facebook page, this is the Fallout I've been waiting 12 years for.
Earlier this evening I crawled through a sewer made of very Bethesda-y generic underground parts. What was significant about it was that it was in a complicated, but sensical layout, and populated by people who were not immediately hostile to me. Even the one group I was sent down there to kill was willing to talk before shooting started (and I was able to avert bloodshed with my speech skill).
The settlements are layed out like they would be in a top-down Fallout; this is both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes it's confusing to navigate various towns, but they all feel genuine and populated. You're not going to find Girdershade: population two. |
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