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Fallout 3 DLC Detailed
Eurogamer spoke with Bethesda's Jeff Gardiner about the upcoming downloadable content for Fallout 3. The new gameplay will be bundled into three different segments, the first of which is due this month. The last segment will raise the game's level cap to 30. Gardiner had this to say about how the Strike Teams would work: "The player will be able to choose, from a limited resource pool, what type of team members will accompany him or her on several missions within the simulations. These choices include different troop types like snipers or heavy weapons troops. They'll also be able to make tactical decisions on how to deploy these troops in certain situations. The Chinese Stealth Suit was what I was hinting at last week — it works similar to stealth boy every time you crouch!"
I know it's possibly paranoia but the concept of downloadable content still makes me think they're actively removing things from the original game to release them later as downloadable content.
It's like releasing the Fantastic 3 and then include the invisible girl as downloadable content.
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Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Why would they wait until the last expansion to raise the level cap? While I liked Fallout 3, the fact that I hadn't even started the final mission before I hit the cap was kind of irritating.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
The funny thing is that some of that has been done already by the modders. There is a suit which makes you slightly harder to see when crouched. There is one which gives you 25% chameleon _all_ the time.
Heck, transplanting the Stealth Boy enchantment to a suit of your choosing is such a trivial affair, I had made my very own long before the GECK was released. The FOMM/TESnip already had all you need for that. Turns out someone else already had made the 25% one, so mine was never released, though.
Raising the level to 30? That is one global variable. That was one of the first mods released.
So I'm not really thinking they intentionally cut anything out, because most of it is _trivial_ stuff. Well, there'll be new maps and stuff so obviously it's more than just the items, but the "Ivisible Girl" in your example just made no sense to remove from release because it doesn't save anything at all.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
If you (like me) bought the PS3 version of this game, then consider signing this petition to adding DLC to the PS3 version as well.
It is so sad to see this franchise sold off to such a mediocre developer as Bethesda.
They basically just took the Fallout world and slapped it on top of their existing Morrowind/Oblivion engine and, as usual, didn't bother doing any testing or bugfixing before sending the game out the door.
It would normally be just funny to laugh at another Bethesda game riddle with bugs and performance and gameplay problems needing massive patching to make the game even playable, but not this time.
So you haven't bothered playing the ending, then?
*SPOILERS INCOMING*
Because, yes, that's what makes him stand out like a sore thumb. He already showed you that he's immune to radiation, and ventured for you in that room in the bunker. But at the Project Purity end scene there is _no_ option to send _him_ into the irradiated room to press the four buttons to activate the installation. You get to choose whether you die or the paladin dies, but there is no freaking option to go, "Hey, Fawkes, you're immune to radiation, right? Can you go in there and press these four numbers for me, please?"
Now I understand the climactic choice and all, but the very presence of Fawkes there spoils it in a major way. Suddenly that choice and sacrifice makes no bloody sense. It's like deciding whether me or you rush some evil guys and take a bullet, while having Superman standing around obliviously watching the whole debate. It makes no sense.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Fallout 3 is a very large game, I certainly don't feel like it wasn't well worth its price. I have no issue with paying a fair price for them to add more. But it isn't the value side that bothers me.
If I buy the DLC on my Xbox it is linked to my console. Not only does that make it impossible for me to sell, it also can be a real pain in the ass getting DLC stuff back if your console breaks or gets stolen. I know why the DLC model exists, I just wish us backwards types could get it on physical media.
It's obvious they were faced with a dillema, fit the basic game + insane number of bugs + extra features all on to the game disc.
Option 1 would have been to ship a bugfree and complete game and then try to charge people later for the usual mass of bugs their games are riddled with.
Option 2 is the obvious choice. Include the stripped down game and the mass of bugs on the initial version. Milk the suckers out of extra cash for access to the complete game with DLC.
My god are you a fucking moron.
It's idiots like you that make it possible for shitty developers like Bethesda to pump out garbage like Fallout 3. The bugs, glitches, problems in Fallout 3 are insane even by the incredibly poor standard of previous Bethesda turds. You don't know if you should laugh or cry reading through forum posts from people complaining about the insane number of bugs in the game.
Shitty companies like Microsoft and their piece of shit RRoD box and Bethesda's braindead bugfest games are turning the console world to crap.
When reading TFA I can't help thinking if this isn't simply M$ trying to (ab)use the Fallout3 environment (at least the game engine) for nothing more but the ride on another ones bandwagon. Now we're diving into political issues and fighting off communists instead of your common futuristic baddies and monsters? I mean, come on.. Sounds to me as if they're ditching the whole idea of gameplay, fully use the combat engine and trying to turn a very nice adventure into an ordinary shoot 'm up however RPG styled. I don't see a valuable addition to the Fallout3 game experience.
And another thing; I also think the announcement is a little off. It mentions the availability of downloadable contents. Technically speaking they're absolutely right, but it could make people assume that we're talking about a freely available game extension, but we're not. Personally I'd describe it as "purchasable contents which can be downloaded" instead.
the bug that causes my xbox 360 to freeze completely, requiring me to turn it off and back on and then it still locks up when I try to restart. grr
It's not just the game. It happened about every two game hours on my original (first-run) 360. When the DVD drive finally died, I replaced it, and I haven't seen it happen once in the last 12 hours.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
The enemy rewards, especially on the high end, were okay, if even a little small. But the quest rewards were huge - often bigger than what you would get for all the enemies you'd face completing that quest.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
This is new? Many DLP TVs support this even though not many probably care (I have one and I don't).
It took over 20 years to come out with what looks like the same technology as the Sega Master System's 3D Glasses?
I also think I saw Captain EO with the same glasses back when Michael Jackson was loved by most.
Even if Fawkes is a she,
1. Then what's her excuse when the player character is a woman too, not to mention that the paladin is a woman too? That she's just a bitch and wants to see one of the other two women die horribly? That fits soo good with the whole Fawkes the righteous good supermutant act. Not.
2. _If_ they wanted to do it gender-based, then how about letting me use the Lady Killer perk there? I mean, wtf, there's this perk which mysteriously makes women do my bidding in game, despite of the fact that it only produces the most horrible pick-up lines in recorded history. (I mean, for example, there's this perfectly stranger grandma, and I suddenly get the option to spew something that would fit at most if we were already past "third base", and mysteriously she gives me ammo for it instead of a slap.) Why not give me an option to use it on Fawkes then?
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
I can understand if you were stuck with a 360, but with the amazing Valkyria Chronicles out for the PS3 you made a poor choice.
Anyone could have told you Fallout 3 was going to be a buggy and mind numbingly braindead mess just like their previous titles.
While Valkyria Chronicles is a good Turn Based Tactics game, it's not even close to an RPG and is set in a very fairy tale like, anime, fantasy land with a story and character interaction that is 100% on rails. While FO3 isn't the deepest or most non-linear RP experience available, it offers magnitudes more in these departments than Valkyria Chronicles does, in addition to a much more gritty, post-apocalyptic setting. From an RP perspective Valkyria Chronicles is the very definition of braindead. Every conversation is a "press X to continue" type situation. The only decision you get to make in the development of your squad is what order to buy equipment and new levels for them. As mentioned the story is 100% episodic and the only choice you have in how it plays out is to not watch the cutscenes that are marked as optional. I like both games personally, but they have very little in common with each other. My opinion of FO3 probably would have been much different if I had bought it for PS3 though. Have had almost 0 issues with it on PC.
This is not true as the game will smartly give you less skill points to distribute. That of course assuming you're not cheating the skills themselves.
Game was, and is, unplayable on my new rig that I practically bought for the purpose of playing games of this sort.
Given that, I don't really care how much dlc Bethsoft releases.
I'm only going to be happy with DLC if I get to play as Liberty Prime.
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In the first fallout, the same would be true above a certain level of barter skill. And since one of the shopkeepers would replace their stock of skill training books every day, infinite money meant (sort-of) maxing out the hacking, repair, survival, first aid, and small guns skills. (IIRC, the skill books could only train you up to 90%, and you'd have to spend point above that.)
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
I hope the downloadable content comes in a Disk form as well and not just available through microsoft points. I believe Bethesda did that for Oblivion so I don't see why they wont for Fallout. I can't wait for the Brotherhood of Steel exansion coming up in March though. BADASS!