[David-kyo]

If memory serves right, Interplay went bankrupt, Black Isle got sacked and Bethesda bought the Fallout license for an amount of money that is around my country's GDP.

[pdgeorge]

I'm curious if Yahtzee had finished fallout 3 by the time of the review. I mean, I can understand not reaching the end by the time of the review concidering GameOn and everything, I just think it would be interesting to hear his thoughts on the ending.

The ending itself wasn't.... TOO bad... it just wasn't "100+ hours of game time" good.


and as a note in regards to sending fawkes into the chamber... your also able to get a sidekick who is a ghoul who will gladly do any task you ask him to do and he refuses to help you out aswell.


In order to do another fallout game, I think it would be best to do it in another continent (Australia? or have a REAL laugh and do it in new zealand with giant killer sheep!) maybe even do one in china. Since theres so much talk about everything in america, it'd be interesting to see how it's done if it was done there.

[Gobbler]

Crickey, that would be boring. Better go for the ruins of New York then.

And what's "100+ hours of game time good" got to do with the ending? You can rush through the main story arc in a few hours. If the rest of the game world doesn't bore you to death after a while, you might very well get those 100+ hours together. Granted, I didn't, but I sure enjoyed the game for far longer than I would have originally expected.

This post has been edited by Gobbler: 08 December 2008 - 04:49 PM

[pdgeorge]

100+ game time only makes a difference in that it was a big selling point of the game (atleast from what I had seen)

It's like the extra stuff in the game is there to do, but there isn't really any reason to do it other then... to do it. The main story line seems to be the main focus, with your actions barely making a difference to other things except threedog, and even then the main story feels very short as it is. Just a bit of an extended side quest.

Sure you can get some more big ass powerful stuff in some quests but concidering the amount of time I fought supermutants doing the quest line only with nothing else, I was able to buy anything and everything I wanted anyway to keep me alive. I had enough stimpacks I could theoretically have only used the BBgun and kept healing all the time and still win.

Only thing I'm saying is the actual story of it all could have been alot better. the game in and of itself is awesome, it's just if you play the hoped 100 hours game time in one character, do all (or almost all) quests in the lead up to the end of the game, your reward is being escorted to final part of the game by a giant robot (not really a climactic fight at the end) to meet a guy who you can kill in one shot if you don't manage to convince him to not fight you. and then the final cinimatics just go over "the begining" "karma" "who went in there" "FEV or not".
The story was still good when you could convince eden to end the enclave but as soon as you got back to the citidel it felt like it was just saying "alright, time to finish this game up!'
I understand not everyone likes long epic games that will take that long to beat (especialy nowadays) but when your advertising '100+ hours of gameplay' there should be preperations for a better ending/conclusion if people are willing to put that extra work in.

by the way... did anyone else go around killing innocent people to lower your karma insanely... then go around doing good boy quests? If you do that and listen to GNR three dog ends up talking along the lines of "geuss what the news is on that evil son of a ***** devil **** that came out of vault 101 is... Little timmy's town was invaded and everyone was killed except him... so 101 went in there and cleared the invasion and even found a new place for timmy to live! good job 101!"

[Dr Lecter]

They should release Fallout 3: Blighty. I always find Americans doing British accents so funny. It seems like they think we all either speak like the Queen, Michael Caine, or Jason Statham. Even when they actually hire British actors, they make them put on even stronger accents, to make 100% certain everyone realises they are British.

[Game Over]

I'll definantly buy this during summer.

[JackCAl]

I'm an American who finds British accents funny. I mean seriously, over here, if you say anything in a British accent it guarantees a laugh. It's hardly our fault that we live "across the pond" and can't use phrases like "bloody hell" (which, by the way, we all wish we could) and to be quiet honest, there are far too many 'British' accents for you to expect American's to research and distinguish between. I mean shit, there are only 24 hours in a day.

Other than that, I'm new here and would love it if someone could show me around... although a few of you do sound like any one-on-one chat would be mildly disturbing.

[Dr Lecter]

Welcome, these are the FR forums. Basically, Yahtzee rules these waves but as sailed off to other shores, leaving it to some trolls to manage it. Between the two of us, he's never coming back but people have been killed for saying less. So, it's pretty much a free for all...

In the Night Life world, post count is the status symbol. So keep posting, and before you know it, you'll be up drinking champagne with barend.

[AdamM]

Americans can't use our slang entirely correctly either. No-one says 'you blokes'.