Fallout 3 will be Game of the Year.

Oh shit! Base wars! I forgot to add that one. Whats the football one?

 

CYBERBALL

 

Megaman Soccer!

 

Will play it as soon as I upgrade my POS GPU

 

Can you get Power Armor training without doing the main quest? I've got 5000 caps burning a hole in my pocket from doing tons of pillaging. I had to take like 30 "buffout" (Steroids) pills to be strong enough to carry the 700 pounds of equipment I looted from an Armory.

I think this game is kind of easy to be honest. If you specialize in repair and one type of weapon, you can kill almost anything with ease. Only problem is I've got so much loot I have to keep taking steroids to be able to carry it all, and merchants don't have enough caps for my stuff a lot of the time.

Also: Which perks are the best ones to get ASAP? I've been using a lot of them on Gun nut and intense training to get my strength and endurance up. Already got the educated perk.

 

did you blow up Megaton? i store almost all of my stuff in my house there. i've got all my miscellaneous items to build weapons and such stored there as well as armor and weapons.

the perks i've been using are intense training and i got the ammo one which helped me out A LOT since i'm mainly using small guns. i just got my lock picking to 100 which is awesome.

as far as i know you can only wear the power armor by doing the quest. i haven't seen anything mentioned in my guide that says otherwise.

the difficulty is pretty balanced. very hard sounds insane though. it's something like you do 50% of normal damage and enemies do 200%. h:

 

About enemy respawning. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe enemy corpses eventually do disappear and new enemy units inhabit the area, but it takes many in-game days. So you can't come back in a day and expect new enemies.

 

I've dumped about 10 hours into the game without any in-game crashes. The only crash has been a crash-on-exit, which Oblivion does too. It seems pretty darn stable actually. Like completely stable aside from that exit crash. The engine still stutters like Oblivion does too, even when the framerate is fine.

Some folks say the game isn't visually impressive. Well, on my PC it sure as hell is. 1920x1200 + 4X AA + anisotropic makes this one "beautiful" post-apocalyptic world. It looks way better than Oblivion, especially the distance detail.

I did have stupid securom probs with XP. It won't start with Daemon Tools installed. The launcher just crashes. On my Vista 64 machine the game works with it installed tho. Dumb securom nonsense. I actually wish it was one of the games that uses activation because those are sometimes not requiring the DVD in the drive at all. Dead Space is like that.

 

it will Probably be RPG of the year, Because I was a little disappointed with Fable 2.

I Think gears of war 2 will be Game of the Year hands down. Just saying.

 

For me the 2008 Game of the Year will be Left 4 Dead

 

Hmm almost forgot that is coming out, Damn There are too many good games.

Mirrors edge was fun but not GOTY.

 

How do you buy the empty house in Megaton? I was contemplating on blowing it up, but on this playthrough my character is basically a saint. Its weird, maybe its because I'm good, but the towns seem awfully cheery.

About enemies respawning, I think only certain areas respawn. Super Duper Mart has been cleared out for like weeks in game time, and no ones come back. It might be because the robot is still in there. I usually go into Super Duper mart to sleep on the beds for free. If the containers didn't respawn I'd make that my "house" and put my junk in the containers.

 

you defuse the bomb in megaton. then the mayor/sheriff rewards with some goodies and a key to a place of your own. you also get a robot butler that tells jokes. there's also a place to display your bobbleheads and you can put a workbench, jukebox, themes, etc in there, too. it's quite awesome.

 

Hmm. Okay then. I hear you get basically the same thing for blowing the town up, too.

 

well, if you blow up the town. it becomes super radiated, something like 18 rads per second. there's other places you can live though. Tenpenny Tower is one that I know for sure.

The one lady at Craterside Supply that gives you the survival guide quest, turns into a ghoul if you blow up the town. it's pretty funny because her voice sounds the same.

You can say like, "You went from good-looking to hideous in zero seconds flat." Then she says, "It's not so bad, I wanted to do some more research on ghouls anyways." xD

 

Well I got the house in Megaton. I like the houses in Fallout 3 a lot more than the Oblivion ones already. I did like Skingrad mansion though. I spent countless hours in my bedroom in that game, casting spells and summoning monsters just so I could beat the crap out of them. It was like my personal training room!

I like how the robot Butler can give me a haircut, now I can actually change my hairstyle.

 

I just beat this game after obsessively playing it for about two weeks straight.

The ending sucks. Everything else rules. It might be my game of the year.

Edit:

You have to do the main quest up until a certain point, then you can stop. But yes, you do have to complete a portion of the main quest.

 

about the ending, a buddy came into work pissed because he beat the game on accident. he didn't realize he was doing the final mission and then the credits rolled. so he's starting over. :lol:

 

wait once you finish the end quest can you not play it anymore to do the other side quests and so on?

 

It's some kind of switch if I'm not mistaken. Plenty of irate gamers have been mentioning it.