LancerChronics on 31/10/2008 at 03:23
Quote Posted by elkston
I have a notebook (Dell XPS 2) with a 6800 Go Ultra. I run Fallout 3 at 1280x800 with no HDR or Bloom, high textures, low water effects (no reflections), No Shadows, medium-high sliders on view, actor, & object distance, no AA.
I find the performance to be very smooth indoors and acceptable/good outdoors. My other specs: 2 GB RAM, 2.13 Ghz Pentium-M processor.
ah, this is useful to know, thx. Mine may require a bit lower stats though as I have the regular 6800, 1400x900 monitor, only 1 gig of ram, and my processor is a 1.8 Ghz, but runs like a 2.4 cause of the large bus.
ZymeAddict on 31/10/2008 at 03:26
Hmm, this is actually sounding interesting...
Question: I've been wanting to try out the Fallout series for a while, just never really got around to it. Would it help in terms of plot to have played the first two games before trying this one, or does it not really make a difference?
june gloom on 31/10/2008 at 03:27
You should play the first one regardless.
Stitch on 31/10/2008 at 03:32
Fuck the first two games. That sun--great as it was--set a long time ago.
As for the F3, I'm not very far in but that moment when you first leave the vault is one of the most jaw-dropping moments I've ever had in a video game.
Scots Taffer on 31/10/2008 at 03:37
While all this talk is encouraging and I will most definitely purchase it, game prices being what they are and my gaming schedule being what it is, I can comfortably wait until it drops to $60AU and still be behind schedule with what I have to play (quit STALKER and Fallout, still have Dark Messiah and GTA4 to get through).
Phatose on 31/10/2008 at 04:04
So far, at least, F1 and 2 are completely irrelevant to F3. I haven't beaten the game yet though, so that's just so far.
Renzatic on 31/10/2008 at 04:26
Okay, it's pretty damn neat.
I wasn't expecting much. Maybe because most of the info I've gleamed about the game from my occasional visits over to NMA. Those guys, despite being the intelligent, occasionally fun, and dedicated sort, could suck the fun out of a blowjob if they find said BJ isn't up to their super exacting standards. I wouldn't pay them much attention. What they want is Fallout the way Fallout was. And this game is only just sortakinda like Fallout.
I haven't spent much time with it yet, so I can't comment much on the gameplay. SPECIAL works a helluva lot better than Bethesdas Elder Scrolls setup (and I hope they cop it for ES5). The NPCs are actually lively and interesting this go round, huge improvements over Oblivion. Dialog, while maybe not up to the standards of the old FOs, is better than just passable. And the atmosphere and music, well, it's all around awesome. I can't praise it enough.
In short, I like it. Though it remains to be seen if I'll like it in another 10 hours or so. I loved Oblivion at first, too. But after awhile, once it's shiny newness started wearing off, I got real bored with it real fast. So far, FO3 doesn't look like it'll go down that route...but we'll see.
Also, screenshots:
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http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/FO3_1.jpg) Shack
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http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/FO3_2.jpg) Megaton At Night
edit: is there any way to holster your gun?
vurt on 31/10/2008 at 05:10
Quote Posted by Renzatic
edit: is there any way to holster your gun?
Yes "r" is both reload and holster (and repair if if you're in the weapon/apparel inventory), hold it longer to holster.
It's strange that the game has clones for e.g Raiders. I'm in a camp now and there are like 30 guys here looking exactly the same (same face, hair style and clothes). If i remember correctly there was a randomizer for this with the bandits in Oblivion, so they never looked exactly the same.
EvaUnit02 on 31/10/2008 at 05:56
Jesus, the animation (eg fluidity of movement of the characters' movement, facial expressions) can be shockingly bad in this game. On a regular basis FO3 jumps over the Uncanny Valley on a skateboard. Mass Effect and even VtM: Bloodlines - a four year old game - are light years ahead of this.
I've never played Oblivion, was the animation in that title of a similar quality?
Rogue Keeper on 31/10/2008 at 08:37
Quote Posted by Phatose
As for the condition...could be a number of things. Most likely due to the local sociology experiments. We know vault 13 got shorted supplies. Don't know exactly what the other vaults experiments were, but we know vault 101 was on 'permanent' lockdown.
If the west coast groupings tending to have settings that induced leaving the vault, while the east coasters tended to be 'stay in' type experiments, then the west would logically come together much faster then the east. And the major 'civilized' settlements in F2 were all either former vaults, or dependent on the local vaults - except maybe Reno, but that ain't exactly a bastion of civilization.
Plus, the east coast probably would've had a higher target priority then the southwest. You blow up LA, you blow up San Francisco, but it's not quite as target rich as the east coast. Perhaps they're further behind because they got nuked harder, and had to wait out the radiation longer.
Interesting theories, yes, they could explain a lot. Still, socially an technically advanced communities tend to grow into civilizations which expand, so perhaps it would be logical to expect that progressive communities like NCR would spread to the east coast by the time of F3. But perhaps they develop slowly or have been wiped out (alternate F2 ending?).
Perhaps Fallout MMO makes it more clear what happened in the west coast before F3 events. Which leads me to wondering how Interplay makes their MMO world compatible with F3.
I often wondered how the rest of the world looks like in Fallout universe and I guess there must be places on Earth marginally devastated by the War, since the North America and China were the main actors targeting each other. Fallout Yurop was promising in this aspect but it's pretty much zombified by now.
Quote Posted by ZymeAddict
Would it help in terms of plot to have played the first two games before trying this one, or does it not really make a difference?
No, Beth made it clear this is a separate story independent on the first two games. Easier way how to attract newcomers (like you *wink*) and I guess it has been said enough about V13 Vault Dweller and his descendant, the Chosen One, anyway. But perhaps there are few hidden references to previous games, to satisfy the old crowd.
Quote Posted by Stitch
Fuck the first two games. That sun--great as it was--set a long time ago.
Yes, well if it was true, you wouldn't play F3 right now! Such disrespect to a living legend!
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Jesus, the animation (eg fluidity of movement of the characters' movement, facial expressions) can be shockingly bad in this game.
Bad animation would be a marginal downer for me.
If game series leap from 256 color 2D graphics right into 3D engine with bad character animation I guess it still can be considered as success! :laff:
Perhaps this has it's share of guilt on why the game runs fine on mediocre PCS...
Now really, are the animations actually worse than in Oblivion?
