Fallout 3 discussion

**Lemur** · 10-28-2008, 20:22

I'm an idjit. I bought Fallout 3 through Amazon using gift codes (I have an Amazon Visa that helps defray the high cost of loving books and video games). Anyway, Amazon busts out a new promotion where I could have had the game today, saying all I need to do is cancel my old pre-order and create a new one. Well, if I did that I would be out the forty bucks' worth of free money.

So I gots to wait for normal delivery sometime around Friday. At least I'm not in India.

**frogbeastegg** · 10-28-2008, 21:26

Eurogamer review and retrospective.

Other than that, I'm not reading anything. I've been ignoring the previews, the threads, the interviews and all the furrore; I'll play it and see how it stands - or falls - on its own merits.

**LeftEyeNine** · 10-29-2008, 15:52

I've read reviews just like what I expected. I'm definitely nervous about that the reviewers are suffering oh-look-at-those-awesome-gfx-of-Oblivon syndrome. I hope they are not.

**rajpoot** · 10-29-2008, 16:03

http://www.play-asia.com/

Yup tried that, they supply, but not where I live, so I'll have to get it shipped to some bigger city and then have someone send it to me from there.
Looks like that is my only choice though.

**Sarmatian** · 10-29-2008, 20:46

Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine

I've read reviews just like what I expected. I'm definitely nervous about that the reviewers are suffering oh-look-at-those-awesome-gfx-of-Oblivon syndrome. I hope they are not.

Don't you know that big gaming site review hype instead of the game. God forbid that some reviewer may actually have an opinion of his own...

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**CrossLOPER** · 10-29-2008, 21:15

My roomate got this game yesterday. It's Oblivion with guns, but it's actually pretty fun. Also, Bethesda made a jumping animation, so your character does not just pop into the air like a puppet on strings. Still crashes on closing and V.A.T.S. sometimes goes screwy and just decides to abruptly end and teleport the the player to some random area in the room.

**Lemur** · 10-30-2008, 03:50

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

Other than that, I'm not reading anything.

Very wise. I walked into the game pretty much blank, tonight, and I'm really glad I did. There's some stuff in the tutorial level that would have been ruined if I knew about it ahead of time. So far, my verdict is two thumbs up, or three if you've been exposed to a lot of rads ...

**Veho Nex** · 10-30-2008, 06:27

I got both hands up on this game, cause its backed me into a corner of awesome

**Husar** · 10-30-2008, 11:33

I wanted to get it for the PS3 but the above link just made me decide not to do that, unless I read elsewhere that these bugs were a fault of the reviewer or have been fixed in a patch.

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-30-2008, 19:58

I'm going to echo everyone and say that the more I play it, the less it feels like Fallout and the more it feels like Oblivion with washed out colors. You can even buy a house in Megaton and decorate it from a nearby merchant.

**TinCow** · 10-30-2008, 20:16

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

I'm going to echo everyone and say that the more I play it, the less it feels like Fallout and the more it feels like Oblivion with washed out colors. You can even buy a house in Megaton and decorate it from a nearby merchant.

Yep, and that's not the only house either. Like in Oblivion, there are multiple in different places that are of varying quality and size and which can be upgraded in various manners. The one I got while beta-testing even came with its own barber robot that would change my haircut at will.