5punk

I've still not read any reviews. I'll get around to buying this next week and give a go at a mini-review if noone else has by then.

I enjoyed Oblivion eventually - took me about a year to get around to playing it properly and I've still not finished it - although it wasn't rave material. I played Fallout 2 a few times and had fun, so hopefully F3 will keep me occupied longer than Mass Defect, which I also need to finish one day, but since it's decided to stop working randomly I'm not sure I cba.

Well I'm a couple of quests into F3 and I love it. It has the big open world of Oblivion, but less wandering aimlessly and the setting makes it far more interesting (for me at least). And I've already shot a dog's head off.

I do like the VATS system. Wasn't too sure of it when I first read about it, but it has been implemented really well.

I'm only a couple of quests in too, but as with Far Cry 2 I don't feel like I have to rush about doing stuff - I like going at my own pace.

Yeah, there's no big world saving thing you have to be doing that makes you feel guilty about doing side quests like in Oblivion. I've already had tons happen that I won't talk about for fear of spoilers, and quite a few references to Fallout 1 & 2.

In fact I'll start a spoilery thread...

Fucking post!

Play posted it on the 29th, I'm still waiting.

Which version did you order? Hasn't already been missed and someone's picked up the delivery card and not told you?

I wandered into the middle of fucking nowhere in newcastle last night to get mine. The collection office is a tiny office attached to a fucking massive sorting building the water side of the train tracks. It's so close to the river I thought it was on fucking stilts.

I ordered the lunch box, and I really doubt it as I've been around in the mornings since Thursday, got FC2 but no F3, and I can't badger the post office without a card, I'll see if it turns up on Monday.

This game is currently unavailable. Sometimes I wonder why I buy games on steam.

Akiakaiu wrote:This game is currently unavailable. Sometimes I wonder why I buy games on steam.

I downloaded fine, but transferring the files between computers is always a royal pain.

The Steam forums suggests excluding NOD32 from examining the fallout folder, or just running fallout3.exe without Steam (/steamapps/common/fallout 3/).

Stoat wrote:I downloaded fine, but transferring the files between computers is always a royal pain.

The Steam forums suggests excluding NOD32 from examining the fallout folder, or just running fallout3.exe without Steam (/steamapps/common/fallout 3/).

Yeah NOD32 "detected" testapp.exe as a virus or something. It did the same thing with raven shield. A bit annoying but you can add exclusions for them.

Yeah, I got it working by telling NOD32 to not check my steam stuff.

Weeeeeeeee



I especially like the dapper hat, faaaaabulous mustache, and awesome ammo belts.

Now I've got used to the game I'm loving it. VATS is great and the story has some nice quirky humour.

The ladies love my leopard print, silky jim jams, fireman's helmet and missile launcher.
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I'm enjoying it too, few crashes but extended periods of play as well. VATS almost makes me wish I'd bought the console version - as it would be totally playable, but can still shoot better manually at times.

I see I'm not the only one who wants to keep outfits because of how they look. I ditched my helmet for Sheriff Simm's hat.

I always equip those silky pyjamas for the massive dialog bonus they give (then I forget to unequip and charge into battle like a demented pensioner).

That said, other than the looks, most of the armour has been pretty crap compared the stuff I picked up very early on.

Curse you all. Once I have my chipset fan working again, I'm going to have to buy this, and to hell with FC2.

Pretty much as I predicted, I'm not playing FC2 at all at the moment.

I didn't realise you could be a Ghost Buster, I really should crack open the lunchbox and install the game.

how do you spin the camera around too view from the front? All I've managed is a few mediocre screenshots of my arse so far.