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I keep getting super excited for FO4 and want to do a playthrough of 3 to scratch the itch, but at the same time I don't wanna burn myself out on the gameplay right before 4 comes out too. LIFE SO HARD
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Play 1 or 2. Enjoy the universe and not the gameplay.
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I'm doing a playthrough of 3 after I'm done with the Batman games. Figure by the time I finish there will still be a good month or two before 4 hits to give myself a break.
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Bethesda honored the 2,200 bottlecaps someone sent them and have reserved a copy of the game for them.
That's cool. That combined with the lead designer's e3 presentation, where he was just kinda wingin' it and shooting the shit, as opposed to all the slimy comrporate execs coming out with cliched fake "we at horseshit productions are dedicated to bringing you blah blah blah" makes me really like Bethesda. Seems like one of the last big companies that actually give a shit about the people buying their games. |
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Anyone who was interested in the Pip Boy collector's edition but didn't pre-order yet very likely won't have a chance at grabbing one now baring paying scalpers at eBay and other places.
Bethesda announced they are no longer making any more Pip Boys with the final stock already done. http://www.destructoid.com/bethesda-...s-294885.phtml |
I plan on getting mine through a drunken Vaulter who wears their PipBoy to the bar
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glad I got my pre-order through
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Bethesda holding a special deal for pre-ordering the game on the official Xbox website with Fallout 3 being given away as a free gift. The only catch is Bethesda isn't sure when it will actually be playable on the Xbox One.
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VATS system getting overhauled for Fallout 4.
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I, for one, welcome the VATS change.
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tbh I very rarely used VATS in FO3/NV. Obviously 1 and 2 were different. Feels like the type of thing much more suited to a turn-based game than real-time but w/e
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Use it all the time. Probably too much. Need to slow the game down sometimes.
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New gameplay footage currently planned to be shown off during QuakeCon 2015 later this month according to Bethesda.
Won't be a public showing though. Quote:
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In New Vegas it was most crucial when I decided to try to take down that massive family of Deathclaws living at the quarry. |
V.A.T.S proved useful to me as one of those who had played 1 and 2 and was used to turn based action and not FPS. I also had not gotten in on any Elder Scrolls action at that time, so the engine was all new to me.
Unrelated: with all the callbacks, I wish they'd find a way to possibly introduce an Avellone. Hell, if Harold found his way east, Chris could have too. Or raised a family of ethical mercenaries who all went to different parts of the country to hunt down those with super low karma (or specifically anyone branded "child killers", but since that's a no-no/not even possible in the modern games, maybe they could change the parameters to child slavers?) |
With the game taking place in the home of the commonwealth, I'm hoping you can become a blade runner and hunt down androids.
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LOL, if anybody here hasn't seen the FO3 "ad" and you get really bored and need to kill 30-45 seconds, there is an actual toll-free # with a hilarious recording. I don't want to SPAM<SUP>TM</SUP> up the thread, so I will place it in a spoiler tag. Don't want anyone blaming me for getting caught doing it at work or something.
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Rang to an appliance store.
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Fuck. I'm sorry, man. I fucked up. Hope some person didn't wonder why some random guy was calling... *GULP* :$
I fixed it in the original post though. |
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Bethesda recently revealed some details on how the perks system will work.
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EGMNow had a write up of all the stuff shown during the exclusive Quakecon demo shown recently at the event. Besides the perks system, the companion system was shown off and the new scavenging ability the dog has for the game. http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ons-and-perks/ |
Probably won't have the opportunity to play it anytime soon unfortunately, but I'd love to see, amongst other perks, Here and Now (advances you 1 full level immediately upon taking) & Grim Reaper's Sprint (reveals all major map locations), return.
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Don't you mean "Explorer"? Grim Reaper's is AP refresh on a kill. And Here and Now is a waste, unless they chose this game to make leveling insanely hard to do.
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Yeah. Shows how long it's been since I've played FO3, LOL.
But yeah, I'll stand by my statement. Here and Now, Grim Reaper's Sprint, and Explorer should all definitely make returns. If I ever do get a decent deal on a PS4/XB1 and finally get to experience it I hope they won't be messing with my fav. skills...I needs me my Speech, Sneak, Science and Lockpicking skills. |
An unsung perk from New Vegas I wouldn't mind returning is "Four Eyes"... provided they didn't change how glasses aren't altered by most hats or helmets. They were a lot more scarce than in FO3, but since you can pilfer some from the good doctor (which doesn't count as stealing), that should hold you until finding some to repair them with and you negate the penalty for not wearing them before you even leave the house. That's a Perception point I can drop elsewhere on the initial SPECIAL allocation.
Also, while Bloody Mess is fun, not to mention a staple since the beginning (not to mention how to get the "most satisfying" ending from the first game), the newer games sometimes make it hard to scavenge from a thin red paste and gibs than a full- or only missing one limb, tops- corpse. Nice to know it's there, but unless it alters some point in the game in a major, perk specific way (like Wild Wasteland does), it'll never see use from me. |
I invested a lot of my initial S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points in Luck. Actually really enjoyed all the casinos on the New Vegas Strip and the one in the town where to leave you had to either prove you had enough credits to enter New Vegas' Strip, or if you had high enough Science you could hack the Protectron and program it to let you through.
Always enjoyed making tons of $ on the slots before being kicked out and also playing Caravan, particularly with Novac resident No-Bark Noonan. Lot of those credits got spent at the Gun Runners and the New Vegas Free Clinic. :) |
Quakecon demo was really nice, it managed to convince me to get the game and the PC anthology as well.
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When the game dropped, the money pool against the NPC vendors were combined, and the number of times you could play each potential sucker was unlimited. This meant that you could clean them out by playing a few hands, buy all their shit, then win that money back after. By the time you hit Primm, The Outpost, and Novac up for all their goods and caps/dollars/denarii all from fast travel, it would be about enough days time elapsed for the vendor refresh to kick in, and the first player you hustled would have new items and more money. You'd be rich before you even got CLOSE to Vegas (unless you know how to sneak past the deathclaws to take the shortest way... which has also been sort of patched, as they added more deathclaws, nearly assuring you'll be detected. Nearly. ^_-) Alas, that's all gone. Have to break the economy in different ways. There's still the 100% gold trick from the Sierra Madre, but that's tedious and non-renewable. |
Wow. I knew they'd patched the fuck out of some shit with the "Fallout: New Vegas Complete Edition", but holy fuck, what you just described is insane.
I remember installing all the DLC from the Complete Edition DLC disc and rushing to get all my pre-gaming for my trip to Helios One out of the way, and then tackling the "That Lucky Old Sun" quest given by a guy called Fantastic, I think. You could overload a terminal and go back to Ignacio Rivas and tell him you'd done so as a special dialog option and receive a small amount of stimpaks and doctor's bags, and it could be repeated ad infinitum until you had as many of each as you wanted, as well as you would get like +350XP for each time you did so and could easily max your level early on. Well, as it turned out, the DLC installation caused that to be patched, and I was pissed until I remembered to uninstall the DLC and proceed with the quest and reinstall the DLC. Not gonna lie, I exploited the shit out of that bug/glitch and took as much as I could carry, LOL. Good times. |
Oddly enough, I have no problem exploiting money holes, but experience loops kind of take the fun out of things for me. And as far as the DLC, it seems to be separate recognition for the GOTY and standard download versions. I have some duplicates of quest rewards because I installed GOTY on my slim 360 when I upgraded. So, I ended up with two sets of Burning Man armor, all the GRA and pre-order stuff when it ticked off I had all of it installed twice.
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I think that may be part of the reason why they're introducing different "zones" that you'll basically have to stay within at first in order to avoid being badly outleveled and inferiorly equipped (I.e., a lv. 2 VH vs. a lv. 25 super mutant wouldn't end well for the player...).
Some people might complain about not being able to freely roam the entire map from the start, but I actually think it will be a welcome change. |
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"On paper" it sounds dumb, especially comparing to past FO experiences. I will reserve judgment for now, as I will with the "dramatic changes" to FF VII. |
According to the lead producer, it can take up to 400 hours to find and do everything in the game because of how it is in terms of scope.
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Oh that's nice. Was actually thinking I'd have to keep a notebook handy to keep track of all the ingredients for all the stuff I wanted to craft.
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Wouldn't it be kinda cool if the system they're talking about actually is tied to your Pip Boy app?
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Confirmed that there will be no hard end to the story AND no level cap.
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*Insert obligatory hard end pun here*
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