40% off a bunch of titles, including Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. I’ve been meaning to grab both, so: cool. The sale’s also happening on Amazon, so feel free to click those links. Also: if you haven’t grabbed Skyrim yet, twenty-five bucks for the whole shebang is frankly a steal.
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When you get around to FNV, be sure to pick up the JSawyer mod – a dev, on his own time, put out a mod that fixed a lot of the things he wished he had had the time to do before it released.
Or, don’t.
Unless you want fewer perks due to a dramatically reduced level cap, slower level progression, your encumbrance reduced by 2/3, fewer and less effective consumable drops, and the like.
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Unless you want to play hardcore mode, I’d advise against it.
F3 has better locations and more memorable characters, but FNV has the better world, a better story, and much less wondering what the $-+# happened to your companion.
Fallout 3 is kind of special for no other reason than it was the first Fallout in many years. It was great simply because it allowed you to see the world in a very visceral way- the FP perspective.
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Exploration was king in Fallout 3. I played that game an insane amount. I still remember finding the “Ghouls in the Mist” area and thinking it was so cool, then rushing online and not finding anything on it. It was cool because it felt like I had found something no one had yet- even though I probably was no where near the first.
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The downsides? The shooting when not using vats is lackluster. The story is… not it’s strongest point. Some of the characters were great. The other thing is that it seemed to be missing just something undefinable.
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New Vegas was good, but it also seemed to lack something at first. Compared to the ruin exploration available in F3, it felt kind of empty. Then Dead Money dropped and it all of a sudden just felt perfect. The tight story, atmosphere, Laura Bailey’s voice. It just clicked.
Oooooooo. I remember the ghouls spot. Seriously creepy, they did an excellent job on that one. Just remembering it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
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Building on what he said, the DLC for Fallout 3 really isn’t very good. At all. You can safely avoid nearly all of it without feeling you missed anything. (Unless you really want a bit of your brain in a jar as a useless inventory item. Or the cheap comedy of using V.A. T.S. to blow away the big bad of the expansion before he starts the monologue that revels he has hidden depths and is facing a a trolley problem.)
But the DLC for New Vegas is excellent. It makes a good game even better. Get it and play it.
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One word of warning about NV: when you’re leaving the first location, go South, not North.
If you tend to cut cross-country like I do, you’ll miss the sign on the road warning of deathclaws. There are a bunch of them, and you do NOT want to make their acquaintance until you’re high level.
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Oh, I should explain my comment about companions on F3. You can only have one companion at a time, and can’t add one until you talk to the old one to dismiss them. Which is a problem, because bad pathing frequently has them running off and getting lost. Good luck finding them again, you’ll need it.