Now, first worry you all seem to have, story and characters. Yes, animation is so-so. Voice work is top notch, as is the writing. We laughed out loud on many, many occasions. Quests are far more than the old fetch-quests, and they’re rarely as simple as they first seem.
Case in point, at one time you’re investigating the deaths of two people in a small town besieged by a gang of criminals. I won’t get into details, but it turns out they have kidnapped the victims’ son. We were playing a speech-heavy character, and managed to talk our way past the gang guards, finding out as we went along that there was more than meets the eye.
After talking to the leader for a while I literally told my friend, this evil bastard needs to die. Let’s rescue the kid and go home. Then it all turned around, and we ended up happily allying with (and becoming a part of) the gang.
Sound evil? Not in the least, let’s just say we got a lot of good karma.

Now, VATS. It’s not a gimmick, it’s a resource. Using it sparingly and strategically is key to winning without taking too much damage. The enemies move around far too much to effectively be put down in real-time.

Any other questions, post em and I’ll gladly do my best to answer. =)

Are you fucking serious? Especially those latter 2 damned points just boggle my mind!

So it is not you or the NMA-aligned crowd, but rather the game, that is taking things too seriously? Gotcha.

Also, “buying the one rope from a guy in a village you aren’t meant to have been to yet in order to climb into a hole”? There is no “you aren’t meant to have been to yet” in Fallout…and one might have the logical response that, if you encounter a hole into which you can’t safely descend, it might be time to go look for rope.

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Reply to people talking about animation

Sure they could have spent an extra six monthes on the human animation. But this is a game where that same level of detail would have to be given eleventy hundred types of mutants, giant scorpions, tanks with humanoid torsos, bugs, children and so forth. It would have taken another six years of development.

Yes the engine isn’t the best, but do you know what’s more jarring than a duff animation? Frame rate stutters at a crucial moment.

Also I only just played Fallout 1 and 2. Did nae fancy it, repetitive and over simpliefied combat, no meaningful party control in battle, highly disposable characters (the only reason you can do what you do to them is that there’s no real depth or consequence), illogical puzzles (buying the one rope from a guy in a village you aren’t meant to have been to yet in order to climb into a hole), average music and no real atmosphere. Compared to Baldurs or Anachranox it doesn’t come out too well.

Stop being so precious and let the game stand on it’s own legs. If those legs are crap then by all means rip it apart, but at least try letting it walk.

I must confess I forgot that Beth made them. Been a looong time since I’ve played them…

All the FO3 threads on RPS have brought back strong memories of schoolyard arguements about how many colours the Mega Drive and SNES could display at once.