Comments on: Fallout 3: The Lush Green Desert

By: Jimwoo

Jimwoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:58:40 +0000

The real issue with trees in fallout 3 is the lack of useful water. Most of the water available is highly radiated. Rain water would be highly irradiated as well. The rain cycle would serve to keep the radiation around enough for plants not to be able to thrive. Chernobyl has had a major foliage revival, true, but that area gets rain from other areas around it, which aren’t radioactive. Fallout 3 is a much bigger ground zero than Chernobyl, it is assumed that most of the surrounding area has suffered the same fate. I think the lack of plant life in FT3 was adequate.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:56:33 +0000

Y’know, I don’t like Fallout 1 much, and I can’t get past the boredom in Planescape to even leave the city? (I have low planes lore), and I have tried a half-dozen times.

Anyways, since I enjoy trees, grass and the general color green I would install this. But I uninstalled Fallout 3 while upgrading to Vista Ultimate. (bleh)

I enjoy analysis’s of fiction… because it’s funny.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:33:55 +0000

I have to say I like it, people hold these games up to crazy standards when the only standard you should be worried about is “Is this game fun” to me it is. Sneaking around a super market shooting raiders in between isles, running into crazy robot brain machnies in the middle of the waste land and cracking their brain case, finding a city that is run by kids that got to old and had to move out :P Thats all very interesting and fun to me. Realistic or not, WELL writtten or not I don’t really care. I don’t have enough free time to care.

By: sfury

sfury — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:45 +0000

To be fair there was only 20-30 worst hours of entertainment in those 85 though. :]

I just don’t get the hype about it – it’s an average 7/10, 8/10 game – one that holds many promises but fails miserably on some of them in the end.

By: daysocks

daysocks — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:34:57 +0000

I don’t even think that Fallout 3 is even remotely realistic. 200 years after? I don’t think so.

Little Lamplight would be deserted because the kids would be long grown. The Garys (from the vault) would be long dead. Vault 101 would have few people left and they would pretty much all be related.

Let’s keep it in perspective, guys, it’s an unrealistic game. Don’t argue about what would happen because it’s not real, it’s not even remotely realistic.

By: sfury

sfury — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:33:10 +0000

“I love the guy who reckons FO3 sucks.

After playing it for 85 hours.

Worst 85 hours of entertainment ever!”

My thought exactly.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:22:30 +0000

If only the people in the world of Fallout had listed more closely to Russians by Sting all of this would have been avoidable and we’d all have pretty grass and trees to run around in.

By: drewski

drewski — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:15:23 +0000

I love the guy who reckons FO3 sucks.

After playing it for 85 hours.

Worst 85 hours of entertainment ever!

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:05:38 +0000

Can’t you respect us poor souls who believe Fallout 1 and 2 were god-given gifts to humanity?

;)

By: Danarchist

Danarchist — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:02:08 +0000

The internet would be awesome if it wasnt for all the people.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:08:32 +0000

*snigger*

Oh you guys.

“FALLOUT SHUD NOT HAV TRESE!”
Well that’s okay, because it doesn’t.
“BUT DERE R TRESE HERE LOOK!”
It’s a mod.

By: sfury

sfury — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:01:34 +0000

“About the only thing those games have on FO3 is the fact that you can skip to the end of the main quest fairly quickly in both.”

Oh, come on now! Sure FO 1&2 are not masterpieces like Planescape story-wise, but to claim something like that – maybe you really skipped to the end of the main quest fairly quickly in both? ;)

Brownish or not, no vegetation – I played both for the first time 3 years ago – and the atmosphere was spot on for me. Fallout 3 was very off-putting, felt very different and damn all that bloom on top was nauseating. And that’s not even one of the major problems I had with the game, bu I’ll stop here because the post is about the Three Mod.