:facepalm: I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.... you must be, ya just gotta.

Nope I am not. The bolded part is said quite a lot in metal gear solid 4 and as it holds true in that game it does in FO3 as well.

No, that's http://www.flickr.com/photos/orobi/3446270779/, 'War, war never changes' is a prominant quote from throughout the :fallout: series. If you watch the intro to Fo3 then you will hear the voice-over use it to full effect.

Opps you are right. Bah I hate when I get stuff like that wrong. Thanks for correcting me but still I do like your post.

You mean my post, i suppose?

I sure do especially Point Lookout. Play that part at night in the dark... guaranteed to make the little hairs on the back of your neck stand at attention.

Heh, heh

Usually turning the Radio on takes away that eerie and scary feeling. I agree though. Wandering around in a building alone really can be a bit... disturbing? ESPECIALLY with the lights out at night.

I thoroughly agree.

Overall, FO3 has an atmosphere quite disturbing and sometimes even scary... or melancholic. Whenever I play it for long stretches of time, I have to turn if off for a while and distract myself with something 'vibrant' and 'colorful' for a while, because the thing gets a bit depressing.

haha go play any of the silent hill games. then talk about scary atmospheres..
I dont find FA3 scary in any way...
the only time i was scared is when i entered one of the hotel rooms in point lookout..sick [censored] there

Not scary, but as others said eerie. The dunwich building was the scariest, so was vault 87. But after you get used to it, nothing will scare you. I remember the first time I went out in the waste, i dunno why but I was scarred and stayed in sneak mode, from ALL the way from Megaton to Tenpenny Tower

It is not scary in the obvious horror sense, with obvious scares. It is more eerie and weird. A kind of desolation. And this can be much more "scary" than a monster jumping at you from behind a rock.

It's pretty desolate and very eerie, especially Minefield. To think that once upon a time, that was probably a thriving little community.

Whenever my guy goes to Minefield (if I wanted to live there), I pick the Gibson house, but I sleep in the kid's bed, not the parents.

I'd say it's rather unnerving and tense. While I'm walking out in the wasteland I always crouch every ten seconds because I do not want to be caught off guard by a radscorpion, deathclaw or yai gaoi attack.

But even before I knew of those the vast emptiness of the waste creeped me out: what would be lying in wait out there? It was most scary before I got to megaton (I got lost there) and it felt like there was no safe house and that everywhere was unsafe which I guess how it must feel to be living in the wastelands

I think the setting for this game is beautifully disturbing. Not just the unsettling silence, but the scarred surroundings help set the depressing reality that your character is facing.

If you want it to be even creepier, adjust the gamma settings to low, dim the lighting, and take a stroll through the subway sytems. :tops:

Old Olney can sometimes scare the BeeJeebies out of me
especially when I was running from a death claw and fell down that trap door style sewer grate

Nothing scares me more than the dungeons on Oblivion and those undead... :cryvaultboy:

Never really thought of Fallout as creepy or anything.

I think it's kind'a beautiful. A great, empty ruin, with the solitary streets filled with the haunting whispers of the swirling ashes of a once great world, and the smoldering cinders from the fire that ruined it, spinning into a colourless landscape deprived of life as far as the eye can see, a planetary tomb.

Loved the time I spent in the Fallout 3 universe ;P

I think that as humans we have a deep connection with the Earth and with nature that has been with us since we dropped from the trees. The capitol wasteland is a nuclear blasted and sterile world, where the only life is mutated and defiled. That connection with nature has been severed, and so effects us on a subconscious level. Yeah man.

That trap door gets me EVERY time... I'm determined to remember it's there next time

the atmosphere is not scary in the sense that it is intimidating, its is as most people are saying, eerie. the only time the game genuienly scared me was when a yao guai attacked me from behind out of nowhere, didnt even see it on the radar lol i think the metro & utility tunnels especially are fantastic in the game, they are creepy but they do heighten your senses when your playing through them. the music, general landscape & locations and style of gameplay in fallout3 create a fantastic atmosphere.

I play with Turtle X11's on my 360 (stereo headphones). Definitely creepy and nerve-racking, especially if you are down on health and far from anything safe.

I have never been to Dunwich or Ole' Olney yet, so I'm sure I'll be freakin out whenever I end up there.

The only problem I've had with my headset so far was in Springvale School. In that one section that is two floors in the same zone, the guys on the other floor sound like they are right next to me. I was trying to do the whole section slowly with stealth, but I just kept hearing footsteps all around me. Eventually I just ran all through the place guns blazing. The dog didn't even know what hit it, lol.

I think maybe I can explain my feelings for the game in the eyes of my first character in the game:

Dust, shadows, whispers of the wind sounding like the whispers of the dead. It's all around me, it's part of the walls of this empty house, part of the bones in the dusty beds upstairs. Echoes of a past now lost to forgotten memories, to forgotten lives.
The only sound being a radio that has no signal, there is only static. I reach to turn it off, then stop. This static is the only thing left to this house since the owners are long dead. If I remove this static then would I be a killer by removing what little this house has left?

I turn away from the radio, the static is annoying me, but I won't be in this house for long. I'll leave the sound as the only thing this house has left that gives even a little life to the dust that now owns it.
It isn't like the owners asked to die in a war that was never wanted.

The first time I enter a cave, subway, vault or large building yes, it is an eerie sensation. I never stand and often look behind me.
Out in the wasteland on the other hand I feel at home. Although we don't have a lot of old semi-standing houses the entire wasteland looks just like the deserts in much of Arizona (without the cactus). Very calm and peaceful except for the occasional wild critter.
Fallout 3 is a great game and I enjoy walking out across the nuclear desert.