What gets you into the fallout mood?

Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:56 pm

What gets you into the fallout mood?

I beat my game, however didn't continue into the latter story with the DLC, mainly because I feel to OP with gattling lasers, power armor and Fawkes.....

Now I am finding it hard to get into the mood to play a new account, I can make one, and play for a couple hours but, then I hate it.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:43 pm

Usually, watching post-apocalyptic films, or tv shows.

But most recently, I was just browsing the web when i found a really awesome Fallout 3 wallpaper. I immediately downloaded it, and soon after, began playing Fallout 3 again. :D
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:48 pm

Now I am finding it hard to get into the mood to play a new account, I can make one, and play for a couple hours but, then I hate it.


Here are some of my play restrictions, to name a few:

1. No fast-travel
2. Ammo has weight
3. One big gun, one mid-range weapon, one "up close and personal" weapon, some nades, couple of mines.
4. 5 stims, two radaways, two radx
5. You can pop one stim only, during combat, and no spamming of any health items.
6. No Educated, Comprehension, Grim Reaper's, Light Step, Finesse, etc : basically any perk that makes you too powerful.
7. You cannot carry ammo for a weapon you are not carrying. Honestly, you cannot carry 40 missiles. You can carry one, but since this is all fiction, I say you can carry two.
8. No sleeping in the wastes unless you have a companion.
9. I have to go to the doctor to cure radiation poisoning and crippled limbs. Sometimes meaning that I must walk my crippled ass all over the Wasteland looking for a doctor.
10. Every transaction must equal zero. Which means that I am basically trading, instead of selling. My barter is unchanged from the beginning = 13 for skill.
11. I can make money by scavenging, finding Quantums, and selling sugar bombs.
12. You cannot repair unless you are standing next to a workbench. You cannot be over-encumbered, ever. If you can't carry it, dump it.
13. If a weapon breaks on you out in the wastes, you must drop it, no matter what it is.
14. My character has been addicted to alcohol since level 4 or so.

Try it. This character is the most fun I've ever had. Play on Normal until level 5, then up to Hard for the rest of the game. Marvel at how many times you die. Marvel at how little money you have. Marvel at how you must balance between need and want when you purchase supplies.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:18 am

It's too bad that it's too late to hope for a New Vegas style hardcoe mode patch for Fallout 3 for us non-PC players. That would surely breath some new life into the game.

I still get the urge to pop in and play it again and again. Usually just seeing a mushroom cloud or tri-foil is enough to pique my desire. I've gotta make sure that I have nothing else going on though, 'cause I can't play it without spending hours and hours scouring the wastes. It helps if it's been a while since I've played so I don't remember where every little thing is.

One thing's for sure though; I will never use V.A.T.S. again. I used it exclusively in my first playthrough, and after I beat it I realized just how much I had cheapened my experience. The biggest example I can think of is the feral ghouls in the metro system. My first playthough was nothing but V.A.T.S. headshots at a safe distance. There was no sense of tension or danger. Going through again pure FPS, those svckers were in my face and ripping of chunks of flesh left and right. It was great!
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:43 pm

Watching apocalyptic films often gets me into the mood to play Fallout 3, or just watching action films like Kill Bill. Also browsing the Fallout 3 wiki and reading about all the stuff in the game helps me get into the mood, and listening to songs from the game or songs that remind me of the game.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:10 pm

Cold weather. Especially the Christmas season, because I got my beloved Fallout a couple Christmases ago. Cold weather makes me want two things: Fallout and Eggnog. If I can have the two together, I will feel nothing but joy.

Also: anytime I think about how much I hate the modern day world, for all it's comforts and wonders. I know that it wouldn't be fun like a game, but I feel the urge to roam post apocalyptian wastes and ruins. Just me, a pack, and un-owned square miles of wasteland.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:30 am

Whiskey and '50s music
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:29 am

What gets you into the fallout mood?

I beat my game, however didn't continue into the latter story with the DLC, mainly because I feel to OP with gattling lasers, power armor and Fawkes.....

Now I am finding it hard to get into the mood to play a new account, I can make one, and play for a couple hours but, then I hate it.



Do what I did and go for the more technical aspects of the game.

Pull up the Fallout 3 Wikia, and search around on there for stats, leveling up, perks, and bobbleheads.

The mathematical formula for leveling with these such things is listed on the wikia, so you can design a really technical character if you want to.

Personally, I went as far as to level-by-level build a character and decide where I was going to put stat points into, etc, with the SPECIAL system in mind as well.

I designed a character to be a sort of Small Guns (more specifically, a rifleman-type build) specialist, with high Crit % and AP.


Other than that, being REALLY depressed puts me in "the Fallout mood." Though, I can't really help you with that one. I have bipolar disorder and the occasional clinical depression slip will find me wandering the Wasteland while listening to Galaxy News Radio and popping heads off of whatever comes at me. That's when the game gets really immersive for me.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:59 am

I was walking down the road the other day and I passed a circular manhole cover. Instantly, an image of the Old Olney sewer entrance flashed into my head and I felt a sudden urge to get home and start playing.

Stuff like that, little things that happen during the that remind me of Fallout.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:26 am

Playing FNV for a minute or two always gets me in the mood to play FO3.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:00 pm

For some reason my anthropology class always gets me in the mood, You know hearing about that dude, I think his name was Malfus, hearing how pretty much everything we eat is poision and how the water supply in my next town over has a bit of radiation :D For some reason all of that really gets me in the mood.
But anyway I usually can't play this game long because I get bored and move back to oblivion.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:49 pm

school in general. i always imagine what it would be like when i would look out the window of the class and i see nothing but wasteland next to me my characters beloved hunting rifle...

ann some muties attacking :-p and then the teacher yells me out of my daydream and i'l like next thing i'm gonna do is play fallout again. :-p so atleast school is usefull for something :-p
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:03 pm

Watching a few Mad Max films.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:50 am

Uh, I dunno, Sometimes i just... Feel like it, Ya know? Only New vegas now though, my Fallout 3 disc broke -_-
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:39 am

post number 3 sums it up.. I remember once walking from an Enclave outpost to megaton with huge load of power armor loot... The best experience ever ... walking all the way from one corner of the map to another fearing raiders or mutants without saving your game(coz then you actually start fearing enemies once u reach 50% of your way)..

I barely ever use fast travel.. I always travel form one place to another by foot, been 5 months and still not fed up with fallout..

My advice.. get the pitt,broken steel and point lookout DLC , Point lookout is especially good, Broken steel is fun coz you can see how your actions effected the wasteland and some funny encounters out there..
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:58 pm

Thoughts about scavenging interesting pieces of technology work for me. I love the way power armor looks in this game and the technology scavenging aspect is really one of my favorite things about the game.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:17 pm

Don't play it for a few months. Plain and simple. =)
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:23 pm

Pork'n beans, for some odd reason...

When I'm vacationing in my house in the country, I make a portion to get in the mood before I play...

It works every time.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:07 pm

Well, it's simple; my favorite genre of videogames, movies, comic books, novels, etc. is Science fiction. I love it, and the whole post-apocalyptic sub-genre is also a huge interest of mine. It makes me think about "what if the world had a great war like the great war of 2077 and the world was destroyed?" So I found out about Fallout 3 through a Co-worker of mine back when I was 17 years old and worked my first job at McDonald's (I'm almost 20 now) and I loved every minute of game play. (Minus traveling through the abandoned subway tunnels fighting small pockets of feral ghouls, glowing ones, etc.) but in the long run after I got over my fright for zombies (laugh it up guys and gals, it's kinda humorous) I enjoyed killing them in different and more interesting ways.

I mean, I love the whole fight for survival and the extinction of humanity. It interests me a lot.
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Post » Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:56 am

Songs about nuclear war, like "Rust in Peace" by Megadeth, "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden, "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica. Watching videos of Fallout 3 on youtube, 50's music.
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Post » Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:59 pm

Watching a few Mad Max films.

Yeahh I know what ya mean! Plus they inspire me my names Max.

Oh and snow cold days make me want to play.
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