Oh my God... Where did you find this out? That's even more depressing. :cryvaultboy:

Wait...

Oh my god, that was NOT Mister Gibson? That must've been either an eldest child or another relative then. Maybe Mr. Gibson was out trying to pick the youngest kid from the school...but didn't make it.

:(

Either way, these almost unmentioned side-stories are very sad and almost make you question why you're even playing.

Wow. I don't use VATS much, so I never knew how low his health was. The first time he came up to me he startled me, so I shot him with a Hunting Rifle and he went down on the first shot.

The next time I talked to him. It was at night, outside that creepy building with all the ferals, and I'd just fought off a Deathclaw, and he was just nice to me. He gave me

And then he said goodbye, and walked away into the dark. It kind of stunned me. Almost no one in the Wastes is ever just nice to you, or ever wants to make your life better in any way. :sadvaultboy:

Blew up megaton, then lucy west,Nova,gob the 2 children in megaton and few others faces starts haunting me...5 minutes later i reloaded the game..shot tenpenny and Burke in the face and threw em of the building.... :angel:

I know what you mean... there are just some things I won't do. My prefered method of dealing with Burke is to shoot him if I'm playing a man and seduce him if I'm a woman (just because his love letters are so darn funny).

There are a couple things I couldn't bring myself to do but watched on Youtube. One of them was the destruction of Megaton (truth be told, I don't kill innocents period). Another was the enslavement of poor little Bumble. Yet another is the infection of the water supply.

There a other house with a couple lie on the bed with med-x on the side suggest they killed them self :'(

there is one of the terminals in German town which talks about what happened weeks after the Atomic bombs fell... really sad stuff..

This is why fallout 3 is so awesome, it tells us so many emotional stories and also warns us of the future if ever nuclear war occurred..

This. I've done 3-4 playthru's and made a point this last time to expend the considerable effort to mediate a peaceful settlement only to have Roy do what he does. :flame:

The Mr. Handy moment in the family home where he reads to the dead children, very good poem, quite powerful. The skeletons in Minefield, every time I see those I always find myself thinking in a story sense - "What must have been going through their minds when the war began?"

The holotape recording of the character's mother in the Jefferson Memorial, when you do something cruel and nasty and hear about it from ThreeDog, if you kept him alive. And many other things.

There are a lot of unmentioned stories in Fallout 3, the game is filled with atmosphere.

I just did the Dunwich building quest from Point Lookout. Dang, that brief flashback really makes me feel bad for all the feral ghouls. Drove home that they were ALL people once. It's tragic. (I still hate the Reavers, though).

Mr. Handy poem in Georgetown got me, too.

Dad's death made me upset, not teary, though.

On my evil play through, I was so sick of three dogs stories I blew his head off with a 44.

After that, I just realized how awful a character in Fallout can be. I had killed everyone in the entire capital wasteland, making it useless to live there.

I quickly made a new play through to undo all the evil I had done. Really made me think about my life for a minute, and how if I was affecting anyone in such a

negative way.

Argyle. :sadvaultboy:

I killed Malcolm Mcdowell... =*(

I agree, if it were any other brat in Lamplight I wouldn't feel so guilty, but Bumble is so sweet and innocent. She really doesn't deserve to be a slave.

The first time I realized that the game was actually sad was right after leaving Raven Rock. It was on the first play through that I actually finished. In this play through, I never fixed the radio tower for Three Dog, so I couldn't get the good music because I was to far away, and the Enclave was gone so I listened to the games music for the first time. I left the burning hide out and saw Fawkes fighting the Enclave troops. After he finished with his work, we talked for a little bit, and I asked him to join.

In this play through, I had destroyed Megaton, but done everything else in good Karma, but he said "Maybe I'll join you when you find the path of good" or something. That just really broke my heart at that point. I don't know, maybe it was what he said mixed in with that depressing music (well, depressing compared to GNR).

Also, the poem in Georgetown was pretty bad, like it has been said.

my retardedness and high levels get dogmeat killed.

Well, there's many sad things in FO3 - both thigns you may do yourself and events of the past.

As for events of the past.. Might be Vault 92. Reading the events of the past (particullay Zoe Hammerstein's writting) and seeing the aftermath of the events there, it really makes you feel sad for the people who were used as unwilling experiments and had to die and suffer for it - and anger at the people who apparently felt no remorse about doignt his whatsoever. It REALLY makes you understand how Roger Maxson felt way back when he did the deeds that would create the BOS. It also gives the player much more of a reason to return to "Trouble on the Homefront" - having realized just how badly some of the vaults ended up, it really makes you want to try and prevent this from being the case with your own vault. Just a pity we can't actually mention to the Overseer or Amata in Vault 101 just how badly some of the other vaults ended up and how they should strive for this to not become the case of Vailt 101 as well...

As for the bad things we can do, well... There are plenty of bad things we can do (including nuking Megatron), but I'm not sure I feel that any of those (that I did myself, at least) really sticks out...

In the Lady of Hope Hospital, I saw two skeletons in a recovery room. One was on a bed next to a stand with a blood pack. The other was lying on the floor. On the windowstill? A glass of which I assumed once held water.

Those poor souls. The person on the bed must've been rushed to the hospital after the blast to get blood, only to die with his/her mate of radiation.

One thing I didn't mention that can be heart breaking is finishing the game and realising that you've played maybe one of the best game made and there's no more DLC to carry it on.

Five just wasn't enough!

QUOTE: Dad's death made me upset, not teary, though.

I kind of agree, especially when you realize how unnecessary it all was. All Dad has to do is hit the Open Door button, and you can come charging in and introduce Autumn and his two hapless pals to your plasma rifle.


I agree, if it were any other brat in Lamplight I wouldn't feel so guilty, but Bumble is so sweet and innocent. She really doesn't deserve to be a slave.

Agree about Bumble, but mot most of the other Lamplighters. Most of them are actually pretty nice kids, only three or four are rotten little brats.

Just finished the Trouble on the Homefront quest. I purged the Vault, forcing everyone to leave. When Amata asked what happened, I lied, saying the Overseer did it. She believed me.

Even worst, she said she and I could split up and find the others saying, "How big can the world be anyway?" before leaving.


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:cryvaultboy:

olol

Best thing to do with Dogmeat, I think. Bring him lots of mole rattie steaks. And chew toys, if you can find 'em.

What breaks my heart now? I just downloaded BS, and reloaded a previous game, with Daniel, my main character (for those of you who are reading "Lamplighters' Fate", he's the Lone Wanderer mentioned in it). I had Fawkes and Cross as followers, and gave Cross the Burnmaster and a truckload of flamer fuel. I got both of them through the quest and had Fawkes start up the purifier. But now, I can't get Cross to follow me... she's still my follower, I can trade stuff with her, but she just doesn't move. And while Fawkes and I are pretty formidable on our own, I like having that Burnmaster handling the close-in stuff. And I can't use it, since my Big Guns score is crap.

And my last save it was back at the beginning of "Take it Back!" Don't want to go that far back unless I have to...

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