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Fallout 3 Review.. Err uh, rant, actually. |
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I've played through and beat it a few times now, finding plenty of secets as well.
First off, let me say that this game had me pointing my thumbs shamelessly into the air everytime I actually stopped for 3 minutes to take a pee break (of course, my brother would see me heading into the bathroom with dual thumbs wielded.. I'm sure he thought I was going to shove them up my a**, but now I'm getting a liiiiittle off topic here).
The difficulty curve of this game starts slightly lower - as it should - and rises at a steady rate. This is a GREAT way to present a difficulty curve... EXCEPT for the fact that it's a customizable RPG game so, if you're the kind of person who is inept at dishing out your skills and perks in an orderly fashion (though it just takes common sense to do so), then you're pretty much ********. Way to go. SHAME. SHAME ON YOU. Bad player! Bad! NO! WE DO THAT OUTSIDE!!!... Sorry got a little carried away there. >.< The point is, bad skills = bad gameplay. Unless you're one of those players who can take that WORST character ever and use the quicktime AND realtime fighting tho their advantage, and they just might come out on top. A lot like me and my joke character, Lil' Willy, whom I'll get to in a bit.
Anyways, the custom character design - though it is a LOT like what they did for Oblvion - is still rather new and refreshing. I found myself making stories for each of the characters that I created. My first one was just a hardcore badass who took his teen agnst too far by drinkling lots of alcohol and gladly saving Butch's mother from the radroaches, only to BEAT her to death with a ******** BASEBALL BAT. Though my personal favorite would have to be Lil' Willy. A black man, originally from Kenya, with a pink-purple mohawk and chinaman goatee/moustache combo. Sure, whenever people saw him, they had a hard time taking him seriously because of his appearance, but DAMN IT!! LIL' WILLY WASN'T GONNA TAKE THAT BULLSHIT!! HE'S BLACK FOR BLACK CHRIST'S SAKE!!! Dx .... Right, so basically, he trained in the vault till 19 when he left and came out a man who was EXTREMELY strong and strangely charismatic. That's right. He was a buff, charismatic b*****d who only used his ******** fists. PLUS, he was a jackass... To everyone... Except black people. And he did EXTREMELY WELL at life. The end.
Have a good laugh? I know I did.
While I'd love to go wayyyy more indepth with the combat system, let me just say this because I'm running out of time: Don't mix the VATS quicktime system with the FPS realtime system. It makes EVERYTHING easier. Watch...
STEP 1: Use VATAS on the head of your foe.
STEP 2: Laugh at their literally "crippling" pain as they grope at their bloody pulp that they call a face.
STEP 3: Come out of vats, guns blazing and just finish them off with a few rounds to the top of the skull which might as well have a target painted on the top that reads, "Oh bugger, here I am, all ******** up anyways. Let me just bend over and let you kerplunk a few more piping hot rounds of lead into my dumb-as-f**k skull!"
STEP 4: Laugh at the humiliating death of your enemy.
STEP 5: ???
STEP 6: Profit.
Final thing I'm gonna bother hitting on right now, is the weapons system. Very original. Repairing weapons from parts of other weapons of the same kind? Wonderful. Finding the most random a** items in all of the wasteland and piecing them into a weapon that seems to defy the laws of physics. Hilariously successful. The EXTREME amount of bullet spread you seem to get from EVERY weapon? Not so great. But now I'm just being picky. I guess if I wanted to successly blow brain chunks out of a raider's skull, I should have just aimed down the sights instead of using VATS, but so help me, I just love the feel of it. So all in all, weapons system was good. Especially the ******** Alien Blaster. Go to the UFO crash site. DO IT NOW. O.O
In conclusion, get the game. Play the game. A lot. To me, it never got tiring and it NEVER WILL. Every playthrough is a new experience that, other than the story, is completely original. Now, I'm off to go punch the behemoth's shins in with my Lil' Willy.
 LordStripeyTail · Thu Jan 15, 2009 @ 12:42am · 0 Comments |
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