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Fallout: New Vegas
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Fallout 3, imo is much superior to New Vegas. plus the DLC is much better value too.Well lads I'm thinking about starting the Fallout series of games.
How many games has there been in this series?
Which game should I start on, I'll be playing on 360.
Anyone care to give me a quick low down on the story without giving too much away?
Cheers.
There's been three core games. Two of which were made by Black Isle and the other was made by Bethesda. It is very similar to TES4: Oblivion (similar engines, mainly) if you are familiar with that game, but post-apocalyptic in setting. I've never played the original two Fallout games but they are point and click RPGs. Fallout 3 is a third/first person RPG. There has also been a lot of spin-offs, like Fallout Tactics and New Vegas.
The story is that the world has been nuked. Its essentially post-apocalyptic. Basically Fallout 3 is set 200 years after the nukes fell. There's a lot of factions vying for control of water and strategic towns (such as the Enclave, the fascistic remnants of the US government, or the Super Mutants, who are big yellowish guys with nailboards, or the Brotherhood of Steel, who are technology hoarders). Your character in the game has escaped from a radiation proof vault and is coming out into the Washington (or Capital) wasteland to find his dad.
Thing is, the main story isn't really essential here. Its more about the morality, sidequests and distractions. Before you buy and play the game however, I would extremely recommend you buy Broken Steel first(800 Microsoft Points), a DLC which (I'm being vague so as to avoid spoilers) adds a hell of a lot (people who have played FO3 will know what I mean
) and is more or less essential in my experience. The other DLC is very good also, although you could do without Mothership Zeta and Operation Anchorage (they ain't that great, but if you like the sound of them, by all means, get them). But Broken Steel is the only one which expands the main quest- the others are really just sidequests. Altogether they add about thirty hours I think, plus lots of equipment.
Also, note that Fallout 3 was the first major Fallout game on consoles, as 1 and 2 were only on PC (and are completely different) plus there's no real need to go and play the other two games if you are buying FO3, as the story between them is not continuous, but if you want to understand some of the many references and throwbacks, you should get the original two. I understand that they're pretty cheap and not at all system-intensive.0 -
Eggy Baby! wrote: »Fallout 3, imo is much superior to New Vegas. plus the DLC is much better value too.
There's been three core games. Two of which were made by Black Isle and the other was made by Bethesda. It is very similar to TES4: Oblivion (similar engines, mainly) if you are familiar with that game, but post-apocalyptic in setting. I've never played the original two Fallout games but they are point and click RPGs. Fallout 3 is a third/first person RPG. There has also been a lot of spin-offs, like Fallout Tactics and New Vegas.
The story is that the world has been nuked. Its essentially post-apocalyptic. Basically Fallout 3 is set 200 years after the nukes fell. There's a lot of factions vying for control of water and strategic towns (such as the Enclave, the fascistic remnants of the US government, or the Super Mutants, who are big yellowish guys with nailboards, or the Brotherhood of Steel, who are technology hoarders). Your character in the game has escaped from a radiation proof vault and is coming out into the Washington (or Capital) wasteland to find his dad.
Thing is, the main story isn't really essential here. Its more about the morality, sidequests and distractions. Before you buy and play the game however, I would extremely recommend you buy Broken Steel first(800 Microsoft Points), a DLC which (I'm being vague so as to avoid spoilers) adds a hell of a lot (people who have played FO3 will know what I mean) and is more or less essential in my experience. The other DLC is very good also, although you could do without Mothership Zeta and Operation Anchorage (they ain't that great, but if you like the sound of them, by all means, get them). But Broken Steel is the only one which expands the main quest- the others are really just sidequests. Altogether they add about thirty hours I think, plus lots of equipment.
Also, note that Fallout 3 was the first major Fallout game on consoles, as 1 and 2 were only on PC (and are completely different) plus there's no real need to go and play the other two games if you are buying FO3, as the story between them is not continuous, but if you want to understand some of the many references and throwbacks, you should get the original two. I understand that they're pretty cheap and not at all system-intensive.
Very true but they and all the current generation ones are total time sinks(not a bad thing btw) , if someone was a casual gamer like a few hours a night playing the numbered fallout games alone could give them what ???300-400 hours if they did everything?0 -
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