Forum Overview :: Fallout III
 
It's good but not great. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2009, 7:03pm PDT
I stopped playing Fallout 3 completely because I thought I was in the middle of Operation: Anchorage, and it just didn't seem that interesting.

For the first mod, it was fine. I know they really wanted to show us different colors and give the thing its own tone, but I didn't like it. I want my Fallout games to look like they took place in the southwest.

The writing and voice acting was average for a video game, terrible if compared to anything else. The NPC companion was sort of annoying. I did like one detail, where he was shown to be shivering at some points. That was good. But otherwise, everyone in the DLC was utterly forgettable.

I liked the end stretch, where you could call in for reinforcements. Being able to call for two ROBOTS to help was nice, I don't recall being able to do anything like that in a game before. Mr. Gutsy and the Sentrybot didn't survive for very long, but I suppose the enemy Chinese soldiers had some self-loathing issues to work out against an enemy that happens to look exactly the same. Furthermore, you can't call in for constant reinforcements - if you ask for a dude with a grenade launcher and he blows himself up, you don't get another one. It was a good way to add a little bit of tension to the DLC, since there are health and ammo containers every fifty feet. (Not that I was complaining.)

So yeah, it's okay - I just started Point Lookout, and it's already better. I guess, as the last bit - the best part of Operation: Anchorage was definitely the ending. Fallout 3 characters will completely throw away their lives over ANYTHING. I know that's something you just expect with RPGs in general, but I'm amazed that anyone at that outpost survived long enough for my character to enter the simulation. You'd think they'd all start gatling-lasering each other over what to have for take out long before the player character arrived.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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Operation: Anchorage is out. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/27/2009, 10:34pm PST NEW
    Someone should tell that eurogamer fag you just copy your save folders over NT by Worm 01/27/2009, 11:00pm PST NEW
        I won't have you busting on Eurogamers in my thread, you weakling by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/27/2009, 11:29pm PST NEW
            Man, that is a SWEET screenshot. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 01/27/2009, 11:44pm PST NEW
                You did good work with that. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/27/2009, 11:56pm PST NEW
    You might possibly want to make a save before you open up the vault. by Worm 01/28/2009, 2:44am PST NEW
    oh I guess it isn't free, so much for being able to play the DLC NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 01/28/2009, 3:42am PST NEW
    "PC Gamers have spoken. GFWL is a big pile of leathery old cunt." NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 01/28/2009, 3:47am PST NEW
        Yeah, sound the siren of revolution! ... cuz a guy was too dumb to move his save by Worm 01/28/2009, 7:34am PST NEW
            Re: Yeah, sound the siren of revolution! ... cuz a guy was too dumb to move his by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/28/2009, 9:45am PST NEW
                So is it good? NT by Fortinbras 01/28/2009, 10:06am PST NEW
                    Re: So is it good? by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/28/2009, 10:57am PST NEW
                    On a scale of Horse Armor to Knights of the Nine, it is Mehrunes' Razor NT by Worm 01/28/2009, 2:46pm PST NEW
                        Re: On a scale of Horse Armor to Knights of the Nine, it is Mehrunes' Razor by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/02/2009, 12:08pm PST NEW
                            It works offline, so it's not so much phoning home. by Worm, lvl 20 Bethesda Apologist 02/02/2009, 3:35pm PST NEW
                                Re: It works offline, so it's not so much phoning home. by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/02/2009, 3:48pm PST NEW
                    It's good but not great. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2009, 7:03pm PDT NEW
                        Re: It's good but not great. by Lizard_King 07/26/2009, 8:37pm PDT NEW
                            Re: It's good but not great. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/26/2009, 10:06pm PDT NEW
                                Re: It's good but not great. by Lizard_King 07/27/2009, 2:57pm PDT NEW
                        you can call in reinforcements pretty often NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 07/27/2009, 4:20am PDT NEW
                            Re: you can call in reinforcements pretty often by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/28/2009, 3:43pm PDT NEW
 
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