rlccohen
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I liked the Witcher. It didn't need the frantic point and click you get from rpgs like Oblivion. Oblivion is a great game but that's what it is. Gothic3 is huge but is like Oblivion in that regard. I liked it.
System Shock 2 is a fantastic game. Scary as hell. It also plays like Half-life but has a ton of strategy associated with it.
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One of my all time favourite TBS was Master of Magic. It was one of the first Turned based games I ever played, which led me to such classics as Colonization and of course the original Civilization.
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Although Master of Magic is something like Magic, the Gathering, it indeed worked well as a TBS. I did like using Ariel, white magic may be deceptive (well, blue is the real deceptive, but...)... and her avatar kickass :)
As I commented in another thread, a TBS I wish I could rediscover (among the lost and no found games I have) it's CD (hoping it would work in the new machines) was Total Annihilation... a very interesting TBS unlike any other in it's time, and maybe even now.
Edit: correcting myself ... TA is a RTS, sorry, off topic
Master of Magic was indeed a great game. Very flawed but infinitely replayable over and over again. I was able to download it from some free game site and play it within one of the DOS BOX emulators.
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#3: got lost on the way to megaton from the vault... wound up fighting super mutants near rivet city... to this day I still don't know how I did this...
That is pretty impressive :ohmy: Although the 1st time I played I did wander around in the dark leaving Vault 101 until I realized I could wait until daylight.
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WHY THE *ban me* DID THEY MAKE RADIOACTIVE CARS???? I mean, srsly, isn't that some serious health & safety issue there? Nuclear cars would emit radiation that could quite potentially kill the driver and the passenger with radiation or, in the long run, cancer?
And also, if you could just shoot at someone's car a couple of times and it exploded into a mini mushroom cloud, why do they still park it so close to their houses? Heck, what if a cat decided to scratch it in the middle of the night and it inexplicably blew up?
The whole Fallout series is a parody of the 50's and their view on nuclear war. That was when people thought ducking under your desk to avoid a nuclear attack was a proper safety procedure. Everyone was going to have nuclear powered cars in the future etc. If that isn't obvious someone is being particularly thick.
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Same here. I've tried different weapon/armor combinations to make it interesting. No power armor, Lincoln Repeater, Chinese Assault rifle, whatever I relied on too heavily in the past etc.
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The Gauss rifle is quite powerful but it is very slow to reload so it's possible to get overwhelmed against parties of mutants. raiders etc. It's also pretty ineffective against Ghoul Reavers (they seem pretty resistant to Energy Weapons)
I found the Stealth Armor to be much, much more unbalancing, although once spotted you're at a disadvantage.
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Since I'm from the area a Commonwealth DLC would be pretty interesting. And it would have the contrast between the hi-technology of the Institute and the desolation outside of it.
(I wonder what fans from central Pennsylvania thought of the Pitt add-on?)
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An automatic Gauss rifle sounds rockin'! I hardly used it on my first play-through as I encountered it rather late and even though it can take out an Outcast soldier with one shot to the head, IMHO, it has two HUGE drawbacks:
1. One shot per magazine.
2. VERY long reload time.
So it's basically useless unless you ONLY encounter one enemy ALL the time AND have the Grim Reaper's Sprint Perk.
Dave S.
Well considering that it's damage is around the 90+ range and it will knock any creature on it's butt half the time, it has to have SOME drawbacks. Otherwise the weapon would be just too powerful.
My weapon of choice against DeathClaws, Mutant Overlords and Sentry Bots.
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Take a break from Fallout3 and wait for some more DLCs. It is possible to play some games to death even the best of them.
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The trouble with hunting rifles is that they take forever to reload so as a general purpose weapon they are terrible. There are some great rifles worth getting that change that but in general. I'd rather have a sniper rifle for long range use. A scoped magnum isn't a bad weapon to have as is the traditional shot gun. Always useful.
Forever to reload? What silliness are you on about? The scoped magnum takes about the same time.
With the hunting rifle, you're making a compromise. It doesn't have a great rate of fire or a large magazine size, but what it does do is give you an extremely accurate weapon that has plentiful spare parts and ammunition. The sniper rifle suffers from a lack of spare parts and ammo, as well as poor accuracy in VATS.
I think it was the need to work the bolt of the hunting rifle after every shot that I am talking about. That alone made it unusable for me, particularly at the lower levels when it's quite easy to be surprised and may need to act quickly. At least the Sniper rifle would allow you a few shots in a row if you needed them. Same for the Scoped Magnum.
I thought the accuracy of the sniper rifle was more then reasonable. Early in the game, sniper ammo is a little hard to come by but I usually had enough and was able to find enough sniper rifles for spare parts.
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Hunting Rifle is high accuracy, I believe it might have no spread (at least, Ol' Painless has no spread), meaning it hits exactly where you aim when shooting outside of VATS.
The trouble with hunting rifles is that they take forever to reload so as a general purpose weapon they are terrible. There are some great rifles worth getting that change that but in general. I'd rather have a sniper rifle for long range use. A scoped magnum isn't a bad weapon to have as is the traditional shot gun. Always useful.
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As others have said, do as many of the sidequests as possible. I think you can still work with Moira for her quest and supplies. even with Megaton gone. Lockpick, Repair and small arms are the best way to start. Vats is really your friend at this level, since you'll still be pretty weak.
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I just started over with FWE, because even on Very Hard the game is stupidly easy for me; there is no need to try to survive in the wasteland when the whole place is so chock full of supplies (makes me kind of wonder why the residents here are so far behind those of the Californian region).
I went as more of a different stealth character concentrating on having a really good sniper rifle (I used the reservists), magnum (Blackhawk). I didn't use the chinese assault rifle or the Lincoln repeater just because it was too easy. I did use the special plasma rifle and that's another super weapon I won't use on this go round. Still needed to use a shotgun but I will put that away once I get the Gauss rifle. I'm not going to use power armor, although recon armor is pretty weak and the Chinese recon armor is so powerful. We'll see.
RPG names of games that are not point and click!!
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