How much stuff is there to do in the Wasteland?

[Aethelheim]

So I've completed the main story and downloaded FWE and a couple of other mods and am going to start a heavy roleplaying game as a wandering explorer/adventurer type and not going to go anywhere near the main storyline at all. So, I have the 5 expansions, what I want to know is... is the Wasteland full of adventure and fun OUTSIDE of the main storyline, or is it as dead as it looks? Blowing raider heads off in abandoned schools and looking at tortured/mutilated corpses on mattresses in cellars is fun, but it needs to be broken up by quests and other interaction with friendly or at least neutral people at times.

[WastelandAssassin]

there are probably enough side quests for you to play for days, and you still probably wouldn't find them all

believe me, the game is much more fun when you play outside of the main quest line, as the main quest line takes you to so few places, that you miss around 90% of the content in the game

 

so go out there and start exploring!! :biggrin:

[Aethelheim]

So I've completed the main story and downloaded FWE and a couple of other mods and am going to start a heavy roleplaying game as a wandering explorer/adventurer type and not going to go anywhere near the main storyline at all. So, I have the 5 expansions, what I want to know is... is the Wasteland full of adventure and fun OUTSIDE of the main storyline, or is it as dead as it looks? Blowing raider heads off in abandoned schools and looking at tortured/mutilated corpses on mattresses in cellars is fun, but it needs to be broken up by quests and other interaction with friendly or at least neutral people at times.

 

That's exactly what I wanted to hear.

 

As a reward, take these 3 Squirrel on a stick, a food sanitizer, and a hand grenade.

[WastelandAssassin]

well, i'll tell you what

ahead of you are three raiders

sneak behind them, and put the grenade in one of their pants, then get away

if any of the others survive the blast, through the squirrel sticks at them, and try to hit with the pointy end

 

and after they are dead, make sure to pass them through the sanitizer

after all, a man after a healthy meal is a healthy, happy man :biggrin:

 

believe me, you will enjoy exploring the game

and if you need to find specific things, find the FO3 Wikia, it has probably all the information that you will need (unique items, quests, places and whatever else you want)

just try to role play, as if all you want is to shoot, the game will get really old, really fast

[TheOriginalEvilD]

I've been playing this game on and off since it came out...i've got probably 1000 or more hours playing, and i still find new things now and then. After you've played through it once, you can always be totally evil and it changes everything...or role play it and stick to a certain weapon type (try playing strictly melee or unarmed...or strictly heavy weapons etc). Personally i can't break myself away from playing the stealthy sniper type but it never gets old.

 

One thing i'm currently doing is play through totally vanilla again...no mods whatsoever. To me it actually makes the game harder since i use a lot of awesome weapon mods.

Edited December 6, 2010 by Evil D

[WastelandAssassin]

I've been playing this game on and off since it came out...i've got probably 1000 or more hours playing, and i still find new things now and then. After you've played through it once, you can always be totally evil and it changes everything...or role play it and stick to a certain weapon type (try playing strictly melee or unarmed...or strictly heavy weapons etc). Personally i can't break myself away from playing the stealthy sniper type but it never gets old.

 

One thing i'm currently doing is play through totally vanilla again...no mods whatsoever. To me it actually makes the game harder since i use a lot of awesome weapon mods.

 

that is so true

and like you, i can never get myself away from the stealthy sniper

 

i am planning to go more melee on my next character in New Vegas, but i think i'll still keep a silent sniper as my main weapon, as i just can't live without it

 

as for playing the game totally vanille, i think it would be too much of a challenge

i mean, if i could just keep WMK, then i think it would be possible......

can you imagine playing the game again, and having just the silent pistol as a silent weapon??

how can we live without having at least one serious silent weapon?? :biggrin:

 

well, good luck with that

i hope you will be able to finish the game again (i know it's possible, i think we've all done that, but after you go with mods, going back to basic is HARD!!! :tongue:)

[TheOriginalEvilD]

It's all about stealth boys and Lincoln's repeater/Blackhawk/Callahan's Magnum :D Edited December 7, 2010 by Evil D

[WastelandAssassin]

It's all about stealth boys and Lincoln's repeater/Blackhawk/Callahan's Magnum :D

 

yeah, that's true

my other favorite (and probably my all times favorite weapon in Fallout 3) is the Backwater rifle

massive damage to anything, uses the cheapest bullets out there, and it's quite silent

[ghostfc3s]

Ya every play through I find something new that I missed. I find once I can no longer carry the loot from my kills, I rush to try and find a vendor or at least unload it and miss content trying to get back home. There is plenty to do and kill even if you are not evil! I highly recommend the DC interior and lighting mods, street lights internal lighting it adds so much in the way of atmosphere and scabbing.

 

I use to play the stealth sniper, however finding that I am loving the power armor + mini gun + grenades combo, nothing unloading on a raider when he is the door way, better know as the fatal funnel.

[Deleted19761User]

Finding the unique weapons in the game is a lot of fun. I played through recently using the Underground Hideout Mod. I went around scrounging for weapons to put up on the wall. Scavenging and hording ammo to put on the shelves. Collecting power armor for the mannequins, and other unique outfits. And... oh... picking up EVERY single empty soda bottle I found so I could have it filled and stashed in the nuka machine. I was up to 730 nuka colas at one point. All of that alone was over 30 hours of game play. Hardly any questing done.

 

Lots of stuff to do. Lots of fun to be had. I kind of wish there were more puzzles and such in the game but.. can't have everything....yet. :tongue: