V01 Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 My order has shipped, hoping it might turn up Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted November 6, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted November 6, 2015 Getting my copy on Monday.Quite* looking forward to it. *massively **** excited 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobler Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I'm massively back into Witcher 3 at the moment after a break. So glad I went back, when you get to Skellige it's just absolutely phenomenal.... but... but ... Fallout. I've just spent too much time on Fallout 2, 3 and Vegas that I just have to drop everything for this... even though Witcher 3 could possibly be of the greatest games I've ever played, I'm just a sucker for Fallout hype. I know I'll lose my Witcher flow and not get back into it for months. Don't care though, can't wait for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I bought the game with the franchise book and soundtrack for £49.99 from Amazon.Received an email this morning saying it has been dispatched so hopefully i get it Monday.I have the week off work, not planned in with the release but falls quite nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 What's all this Fallout business then? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 7, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2015 What's all this Fallout business then?Massive open world RPG set in the US following a nuclear war. You wander out into the wasteland of ruined towns and cities, having been raised in a fallout shelter, and more or less stumble into your own adventures, finding other survivors, picking up quests, developing your character with different perks, and fighting various mutants and hostile people you stumble on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 What's all this Fallout business then?Massive open world RPG set in the US following a nuclear war. You wander out into the wasteland of ruined towns and cities, having been raised in a fallout shelter, and more or less stumble into your own adventures, finding other survivors, picking up quests, developing your character with different perks, and fighting various mutants and hostile people you stumble on.Similar to Borderlands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 7, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2015 Less of a shooter (although you're still picking up guns and the like and using them regularly. Unless you want to develop your character into a more if a brawler, for example) than Borderlands, much more of an in depth RPG.You'll complete some quests just by talking, you'll open new avenues to completing tasks depending on how you've developed your character which mean sometimes you'll complete a task by killing everyone in an area and taking something when they're all dead, and other players might complete the same mission by sneaking in and charming their way through before carefully stealing the item instead.If you've ever seen Skyrim being played, it's basically that in a different setting with guns and weird pulp 50s sci-fi postapocalypse leaning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Any one seen it on sale early?Seen plenty of people saying they've had "shipped" emails, couple saying local indies have gone early, I'm in brum this afternoon so if anyone knows anywhere jumping the gun let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Don't know about in Brum but Neil down Old Hill normally sells everything early if you give him a wink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 This game looks awesome! But I haven't played any of the others which means I can't play this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobler Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Not at all. This'll be what elevates Fallout to a massive audience, like Skyrim did for the Elder Scrolls series. Just jump in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Thanks for the breakdown Chindie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 This game looks awesome! But I haven't played any of the others which means I can't play this one Not at all. The only thing you need to know really is the premise of the game, and that's the USA and China had a nuclear war and everybody lost. There isn't really any continuity story wise between any of the games, they are just all set in the United States at some indeterminate point after the war and follow the struggles of the survivors in a world which is a resource starved nuclear wasteland. The big appeal of the same (for me at least) is the humour. Fallout definitely has a great po faced ridiculousness to it which can be amazing when it hits, it's a parody of idealistic jingoistic 50s Americana in a world which has gone to shit and I think it just has the right level of self awareness. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 (edited) The whole lore of the world is really interesting too. The US government set up numerous underground vaults so that when nuclear war did hit American soil, some lucky citizens could escape to them in order to survive. However, a number of them actually has dark ulterior motives and were used for social experimentation. Many had different conditions designed to test their inhabitants and one of the best things I found about Fallout 3 was exploring these other vaults or finding documents containing information on them and discovering what happened (often ending rather grisly).The Tranquillity Lane quest line from Fallout 3 is one of my all time favourite gaming experiences and I loved reading about the other vaults and the dark and twisted conditions that these researchers set for the people inside them. Edited November 8, 2015 by Ginko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted November 8, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hoping my Lenovo Y-50 can handle this... Think it might be a step too far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hoping my Lenovo Y-50 can handle this... Think it might be a step too far I'm sure it'll be fine. My computer is getting to the stage where I can't play everything on max now but I can't really afford to upgrade it right now so lower settings it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingsombrero Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Embargo breaking review was moaning about the slow pacing of the story. Good, hearing that has made me more excited for the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradd92 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 The embargo breaking review from IB is hilarious, clearly the reviewer has no idea what Fallout is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Shipped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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