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You can only have one humanoid companion and one animal/robot companion at the same time.

If you want Arcade send Boone to the lucky 38.

right, thanks.

ED-E + Veronica= Win

Me and ED sit back and hose them cazadors and veronica punches em out

Scrazza wrote:got another question. How do I get Arcade Gannon to be my companion? I already got Boone and Rex as companions. I passed the speech check, and when I ask him to follow me, he keeps saying I should 'go down to slamm gang size'. Does this mean I have to fire one of my two companions? I already tried to let them wait somewhere while I ask Gannon, but he won't follow me.

You can have either rex or ED-E as your animal companion then one humanoid companion at a time, if you have unlocked the lucky 38 presidential sweet you can send your companions there to store them while you use other ones.

This game is just as crap as Fallout 3... but with iron sights >_<

Soladrin wrote:This game is just as crap as Fallout 3... but with iron sights >_<

Soladrin wrote:This game is just as crap as Fallout 3... but with iron sights >_<

Right, we get it, you only like old games, which is fine. Duly noted, carry on and piss elsewhere.

Scrazza wrote:

Soladrin wrote:This game is just as crap as Fallout 3... but with iron sights >_<

Well, my main problem with bethesda's approach to fallout is simple: they just completely failed to capture any of the old games' spirit, the atmosphere in the games is just non-existent, characters are just unrelatable, and all just comes off as goofy. I can't get serious in these games for even a second.

I've never played 1 and 2, so I don't know the differences.

Scrazza wrote:I've never played 1 and 2, so I don't know the differences.

For shame.

But honestly, everything after Fallout: tactics wasn't even fallout to me anymore. They just happened to have the same name.

You do know the originals are top view turn based games right ?

At least NV actually seems to be more of a fallout game than 3 did. 3 had only the names to keep itself a fallout game.

NV actually has references to it's past with proper super mutants from the Master's army being arround and such. The only proper link in F3 was Harold. (the tree guy.)

Soladrin wrote:

Scrazza wrote:I've never played 1 and 2, so I don't know the differences.

For shame.

But honestly, everything after Fallout: tactics wasn't even fallout to me anymore. They just happened to have the same name.

You do know the originals are top view turn based games right ?

Yep

And yep I know, I've seen some vids on youtube.

Soladrin wrote:

Scrazza wrote:I've never played 1 and 2, so I don't know the differences.

For shame.

But honestly, everything after Fallout: tactics wasn't even fallout to me anymore. They just happened to have the same name.

You do know the originals are top view turn based games right ?

I admit, I never played the first two, either. However, my brother owns them, but he doesn't have a computer and I can't convince him to lend them to me

I did google The Master, though. Dude was creeeeeeepy.

The lieutenant was more fun then the master though... intelligent super mutant was fun to piss off

I can't remember which I found tougher, Him or the Master.

I think I blew up the cathedral without interacting with the master.

The damn time limit annoyed me when I found out.

That one dude from 2, Harrigon, Harrigan, Harrigen, whatever his name was. He seems like he is an absolute bad ass though. Punches Deathclaws to death and doesn't afraid of nothing!

Slarg232 wrote:That one dude from 2, Harrigon, Harrigan, Harrigen, whatever his name was. He seems like he is an absolute bad ass though. Punches Deathclaws to death and doesn't afraid of nothing!

Horrigan?

And you can finish fallout 1 in 12 minutes (speedrun video I found a while back XD)

But yea, easiest way of combat? reverse pick pocket some dynomite/plastic explosive.

In fallout 2? 150% + small arms and a gauss rifle... AIM FOR THE EYES! (or ballz :3)

And I can't plant explosives on children in fallout 3/NV, this makes me sad.

in 3, you can place a slave collar to that kid in that town with the fire ants. (I know, I'm bad with names.)

Soladrin wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:That one dude from 2, Harrigon, Harrigan, Harrigen, whatever his name was. He seems like he is an absolute bad ass though. Punches Deathclaws to death and doesn't afraid of nothing!

Horrigan?

And you can finish fallout 1 in 12 minutes (speedrun video I found a while back XD)

But yea, easiest way of combat? reverse pick pocket some dynomite/plastic explosive.

In fallout 2? 150% + small arms and a gauss rifle... AIM FOR THE EYES! (or ballz :3)

And I can't plant explosives on children in fallout 3/NV, this makes me sad.

Yeah, if they ever make a Fallout MMO and have the options, I am so making a Super Mutant based on him, complete with armor and a huge Unarmed skill.

Frank Horrigan.. What champ :3

I'm in the newbie bandwagon.. never played 1 & 2. But honestly, I absolutely loved Fallout 3, especially because I got Gotye (Game of the Year Edition - has all the expansion packs).

Will have to replay them all some day..

Unfortunately I never got round to discovering every place - too much effort and I got bored.

Undoubtedly the funniest thing was my invincible Dogmeat.. No kidding.

People can grumble and groan that the mood from fallout 1 and 2 was lost in 3 and new vegas and to a point they are right; fallout 3 lacked in any character and it was clear that it was focusing on gameplay to pull in sales whereas FO1 & 2 only managed sales by having a load of character and being decent for role playing.

Thankfully New vegas has more character than and actually has enjoyable gameplay unlike the first 2.

Fallout 3 is a great game, but it was pretty moody and bleak when compared to the previous two games. New Vegas does bring back some of the feel of especially Fallout 2, but bleh, the devs expect you to talk to every person you come across, the quests are easy to miss.

BrookM wrote:Fallout 3 is a great game, but it was pretty moody and bleak when compared to the previous two games. New Vegas does bring back some of the feel of especially Fallout 2, but bleh, the devs expect you to talk to every person you come across, the quests are easy to miss.

Yeah that was kind of my point, Fallout 3 was a great game with little variation on the bleakness whereas fallout 1 and 2 sucked as games but had lots of character.

corpsesarefun wrote:

BrookM wrote:Fallout 3 is a great game, but it was pretty moody and bleak when compared to the previous two games. New Vegas does bring back some of the feel of especially Fallout 2, but bleh, the devs expect you to talk to every person you come across, the quests are easy to miss.

Yeah that was kind of my point, Fallout 3 was a great game with little variation on the bleakness whereas fallout 1 and 2 sucked as games but had lots of character.

Wait what? Sucked as games? How so? I prefer turn-based combat over this vats crap (which I didn't use). And I still don't see the big change from fallout 3 to NV, it feels like a big expansion, not a new game.

Personally I prefer Fallout 3 over New Vegas mainly because it is, I never thought I'd say this, less buggy and more accessible. Sure, quests are shoved into your gob whenever you enter a new town in F3, but it beats playing scavenger everywhere in an attempt to find the quest givers. I've played through New Vegas three times now and while sure, I discover something new every time, I feel it lacks things. That and the game shows me my desktop every X amount of time. I find F3 a worthy spin-off to F1 and F2, FNV is a weak successor made from the leftovers. I will say this, feth Brotherhood of Steel (the console game) and feth Tactics, both are horrible non-canon rejects made from leftover spunk.

Soladrin wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

BrookM wrote:Fallout 3 is a great game, but it was pretty moody and bleak when compared to the previous two games. New Vegas does bring back some of the feel of especially Fallout 2, but bleh, the devs expect you to talk to every person you come across, the quests are easy to miss.

Yeah that was kind of my point, Fallout 3 was a great game with little variation on the bleakness whereas fallout 1 and 2 sucked as games but had lots of character.

Wait what? Sucked as games? How so? I prefer turn-based combat over this vats crap (which I didn't use). And I still don't see the big change from fallout 3 to NV, it feels like a big expansion, not a new game.

The main change between fallout 3 and new vegas is the increase in character though there are several gameplay changes such as the ironsights aiming instead of just zooming with most guns (annoyed this didn't change on energy weapons) as well as a general revamp of how the story and quests play out.
Also, VATS is pretty much pointless unless you use it like RDR's dead eye.

And while I agree about the BOS game being scum I greatly prefered New Vegas to fallout 3 dispite it being more buggy. Fallout 3 appeals more to the completionists that want to do EVERYTHING in a game whereas NV appeals more to people that just want to make characters and wander around.

Though I preferred oblivion to morrowind to my opinion is debatably valid.

By the way, what Karma have you guys played/prefer to play?

I've only done Neutral/Good on NV at the minute, but next time round I'm totally going to be evil. Being evil in F3 just wasn't rewarding as far as I could tell.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:By the way, what Karma have you guys played/prefer to play?

I've only done Neutral/Good on NV at the minute, but next time round I'm totally going to be evil. Being evil in F3 just wasn't rewarding as far as I could tell.

I play good mostly as its almost impossible to be evil without being stupid evil and the few times it is possible it somehow gives you positive karma (come fly with me quest where you kill the ghouls for example).

Also, something rather funny that a friend of mine has done for one of his F:NV characters is have him running around with Intelligence 1.