elmuerte Posted February 25, 2009 Weee... finished the main story... and thereby the game :/ Why can't I continue... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanJW Posted February 25, 2009 Reveal hidden contents Because you are dead and you can't come back as a ghoul because the radiation melted you into a puddle because everyone knows that's what massive radiation does to you!!!!111 Maybe. Anyway yeah that was perhaps the most common complaint about the endgame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Noyb Posted February 26, 2009 Ending spoilers: Reveal hidden contents Because your character suddenly forgot about the 50+ Rad-X and Rad-Aways you had stockpiled to that point. And didn't feel like ordering the radiation-proof Fawkes into the final chamber in your stead. Seriously, are there any Video game sacrifices that don't feel horribly contrived? Even the father's was contrived, since at that point the Enclave didn't pose any danger to me or my followers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanJW Posted February 26, 2009 You can ask Fawkes to go in for you. He just mumbles some anachronistic bullshit about it being your destiny and not his ie he is actually a big fucking coward and/or a sadistic bastard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted February 26, 2009 actually I also had the other ending Reveal hidden contents When you don't enter the code in time, the stuff just explodes and you are really dead. This wasn't actually my intention... stupid phone calls. But still, the story was crafted for the game to stop. They could also have changed the story so you could continue. Also funny to see how the differences in ending are dependent on the very last action you take. Just like in Deus Ex and in quite some other games. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wrestlevania Posted February 26, 2009 Must unsubscribe from this thread... too many uncloaked spoilers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted February 26, 2009 looking back, it's a real shame that pretty much all quest in fallout are so short and simple. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 1, 2009 Ok, now I've pretty much completed the whole game. I've done all achievement thingies. And also quite a number of unmarked quests. The only thing left is kill everybody, visit every place, and collect every inventory item. There are really a shit load of uninteresting places in the game. For example all those transmitter towers. There's absolutely no use for them. Or the white house, absolutely not interesting. There are some locations which are not even on the map, but they of interest. Like rockopolis (has a bobblehead). The mutant behemoths are also unimpressive. Pretty much every one of them can easily be killed without receiving any damage. The deathclaws are more dangerous. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freezerr Posted March 24, 2009 Anyone try out the Pitt DLC yet? There are still no reviews on metacritic and I'm hesitant to shell out another 10 bucks sight unseen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 24, 2009 You can buy it with real money? Because I'm not interested in wasting money on MS points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freezerr Posted March 24, 2009 Sorry if I got your hopes up; I think you can still only buy it with the MS money equivalent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FoliorumViridum Posted March 24, 2009 Apparently it's buggy as hell and will be (or has been) taken down until Bethesda fix it. I'm glad I'm waiting for Broken Steel so that I can play all three packs at once and level up during the process. I'd be gutted if I had downloaded that today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 24, 2009 Freezerr said: Sorry if I got your hopes up; I think you can still only buy it with the MS money equivalent. MS points is not equivalent to money. It's equivalent to gift certificates. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freezerr Posted March 25, 2009 elmuerte said: MS points is not equivalent to money. It's equivalent to gift certificates. Is this anything beyond a game of semantics? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
80's Bad Guy Posted March 25, 2009 I was so excited I downloaded the damn thing as soon as it was available, cleared my schedule, had a fat spliff and then proceeded to have my mind blown just as I thought....but in a horrible nightmare bad trip kinda way. The whole thing is utterly bizarre, because it starts out fine enough, but then you slowly start seeing flying smokestacks and barrels, then raiders with glowing eyes, and then those triangles, and then after the bridge, crash and doom. I just hope it gets re-uploaded sometime soon. Balls. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 25, 2009 Freezerr said: Is this anything beyond a game of semantics? You can spend money everywhere. You can only spend MS points in a MS store. You can exchange money to MS points, but not MS points to money. I can give money to somebody else. I can not give MS points to somebody else. I wouldn't be surprised if there's even a expiration date on MS points. MS points can only be bought in batches of 500 or 1000. But hardly anything costs a multitude of that. For example, a lot of things cost 800 points. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanJW Posted March 25, 2009 Isn't there even an achievement for managing to spend all your MS points? Or was that just a joke? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Freezerr Posted March 25, 2009 elmuerte said: You can spend money everywhere. You can only spend MS points in a MS store. You can exchange money to MS points, but not MS points to money. I can give money to somebody else. I can not give MS points to somebody else. I wouldn't be surprised if there's even a expiration date on MS points.MS points can only be bought in batches of 500 or 1000. But hardly anything costs a multitude of that. For example, a lot of things cost 800 points. Fair enough. It is definitely frustrating that your download options are limited to multiples of 500, when there's absolutely no reason why it needs to be limited that way (except to get the consumer to spend more than he normally would). Games retailers try to do the same thing by pricing games at 59.99 or 39.99 to make the price tag artificially more palatable to the consumer. This is on a smaller scale and less objectionable, certainly, but there is the same mindset behind both pricing schemes. And in the end, neither of these cross the line for me and dissuade me from purchasing games. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
syntheticgerbil Posted March 25, 2009 Aren't a lot 800 points because that equals 10 US dollars? That's what I figured. The MS points to Dollar exchange rate is 1.25 right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 25, 2009 syntheticgerbil said: Aren't a lot 800 points because that equals 10 US dollars? That's what I figured. The MS points to Dollar exchange rate is 1.25 right? Yes. But why is the there even an exchange rate? <puts on tinfoil hat> There is an exchange rate and oddly sized increments/prices tags because it is extra money for Microsoft. When you buy 1 item of $10, or 800 points. You need to buy 1000 points, and you wasted 200. When you want to buy something else, which is probably also $10 you need to buy another 1000 points. After that you will have 400 left. etc. In the end you either don't give a crap about losing the money, or you buy some extra credits to waste it on something you are not really interested in, but which will put your credit on 0. it's an absolute win for Microsoft in any case Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Noyb Posted March 25, 2009 I vaguely remember hearing that it was a way to decrease the total number of credit card transactions, which means Microsoft can sell a larger quantity of micropayment items without losing a good chunk of profit each time. So it's a combination of elmuerte's theory of incentivizing small purchases and the framework to ensure maximum profit of those purchases. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toblix Posted March 25, 2009 While proactively leveraging some enterprise shit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
syntheticgerbil Posted March 26, 2009 And checking wikipedia, Microsoft point exchange rates vary with every currency except US dollars, which nicely throws another wrench into the system. Although I think not having a constant exchange rate for other currencies probably deters buy unless exchange rates are in their favor, unless Microsoft can save an account of a certain currency for later when it is profitable to convert it to the dollar... and... I get a headache trying to figure out economics, nevermind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
80's Bad Guy Posted March 27, 2009 Wow The Pitt was really great! Awesome DLC. It's like a glorified version of the Tenpenny Tower quest with even greater morally complicated alternate paths. Plus the writing is really sharp and I love the things NPC's shout at you based on your actions. My favorite line Reveal hidden contents (I heard someone yell at me after the Arena) "Wow, you killed the shit out of Gruber!" Hah! Poor Gruber. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 27, 2009 considering I didn't like Tenpenny Tower quest.. the pitt wold suck too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
