Nolan

It happened to me, so I stole the key to the door.

Well it's probably too late now, but tell him to keep waiting until the person comes back. Even if they don't open the door he can try to steal a key, or kill the person if their sneak is low. Alternativly shouldn't he have an autosave somewhere or is the whole building itself locked? Also waiting/sleeping will autosave.

I've got about 40 hours now.

Keep your laptop off your lap :p. Also get some compressed air to try and blow out any dust that has accumulated, as it will cause heating issues.

Bloody Mess is the only perk you shold not hesitate to take. I took it i the originals when all it did was make death violent. It's even better now. I'm level 16 and still have not gone to GNR.

Havent been there no, and I wasn't really trying to get into who's is worse so much as warn you agianst Michigan. There are better states is all my point was. Although our gas prices have come down nearly 50% now. They were cheaper than your beforehand, but still.

Ahh cool, but I really don't suggest Michigan. If your on vacation, well great I guess tourism isn't bad. Live though......if you think US economy is bad, well MI has been nad for years prior with a pretty high unemployment. So unless your in high demand I'd go elsewhere. Try Canada. It's near Michigan(well part of it).

Umm.....that's a bit ot.... May I ask why?

I changed the color in the main menu. For the PC just go into settings and under visual it allows your to change your hud and Pipboy hud. I reckon the process is similar on consoles.

Eh maybe, but it's was mentioned in the first ever preview of Fallout 3 and was even demonstrated in one of the gameplay videos. In other words, it may a spoiler, but it's a well publicised one that has been mentioned numerous times in the Fallout 3 thread.

As almost anyone who played should know VATS is awesome and allows for some great pics, so here's a thread to dump any of your prouder moments. Well......if anyone else here got the PC version where pics come easiest. Bleh photobucket resized mine, they normally are 1280x800, medium settings Well without further ado. I uhh was playing with a missle launcher..... The Ripper...it's a mini-chainsaw. It Destroys appendages. A Hunter......guess what he hunts, I'll give you a hint. The picture and I gained karma for blowing his head off. A Super Mutant Behemoth....you do not want to encouter these, it took most of my ammo to kill. I think I only won since I got him stuck. In the above three, look at the peoples names. I love this shot, it's just great looking. Mother-****ing Fire Breathing ANTS!!!!. They're attacking each other in that pic. ^ One ant killed the other. This thing scared the **** out of me, I was looking up at a corpse hanging on meat hooks. Shot him in VATS. Finished him with my bat.....I was practically out of ammo. Grenade exploding near some Mirelurks. No Texture, for like 10 seconds. I took half a step after the pic though and it appeared. Spooning Skeletons. el oh el. Damn sniper blew a car up. Car again. A bus blew up.... My Shishkebab, it's a sword that sets things on fire. Crashed alien ship Deathclaw, these could give a Behemoth a run for it's money Alien Pistol=insta-kill Fugly evil character I was naked during my time in the vault, plus he looks like a vampire. I was a bad kid I knocked everyone out, including my classmates and teacher. Oh and andy the robot. Very Evil Megaton blowing up for those that went good.

I killed Dukov, he's a tw@t alright. Dogmeat is in the wastes

If you can buy something you can sell stuff, just click on anything you want to sell in your inventory and it'll move to their inventory and tell you with and arrow how many bottlecaps are going to whom for the trade. In the begining I suggest buying ammo and stimpaks and don't waste money on other things. You can get XP for killing, completing quests, hacking, lockpicking, disarming traps and mines. All skills are useful, same thing with your stats and perks. if you made some bad choices that could be affecting your combat.

Drink water to get your health up. Don't worry about the radiation, it doesn't affect you until nearly 500 rads. In megaton you can rent a bed in the saloon for 120 caps(kinda pricey), or wander the wastes a little bit and you may find an unoccupied bed. That or you can liberate a raider or their bed. To get money, do some side quests for small cash, but more importantly collect anything and everything. Everything you find has a price and can be sold even pre-war money it'll net you about 6 caps each. Stealing things is also useful and unlike oblivion/morrowind you can sell stolen items and not worry about bieng caught. Some one else mentioned that they think the game is doing what Oblivion does where enemies are as tough as you, well that isn't the case. Fallout 3 has no level scaling, Bethesda realised after oblivion that level scaling didn't feel right especially when you see run of the mill poor bandits with all glass armor and weapons. In Fallout, if you go somewhere your not strong enough to be, you'll have a hard time staying alive.

Liam Neeson does your fathers voice.

The Exorcist isn't all that frightening by todays standards, but when it was released......different story back then. The crawling down the stairs thing is still creepy.

Well tbh I think your wrong, but that's beside the point since that isn't what is happening. Read the upateI posted, or check the site again and read the update right at the top.

The game mechanics are quite different from Oblivion, karma has a real effect throughout the world and on the story. Leveling is done via experience points, as opposed to having to grind each skill untill you can level. The 3rd person view is infintely better than anything Bethesda has tried before. The shooting mechanics are well done, a bit hard to get the sensitivity right though on the controllers (but I had been using K/M for the past 11 hours...) The characters are much more unique compared to oblivions set, where you could find the same person 3 times in each village....just with a different name. Wandering the wastes is incredibly more enjoyable than wandering wandering the wilderness. It all feels unique. As for the length (it's only single player fyi dazzybee) I've playeed 25 hours barely even explored DC and still haven't touched the main story. Although, I'm guessing that if you invested the same amount of time just in the main story and rushed through it.....well it'd be beaten. Oh and I totally think the Ce is worth the extra monies. The lunchbox is nice quality the artbook is very well done, I haven't looked at the making of yet, and the bobble-head is quite nice. (and wobbly :p)

It's been updated

Level 11 now! only took 24 hours to do. I've only done enough mainstory to get me out of the vault...

If you say/do something wrong on the forum, I agree there should be consequences, but they should stay on the forum, while conversly anything done in-game should be punished via the game(or particular service). Think of it this way, your walking down the street and call a nearby officer a prat, and he takes away your driving license. The two things are unrelated, it's a punishment not fitting of the crime.

Take a dump in the lunchbox then...

TDK is pretty similar to the Graphic Novel it's actually based off of though.

Well, people bitched about Bioshocks DRM and it was changed. People have complained to EA and they are now working on a tool to allow people redeem their installions after an uninstall. Besides you missed the point that those people complaining about the DRM (I don't know how they went about it rudely or not) would be banned from their games...the games they paid for. Policing the internet goes against the internet...

Wow......I'm wholly surprised at the good reactions. This is not a good thing, does anyone here remember people being banned for complaining about Spores horrid DRM? Well do you really think they deserve to lose all of their privileges for voicing their complaints? What if some mod starts abusing power? That's a large headache for people that don't deserve the ban, and whoever they have to appeal too to remove the ban. Like Jimbob said, what if other companies follow suit, this is just not good.