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Mine showed up via UPS from NewEgg about 5 minutes ago. I had no idea UPS even delivered that late as usually about 5pm is the latest I ever see them on my street. Looking forward to putting in some time with it tonight.

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Played about 3 hours and I think did most of the stuff in the first town. So far I'm loving it. All the reviews harp on the technical glitches, but I havent seen anything that wasnt in Fallout 3. Not much feels new about it (if anything), but since I loved 3 I have no problem with that. I gladly play Fallout 3 in a brand new location with new story and characters.

thumbs up from me

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Anyone seen the....



Holy Shit! I'm scared already.

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It seems to be starting kind of slow for me. The story I mean. It's definitely harder, but I play on normal.

I don't seem to be into it as much as Fallout 3, but I am sure that will change.

Oh and how the fuck do you play Caravan? I read the directions and I am all confused. I won a game by just tossing cards down, I had no idea what the hell I was doing.

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8 hours in and loving it...not as good as Fallout 3 from the start (story) and does not seem to be as many enemies, though they are tougher.

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I had one crash 6 hours in coming out of my hotel room....froze the system, and fucked up the save file...thank god I save ever few minutes on my own...if I used only the quicksave...6 hours down the drain...

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Went to Best Buy earlier to pick up my copy of the CE that I had pre-ordered only to find out that they didn't have any more copies. What exactly is the point of offering paid fucking pre-orders to people if you aren't going to hold a copy for them?

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My father-in-law had it freeze on him (he's playing on PS3) and I keep seeing my gun float in the air and then back to my hands. It happens at least a dozen times while indoors.

Also, I am not sure what happened but

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Played about 2.5 hours so far. Seems good but I agree with the consensus not as groundbreaking as Fallout 3.

Also, minor spoiler from the very start of the game,

Also, maybe it's just me (and that I've been playing oblivion a lot lately on the PS3) but I think the graphics aren't quite as good as I remembered Fallout 3 being. Still good mind you but textures don't seem as high of quality. It also seems to me like the screen is more zoomed in than Fallout 3 or Oblivion and as a result I sort of feel a bit of tunnel vision like I don't have as wide of a field of view compared to the other games. I may very well be imagining that though.

In terms of bugs, so far on the PS3 I've seen just minor ones where characters have gotten stuck against other objects (another NPC). I resolved it by just bumping into them and pushing them and then it was fine but it is somewhat worrying to hear that larger bugs are already popping up.

At any rate, it's still fun as hell especially since I haven't played Fallout 3 since I finished the GOTY version and all the DLC almost a year ago. I forgot how satisfying it is to blow someone's head off from a distance via VATS.

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Had my first freeze tonight, luckily I had saved about a minute before it happened

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12.5 hours in...level 12...

This game is fucking brilliant guys. I don't care that it is more of the same Fallout 3...Fallout 3 is my favorite game this generation...more is good. If Jessica Alba fucked the shit out of me for near 200 hours like Fallout 3 did, and she showed up with her hair died blond, wearing a cheerleader outfit and said she wanted to fuck me another 200 hours...I think I would be just ok with that.


I only had the one glitch at 6 hours in...

Loading seems longer than Fallout 3...in fact some of it is almost to much.

The game looks better than Fallout 3...not by much, but side by side there is a small jump..

Main story is getting good. It did not grab me as quick as Fallout 3 did, but it already is twisting in a way that I can tell there are at least 3 endings...

I could not stop playing it...near 13 hours...and I am MAKING myself stop.

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3 freezes during first day of playing (PS3 version). Seems every bit as glitchy as Fallout 3.

Still a great game, but those freezes are frustrating as hell.

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3 hours in last night...game is the blast..no real issues in terms of bugs or crashes..had some glitching (Shading issues?) at the start of the game..no crazy bugs like people walking in the air or running around in circles.

game is not as intiutative as FO3, but I didn't really like the story line in FO3, so I am already happy here with the story line here.

I need help though!

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That does sound kind of dumb...it's going to be tough figuring out who to help. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of character I want to be, so far been throwing a lot into Science, Speech, and Barter...but the latter 2 I'll probably just get to 50 or so then worry about other things.

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I'm going with the 3 skills that worked for me in FO3..Repair, lockpick and Guns

Anyone know how to get a karma boost? There is a ton of yummies in

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I know complaining about Steam makes me about a thousand years old. The one good thing about being forced to install Steam for this game is that I had a free copy of Portal in my Steam account that I hadn't played in ages since it was the only thing I'd ever gotten through Steam. I was mainly just annoyed because I didn't remember any of my login info and it was keeping me from playing for an extra half an hour.

I've played 5-6 hours so far. So far no major glitches. I could be misremembering, but it seems like the game looks slightly worse than Fallout 3, but I also haven't had any problems with the radio stuttering, so I'll take the good with the bad.

I don't remember property ownership in Fallout 3 working like it does in this game. Again, I could be remembering incorrectly, but I thought that once you killed the owner of a container, you could loot it without karma loss.

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"Played" a little under one hour last night. I'm still at the doctor's house. LOL!

Since I bought the guide decided to read about skills, SPECIAL, traits, etc. And chose one of the predefined configurations, from the guide, to have a good sniper guy. That's what I used to do in Fallout 3, although I didn't follow any guide then.

I skipped hardcore mode this time, is anyone doing hardcore?

Nick, the CE is just a box with excellent goodies, I loved them at least, and the regular game inside. So, the actual box of the game doesn't say CE, or LE, it's exactly the same as the regular edition. So you should be able to return that to Wal-Mart without trouble, I think.

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That is kind of what my spoiler is about..

I killed some hostiles..but there was going to be a karma hit for taking their stuff. Is that a bug? or what..Or is it just a karma hit for that faction..but that was suppose to be just for rep.

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Yeah, I meant to quote your spoiler there. It's entirely possible it just affects your rep with that faction, which would be fine with me. Is there a spot that shows you your current karma level?

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Dunno..but I took some dynamite and it said my karma had dropped..hrmf. Lots of dynamite at that spot.

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I usually play these games as the nice guy, but I'm thinking about just being an asshole this time for that very reason. There will probably be someplace you can donate money or something to get your karma backup anyways.

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Since they don't have specific achievements/trophies for Karma this time around I am likely to care very little how the world sees me. I will probably remain friends with the neutral civilizations and blow everyone else straight to hell.

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I'm wondering..if REP is really the most important..what does Karma do?

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It will likely cause certain people to run from you or charge you higher prices for their goods or services but who knows.