Fallout 3: Point Lookout

[S1500]

I was surprised it came in so soon. Downloaded it last night and am already in the thick of the swamp.

 

Before I headed off there, I found a super mutant overlord that was messing around with the BoS citadel. Let me tell you, those tri-lasers hurt! Even with 440 hit points he got some dang good shots on me. Not a bad rifle. This makes up for my save game not having ventured into The Pitt to get that metal blaster(souped up laser rifle).

 

The double barrel shotgun is nice. Does more damage(87 around) than my combat shotgun. It makes up for the slow reload by being VERY deadly at close range.

 

The "bruisers" are especially tough. Tougher than a super mutant, and a wee bit fast. I was ambushed by about 5 or 6 swamp folk with little warning when I went up upon a bridge.

 

I ventured further north and got ambushed AGAIN by some smugglers & feral ghouls. Oddly enough, they didn't fight each other. The smugglers are like the talon mercs, but run much faster.

 

And so it goes. It is indeed more open-ended than the other DLC packs. With Anchroage, you were always on a mission.

[S1500]

Nobody's playing this? Where's my fellow Vault 101 escapees? I've been playing for 2-3 hours/night since it first came out, and I'm still not finished. This is not something that can be wrapped up in 5 hours like Operation Anchorage or The Pitt. There's plenty of play time to be had with this.

 

Oh and do I hate those Ghoul reavers.They have ranged weapons and take a TON of damage before going down. One lucky shot from one of them crippled both my arms.

[MetalSlime23]

I have the PS3 version, so I can't play any of the expansions. It sounds fun though.

[+remowilliams]

Damn, I didn't even know there was another one coming... I had a blast with Broken Steel.

[moycon]

I have the PS3 version, so I can't play any of the expansions. It sounds fun though.

 

Before the year is over with you will be able to, so don't fret.

[moycon]

Nobody's playing this?

 

Not I.

 

I paid $10 for Anchorage and it wasn't worth it.

The Pitt came out...I passed. I waited for the reviews and decided it also wasn't worth it.

When Steel came out. I bought it. Raised level cap. Kick ass weapons. That DLC was worth the $10.

Then I heard a Game of the Year edition of Fallout 3 will be released before Xmas with all the DLC included!!??

Ok I'm done with the DLC.

I'll just wait.

Why pay $59.99 for a game, then pay an extra $50 (We're up to $109.99 now fellas) to get all the DLC, when in less than 6 month you can just pick up the GotY edition for a flat rate?? In fact, I'll just wait for the GotY edition to show up on Amazon for < $30 used. My guess is, I wont have to wait long after it's release to get it at that price, so no biggie. I know Fallout 3 kicks ass, but I have PLENTY of other games to keep me busy until that time.

Edited June 27, 2009 by moycon

[Artlover]

Nobody's playing this?

 

Not I.

 

I paid $10 for Anchorage and it wasn't worth it.

The Pitt came out...I passed. I waited for the reviews and decided it also wasn't worth it.

When Steel came out. I bought it. Raised level cap. Kick ass weapons. That DLC was worth the $10.

Then I heard a Game of the Year edition of Fallout 3 will be released before Xmas with all the DLC included!!??

Ok I'm done with the DLC.

I'll just wait.

Why pay $59.99 for a game, then pay an extra $50 (We're up to $109.99 now fellas) to get all the DLC, when in less than 6 month you can just pick up the GotY edition for a flat rate?? In fact, I'll just wait for the GotY edition to show up on Amazon for < $30 used. My guess is, I wont have to wait long after it's release to get it at that price, so no biggie. I know Fallout 3 kicks ass, but I have PLENTY of other games to keep me busy until that time.

I agree mostly except with Broken Steel being worth the $10. I didn't think so. I didn't think it any different then the other two DLC's that I stupidly paid for. Missions and side quests were super short and easy and the whole extending the game past the end was really pretty thin, and it starts to fall apart a bit if you're playing for evil karma. All the addons play as if to say "why wasn't this included in the game to begin with?".

 

Yeah, I paid $60 for the game and have gottens hundreds of hours of fun out of it. These damned DLC's however are more like, well shit, I just completed everything and all the side quests in an hour. Yeah, that was fun, I guess, or something. I mean for $30 freaking bucks, I might as well try and like something about some of it. So far the best thing I've found is the Puppies perk

and getting Meatwad killed so I can get a new one at Vault 101

. That's pretty f'in messed up right there.

 

To that end, I'm holding off on Point Lookout too. It honestly hasn't been worth the cost so far. And I don't see this one doing anything different with regards to that. I'll wait for a friend to get the GOTY edition whenever that comes out, then borrow their disc 2. That will surely happen before I shell out another $10 for these expansions. Cuz it's like: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you again. Fool me a 3rd time, well now, wait a minute. And that's where we are now. I was a fool 2 more times then I should have been I guess but I was desperately trying to give them a fair chance because I love the game so freaking much.

 

If anything tho, I'm glad it happened with this game. This is one of the better games ever made, period, and I can sorta stomach wasting the money on it. So I'm not much upset. But yeah, it did remind me what I forgot. DLC is evil, don't buy it ever. It will be the end of gaming and likely cause the next VG crash because everyone will finally get tired of paying full price for half a game then having to pay more to download the rest of it in small overpriced chunks.

 

[Video]

Yeah, one of my friends kept goinng on and on about how I should get the extra content, and I kept saying "I'll just get the GOTY when it comes out, and their like "I didn't hear bothing about it" and Im just like "uh...who made the game again? there will be a GOTY" They bought one of the discs, which I now have, as I end up with almost everything they buy, and now they find out there is going to be a GOTY, and are all trying to act pissed, I'm just thinking "told ya" and also, now I gotta buy the other expansion disc when it becomes available, just so Ill have a full set.

 

I'll buy the first game, and the Goty, but forget DLC, if there is no hard copy I'm not interested.

[bloodreptile]

PL is the best of the four add ons. If I was recommending stuffto play I would say forget the hughely disappointing Anchorage and the midly disappointing Pitt. Get Broken steel to add you stuff to 30.

 

I have had a great week playing Lookout. It feels alot like there other game Call of Cuthulu and that is a good thing coz this time you get guns. there are loads of things to find and I have still have not found everything.

 

Whilst trying to boost mylevel to 30 I palyed achorage for the second time. Its a huge disappointment. Its a bog standard first person shooter. I have not wnet back to the pitt so far.

 

Has anyone tried the safari yet? That was amazing fun.

[ianoid]

I am just getting into this game. I really really dig it. I am think of waiting to get the goty version. I think the most I'll do is buy it new- if I run out of patience. It would be worth it to me even if I can get 20 hrs of gameplay out of it. If I can get it used, better yet.