...Or is he? Like the Mysterious Stranger, I like to think he's become part of the Wasteland mythology. The idea of treble-hard bastard slavers, the likes of which would punch out Deathclaws for laughs, crap themselves at the thought of, on dark nights when the wind kicks up, a little man in a Vault jumpsuit with a hand-puppet.

So, in terms of legendary figures, so far we've got:

The Mysterious Stranger
The Puppet Man
The Pint-sized Slasher

Am I missing any?

Mister Nixon!
Harold could be considered a legendary figure, seeing as how he's been present in all three games (And most of the spin offs).

started an evil character recently. shes fun. its kind of hard to saya nd do some of these things though.. i keep wanting to be nice to people.

i am doing much better with caps though. my first character really struggled with money, this new character is fresh from teh vault and already nearly has 1k caps.

I stopped playing once i maxed out my character at level 20 will start playing again once i get money for the expansion

So when does the Pitt come out?

Just under two weeks. Broken Steel coems out around four weeks after that.

Looking at the Fallout wiki, March 24th is the announced released date. Best I need to get another points card.

ugh... my game has froze 3 times since i started playing a new character.

i have the game installed on the hard drive, and im not doing anything more taxing then walking around in megaton... i dont understand why the game decides to spaz out and freeze every so often.

Awesome! I can't wait for those two.

It's frozen once on me since I've patched and restarted.

It's not much, but it is once more than before the patch.

Typical. I have the chance to bankroll a merchant, so I go for Crazy Wolfgang, on the understanding he'd have the best repair skill in the game. So it's just my luck I find his corpse by the western entrance to Canterbury Commons, next to a dead Giant Radscorpion.

Damnit, Fallout 3. Still, in his best traditions, I looted his body and put it his gear into my storage locker. Rock on Wolfgang. Rock on.

You could try going back a save file or two and hope he's still alive.

Eh, I could, but since then I've done a fair bit. Just got to move on, I suppose.

It does sting a bit when NPC's you actually like wind up dead. Doubly so when they can die from horrible random accidents or wandering mobs.

It's kind of realistic, though. The Wasteland is not a nice place. Not everyone lives. It'd be nice if they had someone replace them, though.

True. Whilst it does get on my nerves a bit, I can live with it as it means the game won't always be static. I also get to avenge people, which is always good.

Well at least they fixed some of the truely random deaths and disappearances. It was annoying when people in towns just suddenly turn up dead or don't turn up at all.

Wait, you only invested in the one trader?

I usually do them all in one shot. Get some good kit, they all give you a gift for the investments, and they all have more coin.

I can't stand it when a trader dies. Especially when I can't find his frikken body.
I've lost a couple in my various games and I always try to go back a save or two to keep them around. It's worth it just having people with high repair skills to keep my gauss rifle and stealth suit in good order.

If your a total bastard, you can crush Moira's dreams of writting a book and she becuase one of the best repairers in the wastelands.

Lies, Amata never stays down!

It'd be nice if they had some extra generic NPCs programmed in to replace traders as they die. One issue with this game is that, over time, the world can get depopulated and it won't go back.

Indeed. Megaton is a quieter place ever since the Preacher for the Children of the Atom succumbed to Rad Poisoning.



Oh yes she can...

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Blow her head off after you complete "Trouble on the Homefront", or break the Vault, force everyone to leave, and watch the Enclave gun her down in a random encounter

Too bad that doesn't apply to those brats in little lamplight....

Given how gunshy Bethesda has been with children in their other property (The Elder Scrolls - a land of nothing but adults, save the few children skeletons scattered in tombs and Vampire lairs), I think it's a accomplishment just having kids in the game itself.

At the same time, I'm still disturbed at the amount of people on the official forums screaming from the mountaintops (Or at least they were, I'm sure the G.E.C.K. has silenced many on this issue) that children should be killable.

Yeah it'd be more realistic (And more in line with previous Fallouts), but ultimately I don't think it really adds anything to the game beyond being a sadistic prick.

EDIT: And if you want to get really technical, there's three kids you *can* kill in the game. You can blow up Megaton, which takes care of the two living there and you can also blow off the kid from the questline "THOSE!", who presumably dies alone in the harsh wasteland, somewhere.

Theoretically, there's a fourth one. According to a friend, you can off the sadistic/bully kid in Rivet City. I've never tried myself, though.

I've seen mention of them wantign to kill the Lamplight brats, who have some of the most annoying characters in the wastelands, but the few other kid characters I've never seen a death htreat against. Also, I happen to like being a sadisitc prick from time to time in these games. It allows me to get out frustrations that I could do in real life, which includes knocking some sense into kids like McCreedy and Princess. Teach them to threaten me with violence.

Edit: Yeah, but most those kids you mention there are mostly likable. Even the bully in Rivit City isn't that bad, after you realize he's acting out aganst his drunken whore of a mother.

I actually came to like McCreedy. He's the one who socked Princess and took over the Mayorship, after all.

Also, you want to be a Sadistic Prick? Go to Paradise Falls and talk to Eulogy, and get the quest to lure Bumble out of Lamplight and watch her get nabbed by a Slaver. I mean seriously...how could anyone with a soul do that to Bumble?!

I'd compromise and settle for a taser I can zap them with.

I suppose I probably shouldn't mention that I am /very/ well liked in Paradise falls...

I burnt it to the ground, go fig.

Yeah, I saved that Option for Megaton. Such an amazing site seeing that mushroom cloud from the horizon...

If you want to see similar explosions up close, try the Fat Man. Fun trick: if you fire the Fat Man straight up, you can reload and fire a second shot before the first lands and kills you. Then you get another explosion during your death slo-mo!

Yeah, I like being the only one left alive, so I usually don't use the Fatman.

My favorite use of a Fatman?

Taking out a Super Mutant Sniper on the roof of a building overlooking a Parking Lot. Pretty explosions...not so pretty rad radiation spike.

I had the fatman through most of the game, and I never used it until the last attack against the Enclave. I just nuked the heck out of their forces. I used all 40 or so rounds I had. That was fun.

I'm stockpiling Fatman rounds for my Experimental M.I.R.V.

If Broken Steel "fixes" the ending and advances the story, then I can't help but feel it might be wise to have some super firepower to deal with any sort of "Epic" fight that may crop up.

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I can't shake the feeling that the Enclave will gain control of Liberty Prime some how. Not just because that would constitute one helluva boss battle, but because I don't see Bethesda allowing something as powerful as Liberty Prime to become a constant in the Wasteland.

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I imagine that he will require massive amounts of power, and that the Brotherhood can't justify the ammo and fuel to use him on a constant basis. He is built for assault after all.

I generally don't use the Fat Man seriously. It's more my "make a new save file, mess around, get myself killed, and then go back to actually playing seriously" gun. It and the Alien Blaster are great for taking out Megaton on a whim.

Turns out Crow almost got mauled by a pack of Robobrains after they killed his guard. However, I saved his arse, although he will probably get mauled on his route now he doesn't have hired help.

I managed to finish off Tenpenny Tower and Oasis...

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I have to say I whacked Roy and his companions. Not because I have a thing against ghouls, but because he was an arse and I knew what the "good" outcome of the quest was. Killing Roy and his friends felt like the lesser of two evils.

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I went along with Harold's wishes and stopped his heart. A shame, really. But it was what he wanted, so what can one do? I just hope the Oasis survives without him.

That just leaves Stealing Independence and The Nuka-Cola Challenge.

I hate that doing it that way makes you out to be the bad guy, but the other options, who's results is just as bad, are the "good"choices.

True, but it does illustrate a good point. Sometimes, no matter what you do, people get hurt.

I hated the entire Tenpenny tower quest.

I dont mind them gettign hurt if they were all biggots like Tenpenny; but most the people there are rather decent people. You get rid of most the ones that aren't. The problem afterwards is that the Ghouls are lead by someone just as biggoted.

I ended up breaking the Tenpenny questline. I failed a speech check for two of the residents and now it's kinda stuck in limbo. I ran a few residents out of the tower though. Ran across the female shopkeeper out in the wastes, on the run from some Hunters. I helped her out, because frankly...her meat would be far too gamey.



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I ended up spreading the balm that would make Oasis grow faster. It works out, because when you talk with Harold again he realizes the folks at Oasis need his help, and the Oasis folks finally realize they need to start listening to Harold. Besides, Harold is mutating into the forest itself, he can "see" through the branches and what have you. So he's not going to be trapped in one place forever.

The only thing that bums me out is this is the last game we'll see Harold in.

I doubt it, that is one persistant zombie.

Given how Oasis plays out, there's not very many ways he could come back for a Part 4.

Only 2 out of 4 ways for him to die. Most likely they will just pick one of the two ways that he survived and say it triggered his release.

Depends entirely on when they have the next game, and where. If they set it 150 years after the bombs, and somewhere between DC and california, I'd say we're gonna run into harold.

And yeah, I broke the tenpenny quest myself my first time through: though there is a way to end it despite failing the checks. You simply have to pursue one of the other endings. Or reverting to a save file, and buffing speech before trying again.

I somehow managed to kill everyone in and around Tenpenny Tower without losing karma or completing the quest.

I wonder what would happen if in FO3, you just killed everyone that you met in the game. I wonder how long it would take to reach the level cap.