Bethesda gets Fallout

[Velorath]

The first two DLC packs are getting a retail disc release (for PC and 360) for those of you who hate fucking around with LIVE.

[Hawkbit]

The obvious question raised by this package, though, is where this leaves the third upcoming DLC pack for Fallout 3, Broken Steel. Will Bethesda release it as its own retail disc in the future? Why didn't they just include it on this single disc, especially considering it'll release digitally on May 5 -- well before this disc hits stores? We'll pass on any more clarifying details when Bethesda provides them.

[Reg]

The first two DLC packs aren't worth 20 bucks as far as I'm concerned. If they throw in the third one at that price I might go for it.

[Azazel]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58229

[Velorath]

DLC coming to the Playstation 3, and two new DLC packs for the PC, 360, and PS3 announced

We are pleased to announce that Fallout® 3 downloadable content (DLC) is coming to PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. We have been working on implementing it for a while and look forward to bringing it to PS3 gamers via the PlayStation Network. Operation: Anchorage will be released for PS3 in late June, followed by the release of The Pitt and Broken Steel 4-6 weeks apart. Release dates will be forthcoming.

In addition, a new update will be released for PS3 that will allow users to download and play the new DLC. The release date for that update will be announced at a later date.

There are also two new DLCs planned for all three platforms:

Point Lookout – Explore a massive new swampland area filled with new quests and content.
Mothership Zeta – The aliens have returned, and they're pissed. Experience an alien abduction first hand and find out if you're tough enough to survive.
Point Lookout will be available in late June for Xbox 360 and PC. Cost will be 800 points or $9.99. It will be available through Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live and through token cards available at retail. Point Lookout will be available on PS3 after the first three DLCs have been released.

Mothership Zeta is scheduled for release in late July for Xbox 360 and PC. Cost will be 800 points or $9.99. It will be available through Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live and through token cards available at retail. Mothership Zeta will be available on PS3 after Point Lookout.

Finally, new Fallout 3 products will be available at retail this year.

Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #1 includes The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC on May 26.

The Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #2 includes Broken Steel and Point Lookout on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC in August.

Retail versions of the game add-on packs for PS3 are not possible and the DLC will only be available for download online via PlayStation Network.

A Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition will be available in October. It will include the original game plus all five add-ons for $59.99 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and $49.99 for PC.

[Jain Zar]

It looks like I will wait for the expansion disks as opposed to giving them real money for virtual products then.  Hopefully it wont be required to have the disks in the drive whilst playing though.  That way I can install Broken Steel, then go play the previous 2 bits with an increased level cap.

[apocrypha]

Hurrah! 

[Venkman]

My original save files have gone to the hell of catastrophic hard-drive failure. I almost finished the game, but haven't been interested in the expansion packs until now. Looks like Broken Steel requires you finish the game but the Pitt and Anchorage do not.

Which one is better?

[Hawkbit]

Lots of people were letdown with Pitt/Anchorage.  Broken Steel adds 10 levels, continues the storyline and makes the game open-ended of sorts. 

[Rishathra]

Operation Anchorage adds a few nice bits of loot but is otherwise entirely skippable.  The Pitt has a few shortcomings, being short one of them, but is more well done.  If you only get one, get Broken Steel.  In the end, I enjoyed all three, but I'm waaay into Fallout 3, so I'll lap up everything they throw at me.

[gryeyes]

I found all of the additional content a major disappointment for its price and having to use Live.

[Venkman]

Yea, not a big fan of Live. Ok, I'll hold off then to see if I retain interest enough to finish the game for Steel. Thanks.

[Lantyssa]

Broken Steel also adds some annoying things in the pre-20 game.  Going up against Super Mutant Overlords at 14 is a bit .  You won't lose anything by waiting until you're higher level to get it.

[CmdrSlack]

If you like the game, the added content is nice. The Pitt is a bit too short, but the items and perks gained make up for it, IMO.

Granted, I'm on a second play-through. So yeah, I kinda like the game as a whole in the first place.

[eldaec]

Mothership Zeta is scheduled for release in late July for Xbox 360 and PC. Cost will be 800 points or $9.99. It will be available through..... token cards available at retail.

Token cards?

What the fuck is this shit? He asked with a weary disinterest.

[Hawkbit]

That should say "will also be available through".  Token cards you can buy at Target/Best Buy/etc.  You pay say $20.00 and you get X amount of points on a little card.  You take the card home, scratch off the code on the back and add it to your account. 

Good for presents and those scared to put their credit card on the interwebz. 

[eldaec]

In other words, it's not retail at all and you still have to use the Live bullshit?

[CmdrSlack]

I think you can have the Silver membership (which I think is the free one) and use the token cards. So yeah, you still have to DL it via the Xbox360 and XBL to get the content from THE INTARWEBS and to your machine. It's not a separate disk or anything cool like that.

However, you don't have to pay the monthly fee for Gold. So it has that going for it. I guess.

[Sky]

Hey, look at all this content I have no interest in dicking around getting. DLC ftw!

I liked Fallout 3, I might end up getting something in a couple years when I can get all the DLC in one disc at a bin price.

[Yegolev]

Maybe just play the first two.

[Teleku]

Just wanted to pop in and say I love this game (with the construction of my new PC, I can finally play it).  They've pulled it off better than I actually expected.  I can't stop playing it.

Forcing me to use live for the DLC stuff is kind of shitty though.  I really wish they could make it available through steam (which is where I bought Fallout 3). 

[Sky]

Maybe just play the first two.

They're pushing a retail box with F1 F2 and FT for $20.

[Malakili]

Is "The Pitt" worth playing just to explore post-apocalyptic Pitssburgh.  I'm only mildly interested in the story line to be honest.  I still only have Fallout 3 (no expansions), and actually have it uninstalled right now, but was thinking about reinstalling and possibly picking up an expansion pack or 2.  When I play, I'm one of those players who like the idea of sort of "RPing" for lack of a better term, and try to stay in character with my actions, not use fast travel, etc.  In other words, just live in the post apocalyptic world.  Which expansion would be best for me given that play style?

[Lantyssa]

I'm not sure any of them are or are not fitting to that.


Of the three, I would say Broken Steel adds the most.

[Rishathra]

[Ingmar]

I thought the Alaska one was more fun than The Pitt, and I haven't really gotten into Broken Steel yet.

[Khaldun]

The Pitt was actually kind of depressing. If you're playing for good karma, it's a hopeless situation. If you're playing for evil karma, there isn't that much that's flamingly evil to do that's worse than the various status quo resolutions of the xpac.

The Alaska one I liked for the loots at the end. My current sniper character is  for the stealth armor--it looks like I'm some sort of postapocalyptic S&M contract killer when I wear it with a cowboy hat and Button's Wig on.

Fallout 3 is one of the more enjoyable games to play a giggling psychotic in (notwithstanding WUA's super-excellent adventures in Baldur's Gate). At least it doesn't take the Mass Effect path of saying, "The bad path is 'be a dick' to everyone you meet, but do basically the same things that the good path does". You can play bad as pure genocidal craziness or you can play it as simple Looking Out For Number One.

[Lantyssa]

Fallout 3 is one of the more enjoyable games to play a giggling psychotic in (notwithstanding WUA's super-excellent adventures in Baldur's Gate). At least it doesn't take the Mass Effect path of saying, "The bad path is 'be a dick' to everyone you meet, but do basically the same things that the good path does". You can play bad as pure genocidal craziness or you can play it as simple Looking Out For Number One.

Such as my current character.

Events within the vault, her dad leaving, being found, and subsequently dying left her a wreck.  She set up in the incredibly cheery Springvale Elementary.  (Lots of storage... I'm a packrat.)  It's near her true love Amara, whom seems clueless as to her affections, and is locked behind several feet of steel.  She dressed up one of the prettier raiders (ie, still intact) in a sexy nightgown, plopped the corpse by a mattress, and added a teddy bear.  Decorations are sparse, but consist of teddy bears, gnomes, and a copy of the Wasteland Survival guide.

Home Sweet Home.

(I creeped out my roommate with that one, whose tolerance of such things is far stronger than my own.  I was kind of proud of myself.)

[kildorn]

Fallout 3 is one of the more enjoyable games to play a giggling psychotic in (notwithstanding WUA's super-excellent adventures in Baldur's Gate). At least it doesn't take the Mass Effect path of saying, "The bad path is 'be a dick' to everyone you meet, but do basically the same things that the good path does". You can play bad as pure genocidal craziness or you can play it as simple Looking Out For Number One.

Such as my current character.

Events within the vault, her dad leaving, being found, and subsequently dying left her a wreck.  She set up in the incredibly cheery Springvale Elementary.  (Lots of storage... I'm a packrat.)  It's near her true love Amara, whom seems clueless as to her affections, and is locked behind several feet of steel.  She dressed up one of the prettier raiders (ie, still intact) in a sexy nightgown, plopped the corpse by a mattress, and added a teddy bear.  Decorations are sparse, but consist of teddy bears, gnomes, and a copy of the Wasteland Survival guide.

Home Sweet Home.

(I creeped out my roommate with that one, whose tolerance of such things is far stronger than my own.  I was kind of proud of myself.)

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I'm going to back away slowly, with no sudden movement.s

[Ingmar]

The Pitt was actually kind of depressing. If you're playing for good karma, it's a hopeless situation. If you're playing for evil karma, there isn't that much that's flamingly evil to do that's worse than the various status quo resolutions of the xpac.

The Alaska one I liked for the loots at the end. My current sniper character is  for the stealth armor--it looks like I'm some sort of postapocalyptic S&M contract killer when I wear it with a cowboy hat and Button's Wig on.

Fallout 3 is one of the more enjoyable games to play a giggling psychotic in (notwithstanding WUA's super-excellent adventures in Baldur's Gate). At least it doesn't take the Mass Effect path of saying, "The bad path is 'be a dick' to everyone you meet, but do basically the same things that the good path does". You can play bad as pure genocidal craziness or you can play it as simple Looking Out For Number One.

To be fair to ME, the entire setup is playing as a professional in a military organization. It wouldn't make sense for them to set it up any other way and still keep the story as tight as they do.

[Lantyssa]

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I'm going to back away slowly, with no sudden movement.s

Would it help if I told you I'm using the Bittercup mod that turns her into a companion?

[Goreschach]

The dead raider body?

[veredus]

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I'm going to back away slowly, with no sudden movement.s

Would it help if I told you I'm using the Bittercup mod that turns her into a companion?

I Bittercup. She's my favorite companion, I also use the Bittercup restyled mod made for the companion mod.

[Lantyssa]

I've got that, too.  I think there was another one as well.  I packaged them all up together so if I need to reinstall it's done for me.

The dead raider body?

Yeah.  The others suffered too many obvious wounds, so just the one.

[apocrypha]

Holy crap Lantyssa, that's scary. Awesome too, but pretty scary