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I mean, content wise, the F3 DLC's are "better". Story wise, not so much, if they even have any.
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If you're looking for good end game Energy Weapons, there is a few I can think of, depending on what you're looking for:
*AER 14 is found in Vault 22, the one with the plants. It's in a tiny isolated room full of mantises and there is no cells nearby, so you will have to bring your own ammo. This is arguably the best workhorse energy weapon in the game, it has great damage output and accuracy as well as fast firing speed, it is an upgrade over the regular laser rifle in every regard. If you're boring, it is easily good enough to solo the entire game with if you just want to use it.
*Not a unique weapon, but it might as well be as you will rarely see any Plasma Casters in the game. It is a heavy weapon and an alternative to AER 14 that trades accuracy and hitscan projectiles for slower moving plasma ones and lower ammo capacity that hit harder than almost any other energy weapon(with the exception of LAER). With a mod, the projectiles it also fires move really quickly. You can easily steal one off of Van Graffs(you can take it to the bathroom with you) as they don't actually sell it, or kill them for it. Don't recommend that option as they are the only good energy weapon shop in the game. There is a unique variant, Smithy's something or other, but it is a weird full auto hybrid that runs out of ammo almost instantly, requiring constant reloads, and does less damage. Regular Caster is more reliable. It can also be found at later levels on enemies in DLC areas like Lonesome Road or Old World Blues if you go there.
*Holorifle is the Anti Material Rifle of the energy weapons, and the most efficient one ammo wise. You need to go to Dead Money, which is it's own rabbithole, but if you're prepared and can live with temporarily losing your current equipment, it should not be a problem. It only has 4 round capacity, but it uses one cell per shot, is pump action and does tremendous amounts of damage. This weapon can melt any and all opposition in the base game and hits even late game enemies in DLCs like a truck, it is one of my favorites sniper weapons in the game. Only downside is that you have to do arguably one of the hardest pieces of content in the game to get a hold of it, also companions can't use it for some reason as Arcade would do really well with it. Very fun to just evaporate enemies from afar with this one, and a great alternative in the end game to Gauss Rifles or Anti Material Rifles.
*Sonic Emitter - Tarantula is the best weapon in the game. Now, you might be confused, but hear me out: Sonic Emitter is a generic weapon given to you at the start of Old World Blues and you can buy more from the sink CIU later. Base Sonic Emitter(Revelation) is crappy, but you can upgrade it to various variants that have differing stats and critical damage effects. You can forget about all of them, only Tarantula matters, and it is found in the same area(Higgs Village) where the Jukebox needed for upgrades is found anyways. So, what makes it so special, you ask? Well, that's simple, it's critical damage effect just straight up kills any enemy in the game, period. Legendary Deathclaw? Gone. Legendary Bloatfly(which is even more dangerous)? Gone. Rawr, the most dangerous Deathclaw in the game found in Lonesome Road? Gone. Ulysses? Gone. Legate Lanius? Gone, all you need is a critical hit, which is guaranteed while sneaking and there is a way to raise critical hit rate with a certain character build and gear to always be 100%. The downside is that the weapon doesn't fire right away, it charges up for a second and fires this weird blue projectile, similar to the one Lakelurks and Robobrains use. It is hard to hit enemies at range and misses a lot, so it should be used in close-medium range. Without criticals, it hits hard but too slow to do any real damage in a prolonged fight. Still, a bugged one-hit kill is not something you should overlook, none of the other Sonic Emitters even come close to being as effective. Perfect sidearm to put those energy cells to use, and you need to keep at least one Sonic Emitter in the DLC for taking down force fields anyways.
*LAER is found in Old World Blues as well, and it is the equivalent of Pulse Rifles from Fallout 2 or Alien Rifles in Fallout 3. It is the most damaging generic energy weapon in the game, much more so than AER 14 and does more damage to robots and power armor as well(almost every enemy in Old World Blues is a robot). However, it breaks extremely quickly, so having repair kits and Raul is strongly encouraged(or you can give one to Arcade and watch him melt away enemies like hot knife thru butter). There is a semi-unique variant called Elijah's LAER which fires even quicker but breaks even faster, one of the most fragile weapons in the game actually. Either one is good, altho Elijah should definitely be given to either Veronica or Arcade.
*You probably grabbed it already, but in Honest Hearts, there is an "energy weapon" of sorts. In a cave network near Dead Horses Camp there is a taser, called "Compliance Regulator". It is the progenitor to the basic Sonic Emitter, as it stuns an enemy on a critical hit. Thing is that it actually works a lot better than Sonic Emitter - Revelation by being better at stunning and not doing half-assed damage per shot and extra to robots, Compliance Regulator instead trades off nearly any damage for basic projectiles for better critical hit chance and longer stun time. It also fires a laser beam, which makes it more accurate and lets you stun enemies at longer ranges, remember that sneak criticals are guaranteed. If you use this gun more as a tool or a gadget, it works wonders and is fantastic to use with every build, regardless of what weapons you use, but it isn't all that good as an offensive weapon unless you have your companions do most of the killing and you run support(this kind of playstyle is actually fully viable in Outer Worlds, with weapons like the shrink ray or mind control gun and others which solely exist to debuff your enemies as your companions take them down for you). If you completed Honest Hearts, you can actually go back at any time to grab any loot you missed, it's just that all NPCs are despawned and so are most of the enemy spawns(If you were looking to make the special Gecko Hide armors, you might be out of luck as Green Geckos spawn much less frequently now as well, but they still technically do if you look for them).
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Isn't this like the 5th multi hour long video this faggot has done? How many more times are nasally voices faggots going to whinge about this retarded game. What could possibly be left to talk about?
Also how the hell do you think 3 has better DLCs? The only decent one, Point Lookout, has retarded health scaling for the enemies and Broken Steel was necessary to fix the game's retarded ending. NV DLCs are all about on par with PL, even Honest Hearts which is easily the shittiest one.
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"Apocalyptically Awful" is hyperbolic to say the least. I can understand not liking the writing or world building, but Fallout 3 has its redeeming qualities.
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Some people actually have something to talk about. Others simply whine because they're proven wrong time and time again, but I guess you would know what's like, huh?
Funny how it's always Obsidian chads that have something good to say at any length, never the Bethesda ponies
I guess when several paragraph long forum posts give you a migraine, there is no way you can make anything longer than a 20 minute ADHD youtube video that says nothing at best, where as someone who knows what they're talking about and know how to formulate their video can easily make a 9 hour video. Or a 21 hour one if we're talking about a game with as many problems as Skyrim, for example.
Re: Fallout 3 DLC, anyone who says it is better than New Vegas ones is retarded, I have more time on those than anyone else here guaranteed between the OG 360 game and TTW. Outside of Point Lookout with several shops and some side quests, and Pitt with an ammo press and a new shop, there is zero reason to go to any DLC in Fallout 3 unless you want to simply get a certain piece of loot. Anchorage also has an exploit that gives you infinite ammo if you don't want to do Pitt and it also gives you Power Armor Training early, but if you want that there is a way to glitch into Citadel at level 2, it's not even hard. New Vegas DLCs, meanwhile, all have something unique about them, not to mention better stories and player upgrades like perks, they even have entire character and story arcs between one another to become extensions of the main game. Nobody ever thought to themselves "Geeze, I am almost done with Fallout 3, but I guess I got to go to Mothership Zeta to complete my Bethesda Theme Park Experience!". I guess there is a certain element of only doing a certain DLC in NV if you want a piece of armor or a weapon, but there is so many options and loadout variety in that game that it's hardly necessary.
True, but none of these have to do with it's writing.
Offer is still open if anyone wants to actually discuss the awful Fallout 3 worldbuilding, but I guess if my longer posts like these ones make some people shut their brains off and drool on the floor, I guess there isn't much chance of that happening.
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Imagine defending overly wordy (pot calling the kettle a nigger but whatever) pretentious faggots just because they also dislike the game you dislike
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How can you call Fallout 3 world building awful when you defended the worst example of the game. Little Lamplight?
Who are you and what did you do to 30+GameOvers?
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I think it was supposed to be a compiled remake of his other non-response FO3 videos but I didn't watch it to find out.
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If I explained it away, it's not the worst one, now is it?
There is plenty of examples of bad writing and wordbuilding in Fallout 3, for how annoying the kids in Little Lamplight are at least whoever designed the location made an effort to explain how it works. Breathe it in, cause this is about the best written "city" in the game, lmfao. Also about the only one that explains the question "what do they eat", funnily enough.
Feel free to prove me wrong and take any of these hour+ videos and divide them into bulletpoints, debunking any point you might not agree with. You won't, cause you don't have an attention span for an hour long video, let alone to make a counter argument to anything he says.
Key difference between tourists/bethesda fans vs actual fans of the franchise. Or it could be just the same dummies arguing there is "too much text in RPGs", either way they don't deserve to be taken seriously or have any responses made to them that are less than 40 minutes long(they won't respond because they don't have a good comeback, but because watching something for 40 minutes straight is herculean task for them).
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I will continue to take 30 seconds to type out my responses so i can get shit that took longer than a minute to write XOXOXO
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>Do this incredibly tedious and obnoxious task to prove you are as smart as ME!
No, I don't think I will. I will just call you a niggerfaggot instead.
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Well, you know what they say: If you have nothing good to say, at least admit to it!
If anyone who isn't an actual tourist(ie: unwanted casual passerby with no knowledge of the franchise) is up for an actual long-form discussion, I will be here. I need the practice.
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Evidently. You should practice getting some bitches on your bone-dry dick rather than going on autistic 40+ paragraph rants, saying the same shit everyone just like you says, about a dead game franchise with two whole decent games in it.
The premise was good. The execution was super not. The idea of entering this jingoist VR propaganda game about the battle of Anchorage, made during the war, was really cool. But it should have been, like, a really cool cheesy war movie parody. The DLC flirts with elements of this but doesn't really take it anywhere fun.
The loot was bitching though. The power armor being bugged to have infinite durability was a feature if you ask me. Worth all that fucking shooting.
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I checked, he has made 18 fallout videos that either reach or pass the 1 hour mark. 9 of those were about the Fallout show alone. I didn't like the Fallout show, but how the fuck do you find enough stuff to complain about to make a combined total of over 24 hours of content? I'm not even going to bother doing the math on how long he talked about Fallout 4 and 3, but for comparison:
The first 2 Fallout videos on his channel are responses to Many a True Nerd videos,
Both of which are at least double the length of the videos he's responding to, The Fallout 3 one being a bit over 4 times the length of the original video.
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"Two whole decent games"
Let me guess, Fallout 3 and New Vegas? So the older entries are a bit above your paygrade either because you can't read/have ADHD/low IQ and they have too much text, or muh graphicz bad or whatever the excuse zoomies like to use. So, yeah, a tourist if I ever seen one. Almost as if I could easily tell because they all sound the same and they might as well be NPCs past a certain point, once you notice enough of them.
"Muh dick"
Oddly black response from a self described culture warrior, but I guess Synthetic Man does like black chicks, so it checks out. Another moron with nothing good to say, even tho he pretends he does. I do need sparring practice, cause a one-note /v/irgin such as yourself provides no mental stimulation(much like any of Bethesda's non canonical Fallout entries). I hope green reddit can provide, but if not I will need to look elsewhere, cause I got to get ready for OW2's release.
The thing is that none of the 5 DLCs are bad. Problem here is that with only two of them being narratively focused(and I use that term lightly, by Fallout 3 standards), that leaves 3 of them and a good portion of these two as well, being combat focused. Combat in Fallout 3 is garbage, so how much you will like these DLCs is entirely up to how much of Fallout 3's Oblivion ass fighting you can tolerate. If that's your thing, then yeah, you will love them, probably every single one of them. For most players that already experienced them, tho, they will likely only dip in if there is a weapon or armor set they like using within that DLC. Not the worst set of DLCs I have seen in gaming, not even that generation, but they definitely border on "just being there". Only Broken Steel is necessary since it fixes problems with the main game and adds extra levels, both of which make the base game borderline unplayable past a certain point. None of them really stand out, even Point Lookout is hilariously unfinished and lacking in planned content once you look into it's development history and cut content.
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Dust did the same thing with perks, with almost all of them having downsides that ruined them and railroaded you into one single gameplay style. Which would be fine if Dust didn't make ammo super rare and made guns so fragile they break after 100 shots, forcing you to use whatever it gives you.
I like challenges, but I never understood the concept of crippling yourself. And this is coming from someone who grew up playing early to mid 90s games.
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Double posting but OA was fun if you can glitch the armors and have unbreakable gear early on.
And also, I love the moral choices in the Pitt over the rug pull bullshit in Honest Hearts.
The only choice is to eat the baby btw
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The Combat Armor with Balaclava along with winterized unbreakable guns(most have unique skins) used to be my favorite kit in the game. Or, you can run around with the Winterized Power Armor and Winterized Combat Helmet(the one with the balaclava), looks sick.
If you glitch the Gauss Rifle and Jingwei Sword you find in the sim with this exploit, you can also give it to companions. The ones in armory are different variants that are flagged to never be used by NPCs(likely so that the Outcasts can't grab them and use the weapons against you).
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Fallout 1 and New Vegas actually. All the other good games are in Russian. All the crying you do and you haven't even been able to comprehend that I don't even really like 3 all that much. It has some decent elements, but the gameplay is so ass that unless you play it via TTW it's hardly worth the hassle. But keep constructing Strawmen, maybe NMA would be more your speed faglord.
Creetosis is one of the prime examples of YouTube essay guy whose grift is that he can whine for hours at a time about one topic and say virtually nothing of substance at all. Its autistic brain food for people who want background noise that's vaguely negative and reinforces their own opinions.
Absolute bottom of the barrel content and probably @30+GameOvers YouTube channel.