A truck full of bees sounds perfectly reasonable and not at all insane

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's a pretty cool post-apocalyptic RPG, from what I've heard. Though I never played it, I hear nothing but good about it.

I think I'm going to get it; it's super-cheap on Amazon.

[Triple Zero]

Don't just go with my recommendation, though. I'm not a gamer at all

Afaik, the basic story is that the shit hit the fan and people went into their atomic bunkers and you go out to get water or something. But then shit's all fucked.

(Somebody who actually played this game: HELP)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Don't just go with my recommendation, though. I'm not a gamer at all

Afaik, the basic story is that the shit hit the fan and people went into their atomic bunkers and you go out to get water or something. But then shit's all fucked.

(Somebody who actually played this game: HELP)

I asked my 12-year-old son and he informed me that it is AWESOME

That's pretty much all the recommendation I need! Although, I've never finished playing a game in my entire life and I don't know what the odds are that I'll finish this one. On the other hand, it's only $14.

[Eater of Clowns]

I played through Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.  I highly recommend the former, and while the latter was good I wasn't crazy about it.

I've heard good things about the first two as well, but never got around to either.  The third is pretty immersive - it's a large world that can be pretty empty and seems thoroughly forlorn and dangerous.  It has some very good geek references, some actually terrifying moments, and there's an awesome in-game DJ named

THREEE DAWWWGG AWWWOOOOOO!

[Don Coyote]

Don't just go with my recommendation, though. I'm not a gamer at all

Afaik, the basic story is that the shit hit the fan and people went into their atomic bunkers and you go out to get water or something. But then shit's all fucked.

(Somebody who actually played this game: HELP)

I asked my 12-year-old son and he informed me that it is AWESOME

That's pretty much all the recommendation I need! Although, I've never finished playing a game in my entire life and I don't know what the odds are that I'll finish this one. On the other hand, it's only $14.

At one point you get a gavity hammer. Think superscienced sledgehammer that you get to hit people with.

[Eater of Clowns]

Oh, and it's very strange that Fallout came up in a discussion about bees.

The name of the company that puts it out?  Bethesda Softworks.  And in Fallout 3 you can visit their derelict building.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am TOTALLY getting it!

I hope it runs OK in Windows 7; I read that it tends to hang. OTOH, I have a friend who is selling off her xbox 360.

[Cain]

Bethseda made Fallout, didn't they?  And, well Bethseda also made The Elder Scrolls.  I would trust them based on that (basically, for me, any RPG made by Bethseda or Bioware seems worth buying on the reputational strength of the company in question alone).

Also, it should run just fine with Windows 7.  If it does not, find the .exe file that starts the game and run it as an administrator.  This never seems to fail with Windows 7, I've played games that came out in 1999 using the OS.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Bethesda made Fallout 3, which is definitely very good. A different company made Fallout and Fallout 2 (which I've never played), but they are very different from the 3rd game, being turn-based RPGs with an isometric view.

[Telarus]

Bethesda made Fallout 3, which is definitely very good. A different company made Fallout and Fallout 2 (which I've never played), but they are very different from the 3rd game, being turn-based RPGs with an isometric view.

I would seriously recommend Fallout 2 for some of the best of the 2d isometric RPG genre. Plus, you get all of the background to get the references in Fallout 3.

It's a time burner, but fun with a clever combat system (which inspired Fallout 3's combat system).

[Cramulus]

Don't just go with my recommendation, though. I'm not a gamer at all

Afaik, the basic story is that the shit hit the fan and people went into their atomic bunkers and you go out to get water or something. But then shit's all fucked.

(Somebody who actually played this game: HELP)

I asked my 12-year-old son and he informed me that it is AWESOME

That's pretty much all the recommendation I need! Although, I've never finished playing a game in my entire life and I don't know what the odds are that I'll finish this one. On the other hand, it's only $14.

FALLOUT 3 RULES

don't worry about "finishing" it, it's a sandbox game. Just have fun playing in the environment.

When I last played fallout 3, I made John McCain as my character. I decided that my backstory was that after the 08 election, I was frozen in carbonite and did not wake up until now. So I played the game as if I'm rebuilding America from the ground up. I actually had a fuckton of fun wandering around asking myself "What would John McCain do?"

and the answer to that question was usually "drink whiskey and beat robots with a baseball bat"

Unbeknownst to me, a friend of mine played the entire game as Sarah Palin with a sniper rifle. It's possible to get really creative with fallout 3 and ignore the quests/plot.

[Reginald Ret]

Finding out what really is going on in the game-world was for me the greatest part of the Fallout games. So i'm not going to spoil it.

Mentioning Elder scrolls reminds me of this spell i created in ES: Oblivion huge area low fire damage over time for hunting deer, with added soultrap effect. It basically set every living thing in a 100ft radius on fire for a few seconds, and then steals the soul of every cute cuddly forest creature it killed.

And now i want to play both Fallout3 and Oblivion again :P

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

All of this is great info... thank you! Also I might be buying my friend's Xbox 360, which would rule. I have Elder Scrolls V on pre-order for my son's birthday.

[Scribbly]

Fallout 3 and New Vegas stole too many hours of my life.

And then I got a PC that could play them and they stole even more with an epic amount of awesome mods.

And now Skyrim is coming out and I have preordered that too.

[Don Coyote]

All of this is great info... thank you! Also I might be buying my friend's Xbox 360, which would rule. I have Elder Scrolls V on pre-order for my son's birthday.

Orcs Must Die!