Now I play it and only need twenty minutes on hard difficulty. But as a child during my first time, back in the 1990's, constantly dying made me develop this sense of deep story. I end up having those kind of dreams where I was there in that planet and was friends with the alien guy.
I only played the base game. The first time, I met Benny and left the game there. Uninstalled it. The second time I did not even reach the gleaming city for a long while, but I did not want it to be like the first time and I had to really force myself to finish the main quest. I did not even think about how I wanted to finish it, I just chose to side with Caesar, like, finish it fast and rushed. It was kinda painful and made me feel dumb for most of the time. I do not know if that ruined my first (and better) experience. The final battle is so low and makes the bad combat system shine in such a way, but nevertheless, the game is so good it rewards you in the most unexpected ways and in the least unexpected places of the Mojave. I am looking forward to playing the DLCs and the general game at fullscreen mode. Well done, Obsidian.
I will be fond of this game forever. The DLC can burn in hell though, as it is what makes me not want to repeat this amazing experience.
My JC Denton character targeted a shipment of the ambrosia that the NSF first stole, took it to a New York narrow street and, following the pertinent process, injected it himself, without no one noticing it, surrounded by some trash bags and a newspaper about strange black helicopters in South California. Very well done.
I started this game five months ago and somehow I cannot finish or play it as fast as I can or would like to, although I am 13 hours in and I am doing a mage towers quest and Galaxy asked me for the first time to write a review, maybe it is because of the fact I am playing Gold, I do not know. The way this game makes me smile is something else, as this teaches me what an immersive sim is. This is a good game. Thief makes me understand the dark engine better than System Shock 2, which I have played many times. It is also interesting to recall that an immersive sim makes you smile, and SS2 never made me smile. I truly recommend it, although I have not finished it, and for a first timer like me I absolutely do not recommend the Thieves' Guild level.
... because the infamous 50% screen radius only serves its purpose with the pipe and the rapier, and if you press 2 and you see the whole screen before you, at least from the moment you reach Maintenance, if you did not drop the stungun you set it to max and stun the three or four rays you will see yourself saying hello to them while you come and go through the game, after that, choosing how to kill every single enemy seems to be... an interesting experience, and not only because of the 100% screen. Nothing more to say, but this: the game is supposedly not an imm-sim, but it has not also its elements (with an awful leaning physics that forces you to play slow), and behind a lot of the graphics and pixels, it is an experiment on an imm-sim, and if you are sometimes in the mood, the fact that the press buttons are very easy to miss should make you kind of smile, and you will learn that this game has a lot of magic that the remake does not. My keybinds: WASD. Q and E for leaning, X for negate leaning, Ctrl for crouch, V for lie down (jump and you will stand up) and Shift for run. R for reload. F for mouse freelook / screen movement, useful also for cyberspace (drill / pulser). Tab for fast pick up. Thank god for this option. G grenades list and H for attack with the one you choose. Y for patch list and U for apply patch. B for boots. My cyberspace keys are SZXC, A and D. You can cheat if you do not know how to do the wire puzzles, save, apply a logic probe, see the result, then reload.
This is the typical games you kind of want to play because you once saw the Alien franchise and it meant something to you. I played all three episodes. End.
You cannot be a hero if you were not a prisoner before.
Pros - New visuals and sounds. Now I know "where I am" and I know what sounds weapons do. But still it wants your imagination. - The music makes the experience immersive. Superb. - I like the chess kind of movement. - Two different text boxes between damage texts and skill raising while in combat, the 1988 layout everything together in the only box. Good idea, not good implemented though (CONS). - Great save list, still with its own autosave. Take that, 1988 autosave option!! - Great new paragraphs layout, presentation of the idea, texts, voice narration and scenary pictures. 10 out of 10. Wonderful. - Nice sleep option with weather changes, just do not do it in Las Vegas' sewers unless you have the ax :) - You can use the old keys and new ones. In my opinion, the presentation is good, and it makes your old brother pay attention to you, that younger lacking in videogame taste sibling. Cons - Layout of "combat texts" makes you have to pay attention to the text. The font needs to be bigger, it makes the texts go over your head and you have to pay close attention about who is hitting who. In 1988 it was very clear who had a 4 skill in AT weapons. Very meh. - Enemies who make damage at 10' feet do not come to you if they are far and you called their "attention", but they move away. In 1988 they get closer. - The new visuals and sounds tell that you get ranged damage from some enemies when you actually do not get any damage from them because you have to come closer to your enemies because they do not come to you. Distracting. - Although I said new visuals are now immersive, these enhacements make the game look like that cheap "Alien Whatever" from Steam that nobody wants to play. - Sometimes it does not load a saved game and you have to Ctrl+Alt+Supr. - Macros not possible now.
After I got a new laptop I had big wish of playing this again after I had to choose a lower graphic resolution for my old laptop, but still there are places where it is not fluent, then fluent in a new room, then again. My new Laptop is 16 GM RAM and I do not know why this happens, where it most happens is in the Point Lookout DLC, I think this is probably because of so many unique Shivering Isles trees, but then I go to the real Shivering Isles and it works like a marvel, no idea why this visual stutter happens in FO3 in general, this particular problem still hits me and drains my joy. As people say in Germany, "na ja", as I do not care about Bethesda mainstreaming RPGs as these are THEIR products because it is their Bethesda style, but you can tell they were beginning to feel tired and lose the magic. To me it is a 2,5 / 5 stars, but because they did Morrowind, i'll give it three.
