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    Fallout 3

    Game » consists of 45 releases. Released Oct 28, 2008

    In Bethesda's first-person revival of the classic post-apocalyptic RPG series, the player is forced to leave Vault 101 and venture out into the irradiated wasteland of Washington D.C. to find his or her father.

    100 things you've learned playing Fallout 3

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    #1  Edited By MjHealy

    DO NOT POST ANY POTENTIAL SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD.  THANKS. THE MANAGEMENT


    Inspired from the Far Cry 2 post~:
     

     
    Things I Have Learned Playing Fallout 3


    1. Teddy bears can be used as ammo for rocket launchers.
    2. It doesn't rain in Washington, D.C.
    3. In D.C. you can magically travel from place to place.
    4. In the post-apocalyptic U.S., robots are British and tell jokes.
    5. Large-brimmed hats are so inconspicuous that they actually make it harder for people to see you when wearing one.
    6. A human being can survive an atom bomb by being more than 30 yards away.
    7. When you headshoot a Mole Rate, if you're elevated, there is a good chance its head will roll down hill for a good 5 or so minutes before coming to a stop.
    8. Bullets actually take the shooter into account and decide if they'll go straight.
    9. If you're in "Bullet Time (VATS)", headshots are way better than the right leg.
    10. One bullet can cause the entire body to explode
    11. One teddy bear can cause the entire body to explode.
    12. Stabbing some one with a knife will also cause an explosion.
    13. When a person runs from death, they actually only run ten feet away and crawl into a fetal position, thinking you can't see them.
    14. Every single thing is a shade of brown, green or grey. No exceptions.
    15. It can take forever for your parents to tell if your a boy or girl.
    16. Land mines can tell who laid them down, and don't activate for them.
    17. Sniper Rifles have bad accuracy for far away targets in V.A.T.S.
    18. You can jump when you are a baby.
    19. You have telekinesis.
    20. Humans can survive a shotgun blast at point blank range.
    21. People will never say your name.
    22. Children are unkillable.
    23. After nuclear holocaust, the Sun grows to an extreme size, yet the Earth doesn't get any hotter.
    24. Whores won't even consider a Ghoul. 
    25.  Never, ever hit Gob...
    26. In the Captial Wasteland, there is but one fashion style: ridiculous.
    27. Whores take the phrase 'sleeping together' quite literally.
    28. Fire Ants should be taken quite literally, too.
    29. You don't run faster with a knife, but you do when you wear 200-year-old pinstripe pants and a sweater vest.
    30. Gas stations went out of business because none of the cars work.
    31. Kids are jerks.
    32. Playing sports as a child makes any land mine you lay as an adult more damaging
    33. Comic books and magazines hold the secrets to true wisdom.
    34. One dog is never enough and two is too few.
    35. Standing knee-deep in a pit full of radiating water is completely harmless as long as you worship a giant bomb.
    36. No matter if you are white, black, Asian, or Latino...Liam Neeson is still your daddy.
    37. Actual printed money is worth less than bottle caps in the future.
    38. Children in the Wastelands can maintain a fully running town on their own.
    39. In the future, nobody can ever take all their clothes off.
    40. Being in radioactive environments is hazardous.  However, consuming radioactive material is beneficial. 
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    #2  Edited By Jayge_

    5. Large-brimmed hats are so inconspicuous that they actually make it harder for people to see you when you wear one.

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    #3  Edited By PureRok

    6. A human being can survive an atom bomb by being more than 30 yards away.

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    #4  Edited By pause422

     7, When you headshot a Mole Rat, if you're elevated, there is a good chance its head will roll down the hill for a good 5 or so minutes before coming to a stop.

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    #5  Edited By Arkthemaniac

    8. Bullets actually take the shooter into account and decide if they'll go straight.

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    #6  Edited By suneku

    10. 1 bullet can cause the entire body to explode

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    #7  Edited By kush
    suneku said:
    "10. 1 bullet can cause the entire body to explode"
    11. 1 Teddy Bear can cause the entire body to explode.
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    #8  Edited By xplodedd

    11. your karma reflects your physical appearance, and people can sense it.

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    #9  Edited By nasie

    12. Stabbing some one with a knife will also cause an explosion.

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    #10  Edited By Arkthemaniac

    13. When a person runs fron death, they actually only run ten feet away and crawl into a fetal position, thinking you can't see them.

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    14. Every single thing is a shade of brown, green or grey. No exceptions.

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    #12  Edited By shadows_kill

    15. it  can take forever for your parents to tell if your a boy or girl.

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    #13  Edited By Arkthemaniac
    shadows_kill said:
    "15. it  can take forever for your parents to tell if your a boy or girl."
    Nice.
    16. Land mines can tell who laid them down, and don't activate for them.
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    #14  Edited By TheGodPoet

    17. Sniper Rifles have bad accuracy for far away targets in V.A.T.S.

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    18. You can jump when you are a baby...

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    #16  Edited By TheGodPoet

    19. You have telekinesis.

    20. Humans can survive a shotgun blast at point blank.

    21. People will never say your name.

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    #17  Edited By keyhunter

    22. Children are unkillable.

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    23. After nuclear holocaust, the sun grows to an extreme size, yet the Earth doesn't get any hotter.

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    #19  Edited By TheGodPoet

    24. Whores won't even consider a Ghoul.

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    25. never ever hit Gob...

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    26. In the Captial Wasteland, there is but one fashion style: Ridiculous.

    27. Whores take the phrase 'sleeping together' quite literally.

    28. Fire ants should be taken quite literally, too.

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    #22  Edited By Jayge_

    29. You don't run faster with a knife (who gets the reference?); but you do when you wear 200-year-old pinstripe pants and a sweater vest (AGI +1 wat).

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    #23  Edited By jakob187

    30.  Gas stations went out of business because none of the cars work.

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    #24  Edited By bwooduhs

    31. Kids are jerks.

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    #25  Edited By Fade2Gray

    32. Playing sports as a child makes any land mines you lay as an adult more damaging

    33. Comic books and magazines hold the secrets to true wisdom.

    34. One dog is never enough and two is too few.

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    35. Standing knee-deep in a pit full of radiating water is completely harmless as long as you worship a giant bomb.

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    36.  No matter if you are white, black, Asian, or Latino...Liam Neeson is still your daddy.
    37.  Actual printed money is worth less than bottle caps in the future.

    38.  Children in the Wastelands can maintain a fully running town on their own.

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    #28  Edited By HandsomeDead

    39. In the future, nobody can ever take all their clothes off.

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    40. Being in radioactive environments is hazardous however consuming radioactive material is beneficial.

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    #31  Edited By Lunarbunny

    42. Your .44 magnum revolver takes 6 rounds to the head to kill a difficult super mutant but it only takes a mysterious man 2 shots.

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    43. Getting a headshot may cause the head to fly 10 feet high

    44. A Butler is awesome but a ROBOT Butler is just OMG!

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    #33  Edited By TheFreeMan

    45. Even if you cripple someone's head, they will still shoot at you.

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    #34  Edited By Systech

    46. Don't eat a corpse in the middle of Megaton

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    #35  Edited By Jayge_

    47. Hitting Mole Rats with a shiny green stick will cause their heads to explode.

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    48. It's easy to accidentally drown looking for an underwater entrance to an aircraft carrier town.

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    #37  Edited By baller

    49. You can pickpocket anyone simply by crouching down.

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    #38  Edited By Cogito

    50. Any animal can survive a nuclear blast if it can grow big and kill people.

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    51. Only five songs survive the nuclear holocaust, but each one is awesome.

    52. Carrying two lawnmower blades, powered armor, six bottles of Nuka Cola, and three mini-nukes is just fine, but carrying all that PLUS a lunchbox keeps you from running.

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    #40  Edited By KingOfIceland

    53. Mutated bears will be the end of us

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    #41  Edited By Coltonio7

    54. Killing a cult leader gets you BAD karma

    55. The Nuka-Cola marketing team was non-existant

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    #42  Edited By HandsomeDead

    56. After the fallout, Malcom McDowell develops a terrible american accent.

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    #43  Edited By Yit

    57. Soda glows.

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    #44  Edited By Gunner

    58. the chinese make far better assault rifles than americans.
    59. time freezes when you look at your wrist (pip-boy).

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    #45  Edited By Claude

    60. If you don a Ghoul Mask, the feral ghouls will no longer bother you.

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    61. People get pissed when you step on their broken bottles and other useless junk littered about the floor.

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    #47  Edited By Neorub

    62. I'm always looking for the sheriff, not the mayor.

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    #48  Edited By HandsomeDead

    63. Even though human civilization has been destroyed, crops ruined and most animals have mutated into terrible forms, the crickets still chirp exactly how they used to.

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    #49  Edited By matthimself

    64.  Tranquility lane is awesome

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