I figured we had enough threads about how crappy it is that people buy the game and how Bethesda sucks and the game is unplayable it's about time we had a thread to share some awesome moments and discuss the things the game does right.

I am about 21 hours into the game, level 22 I believe, maybe 23. I started out thinking I would make a brute type pure melee character but holy shit the game is a lot harder than old Fallout titles, especially if you want to skip using guns. There were some situations where due to the enemy having way too good a weapon or me not having the meds to stand toe to toe with someone and trade melee shots, I pulled out a gun.

My favorite gun so far is probably a simple double barrel shotgun, which I modded to make sawed-off. It obliterates pretty much any non-legendary and non-super mutant enemy in one hit, two tops. But you gotta get up close to unleash that sort of power. I have been sticking mostly to my plan and have been beating the shit out of a lot of people until they die from it. It took me a long time to find a bat but I finally did. I modded it to be aluminum, then added razor blades. It was glorious. I chose perks to unlock higher level melee mods, and eventually had chains wrapped around it, then finally saw blades on the end. You can see that bad boy in this clip right here, where I pop off a rising strike on a raider so severely that he literally flies into the air and hits the ceiling in a mine:

http://xboxclips.com/Cpt+RonCodpiece/a75a8a29-aca6-4e76-b74b-89d662ff18d4

God damn! I later found some super mutants and one of this dropped this awesome super sledge. It has some sort of booster attached to it so that any time I strike, it powers up and fires off like a turbo booster, giving me more damage. I have modded it to add energy damage. I am really hoping there are some decent mod options for this one later on when I open up higher melee levels.

I am still very early in the story, a majority of my 20+ hours have been just farming raiders and ghouls clearing settlements and outposts I am sent to. So I can't really comment on the main story but man there are lots of awesome little side story/filler stuff in the game. Spoilers ahead. My favorite so far is probably a family who went hiding in a bunker. I activated this satellite array and it picked up a broadcast from the father, letting his wife know the family was in the bunker and ok, and to please come home. I figure.. ok, bunker, gotta have some goodies in there. I wander around in the direction where the signal gets stronger, and eventually find a ruined town overrun by super mutants. This is actually where I got the super sledge referenced earlier. Lots of mutants here. It took me a long time to clear out. Then I went house to house trying to find this bunker. I ended up finding an expert locked terminal and a couple master safes in one house. I thought ok, if this person has all this stuff in the house and high security on them then the bunker info is probably in the terminal. I make a mental note to check back later when I have the ability to unlock expert terminals.

So I eventually return and there is one super mutant who has respawned. I actually find a house I hadn't checked before, and end up finding a holotape belonging to the leader of this super mutant group, his name was Hammer. And Hammer was one of those situations where I had to use a gun, because Hammer was packing a missile launcher, and Hammer would launch his missile at you even if you were standing right in front of him swinging a saw bladed baseball bat. Anyways so it turns out Hammer knows about the vault and is forcing a human to record a holotape for him so he can send for more units to storm the bunker and take it. He thinks the same thing I do, there will be goodies galore. I circle back to the house with the terminal and safes and I am out of luck, none of it pertains to this bunker. I search for a good 20 minutes, then at the very back of a house, I see a cellar door. Success.

I am surprised to see there are no locks or security on the door and upon entering, I see why. It's abandoned. I hack the terminal and see why, they'd started running out of things and having to make trips above. Some of the Dads neighbors were vacationing in New York when the bombs dropped and had shown back up in town, having walked most of the way. They built a wall using cars and trucks they stole, but the mutants attacked anyway and the holotape reveals the neighbors are dead and the family made a run for it. And now I have another lead to where they stole some of the trucks, so next time I play I am going to go there and find out some more. And this is just a small filler story I encountered because I stumbled upon a satellite array and turned it on and picked up a radio signal. Per usual, Bethesda has hit the ball out of the park in terms of compelling content and creating a great game world.

Another awesome moment also happened while I was exploring off the beaten path while en route to a mission. More spoilers. I stumble into this small city and hear an announcer calling what appears to be a horse race. Intrigued, I sneak around and see its actually a robot race. Like 6 Mr Handy bots and one big bruiser looking bot named Iron Maiden. The Handy bots even have catchy race horse type names. I am spotted though, and another long enemy encounter begins. This one is weird because you have raiders looking right out of Mad Max with their armor and bags over their heads and body parts laying around. But then you also have these guys in clean suits wielding sub machine guns.

I kill everyone but one guy and it turns out to be the announcer. After killing him, I go down to the track for some fun. The robots are still taking laps around the track, so I set some mines in the track. Like 7 of them. Unfortunately Iron Maiden is a bot with legs and is actually running and has a good lead on the slow Handy bots, so it hits the mines first and blows them all up. But this bot is tough. It has retractable blades in its arms, saw blades that stick out for an attack, and shoots fire at you. I worry I might be dead, but I do enough to win. The Handy bots all just sit there. They are neutral towards me unless I attack one or one sees me attack another. But their weapon is just a pistol. So they all die quite easily.

I return to the leaders room and find his terminal. I'm saddened to see all sorts of cool options to change the behavior of the bots in the race, and even an option to make them self destruct. Of course I opt for self destruct, but I figure the bots are all dead, nothing will happen. Wrong. Apparently the bots have nukes in them, and there are backup bots. This is the chaos that ensued:

http://xboxclips.com/Cpt+RonCodpiece/07afe5b4-42f3-4294-a16f-7aa18dbb2e7b

Last cool moment, apparently there is a new super mutant enemy type, or at least one I don't remember seeing before, called a suicidal super mutant. They have a nuke on their body and they are going to run up to you and wipe you off the face of the Earth. I was being chased by two super mutants and two of their dogs, and the suicidal super mutant. I went for a molotov toss and this is what happened:

http://xboxclips.com/Cpt+RonCodpiece/4b6d8051-265e-493f-b281-0688b74ff68d

Yeaaaaa. And the best part is I am still yet to see any real performance or major glitch issues. Can't wait to see where the main story takes me. I see twitch feeds with all these interesting characters, I still have a long ways to go.

Ah come on man lol.The criticism is well deserved,but I am, sure there are some positives.

I'll do some recording today and contribute some, thus far (don't have it recorded sadly) the best moment for me was having zero ammo left and entering the super duper mart, hacking the computer and getting the service robot to go into law enforcement mode and walk around the store cleaning out most of the ferral ghouls.

So many ways to approach so many situations in this game! Loving it

Nice xb name btw op

Ha, that destruction clip was cool. I imagine that was quite a surprise.

One of the best parts of Fallout has always been stumbling over random things that catch your interest. I love that they write this stuff into the game, it has so much more personality than a lot of RPGs.

I've spent way too much time working on my settlement. I haven't even reached the second outpost yet, though I've been avoiding it in favor of exploring.

So far, the most surprising thing I've seen is a mole rat barrelling toward me with land mines attached. I went from "hm, I wonder what that is" to "OH CRAP VATS VATS" really fast.

There are house cats in this game. I wonder if I can get one?

14 hours in, no glitches, bugs, or crashes.

Been playing for 14 hours and only done 2 quests and just reached diamond city. (lv11)

Pokoko Holotape Log:

Holy cats, Mole Rats have been amped up massively. Horrible little buggers now.

I stepped on a feral ghoul in the tall grass. It scared me.

I helped some Brotherhood of Steel members hold off a ghoul stampede and they still acted arrogant and self-righteous.

Looting has been improved massively.

Yeah the BoS have always been super serious and following of their "code" and the Paladin you help sure doesn't act any different.

I also take everything that isnt bolted down then fast travel back to base and with 1 str this can get tedious. =/

super fun tho, cant stop playing.

Can dogmeat do this? how much can they carry?

My FPS got destroyed by the searchlights at the Corvega plant.  That was brutal.  

He can, though you have to get right in his face to get the command menu up, which can be trying when you're overloaded.  I think he can carry as much as the protagonist at base level.

I've also taken to modifying my armor pieces with "pockets".  Looting over safety.  Some cooked foods give you a weight boost so you can fast-travel when you don't want to drop anything.