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Thanks! from Bethesda to IGN.Com!
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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:34:12
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Dearest IGN,

How can we ever "Thank You" for making FallOut 3 Game of the Year? What would we have called the inevitable re-release of Fallout 3 without someone awarding us this title? Maybe the "FallOut 3--Slightly Less Buggy Edition?" Lol! Happy

No, once again, following in the traditions of:

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...we can now release FallOut 3 with it's Expansion (bugs intact!) and brand it "FallOut 3 -- Game of the Year Edition" too! Whew! You really saved our assets! Lol! Happy

Yes, we know, GTA IV scored a Perfect 10 at your site, as did Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, but it makes complete $ense for you to award this prestigious title to our game! Our marketing department sends their Thank$, as well; now they don't have to come up with some catchy branding title, making their jobs infinitely easier! What do we pay these guys for anyway? Lol! Happy

BTW, We just loved your little video, announcing the award! Your guys looked totally cute and most of all believable, under the circumstances! *wink, wink* *nudge, nudge* Lol! Happy

Anyway, as is customary, we are sending you our traditional "Thank You!" package including this very stylish hat!



Enjoy and Thanks again!


With Love (and Lots o' Money),

--Bethesda Software

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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:31:29
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This would have worked great on the front page LOL

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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:28:15
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I was suppossed to get this as a Christmas present but was cruely denied in a present mix up. I hear that there are patches for the bugs. But because the 360 isn't wireless and I have no hard drive, I can't get these patches. How bad are the bugs and will they impact on my enjoyment of the game if I get it?

I was going to get the Shivering Isles or the GOTY edition of Oblivion but they require a hard drive. F-ing Xbox.

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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:54:45
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Here's a short list of the bugs that WON'T be fixed, if you can't download the patch:


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BUG FIXES


--Friends notification no longer causes the game to pause.

--Fixed occasional crashes during loading and waiting.

--Friendly or neutral NPC health bars, when taking damage, no longer flicker repeatedly.

--Fixed issue where certain NPCs would occasionally disappear from the game.

--Fixed issue where dead NPCs would occasionally come back to life.

--Fixed rendering issue with the Gatling laser gun's tracers.

--Fixed issue where the haircut menu would occasionally not appear properly.

--Added ability to remap your VATS and Pip-Boy buttons.

--Fixed rare load/save issues that would cause NPCs to behave incorrectly.

--Fixed issue where quest objectives would occasionally not update properly due to talking activators, intercoms, and conversations.

--Using radaway repeatedly from the Pip-Boy's Status Menu no longer crashes the game.

--Players no longer gets stuck in level-up menu if their skills are maxed out.

--Fixed issue where multiple followers would occasionally not load into an interior.

--Fixed rare issue with getting stuck in VATS mode.

--Fixed rare crash with fighting NPCs with corrupted data.

--In-game radios will now play properly if player was listening to the radio in the Pip-Boy first.

--Fixed rare crashes while loading and saving games.

--Fixed rare issue where player would fall through the floor while in VATS.

--Fixed occasional crash after scoring a critical hit in the head with a Railway Rifle.

--Prevent NPCs from inadvertently dying from falling.

--Fixed occasional issue where the controller would stop working properly.

--Fixed crashes related to repeatedly equipping and dropping clothing and armor into the world.



QUEST FIXES


--Fixed several instances where quest item stayed in inventory permanently after completing quests.

--Fixed an issue where the distress message would occasionally not play in Trouble on the Homefront.

--In the Waters of Life quest, the Citadel gate will open properly if the player fast-travels away after exiting the Taft Tunnels but before reaching the Citadel gate with Doctor Li.

--For the Home Sweet Home quest, the broken protectrons in Big Town become active at the proper time.

--In The American Dream quest, fixed specific issue that prevented players from accessing their belongings in the locker by the door if they left the room first.

--Fixed infinite caps exploit in Strictly Business quest.

--Fixed rare instance where Dad would have no valid dialogue during The Waters of Life quest.

--Prevent issue during the Finding the Garden of Eden quest where player would fade to black, instead of traveling to Raven Rock, while in combat with a follower.

--Fixed several XP speech exploits with certain NPCs.

--Fixed XP exploit with a robot in Fort Bannister.

--Fixed issue where player's controls can become locked permanently during The American Dream.

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I mean, the list for Metal Gear Solid 4 was at least twice as big as this one! Surely this game deserved GOTY!

Oh wait, my bad! MGS4 didn't have any bugs... Maybe IGN meant BGOTY?

(Buggiest Game of the Year...?)
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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:17:00
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Holy fuck, Fallout actually won?

Wow. I was so convinced that GTA would win.

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:16:09
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Yodariquo said:
This would have worked great on the front page LOL

Indeed, great stuff Leo. LOL

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:49:53
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LOL

Still love Fallout but it does have some weird glitches.

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:21:02
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That list. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

I can still play it right? I mean Oblivion had a ton of glitches but the only one I noticed was that stupid quest where you had to cure vampirism and floating in the air for no reason, which happened once.

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:16:02
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Playing the game like crazy now and I have yet to encounter anything horrible, its way way way more solid than Oblivion.

Lately though I have been getting something that I bet most people thought was a freeze up. Sometimes when I go into VATS and attack the game freezes in the slow motion part, no buttons work, etc. Well once I just sat there for a minute and the game started up again. It has since happend like 4 times and each time the game resumes, it does take a while but it works. I think it happens when its background loading the world and I get into a fight while that is happening, for instance when I am just exploring the world and quickly come up to an enemy.

Other than those pauses I have not had anything happen to me.

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:23:02

In Oblivion the game froze a few times on me and I had to reset.

But I just heard, on Fallout 3, if you complete the main story you Cannot continue so beware. There is now a patch for the PC and 360 versions but MS has an exclusivity deal on DLC which means the same thing isn't availible on the PS3 vesrion. What crap!

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:53
See my response in GGWeekly about that...
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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:52:42

Yeah sucks about DLC.

Anyway since posting that the game has froze on me twice where I had to reset and a quest got bugged and didn't let me finish so I had to load up an earlier save. Yay...

Game is still incredible though.

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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:53:31
GGGrrreeeaaattt...

...still bugs after the latest patch...

...and I just bought it back...


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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:32:53
I'm just hoping it doesn't need that much patching, or I'll have to drive my 360 to somewhere with broadband before / while playing it.

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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:02:43

aspro73 said:
I'm just hoping it doesn't need that much patching, or I'll have to drive my 360 to somewhere with broadband before / while playing it.

Drive it into the outback and ask some aborigines to smash it with their fists.

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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:28

gamingeek said:

aspro73 said:
I'm just hoping it doesn't need that much patching, or I'll have to drive my 360 to somewhere with broadband before / while playing it.

Drive it into the outback and ask some aborigines to smash it with their wangs.

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