Shack PSA: 50% Off Fallout 3 PC and Other Sales
Usually $50, a digital download of Bethesda's acclaimed post-apocalyptic PC RPG can temporarily be yours for $25. However, this doesn't include any of the $10 downloadable expansions, so the more frugal of you may want to wait until October, when the game and its five downloadable add-ons will be sold together in a $50 Game of the Year bundle.
Other standout deals include the X-Com Complete Pack for $7.50 at GamersGate and Call of Duty: World at War PC for $35 at Direct2Drive. Impulse also has several noteworthy sales going on, including a $30 Sins of the Solar Empire/Expansion Bundle and free copies of Red Faction 1 and 2 with a pre-order of RF: Guerrilla.
Oh, and don't forget that with Street Fighter IV PC coming out next week, both Steam and Impulse are offering 10% off pre-orders, making the fighting game $36.
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replytbh, if you can, wait for the GOTY 360 bundle. the pc version has drove me up the wall with random crashes. i wish i could have got a refund on it and got in on the 360 to begin with. after fiddling around for hours i got it to not crash as much but it still crashes every so often. doesn't matter what drivers i install or how many settings i tweak. this game has made me want to purchase multiplatform releases for 360 from now on.
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For what I've seen its hit or miss. A co-worker of mine has a much beefier rig than I do right now, he ran Fallout 3 on two different machines. He had some less than average Dell laptop that he had the most problems with the game constantly dropping to desktop, blue screening, take your pick. He got the game on the 360, beat it. He built a desktop rig a few months back, and the only issue he had was the game essentially crashing when you exit. I've had like a few lockups in the game and that was if I was being silly and multitasking and opening something I shouldn't have been opening like photoshop or something (I had some horrible file associations I needed to fix). The only REAL issue I've had with the game since its release is patching. Since the DLC releases and the patches the game also freezes for me upon exit. But that's been it. Personally I wouldn't want to wait. I sometimes feel the same way about multiplatform releases, but they are truly hit or miss. I got Prototype on PC and thought it was an amazing port. DMC4 was WAY better than I could've expected. Whereas I bought Mercenaries on the PC as well and it was fucking godawful and Saints Row 2 was clearly an afterthought.
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I know and you're right. I know for a fact that those BSODs were caused by Nvidia drivers. The point is that I never experienced BSODs in other games with same drivers. I even tried BETA and older drivers at the time. Same problems occurred. I believe those issues are fixed now by Nvidia.
The only other option for me at the time was to try an ATI card.
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That's how true they stayed to the originals.
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Even though the PC version crashes on me quite often, with quicksaves that don't stop or lag your play for even a second, and the speed with which the game launches and loads games (it takes me longer to alt-tab back into a Source Engine game!), the crashes are not nearly as aggravating to me as they are in games that crash even substantially less often.
Furthermore, the freedom the keyboard+mouse provides (I can use automatic weapons now, no more relying on Lincoln's Repeater and other one-hit-wonders to dispatch enemies in VATS) combined with the possibilities that modability brings (I look forward to killing those damn LIttle Lamplight children) really seal the deal for me.
I put 30 or 40 hours into this game on the 360 first. I recently grabbed the PC version, and even with the crashes, it's so much more fun. -
I know I'm a minority here, but I've played through the game several times, on XP/Vista/Seven, and haven't had a single crash. Nor a single problem with the game at all. As another guy said, its pretty much hit or miss with it. However, the game is simply amazing and very enjoyable. I won't advocate for a specific platform, I'll just say: If you haven't already gotten it, get it.
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