Stupid fallout experiences...

well that falls under the general mistake of not saving often.

my most retarted moments were in my first playthrough:

-i killed dogmeat instead of recruiting him.

-i totally missed on harold, the deathclaw cave, Decker, and the thieves guild.

also going to the glow without radiation drugs and a rope is fun, try it.

finally letting the time limit pass by doing every possible quest except for the main one, that's a lot of fun.

well at least i saved.
 
first time I played Fallout I went and killed everyone at the military base, went back to the BoS and thought the game was finished. I was kind of puzzled about there not being any real ending but at the same time I thought it was pretty cool. I blame this on playing it through in one long session over a night of insomnia.

not until the second time, maybe a year or two later, did I play it again and realized I had not only missed out on the Cathedral but several other quests.
 
I was doing a "rob everyone blind" playthrough one day and relying heavily on save/load chicanery to shore up my mid-grade steal skill, when I got caught in the middle of trying to clean out the hubcops. Of course, you already know what happened- I saved when I meant to load. Not normally a big deal, but this was back when I only had Fallout on my father's computer, so I only got two game slots to myself, and in the depths of my youthful ignorance I was only keeping one of them current.

To make matters worse, I was also roleplaying my sneakthief, and it was a rather sideways narrative I was crafting-- ultimately, I was left with the option of discarding 3+ hours of gameplay, or fighting my way out of the merchant district with nothing but Katja, leather armor, and a hunting rifle.

It's not so much a "mistake," but I also remember my first playthrough-- a "Max Stone" run-- being notable in that I didn't even notice the door leading to The Master. I blew the Cathedral, clicked my heels together, and ran, all the while thinking that all that talk about the freakish overlord of the mutants had been nothing but narrative garnish.
 
I didn't realize that the push player button in FO2 did anything. I would just reload when I got stuck in a confined space with Sulik.

It also took me "quite a while" in FO2 to learn to right-click on the weapon for alt attacks, reload. I thought it was just kinda dumb that the SMG was single shot.

Maybe I should RTFM?
 
I attacked and killed Set with just a shotgun and leather armor. Needless to say I shortly discovered other enemies around I hadn't before and made a strategic retreat.

Set was dead though, so I was happy.
 
Starting a fight at the Hubologist's and getting trapped by their laser fields was hilarious.
 
I tried to take on Decker wearing Leather Armor and packing a dinky Shotgun, with Ian as my backup with his 10mm pistol. Kane DESTROYED me. Multiple times. That psycho has the HP of two Super Mutants and punches like one. And the other guards are also mean jackasses. Kane could clean Sulik's clock and not even break a sweat. :shock: He was a mean badass motherfucker.

-i killed dogmeat instead of recruiting him.
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So I wans't the only one, huh? I did the same thing. I thought Phill wanted the dog dead. So I went there and blasted the dog with my hunting rifle. "Bah, its just a dog." WRONG. Its dogmeat, bitch. Dogmeat teared me appart multiple times. He was like somekind of canine god of war, with two times the AP of a normal human and a bite that could bend metal armor.

And there's another mistake in Junktown: I wans't a good english reader yet, so I thought Killian sent me to kill Gizmo instead of getting proof of his activities using the tape or the bug. So I just waltzed there like some kind of Wasteland Vigilante straight out of the Hard-Boilled Anti-Hero school, insulted the big man - hell, outright called him a fat mobster fuck - and then I shot him in the face while Ian skullfucked his mute bodyguard. Then I shot my way out of Gizmo's sleazy cassino. I killed all the guards and all the patrons, like somekind of heroic psychopath. Then I went to Killian, preparing myself for the moment when I would be showered with glory, whores, money and free guns. Guess what? Lars, Killian, everyone, told me I did Junktown a favor by wiping the fat fuck's operations out of the map, but I did it without proof, which means its better for me to fuck off Junktown and never return. This marked my Fallout experience forever.
 
Slaughter Manslaught said:
I tried to take on Decker wearing Leather Armor and packing a dinky Shotgun, with Ian as my backup with his 10mm pistol. Kane DESTROYED me. Multiple times. That psycho has the HP of two Super Mutants and punches like one. And the other guards are also mean jackasses.
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He's definitely a psycho, because he *has* one (the drug, that is). Stealing it from him first makes the fight much easier.
 
Killed by sewer Rat 2 days ago in order to spare from my stimpaks while returning by Necropolis Sewers after obtaining the waterchip.
 
Yamu said:
It's not so much a "mistake," but I also remember my first playthrough-- a "Max Stone" run-- being notable in that I didn't even notice the door leading to The Master. I blew the Cathedral, clicked my heels together, and ran, all the while thinking that all that talk about the freakish overlord of the mutants had been nothing but narrative garnish.
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Same here actually - I missed the door completely, and set off the nuke on the 4th floor instead. Made me think that metal crown was one of the "unimplemented" quest items :lol:
 
Going to Navarro and on the way getting the jinxed dog. Lets just say i survived for about 3 turns.
 
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