Forum:How do you play your characters in FO3?

I was just curious to see how all you other FO3 fans here play the game. What type of character builds, equipment, house, playing style, in game habits or personality traits you give your characters, and how many characters you've made.

I've made three solid characters where I've leveled the first up to 17, and the others to 20.
 * 1st Character - I had originally rented FO3 to see if I'd want to end up buying it, and basically just did a fast run through of the game, only focusing on the main quest and a few large side ones. I played this character out how I would probably go about living in the Wasteland had I been born into the Fallout world. A loner, opportunist styled character, always looking out for number one, only going out of his way to help others if he benefited from it. I blew up Megaton, and got my Tenpenny Suite. I only got to level 17 and decided to beat the main quest before having to return the game.


 * 2nd Character - This time I chose to play a character more closely built to how I act towards people in real life. This character was a master in small guns and speech and had a whole lot higher karma than my first one. I tried to give this character a deeper purpose in the game world, and while not roleplaying, I certainly gave him a story of his own, making the main storyline flow right along with this character. I saved Megaton on this character, and went out of my way customizing and decorating my megaton house full of unique items and other junk I had this character collect. One thing I do on every character of mine is collect the variants of each vault jumpsuit and display them on shelves, lol.


 * 3rd Character - This character I'm currently still playing and plan to, as I've just reached level 20, and still have alot I want to accomplish, and by now I've got a full understanding of everything there is to do in the game. I made this character a female, and actually am putting even more of a story behind this one. I wanted alot of deep shit with this character, and ended up making a sorta sexy, psychotic, serial killer bitch, lol. Dunno why, but it seemed like fun. Even though this character has very low karma, I've made her a sort of charmer, with the black widow perk + high speech, but also maxed melee weapons, so it's like a female Butcher Pete, lol. Oh yeah this one's also a cannibal with a Nuka-Cola machine full of body parts. I have to say, the detail I put into this characters house is pretty crazy, as I turned the extra room in my megaton house into a butchering room with my auto-axe being the final touch...pretty creepy, but I love scary movies and kinda based it off a few.

Those are my three characters, I dunno if other people get that into creating characters and builds, but you can just share any of that type of stuff about your character here. --Esscex 06:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I have about 12 characters, 1 melee, 1 unarmed, 1 big gun, 2 energy weapon, the rest are idiotic un-serious small arms character that I just build up for poops and giggles. Currently working on a serious Energy Weapons character which I will try to get all bobbleheads and books and unique items with. Sort of a collector. Gabriel77cortez 19:53, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

My first character(female)solved everything like an optimistic shiny crusader, but by the time James died she sorta became depressive and sarcastic and she turned into a Neutral-Karma-Explorer for the rest of the game. Her Megaton house uses the vault theme for some nostalgic memories of her father and is decorated with Nuka-Cola Trucks, unique weapons and prewar books. :x Despite having Speech 100, she decided to kill Autumn in PP to revenge her daddy. (But tossed Sarah into the chamber, hawrhawr.) On my second character, I try to be as evil as possible - just for fun and to hear Jerichos comments the whole playthrough. xD 217.85.219.44 20:12, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

My greatest character? IRONMAN. Played (Via console cheats) as a baby, managed to blow up Megaton before I realised I was wasting my time, since I couldn't equip or run at a halfway decent speed.

My first character is an awsome badass hero kind of guy, who saves the day by blasting the shit out of every enemy he sees. He usually has good or neutral karma and wears Vance's Longcoat Outfit, Red's Bandana, and sunglasses. In my opinion, he is the most awsome character in all of Fallout 3. Even his name is awsome; Xandus! He specializes in Small Guns, Repair, Melee Weapons, Energy Weapons, and Speech. He also has high Endurance, Agility, and Charisma. He literally pwns every enemy he meets with his blackhawk and chinese assault rifle. He likes to spend time outdoors, fighting deathclaws, wiping out buildings filled with super-mutants, and completing quests. -Xandus the Legend

Pararaptor 07:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

My first and still current character is a fucking psycho/cannibal/maniac. He only uses Jack (The Ripper weapon) and he dosen't wear any clothes at all. He also kills everyone he sees, then he eats their dead bodies, and then he saws them to pieces until they explode into guts and eyeballs and shit with his ripper. I blew up Megaton (not before I recruited Jericho, of course) and I got my Tenpenny Tower suite, and I chosse the Raider theme. My suite is decorated with mutialed body parts and I have alot of Rippers just laying around, plus a ton of AutoAxes. I've killed everyone in the major settlements, and am working on killing all the minor ones. My end game plan for this character is to kill every NPC in FO3 and then get on Tenpenny Tower and proclaim myself as God of the Wastes. Current death count sits around 783 people. Addicted2Beer 02:10, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

My first and only character started out not giving a shit and i was mass killing everyone but then as i got more into the game i found out there was more to that. As soon as i got my first unique weapon i knew what my goal would be in this game, i started collecting every unique item from weapons to giant teddy bears :) also i collected every new armor/ weapon in the Pitt and OP Anchorage. I also play smart read up before i decide to try something, i've used about 290 stimpaks but i have about 920. :) --76.68.116.223 02:51, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I have two characters at the moment, my good character whom I named Adria because she looks like Adria Maldoran [Orisi from SG1], and His Royal Lordship Steve III... who is my retarted evil character [he in unimportant - and lv.4]. Anyway Adria is essentially cleaning up the waistland as best possible of enclave, raiders, slavers, and all that crap, and is good freinds with the BOS. I almost live at the citadel, and I hope I get a house there in Broken Steel ;). My real house in Megaton uses the vault theme and has every single shelf and cabnet filled with some sort of weapon, armor, or other technologicla thingymabob I thought was shiney enough to bother studying. My inventory is as follows:

5 Frag Grenades, 5 Frag Mines, Trench Knife, Power Fist, Laser Pistol, Laser Rifle, Vengence [gattling laser], Fatman, Advanced Rad Suit, Chinease Stealth Suit, BOS Power Armor & Helmet, looooooooooots of ammow, litteraly over 9000 for all exept Mini Nukes.

Best moments EVER in my characters life/death

-three seconds after I saw my first Eyebot it exploded from Outcast laser fire

-bankrupting the entire Rivet City Market in one run - thanks to Enclave random encounter outside Rivet City

-getting hit and dieing trom the dam Raven Rock Door [accident - then repeated for amusment]

-best of all: wearing Tenpenney's suit, Button's Wig, and Jigwigi's shochsword, charging the Purifyer with Liberty prime playing God Save The Queen as loud as posible out of a sterio - THE BRITISH ARE COMING

You say Potato I say Patortamyort 05:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Question:

When you click to make a new character does your old one get deleted?--76.68.116.223 03:01, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

No, unless the character is on an auto save.

on the other hand, my character's name is Septic, meaning toxic (nice name for evil characters), anyway he's my second character, he's one evil SOB. He's a sneaky thief assassin, with the Chinese stealth suit and an enclave hat. He's deadly with a sniper rifle, blew up Megaton, has 95% of all unique/rare items of the game, has 150,000 bottle caps, and is Death's substitute when he goes on his long, lonely walks.Septic101 03:57, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, very cool stuff you guys. Keep 'em coming! I really enjoy seeing how other fans get the most out of their game. --Esscex 04:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I guess I'll give some more insight to certain things about my characters. I think my original character (the one I played through while renting the game) was named Apollo, dunno why, except it was the name of one of my characters from Oblivion, and decided to incorporate that character's style into fallout. My second character, which was based on my present day self was named Anthony (my name, really just because I couldn't think of anything else at the time, lol) and he was a purely Small Guns character, i then befriended the Outcasts, and traded all loot from Enclave camps for massive amounts of Stimpaks. Seriously I had like 1050 of them by just finding them and trading junk energy weapons. I never had to worry about health with that character. I kinda made him out to be a perfect match to the type of character that is made for the main story line: The kinda Rouge Hero who gets involved in something way more than what he bargained for. My current one, like I said is a sexy, psychotic, woman who, from a first glance is just a typical Merc type, but look at her more closely and you'll see she's absolutely chaotic and unpredictable. I really chose to play this one as though I myself were a psychopathic time bomb. When doing quests, even one's where choosing the good karma path is in your best interest, If maybe I felt as if my character wasn't liking the way an NPC was talking, or what color hair they had, I'd just hack away, then slinking off into the tunnels under DC. Although it's always fun to have a "rampage" character, I find having a character based of pure impulse even more fun to play as. --Esscex 04:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

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Traditionally, with all Sandbox RPG's, I always plan to make my first play through as best I can. In Fallout 3, my first and possibly only character...until I get bored, is the best most experienced well-rounded battle-hardened 'hero' in the wastes. A male named Leviathan (used him in all of Bethesda's other games), (level 20 of course) focused a lot of my perks on the S.P.E.C.I.A.L attributes and made him no less then 7 points in all of them (those didn't benefit me at all but I did it). My weakest skill is probably the Big Guns skill, and unarmed never touched them only with skill books, but he's mastered energy weapons, and small guns advanced in speech (still don't think that helped me too much), repair and science with high charisma. I just worked on whatever appeared most useful to me game wise.There's no story, I always experience everything usually one character one file. Did all the side quest,collected any unique items/weapons, and have uncovered all the locations, killed all the behemoths, and store or display anything I deem interesting goes in my house at Megaton, collected all the bobbleheads -- everything, I also had my share of random encounters-and this character has seen alot; more then I can count.. the only thing I don't really capitalize on which most people do is the caps..Only got about 20,000 but that's with like maybe 140-150 hours of game-play on the same file.Got fucked over. Quite a bit. Game decided to kill My Protector Casdin,(found him dead one day.don't know why. what the fuck.) and all my potential slaves to get into Paradise Falls were either dead already or missing (Don't know why. What the fuck.) Have a lot of good karma, but I won't hesitate to do something 'evil' if it means leviathan doesn't benefit from it. still have yet to finish all the expansions the main story was awesome, and whenever there's a possible lack of seriousness I'll take it (lolz). I only want to and still have yet to play through as an evil character.. i.e blowing up Megaton, killing regulators, and collecting ears just to see how it turns out, possibly be female ;]. But that's my style, good topic. Happy Gaming Xdarkdragonx 06:47, 2 April 2009 (UTC) Dragon

It's not really about your stats, since the game is easy enough. It's more about what skills you think your character would have, then base their personality on that. For example, my newest character, Johnny Brightside, is a Small Guns/Speech specialist. I decided that he would be a fast talkin' sharpshooter, who could convince you to give him the shirt off your back for a coffee mug, then hold you up at gunpoint because he wanted his mug back. I'd like him to have neutral karma, but I don't think the karma system was fully fleshed out, because my definition of neutral would be taking every job that pays more and doing what you need to to survive. That means stealing food, and even cannibalism. Broeman 10:40, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

My character is based of the character i used when i was introduced to the fallout world,an uncaring basatrd who only helps people if he gets paid,he's also a bit of a night hunter,as i use him to sneak up behind people at night and execute them with a knife to the head with a sneak attack critcal

i also use a second one which is more wastelander-ish,using only limited ammo,not so good weapons and scavenging for stuff.Werewolfhell 18:04, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

My current characters are:

Robert Marshall: A quiet, smart Wastelander who knows about everything about survival. When adventure calls, he roams the Wastes for days, kicking ass and taking names. He is kind of my "main file"-character, so i have tried to give him reasonable amounts of points in all skills, so I can switch playstyle when I like. He is mostly dressed in the Merc Adventurer outfit, and carries a big arsenal of all kinds of weapons. His favorite weapon is the Railway Rifle, though... It is a weapon suitable for all situations...

Magnus Frink: A character I made to see how a nerd would survive in the Wasteland. He is hopeless with Speech, Melee Weapons and Unarmed, but when it comes to hacking and lasers, he takes no prisoners. And after I got Cyborg, he has become some of a badass. He is dressed in Lesko's Labcoat and some reading glasses and wields a high-tech Plasma Rifle.

Bane: Magnus Frink's opposite. A strong, stupid and evil Big Guns character who doesn't think the day is complete until he has maimed, killed or backstabbed (in that order). He is usually addicted to one or two chems. He is dressed in Metal Armor and wields the frightning Eugene.

AngryNorwegianDude 18:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Current chars:

Alice Steenwyck: A stealthy sniper-specialized merc. Doesn't really care about the consequences of her actions, wether they are good or bad, as long as she's getting paid. Perfers to use her Silenced Assault Rifle and customed Sniper Rifle, but she's also skilled with swords. She judges no-one, but never feels compassion or sympathy. She prefers to work alone. That way she's allways the boss, and more importantly, she never has to share a reward.

Rawdog: Basically a Raider. Enjoys being evil, and likes to steal, torture and murder together with his "girlfriend" and loyal dog. Not the brightest of the bunch, he does things the way he thinks they'll be fun to do. Likes all kinds of weapons except Energy Wapons, as he finds them "too techy", allthough he favors a Chinese Assault Rifle and a SMG he looted of a relichunter he killed.

The Carl: A real man of the people, The Carl is a pacifist. Allthough he says it is because he does not enjoy killing, he is really just too much of a whimp, and simply let's his Ghoul-friend take care of the killing. He does what he feels is best for the people, and allways tries to find a peacefull solution, trying to talk his way out of problems. Dresses in suits, because he feel like people get to know his true nature in just a first glanze.

--KillerIsMe 22:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Im using one character at the moment John:he's very anti-social and dosnt like to be noticed. he's looked through the vaults history books deeply and come to the conclusion that people are selfish and will never be able to rebuild society, and if they do they will destroy it all over again. when he left the vault he was scared, and sad and angry that his father would do this to him he was nearly suicidal but then after planning to get himself blown up at minefield he found a Sniper Rifle. he became obsessed with mastering the ways of the sniper and stealth combat, he found it relaxing. soon he found himself seeing good in people that they could fix the world. he became more social and more talkative and more caring but after seeing the horrors of te enclave he was disgusted at humanity and thoes who grab for power when people need help and his father dying in fron of him deeply affected his brain. he became bitter cruel and mad with vengance but at the end *SPOILER ALERT* he sacrificed himself in the purifier, no one knows why he did it but they made a memorial at the purifier for him.

I played many characters in all my games together:

1. A dumbass character, he only tries to survival, because he doesn't know anything of a society. He missed Megaton at the start, but he knows how to use a shotgun for clearing out a lot of satcom array stations. He loves mole rats in combination with any melee weapons. (he would have gone crazy if he had found the repellent stick, but sadly he has never found it). He is very afraid of bloatflies.

2. A good person, loves exploring and not being seen by his enemies. However, in an emergency, he is good with a sniper rifle. When he was in danger, he could defense himself very well, but he never started a fight. He's good at sneak and small guns. This was my first player that reached the end of the game.

3. How would a bad person be? I never tried it out before. Time to become a devil of the wastes. My first player that reached lv. 20 and the one that recovered most of the special weapons in the game. An expert on each weapon: small guns, energy weapons, big guns, you name it. This guy was a real merc/businessman. And it was my first player that blew up megaton. This guy was still a coward. He only kills people when nobody is there to talk, or rather shoot, some sense into him. *SPOILER ALERT* in the end, of course he sent Sarah into the purifier.

4. This guy became a crazy serial killer. His motto: In this world, aren't we all serial killers? In the start, he was a normal person. He found a dead raider, and he became a fan: he loved raiders. So he became a raider. But even in a good looking raider blastmaster outfit, they still attacked him on sight. He became heavily depressed. When he couldn't be a raider, he would show them a lesson, and he was not the type that would show any mercy. So he thought: I'm gonna be god of the wastes and kill just everybody. Then I'm always in control, and people will see that I'm a boss, and that no one messes with me. But when he crowned himself to god (with a fireshow and a lot of dead raiders together) there was no one that could see him as a boss. So he comitted suicide (saved all his games in the air, where he was jumping off the top of rivet city).

1 - Caleb Soloman - good guy character from my first play through - played this character the same way I would have if I was in the wasted, made the same decisions, etc. Strong, Intelligent, Small Guns player. In general, not as fun as the evil character i am playing now, but I ended up with Dogmeat, Charon, Fawkes, and Star Paladin Cross all following me at the same time, with is a lot of fun.

2 - Simon Mangus - evil from the gate - he was deeply disturbed by the events at the vault and his mind has been twisted ever since. He will do good things only if he gets some benefit out of it. He is a sneak/small guns/energy weapons player - high strength, intelligence, lockpick, repair. Last night he in fact fell off the deep end and killed every person in Tenpenny tower, and now plans to travel by foot to each settlement and lay waste to every person in the wasteland... except the caravans - he has to get more ammo somewhere... Pgoon 19:16, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

(Please note i am a PS3 owner so i miss out on the DLC) My character is good (on occasion there is that BoS member with the gatling laser I want) I have 100 speech, small guns, repair, and sneak. Big guns is at 72, medicine, 67. lockpick. 96, energy weapons 86, explosives 69, barter 69. As for melee and unarmed, it's pretty low because i prefer ranged combat. My main SPECIAL is LUCK at 10 Intelligence, Charisma 7 and Intelligence 8. The rest are at 7. I have the megaton house with pre-war theme. In one of my lockers are ALL OF MY UNIQUE WEAPONS which are ALL THE UNIQUE RANGED WEAPONS except the 3 unique laser pistols. I have the T-51B armor, the prototype medic armor, and 8 tesla helmets and armor (so far). I have any perks that increase my critical chance and hit chance for VATS like gunslinger, commando, sniper, wired reflexes, finesse, better criticals. My favorite weapons are A3-21's plasma rifle, the Blackhawk, and Vengence. My follower are Charon and Star Paladin Cross both armed with 2 fully repaired chinese assult rifles, 25 stimpacks, and 5000 rounds and tesla armor for each. I have discovered all the locations (no DLC). I have no troubles taking down some of the hardest enemies in the game. I think of the previous 2 characters I've played my current one is the best. suSpence95 2:11, April 25th 2009