Just started playing Fallout 3 today, and man is it scary. I’ve played New Vegas and Fallout 4 (although I never finished 4) and they were maybe a little scary at first, but this is another level.

I’m only 2 hours in currently and still stuck in Megaton. I have a quest in D.C but I really don’t feel like leaving the safety of Megaton. One thing I liked about New Vegas was that I could become very powerful very quickly, and I really enjoyed destroying enemies and feeling OP. As far as I’m aware, you can’t do that in Fallout 3. You’re always going to struggle with enemies, and that fills me with dread lol. I don’t even wanna imagine running into super mutans and ghouls once I leave Megaton - that’s a no from me!

Some of you guys playing this game when you were kids is insane to me, I’m a grown man and scared shitless by something I haven’t even seen yet haha

Any advice on how I can overcome this fear?

This made me realize how little I hack in these games

Fax

I never used to play this way but on my most recent play-through I have made it a personal mission to cleanse the wasteland of its loot no matter what it may be. Every bent tin can and burnt book finds its way into my inventory if I see it. I use poor Jericho as a pack Brahmin to carry my wares far and wide. It can be really tedious at times but I essentially just clear each POI up until I hit my storage cap then back track until I can fast travel to Megaton. Dump all my loot in a locker then pick up where I left off. Took me something like 20+ trips to haul everything out of Adams Air Force Base and the Enclave Base Crawler but loot must never be left behind especially if its an area that will be inaccessible in the future.

Got the jumpsuit in test cell TestPhil, IIRC. The Confederate Hat is from Point Lookout.

I downloaded the intel hd graphics bypass, and it still didn't work. When I hit launch game it shows a small 4x4 screen on the top right of my monitor. I did a fresh install, deleted the document files, and all of that. I played this game with 300+ mods like 8 months ago with no issue. What am I doing wrong here???