{"id":974,"date":"2008-05-22T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2008-05-22T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:44:23","slug":"fallout-3-preorder-game-get-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/fallout-3-preorder-game-get-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 3: Preorder game, get &#8230; stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fallout3_box1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The associate at GameStop asked &#8220;Would you like to preorder Fallout 3 for the PS3 or XBOX360&#8221;?\u00a0 After deciding that I would not immediately kill the kid for forgetting that this is a PC franchise we&#8217;re talking about here, I said &#8220;PC version, standard not collector&#8217;s edition&#8221;.\u00a0 He said &#8216;oh&#8217;, rather surprised, but proceeded to take my money and give me the item that was the reason I pre-ordered the game about four months in advance:\u00a0 a DVD case containing a large poster and what looked like a 45RPM I might have bought thirty years or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the music disk looks like from the front:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fallout_musiccd_sleeve-back1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is what the music disk looks like from the back:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fallout_musiccd_sleeve-front11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is also a poster (~16 x 20) that looks much like the box at the top, but without the &#8216;Games for Windows&#8217; and ESRB label, but definitely with a HUGE Bethesda logo.<\/p>\n<p>Is it worth it?\u00a0 Not really &#8211; I had gone under the impression that you would get a soundtrack CD and hadn&#8217;t read about the sparse sampling you actually get.\u00a0 The two originals are available for download from the official Fallout 3 site, and that leaves the poster that I will never hang on a wall.\u00a0 Then there is the whole &#8216;playing into GameStops evil plans&#8217; thing.\u00a0 But on the other hand, I will have the game when it comes out in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The associate at GameStop asked &#8220;Would you like to preorder Fallout 3 for the PS3 or XBOX360&#8221;?\u00a0 After deciding that I would not immediately kill the kid for forgetting that this is a PC franchise we&#8217;re talking about here, I said &#8220;PC version, standard not collector&#8217;s edition&#8221;.\u00a0 He said &#8216;oh&#8217;, rather surprised, but proceeded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}