Fallout 3 - it owns! - Page 3

On March 12 2009 01:33 Grobyc wrote:
It was a fun game, don't get me wrong, but I never bothered finishing the storyline. It just got too boring after a while -_-

On March 12 2009 04:43 Realpenguin wrote:

meh I thought crysis and cod4/5 were absolutely horrible
if anything those games are overrated

I haven't tried Fallout 3, because I decided to finish FO1 and 2 first. I almost finished 1, and then my save file disappeared.

On March 12 2009 06:30 meathook wrote:
Fallout3: Horrible dialog written by a 12 year-old, overall bad storyline. Horrible voice acting. Appalling gameplay; movement and the VATS was beyond annoying. Awful game. I am amazed my nerves were able to cope up to raven rock...

One of the worst games I have played. Thank you, Bethesda, for dragging the corpse of a previously great series and raping the shit out of it.


This is how you're supposed to play Fallout. But skip Fo3.

On March 12 2009 06:52 Athos wrote:
Edit: Really, the gameplay is all about exploring and discovering new things. It doesn't do anything exceptionally, but this core aspect is so beautifully done that it makes up for all the flaws in the gameplay.

On March 12 2009 04:34 Mikilatov wrote:
Even though it's probably better than Oblivion, I for some reason enjoyed Oblivion a lot more. I logged something obscene like 160 hours on Oblivion in 2 weeks. Just didn't get into Fallout nearly as much.

Still loved it to death, and explored everything in the entire game, eventually. Tenpenny Tower, and the National Archives were my favorite places in the game. VERY well-designed quest chains and narratives for both of those areas.

On March 12 2009 02:35 h3r1n6 wrote:
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'

On March 12 2009 09:39 shavingcream66 wrote:
yeah. I picked up fallout 3 since it got good reviews and was made by the same guys behind Oblivion. All I can say is that it's pretty disappointing. The environment got pretty old quickly and something about guns and VATS just didn't do it for me. Yep...i love oblivion. but Fallout 3, not so much

On March 12 2009 06:52 Athos wrote:




You sir, are picky



Edit: Really, the gameplay is all about exploring and discovering new things. It doesn't do anything exceptionally, but this core aspect is so beautifully done that it makes up for all the flaws in the gameplay.

On March 12 2009 07:15 TheYango wrote:

It comes down to what you want in a roleplaying game. These aspects, the discovery and the exploration, are not traditionally the selling points of good RPGs or good FPSs. They're often touted as good additions, but never as the selling point.

If you play FO3 after FO1 and FO2, sadly to say, it doesn't live up to the gameplay of its predecessors. The end-product is still decent, but not amazing. Its one of the best games to come out in the past year, but it still doesn't hold up against the more classic RPG/FPS hybrids like Deus Ex or System Shock 2. Deep exploration doesn't make up for an engaging story and a refined character system.

That said, I wouldn't go so far as to say FO3 isn't worth the full price. It's not Best Game of All Time material, but its not complete trash, especially given some of the mods out there that refine some of the rough edges of the game (e.g. the difference in killing power between VATS and real-time should NOT be as great as it is).

On March 12 2009 07:27 nATHANN wrote:
I did actually, enjoy fallout3 alot. First singleplayer games in a looong time that i did enjoy. I did rush the main quest(ending was really bad imho) and after that it didn't offer anything for me coz i think doing pointless quest and exploring world isn't fun . Yes i have complete fallout 1-2 like 7times both but when i tried playing fallout 2 again couple weeks ago the ui and graphs just felt so bleh. Well i have enjoyed all games now and i think it's really the best rpg series around but i do understand if the "new" players dont like old fallouts.

And yes both system shock 2 and Deus Ex are awesome games but nowadays the graphs are just so bad, so for me they arent worth for playing again.

On March 12 2009 05:39 StrikeFLOW wrote:


Just doing purely storyline takes 7-8 hours...

???

On March 12 2009 07:27 nATHANN wrote:
And yes both system shock 2 and Deus Ex are awesome games but nowadays the graphs are just so bad, so for me they arent worth for playing again.

On March 12 2009 10:03 meathook wrote:
Even analyzing the game from the perspective of a person who has not played the other games, Fo3 has NOTHING compelling to offer - the combat is mediocre at best, the "dialog".. well, it's just bad. The character development is there purely in name- Bethsoft added the stats system purely because they wanted ppl to think it was a Fallout game (can't be fallout without SPECIAL).

The only thing Fo3 has going for itself is the graphics, and by graphics I mean landscapes. The landscapes and some of the locations look great. The character models and animations are pretty horrid, esp. by current standards.

On March 12 2009 21:41 TheYango wrote:

1) There are mods for graphics
2) Graphics are temporal, stories are timeless (and Deus Ex/SS2 are MUCH better in that regard)
You realize how old you make me feel when you say Deus Ex has unplayable graphics? I still remember back when Deus Ex's graphics were "state of the art."

There's no way to fix the disappointing story/dialogue but at the very least, there are mods that make combat more interesting, and revert back to a character system more reminiscent of the old SPECIAL system.