Will Fallout 3 be remembered?

Will Fallout 3 be remembered in 10 years' time?

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I disagree. Highlander 2 & 3 were not a case of more the merrier, and FO3&4 sequels relative to the prior/proper Fallout series are definitely akin to the Highlander sequels relative to the original film; in almost every sense.

Highlander 2 & 3 might be fun, but it's laughing at them, not with them... and so it is with FO3 & 4.
 
It was my introduction to the series, but by itself it doesn't have any cultural prescence.
NV and 4 have passed it in both online and irl relevance, so its probably gonna be one of the least remembered games like BOS or Tactics.
Even fallout 1 and 2 had a recent resurgence these last years with dozens of videos breaking more than 100k covering both of em, so maybe in 2 or 3 years nobody will remember it at all
 
It's still being discussed sixteen years later so I'd say yes.

The fact it was a major influencve on the series also means it'll be remembered decades more later.
 
I guess I'll be the 2025 guy now, I mean every year has a post so necroing can't be the worst. What's a better first post for NMA, really?
Fallout 3 is literally only remembered out of spite, either by people who dislike it (cause it's shit), or by Bethesda fanboys who- like ironically don't even seem to like it much themselves. They can't really weigh it against NV in any way, so they use disingenuous points like "it was a TRANSITIONAL game, cut it some slack" or "uhhh if you ignore the story, combat, world design, ignore the main story, remove the entire intro, and commit a blood sacrifice to Todd Howard, it's a fun sandbox to be brainless in."

NV has practically replaced it as that generation's fallout, which goes to show how forgettable FO3 actually is as a game...but because it's called "Fallout 3," some guy who cares more about defending the "brand" of fallout, rather than the "idea" of fallout, will defend it until their last breath, with again, those same kind of points as stated above, an acceptance of mediocrity, rather than a true statement. Like it's one thing to profoundly enjoy something, even if I think it's shit I can at least respect the fact it's genuine enjoyment...and another to defend it for the SAKE of defending it, WHILE bringing 1, 2 and NV down, WHILE calling fans of those games exclusively the toxic ones...fallout fans on social media are weird.

...I've overstayed my welcome, but my point is that it's remembered as a title and nothing more. Only brand-obsessed bethesda fans care about it in 2025, even the "casual" audience just moved on to Fallout 4. I thought the people who care about graphical fidelity didn't even exist anymore- but no, social media comments proved that wrong.

Hope it was an interesting read. If not, deepest apologies.
 
malakas said:
NV has practically replaced it as that generation's fallout
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Yeah, pretty much. New Vegas is far more remembered and far more loved than Fallout 3.

Anytime now someone makes a video about how good Fallout 3 apparently is, the comment section is a shitshow of Bethesda fans and haters arguing. Meanwhile in New Vegas videos you just see one guy that says the game is bad being bullied, or any video that shits on New Vegas getting mercilessly clowned on.
 
maybe this is cope but it really does seem that most fallout 3 fans are people that played it when it came out. you dont often see people discovering it now and loving it like people do with new vegas or even 4. even so its not as if the brand will ever be able to recover when things like the fallout show or fallout 76 continue to be released.
 
Norzan said:
Yeah, pretty much. New Vegas is far more remembered and far more loved than Fallout 3.

Anytime now someone makes a video about how good Fallout 3 apparently is, the comment section is a shitshow of Bethesda fans and haters arguing. Meanwhile in New Vegas videos you just see one guy that says the game is bad being bullied, or any video that shits on New Vegas getting mercilessly clowned on.
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I remember back in '11, '12, and maybe even '13 when F3 > FNV was still a widely held opinion; it eventually shrivelled up and died later.
 
R.Graves said:
maybe this is cope but it really does seem that most fallout 3 fans are people that played it when it came out. you dont often see people discovering it now and loving it like people do with new vegas or even 4. even so its not as if the brand will ever be able to recover when things like the fallout show or fallout 76 continue to be released.
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I find comments quite often of people saying they played the 3D Fallouts for the first time very recently and saying they generally liked Fallout 3 after that first playthrough, but then tried New Vegas and that game made Fallout 3 look like shit.

Resardiv said:
I remember back in '11, '12, and maybe even '13 when F3 > FNV was still a widely held opinion; it eventually shrivelled up and died later.
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The piss poor launch state of New Vegas definitely overshadowed a lot of its early years. It's not until people started to play it with mods that fixed most of the bugs and performance issues that they realized that the game has actually a lot of good stuff.
 
Norzan said:
I find comments quite often of people saying they played the 3D Fallouts for the first time very recently and saying they generally liked Fallout 3 after that first playthrough, but then tried New Vegas and that game made Fallout 3 look like shit.


The piss poor launch state of New Vegas definitely overshadowed a lot of its early years. It's not until people started to play it with mods that fixed most of the bugs and performance issues that they realized that the game has actually a lot of good stuff.
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i mean most of my playtime for new vegas was unpatched on a ps3. probably the ultmimate worst way to play and honestly it wasnt memorably any worse than either fallout 3 or skyrim was in terms of bugs and stability skyrim was actually worse
 
R.Graves said:
i mean most of my playtime for new vegas was unpatched on a ps3. probably the ultmimate worst way to play and honestly it wasnt memorably any worse than either fallout 3 or skyrim was in terms of bugs and stability skyrim was actually worse
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That's true. People ragged on New Vegas for the bad launch, specially Bethesda fans, but they forgot (or they didn't but thought it was actually fine) how much a buggy piece of shit games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 were at release (and they are still buggy pieces of shit in the latest patch).

I still remember the literally gamebreaking bug in Skyrim during early in the main quest. And it took them forever to fix it.
 
Norzan said:
The piss poor launch state of New Vegas definitely overshadowed a lot of its early years.
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I don't understand why the same doesn't appear to apply for Fallout 3. I only played it on launch and it was horrible with frequent crash to desktop where I loosed a lot of unsaved progress.

Fallout 3 gets a pass but New Vegas does not and it's a bit odd to have different standards like that.
 
Norzan said:
I still remember the literally gamebreaking bug in Skyrim during early in the main quest. And it took them forever to fix it.
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where ralof or whatever wouldmt talk to you if you followed the imperial out of helgen? i didnt know they ever fixed it. also this is a tangent but not for nothing but skyrim actually benefits a lot from the special edition which completely reworked the games color palate people forget but the original version of skyrim was VERY colorless. damn near in black and white in a lot of places

aslo i would just like to remind everyone that if you dont count infinitely repeatable or unmarked quests then fallout 3 only has 17 side quests.
 
R.Graves said:
where ralof or whatever wouldmt talk to you if you followed the imperial out of helgen? i didnt know they ever fixed it.
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When you would go get Esbern out of prison, there was a chance he would never come out of his cell, hardlocking your game if you didn't had a save before doing this quest. A friend of mine actually got this and he had to restart the playthrough.

It is early in the main quest, but how did get past anyone in development or QA (whatever they did for QA at least) is beyond me.
 
I doubt many will remember Fallout 3 due to how Bethesda’s target audience is casuals, and casuals have incredibly short memory. The only title Bethesda’s “hobby tourists” remember is whatever the latest and greatest is. When Skyrim launched, Oblivion disappeared. When Fallout 4 launched, 3 disappeared like a fart in the wind.
Why play with the old product when the new product has better graphics?
 
Yes~ Thanks to Tale of Two Wasteland project, people now can play F3 in FNV engine. So all the limitation of F3 engine are eliminated, and F3 can survive alongside FNV for as long as the latter.

Dont let the zero visitor to F3 Nexus portal fool you, they all move to TTW corner.

Sure TTW require some minimum halfway competent tech skill to install, but that means it sieve out most of the noobs, which is all to the good, for F3 community.
 
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