Backroom I.T. reviews Fallout 3

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The first English language Fallout 3 review comes from...uh...some blog.<blockquote>This Oblivion meets Half-Life free roam action rpg is the product of careful storyline planning and precise attention to detail. This long awaited game is huge, and when I say huge, I mean you can spend an entire day just walking around and seeing the new “America” that has been transformed into a barren, toxic, radioactive wasteland. This game is jam packed with side jobs and quests to keep you busy for what seems like a life time (only in my dreams can I find the time to get the full 100% be completed.)

“Karma”-Like in the TV series “My Name Is Earl”, Karma decides what kind of a person you are. Hep someone find their dog, gain karma. Kill that person, and you lose some. So if you don’t want to be hated by all mankind, don’t jump into pillaging and stealing binges.</blockquote>No way of telling if this is genuine, really, but he gives it a 9.5/10.
 
Is there any point in these reviews anymore now that we have seen the game for ourselves?

I don't mean you shouldn't put them on NMA anymore, but to actually believe them.
 
Brother None said:
No way of telling if this is genuine, really, but he gives it a 9.5/10.
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Some people thing Oblivion is the best game ever. (clearly they have not played Morrowind but thats another story) That said he DID compare it to GTA IV. . .
 
Look at the difference between the "official" review scores and player/user scores for Spore on Metacritic.

8.5 vs. 4.8.

Disparity? Ha, if I believed the media, I would've been speculating in the housing market or buying stocks on the eve of the collapse. Lies, all lies, all the time.
 
90% of the scores of Spore are by people who followed Digg links about DRM that never actually played the game.

I mean, if we are going by metacritics user ratings then Fallout 3 at 8.8 must be good, right?
 
it depends, some people love it when they play a game at first time


lets say you havent played F1 and F2, and you're playing F3, you heard that F3's plot is not about the last games so... you find it OK to play this since you're going to understand everything in it and you dont have to jump back at the old ones.

some people "love" the karma system when they first come across it, not knowing that F1 and F2s karma system is waaaaay better. this reviewer looks like one of those.

lets just tell him to take a look at F1 and F2 and then rerate the F3's entire quality. and you'll find that the outcome is something below 6.
 
I wouldn't think so. A lot of the people that are going to fall in love with FO3 are from a newer generation of gaming. They'd probably have a difficult time appreciating FO1/2. Just like Oblivion fans prefer Oblivions over Morrowind, because it was the first Elder Scrolls game they came in contact with.
 
He screws up a few details about the new SPECIAL system (skills are capped at 100 now, no more traits) and offers very little in the way of "new" info. It reads like he just summarized every preview article from the last four years and tacked on a score at the bottom. Delete.
 
Killzig said:
It reads like he just summarized every preview article from the last four years and tacked on a score at the bottom. Delete.
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I could say the same of pretty much all the gaming press though :roll:

I was expecting something a bit more insightful.
 
Stoveburner said:
90% of the scores of Spore are by people who followed Digg links about DRM that never actually played the game.

I mean, if we are going by metacritics user ratings then Fallout 3 at 8.8 must be good, right?
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How do you know that? I actually have played Spore and I can say with absolute conviction that it is indeed a total piece of shit, regardless of the DRM (which can be removed with regdelnull and/or a restore point).

There aren't enough votes yet for FO3. Wait until there are several hundred more and you'll start to see it drop.
 
Really a bad review. He/she focused on the positives in the game and left out the negatives. The only negative he/she mentions is "My only disappointment of the game is the graphics shown in the game trailers and screenshots must have been from the PC version, because the graphics are not as sharp as the ones shown on some sites." What about the gliding players? Or the bad voice overs, and voice acting I've seen? One really interesting thing I read though was the part about running through the game in 75 minutes which is news to me.
 
dmakatra said:
I wouldn't think so. A lot of the people that are going to fall in love with FO3 are from a newer generation of gaming. They'd probably have a difficult time appreciating FO1/2. Just like Oblivion fans prefer Oblivions over Morrowind, because it was the first Elder Scrolls game they came in contact with.
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I played Fallout 2 first then Fallout 1

I like Fallout 1 a lot more than Fallout 2.
 
He has a point about the Morrowind/Oblivion thing, though. I came into the TES series on Morrowind, so I know what was lost with Oblivion's development.


But when I try to explain it to some of my friends, those who came in on Oblivion and consider Morrowind a giant step backwards, I'm called a loony.
 
Oakraven said:
dmakatra said:
I wouldn't think so. A lot of the people that are going to fall in love with FO3 are from a newer generation of gaming. They'd probably have a difficult time appreciating FO1/2. Just like Oblivion fans prefer Oblivions over Morrowind, because it was the first Elder Scrolls game they came in contact with.
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I played Fallout 2 first then Fallout 1

I like Fallout 1 a lot more than Fallout 2.
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That's because Fallout 1/2 are of the same generation. There's what, a year, between the releases? And the concept, feel and engine is more or less the same.

EDIT: Just to clear things up a bit. I'm not saying that some people who haven't played FO1/2 and are going to like Fallout 3 won't like FO1/2. I'm just saying the majority will prefer FO3.
 
Ixyroth said:
There aren't enough votes yet for FO3. Wait until there are several hundred more and you'll start to see it drop.
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You are probably right, but I trust the metacritic user reviews less than the actual critical reviews. There's a lot of weird psychology that contributes to those reviews. Look at the user reviews for Out of the Park Baseball. A lot of the reviews that are panning it come from people that never played it, but are upset because it shows up on the top 10 list. People on the internet are funny.

And that was a pretty bad review.
 
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