Fallout 3 wins RPG of the Year at Gamespot

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Fallout 3 won Gamespot's award for RPG of the Year in their "Best and Worst of 2008" feature. Shocking.

Why did it win, you ask? Here's their explanation.<blockquote>All of the finalists combine immersive storylines with fantastic gameplay, but Fallout 3's ability to infuse life into a postatomic Washington DC through its development of non-player characters separates it from the remaining games. Non-player characters wander around the towns, converse with one another, and generally go about their daily lives. A multitude of voice-overs have been included for each individual, and all are unique, in accordance with their personal motives, and in a manner and tone that seem believable.

This character development isn't simply superficial, either. Character motivations touch on a wide array of socially relevant issues. Each character believes that his or her actions are justified and have a basis to support them. It then falls on you to determine your interactions with these characters based on your own moral compass, with each action ultimately impacting their lives. As in real life, the situations are not black and white, good and evil.

It is this combination of brilliant character development and socially relevant issues that makes Fallout 3 an emotionally engaging experience for the user and the 2008 RPG of the Year.</blockquote>Link: GameSpot's Best Games of 2008: Best Role-Playing Game
 
It actually won because it had no real competition this year.
fallout 3 is rather bad RPG. WHY ?
1. it has horrible writing, compared to many other RPGs before it. Story makes no sense, not in the light of previous games. Dialogue is simple, and is not that meaningful, and tends to be subpar in RPG standards. Characters are not properly fleshed, and lack any personality or sensible motives. Many NPCs cause feelings of hate, for the wrong reasons.
2.Choices and consequences are very limited, and gameworld is very STATIC. Player actions do not effect ending, or the gameworld.
Being good or evil have no real difference, most quest can be done regardless of your actions, and how the denisens of gameworld see you. You might as well do nothing.
3.Stat and skill system. Player can choose stats , but they do not effect gameplay. INT 3 is almost same as INT 10. Skills do not effect combat, and gameplay much, thanks to minigames. Non-combat skills have no real use, when compared to previous Fallouts and other RPGs. They do not open new ways to complete games, nor do different builds effect it. Stat and skill checks are relatively few and far between, when compared to other RPGs, like Planecape. Why include them, if their effect is non-existant.

When a "RPG" like this gets GoTY award, it shows more about the lack of deep, quality RPG titles, than about the game itself.
 
Patton89 said:
It actually won because it had no real competition this year. Fallout 3 is rather bad RPG.
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Pretty much.
 
Ugh. The rationale is retarded. According to it, Gothics should have sweeped the competition each year and all get GotYs.
 
That is some shabby competition. Although, I have heard good things about Persona. I'm considering giving that series a chance.
 
Bah, I wonder why the Witcher wasn't on there. Then again it came out in 07 and I guess the EE didn't warrant a mention. Ah well, slim field and these GOTY things are meaningless these days anyway.
 
Even if Fallout 3 DID have a lot of competition, that wouldn't change the fact that it's still an amazing game. Bravo Bethesda, the praise bestowed upon you is WELL deserved.
 
We arent saying it is bad because it doesnt have competion, we are saying it really got the RPG of the year easily because it doesnt have competion and it makes the getting of the award atleast questionable, as i doubt if a game like planescape had come in the same year, fallout 3 wouldnt even had a chance at winning RPG of the year.

Mediocre game, due to its game stopping bugs, easy, boring combat, shallow rpg elements, and awful ending.
Bad sequel because it pretty much ignores second ones ending and ignores some important facts of the lore/canon,butcheres game mechanics like SPECIAL/perks/traits and is a bad RPG.
I dont see how the praise is deserved.
 
I'm not surprised. Gamespot gives awards to some very shitty ass games. They are the last place I'd look to get good/honest reviews of games.
 
In my mind Avernum V deserves that spot, Jeff Vogel singlehandedly produces far better games than teams composed of a hundred individuals.
 
It's a good game, regardless of whether it's considered a true successor to Fallout.

Well earned, in my mind.
 
Fallout 3's storyline isn't "immersive," in part being immersion requires half-decent writing, which F3 lacks. Anybody who thinks Bethesda games have good writing has the standards of a 12-year-old, and that type of gamer is unfortunately a very dominant one in the gaming market, and they also happen to comprise the great majority of gaming journalism. (I once saw Oblivion on a top-ten list of games with the best dialogue; the list described the dialogue as "epic." I wanted to kick something.)

Fallout 3 is also up for PC game of the year, which is as predictable as its RPG of the year nomination, but far more disappointing since it's hardly a true PC game, having been pretty clearly designed with consoles in mind. Fallout 1/2 are good examples of PC gaming at its best, and they're not games that could be played on consoles. That's one of the true reasons that Bethesda insisted on ripping their action-FPS gameplay from Oblivion for F3, so they could tap the ever-lucrative market of 12-year-old Xbox owners.
 
And how does that not stop the other entries?
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::Rolls eyes:: Because the discussion of this post is entitled,

"Fallout 3 won Gamespot's award for RPG of the Year in their "Best and Worst of 2008" feature."
 
Mentats said:
And how does that not stop the other entries?
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::Rolls eyes:: Because the discussion of this post is entitled,

"Fallout 3 won Gamespot's award for RPG of the Year in their "Best and Worst of 2008" feature."
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My question was a depressingly sarcastic one. The joke being: what other "RPG"s were there?
 
Game of the Year? :shock: - A tragic evidence of how little competition there is right now. Personally I think Fable 2 at least had an interesting game world and script compared to the depressing brown environment without any engaging content that is Fallout 3.
 
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