That post made me lol. I enjoyed F03 more than Oblivion, too, but that's not a compliment now is it? Did you really complete FO and Fo2 or did you just say that to give yourself some respect and credibility? Please do not compare FO3 combat with the previous games from the series as Failout battles provided absolutely no challange for the player even on very hard. "game is not LINEAR AT ALL" another sentence thad made me laugh hard. The game shows you exactly what direction you're supposed to go, what creature/person/alien(lol) kill, what computer/thing activate.
You're right Failout is nothing like jRPG. jRPGs sometimes bless us with interesting story and characters (rarely but it does happen, OK?) whereas FO3 dialogue and story suck balls. Don't even get me started on the crappy replayability of the product.
Running into Enclave Patrol or Frankie Horrigan in FO and FO2 was what made the wasteland feel dangerous and real. The fact that you point out "great graphics" is hopeless. Well what can I say, **3 fails both at being an FPS and RPG. The only things that make it partially bearable is some mods but you're screwed anyway if you completed the game without them because you'll be bored as hell the next time.
Yes, I did really play and complete Fallout 1+2. I admit playing FO 3 on very hard was still easy, but only once you had gotten to level 15-20. I stopped because I got tired of simply holding the trigger down longer than usual which made combat too silly. What exactly is bad about the graphics in 3? Being able to see an enemies skull scattered on the floor? The mud on your boots when wearing leather armor? The reflection of the sun off of your power armor and assault rifle? Although the same cannot be said for the animation, the graphics are gorgeous. I suppose seeing a blue shape with what appears to be two skinny protrusions (legs?) and a brown circle for a face is better isn't it? I play FO 3 on the 360 so no mods and I've made several characters and I still play the game.
To BR4ZIL: I took the Bonus Move, and Bonus Rate of Fire perks with the Fast Shot trait and I was able to do exactly as I said you could. Dunno about you.
I'm sure that "probably 75%" is the result of you not having explored through the game and not caring to take notice of what was around you.
Uh because Bethesda does the same 1st person perspective with the rest of it's games? People like feeling in control, not like they are guiding puppets around. And sorry man, I'm not seeing how you can "Assume the bullet missed" when you aim for the head in Fallout 1+2 and text notifies you of how much damage you inflicted.
Both of you: The game allows you to go and do whatever you want to do right out of the vault; we call that non-linear. I'm playing a hermit character right now that doesn't buy from merchants and lives in a subway tunnel without even doing most of the quests. Nowhere does it force you to follow the story, if you do so and complain that you know where to go because of it then that's your problem. What are they supposed to do, make players confused and lost? If you guys have such a problem with linearity then don't play Fallout 1 or 2. Like that game doesn't tell you where to go or what to do? "Go find a water chip, go kill these scorpions in this cave, go repair this machine, help either me or the crimelord or have nothing else to do in this town, etc".
Back to BR4ZIL: Played it with all the gear I had available, a pistol. You saying that running up to super mutants unarmored in fallout 3 is playing it realistically?
Lacks dialogue where? Did you miss the hundreds of conversations with the inhabitants of Fallout 3 and dozens of speech challenges? Wtf? Just because there's no cutscene with piano music and dynamic lighting in the background you can't say there's no dialogue.
There is indeed a difference playing evil/good characters. Evil or Good choices you make will close or open doors in future quests and can even change locations permanently, you will only be able to recruit a companion that agrees with your moral alignment, you will be given different rewards or no reward at all after quests depending on whether your actions were good or evil, if you see a merchant/wasteland doc/hunters/wastelanders you can kill them for supplies if you are evil; you can't do that and maintain a good karma level. I sho does rest mah case.
And if you play the GOTY edition with the new add-ons you will find the new enemies are surprisingly challenging; forcing you to set traps or take cover while fighting. And the random encounters are much more than people running up to you asking you to disarm their slave collars. There are wandering hit squads, Enclave vertibird drops, UFO's exploding overhead, and much more. You can search wiki for all the randoms in the game if you are interested.
That's my 10 cents.
