I finished Fallout 3, these are my thoughts (Spoiler full)

Nice post Rabban i agree most of that

And most of i hated that Beth had everything to make a great game... Fallout 1 and 2 was more like for grown ups.... but Fallout 3 is so naive and stupid... are they really so stupid there and think like little kids ... go figure
 
Hmm, I just had a weird bug where a rad scorpion continued spurting blood waaay after its death. I came back in an hour, and it was still bleeding. damn.
 
can i just say that i agree with 100% of what the OP said, do me a favor and email ALL of that to bethesda, they're so fucking stupid that their slick FPS rapage of my favorite series should (in a perfect world) make them feel like they Wronged the gaming community[/spoiler]
 
Eh, to actually make a point, we'd need a gaming magazine to say, "Fallout 3 is actually not that Goddamned good." But whoever writes that article is going to get their ass fired faster than throwing one's self into a furnace. As 1up.com said, Fallout 3 is a "hugely ambitious game that doesn't come around very often," and one would "be a fool not to play it and enjoy the hell out of it." We're all fools then. Our only hope is that someone here works at a gaming magazine and can slip past the editors an article that properly criticizes Fallout 3.
 
I also finished the game recently and was very disappointed too. I totally agree with your points mentioned, the towns are ridiculously small, and yes I sure as hell wanted to kill the occupants of Little Lamplight. It doesn't make sense that no one reacts to the sight of your apparel which was a neat feature of the old games.

I console commanded my way to different karma levels and gender to see the different permutations in endings and realized there's only a few different endings. For some reason ending with an evil character left me with a scene showing Rivet City's citizens dead (even though I played a good character and hadn't killed anyone but the guy after the Android).

What happened to different endings based on what I did through the adventure like killing Harold or making his heart stronger or stay the same?? I thought this would be worth a mention at least. Nothing I did in the game mattered. I spent 60 hours to find out that what I did in 40 hours with side quests amounted to nothing. I think the Temple of the Union quest was the only thing shown in the slide show at the end with the Lincoln Statue's head back in its place.

It's pretty clear they made the game to do a great first impression and then rushed through the rest. It was almost like their intention was to just get great reviews.

On another note: I haven't played FO2 in 8 years yet I still remember the queen bitch that ran that vault city. I reloaded a number of games trying to figure out the most satisfactory way to end her life god damn. Memorable characters/towns made the game for me. Now I have to reinstall FO2 and go through the game with the restoration patch I noticed in the download section.
 
mygo said:
It was almost like their intention was to just get great reviews.
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I think they may have just done that - Oblivion and Fallout 3 both give the impression that they were made to be fun for the first 1-2 hours, which gives them the reviews, then blow up in the consumer's face.

It's practically a con, but I can almost admire it from a business point of view. Almost...
 
my biggest gripe is in FO 2 we have evidence of a GECK working fine, yet in FO3 they mysteriously do not work...
 
Correction, 2 GECKs. You get 2 fully functioning GECKs in Fallout 2. Which I suppose increases the mystery
 
Of course FO2 was across the country on the west coast. Maybe Harold didn't spread the word when he trekked across the country?
 
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