So, uh, did anyone like it?

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BarackSays

It Wandered In From the Wastes
Any fans of the original games find Fallout 3 an enjoyable and genuinely fun sequel? After waiting a decade, I really found it a fine game. In fact, when I first got the game I couldn't believe I was actually holding it in my hands. It was that surreal.

I've posted this in numerous threads but haven't exactly gotten a response. I feel as if I'm the only "Fallout vet" who wasn't really disappointed. I really did have fun with it, and I'm on my 2nd playthrough now.

Am I alone? Am I "crazy"? Am I *insert adjective here*?
 
I liked some parts, disliked many more. Judging it as Fallout 3, I abhor the damned thing. Judging it as its own game, which it really is, it's still very flawed but not bereft of entertainment.
 
I agree. As a game on it's own, it's okay. Not great, but not entirely horrible. Flawed, but definitely enjoyable at times, though annoying at others. I hated the dungeon crawling feel to it, for example, but loved exploring the wasteland.

As a Fallout game it fails, majorly. As a game in general, it does decently well.
 
I enjoyed all of it until the very end... but that was my only problem with the game. Yeah, it's got some 'WTF' moments here and there but I'm actually taking my time with it now and doing loads of exploring.

I wish I could have recorded some of the kills I've made though... heh heh.

Bethesda did great considering the pressure and high expectations comming from the original fanbase. You can't expect it to be perfect... but I was more impressed than disappointed. But I kinda lowered my expctations when I heard about Bethesda making it... so maybe that helped.
 
As a game by itself I think it's ok, nothing near Fallout standard though. Odd for an RPG but no urge at all to replay it for me.
 
In Fallout 1, I liked the story most. Fallout 2 had an outstanding combat system. Fallout 3 has amazing graphics. They all have flaws and bugs, but the good stuff outweights the bad sides.

Maybe Fallout 3 doesn't earn the title "3". They should have called it Fallout: Big Trouble in little Washington or something.

But its definitely one of the 25 best games I played in my life.
 
For the most part I liked it. I have great reservations, however, that there are many unfinished, unpolished, or poorly executed aspects to the game and that FO3's many near-perfect reviews will foster what I feel in the game is mediocre (Stat/skill system, character animations, plot, dialogue options, shallow community interactions within the game, and more I can't remember).
 
Leon said:
I liked some parts, disliked many more. Judging it as Fallout 3, I abhor the damned thing. Judging it as its own game, which it really is, it's still very flawed but not bereft of entertainment.
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Well said. It's a good game, if you manage to not think of it as Fallout 3, which it is, though it isn't. :|
 
As for me, I only liked some minor parts of FO3 like the look of consoles with the sound of keys pressed, Vault exit door or the radio (but only for a couple of first hours). And that's really it. This abomination has nothing to do either with Fallout series nor with a role-playing game. The only thing that connects it with predecessors is the visualization of certain objects like refrigerators, power armours and vault boy. And I can feel to the spine that the latter is used much to widely thus making me think that they just forced the Fallout setting in by embedding hundreds of Vault-Tec posters, vault boys, nuka-cola plants and other shit. The combat system is one of the worst I have ever seen, the AI is terrible, even the GFX that Bethesda boasted about is mediocre. And most importantly, the dialogues and NPCs... Well everybody knows that they're both very shallow. Sounds like a company hired a 10-year sonny for line writing, but it's all been already said in other threads.

I haven't enjoyed the game even a little. Since the introduction sequence I kept talking to myself repeatedly "WTF? WTF? WTF is this?" while I encountered more and more absurd flowing from this production with a steady stream. I mean this game is so #ucking dumb and stupid that I just cannot tell. I was eagerly waiting for a decent sequel and for that I spent my money but certainly a sequel I did not get. After two days of playing I just can't force myself to finish it. And no, I cannot think about it and judge it as a non-Fallout game because it brutally raped my favourite RPG world.

I'm returning to Icewind Dale 2 adventure that I had to interrupt because of this crap.

Oh and I just stated my opinion so any FO3 lovers should not take any offence.

Regards.
 
It might be a decent game, but I don't want to give Beth a credit for using Fallout ranchise to make a shooter/something.

IMO, if you say this is a decent game, it also means it's a decent Fallout.

As a spin off, it's 4/10, as a sequal it fails 0/10.
 
Typhoon said:
Maybe Fallout 3 doesn't earn the title "3". They should have called it Fallout: Big Trouble in little Washington or something.

But its definitely one of the 25 best games I played in my life.
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Good God man, you must have missed a shitload of great games if this makes it into your top 25 list.

Deadman87 said:
Well said. It's a good game, if you manage to not think of it as Fallout 3, which it is, though it isn't. :|
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Which for me was rather easy to do, since I got exactly 0 Fallout vibe from it. Having completed it and, looking back, it's rather crappy. Not total shit like Oblivion, but nothing to write home about.
 
BarackSays said:
Any fans of the original games find Fallout 3 an enjoyable and genuinely fun sequel?
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It s an enjoyable and genuinely fun game, though not a genuine sequel: it lacks to much for that.
 
DexterMorgan said:
Typhoon said:
Maybe Fallout 3 doesn't earn the title "3". They should have called it Fallout: Big Trouble in little Washington or something.

But its definitely one of the 25 best games I played in my life.
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Good God man, you must have missed a shitload of great games if this makes it into your top 25 list.
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Yeah, I agree. And it would take more than one lorry to carry all this shitload. There are hundreds of games that could eat FO3 on breakfast just like that /snaps his fingers/. Hell, Lords of Midnight had me hooked for more time than this title.
 
I feel as if I'm the only "Fallout vet" who wasn't really disappointed.
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If you're a real Fallout veteran and fan, you don't buy or play this game in the first place.

That said, I am disappointed in a lot of members here who went all "Fuck it, I'm not buying this piece of crap and giving money to Bethesda" two or three months ago but who succumbed to it the minute the game hit the shelves.

I actually had a chance to play last week, a friend bought it and invited me over. I went over to his place, but all I did was smoke his pot and read some of his comics while he was having a go at it. I saw some of it, though, and in my opinion it looks horrible, but trust me: I'm biased. I'd still hate this abomination even if all of you told me it was a worthy sequel and Bethesda had done one hell of a good job.

You're all nuts for donating your money to the devil's workshop (Bethesda). All you got in return for a day's wages (or more) was a dumbed down, simplified, over-commercialized, molded-for-the-masses piece of junk that will be largely forgotten in two, maybe three years.

Just sayin'. Move along now.
 
I actually was looking forward to this games' release, for so long. At least, i was looking forward to the 3rd installment in the Fallout series. But. I also thought that
'Fuck, after the last POS that this franchise has been a mother to; there is no possible way i could not enjoy this.'
I mean... I liked Oblivion the first time i played it, it'll be better than that.
I'm disappointed because, what, 3? years ago? I played Half-life 2, and it was a FPS. And it was better than this. I'm disappointed because, i played Oblivion, and expected more this time.
I'm disappointed, not because i love the first fallout games (fallout + fallout 2) and because this game tacked a 3 to the end and disregarded everything that i enjoyed about the others in the series.
But because the game wasnt released as 'Some Apocalyptic World' and sent to the bargain bin.

And i still would have bought that!!! Just for the genre, and so would you.

I waited 2 years for STALKER. And i enjoyed that game, buggy as hell as it was, more, as a successor to the fallout series than i will ever enjoy Fallout3.

This game is shit.
Because. It is named as a sequel, but clearly doesnt follow the fallout canon. Understandable. yes. Excusable. no.
Because. Its a SHIT fps. Understandable. No. Excusable, No.
Because. It pretends to be an RPG when it's just a character with a gun plus.. fuck me 'dialog?' Yes. I love you. No. I hate you.
And the worse thing? I never saw a; 'duh, I like eating mice.' part. why?
See. ref. this game is shit.

I can't go on typing any further, it upsets me so much that the only reason i haven't uninstalled the game is because of the desktop icon. I hate myself for it.
Fuck being a glittering gem of hatred, be a white hot fucking ball of rage.
Fuck Bethsoft, Fuck them up their stupid arseholes.
 
Played it for 6 hours, got bored to tears and uninstalled it. Now i got back to playing Arcanum and i have to say, it's such a fresh breath of air compared to F3.

I will try it again only after it recieves some love from the modding community.
 
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