Why would you play Fallout 3 today?

therealyesman said:
The problem about Fallout 3's replayability is that it's cartoonish evil.

I wanted to play as an evil person, but rather than the 'the end justifies the mean', it's 'lol why you should do it? It's evil!'

When I sided with Caesar, it was evil (slavery, sexism, bla bla bla,) there were an actual point to it. Caesar explained very well why the NCR can't do anything good in the Mojave or in any way, why they aren't democratic, which actually convinced me to join him after I planned on a Mr. House play through. You can be a c*** in the game, but there were good reasons to join the evil side.

Now, it's about Fallout 3's evilness.

Blow up Megaton... or don't. Why should I blow up Megaton? Is it a danger, does it do anything wrong? Nope. The master mind of the explosion Tenpenny is like 'Because I don't like it.'. What?

Join the Enclave.... no wait you can't. There is one faction, the Brotherhood of Steel which really should be 'love for technology, don't give a shit about anyone else!' mentallity, but in Fallout 3 they are angels, coming to save us all from the mutants (who are humans!!!!!!!!!!!! green humans and has no say in Fallout 3, though being the second antagonist. (why is there antagonists in this game, it's and RPG. You decide the god damn antagonist)).

The only way you can join the enclave is by exploding the citadel, for no reason, or destroy the water by posioning it. President Eden has no philosphy, nothing to say, but to be evil... for evil's sake.

This game got be introduced to the series, but it ended up being my second least favorite (i have not played Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel yet, and don't plan on it,) so it's pretty much like:

1: Fallout New Vegas
2: Fallout 2
3: Fallout 1
4: Fallout 3
5: Fallout 4

I shall play Fallout Tactics at one point though.

//I know this was a rant, and kinda went off topic, but I really needed to say this. Thanks for your time.
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You're not missing much with BoS to be honest.
I find the came very frustrating and the controls play against you way too much.

Tactics seems like the better option spin off, I've not played much of it but I have about 3 copies of it (It's a long story) so I should play it soon.

As for an antagonist, I'll disagree, 1&2 had a clear antagonist in each of them, but it was more on how you dealt with them that mattered.
 
Millim said:
You're not missing much with BoS to be honest.
I find the came very frustrating and the controls play against you way too much.

Tactics seems like the better option spin off, I've not played much of it but I have about 3 copies of it (It's a long story) so I should play it soon.

As for an antagonist, I'll disagree, 1&2 had a clear antagonist in each of them, but it was more on how you dealt with them that mattered.
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I didn't feel that. The Master was really not a huge thing until the end game, and by then I was more curious about him than anything. You could also join him for a really sick end scene, which made me feel evil (and that evilness had a purpose, just like the Unity did.)
 
Desperation. Though with how badly optimised it is for modern systems and what you need to do in order to get it to run, I'd rather not.

Only way I think I could ever play it is via the TTW mod (and that's only by accidentally accessing 3's content rather than being on purpose).
 
Fallout tactics, a game made by an Australian subcontractor that mostly make cell phone games today, that had less time of development than initially agreed, that shows a better understanding of the lore than the multi-billions company that actually bought the IP, has the best combat system of the whole series ( and environment interactions), has more endings than fallout 3, despite not being an rpg and not being marketed as an rpg, nor as a sequel. (And your character build actually matters)

It doesn't compete with fo1, fo2 or fonv, not that it was even intended to, but it is much better than fo3, fo4, shelter or bos.
 
naossano said:
as more endings than fallout 3, despite not being an rpg and not being marketed as an rpg, nor as a sequel. (And your character build actually matters)
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It has more endings than Fallout 4, given that 3/4 of the endings to 4 gave the exact same ending clip.
 
You mean that you has the same ending no matter which of the 4 factions do you side with ?
 
To remind how bad fo3 was?

I'm currently replaying Fallout 1,2 and NV
and I think I'll replay fo3 to remind how bad it was.
 
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