Will Fallout 3 be remembered?

Will Fallout 3 be remembered in 10 years' time?

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Added "Yes, look at the sales numbers"

Regardless of people still playing it or even liking it in a decade, it'll still be remembered, just so developers can see that copy+pasting your last game, just with a new theme, can really hit the jackpot.

So yeah, maybe not remembered fondly, but at least remembered for the cash-cow it was.
 
'Look at the sales numbers'

Just because they shift alot of product, it does not mean it will be remembered. I'm thinking of all the EA trash exported every year (Football/Basketball/Hockey/etc/etc/etc) which are often just the same game tweaked for years running. Most people only remember their existance...

I know some people like them, but many of them (particulary console versions) are often bundled with sales of consoles. Go to a couple of car boot sales and you will be able to pick up enough EA Sports CDs to shingle your garage, at a low, low price.
 
´Propably, yes. Look at the sales numbers.´

It'll be remembered as a part of the classic Fallout series, even though I doubt it would become a classic on its own. Maybe if it'd be the first post-apocalyptic game ever made but it isn't - it had already been done better before.

Maybe, maybe not.
 
It sold a few million copies (give or take) so there is bound to be remembered by someone.

Although people will probably hate me for saying this.

Even the most fanatic person here will remember this game. Not because it so good, but they will remember it because of their dislike of it.

To at least one person I know (dunno if he's on here) it will be remembered as the game that officially screwed the franchise...

so yeah, good or bad, it will be remembered.
 
Rather not, yeah everyone will know that there was a fallout 3 but to remember it like previous Fallouts, heh I really doubt on that. 8-)

Nice game, fan shooting, but I didn't feel anything fallout-ish in it at all. Maybe I'm too oldschool fan. :)

I think modding will give it aditional fame. But it's not the most modded Bethesda game, Oblivion has a lot more mods for instance.
 
it has goty awards

and is on lists of greatest games of all time...so.... i guess it will

however i know very few people who still know what interplay is
 
It will always be remembered.



NV will probably make a lot of people stop caring about FO3 tough...
 
Fallout 3 to me will go the way of other games.

Its a big hit now but eventually it'll fade into obscurity as time goes by and as a fallout game it will be remembered by long time fans as not being one to put it simple.
 
Fallout 3, in the future, will be treasured as a digital relic, unflinchingly preserving the essence of low-functioning autistic programmer culture of early 21st century.

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Definitely. This game will definitely be remembered more than F1 and F2. There are SOOOO many more people who played F3 and don't know much about F1 and F2 than people who played F1 and F2 but not F3. F3 set a new standard for modern open world RPGs, which was really already set by Oblivion, which previously was Morrowind.... But Fallout 3 refined it to a new level, and I am sure New Vegas will do the same, to a much smaller scale though. People will remember it as what revived a great franchise, and I am sure that new Fallout games will keep coming out. It will probably go in a similar direction as TES series, which gives it a good lifespan if the games stay good. Regardless of what some of the players of the original gamers think of it, the majority will remember it, and remember it fondly.
 
NiRv4n4 said:
Definitely. This game will definitely be remembered more than F1 and F2. There are SOOOO many more people who played F3 and don't know much about F1 and F2 than people who played F1 and F2 but not F3. F3 set a new standard for modern open world RPGs, which was really already set by Oblivion, which previously was Morrowind.... But Fallout 3 refined it to a new level, and I am sure New Vegas will do the same, to a much smaller scale though. People will remember it as what revived a great franchise, and I am sure that new Fallout games will keep coming out. It will probably go in a similar direction as TES series, which gives it a good lifespan if the games stay good. Regardless of what some of the players of the original gamers think of it, the majority will remember it, and remember it fondly.
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I don't know about that, most of the games today are purely created for short term enjoyment. If you look back, alot of the newer games are popular for a little while but then end up fading out of the public eye. With games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 being bred for the general public, they lose the gleam that made the originals revolutionary. If Fallout 3 is remembered, it will simply be because it is attached to the first 2 like a tumour.
 
Yes, absolutely. Even if you believe Fallout 1/2 to be iconic of the series, the generation that started with Fallout 3 will always remember Fallout 3 as being "THE" Fallout title due to the number of people it reached and it's continued popularity, 2 years after release.
 
I only wish that some other company had bought the franchise, and who knows, would have been ported in a better engine, one better than bethesda's.
 
korindabar said:
Yes, absolutely. Even if you believe Fallout 1/2 to be iconic of the series, the generation that started with Fallout 3 will always remember Fallout 3 as being "THE" Fallout title due to the number of people it reached and it's continued popularity, 2 years after release.
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Two years ain't a long time. Do you really think that Fallout 3 will have a big community in ten years? With a lot of modders who basically redo the whole game, because the mechanics are so intriguing and the possibilities are so rich?
I don't think it will be remembered that much. It's like a summer hit in popmusic. For a short time nobody gets it out of his/her head, but then... Nobody cares. There are millions of other games pretty much just like it, quick, satisfactory gameplay, but without any depth. With New Vegas coming up, less people will care about Fallout 3, and then it's popularity will slowly fade away. "Game of the year" doesn't mean anything anymore.
Fallout 1/2 on the other hand are more unique in their gameplay and their world (Fallout 3 shares the latter, but in my opinion it can be considered a whole new game with no connections to the original series) and are still popular and will stay popular for several more years. New Vegas with it's connections to the original two games might even draw some more attention to them.
So, Fallout 3 won't survive. At least not it's main storyline. People will use it as a sandbox, but with NV, even that might fade.
 
Hassknecht said:
Two years ain't a long time. Do you really think that Fallout 3 will have a big community in ten years? With a lot of modders who basically redo the whole game, because the mechanics are so intriguing and the possibilities are so rich?
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Yes, I do. And actually, two years is a long time these days. Fallout 3 has consistently been in the "Top 20 played" games on both xbox and Windows live for that entire time. While two years doesn't seem long, you have to consider that these top 20 titles are new releases that either come and go as quickly as newer games come out or are multi-player games that see a lot of online time:

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/09/08/live-activity-for-week-of-aug-30.aspx

Fallout 3 is neither new or multi-player and is the only title on the list that holds its position purely on single player.

Hassknecht said:
I don't think it will be remembered that much. It's like a summer hit in popmusic. For a short time nobody gets it out of his/her head, but then... Nobody cares. There are millions of other games pretty much just like it, quick, satisfactory gameplay, but without any depth. With New Vegas coming up, less people will care about Fallout 3, and then it's popularity will slowly fade away. "Game of the year" doesn't mean anything anymore.
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That's an easy argument to flip around when you think about any classic '80s/'90s music that people continuously go back to listen to, many of which were "summer hits". If people reflect on the game, think back to it or in anyway remember it... well, that's the purpose of this thread isn't it? Will Fallout 3 be remembered?

Hassknecht said:
Fallout 1/2 on the other hand are more unique in their gameplay and their world (Fallout 3 shares the latter, but in my opinion it can be considered a whole new game with no connections to the original series) and are still popular and will stay popular for several more years.
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This isn't surprising, your view of Fallout as a whole comes as someone who exists on a primarily Fallout 1/2 fan oriented web site. Fallout 1/2 were decent games and did have the uniqueness/depth that you speak of... but they aren't as popular as you may believe. You will find many people who disagree, right here, on this website. Which perhaps is the point I'm getting at (in this paragraph). This place is a social vault. The outside world has largely forgotten about these titles. They still have their isolated fan base, which one could expect Fallout 3 to continue to have at a minimum.

Hassknecht said:
New Vegas with it's connections to the original two games might even draw some more attention to them.
So, Fallout 3 won't survive. At least not it's main storyline. People will use it as a sandbox, but with NV, even that might fade.
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That door swings both ways. New Vegas will likely draw more attention to Fallout 3 than 1 or 2.

If Fallout 1/2 are even half as popular as Fallout 3 in 10 years, I will come back and post pictures of me severing my own hand and eating it.
 
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