Posted August 25, 2015
Yeah, the story and RPGness of Fallout 3 can best be described as terrible (in my opinion). The story contradicts itself on a regular basis, is full of plot holes, plot railroads, annoying characters and general poor universe building especially in relation to prior established lore. Quests are generally uninteresting as well.
As a run around and fight marauders and mutants in an open sandbox simulator, it's quite decent enough. That's sorta how I feel about all of the Bethesda games to be honest, fun big open worlds to go and explore and fight stuff in, but not a lot of attention to detail or interesting design choices, and there is a general lack of interesting quests and decent writing.
I've written about my experiences with Fallout 3 on the forums before, as earlier this year I went back and beat the main quest. I hated it the first go round due to the awful writing and world building. The second time I treated it as a sandbox that happened to have quests, and I enjoyed it a great deal more.
PS: Tunnel Snakes Rule!
As a run around and fight marauders and mutants in an open sandbox simulator, it's quite decent enough. That's sorta how I feel about all of the Bethesda games to be honest, fun big open worlds to go and explore and fight stuff in, but not a lot of attention to detail or interesting design choices, and there is a general lack of interesting quests and decent writing.
I've written about my experiences with Fallout 3 on the forums before, as earlier this year I went back and beat the main quest. I hated it the first go round due to the awful writing and world building. The second time I treated it as a sandbox that happened to have quests, and I enjoyed it a great deal more.
PS: Tunnel Snakes Rule!