Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

I have a soft spot for Fallout 3. It was my first Bethesda game, what got me into modding along with Dragon Age: Origins and, honestly, their best world to date. Sure, the morality system is paper-thin, the main quest is generic and you can tell they tried way too hard to please everyone, bringing back everything from older games rather than trying something new. Still, the Capital Wasteland is great to explore, especially the massive metro system, and the combat is fine for its time. This was the last game before Bethesda went all-in on the awful MMO-style radiant quests. DC feels lived in, featuring memorable locations and side quests without just being a big empty world for the sake of it. It's no masterpiece and still can't compare to Fallout 1 as my favourite in the series, but 3 is enjoyable overall. I haven't played it in many, many years, but now it works right out of the box, too.

completed it twice, totaling 64 hours. There's nothing to say about the main task, it's simple and brief. The wasteland scenery in Washington is very beautiful. A few DLCs are worth playing with, but it's important to note the following points. 1. It is best to save a secondary archive for the alien DLC, as it is really easy to encounter bugs that can cause stuck missions to fail. 2. Before taking the ferry to the new DLC map, it is best to complete other DLCs and obtain good weapons before going, as the damage value design of this DLC is very violent. (Gauss rifles, Brotherhood cannons that fire Incre, extraterrestrial cannons, and other weapons will make combat relatively easier) PS: The location where Pittsburgh retrieved its equipment is in a box on the ground in the entrance room of the arena

I remember the original Fallout (FO) and Fallout 2 (FO2) form 1997 and 1998. Old school Isometric RPGs. Loved them both. So, I was very skeptical. Loved Fallout 3 (FO3). Huge open world. DC and the wasteland were rendered excellently. Good story line which seemed to flow well. The way the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave had a natural enmity was well done in my opinion. Lots of side quests with many different locations to explore and NPCs to interact with. Most of the ones you receive from Moria were great/hilarious. All of these side quests really help out to flesh out this world and its lore. Excellent crafting system. Loved the Shishkebab and the Railway Rifle. Lots of equipment/weapons to find/take off of corpses, like the 5mm Minigun, the Gatling Laser and others from the original games and new items as well. Having "named" or unique items was an excellent touch as well. Power Armor was done well. It is certainly nice to have and use but does not make you invincible. Very good balance. And you have to have power armor training to use it as well. Wise move Bethesda. (Hint: do Operation Anchorage as early as you can. I did it at level 7-ish). The DLCs were great. The Broken Steel DLC added an excellent ending as well. My only complaint was the constant need to repair weapons and armor. Yeah, I get it, most weapons and armor you are picking up are around 200+ years old but it got onerous when you had to repair even your Named/Unique weapons after what I felt were a relatively small amount of using them. (Thank heavens for the bugged Winterized T-51B Power Armor). In conclusion, I set my standards low and was VERY happily surprised. Nice work Bethesda. And thank you GOG, I got this along with Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4 on sale.

Firstly I’d say that I love this game. Fallout 3 was my first RPG and I’ve invested hundreds of hours playing it on xbox 360 over the years. The fact that I love this game so much is the only reason I stuck with it and didn’t ask for a refund sooner. This game is terribly optimised for Windows 10 users. I had heard that the GOG version was better than Steam and worked straight away, however it would still crash constantly when trying to start a new game despite trying multiple fixes. Personally I would suggest to anyone that bought this game to download TTW but that would also require New Vegas (a great game itself) but you shouldn’t have to purchase a whole other game just to be able to play this one. Installing TTW can also be very confusing for those who are not very experienced in modding and on top of that, I had to download NVAC to stop it from constantly crashing to desktop every time I entered combat. Fortunately, the game appears to be fairly stable now but it required a massive amount of time and effort to finally get working (far more than what is suitable). As I said above, I love this game so the effort it took was eventually worth it for me, but future buyers should be aware that it may require a tremendous amount of effort and hours of patience and more money just to get it running.

Fallout 3 ist einfach ein sehr gutes Spiel, das Ödland der Hauptstadt Washington DC ist einfach eines meiner absoluten Lieblings Spiele Welten, in der es mehr als genug zu entdecken gibt. Fallout typisch gibt es auch eine Menge schwarzen Humor der die sehr bedrückende Atmosphäre des Spiels ein wenig auflockert, aber nie zu viel das es zum Klamauk wird. Die Musik im Spiel ist auch perfekt gewählt, sowohl der Soundtrack des Spiels als auch die Lieder passen perfekt und unterstützen die Stimmung. Die Story ist vielleicht noch mit einer der größten Kritikpunkte des Spiels. Ich persönlich find sie durchaus gut, ist aber jetzt nix was einem jetzt Umhauen tut. Da hätte es ruhig etwas interessanteres sein dürfen. Auch das Gegner mit leveln ist eine unschöne Sache. Trifft man Anfangs noch auf einfache Gegner Typen, sind es zum Schluss je nach Gebiet sehr nervige Gegner. Grafisch ist das Spiel natürlich nicht mehr auf dem Zahn der Zeit, ist ja auch schon ca. 10 Jahre alt, wirkt aber dank seines Artstyles sehr stimmig und man gewöhnt sich schnell dran. Für mach nach wie vor eins der besten Spiele.