Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

+ One big continuous open world. Loading screens appear only when entering major cities or buildings. + Very atmospheric and immersive world to explore. + Every NPC’s are really living in that world. They follow their own daily routine from morning to night. You’ll meet them, talk to them and even remember their names. + Good writing and a touching story. It is fun to talk to NPC’s and trying out different dialogue options to see the outcome. + Freedom in almost every aspect. A quest can be completed in many ways. You can almost kill anybody you meet (even an entire town). You can be a good guy, a bad guy or have a mix of both. You can play as an action game or you can play stealthily. You can choose to play in 1st person or 3rd person. You can roam anywhere you want but... + Enemies don’t scale. So if you wander off to the wrong area during early levels, you will die easily. + Many types of interesting enemies. Some are scary. + Graphics. + Voice acting. + VATS + Mods. A lot of them. + Galaxy News Radio and... + Three Dogs. +- Progression system and level cap (max level 30). The progression system is fun and addictive (with a lot of useful perks to choose) but I personally prefer Elder Scroll’s progression system where you get better at what you use. This way you can shape your preferred character with more flexibility and can even change your play style anytime. That’s why it is not a negative, it’s something that I have a mixed feeling. +- Dynamic day & night cycle. This game has day and night cycle but it is purely for cosmetic effect and doesn’t change or affect gameplay. - A.I’s are stupid sometimes, especially if you play stealthily. (Mods fix this) - Stealth gameplay could be better. Most area design doesn’t encourage stealth gameplay. No non-lethal option either. (Mods fix this) - Crafting options are very few. (Mods fix this) - No iron sight aiming in 1st person. (Mods fix this)

I appreciate Bethesda bringing games here, but should be able to use GOG connect.

This game was enjoyable in 2008, after ten years of Fallout drought. But, right now, after New Vegas... why the hell play this game? Linear main quest, mediocre elvel-design, AWFUL scenario (vampires in Fallout, really Bethesda?). Play New Vegas.

Fallout 3 was a disappointment to a lot of Fallout fans. Which didn't matter a great deal because it appealed to a new generation of Fallout fans, who think Fallout is all about guns, Nuka Cola and "moral" choices. Fallout 3 was by no means a bad game, a number of the side quests were interesting, and felt somewhat faithful to older Fallout games, D.C looks great and it's incredibly immersive, even if the world is poorly designed. I'm trying to think of the perfect way to describe why Fallout fans were disappointed, but the best I can come up with is: Fallout 3 was stupid. When I say "stupid" I genuinely mean it, I don't mean it as a meaningless insult, I mean the design and the writing is without a doubt, stupid. Fallout 3 was made by a developer that think its audience would be stupid, and they built the game around that core philisophy. The plot, the factions, the characters, they're all incredibly simple. The Enclave are generic bad guys, whose only human moment comes from forks dropped through a grate. The rest of the time they might as well be bricks with guns. The supposed "moral" choices in the game aren't difficult, you don't take a moment to weigh the benefits of nuking Megaton or not nuking Megaton. If you do nuke Megaton there are no consequences as quest essential NPCs like Moira amazingly survive, because Bethesda don't trust the players to remember to do a quest before killing an NPC acciedentally or otherwise. The world scales to you, the player, making sure you never really progress as a character, and also making sure you're never really challenged either. The game holds a safe average between easy and hard, to make it as uninteresting as possible. It's insulting frankly. Whats worse is this philisophy carried onto Fallout 4. It's spreading across the entire industry, and has been for years. But it's apparently working. So I guess I better just start smashing my head against a wall.

Fallout 3 isn't really Fallout, it just uses that name while shitting on a franchise. It's one of the most retarded games I know, with things like: Teddy bear rocker launchers, a teddy bear to the chest makes the guy's legs fall off, VATS which not only is boring, but has no strategical value like in previous Fallouts, combined with sucky FPS, Stupid VATS camera, Stupid AI of enemies who either stand in one place, or charge at you mindlessly, or go back and forth like retards and crouch when you start shooting teddy bears at them, weapon creation from completely incompatible things, Dialogue options: Your dad's dead/Sorry, your dad is dead./Your dead is ant food, bad humour (letter in the mailbox saying that a family has been accepted into vault, but you see the family skeletons hugging each other in the house), Gameplay which consists of running around killing things every few steps, Merging perks with traits, Gaining perks every level, VD worshipping a bomb, no C&C, Unkillable children, Orcs instead of mutants, Zombies instead of ghouls, Radiation poisoning in water after 150 years, while the nuke explodes 3 feet away from you and you get nothing, no Morgan music, Retarded setting and locations (building a town on nuclear bomb), Stimpacks that heal crippled legs or head, you can still shoot with a Fatman - heaviest weapon, while your arm is crippled, Possibility to decorate your house, Mini mushroom clouds, Exploding cars which cause chain reaction and mini mushroom clouds. Highlighting opponents when we have VATs button pushed in, Quest compass, No character creation like in previous Fallouts, i.e. no SPECIAL, No dialog options for retarded characters (so there's no point in playing intelligent character since you will have most dialog options at hand despite your character having 1 INT), Hookers won't sleep with you just because your character is 19, Ants spewing fire just so they could add originality and their own 'brilliant' ideas... And here I hit the limi