Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

This game is incredible as a complete game not comparing it to the older fallouts 1 and 2 and new Vegas in terms of roleplaying. This game has great choice elements based on karma unlike reputations and in its own right is a masterpiece. The reviews giving this a 1/5 are completely bias considering a 1/5 game would be so bad that it’s unplayable. This game has a very long play time and you do make choices that impact what people say about you and there are consequences in some quests. Sure this game isn’t as “rpg” as new Vegas but some people may find to much rpg elements to take away from the experience of an open world post apocalypse game with stronger rpg elements then most games in non isometric format. Again the hate is from people who seriously hate Bethesda and anything to do with the newer fallouts and that’s a fact. I recommend playing this game with an open mind and you will love it if you play this expecting new Vegas you won’t get it since these are two completely different games by two different developers. Also any fallout elitists reading this grow up sincerely all the people who don’t spend all their time on Twitter complaining about everything wrong with Bethesda games.

When I 1st bought this game, I had Windows XP 32bit. It played GREAT! Since then I haven't been able to play at all. Why some simple modification cannot be made to adapt this to a 64bit system I do not pretend to know. I even reinstalled a 32 bit system, and it still will not play past the launcher, it will get as far as the introductory screen but no farther! Why they can't come up with their own version of a 64bit to 16/32bit player / converter that functions consistently I do not know. It should only require a 32 bit virtual XP 32bit machine as a subset of what ever 64bit system is in use now.

I played several hundred hours of this game back about 15 years ago, and wanted to go back for nostalgia purposes. It wasn't a wholly terrible experience, I had some fun exploring the city, but ultimately, games have moved on from this game so massively that it's difficult to go back. Also I would advise not to play Operation Anchorage or Mothership Zeta. They are combat focused DLCs for a game whose combat is at best functional. Decided to give up on the game without finishing the main quest, or all the DLCs. My interest just kind of petered out after about 60 hr. Which was decent and not a complete waste of time. Did some of my favourite quests and now it's time to move on. New Vegas maybe. As a review, the writing is really lackluster as is the combat, but there is a charm in the atmosphere that this game sets. I suppose that must have been what hooked me to this game so many years ago. Don't go in expecting to be blown away by the writing. It is what it is. It's a good game when taken as a whole, but has deep flaws, which Bethesda never really fixed in subsequent games. But, as I said it has it's charms. I was quite disappointed, however, at the music on the radio not working. It stutters when playing off the PipBoy, though not if the radio is in the environment. The music was a big deal about the atmosphere of this game, and I wish GOG would fix it. Other than that it was quite stable on my 10-year-old windows 10 machine, so that's a plus.

I've loved this game for years. But I can't get it to play. At this point it's grayed out on Install, no option to launch. Tried here, tried Steam, no dice. At this point I'm thinking about just getting an Xbox to play this again. If you can get it to play, good on you. It's a tasty game, just wander around and find stuff. It's a wonderful little world to wander, the stories are lame to fair. I don't know if it's some hardware limitation or just that it's so buggy, but I know plenty of other people who've gotten it to play for them.

do not buy and no idea why its even on gog or stream when it does not work