Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

This game brings me back... Looking back now, i can surelly say it's an above average game, the only thing that made it stand out was the fans from the previous and the budget they spent on writing and attention to detail. As for the graphics and gameplay, i'm sorry to say...it sucks, as i said , above average. So, for nostalgia Yes, for gaming goodness....a FAT NO. Back in the day, i spent countless hours walking the wasteland, but today i just can't find an excuse to install it. It's too soon for it to be an GOG and therefor being revisited, it's still in limbo, paying for being a beautiful disgrace back in the day.

My favourite game of all time... I was late to discover RPG's, starting with Oblivion. I liked it. And discovered mods, too. Then Shivering Isles came along, and threw me into moral quandry. I had no idea games could be that... involving. Fallout 3 came next, and it blew me away. Oblivion with guns. But so much more. Vast numbers of side quests, with variety. Some meaningful, some apparently not so. Some with unexpectedly severe consequences. It was so easy to delude myself into believing I knew what the consequences of my actions would be. But like SI, I was oh so wrong, so many times. My good intentions ending in a mushroom cloud or two... Yet it also had an altruistic main storyline that appealed. The "revelation" of what the code was, when asked for it at the very end, was an epiphany for me. I had not thought about the significance before, and yet, when that moment came, I instantly knew what it HAD to be. No other game has managed that kind of MASTERFUL pacing, slipping in the appropriate influences to guide me without my realising it, and "sense of achievement" when it worked. Not for me, anyway. For about 4 months, I spent about 3 hours per day, plus all weekends, in just one playthrough. And I never played it to full potential. Barely scratched it. Missed half the map. My bucket list includes "replay F3". For many, many months. Perhaps years. I still have a shrinkwrapped GOTY edition DVD for that very purpose. But now I can do it with a GOG version. Yay. Of course I'll buy it. This much entertainment, is superb value. And now in a digital DRM free download. No brainer. I have long since gone back to play the Fallout Classic and Fallout 2 classic, that used to be available here at GOG. I wanted to see why so many were criticising F3 over the originals, but didn't get the answer. They were great fun, had excellent, cheeky and humorous stories, but they just made me appreciate the heritage references in F3 all the more, not convert me to preferring the isometric oldies. For me, F3 was the perfect nod to the originals, but taking the series to an all-new level of greatness. I know not everyone sees it that way. Maybe it's the mods. But for me, F3 is the best RPG of all time.

Doesn't work on windows 10 as of Jan, 15, 2-19

Well, this was a miss. No chance in hell to run this, crashes as soon as I hit Play. Might get it on Steam, at least you can work around the issues there. But only in a sale. GOG dissapoints once again. Probably my last game I bought here.

+ Combat is fun. + Some of the bugs are really hilarious, like people in the vault having meter-long claws instead of fingers. - Horribly long tutorial with very long cutscenes and dialogs. - Crashed every 30 minutes or so and there was a lot of minor bugs. - Very linear and boring story. - A ton of immortal characters that not only don't need to be immortal but shouldn't be (E.g. there's a town inhabited only by children, and when you come there they don't want to let you in. But since they're all children you cant just kill them cuz they're immortal.). - VATS strikes with melee and unarmed can't be aimed at a specific body part, while shots can. - The map feels pretty empty, there's nothing in towns. - The SPECIAL stats don't really change gameplay very much, with Perception 1 you can still aim in VATS and hit, and shooting manually is exactly the same, - Very combat based, non-combat skills can be useful but you can't really beat the game with them.