Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Picked this up on sale, it wont boot.

Ive been trying to install through different routes and tried different fixes and it still refuses to launch.

While I was initially put off by the desolate look of the Capital Wasteland, where piles of garbage and ruin rival the amount of the very soil under your feet, the game actually grew on me pretty quickly. The strength of Fallout 3 is in its writing, both in its story and characters. You’re a kid raised in a vault built to survive a nuclear war. You speedrun through your childhood and when you’re 19 your dad leaves and you follow him to find out what’s going on. The game isn’t too sophisticated by RPG standards, but it did take me a few restarts to figure out how I actually wanted to play (luckily, I was still under 10 hours at that point). I had to rely on guides to experience everything the Capital Wasteland had to offer. As is the case in most Bethesda games your items deteriorate from use, requiring occasional repairs, and the whole world levels up alongside you. I would say the game is too easy, but, to be fair, my use of guides might have played a role in that. This GOTY edition comes with every DLC included. All of them follow the same formula: they take you on a several hour-long adventure to a separate isolated area and reward you with overpowered items. Broken Steel at least continues the main story and allows you to go on playing after the end of the base game main questline. I’d say the game would’ve been better off without the other four. And of course we can’t forget the mods. No Bethesda RPG is complete without them. There aren’t that many of them for Fallout 3, but enough to cover most needs. Fallout 3 is sitting in a pretty sweet spot - it’s already a fully voiced 3D game that has so far been spared the fate of an unnecessary remaster, and does not feature the annoying radiant quests that plague more recent Bethesda games. I’m glad I played it. It was a lot of fun.

**Intel HD Graphic cards** Hey guys, Haven't had a chance to play the game yet but am sure it's going to be awesome, however you might be a little disappointed if your using an Intel graphics card running Windows 10 or earlier. The game simply won't play so I found a solution and well thought i would share with you all. Well here it is: 1. Download this file at http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/download/82734 (Fallout 3 Intel Bypass) 2. Extract the file that you downloaded 3. Copy the file that says "d3d9.dll" and paste it in your GOG.com game folder under Fallout 3 game 4. Now copy the file that says "Fallout" into Documents -> My Games -> Fallout 3 Or if that was to confusing you can watch the below video on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PW6K-7mbx8 I hope this helps anyone that was having the same issue as me :)

Don't believe the reviews that say that New Vegas is better. This is Fallout. New Vegas was crap, dumb plot, dumb corridors and limited gameplay. This one, however has everything fallout had. Sure, the plot itself isn't very original but it's everything on the side that makes it so interesting. They found a way to have the random encounters by putting stuff out of any road you should be taking...you do randomly come across fun/weird/dangerous stuff but not in a way that makes you not want to wander around a bit. In NV, if you wander around, you're dead. Simple as that. And they really got the tone right and the atmosphere of the fallout games. Classic game.