Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Amazing.

Nuance is the word of the day because Fallout 3 lacks it in bundles. World, characters, choices, factions, and gameplay all thrive with nuance. I will explain how much nuance and care went into each of these topics in Fallout 3 as someone who has played 1 thru NV. Bethesda had the task of making a 2D world 3D and ironically made it 1D. Fallout is set in the future but one with an alternate technological history with its own strengths and weakness compared to our own. An example is a Robobrain which has clunky treads, a box frame body, air-duct-tubing arms, a brain in a jar, and wields a shotgun that makes its tube arms awkwardly contort to fire the gun. It is a quintessential 1950s sci-fi robot and would be called an "android" saturated with sarcasm. Fallout 3 has androids that are indistinguishable from human beings, and the owner of an android has to comb the capital wasteland to find it since it's practically human. There were AI characters in the other Fallout games, but they were either computers the size of a room or a hollow mouth piece that would fail the Turing Test like a Robobrain trying to use stairs. Characters, choices, and factions mostly fit into two camps: slaving, civilian-killing, sadistic, fascist meanies >:( and altruistic, cleansing, empathetic, future-thinking, good guys! Side quests offer some degree of perspective but end up hollow. You can choose to get the residents of Tenpenny tower to allow the ghouls they despise to live there but the ghouls are just as bigoted and kill all the residents. You can choose to spare, kill, or negotiate with the self-convinced vampires, but you save or doom a camp of 6 non characters. The one thing Fallout 3 excels at is looting. The game will genuinely make you feel like a scrapper picking up junk and finding the right person to peddle your junk to for a profit. Valuables are hidden beneath, behind, and in the last place you'd look. If you don't understand these issues then buy this 5 star game now!!

The download and install button wouldn't work, it claims it can't connect to GOG.com and to check my internet connection. My connection is fine, hence buying it online and trying to downlaod it. Tried the offline installer, downloaded that, and it installed actually, but the game crashes on launch. Tried downloading the galaxy client to see if it would help, but cannot download galaxy due to the same error. "Cannot connect to GOG.com. Check your internet connection." I love the idea of GoG. I came after so much trouble with the steam version of this game, and everyone saying this version simply works. For me, it simply does not work. Very deeply sad about that.

As the title says. The game is great. Exploration, interaction, the fantastic characters you run into. A true joy to experience. There was an outcry when fans learned they had moved away from the isometric view of the previous titles - and I can understand it. In this case the result ended up being a great game anyway. The style and mood of the old games are certainly intact. The brilliant (dark) humor is also still going strong. The only downside, in my opinion, is that too much of the game is spent exploring subways and vaults. It got a bit tedious after the 20th one. 4/5 from me. Worth every bottlecap.

Flat out doesn't work on windows 10