Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

So here's the thing, the game plays perfectly, for about 40 minutes to about 1 1/2 hours. Then it hard crashes your computer, forcing you to restart it. Because of this your saved data sometimes fails to sync to GOG Galaxy properly. I've had to redo about an hour's worth of questing, that's not the worst part. During one of the hard crashes, my computer did a full reboot and locked me into a temporary profile, which I had to look to Youtube and use some pc trickery to solve. Here's the worst of it: Before I realized I was locked into a temporary account, I played about another hour's worth of the game. When I was able to get back into my actual account GOG Galaxy wasn't able to sync the save data from the temp profile. So out of 5 hours of playing, I will have to redo 2 of them in total. "I can play fallout right out of the box!" My ass. I already own Fallout 3 on steam but bought this version because SO many people said it worked perfectly, which just isn't the case. I feel a bit bamboozled not gonna lie.

Hot on the heels of classic "The Elder Scroll IV: Oblivion", Bethesda gave us another banger: Fallout 3. Is it basically Oblivion with a post apocalyptic aesthetic? Yep, and that's a damn good thing! Like Oblivion, the real meat of Fallout 3 is the huge open world and swath of content. The coolest experiences in Fallout 3 lie AWAY from the main story. Also like Oblivion, the main story in Fallout 3 is rather throw-away. Fortunately, that 'swath of content' I mentioned is exponentially MORE of Fallout 3 than the main story. From a huge explorable world to massive customization to tons of side quests to variety of skills to unlock and tinker with to hidden places off the beaten path, Fallout 3 excels in its content. My biggest gripe with Fallout 3 has to be its combat. Ranged combat isn't as fun as in Fallout: New Vegas, but better than Oblivion. Fortunately, the VATS system keeps combat fun enough and lends Fallout 3 a bit of strategy. Hardware requirements for Fallout 3 were fair upon its 2009 release, and pretty moderate for 2017. A mid-ranged GPU, such as my Nvidia GT 720 ($40), chews Fallout 3 up and spits it out without breaking a sweat. With the GOG release of Fallout 3 including all the bonus content at only $20 and DRM-free, Fallout 3 is an insta-buy.

Played fine for many hours then windows update and all I get is Performance and security issues with windows now. Will not run and no update that I can find to fix it. Very sad.

GOG is amazing. They have a version of Fallout 3 that does not freeze, crash or lag which the Steam version has. Other than that, this game is what defines open world games for me. The map is huge, your choices matter very heavily and you can do some downright insane things (like eating a baby) too if you want. If you ever need a game that will suck dozens of hours of your life away, look no further than this.

As a big fan of the Fallout universe I consider this one of the greatest games in the series. Many hours were plowed into this game with joy. When the game was first released the experience were quite buggy, it took almost half a year until most of the buggyness had been patched away, but after that; life was good! The original story is a bit short, but that's about as much negativity I have to say about the game itself. There are countless mods to further help you enhance this game. Needless to say, when you buy this game you actually buy the key to a Fallout-funbox. And if you are familiar with the older Fallout games in the series (which I still think are the best tbh.) I dare say that you will not be disappointed to relive the wasteland in 3D. I mean, even the game trailers are freakin' awesome! Right?! The only real pain to be told about this game -a pain which I cannot wish upon any game no matter the quality- was the nightmare of all nightmares, namely: >>Games for Windows Live<< That vile abomination bestowed upon this otherwise great game is something that I for one can never forgive or forget. Bethesda what were you thinking??? On Steam the game simply would not start at all unless you had the GFWL-client installed, no error message to point you in that direction either. Once the client had been installed there were like 20 or so subsequent patches for the client to be installed, many of which required the computer to reboot... The most evil thing about it was that you did not even have to log in to that piece of junk once it was updated and ready to go. It was a requirement to start the game but totally needless once the game was started. Lucky are the ones that can now get it here and play it the way it was meant to be played. Bought the game here as soon as I could, no more GFWL-Steam bullshit for me. So thank you GOG.com, for finally setting this game free from it's DRM shackles. It really deserves it. We -the gamers- really deserve it! So enjoy!!