Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

As the title say. Bethesda knew how dangerous taking over Fallout was. They took every sprite of Fallout 1 & 2 and recreated them faithfully for F3. But even if you make something look like a cookie, that doesn't mean it will taste good It is not an utter disaster. It is just that everything is bland. Bethesda added their own thing to Fallout. The same thing they add everywhere. Their love for blandness -Kms of subway. After some time you just KNOW there will be ghouls. You never run short of hallways with ghouls -A building. Obviously it is a factory of sorts with mad robots inside. Again -Someone ahead. Ah not a local, merely the 15985469 raider of the week -lvl 25 All the fauna and population disappear to give place to level scaled crap that was meant to be rare. Everywhere -Once you destroy the Enclave and reach a decent lvl you will start to encounter enclave soldiers ALL THE TIME The quests are grade school level. Bethesda decided that choice in a RPG mattered (indeed). That being mature did too, but they couldn't bring the usual shallow edginess others use by adding sex or make children killable, because PEGI. So instead, Fallout HAD to give a chance to nuke a town. Randomly. Just because evil. With nothing to ground your character. Wasteland 2 adds this option too but it bears a heavy meaning for Roleplay purposes. Not with F3. But this is worse than that. The main quest is the dumbest, lamest thing i ever saw in a RPG. Daddy left, i miss daddy, let's run after daddy. Oh ! here is Daddy >>> main quest completed. Here is your achievement boy ! OMG Bethesda recreated an environment that looked like Fallout but failed to make anything with it. They used brands of the Fallout universe, like Nuka-Coca of the Brotherhood, with no purpose. They don't get that what matters in a RPG is how the world feels and lives. Everything they put in this shell of a world is meaningless, senseless, tasteless and disjointed. The world doesn't work. It is an addition of maps

After I got a new laptop I had big wish of playing this again after I had to choose a lower graphic resolution for my old laptop, but still there are places where it is not fluent, then fluent in a new room, then again. My new Laptop is 16 GM RAM and I do not know why this happens, where it most happens is in the Point Lookout DLC, I think this is probably because of so many unique Shivering Isles trees, but then I go to the real Shivering Isles and it works like a marvel, no idea why this visual stutter happens in FO3 in general, this particular problem still hits me and drains my joy. As people say in Germany, "na ja", as I do not care about Bethesda mainstreaming RPGs as these are THEIR products because it is their Bethesda style, but you can tell they were beginning to feel tired and lose the magic. To me it is a 2,5 / 5 stars, but because they did Morrowind, i'll give it three.

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.

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