Posted on: January 18, 2019
Kot_PhD
Games: 205 Reviews: 20
Fallout 3 is garbage and here is why.
Oohh... edgy. Ok, so i nicked the title from hbomberguy (of youtube fame) video about fallout 3 being garbage. Sorry for that. I do agree with pretty much everything he said about the game and more, so check it out. It's only 1 and a half hour long rant ;) In any case, why do i hate the game so much? Glad you asked. See, I was there when Fallout 1 and 2 premiered and i loved the hell out of both of these games, so when F3 came out I remember how enthusiastic i was towards it. However, when I finally got to play this glorified Oblivion post-apocalypse mod i was devastated, it was such a massive letdown. The game disregarded so much of what made Fallout 1 and 2 great (the themes, the lore, the dialogues, the story) and gave us in return another one of Bethesda's hallmark (at least by today standards, it wasn't like that when Morrowind came out) "explore everything, enjoy nothing" cardboard cuttouts, low on dialogue, themes and lore, but high on copy-paste locations with a chest at the end and maybe a recording of someone doing something uninteresting in the past. The interactions with NPCs were minimal, the quests were... kinda weird (i mean, i don't want to say generic, even though a lot of them were, but they had a tonal problem. Lilke, they had only two modes: "cooky" and "grim", and i was quickly tired of the "cooky" mode, but then again - humour is subjective, so take that opinion for wha it is), the enviroment was inconsistent and bland, and a lot of things just didn't make sense (plot- or themewise). And i'm not even going to rant about the hideous graphics and animations, bugs, performance issues, cluncky controls and very subpar fps gameplay (since Fallout: New Vegas had the same engine and was absurdly superior in spite of having a lot of flaws of Fallout 3). There is fun to be had here, sure, Bethesda is great at making exploration sandboxes, but by all the gods of Discworld, play Fallout: New Vegas instead! Forget F3 ever existed. And F4. And F76.
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