First to get the bad things out of the way: the more popular PC gaming platform gets updates first. We on GOG have to wait a while. Two, your PC probably can't run this. I have a quad-core Xeon with 16GB of RAM, and I know when the game just stops it's crashing to desktop. It happens. This is a huge pixel simulator and eventually, if the monsters don't get you, your PC will just give up and stop and the game will crash. Early access? Poor optimization? Who knows. Onto the good. This game is a BLAST. The design is random but the overall setup is fixed. Certain things are always going to be there, so there are maps. Don't look at them, just explore. Likewise, there are guides to the spells and perks and how they work together. Don't read them, learn on your own at your own pace, usually because you made a mistake and died. Remember that the master has failed more times than the quitter has tried, and this is a game of mastery. Most of the time, when I die, it was not my fault. I get mad, I get up, and I walk away, but I keep coming back because this is a wonderful game with a world worth exploring. If you think Noita is too hard, there are a handful of mods, including cheats, but they will only lessen the depth of your enjoyment with the game, though some add features you wish were in the game by default (I like playing as Megumin — no cheat there, it's just a skin). By default, the game is extremely difficult. But stick with it. Eventually, you will get a good wand and you'll think you'll have a chance. And you'll still die. But when you come back, you'll be armed with the knowledge you gained and that experience, and eventually, you'll get a little farther. Or you'll get a random seed that will let you get over the starting cave, and you'll head east and find some goodies... Random tip: water added to lava makes stone. Next time you see lava, see what happens when you pour some water on it.
After Fallout 4 and New Vegas, Fallout 3 looks a little dated, but I still say it's the most fun Fallout, at least among the 3D ones. Not a fan of the old Fallout strategy games. Different genre/playstyle. These are first person shooters with RPG elements. Fallout 3 always was a buggy game on PC, so head over to the Fallout 3 Nexus (Google it) and grab the unofficial patch (in top files). It'll fix a ton of little things. In my opinion, you don't need mods for this game, but there are a lot of great options, like FWE (Wanderer's Edition) and Mart's Mutant Mod. Also, the bounties mods were fun. Here's a tip for your first game: When you get to Megaton, skirt around to the right, and look for a rock with 3 dead trees around it. The rock is actually a container with a new gun, and other goodies. It's a developer secret. Also, tag Explosives when you take the GOAT, or at least have the skill at 25 when you level up upon leaving the Vault. When you enter Megaton, run past the mayor and go disarm the nuke in the middle of town. You get a better reward for doing it without being asked first. (Unless you want to play an evil character, in which case you'll be blowing it up, but don't do that until you've done The Wasteland Survival Guide long enough to talk Moira out of quitting, and only then nuke Megaton (also recruit the raider as a follower, I forget his name, Lucas maybe? Hangs out at the bar by the nuke. Won't talk to you if you're good).
Just to be clear, GOG hasn't updated this game to work in modern Windows. What they've gone and done is, they've used ScummVM, a sort of emulator, to support this old game. And that's fine! It works. But you should be aware of some issues. One, if you have a widescreen monitor, the game will stretch. It mostly looks okay, but you should try to run it in a window if possible. Two, mouse acceleration is insane, it will jump all over the place. Running in a window might help that. (This is with mouse acceleration disabled in Windows.) Three, and most importantly, there doesn't seem to be save/load/exit functions. In the Amiga version it was F keys. Here, press F5 to access ScummVM, which handles saving. It also has an autosave. After accidentally skipping the plane sequence, I found that autosave was just before that, so I just quit. I have many fond memories of playing this game when it was new. My father, a friend of his, and I were all trying to get through it. I was maybe 10. We'd get together and talk about our progress. I actually solved a couple problems, but mostly I got help from the adults. This was before the Internet, so we really had to solve everything on our own, and it wasn't easy. Now I'm 38, and my father (and his friend) have both passed, and I'm glad to play this game on PC. I've tried playing it other ways (emulators and such) but if you're here reading this, you probably know as well as I do that GOG games just work. I got it on sale, but it's worth full price. Just want to throw a tip out there. You have more than enough money to complete the game and make a few mistakes. There is a way to exploit the lottery, but I'll leave that to you to find. Hint: Bermuda. I will tell you that there are a bunch of ways to solve problems early on, and one of them involves buying the hat and nose glasses from Lou's Loans, putting them on, and then giving the phone bill to the phone company rep. "No charge for Brothers!" That'll save you $1138.
