So I wanted to finally play the infamous Fallout 3 after countless hours in other Fallout games, including god tier first two isometric parts, great New Vegas from Obsidian Entertainment, mediocre fourth part and overwhelmingly laughable Fallout 76. Steam version of the game that I own is not optimised for modern system as the F3 Steam page states, so I was avoiding it due to the fact that I'm incredibly tired at modding Bethesda games. Then I stumbled upon GOG. Fallout 3 GOG page states that this game is compatible with modern systems, so I immediately bought it since there was a big discount, believing that my prayers have been answered. GOG isn't lying, even though after launcing the game you see a warning about compatibility issues the game runs flawlessly on Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X and RTX 2060 Super, but there is one little issue I have with the game. Fallout 3 came out 12 years ago, and by this day's standarts it's outdated and at some points unbalanced and raw, classic Bethesda. So you need to overcome yourself and start modding, that's exactly what I did. I've never seen such a broken piece of code before, but Fallout 3 took the golden award for that, after installing few mods that tweak the balance, light texture mods like impoved weapons, characters and surroundings and couple more quality of life changes the game managed to become incredibly unstable. Quest started to break, NPCs started doing god knows what like simply not appearing in the places they should and the game manages to crash a lot, even when I'm not touching mouse and keyboard, it lauches properly only after a couple of attempts, it's disgusting, and I'm not new to modding scene. I had to reinstall a game around 5-6 times to start my modding experience from scratch. Few days later I decided to install only the most important mods, nothing too critical or big and only then it finally decided to work stable. In conclusion, I still hate you Bethesda, screw you.
