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Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition

Nostalgia is a fickle drug

I played several hundred hours of this game back about 15 years ago, and wanted to go back for nostalgia purposes. It wasn't a wholly terrible experience, I had some fun exploring the city, but ultimately, games have moved on from this game so massively that it's difficult to go back. Also I would advise not to play Operation Anchorage or Mothership Zeta. They are combat focused DLCs for a game whose combat is at best functional. Decided to give up on the game without finishing the main quest, or all the DLCs. My interest just kind of petered out after about 60 hr. Which was decent and not a complete waste of time. Did some of my favourite quests and now it's time to move on. New Vegas maybe. As a review, the writing is really lackluster as is the combat, but there is a charm in the atmosphere that this game sets. I suppose that must have been what hooked me to this game so many years ago. Don't go in expecting to be blown away by the writing. It is what it is. It's a good game when taken as a whole, but has deep flaws, which Bethesda never really fixed in subsequent games. But, as I said it has it's charms. I was quite disappointed, however, at the music on the radio not working. It stutters when playing off the PipBoy, though not if the radio is in the environment. The music was a big deal about the atmosphere of this game, and I wish GOG would fix it. Other than that it was quite stable on my 10-year-old windows 10 machine, so that's a plus.

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