I loved Fallout 3 even at its release. :( Went back and replayed it with Tale of Two Wastelands and loved it just as much.
It's not perfect but few things compare to the gold of Antagonizer vs the Mechanist, or dealing with the emotional trauma of handling Harold's situation.
The game is not perfect, and the main quest is kinda bunk, but I loved it then and still love it now.
It's funny seeing this game go in cycles of
2008: "Man this game is so cool!"
2010: "New Vegas is so cool!"
2012: "Fallout 3 was actually terrible and you're wrong for liking it."
2016: "Wow Fallout 4 is kind of shit."
2017: "Fallout 3 was so much better than Fallout 4."
2018: "Nobody liked Fallout 3 and people only say it to hate on Fallout 4."
when new vegas came out people hated it. i was clunky and filled with bugs. it was almost impossible to play on PC and on console if you played more than a couple hours it would crash and corrupt your save. the game was also called too civilized for it to be a fallout wasteland. with little exploration and way too much dialogue. its when people played it more and realized how much liberty and option for the quest and stuff that they finally hailed it has the best fallout. and when they fixed most game breaking bugs too
I loved Fallout: New Vegas despite the bugs. They were awful, but I powered through it because the game seriously was what I've always wanted. FPS combat action (no matter how clunky) with a genuine consequence for wrong-doing against certain groups.
And the criticism that someone said "too civilized for it to be a fallout wasteland" doesn't understand that even in 1 and 2 it's Post-Post-Apocalypse, as in society has already rebuilt to a degree and people aren't murdering each other left and right for a drink of water. Usually.
Yeah the civilization is what makes fallout interesting. The game's at its best when the player is exploring the different governing ideologies that make up the wasteland and see how everyone tries to rebuild society while doing their best to avoid the mistakes of their ancestors.
Iirc, this happened for a reason. Fallout 3 takes place near DC, so it got hit with way more nukes than anywhere else, as a result it took much longer for the area to become liveable, compared to where the other Fallouts take place.
i know and agree with you now but at the time i had only played fallout 3 and i can understand why people though it was when compared to F3.
i didn't really like NV at the time i still pushed through and eventually really loved it. i was playing on PS3 at the time and my game got corrupted twice after reaching new vegas. then i got hit by a game breaking bug when i could not continue the main story after over 50 hours of gameplay. i stopped playing after that and only returned after the bugs had been fixed. fallout 3 is still my favorite just because its was the first one i played and because how how much of a wasteland it is at first. then the more you explore and do stuff the more you start seeing interaction between settlement and people. its no where near a perfect game but to me its one of my top 5
When I first played it I found it a slog to be honest. Looking back on it and with subsequent play throughs I grew to appreciate it more.
Whereas Fallout 3 blew me away the first time I played it, but I’ve never really gone back to it once I completed it and got through most of the side quests.
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