Fallout 3 is overbashed here

[Brayko]

Fallout 3 is great if you like going though all the same ruined subways for more than 10 hours before reaching Rivet City, personnally I was not brave enough to endure that; and Rivet City will forever stay as a dot on the map of my Pipboy to which pointed my magical compass. Perhaps that the game becomes great after that but I seriously doubt it.

I swim to rivet city at level 1 in every playthrough to get the int bobblehead. you don't need to go through a single subway.

Dumbfuck detected.

 

[Black]

Slowpoke detected.

 

[MetalCraze]

I'm pretty sure that title belongs to DA. Or Witcher. Or Witcher EE.

DA:O is GOTY 2009

Witcher is 2007

 

[Infinitron]

DA:O is GOTY 2009

Witcher is 2007

And Witcher EE?

 

[Morgoth]

Fallout 3 > DA:O > TWitcher > Twitcher 2

 

[abnaxus]

Fallout 3 > DA:O > TWitcher > Twitcher 2

Did Geralt fuck your mom or what?

 

[Morgoth]

Fallout 3 > DA:O > TWitcher > Twitcher 2

Did Geralt fuck your mom or what?

Huh?

Shit game is shit. Period.

 

[ironyuri]

Fallout 3 > DA:O > TWitcher > Twitcher 2

Did Geralt fuck your mom or what?

Huh?

Shit game is shit. Period.

: x

 

[Rostere]

Wrong. Same perspective != same genre

Fallout 3 should be compared to Oblivion

Fixed.

I would say Fallout 3 and Deus Ex both fall into the (loosely defined) genre of action role-playing games. I can see your point against System Shock 1, but I would put System Shock 2 there as well. Of course you can also compare Fallout 3 to Oblivion, but at least from my point of view it would be kind of pointless since they are basically the same turd.

 

[Mother Russia]

System Shock 2 was an amazing game. Note, it NEVER pretended to be a crpg, only an atmospheric first person shooter...but ended up being far more. I remember being creeped out when I played my first time as a pure psi warrior, unable to even weild a pistol (yeah that was kinda dumb) but with incredible psionic powers. Once I got that fireball psi power, and that melee psi amp power I mowed my way through the remainder of the game.

Felt exhilerating.

 

[Esquilax]

Are there any mods or combination of mods that make Fallout 3 a decent game? I know a lot about Oblivion mods done to improve the game but not those from Fallout 3. Give install order if possible.

There's a really good one called Fallout: New Vegas, you should check it out. It improves and changes a lot of things that were awful about the original game and the writing/world-building is much better. Still doesn't fix that awful engine, though...

 

[thesoup]

Actually, the challenge in NV disappears by the time you reach lvl 10 or even before that. Don't even get me started about the god awful hp bloat after level 40. You need 10 or so mods to make NV a proper game.

 

[EG]

Actually, the challenge in NV disappears by the time you reach lvl 10 or even before that. Don't even get me started about the god awful hp bloat after level 40. You need 10 or so mods to make NV a proper game.

But the challenge of Fallout disappeared by Level 10, too.

 

[thesoup]

Shhhhhhh. Don't say that here.

 

[Deitti]

the story and dialogue alone IMO makes fallout 3 deserve all the bashing it has got.

you know i actually had to check if skyway was right and i was stunned when it really was true that fallout 3 was codex goty of 2008. i mean wow.

 

[Infinitron]

you know i actually had to check if skyway was right and i was stunned when it really was true that fallout 3 was codex goty of 2008. i mean wow.

Uh, source?

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=181

RPG of the Year


And so here we are. Choosing an RPG of the year for 2008 is asking for trouble. It's like being presented with a variety of different dog turds on platters and being asked to "pick the best meal". It's not a choice. There is no choice. There are only two decent games in the list I even bothered playing this year. One of them isn't an RPG (Mount & Blade), the other (The Witcher) is just barely an RPG (if you go by the vague, broad definition of "it says RPG on the box") but wasn't actually released this year. Sorry but patches, no matter what you call them, don't count. What else is there to really consider? Mass Effect? I'd rather not. Fallout 3? In the words of Barack Obama: "Shoot. Me. Now."

Jeff Vogel's Avernum 5? Sure, if this was the "Stop making the same fucking game over and over again and for the love of God, find a new engine please" Award (Unfortunately there was an error at the printers and we were forced to skip that award this year). Sadly, we must admit the truth. There were no RPGs released in 2008. And I mean the real kind of RPG. The kind Blackisle Studios or Troika used to make. The kind where choices actually affected stuff that mattered, where you had multiple ways of creating your character, where you could choose what play-style or weapons to use and it would affect how you played the game, where you weren't railed through area after area in a pre-defined order, where you actually had some say in what you did and how you did it, where you could even join the bad guys. The kind that weren't over-loaded with stupid. The kind that were even fun games to play. There hasn't been one of those RPGs for years.

... but we have to be like all the cool kids and give it to something, right? Journalistic integrity demands it! We wouldn't be a prestigious mainstream RPG news magazine website if we didn't just slap the title on whatever it was we felt deserved it this year, patted ourselves on the back and told each other it was okay, RPGs will be better next year.

Oh no wait, we aren't one of those places.

THERE WAS NO GOTY 2008

 

[Necroscope]

A lot of over-dramatisation here. Bethesda games are not particuallry good, nor particualry bad, merely particualry stupid. Hence if you're looking for a perfect decent game that is if dumb as fuck (story, characters, AI, lore... everything - wise), then you can torrent their game any day and have fun for some (rather short, though) amout of time.

 

[Quetzacoatl]

Are there any mods or combination of mods that make Fallout 3 a decent game? I know a lot about Oblivion mods done to improve the game but not those from Fallout 3. Give install order if possible.

There's a really good one called Fallout: New Vegas, you should check it out. It improves and changes a lot of things that were awful about the original game and the writing/world-building is much better. Still doesn't fix that awful engine, though...

Are New Vegas mods superior to Fallout 3's? If so, what are good mods for NV?

 

[Deitti]

Uh, source?

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=181

RPG of the Year


And so here we are. Choosing an RPG of the year for 2008 is asking for trouble. It's like being presented with a variety of different dog turds on platters and being asked to "pick the best meal". It's not a choice. There is no choice. There are only two decent games in the list I even bothered playing this year. One of them isn't an RPG (Mount & Blade), the other (The Witcher) is just barely an RPG (if you go by the vague, broad definition of "it says RPG on the box") but wasn't actually released this year. Sorry but patches, no matter what you call them, don't count. What else is there to really consider? Mass Effect? I'd rather not. Fallout 3? In the words of Barack Obama: "Shoot. Me. Now."

Jeff Vogel's Avernum 5? Sure, if this was the "Stop making the same fucking game over and over again and for the love of God, find a new engine please" Award (Unfortunately there was an error at the printers and we were forced to skip that award this year). Sadly, we must admit the truth. There were no RPGs released in 2008. And I mean the real kind of RPG. The kind Blackisle Studios or Troika used to make. The kind where choices actually affected stuff that mattered, where you had multiple ways of creating your character, where you could choose what play-style or weapons to use and it would affect how you played the game, where you weren't railed through area after area in a pre-defined order, where you actually had some say in what you did and how you did it, where you could even join the bad guys. The kind that weren't over-loaded with stupid. The kind that were even fun games to play. There hasn't been one of those RPGs for years.

... but we have to be like all the cool kids and give it to something, right? Journalistic integrity demands it! We wouldn't be a prestigious mainstream RPG news magazine website if we didn't just slap the title on whatever it was we felt deserved it this year, patted ourselves on the back and told each other it was okay, RPGs will be better next year.

Oh no wait, we aren't one of those places.

THERE WAS NO GOTY 2008

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/rpg-awards-2008-prestigious-codex-edition.27854/

ill admit i was wrong because i read wrong article and there was no real goty for codex, but atleast in that topic people did vote for fallout 3.
but yes, i made ass out of myself

 

[Infinitron]

Are there any mods or combination of mods that make Fallout 3 a decent game? I know a lot about Oblivion mods done to improve the game but not those from Fallout 3. Give install order if possible.

There's a really good one called Fallout: New Vegas, you should check it out. It improves and changes a lot of things that were awful about the original game and the writing/world-building is much better. Still doesn't fix that awful engine, though...

Are New Vegas mods superior to Fallout 3's? If so, what are good mods for NV?

Whoosh.

 

[Quetzacoatl]

Are there any mods or combination of mods that make Fallout 3 a decent game? I know a lot about Oblivion mods done to improve the game but not those from Fallout 3. Give install order if possible.

There's a really good one called Fallout: New Vegas, you should check it out. It improves and changes a lot of things that were awful about the original game and the writing/world-building is much better. Still doesn't fix that awful engine, though...

Are New Vegas mods superior to Fallout 3's? If so, what are good mods for NV?

Whoosh.

1. whoosh 208 up, 35 down

Single word exclamation, accompanied by a gesture where the hand is swept palm down over the head from front to back with about three inches clearance.

Indicates that the joke just told was too sophisticated for the listener and has gone "way over their head".

Sometimes comes to mind when reading feedback on Urban Dictionary quality control.

I got the joke but I don't desire playing vanilla New Vegas.

 

[Black]

A lot of over-dramatisation here. Bethesda games are not particuallry good, nor particualry bad, merely particualry stupid. Hence if you're looking for a perfect decent game that is if dumb as fuck (story, characters, AI, lore... everything - wise), then you can torrent their game any day and have fun for some (rather short, though) amout of time.

No, I'm pretty sure they're particularly bad. You know, that happens when certain games do nothing right.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Humanity has sunk.

 

[Crispy]

That would be 'sunken'.

Oh, and,

 

[Mastermind]

don't worry bro, the poison (which is the main thing that makes cazadores nasty) goes away once you load up old world blues. it also comes with a gun that barks like a dog and npcs making penis jokes. But thank God none of that stupid derpy shit got into NV durrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.