Fallout 3 is overrated

Its not a bad game but I cannot understand why people think it's so good.

-the story is crap

-the environment is dull and samey

-rubbish variation of enemies

-so many glitches

im playing bioshock at the moment and that game totally dicks on fallout 3. Can you tell me why I am wrong please (without saying i wear a helmet made of dried semen or something)

my dick totally dicks on your dick, ya bluday wank! (oh and you wear a helmet made of dried semen or something)

You're not wrong.

With the expansions (ie GOTY edition) on PS3, the game is literally unplayable once you have 2 or more DLCs infecting your savegames.

true.. when I first started to play it I thought it was awesome. then I raged and gave it to my brother..

I'm also selling CODMW2 tomorrow as well as BFBC2 is just superior.. if it wasnt for fifa10 i think i would have sold my xbox a long time ago.

Everything is overrated when you think God himself will jizz in your face.

i'm replaying it in 1080p at the moment and i love it just as much as the first time. when you're bored of the main story you can just head west for a wander about.

my 'v' key is sticking though, and that's not a good key to have sticking when you're playing fallout 3

what major game franchise isn't overrated these days?

Fallout 3 has almost endless re-playability and customization and incorporates countless hours of play time in a single walkthrough...that's incredibly appealing to gamers like myself, and they pulled it off well. As expansive as the game was, I never expected the story to be revolutionary in any sense, it did enough to keep you interested and immersed.

I agree that the level design could have been a little better, but you still have the freedom at least in GOTY edition to see the swamplands, mountainous strongholds, and an alien spacecraft at any point you wish.

By no means is Fallout 3 the best game I have ever played, but it's definitely up there...I think you expect too much from games to be honest.

Bioshock is the same for me, beautiful landscapes, but towards the end it gets a little samey. Excellent gameplay but there are flaws (hit your plasmid, then hit the button to call up your gun/wrench, then attack)....the sequel addressed that problem more than adequately but by that point the immersion factor was somewhat lost, the story somewhat blander...yet it still made for a damn fun play-through.

in all honesty can you recommend me these mind-blowing games which have set your high standards? certainly they are without flaws whatsoever.

i like fallout 3. bioshock looks tight

i liked it, but i didn't know Fallout 2. i'm playing that now and it is infinitely better. One could say Fallout 3 is a blatant Fallout 2 rip-off.

why would you compare bioshock 2 with fallout 3? they're entierly different games, the only thing they have in common is the fps perspective.

the story isn't crap nor great, but it works.

the enivornment is not dull and samey, ffs it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there's not a whole lot to work with, but they've done wonders with it.

the number of different enemies are fitting for a fallout game, what would you add? aliens? there's an expansion for that.

i've clocked 90+ hours on fallout 3 on ps3 and have had maybe 3 or 4 crashes, i don't know what glitches you're talking about though.

fallout2 is possibly in my top 3 best game ever list, along with maybe portal and the sentinel

bioshock is, i think, a game that the accusations in the OP could be levelled at - they create this incredible, beautiful-looking environment, add bucketloads of atmosphere through the tapes and shit, and the whole ayn rand/moral decision thing which is properly original... and then stretch a fairly formulaic plot relatively thinly over it all? wtf?

edit: 2 is worse. there was no need at all for a bioshock 2.

  On 3/22/2010 at 12:42 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

what major game franchise isn't overrated these days?

 

Fallout 3 has almost endless re-playability and customization and incorporates countless hours of play time in a single walkthrough...that's incredibly appealing to gamers like myself, and they pulled it off well. As expansive as the game was, I never expected the story to be revolutionary in any sense, it did enough to keep you interested and immersed.

 

I agree that the level design could have been a little better, but you still have the freedom at least in GOTY edition to see the swamplands, mountainous strongholds, and an alien spacecraft at any point you wish.

 

By no means is Fallout 3 the best game I have ever played, but it's definitely up there...I think you expect too much from games to be honest.

 

 

Bioshock is the same for me, beautiful landscapes, but towards the end it gets a little samey. Excellent gameplay but there are flaws (hit your plasmid, then hit the button to call up your gun/wrench, then attack)....the sequel addressed that problem more than adequately but by that point the immersion factor was somewhat lost, the story somewhat blander...yet it still made for a damn fun play-through.

 

 

in all honesty can you recommend me these mind-blowing games which have set your high standards? certainly they are without flaws whatsoever.

I have to agree with you there, there are very few real quality games out there. Valve are the balls, Half life 2 is the game that sets the standards, especially fps's. Literally, fuck anyother new release, i just want to play episode 3. There is no other game franchise that i care about, i just wanna play some more half life.

For me, Fallout 3 doesnt have endless replayability because i didn't finish playing it once! I got quite far and i don't care enough to finish it, thats unusual for me, i do tend to finish most games

halo doesn't have a plot.

i mean, i think gaming is at a strange crossroads where multiplayer is 90% of the market, or so it would seem....developers trying to create more of an immersive and perhaps even "intellectual" experience (complex plots, moral choices, etc etc) that can compete against multiplayer games....but i could be waaaaaay off there.

Half-Life (all of them) and old school Fallout are quite literally as good as gaming gets. Oh, KOTOR, too.

Fallout 3 bored me very quickly.

yeh dunno, we're talking AAA titles here. The gaming equivalent to Roland Emmerich movies. How do you expect any actual compelling story from something like that.

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hl2 is the best game ive ever played

  On 3/22/2010 at 1:33 AM, chris moss acid said:

hl2 is the best game ive ever played

bar none

  On 3/22/2010 at 12:56 AM, data said:

i've clocked 90+ hours on fallout 3 on ps3 and have had maybe 3 or 4 crashes, i don't know what glitches you're talking about though.

I've done about 180 hours give or take (ps3, done everything except the pitt and point lookout), and I get crashes and freezing a hell of a lot. The addons make it a lot more unstable. I've learned to live with it though, and personally i think there is no better adventure-type game. I have reached the point though where I kind of want to get it finished quickly - reached level 30 long ago, have every weapon worth having, more ammo than i'll ever need, something like 900 stimpacks, so can defeat any enemy really easily, the challenge is gone but discovering stuff is still fun.

Fallout 3 was extraordinary. Yes, the writing wasn't as good as a Black Isle game, but otherwise it was crafted exceedingly well. It's a pretty hard game to hate on, I would think?

i just got back into fallout 3. i downloaded a bunch of cool mods. they make the game slightly less stable, but after the initial figuring out what the load order should be and some other weird glitches, everything has been going smoothly. it's a fun game.

but it doesn't compare to old school rpgs (planescape, the original fallout etc etc) at all.

i miss the focus on story-telling. the last game i really enjoyed that had a great story was portal. i can't wait for the sequel.

  On 3/22/2010 at 2:19 AM, lumpenprol said:

Fallout 3 was extraordinary. Yes, the writing wasn't as good as a Black Isle game, but otherwise it was crafted exceedingly well. It's a pretty hard game to hate on, I would think?

that would be... the game you were involved in developing, then.

well I'd like to think I can be objective and dispassionate about it

actually we were an independent contractor on the game so I think if anything it gave me more reason to doubt they could pull it off, and more reason to want to distance myself from it if it turned out poorly.

I genuinely loved it, as an admitted huge fan of the games. I mean we've done a lot of work on other games that I don't gush about, such as Killzone 2, which I felt was a very expensive but not very creative been-there-done-that slog.

i genuinely do as well, i mean, when i heard that development was being handed over to team oblivion i was pretty worried. but they did pull it off.

and the fact black isle people are involved in new vegas is good news too. just mentioning it for full disclosure ;)

yeah we weren't invited to help out on New Vegas and I'm not sure why, they used us for concept art but not 3D this time around. Really bummed me out.

We are working on the sequel to another Bethsoft IP tho.