Am i the only one who thinks Fallout 3 is lacking...

[Nanissimov]

Okay before you guys can hand me my buttocks let me just say i fully understand that this game is nearly 3 years old and that my opinion is quite behind, also this opinion of mine is a bit long but bare with me...

Okay i got Fallout 3 GOTYE on Saturday, i sat down to play and i quite liked it, today i turned on my Xbox 360, played the game for a good hour and finished it, i was in shock, i reloaded my last save game to see if there wasn't some sort of glitch that finished the game early... I could not believe the game was this short, i heard people saying they sunk some 200 hours into the game (Without having the DLC's installed, which i did not start yet) but i was level 13/20 and finished it, perhaps it was because i skipped what ever mission i could and my speech skill was so high i got out of doing some of the main quest but still, if i can do it in some 15 hours, that's sad... But the thing that got me most of all is that you cannot play the game after you beat it. STOP, STOP right now, yes i know you can continue playing the game with the DLC's but i did not have them installed before i beat it so i had to quit the game, break the immersion and pop in the DLC Cd (Game of the year edition). So if you did not buy the Game of The Year Edition or do not have access to the internet you cannot dick around in the capital wastelands after the end. I did not start playing the DLC's yet i am still playing around in the wastelands but i hope the DLC's are better than the actual game in length... Oh and by the way, i did like the game I'm just making the point that it was short and making someone pay extra to play around in the large open map seems a bit unfair

So what's you opinion on the game, did you get more out of it than i did? (Just the game not the DLC's)

 

[DaemonicShadow]

Your main problem, in my opinion, is that you got it on a console. I've always thought that the console versions of Fallout games are sub-par to the PC version. Especially when the PC versions served with a heavy helping of mods.

 

[baddude1337]

I have it in 360 and have about 100 hours on my one character. The key thing to do is not just rush the story, just exploring the wasteland takes countless hours, and there a dozens of quests take. Just explore and have fun.

 

[Nanissimov]

Yeah i guess that's my fault, i can do whatever i want now with the DLC's but whoever doesn't have them is in trouble

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

First off no you are never ever the only one. Unless there a world wide extinction event you are never the only one. That aside a lot of your problems as already stated come from the fact you bought a Bethesda RPG on a console. Regardless of how elitist that sounds Bethesda RPGs are better on PCs due to the mod support. You c an even play with a controller if using the keyboard and mouse is such a big deal. If you can run it never get a Bethesda RPG on a console always go PC.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

The first time I played, I didn't altogether like it. I thought it was fun, but there were some elements that I thought were absent that shouldn't have been. Same went for Oblivion, so I think that's a Bethesda thing.
Eventually though, as I eventually did with Oblivion, I warmed up to the game and put in hundreds of hours. I don't know exactly what was missing, maybe it was how empty everything really looked or the bleak atmosphere, but something put me off the first few hours that I played.

 

[Haukur Isleifsson]

If you are trying to get it over with than it can all be finished in less than a day. But if you play it the way I do (and I believe most people did) that you can really play for months and still feel that you haven't finished the damned thing.

The thing about it simply ENDING, with no turning back. That sucks balls. I "finished" it not long ago and really don't like having to reload at some not so distant point in the "past" and replay differently from there. That feels like I failed in some way.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

So a 15-hour main quest is sad, and the 100 hours of content and the (presumably) 80% of the map locations that you just flat ignored is "lacking?"

Not liking the feel/environment of the game, thinking the story sucks, the way it ends is dumb = all extremely valid criticisms, for sure.

Claiming the game is somehow lacking in content = just play silly.

 

[Nanissimov]

Perhaps its because i just ran through the story but shouldn't they reward you for that, should i not be able to do the rest when i finish? I really wanted to see what happened and get to the big robot scene my friend told me about, and what a dissapointing ending and nothing to do after wards accept install the DLC?

 

[LaffmanAKAJPLaffo]

Ugh I just did not get Fallout 3. I felt it dragged and it just did not capture my attention at all and I got pretty bored of it pretty quick.

 

[Hippobatman]

Yeah i guess that's my fault, i can do whatever i want now with the DLC's but whoever doesn't have them is in trouble

Nah, I don't have any DLC, but I've still spent around 300 hours on three different characters. It's all about how you play the game. I never go straight for the main quest in open world RPGs, willingly or subconsciously, so that ramps up the hours quite a bit.

 

[baddude1337]

Perhaps its because i just ran through the story but shouldn't they reward you for that, should i not be able to do the rest when i finish? I really wanted to see what happened and get to the big robot scene my friend told me about, and what a dissapointing ending and nothing to do after wards accept install the DLC?

You know, one of the DLC's called broken Steel actually continues the storyline, and lets you roam around even after you finish it.

 

[baddude1337]

Second Post fail.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

Compared to New Vegas... yes.

 

[Nanissimov]

Yeah, i have all the DLC's i just didn't start them yet

 

[baddude1337]

Yeah, i have all the DLC's i just didn't start them yet

Then the game shouldn't have ended. Broken Steel literally picks off from the original ending.

 

[RSGstyle]

For a thread named "What Fallout 3 is lacking," OPs post didn't clearly state what it was lacking. I am not defending the game, since I believe the open ended world got a little too bland sometimes which didn't motivate me to explore too far, but when I found a huge building or some underground facility or camp, things got interesting enough for me to raid in and loot the damn place for all its worth.

OP, please state your opinion clearly instead of admitting you skipped all the missions so to speak.

 

[SyphonX]

Well the style of games Bethesda/Obsidian produces isn't in everyone's tastes. They're primarily for people who like to explore, and mark their own stories. I played hundreds of hours in Fallout 3, and I never once completed the main story.

I just enjoyed donning a traveling merchant's outfit, and took the role of a man trying to survive point a to point b, by taking the sewers etc. I'm not going to ruin an experience by finding the best way to become "all powerful", i.e. trying to find the win button.

I did the same for Morrowind, and Oblivion.. even New Vegas. Though I did complete Morrowind's story several times, after I was done farting around. I did Oblivion's once, because my friend insisted I see the beastie at the end. Morrowind's story was oddly compelling, and a treat. Very mystical and cosmic at times, though I would find it quite boring this many years after-the-fact.

So yeah, it's merely about the atmosphere for me. Putting on the imagination cap, etc. Not for everyone, but for those like me, Bethesda's games are the tops.


Also, I should probably say that I play on PC with heaps of mods. I enjoy making things difficult, especially "survival" factors like fatigue settings, hunger and thirst, and the like. Makes wasteland survival, well.. fun and compelling.

 

[Netrigan]

Seems odd that you could finish it *that* quickly, but I knew pretty early on that I could have rushed through the game if I had chosen to. I ignored the main quest as much as possible and was rather shocked how quickly I got through the post-Jefferson Memorial missions.

I ended spending quite a lot of time on it, because I set out to visit every locations (including a rather amusing crack at the highly radiative Vault, which had me jumping off a cliff and hitting my Quick-Keyed Rad-Away as I raced to safety. All to get a little blip on the map. I also hit every marked quest and a good chunk of the unmarked ones.

I'm working on New Vegas and I wouldn't be surprised if that one couldn't be completed in just a few hours. But I'm taking my time with it as well.

Good thing the main quests in both games really aren't that interesting. I'm not terribly interested in what happens next, but enjoy exploring. I only wish the games featured more unique locations. Most buildings and rooms have a pretty generic look about them. While there's lots of back story to find in computers, notes, or conversations, there's rarely a sense that a particular room belongs to someone specific. They usually just look like everyone's else room right down to the same random stealable clutter.

 

[eggy32]

Seriously, you bought a western rpg for the main story?
Did you just not notice the millions of side quests there were?