DalekJaas said:
Lets be clear, I don't like Fallout 3. Where ever it fell out of, it wasn't a nice place. But allow to express my reasons:
*note: I am completely unfamiliar with other Fallout games.
1. I am a massive Oblivion fan (insanely modded of course), but I still played vanilla oblivion and enjoyed it immensely. As such I was optimistic for fallout 3. In comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 has worse environments, less immersive scenery and what I call 'ridiculous' wildlife. I mean, somehow I expected it to be more realistic. Super mutants look absurd and speak ridiculously. There are crab things and giants. I thought hundreds of years of radiation would have made things look, well, more deadspacey. Not make them stronger.
I don't like oblivion its a crappy morrowind knock off and thuslly FO3 is a crappy OB knock off tho I don;t hate/loath it as much.
FO1-2 Had stationary plants that fired seeds at you, wolves, rats,pig rats,mole rats(almost the size of a cow), wondering poor almost zombie like, wondering families/farmers(fun to watch them fight raiders, and anythign else ),Geckos(human child sized walking lizards) along with whatever is in FO3, the only huge change is the Deathclaw which instead of being muscular/top heavy like a body builder, purple and have a 3 stalk eye setup they were turned into thin generic demons for FO3, BTW anyone fix that mod wise yet?.
In most sci fi,Radiation=mutation= meaner.
They really avoided the whole forest issue FO1-2 had some forests in it she the trees were in piss poor shape,ect but expanding on a mutated/dark forest them with plant based human/mutant/animal based zombie with more plant monsters in there then add 2 more plant monster types a walking stalk that a mobile turret version of the sitting immobile plant and then a floaty one that's like the bloat fly only has a weaker machine gun like weapon, think zelda shrub with a FO3 stylized artistic theme.
2. Retrofuturism: This is purely personal taste but the I can't stand the 1950s theme of the game. I mean, I understood it, I figured the bombs fell in the 1950s. But when I was informed the bombs sometime in our future in made no sense whatsoever. I just don't get the 1950's theme when culture developed way more past the 50s.
No its a whole retro future setup and even if it was not and the bombs did fall in the 50s when you had portable Tesla machines,full rang of fusion/fussion dvices,ect you'd wind up with the same apocalyptic setup.
3. The voice acting is worse than oblivions, and that's saying something.
I can not tell the difference and I put in at elast 10 hours into ob....
4. I CANT JOIN THE BAD GUYS!!!! I completely agreed with what the enclave was doing, screw the irradiated and save what's left of the world. But you can't join them, what's up with that?!?!
Oblivion had so many factions to join, you could really play how you wanted to. That brings me to 5.
Typical bethseda over site...... they should fire the middle managers....
5. Ok, seriously, who thinks that the 'Brotherhood of Steel' is a cool name? It sucks. Its an awful name for the people you have to join. It reminds me of the homosexual steel mill workers from 'The Simpsons'.
Its only been in all the games...... that and I find muscle bound mostly bald men in action titles to be uber gay and generic more than vague titles and names.
6. This is a pet hate but; in any game with guns: THERE SHOULD BE IRONSIGHTS!!!!! I get so annoyed when I right click to raise the gun to my eye level and it doesn't happen. That is such a big immersion killer for me. I know its not an FPS..... but still, it drives me insane. Any good game with guns has sights of some kind. And snipers don't count, I need that ability for all weapons except the obvious ones (big ones). EH!
I hate iron sights with a passion much much much prefer cross hairs, would be nice if it was a option but the industry sucks at options these days....
7. I couldn't get immersed in the story because I had discovered within 2 hours of the game that its setting was so ridiculous that I just didn't care. Sure I was mildly impressed with the tutorial and saw some realism ( I think) in the poorly named RAD ROACHES but when you get outside...the guns have no sights and the environment is insanely dull.
Yes I blew up megaton, and thought it was boring. Then I killed everyone in that tower because I didn't care. The story just didn't pull me in, it may have worked wonders for you, but for me it was all too far fetched.
I can say the same for obba(ya I'll call oblivion obba, like abba but worse
, I dunno FO3=fk hole 3? lulz), story was weak but not really that bad, it just falls apart after 10ish hours then collapses after 15-20 since they didn't bother to finish the game.... it got put on the merket to sell DLC and nothing more... if you can't mod it or apply mods(console versions) you were robed.
I will say that one of the few parts of the game I liked was in the virtual reality land with your dog dad, but that got boring quickly too.
meh its all samey with a few good dailog bits and maybe 2 fun weapons....
In conclusion, I don't like Fallout 3, I really, really don't. I'm sure people will flame me or whatever but remember this is purely personal opinion.
Its a mediocre game that was rushed to market, same as 80% of the rest of games released these days.
