Why is this site so split about Fallout 3?
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I laughed.Tinneh said:
OT: Because people are assholes who love to get into internet arguments to over-compensate for their probably boring/depressing life.
You were overjoyed that people hated a game (even though they didn't, and what you just said is blatantly wrong)? That's unfortunate.Hopeless Bastard said:
That's sort of the point of a post-apocalyptic survival-themed game, isn't it? Kind of a plus to balance as well- at least until the end of the main story where you're carrying enough ordnance and ammunition for a coup in a 3rd world country.Doctor Glocktor said:
From what I've seen on the site, it's because FO1 + 2 fans don't like the way 3 turned out, where as people who haven't played 1 or 2 enjoyed 3 and don't want to go back in time to try and fall in love with the originals, that or they're too poor from all the DLC to do so.
I fall in the second category, I played (and am still playing) Fallout 3 and currently addicted to it as all hell. However, due to money constraints and looking at the original 2, I don't have a desire to try the first. However, I do know that for every form of entertainment there is someone who sucks it's balls like they're the greatest they've ever sucked, or people who hate it so much they chop off the balls, then burn it and shove it back into the gaping hole they created by cutting it off.
The split is from the huge change in gameplay, the originals being what they were, to FO3 being a FP game with VATS...a system I love, but many hate
I fall in the second category, I played (and am still playing) Fallout 3 and currently addicted to it as all hell. However, due to money constraints and looking at the original 2, I don't have a desire to try the first. However, I do know that for every form of entertainment there is someone who sucks it's balls like they're the greatest they've ever sucked, or people who hate it so much they chop off the balls, then burn it and shove it back into the gaping hole they created by cutting it off.
The split is from the huge change in gameplay, the originals being what they were, to FO3 being a FP game with VATS...a system I love, but many hate
I think what's incredibly funny is how all of you are obsessed with categorizing the people that do or don't like this game, or hell, any topic in general.
Anytime an argument crops up on these boards you're all dead set on stuffing everyone into these premade boxes so that you can either write them off entirely or construct a grandiose argument made entirely out of assumptions about the other person.
What if, and this is going to seem incredibly far fetched and bizarre so stay with me, but what if someone likes Fallout 1 and 2, but disliked Fallout 3 based entirely on Fallout 3's own issues? What if they have actual problems with the concept of the new VATS just due to things like how easy it makes the game and the constant stop/start with the slow mo. What if someone dislikes the quests just because they felt that they were pretty shallow and the NPCs seemed like cardboard cutouts rather than people to interact with?
Scary thought I know. It's like the concept of someone being able to be objective about their criticisms is some form of communist plot and none of you are willing to hear it out. The person OBVIOUSLY is a Fallout 1/2 fanboy or someshit like that.
Anytime an argument crops up on these boards you're all dead set on stuffing everyone into these premade boxes so that you can either write them off entirely or construct a grandiose argument made entirely out of assumptions about the other person.
What if, and this is going to seem incredibly far fetched and bizarre so stay with me, but what if someone likes Fallout 1 and 2, but disliked Fallout 3 based entirely on Fallout 3's own issues? What if they have actual problems with the concept of the new VATS just due to things like how easy it makes the game and the constant stop/start with the slow mo. What if someone dislikes the quests just because they felt that they were pretty shallow and the NPCs seemed like cardboard cutouts rather than people to interact with?
Scary thought I know. It's like the concept of someone being able to be objective about their criticisms is some form of communist plot and none of you are willing to hear it out. The person OBVIOUSLY is a Fallout 1/2 fanboy or someshit like that.
Never really worked out why it was so critically important that everybody had to play Fallout 3 and love it. Bunch of drama queens, the lot of us, for and against.
I think there's a difference between balanced low, but useable ammo and the ridiculous lack thereof in early game fallout 3.Benny Blanco said:
They say first impressions are most important, and 8 mole rats trying to kill me while I have half a pistol clip does not make for a good lasting impression.
"Shit programming" indeed. Most of my hate against the game was multiplied ten fold because of this.thahat said:
My version crashed constantly, all because Bethesda were too lazy to do their damn jobs.
But at least they had time to shit out several packs of DLC in the 9 months after release!
Glad to see you guys are committed to quality. *spits* ...Like that.
I'm sorry, but anything claiming to be "Game of the Year" should at least be stable for over an hour.
No, do not respond to this saying how your game "never crashed" or how my computer was shit (it certainly was NOT). If you even think about sending me that cop-out argument, you missed the entire point of my post.
I've owned and played hundreds of PC games, and short of the dark ages of DOS, nothing came even close to crashing as often as Fallout 3 did. If Bethesda isn't willing to support its own software on the platforms it wants to market in (marketing to PC requires commitment, and it is no surprise to see why PC gaming is dying when we have such instability inherent in the most popular operating system, never mind differing hardware profiles), then they shouldn't market in them at all. Especially when they will cannot offer refunds.
If you sell a product that does not function as advertised, and refuse to make means to correct or recompense for it, that's called a "scam".
no it isn't this wasn't started by valve, don't even try to shift the blame, this phenomenon started years before portal, or are you too young to remember? well, its been around since the 80's with games, but another example you MIGHT be able to relate with, that came WAY before portal, is the HALO franchise (halo came out in 2001, a full 6 years before portal), and its Fanboyism (Fan-boy-ism is actually what it is called, not "HER DUR TEH PURTLE AFFECT" or the "DERP FAEK CAEK ARPHEKT").lacktheknack said:
Next time do your research, or, in other words, google it.
How are you guys complaining about running out of ammo? Ammo and supplies were extremely abbundant for me. Most of the time when I sold stuff I had to take all their caps, all their stim packs, and most of their ammo just to get a fair trade. Needless to say I had more supplies than I ever needed taking the difficulty level extremely low. Even if I got in a spot that made me use 20 stimpacks I would get enough loot to make up for it and actually come out ahead with +40 stimpacks and some ammo and caps.
P.S. Dont be afraid to get addicted to buffout. It's good for you. Most of the game I was addicted to buffout and usually ran around with high radiation levels. I don't see many real downsides to addiction and radiation in the game.
P.S. Dont be afraid to get addicted to buffout. It's good for you. Most of the game I was addicted to buffout and usually ran around with high radiation levels. I don't see many real downsides to addiction and radiation in the game.
Because some are sycophants or even worse those who like EVERYTHING.
Fallout 3 has many of the same faults leveled at Oblivion.
Bethesda are still ultimately lazy when it comes to designing games, and nearly(not really) as bad as Peter Moleneux when it comes to delivering on promises of in-game content.
Radiant A.I. ? , more like(pun-is-coming) Lameiant A.I. !
Fallout 3 has many of the same faults leveled at Oblivion.
Bethesda are still ultimately lazy when it comes to designing games, and nearly(not really) as bad as Peter Moleneux when it comes to delivering on promises of in-game content.
Radiant A.I. ? , more like(pun-is-coming) Lameiant A.I. !
Too antagonistic. At either rate, Halo didn't cut it in my analogy, because it wasn't a case of everyone hating it except for a few fanboys. That looks silly on paper, but scan our Halo threads, the majority don't like it.Plazmatic said:
And it's NOT fanboyism, fanboyism is refusing to criticize the target, the "Portal Effect" is where the game is so overly lauded that the people who don't like it actually DO like it, but are so underwhelmed that it wrecks the enjoyment.
I call it the "Portal Effect" because that's the most famous case of this.
Next time, read more carefully and don't be so hostile.
