I had a ton of fun with Fallout 3. I was living outside of DC at the time, so it was nice to see a bunch of landmarks surrounded by radioactive sludge and super mutants.
Fallout 3 is fine and all but its main story is pretty weak. And without getting into spoilers, the ending involves some bullshit because development schedule was so crunched for time that they weren't able to take into account certain companions you might have access to. And originally the player was railroaded into a bullshit ending until the DLC fixed it.
I would recommend playing it before New Vegas.
And some others might be able to clarify but apparently Fallout 3 does not gel well with the lore setup that 1+2 provide. 3 was the first game made by Bethesda after the original developers.
Fallout 3 doesn't make sense. It's an apocalypse story, but it's supposed to be a story about the post-post apocalypse. It's set 200 years after the war, but there's still grocery stores with potable canned goods in them. Fucking what?
It just copies things from the first 2 Fallouts without thinking if they make sense or not. IMO never play it because it's dumb.
Fallout 3 is alright in a vaccuum. If you like Elder Scrolls games, you'll probably like it just fine. It's just not a very good Fallout game, and the story is really weak and nonsensical.
Buy fallout 3 & New Vegas, then download Download A Tale of Two Wastelands.
It basically rectifies all mistakes and bugs between the two, adds some good QoL stuff not originally present, and is probably the best way to play them Vanilla+.
I tried to play Fallout 3. It was a slog. After 12 hours or so, I gave it up - bad quest design, the starting area is an hour long, graphics-wise it's fairly bland and uninteresting, so on and so forth.
Fallout NV has no real mechanical difference between it and Fallout 3, but the moment I tried playing it, I was hooked, and hooked bad. Character creation is quick and to the point, you have an immediate problem you have to solve, and the starting area can be summarily ignored with multiple paths taken to get to your next objective.
To paraphrase someone else, 'A good game has you solving a murder. A really good game has you solving your own murder...'
It's not a terrible game, but it railroads you thru the main quest with little real choice. Join the Brotherhood, I won't spoil the rest. NV OTOH lets you side with one of several factions or even just side with yourself. Far more choice to play good or evil or something in between.
New Vegas only- New fallout but with the least amount of Bethesda
I keep hearing that. So Fallout 3 isn’t worth it either?
I had a ton of fun with Fallout 3. I was living outside of DC at the time, so it was nice to see a bunch of landmarks surrounded by radioactive sludge and super mutants.
"it's the same image"
Unfortunately, there is nothing super about our mutants.
And then you played the game?
Fallout 3 is fine and all but its main story is pretty weak. And without getting into spoilers, the ending involves some bullshit because development schedule was so crunched for time that they weren't able to take into account certain companions you might have access to. And originally the player was railroaded into a bullshit ending until the DLC fixed it.
I would recommend playing it before New Vegas.
And some others might be able to clarify but apparently Fallout 3 does not gel well with the lore setup that 1+2 provide. 3 was the first game made by Bethesda after the original developers.
Fallout 3 doesn't make sense. It's an apocalypse story, but it's supposed to be a story about the post-post apocalypse. It's set 200 years after the war, but there's still grocery stores with potable canned goods in them. Fucking what?
It just copies things from the first 2 Fallouts without thinking if they make sense or not. IMO never play it because it's dumb.
That ending. Here go suicide... Except we had a (or could have one) robot companion. Or the super mutant too which are cannonically rad immune.
Also, why have a starter button inside a radiation chamber and not outside? thats just so bad.
I wouldn’t tell anyone not to play it, there’s even a mod called A Tale of Two Wastelands that combines it with New Vegas.
I’m replaying it myself right now but playing FO3 so close to NV just highlights how lame it is in comparison.
Fallout 3 is alright in a vaccuum. If you like Elder Scrolls games, you'll probably like it just fine. It's just not a very good Fallout game, and the story is really weak and nonsensical.
Buy fallout 3 & New Vegas, then download Download A Tale of Two Wastelands.
It basically rectifies all mistakes and bugs between the two, adds some good QoL stuff not originally present, and is probably the best way to play them Vanilla+.
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It's super buggy. Tons of crashes and freezes on newer hardware
Bad shooting, retarded story, lame world, dumb quests.
It was fun as an early example of an open world shooter looter but there are many better examples now.
Even Fallout 4 was better if only by having improve gunplay (the world and setting are still tarded).
I tried to play Fallout 3. It was a slog. After 12 hours or so, I gave it up - bad quest design, the starting area is an hour long, graphics-wise it's fairly bland and uninteresting, so on and so forth.
Fallout NV has no real mechanical difference between it and Fallout 3, but the moment I tried playing it, I was hooked, and hooked bad. Character creation is quick and to the point, you have an immediate problem you have to solve, and the starting area can be summarily ignored with multiple paths taken to get to your next objective.
To paraphrase someone else, 'A good game has you solving a murder. A really good game has you solving your own murder...'
Should I start with 1 and 2?
You can, but you don't need to. They're old top-down isometric games a la Diablo, whereas New Vegas... yeah. It's interesting, but not critical.
It's not a terrible game, but it railroads you thru the main quest with little real choice. Join the Brotherhood, I won't spoil the rest. NV OTOH lets you side with one of several factions or even just side with yourself. Far more choice to play good or evil or something in between.