Why am i writing this overwiev.. i asked myself.. well i hope in a little bit that i can change future or point for younger generations of developers not to do this mistake.. again, but it seems it happens rather too frequent this days...
(i will make few comparisons on game sequels which died pretty fast)

This is somewhat hate post on fallout 3 as it didnt fullfil its role as its 2 predecesors.

Mainly why i am antagonized ^^ (love the costume) is because this game is named FALLOUT 3.. if it was named with any other name i wouldnt play it and that's a fact.

I have a feeling like i have been robbed by purchasing this game, thats is also a reason why i must say something.

As much as i would like to i could write 10 pages of complaint on this topic but i wont, because no one would read this i guess

Here we go,

I will not be narrow minded as some people, and even as i am veteran fallout player i say this style of fps play doesnt bother me.. its kinda fresh,
honestly remove the pipboy form game and i wouldnt be able to say if that was fallout sequel at all.
What made fallout 1 and 2 so great and lets say master of orion 2 (do i dare mention mOO 3 just for you who havent tried it do try to understand what i am saying; which was all out disaster) and heroes franchise 1-5 except 4th sequel which is a miss also is the "feel" of the game which i had none.
What makes the "feel" of the game? i will strictly talk for fallout games. First of all no random encounters omg ppl what are you doing? You put LUCK stat in FPS game? How in the gods name LUCK can affect anything?
Dont try to tell me you can find more caps in lockers... that's crap... random encounter; u come across crashed shuttle damn that's nice, this time you have to FIND it ? I played with LUCK on 1 and didnt miss anything < that's sad
Music... omg i had feeling i was playing morrowind all the time, whats with the fantasy crap mood? You need to put gloomy music, fear of unknown as it was in 1 & 2, svcker for good music and that's how i build my rating for the game..
baldurs gate 2 menu, omg that is epic menu music and even through ALL the game, no exceptions awesome music, no mistake there.... i mean did any of you developers played any fallout sequel?
Cant stress enough about details details and details again!
Entering talk dialog with npc i was welcomed by green electronic something with multiple answer choice... what happend ppl with creating detailed consoles? that also happened in neverwinter 2 i mean you put for inventory some kinda 16x16 field
and u put items there? omg... someone is lacking some serious imagination deprivation!!
Cant help it but i have to say baldurs gate 2 again... did anyone notice that whole playing "console" gives feel it was made of stone? Press new game and like you are pushing a brick in the wall... awesome < example of detail
back to fallout 3... creating your own weapons out of trash? and that steam gun noise what the hell? really not necesseary, what you should have put is authentic weapons, more UNIQUE weapons... you would say creating your own weapon is unique, but its
not its crap, because its made out of crap.

I must come to stop since i see this will not end so soon. Why i played it to the end? Well i hoped that there would be a narative talk about ALL places you have visited and heard what DIFFERENCE YOU HAVE MADE.
but no its just some global generic garbage with few differences on topic < very bad
Overall rating of this game i give it solid 4 out of 10
3 goes on graphic, and 1 on everything else

Oh and one question why do you guys have the need to build fps/rpg games balanced for explore? You really should implement zones in a game... if you are lvl 5 with that or this skill you cant kill a mutant for the love of god!!!
Didnt had any trouble playing game at all... give at least a little challenge... you dont have to make insanly tough but just enough to make it interesting... all in all i had a boring playing experience.

Unfortunatley i fear that age of games made from gamers for the gamers, is long gone :/
I'will stop writing while i still can becasue this will turn out in all out hatred towards todays games, because i just managed to angry myself.. lol.

This post was also overwiev to the current gaming industry in some remark. I fear for diablo 3, honestly (nothing beats diablo 1, hope i am wrong but not likely)

For the end i give congrats to brave souls who have read this whole futile remark of an angry hardcoe gamer for life, cheers

Very biased .... of course your "legacy" for future is just rant on what you want, and why you are frustrated; but comming to objective facts, this game have nothing to do with Morrowind, except Bethesda. Man what hell did you found that make you think like that? What is fantasy medieval on it?

Besides, i think the 50' tunes add a very nice feeling about an crazy world suddenly departed

You can have your own feelings about the game, like anyone else. Surely it doesnt suit all people, and i am sure that no game would, but all i can say is that the game is a great success, and a lot of veteran fans like it too and consider it worth.

I can't make any sense out half of what he says.

Remove pipboy? Baldurs Gate 2 menu? Putting items in an inventory is unorigional?

Overwiev> What's an Overwiev?

No random encounters? So he never encountered the Raider initiation? The Alien spaceship exploding? The wastelander with a bomb strapped to him or her?

Probably found he couldn't play it like Half-Life or Crysis and kept dieing so decided to pick at non-exsistant flaws.

There is a "magic", imaginative place, called "fallout 1/2" where some people live their dreams. There is not limited to the "physical" games, but much beyond, deep on fantasy, people dont remember of the bugs and flaws on Fallout 2. All they see is that Fallout3 is threating this "magical" place.

Well, there's that as well.

Of Course, i'm convinced most of these 'Huge' fallout fans weren't even around when the first two Fallout's came out and their only contact with the Fallout world previously was Brotherhood of Steel. They then purchased Releases of FO1+2 and played em a little, but claim they're their favourite games because it's 'Trendy'. And for them, slagging off Fallout 3 is also 'Trendy'.

It's like listening to some singer becuase they won a TV talant show regardless of the fact they can barely carry a tune.

Also there's alos the fact Bethesda did the game rather than the original teams.

I still think majority is of old players. Anyway, people is frustrated because over the years and the frustrated fo3 van buren people got fanatical about the content, and the rage went much more big when FO3 became a very popular game, thus a lot of people threated the "magical land of fallout 1/2 Dreams".

They hate the game because it is simple, but good, and a lot of people can play.

Indeed, Fallout 2 was buggy, rushed, and in some parts, unfallouty at all.

The same things can be said about Fallout 3, though, even if it's unfallouty in different parts than Fallout 2.

That is true... Thats why I say it, to remind everyone that once upon a time, it was fallout 2 that was in a similar position.

So in the end fallout can and cant be found on the games, so it is each own decision what is and what is not "fallout"?

I agree with much of what was said here. And as for MOO3 - that was apile of trash. I still play MOO2 networked as nothing beats it. Birth Of the Federation came close and I can play that somewhat.

As for Fallout 3, there is some hope when the SDK gets released.

Thats partially it. The other part is the whole "Rose Coloured Glasses" angle...

Do you really believe that?

I think that if we just ignore the people who post threads like these, they'll eventually go away. Some people can be so negative. :fallout: