Post-Launch Review: Fallout 3 : Fallout 3

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:09 am

This week Post-Launch Reviews covers Fallout 3. Overall the review is quite positive except for all the bug complaints.

What do you think? Accurate or no?

http://postlaunch.blogspot.com/2011/09/fallout-3.html

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:59 am

I'd debate a couple of points, namely that the Capital Wasteland feels empty and that it should look much better than it currently does. While a reasoned argument could absolutely be made for the Capital Wasteland being in much better shape than it is in FO3, equally, one can make a reasoned argument in the opposite direction.

Plus, there's a bit of a difference between a reactor meltdown and saturation bombardment by ICBMs.

I'd also disagree on the "massively buggy" point; it was buggy, certainly, but not massively so.

Also, this

Third, a problem that isn't a bug but is not immediately intuitive: you have to manually activate the DLC from the launcher by selecting the Data Files option and enabling each DLC pack. I discovered this when the game simply ended and credits rolled, instead of moving to any of the five post-game DLC's.

did not happen to me, although I suppose that it's because I was using FOMM at the time.

He also doesn't seem to realize that Broken Steel is the only DLC which would prevent the credits from rolling.

So yeah, I think he makes a fair amount of good points, but I'd challenge a couple of them based on my own personal playing experience.

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:32 pm

"some bugs and physics crashes only fixable by loading the game" - er, what?

"The Capital Wasteland is huge... and mostly empty." - I agree witr TheTuninator - the reviewer must have played a different game!

"then where is the plant life? Where are the animals? The only life I could find was some grass and moss" - he didn't discover the location with rich plant life then?

And it should be called "Way after the launch review"!

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:01 pm

those guys are asses.what do they mean its dreary to look at.theres just been a neuclear war,i dont expect rainbows and daisies,[censored]s

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:46 am

Fallout was never intended to be a realistic portrayal of a nuclear war.. If it was, everyone would be most definitely dead or the United States would've been fully reinstated by the events of Fallout 1 (80 years after the war)

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:55 am

It was massively buggy on the ps3 version.

» Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:19 am

My xBox version crashed once every two hours or so. The PS3 version crashed rarely. Loved the game so I continue to play it, but it really was buggier than it had any business being.

Side Note: PS3 New Vegas is just as buggy after downloading all of the add-ons :sigh: