I'm hoping this reaches the eyes of a dev, for I am a long time TES fan but never tried Fallout 3 until just very recently, and I am 89 hours into my playthrough. I have played enough of the game to form a solid opinion and I'd like to provide feedback to the talented folks at Bethesda Games Studios.

This game came out in 2008 and its now the end of 2011. I know the Creation Engine exists and Fallout 4 will probably utilize it. But Fallout 3 looks great and I'm sure will be even better looking when 4 comes out.

Fallout 3 is a blast, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Great fun. Interesting NPCs, quests and story. Love the 50's feel. I will keep my suggestions for Fallout 4 very simple and extremely basic:

-Larger open world area with greater detail and larger cities/more NPCs. Jobs or activities like Skyrim and an even richer economic system.

-More custom weapons. Finding schematics is a blast, and the range of custom weapons impressive. Expand upon this and offer even more.

-Armor/weapon degradation should remain for Fallout (since it is Fallout) but it should occur at a much, much slower rate than in FO3. Removing it may make the survivalist atmosphere a little less important.

-More lockpicks available. I appreciate the scarcity of lockpicks, but its a little to scarce imo. And I'm a thorough looter.

-Keep the hands on approach to looting. I love finding caps on a table or picking up items just laying about.

-More variety in appearance of building interiors/caves.

-Higher max level with a soft level cap. I maxed out at level 20 very early. I loved the perk system, should work great for Skyrim, too.

-Greater use of light from the Pip-Boy or a flashlight. Give light more meaning instead of minor effect on the environment. This could play and key role in building more of a creepy/crawly atmosphere in spots.

-Please keep V.A.T.S., and improve gunplay without going pure shooter. This is key and helps differentiate Fallout 3 from a shooter. Better gunplay but ALWAYS based of Skill of the Player Character.

-Wider selection of armor and upgrades with maybe some augmentation slots for power armor. 'Augmenters' would be terrific.

-Please bring back Mirelurks and Deathclaws.


Again, very basic suggestions, but wanted to provide feedback. Fallout 3 is a terrific game, I'm having a lot of fun.

then dont play fallout new veges. those two games are like night and day, where one have good game play but lacks lets say depth, and the other have depth but have a crap game play.. lol im just saying

I think i know which ones are which, but anyway i would say new vegas has good game play but lacks depth and the other has depth and epic game play WITH MODS!. FO3 with mods blows new vegas out of the water IMO.

Glad you like it OP.

Not really.

They are very similar in many ways. Its just that Fallout 3 doesn't focus on storyline or writing (while diverting effort to exploration and world building) and New Vegas focuses primarily on these exact things as well as gameplay mechanics.



How does New Vegas have "crap gameplay"?

-Weapon customization (and more weapons in general)

-More joinable factions

-Crafting for all sorts of items

-Harder difficulty

-Improved SPECIAL and character creation

-Damage Threshold

-Better economy system

...and the list goes on.

it depends what game you percieve to be which descriptive statement, for me its the other way around.

F3 and FNV have more in common than they are different. I cant understand how you can love one and hate the other, theyre pretty much the same game... FNV = F3 with desert.

To sympathyforsaren:

Do you like the game?

Install some mods. I suggest FWE, MMM, VMK, compatibility patch... and a day-night mod like Fellout. Start again and enjoy.

Im enjoying like a child, with a game made in 2008...

I will soon come back to TES with Skyrim but... I little bit more of Fallout before.