The ghouls, somebody has already pointed out.

The weapons: FO2 had some goofy ones in itself. The Holy Hand Grenade, Phaser, Solar Scorcher and several real-world weapons that were severely out of place due to the time period. The Desert Eagle, Pancor Jackhammer, and so on.

NPCs: Am I the only one that remembers the legion of NPCs that had around five rotating lines total that'd scroll over their head when you clicked on them? FO3 just has less of those standing around, that's all.

As far as the realism complaints, Bethesda's just going for Rule of Cool over uber-realistic. If FO3 (or 1, or 2 for that matter) were too realistic, they wouldn't have been so fun.

i believe that ranting or stating what you find lacking in a sequel necessary, if we didn't moan and groan about what we didn't like would the producers of anything do squat? no, they would do the same crap over again because they think we liked the last one. if anything, [censored] some more! don't blam him for saying what he thinks and calling him petty names and insulting him.
the game was good but nothing compared to F2.

*facepalm*

You lost me completely at the Ghoul section. That was failure.

It was better because it worked. No need for 1 terrabyte of patches and it was ready to play when it came out. Fallout 3 is still indevelopment but the company needed money so the threw a beta test copy out and want money for it.

has this guy even played Fallout 3....after reading his rambling commentary it seems like he hasn't even played F1 and F2 either.

I get a kick out of this complaint. The same people whining that fallout 3 was not as good as fallout 1 & 2, were probably whining fallout 2 was not as good as fallout 1 when 2 came out. And they were probably whining that fallout 1 had all kinds of issues when that game first came out. Bottom line, some people are just crybabies that like to whine about everything.

I don't think this guy gave the game a chance. The simple fact that he had thought that the only friendly ghoul was Gob tells me that he barely played the game before writing complaints. I mean, how could you possibly make that conclusion? Ill tell you how: He played the game for 10 minutes then dropped it.

Fallout 3 has less open freedom than Fallout 2? Fallout 3 has linear gameplay? Fallout 3 has immersion-free NPCs? I'm sorry, these are all clear signs that you haven't played the game. At all. Even if you hate Fallout 3, you can't deny that it has all those things. The only way you could is if you didn't play the game.

Lol.

Never lost your car then I take it.

FO2 was a rush job with so much left out, and full of bugs... It seemed like everytime you used dynamite it wanted to crash.

right on i love fall out 3 i've played the others before and shooting ghouls is just oen way of helping tehm they just want to die but can't so i think of it as giving them a helping hand in life by ending it for them. :gun: :flamethrower:

If you had high intelligence and high speech, you could convince the slavers to stop trading slaves, and get them to free Vic.

You seem to have played a different Fallout 2 than I did. How did you manage that one?

TO MAL DUPONT

You don't know about fallout 1 and 2 because you were 8 years old at that time!
Don't worry about it kid, we all missed something......

Hummm.....

Well, I have fallen asleep during combat in FO1 (didn't like it enough to play FO2), but not during Oblivion, so my guess is that my FO3 experience will be interesting enough to keep me awake as well.

As for realism, people die when they are shot a couple times unless they end up in hospital, so complaining about other aspects of the game being unrealistic is silly.

Yes you're a sheltered gamer. Seriously if you never knew of fallout before FO3 then you're obviously just a console player or someone who never played PC games.

Maybe we are living at different places but I've seen ads on tv and the internet, hell even some mags. and i been to a couple of gamestops and blockbuster and have you seen the fallout posters and cardboard cut outs... but like i said maybe its the place,

this is not a random encounter..... random encounter is finding an alien blaster or finding four people fighting for water in a fridge, this by the way did happen to me while playing falllout 3 ..... but to answer the guys questions random encounters do happen in the game

I never said it was a "random" encounter but just a general encounter that caught my interest in respond to that particular npc mentioned on previous post. :rolleyes: