I'd like to know your opinions on fallout 3 in comparison with fallout 1,2.Is it "oblivion with guns"?
I didn't have the chance to play fallout 3,because my computer specks svck(can't even get the damn thing to start) and im piss poor.
I'll but a video card in the near future so i can finally play the damn thing,and mass effect,but until then have your say.

People make it sound like Oblivion with Guns... It is not.

Fallout 3 is something completly different and is a worthy sequel in my opinion. It really refreshed the Fallout series! I hate games like FIFA, coz it's almost exactly the same each time (I don't like sports anyways) Game companies that release a sequel after a year, then another sequel the year after etc.... that svcks.

Yeah, I bet if Fallout 3 was made before Oblivion, they'd be calling Oblivion "Fallout with swords."

:rolleyes:

I really think it's hard to compare to FO1&FO2, we're trying to compare an isometric RPG to a FPS RPG?

In terms of the atmosphere of the game, I feel the content falls more in line with FO1, not anything like all the modern weaponry and annoying pop culture reference from number 2 (thank god)

I hated the first two Fallouts. No, I'm not a graphics troll, I just think the game play was a bit... blocky? Not enough immersion.

But Fallout 3 is something else, a wonderful game! :fallout:

Agreed I must say, a good way to put it.

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It feels very similar to Oblivion - but with a very different atmosphere. There isn't really much plot to compare

Personally, I dislike Oblivion, but love Fallout 3 to bits.

Fallout 3 in comparison to Fallout 1 and 2 is a far more developed and immersive game, with far more content and ways to play the game as well. Great as 1 and 2 were at the time, and are still good oldies to play I guess, but Bethesda has managed to cram so much more into Fallout 3 with content and play, that it is a fantastic follow-on.

Fallout 3 is not anything like Oblivion with guns, it's a completely different game. They are both role-play games doing role-play things, but the contents of each game are so different that the games are totally different ... and you will be immersed into Fallout 3.

I think that Fallout 3 is a good sequel to the previous games. Bringing the series to this century with clear connections to the previous games, but at the same time respecting their setting by moving the game to the other coast.

its fallout 1 and 2 in real time. Simple as that.

To be completely honest, Ive only played the Elder Scroll games up until recently til someone told me that the company that makes those games makes the Fallout series. I never played the first 2 Fallouts but Im absolutely hysterical over Fallout3. When Im playing it, I try to find something about that I can complain about, but theres nothing that I can see.

yeah. but besides the oasis, you can kinda start to feel that depression feeling from all the doom and gloom after playing it for awhile. But it's still really addicting. I wish the ps3 expations would come out. Cause there's nothing else to play now. And what's with some of the other vaults having like a partial story line with a bunch of clues, making you feel like it's some cool quest or something, then it all of asudden stops. no more clues or leads. lame!

When i first saw it i was like that looks dumb, but then i was watching G4 and was like wow this game looks awesome. And then i heard people at school saying it was Oblivion with guns, and well it is not. Not even close. I havnt been paying much attention, But is there a Fallout 4 coming out Maybe even a Elder scrolls 5?

Fallout 3 is what I dreamt/fantasized of when I played Fallout and Fallout 2, thou the 3 implementation really still needs the 'core verboten language. Oh and comparing it to Oblivion is in one sense absolutely correct, i.e. that both has a limited population and worse, a monotone dialogue as well as the ability to have a great dialogue with NPC's (I wanna be able to write me own *drolls* abuses)

First of all...



Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 have story lines that make sense. You have got to be kidding me if you think Fallout 3's storyline makes any sense at all. First of all, let's point out some obvious plot holes in the game. Why are the Super Mutants on the East Coast? Why are the Brotherhood there? Why did Bethesda butcher the Brotherhood of Steel, and turn them into Paladins and Knights in shining armor? Etc.? Need I go on? Or how bout Jet, which is supposed to be a West Coast drug, but somehow ended up on the East Coast? Seriously? Oh, let's not even talk about Harold.

Then there's the irradiated water and desert land scape. By the time the 3rd game rolled around the water would not have been irradiated, and there should be plant life growing everywhere. Totally unrealistic. Ok, fine, it's a video game, I can deal with that. So Bethesda decides to put "fun" in place of realism. I can dig that. Many companies have done that successfully in fact. However, Bethesda did not. You know that Bethesda's storyline could have been at least decent, if not good, but their dialogue (which has been their weakest point) really killed it.

Then of course, there's the amazing shoulder mounted nuclear warhead launcher known as the Fatman. No. Just no. This weapon in itself is a symbol of the game itself. It's a fun weapon, I admit. Blow things up, cause mayhem, etc. But it's not realistic, doesn't fit into the storyline, etc. In fact, to a normal human being, the weapon doesn't make any damn sense at all. Half of the game doesn't make any sense at all.







Ok, ok, ok. Fallout 3 doesn't have a great storyline, and it's "atmosphere" actually isn't that good either. It makes up in other aspects right? Like gameplay? Laughable. Fallout 3 is child's play. The difficulty of Fallout 3 is so enormously low, that it makes games like Mass Effect hard (which it really isn't at all). You have the almighty VATs, which means you can kill anything. Abuse of combat AI is still easy. Where you invest your skill points make no difference, as there's no true specialization in the game at all (especially if you have Broken Steel). Combat is bland at best. There are moments where it's enjoyable, but most of the time it's bland, boring, and the same thing over and over again.



Graphics? Fallout 3 isn't even near the top. Pretty good artwork, but not the greatest. Music, sound? Ok, they did a good job here I admit. About the only area that they did a good job in IMO.








Look, most hardcoe fans of the old series will tell you Fallout 3 is not a bad game. It's average. Above average at best (better than it's peers). It has many shortcomings (as did Fallout 1 and Fallout 2). However, Fallout 3 fails as a sequel. Truly fails. Bethesda had the chance to essentially start from scratch and make something special, but they decided to essentially copy and paste. And of course fans of the old series will be angry. Fallout 3 is nothing but a huge copy and paste job, with a storyline that makes no sense to boot. Part of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2's greatness were that they had great story lines.

I have been playing Fallout this summer and have put several hours into it so far. I have yet to find the stellar dialogue that die hard fans sing the praises of; I have only found very ordinary dialogue so far. I know I haven't found the best characters yet because the characters I've met so far have been very uncolorful and very ordinary IMO. It may be because my expectations had been raised so high by the fans on this forum. I'm having a lot of trouble getting into the game actually, and NOT because of the graphics. But the dialogue isn't so amazing, nor is the story so astounding. In fact, I find it to be quite compatible with FO3 and I feel quite at home in the game's atmosphere.

(well I haven't played one or two) but about the radiated water, I'm just guessing here, but I bet they're not suppose to be the same person. Therefor, wouldn't it just make sense that they might be happening at the same time surlock?

and about the jet, just because it's a west side drug doesn't mean it couldn't have traveled over to the east coast eventually. I mean people travel. We've already experienced that in expansion pack examples like the pitt and Point lookout. so just stop trying to find faults in Fallout 3 and worshiping an obviously obsolete games like fallout 1 and 2. I mean sure, they may be fun, but I've seen them before. And you can't get the full effect of an apocalyptic nuclear disaster from the way they made those games. Fallout 3 gives you that look around experience to really be able to get engrossed into the game and be able to see and observe a landscape like no other that truly captures the experience that the whole fallout series was trying to get across from the beginning.

and about the whole abusing the ai and how easy it is. How about you go to the settings and turn up the difficulty then smart one if it's to easy for you.

and also, i Don't know what game you're playing, but I haven't seen many games that are as good in graphics as Fallout 3. Maybe you should invest in an HD tv with 1080p then come talk to me about graphics. If you've ever played oblivion, or any other game made by them, so far this has been the best graphics wise. I mean don't get me wrong, I love oblivion too, It's just that some of the characters can look pretty fake. or like really round headed. I don't know how to explain it but I think the people who have played fallout 3 and Oblivion will know what I'm getting at. They fixed the problem with the face structure, and as for everything else in the game, no comment other than come talk to me after you've played it on a 1080p xbox360 version. ( cause for some reason the ps3 version is only 720p wich is lame. )

It's great while it lasts. Gets boring after awhile, sadly. I have to say DLC is the strongest point in my opinion. Gives over 4 hours each expansion, more if you're a person who likes to enjoy things to it's fullest. It's like the previous Fallouts in real time. It's great, definitely get for the PC if you want to have mods. Mods make the game even better XD.

yeah. I think ps3 player are kinda screwed with Bethesda games cause they get nothing at all bu the game. The only thing they've gotten on oblivion was shivering Isles and Knights of the nine. But good news, Fallout 3 addons coming to ps3 this november!! yay!

I think you're confusing "plot-holes" with "things that annoy you".

Fallout 1 and 2 where great.

But I got bored to Fallout 3 faster than Oblivion, or Fallout 1 and 2.
I truly miss turnbased combat of 1 and 2, but I could not see Fallout 3 played as turnbased.
Hopefully Bethesda will make Fallout 4 turnbased and more like first and second Fallout :nod:


And Oblivion with guns?

No, I never thought it that way...

Seriously? The players are screwed because all they get is the game? If FO3 is so bad then why would anyone want the DLC? I play on the 360 and have 4 of the DLC, but I think the original game is good enough to stand alone; it doesn't need the DLC. I got them because I could.



Please, no.

Fallout 3 can't keep me on even with mods and thats weird since I play Oblivion to these days just becouse of mods.

Fallout 3 just don't have it "something" what I felt when I first time wandered to wastes at Fallout 1.
But I don't say that Fallout 3 is bad game, it is just sequel to one of the greatest games ever made and it can't be compared to it


And yes, Fallout 4 must be turnbased or... :sadvaultboy:

It's Oblivion with guns, and that is a good thing.