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The Fallout 3 debate

What the community thinks of Fallout 3, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. lfarrell

    Great atmosphere, weak combat, that tension never really resolves for me.

  2. Mckenna_66

    It's aged rougher than New Vegas in almost every way except the sheer size of the world it hands you.

  3. NovaMaster

    Well, I still remember booting this up not knowing anything about Fallout and just losing an entire Saturday to it, no plan, no idea what I was doing.

  4. leilani_harber

    New Vegas did more with less budget and half the bugs, this one just had 200 hours of my life first.

    GhostByte2

    J'ai fait pareil, cent heures dessus avant même de toucher à New Vegas.

    RogueRider2008

    Deux cents heures pour un jeu que tu trouves finalement moins bon que l'autre, ça ne te semble pas contradictoire ?

    CapucineHunter

    Bugs, ou plutôt son charme.

    IronRider

    Doscientas horas suenan a mucho pero yo también perdí una temporada entera ahí sin darme cuenta, así que no juzgo a nadie.

    VinylByte

    So my roommate refused to touch it for months, then binged it alone in his room for two straight weekends and barely spoke to us.

    Jaime_95

    Yo tenía como quince años y jugué esto en casa de un amigo, no entendía ni la mitad de lo que pasaba pero no me importava.

    fatima_barragan

    Yo hice casi lo mismo, doscientas horas ahí metida antes de tocar cualquier otro Fallout, y no me arrepiento nada.

  5. SaveHunter

    First game I ever played where I just wandered instead of following the quest marker. Spent an hour in one building doing nothing.

    RogueLegend

    Passer une heure dans un bâtiment sans rien faire, ça prouve surtout que l'exploration fonctionnait, enfin fonctionnait sur toi en tout cas, est-ce que ça a vraiment marché pareil pour tout le monde ?

    RogueNinja97

    Same here, I remeber just opening doors for no reason to see whats inside.

  6. gjacobi

    I was stuck at home sick for a week when a friend lent me his copy, and I just wandered the wasteland the whole time instead of resting like I should have.

  7. NovaMaster2

    People act like this game invented nothing. It gave us the DC wasteland and everyone just moves on like that's nothing. It's not.

    ttoy

    It gave us the setting everyone still measures the series against, that part is true, though calling it inventive on every front ignores how much it borrowed from what came before it.

  8. NovaOwl

    Still remember the metro tunnels giving me actual anxiety.

  9. Kemmer94

    The main story falls apart if you think about it for more than five minutes, and the ending choices barely matter compared to what came after in the series. The wasteland itself carries the whole thing.

    CosmoSniper3

    If the ending choices barely matter, doesn't that make the wasteland itself the actual game, and if so why do we keep ranking it against story-heavy sequels like New Vegas instead of something like Far Cry 3?

  10. BerryRunner

    Oh sure, let's rank it below whatever's trending this month. Because clearly a decade of people replaying it means nothing compared to a shiny new checklist game with markers everywhere.

    HaileyKnight

    Honestly at this point I just replay it every winter, doesn't matter what anyone ranks it.

    SilentDragon

    Mon fils y joue maintenant, la ville détruite le fascine autant que moi à l'époque, ça vieillit si bien que ça ?

    NovaWolf1994

    I could be wrong but doesnt New Vegas basically prove you dont need trending gimmicks to beat this game on writing alone?

  11. GhostWolf1989

    The world design still holds up remarkably well years later, the quests and combat definitely don't, and somehow the whole thing keeps working anyway...

  12. BossHunter82

    New Vegas wins on writing, this one wins on atmosphere, simple as that.

    NovaAce2

    Wait, you're really giving New Vegas the writing crown and still saying this one wins anything? Bold take honestly.

    bdickinson

    rank whatever's trending lol ok but a decade of nostalgia votes isnt exactly proof of quality either

  13. rowe_trystan

    Rank 358 with a 52% win rate feels weirdly stable for a game this old, it just sits there duel after duel without moving much, and I keep wondering if that's because voters are split evenly or because most people voting have already decided years ago and nothing changes their mind anymore, which honestly might just be how these older titles settle once the initial wave of nostalgia voting passes.

    NovaRider

    Same feeling here, hard to tell which one it actually is.

    CoopAce

    the vats system carries a lot of the combat weight, without it the gunplay feels pretty stiff even by 2008 standarts

    TurboBard

    tourner en rond entre les mêmes ruines ouais mais c'est justement pour ça qu'il est resté aussi haut, pas malgré ça

  14. Faivre4

    Les combats sont rigides et l'IA fait n'importe quoi la moitié du temps, ça ne justifie pas cette place.

    Gamboa25

    Lo de la IA rota lo entiendo, me pasó mil veces, pero el CAOS de esos combates es justo lo que lo hace memorable para mí.

  15. FrameKid2

    Entiendo el entusiasmo por la ambientación, aunque para mí el combate siempre fue el punto débil, o más bien lo que más se nota con el tiempo, porque el VATS tapa bastante lo tosco que es el resto cuando lo apagas y disparas a mano. Aun así la sensación de soledad al explorar sigue funcionando, eso no se lo quito.

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