Why fallout 3 is the best game ever

What do you need help on? Cancel X. Topic Archived Page 1 2 3 4 5 of 5 Next Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. Boards PlayStation 4 Fallout 3 is still the best open world game I have ever played. User Info: Shadow-Moses. So obviously you are lying when you say Fallout 3 is the best open world game you have ever played. Currently Playing: Guardians of the Galaxy. User Info: Avirosb.

Does Witcher 3 have guns? They follow the same checklist algorithm as every other open world game these days. Shadow-Moses posted You can see its influence all over the game.

Yeah Fallout 3 is one of a kind. Ive sunk s of hours into it. If they ever did a remaster it would outsell fallout 4 without a doubt A indie game studio releases a horror game and no one bats a eye. Another game studio even hints at a new silent hill and everyone loses their minds!! User Info: Triod. I thought FO3 was pretty disappointing mainly because I was hoping it'd be more like a fallout and less like morrowind with guns.

The perk system is a very underrated part of the game. Oblivion had a lot more exploring, but it was more generic than fallout3. Fallout3 does run into the problem of monotonous scenery and a pretty lame story. F3 is a good balance of depth and interface that I never get bored of. Fallout 3 is a good game but is not the best game ever, that is a matter of opinion. Doctalen , January 24, UTC.

I completely disagree. The fallout history is one of the most interesting, mind blowing plots in the history of sci fi video gaming. And remember the story is very dark humor through the whole game, but believe me the first 2 fallouts where a non-stop laughter at least in dialogues! I don't really focus on the negatives, because there aren't many games out that aren't open-ended like this one.

The storyline can be annoying, but I like Fallout 3 just the way it iz. I'm sorry, the best game ever belongs to the Crowbar'ed One. Fallout Wiki Explore. Fallout 3; what could I possibly say about this legend that hasn't already been said? Quite possibly the best rpg I've ever played. My god what a wonderful world Bethesda immerses you in. I used to play this game on and off as a kid but the disc I had was scratched so I was never able to get far before it'd freeze screen. Coming back to it years and years later, this is a top tier video game experience.

Making a certain person jealous to the point where you drive them to murder is just some of the hidden things you can do in this ginormous game. The vats system really makes this game especially cool and unique too imo. But after reading a feature on fallout 3 a good while before its release i was interested.

And Then when trailers started coming out i built up my excitement. And i have my copy. And have just finished playing through it. Basic story is you come out your mothers womb where your greeted into the world by Liam Neeson Your Father from the birth you choose your name and appearance.

Then a couple of years later your a baby and choose your basic skills. Several years later Liam Neeson does the unspeakable and leaves the safety of the vault into the perils of the nuclear wasteland. And what kind of story would it be if you didn't go after him? Now, the introduction of the game in the vault is all very cool and introduces vault life well but the game really gets good once you leave and see the wasteland for the first time. Because you've been underground for so long your eyes take time to adjust and when they do you see the frighteningly real nucleur wasteland in all its glory, it really sends out some shivers.

The environment is where the game really shines. They have the wasteland looking fantastic and there are just some beautiful levelled buildings or standing buildings and it looks fantastic. Down to combat. The game can be played in first or third person view. Shooting in first person takes a little getting used to and most people will very often use the games best gameplay mechanic the V.

Basically it stops time so you can strategically pinpoint gunshots on the enemies The sound is really good also. Particularly in the music. After a while i found myself humming or whistling every upbeat 50's tune in the game.

But alas its not perfect. Yes the wastland is very expansive and beautiful but if your trying to find a specific location then you could just randomly wander around and when you think your going the right way your blocked by RUBBLE.

And sometimes these random areas you walk about in contain enemies that you may not be ready to fight yet. Also your character is like a virtual pet. But these few problems don't take away from the full experience but you will have to put up with them so get used to it. Fallout3 has to to be one of my games of the year this year and definitely somewhere in my all time favourties.

The world is so huge in this game that you can play for months and probably still not see everything. Great Kitsch and retro props. Robby the Robot look-a-likes, haunting background music and excellent nostalgic music from the likes of Bob yes Bob not Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Bessie Smith and so on. Each quest has you going until you have completed it, rarely will you get bored. Don't annoy anyone or you may be damned for all time! Excellent Graphics and great in 3D. Definitely a keeper.

File it away to play again at a later date because it is one of those games that sucks you in and takes you away to another place and time. I can barely find a negative thing to say about FO3 except be careful not to end the game too fast, there is a point of no return when you have no choice but to complete the game, just make sure you have explored the whole map but then again its entirely up to you.

Liam 5 June Fallout 3. Now as a huge fan, I was expecting much, and my expectations were very well met. The world is huge, the variety is there, the humour is there and the awesome fun is there too!

The fun is endless, it has a fantastic storyline, the characters are some of the best I've seen and the choices you make are really cool too. I've never seen a game like it, really I haven't. Whenever the name of developer Bethesda softworks pops up, people immediately think of The Elder Scrolls RPG-games, and for good reasons.

But when the news came that Bethesda was going to take over the classic turn-based RPG Fallout people were a bit sceptic. The game resembles a Elder Scrolls-game in a few ways, but other then that it is different. The dialogues are all done in audio, much like in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion and the first-person perspective is simular as well.

But don't think this is a simple shooting-game because if you do you will probably be sorely disappointed. You level up by completing quests and doing other stuff that you can find in the Wasteland. You can just simply shoot enemy's or use VATS, which is a aiming-system that lets you freeze the game and aim for different bodyparts depending on how close you are to the enemy and your accuracy.

Weapons like the Hunting Rifle are pretty useless on lower levels since your accuracy is just way off then. One of the only minor complaints I have is the duration of the main-quest. I finished the game in about 2 days and it can be accomplished even faster if you skip some of the sidequests and such.

There are also some minor bugs in the game, and the occasional use of annoying invisible barriers as well. Those barriers also limit your freedom quite a bit and prevents the game from becoming as freeroaming as any of the Elder Scrolls-games. The graphics though are impressive and probably the best up till now on XBox Bethesda are undoubtly talented at designing detailed landscapes.

In conclusion; Fallout 3 is by no means a masterpiece unlike some claims by the media but just a fun RPG that is pretty easy to get into. Best Fallout game Moviememmer 25 October One of my favourite games. Margera 20 November Now, some can take a moment and say that this game is promoting the utter demolition of the US of A and others can say that this game is a violence-filled catastrophe that begs the question "Why do we like seeing brains and eyeballs splash against our screens in ultra slow-mo?

C could've looked like had the Red Scare been totally right in every respect. The game has a sense of nostalgia while keeping to the tried and true form of blowing everything to bits and asking questions never that we've seen a hundred times over In the gun-toting RPG developed by the minds who brought us the brilliance that is the realistic sword-fighting, cave-spelunking of Oblivion, you play a young man who emerges from one of the many underground "vaults" dotting the post-nuclear wasteland to find his or her father, who's left the vault in search of something that's completely unbeknown to the rest of the vault-dwellers.

Leaving the vault-in-turmoil, you venture through the nuclear-draped wasteland of our nation's capital. Walking down the road a piece, you meet a flying robot, tossing out words from the "president" John Henry Eden, who seems pretty content with gratifying everyone that everything is gonna be a-okay in the capital wastes.

You know that's a bunch of baloney and you haven't even been out of your hole for more than 10 minutes. Walking up a dirt sideroad, you come across a makeshift town called Megaton. The door, which has been fashioned out of two aircraft wings and an jet engine, open up as a clunky old robot greets you with a friendly "Howdy, partner" in a voice not different from Mr.

Stephen Hawking's. You enter the town, and a man named Lucas Simms states that he hasn't seen one of those vault uniforms you're wearing in ages.

That's when you realize just how interesting things are about to get. Starting from early childhood, going through a brief period of being a baby, to being a 10 year old, to taking an aptitude test as a 16 year old, and eventually leaving the fault at 17, you can develop and relate to the character you create.

The story is well-written, definitely a mark of professionalism instead of just leaving the character in an extraordinary situation with guns. The game is a major test of morality, earning you karma points or losing you karma points ultimately depending on what you choose to do. Should you help the talking tree?

Or leave it to another eternity of torment? It sounds weird now, just wait till you're there. Zur does well to reproduce a sound that feels like it's being carried along the winds of the wastes, or echoing through the worn hallways of an abandoned vault. The music never becomes repetitive or annoying, instead, you may find yourself humming "Way Back Home" by Bing Crosby while you're hanging with friends.

While this will get you many weird looks from your peers, it may just be the bridge across the age gap. It was a joy to explore the endless array of unique locations that are reminiscent of what used to be D. The city itself is beautifully reproduced. Climb the steps of Capitol Hill, walk down Pennsylvania Avenue or loot the many remaining office buildings, trainstations and homes of olden days D. The possibilities are endless and unique, just be sure to bring your hunting rifle.

Leaving little to expectation and more to imagination, your required to actually survive your experience in this survival RPG. The one thing that upset me the most was that you cannot level up past a certain point, leaving many of the perks to be experienced in a second game, also once the story ends, the game ends, unlike Oblivion in which you could continue exploration.

Their emotions and actions are felt by the gamer in ways that are normally absent in shooter games of Fallout's intensity. If you kill a character, you're going to either feel righteous in your actions or feel like a douchebag for shooting that settler in the face. It's won Game of the Year more than 80 times, a well-deserved amount. Bethesda took their policy of "Go anywhere, do anything" to extreme lengths with this game.

With gratuitous violence, a gripping storyline, amazingly rendered environments, unbridled exploration, shiny new technology and a kickass fighting system, Fallout 3 offers little upsetting points and more fun and exciting gameplay that's rarely seen in a game of this genre.

I hope to see more like this from Bethesda in the future. The game has a lot of things going for it: mostly great graphics, amazing voice acting for a game , a fresh new control system, action, gore and lots of classic Fallout style. This is enough to make it a very playable and entertaining game for most people, but there are many detracting points which will likely keep it from being No. The graphics are marred by some glitches and some poor animations which seriously distract the player from the otherwise startlingly realistic world the game creates.

Furthermore, some poor decisions were made in regard to the game-play. Most notably is the lack of any form of transportation other than walking which makes for some times when the player will have to spend 30min-1hr just to get from one part of the map to another. The difficulty is also very unbalanced with the main quest being extremely easy while random encounters throughout the wasteland can sometimes be frustratingly difficult. Typical RPG fare like money, items, shops, repair shops and visiting the doc are also useless in Fallout 3 which I feel leaves the game feeling a little too streamlined.

Along those lines, the game also feels streamlined in the sense that the VATS targeting system is only really necessary in the beginning of the game for once the player hits a certain low percentage for their weapon proficiency they can blast away in first person mode with near perfect accuracy thus negating the whole point of stats.

Also the game is made a bit too easy by the fact that healing is extremely easy. Any ailment can be instantly healed by stimpacks which are ever-present in massive quantities. Also beds are everywhere and the player need only sleep for an hour not real-time and fully recover from any ailment for free! Thanks to the above, I was able to beat the game and complete most of the side-quests in about 35hrs. Considering that most of that time was spent jogging from place to place the game only lasts about 10 hours.

Now do not get me wrong, those 10hrs are some very fun 10hrs, hence I describe this game as "good" just not "great.

Tinmancr 21 October I rated a 7 purely on fun and modularity from the GECK. I have played all of the real Fallout games and most of the knock offs. Positives All of it Cons None of it Not my favorite in the series but its still fantastic. Fallout 3 is by far one of the BEST games that has ever been created. For a game to make a comeback like it did, Bethesda poured their hearts and souls to give us this masterpiece.

While the gameplay is not perfect, such as the Halo like aiming and Karma system, it makes up for it with a stellar story, interesting characters, and immersive gameplay. I've played almost every Bethesda game. Doom, Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, you name it, I've played it, and nothing can compare well, except Zelda Breath of the Wild to such an open world sandbox game such as Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

Great game. It's definitly a must have. There is not much to say here. I rediscovered this game after i got to enjoy the RPG genre. Oblivion i still have to try. I liked Skyrim, although it was bugged in quests. But Fallout 3 just was a little gem. Amongst games like Bioshock 1 and 2. Borderlands 1 and 2. Fallout 3 is very depressing and dramatic in it's art but i love the dark atmosphere. Very very addictive game and i played thought it in a single hour breath.

You can complete it in lesser time but you miss out the fun little things what makes this game so great. One little spoiler: the vehicle explosions at night. You will never get bored of them. If it's and you have't played this game. Please pick up a copy and get to it. It's a blast. A Nuclear Blast! The world lies in ruins. For dozens of years it has been recovering from an enormous nuclear war, and yet, mankind has reached its lowest as they take shelter from the pools of radiation that inhabit Washington DC.

Story - That's quite a common flow of a story, the post-apocalyptic type, and it's one that seasoned gamers might be familiar with. The game itself is quite enthralling, with a gripping line of main quests accompanied by several side ones. It's the story of a child who lives in Vault , one of the protection shelters where people live and die in without the threats of the outside world, until the child's dad leaves.

The player is then forced to leave the confines of the vault and looks for him in the open wasteland. Downloadable Content - Fallout 3's creators, Bethesda, has created some downloadable quests for the players of the game. The few that have gone out by mid have impressed me greatly.

Operation: Anchorage is a mission in which the player assumes control of a soldier in the early years of the atomic war fighting Chinese communists in Alaska.

This is great, because the main game is mostly wandering and talking without much element of combat, but Operation: Anchorage is trudging harsh climates and battling lots of those Chinese foes all the way. Into the Pitt was a story about Pittsborough, a city which has survived most of the nuclear disasters and is still standing, but now the player has to unlock a secret consuming the entire wasteland, but to do that he'll have to infiltrate the city and escape alive.

Broken Steel takes the story of Fallout 3 even further, as it unlocks a new section of the main storyline. The player allies with the Brotherhood of Steel, a major protagonist faction in the game, and undertake a mission that would cleanse the wasteland of the game's antagonist faction. Point Lookout is also a great experience, because it transports you to a new, undiscovered location which is a place filled with quests and whatnot. But the main thing is, buy the game, because even if you've finished the bulk of the campaign, there's still so much out there.

It is rather Particularly because it's fetching quite a high score for what amounts to single player WoW retread for adults. But I guess when you have Oskar Schindler playing the father this sort of thing was inevitable. It's a role playing game with guns instead of force lightning and much contrived swearing and performance-enhancing drugs crowbared in for R rating notoriety.

Well thought out, incredibly well scored and occasionally well acted. Aforesaid child bothered me so much I later attempted to sell him to the Slavers. Only changing my mind at the last minute as I didn't want to effect my oh so precious Karma and miss out on the 'good' ending