what u think of fallout 3?, What do you guys think of fallout 3? Options

[Badda-Tish]

I think the ending was sad in two ways (edited due to end of game spoilers - BSD)

but overall it was a great game, the AI wasnt perfect (and annoying sometimes) and I hate those kids in lamplight cavern.

btw. i wonder if uncle joe has to do with a quest or something?

[SubRosa]

I got it a few days ago. One thing I find very interesting is that it runs smoother than Oblivion, in spite of being a newer game, with better graphics. I am wondering if that is because FO3 was made to take advantage of multi-core processors?

FO3 has its good points and bad points. The graphics are good, the action is very exciting, especially because of the cinematic feel that V.A.T.S. brings.

It is very similar to Oblivion in that it gives you an open sandbox to play in, where you can just wander around to your heart's desire and never do the main quest if you do not want to. Likewise many of the quests have the same kind of feel to Oblivion, although in the Fallout universe the fetch and carry nature of them makes a lot more sense. As one npc says "Hey, if traveling through the wasteland was easy, I'd do it!" There seem to be more encounters, but that might just be from me spending a lot of time in downtown D.C., which is a warzone. I like how there are many other factions out there doing things at the same time you are. Between the super mutants, the BOS, raiders, and Talon Company there are always shootouts going on that have nothing to do with you.

Thankfully the leveling up is not broken as it is in Oblivion, so you do not have to worry about leveling too fast and becoming too weak for the monsters. In fact, leveling up is nice and simple with an old-fashioned experience point system. Which is nice because you can just play the game and not worry about using skills just to level them up, or what is a major and what is a minor.

Being able to make new weapons like the dart gun or bottlecap mines out of junk is a neat idea that I really liked. It has me looking at every innocuous thing in the game and wondering if it might be a weapon ingredient.

On the downside the sameness to it all is evident after just a few days. Everything is grey and brown, inside and outside, all the time. So in spite of all the obvious work they did hand-placing many things in the world like destroyed cars, tricycles, etc... after a while once you have seen one piece of wasteland or subway tunnel you have seen them all.

The whole way repairing things goes just annoys me to no end. I prefer something simple, like it is in Oblivion. You just fix the darn thing and that is that. So I have been using console commands to fix items I pick up and a mod that keeps them from degrading.

The face making is less robust than it was in Oblivion, and it is hard to see what you character is going to come out looking like in the little tv screen window they give you. At least they fixed the issue of everyone having gigantic lips like in Oblivion (which seems like a world filled with Mick Jagger-spawn).

[Winter Wolf]

The whole way repairing things goes just annoys me to no end. I prefer something simple, like it is in Oblivion. You just fix the darn thing and that is that. So I have been using console commands to fix items I pick up and a mod that keeps them from degrading.

Hey Rosa, that is not fair!!
The repair system is what it should be, an offshoot of the broken down dream that America turned into after the Chinese nuked the place. Weapons have been lying around for 200 years and the state of decay fits in beautifully with the storyline. If you are using console command then you are not playing Fallout properly.

I have put 500+ hours into both Oblivion and Fallout 3 and I would have to say that Fallout is head and shoulder the better game of the two. All the those annoying levelling issues are not in Fallout, and the weapons and perks are a blast.

What keeps my coming back to Oblivion; however, is the ability to have so many different races and character types. I love the Orcs, Nords, Elves, Argonians, etc. It makes every character feel unique and different. Fallout is just too boringly the same. Beth should have made only some perks available to each race.

[mALX]

The repair system is what it should be, an offshoot of the broken down dream that America turned into after the Chinese nuked the place. Weapons have been lying around for 200 years and the state of decay fits in beautifully with the storyline.

I loved the repair system in Fallout 3 - not only the fun of foraging for equipment to repair mine, but it kept my load lightened so I could continue traveling the wasteland. My only problem was I had to be careful I didn't lose some awesome "Terrible" for the generic by accident.