Fallout 3

It led to New Vegas

Cutting off Lucy Palmer's head and pretending she's your stay at home GF

I like the music

>>389607265
kek

For all the jank I think Fallout 3 did a pretty decent first stab in the gameplay.

>>389607174
It's not the worst fallout game

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>>389607327
>playing FNV
>strip veronica with console commands
>give her that stripper gear that one dancing whore on the strip wears
>lead her to my brotherhood safehouse
>turn on hardcore mode
>kill her
>lay her on my bed
>leave
>some time passes
>check back
>she's gone

FNV is no fun.

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gave us the evolution of the fallout series which led to new vegas.

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It was the last good Fallout game.

>>389607651
ebin
XD

Fallout 4 makes Fallout 3 look like a masterpiece of complexity

The wasteland in FO3 is actually really cool and is pretty fun to explore even if the stuff you found didn't make much sense or outright fucked up the lore

meh, it was a good game

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>>389607174
It's the best Fallout .

>>389607174

It has some pretty fun mods.

Winner of the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards for Best Writing and Game of the Year

>>389607174
COMFY

>>389607856
>have 100's of hours in fallout 3 and fnv
>download (pirate fallout 4 on release) ran like absolute fucking garbage despite 980Ti
>put it down and tell myself I'll wait
>popular opinion shifts and it seems to be a shitty game

Is it really as horrible as people say it is? I enjoy playing Fallout 3 despite it's flaws, the atrocious gunplay, lack of interesting characters and the fact your choices in quests are restricted to 'yes', 'yes', or 'maybe later' is annoying. Fallout New Vegas is a genuinely good babies first RPG in my opinion.

Is Fallout 4 unenjoyably bad if you're trying to play it as anything other than a shooter?

>>389608075
This will never not upset me at least a little

>>389607174
It has free mods.

>>389607174
The National Mall area was kinda nice

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Is /v/ perhaps judging Fallout 3 too harshly by not considering the context of it's release? I mean, in 2008 did you really have that many choices for half decent open-world 3D RPG games?

>>389608075
The best fallout at getting good metacritic reviews, that's an objective fact.

>>389607174
It allowed me to kill the faggot overseer within minutes of a new game.

>>389607174
>We can all accept it is a horrible game, but your task is to say just 1 (one) good thing about it.

>music
>Rivet City is cool
>good ambiance
>better weapons than FO4
>you can be a slaver
>cool outfits and armours

>>389608415
Too bad 90% of the game's NPC's were invincible.

>>389608364
/v/ judges it too harshly because it is the best and most popular in the series. This is also the train they praise New Vegas which is one of the worst and least popular.

It was fun. I played it a lot.

>>389607174
>We can all accept it is a horrible game
"No"

the overworld is fun and rewarding to explore

say what you will about pretty much every other aspect i won't try to defend it, but i unironically liked the game because it satisfied my wanderlust in a way very very few games do

makes it worthless for replays though once you've seen everything

>>389608184
It makes sense why it would be so highly praised when it came out, up to that point the only other open world games had all been Fantasy games like Elder Scrolls and Gothic, no one had ever seen anything like it before, I was also genuinely surprised when they revealed it as "Fallout 3" and didn't try to reboot it as something else, considering how different it was to the first 3

>>389608159
>Is Fallout 4 unenjoyably bad if you're trying to play it as anything other than a shooter?

No, it's not bad overall. The guns aren't all cool and some of the ideas in the main story are dumb but it's fun to explore and get into fights.

I enjoyed the base building too.

>>389607174
The fact you could actually role play in it.
The second you left the vault you were free to do anything you wanted.
Also, it had locations that were actually fun. You'll never see another Gary vault in the Fallout series as long as titty face Todd runs it.

Sad part is that it's almost 10 years old and yet it offers more unique characters and locations then FO4 does.

>>389607174
It wasn't a bad game. Only NVFags say it is to blend in around here.

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Why couldn't Fallout 3 have the ability to properly side with the Enclave?

Sure, you can take the FEV and dump that shit in the purifier, but it's such a fucking inconsequential choice that all you get are a few dying beggars and a radio message about the water making people ill. It never comes up in dialogue that you can say 'lol yeah I poisoned that shit lmao xddd' to Elder Lyons or someone. You're basically enacting the will of the Enclave, while they are still enemies with you, and you have no choice but to fight them to due to your irrevocable ties with the BOS.

Is it just fucking laziness on Bethesda's part or am I missing something?

>>389607174
All of the DLC is distinctive and fun in their own right

>>389608761
This. NVfags are usually just mouth breathers from RPG Codex. Don't be fooled /v/.

>>389608750
>The fact you could actually role play in it.
My favorite part as well, what did you roleplay as? I roleplayed as an 18 year old kid who spent his entire life in a vault and left to go search for his dad

>>389607174
i enjoyed the music, the theme, the aesthetics. the radio.
I liked the leveling system, the perks, the character building. The before the endgame part.

>>389608797
I don't remember you being able to go around saying "Yeah I'm in the Legion and we took the dam xdddd"

>>389608849
>operation anchorage
>exclusively a combat DLC
>in a fucking game with shitty gunplay
>mothership zeta the same deal

Slow down there sport.

>>389607174
I had a non-zero amount of fun after modding it with Tale of Two Wastelands and J. Sawyer Ultimate Mod.

>>389608797
You're tainted by the wasteland. Enclave will never accept you. They literally will put a bullet in your forehead once you've done all your errands for them like a dog.

>>389607174
The Dunwich Building was spoopy.

>>389609069
No you couldn't, and I agree it sucks shit that you couldn't play the game after it's conclusion. But stepping back into reality for a moment, there are so many factors in FNV after it's conclusion that it makes sense that fitting them all in and not having a total clusterfuck of a gameworld afterwards would be near unfeasible.

Fallout 3's ending was much more black and white, you either poison the water and thus do your bit to kill off ghouls, wasters and supermutants, or you don't. That's not exactly the same complexity as accounting for your billion choices with 10+ factions.

>>389608963
Same. Who did you roleplay as in New Vegas? I roleplayed as a cowboy mailman looking for the guy that shot me.

>>389609195
Sure, but the president was still willing to use you like a dog, he even misleads you into believing you'd be safe from the effects of the FEV, even though you wouldn't due to being born outside a vault. There could have been a questline where you were strung along even further.

>>389608797
>Is it just fucking laziness on Bethesda's part or am I missing something?
It is Laziness, but Bethsda actually wrote that situation pretty well. You are not working with the enclave. The Enclave thinks using the FEV is too extreme a plan. You are following President Eden, who was betrayed by the Enclave.

>>389609274
>billion choices with 10+ factions
NV fags actually believe this.

>>389607174
I'll name a few

>the soundtrack is really nice and reminds me of FO2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuYwAB9p8Lk
>Rivet City and Megaton
Navigating through them is a bitch but the feel, the characters and the quests make them my favorite towns in any Bethesda game tbqh.
>random encounters
This is like the one thing 3 is better at than NV.
>radio stations
Fits into the Fallout aesthetic perfectly. When replaying 2 a few months ago I had totally forgotten that they weren't a thing back then already.
>Point Lookout
is fun
>The Pitt
is so good I'm convinced Todd had nothing to do with it, and probably advised against making it.

>>389608797
They gave zero fucks about postgame, since you originally didn't survive the ending

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>>389607174
The trailer.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7a1GVlC9SM

Be it that i can't say the game aged well, but goddamn the trailer.

>>389609437
If you actually go through this:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_endings

You'll see there are pretty damn significant differences written into the endings of each faction. Making all of those play out cohesively in a game world you could play in after the end of the game would be pretty difficult.

Perhaps you could argue if they knew they wanted the game to be playable after the ending they wouldn't have had such big differences, but meh, maybe that would have made the ending shittier.

>>389609437
Most of the side factions have multiple endings to their subplots. And several of them are interconnected.

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>>389609526
>this was 9 years ago

>>389609468
pretty sure most of the soundtrack is from fallout 2

>>389609274
But of course it sounds simplistic when you word it that way. It was really about whether you choose to potentially save the people of the wasteland by providing clean water and helping the BoS fragment, or poisoning the people of the waste and infecting them while giving the wasteland to the Enclave.

>>389609612
>>389609643
God, shut the hell up about NV already. Even as an NVfag this is getting tiring.

>>389609681
Is it? I don't recall any instances. Although I do remember FO2 tracks in Vegas, like the transquil as fuck Modoc theme in the clinic.

>>389609715
Which, no matter how you look at it, is far simpler to implement than the differences you'd have to account for after FNV.

>>389609790
Don't tell me what to do, bitch.

>>389608364
Oblivion.

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>>389609526
>Interplay failed to get the rights to I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire for Fallout 1 and then 2's intro
>It takes Bethesda to finally give Fallout the intro it deserves

Is it any wonder everyone knows the series started with 3?

Of all the Fallout sequels it is the one to evolve the series the most if not the only sequel to not just be the last game with new paint and story.

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>>389609526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3C1GNjkdQ

>[Science 100%] kys

>>389609790
NVfags are literal autistic manchildren from RPG codex. They are the fat guys in fedoras and trench coats who lecture soccer moms if they see them buying the wrong game at gamestop. Is that what you want to be?

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>>389610086
>They are the fat guys in fedoras and trench coats who lecture soccer moms if they see them buying the wrong game at gamestop
Topkek.

>>389609842
Almost all of the OST in FO3 is from 2, while NV is mostly 2 and 3 with a bit of original music

>>389609846
That's only because the two games used different themes for its factions, or at least tried. One game wanted a good vs evil story in the wasteland while the other wanted a "see we're all shades of grey" story, but kinda fell short due to time constraints which is why the Legion is made out to be evil and isn't really touched on as much as people hoped. Not really a big deal in a game where there's a lot more to do outside of the main quest.

>>389607265
FPBP

I played Fallout 3 with my headphones on loud enough to rattle my ears when I shot. Atmospheric as fuck. I started at 6pm and before I realized it was 11am the next day. One playthrough and I was pretty much done with it though. Tried NV and 4 for a couple of hours each but it's just more of the same. I don't know why people act like NV is significantly better.

>>389610427
>MUH CHOICES

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It's great when turned into a New Vegas mod

>>389610427
You get more options, which leads to a lot more replay value.
You are correct that you can do pretty much everything in one run in 3.

I still don't understand why Bethesda doesn't just dedicate one afternoon to patching Fallout 3 so it can run on modern systems. I like Fallout 3, but not enough to downgrade Windows to play it.

>>389610594
>spend any amount of time patching a game when all your fans will do it for you
I don't understand.

>>389608159
It's extremely fun. Ignore all the butthurt FNV fags.

>>389607174
It's not horrible, just not very good.

>>389608075
At least Fo1+2 are close to where they belong. Fo4 belongs at the fucking bottom though.

>>389607174
I like the subway system and the city atmostphere, that's something NV lacked, a ruined city you could explore

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Needed settlements to make it more lively.

>>389610512
>MUH ATMOSPHERE

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>>389610557
>tfw I want to get this but it requires me to have all of FO3's mods and I either need to pirate the GOTY edition which would take for ever or find the DLC by themselves on some shady russian site

>>389610632
Maybe Bethesda can implement creation club into Fallout 3 so mod creators can fix the game to run on Windows 10 for a price haha...

>>389610716
>MUH BEYOND THE BEEF

>>389608159
If you like 3, you'll like 4.
It runs well on my R9 290, just adjust some settings.
Settlement building does, in my experience, just werk. Todd didn't lie about that.
Also, I like the companions in 4 more then 3 and NV, so that adds something to the game for me.

>>389607174
>NVegans
You know, I don't give much shits about Fallout, and I never thought there could be someone more annoying than shitendrones, but you guys are really trying your hardest to compete huh?

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Nothing may have had any relation to each other, but I feel as though Fallout 3 managed to contain decent arena type areas which were fun for firefights, which both 4 and NV failed at

>>389610668
Is it really worse than BOS? I could see being below Tactics. Fallout Shelter is fun as a distraction for a while but is really just mobile shit.

>>389610743
Just torrent it off tpb, you can find a version of FO3 with all DLC included.

>>389607174
it was fun and i enjoyed it alot, but NV was much beter

>can literally mod the entire game, all dlc and many mods into New Vegas but with the shitload of features and mechanics New Vegas introduced like DT and ammo crafting
>worse then just the game by itself
New Vegas is not only a better game, TTW means it's maybe the only time a game can honestly be called objectively better. You have Fallout 3, or New Vegas with all of 3 and more in it. One has literally all the content of the other and much more.

>>389610713
go play minecraft

>>389607174
its better than 4

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>>389611073
>Decent arena type area
>With like 3 raiders in it
>With AI that doesn't even attempt to use cover

>>389610248
No it isn't, Fallout 3's music was composed by Ion Zur.

>>389611287
>can literally mod the entire game, all dlc and many mods into New Vegas but with the shitload of features and mechanics New Vegas introduced like DT and ammo crafting
wat

>>389608574
That's why fans rate NV higher then 3 right? Fuck off F3fag.

>>389611831
Wrong.

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>>389612272
not an argument

>>389612272
also

"Composer Inon Zur was brought in to create the score for Fallout "because I could give them the ambience [sic] and the weird decadence plus an almost low-fi sound, but also bring up some more dramatic, orchestral elements with it when needed." The entire composition process took six months, ending with 60-70 minutes and around 40 tracks. These included everything from ambient cues from entering an area to high-intensity battle music."
-Fallout Wiki

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>>389607265
>>389610394
Reminder that 3 had objectively better sidequests than New Vegas.

>>389607174
Downtown + metro was pretty cool.

>>389613161
>cherrypicking

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>>389613161
interesting

NOW FUCK OFF

>>389607174
I liked Three Dog's radio station

>>389613161
>kill ant queen
>dont kill ant queen
Whoa, such big choices to make.

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>>389607174
I liked the concept for President Eden.

His execution though...

>>389613161
Arent the FO3 examples the BIG quests that exist in the game? Arent the examples of NV quest some of the small ones?

>>389614426
Exactly, content-wise new vegas blows 3 out of the fucking water.

>>389609326
I roleplayed as a psychotic mailman looking for the guy that shot me.

Roleplaying huh....wait...

>>389607265
fpbp

>>389607174
It was fun

I'll give you ten (10).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAKrBHG-Pbg

>>389615085
Sounds cool, I role played as a revenge seeking mailman looking for the guy who shot me.

>>389607265
Reminder that if Troika had outbid Bethesda we would have gotten multiple New Vegases by now. Finished ones, no less.

>>389614492
>quantity over quality

>>389607174
Exploration is nice

>>389615392
Reminder Van Buren was 70% done.

>>389607174
it introduced my favorite looking power armor into the lore.
t-45

>>389614492

Maybe, exploration wise? Nope

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>>389607174
It's not horrible, but it's definitely not great compared to other Fallout games, namely 1, 2, and NV.

>>389608159
The main plot turns to absolute garbage, so you're gonna need another hook to stay invested. I just downloaded a bunch of mods to improve my settlement building experience and just did that, and that was fun enough that I'd recommend it for the mods, if nothing else.

>>389615392
The only Troika game I've played, and supposedly the best or one of their best, VtM:B, was far from finished, and there's only one of them as far asI know

I like the enviroment and atmosphere
I like the broken down cityscape and shitty subway system
I hate all of NV's fucking sand. I hate the desert and I hate cowboys

>>389608159
Most guns are pointless, power armor and a minigun is given to you in the first quest, Skill progression is even more dumbed down than skyrim, story is terrible, and a lot of aspects of the game show a complete disregard for previously established lore.

Also the dialogue system is fucked because Bethesda wanted desperately to be Bioware.

>>389607174

The Pitt was genuinely good, and Point Lookout was fun.

I say this as a person who absolutely hated FO3 on release.

>>389613161
>He didn't play new vegas
>He'll never know about one for his baby

SAD!

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>>389608159
>pirate the literally 1.0 release
>surprised it runs like shit
is your mother your aunt as well?

>>389616387
I guess I should have known better than to expect recent AAA games to be playable on release.

>>389607174
I like that it didnt pussy out on certain aspects and actually include slavery and the like, even though I always play moral fag. Adds more believability to the world, wish slavery played a much larger role then it did. Prostitution too was spoken about rather bluntly which made me happy.

>>389616152
This. The Pitt and Point Lookout were amazingly FUN expansions.

>>389607174

It's fucking flooded with potential. It could have been an amazing game but they fucked up so many things.

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>>389616509

>>389607174
the dart gun and the deathclaw gauntlet where pretty sick

>>389607265
Came here to say this desu, it brought fallout back from the dead.

>>389607174
It's a good loot and shoot game. Good for mindless fun. But yeah, everything else about it is kind of a train wreck.

Killing Aliens

You also got a perk every level.

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>>389617431
>It's a good loot and shoot game.
Why not just play Borderlands at that point?

i actually enjoyed the survival guide questline and was happy to see it show up in NV as a misc item

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>>389607265
my man

>>389609790
Eat shit you stupid faggot

>>389610086
Underrated

>>389617780
Because you can turn the shitty writing off in New Vegas

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>>389617780
Because I refuse to even pirate something Randy Pitchford had a hand in making.

>>389607174
It got me into the franchise and thus got me to play 1, 2 and New Vegas.

As someone who's spent a lot of time in actual DC, exploring post apocalyptic DC was really fun.
Also, there's this extremely vague feeling of a very specific nostalgia I get for certain parts of this game, that I can't even accurately experience from even playing it. It's weird.

>>389618481
>New Vegas
fuck I meant 3

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>>389607174
I realize /v/ has a very low bar for what constitutes a "horrible game".

>>389619334
>FO3
>Not objectively garbage
Enlighten yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ1gyIzg78

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>>389610086
>>389610240
>>389618298
Could you samefag harder?

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>>389620182
Yes, quite significantly harder, actually.

It was a lot of people's jumping in point to the Fallout series, which does have good games.

I was born in '92, and played a lot of N64 and Gamecube growing up, but never really touched PC gaming besides games like Amazon Trail and random Disney CD-ROMs. Then, got Fallout 3 for PS3 and liked it. Neat atmosphere and story, played a little crappy though. Made me research the others, and enjoy them all a lot.

So yeah, that's all I got.

>>389613161
>Fallout 3 had better side quests
>There were only 9 of them

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>>389610086
>>389610240
>>389618298
>>389620182
>>389621317
Actually it was all me

>>389607174
I'll say every nice thing about Fallout 3 I can:

Inon Zur's ambient background tracks aren't as distinctive as Mark Morgan's music for Fallout 1 and 2 but the softer more piano driven ones really do set a nice comfy mood for walking around the landscape which is intelligently crafted to work within the limits of both the engine and the hardware (consoles) it was expected to run on. Skillful, if not particularly brilliant, use of resources can be seen throughout.

The setting makes no sense and the story is complete trash in every conceivable way at every possible point but...it seems to be a very small thing for Fallout 3's target audience. I don't mean that as an insult to them or the game. It's not really about its story or the world they've set it in as such at all - that's just an excuse to get the player wandering some visually fetching squalor. People regularly log hours into the hundreds and the game's main story can't reasonably take up more than about 30 hours, DLC included. If we're comparing it to New Vegas a reasonably thorough playthrough of just the base game will clock a good 50 hours with a good 10 more waiting in the DLC and it's going to be 90% structured content; quests.

Lastly, a lot of the game's flaws arose out of some kind of strange editorial late phase switch. Pagliarulo's daddy issues to one side, the Brotherhood of Steel and Enclave were not in the game originally, nor did it take place 200 years after the war. Originally it was supposed to take place just thirty years after with an all-new set of factions and conflicts to avoid messing with the established core region and give themselves the freedom to do whatever they liked. If they had the freedom to make the game they wanted I think it's fair to say, looking at the Elder Scrolls titles, that it would have been a better game for it.

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>>389622180
Then how do you explain it being me all along?

The Wasteland Survival Guide quests.

I don't think a tutorial for how to play a Fallout game could get any better than this. Fallout 2's temple wishes it could be this comprehensive and New Vegas just teaches you how to shoot your gun and use the new crafting benches.

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>>389622273
You called?

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>>389622492
>>389622815

I liked having random encounters out in the wasteland.

Liberty prime is a cool idea, despite the brotherhood being retarded as fuck in the game.

Need more typical American anti-commie shit, I always enjoy it

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>>389608292

>>389613161
Fallout 3 sidequests
>nonsensical ideas that feel like they just took whatever stuck
Fallout NV sidequest
>well thought out, all connect to the world and its events and helps expand it

>>389615285
>1. MUH ATMOSPHERE
>close tab
that was fast

>>389615285
Does parrot want a cracker?

>>389615960
>VtM:B, was far from finished
There are a lot of reasons for that but the biggest causes were that they were working on a beta source engine with zero documentation forcing them to figure a lot of shit out on their own or come up with weird solutions and Activision's deadlines.

>>389623108
Sassy bitch.

You can pretty much speedrun Operation Anchorage for all that sweet-sweet loot

>>389619570

i read OP and scanned through the comments and was very confused why people would think FO3 is shit. i considered for a few moments why people might think it was shit.

and then you posted this video, so i opened it.
>1:29:37

so that basically confirmed to me that there's nothing wrong with the game and this entire thread is autistic shitposting

>>389608159
I'm playing it right now. Honestly the story is pretty meh. Also the map is kinda small but because there is lots of things crammed together there is always something going on. Skills are now gone, you level up and choose perks.
Otherwise it's a decent game just not up to par as what they hyped it to be.
Word of advice, don't get the season pass. Only 2 dlc that actually has a playable story others are just add ons for settlement building

>>389614492
It's the key to understanding a big part of why these games are so divisive.

Fallout 3 fans are almost always fundamentally Bethesda fans. They like the kind of game Bethesda makes. Fallout 3 was likely their first Fallout. It's not a particularly good Bethesda game (Oblivion has more and better quests, Skyrim has better art direction and mechanics) So they don't frame their expectations of the series in terms of the first two games. They wanted a Bethesda game and they got a Bethesda game. Existing Fallout fans, especially ones who never cared for Bethesda games, could never tolerate it well because they wanted more Fallout, not a Bethesda game called Fallout. New Vegas appealed to them first and Bethesda fans second - it's a structured, quest-oriented experience in which the world respects player agency by reflecting its operation in meaningful ways.

>>389624040
I think there's a number of people who post in these threads that have never played either game, or not much. Posting that vid uncritically is a pretty reliable flag in my experience.

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>>389624040
Well, you can believe what you want, anon. But I wouldn't recommend the head in the sand thing though just because someone made a long video.

>>389607174
The same thing that every high score review said when the game came out..
"VATS VATS VATS OOH LOOK I BLEW THIS SOOPER MOOTANT'S HEAD OFF KERPLOOOSH POWWW WHAM! SLOW MOTIIOOON!!"
Honestly, the combat in 3 is so fucking awful that they had to rely on this shit gimmick.

>>389607174
It pissed off all the Grognards who produced tons of delicious salt to enjoy for years to come.

the centaurs spooked me the first time i saw them. Fallout 3 was my first bethesda game

>>389608075
Unfortunately, an 84 is what New Vegas deserved on release. Thanks to Zenimax torpedoing the QA cycle, the game was an absolute fucking mess on launch.

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>>389625029
>I would not rob you of your painful and agonizing death

>>389608159
I gave it another chance recently. It's not that the game is terrible in any real way (aside from the story), but it's missing absolutely everything that made the Fallout series unique and dumbed down everything to the point that it's just an absolute mish-mash of gameplay elements that are mediocre compared to everything else on the market. People say that they took out the RPG mechanics and turned the game into Far Cry, but I fucking WISH that it was even on Far Cry's level, because the latter's shooting mechanics are ten times more fun that Fallout 4's. And there really isn't much to do in Fallout 4 except shoot the tons and tons of enemies that are constantly attacking you.

It's just boring and lifeless. Theres tons of other games that do the same things better, just not all at once. It's like having a choice between several great restaurants, but going to the cheap buffet instead just in case you really want to have some shitty corn dogs with your shitty gumbo and shitty spaghetti.

>>389607174
Had a better fucking story then 4.
Had a better exploration map then 4.
Had better People then 4, and personalties.
Better Guns. Better Armor, and Seemed like life was starting to get somewhere after 200 years. Then 4 came out and its a damn empty zone with random empty settlements :| I pre-ordered 4, and I hate myself for it. If 5 is announced Im going to wait 2 months after release to make damn sure I like it.

>>389609195
Which also makes no sense. How are you tainted by the wasteland but not literally every single one of the Enclave who venture out?

Fucking Autumn doesn't seem to mind walking around the wasteland without any kind of protection.

>>389607174
Better setting than the Mojave.

>>389627157
This, the capital wasteland wasn't a fucking desert.

>>389627237
instead it was corridors and subway tunnels

>>389627467
And actual buildings you can explore and hide out in.

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>>389607265
Pretty much.
My hope was that, since this was Bethesda's first attempt at a Fallout game, I was willing to accept some mistakes, just as a learning process.
Going by Fallout 4, 3 actually was what they wanted, and not just bunch of mistakes cobbled together with the hope that it'd get better.

>>389607174
It's not Fallout 4

>>389625549
>comparing a stable, but plain FO3 to a unstable, but fun FNV

really makes you think

>>389627647
If stairs are a problem, why not just give her square wheels?

>>389607174
First 3D fallout game

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>>389628356
How can a game be fun when you can't make it past character select without the game crashing?

>>389610248
None of 3's soundtrack is from 2, and New Vegas didn't have any music from 3

>>389607174
Chinese Stealth Suit Glitch lets me be One Punch Man before OPM was ever serialized, and eventually spawn all those opm mods here and there.

>>389607174
Liam Neeson did a good job as Dad, I guess?

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>>389628801
even if it was unstable, its still more fun than a stable copy of FO3; not to mention the stiffing of Obsidian on a time limit