Comments on: Discussion Review: Fallout 3

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:31:33 +0000

I agree with gwlaw99, great review with lots of good statements.

Although i have a thing to add, what i liked about oblivion (apart from the for me better worked out story, i like swords and magic more then guns 🙂 is the fact that you could improve yourself by doing/repeating actions in the game i really missed that in fallout-3 it depends too heavily on books and perks and bobbleheads which are great and should be there but i think it’s an added dimension if one could improve him/herself by repeating action (sneaking more for example)

Furthermore i found the battles too easy once your past level 6/7 or so.

I also missed some sort of transport for roaming the wasteland (so much junk left to build some sort of transport)

Still very much enjoying the game…keep up the good work.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:02:11 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the review. We’re extremely proud with the way it turned out. Too many of the other reviews out there just seemed to suck up to the game as the best thing in the world and not really point out that it’s got some serious flaws. We definitely feel our review examined the game more thoroughly than any other review out there.

As I’m sure you read, Mike and I had many of the same complaints as you listed. My main beef is still the lack of significant consequence your good/evil deeds have within the game, as you also pointed out.

By: gwlaw99

gwlaw99 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:55:18 +0000

Best review that I have read so far.

I love fallout 3 as a game. I love fallout 3 as a post apocalyptic/survival game. There are some major flaws in the game that seem so easy to correct, it’s shocking that Bethesda didn’t fix them.

1. The main quest is horribly stupid after you reach Rivet City. Fighting the behemoth and getting the satellite for 3 dog was a great start, but then it went down hill from there to one of the most uninteresting endings of any RPG I have ever played.
2. There is absolutely no consequence to being evil other than which companions you can take. People treat you exactly the same way.
3. Speech and skill dialog checks should give you more content not make you skip large fun parts of the game.
4. So many of the large locations have no quests associated with them. Talon Company headquarters and the Dunwhich building are dungeon crawls only.
5. Skill choices have very little meaning since you can raise them so easily (you can rase each 60/100 points just by collecting items).
6. Half the perks are so much better than the other half that its no choie what to take.

All that said. I loved fallout 2.5 as a game and have played it three times so far doing every side quest.

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:54:31 +0000

Well – not only do I agree with Matt on the ‘value proposition’ Fallout offers being excellent, I challenge your math: most indie games are ~$20 or more (based on World of Goo, Eschalon Book 1, Geneforge / Avernum series), so it is between 2 – 2.5 indie / budget games.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:01:19 +0000

It’s well worth it Paul. Of any mainstream game released lately it offers the best value for the cost. I’m now up to around 35 hours and probably haven’t seen half of the game’s locations and side quests yet.

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By: Paul Eres

Paul Eres — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:39:49 +0000

I too love both indie games (I’m an indie game developer myself) and games like this, there’s really no contradiction. I plan to buy this game soon, but it’s fairly expensive; you can get like 3 or 4 indie games for the price of one copy of Fallout 3.