Really disappointed in Fallout 3

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

skreetpreacha

Man, i think you are one of the few people here that feels this way. Conicidentaly, i am playing Fallout 3 right now. it is my second playthrough. I am on my 70th hour and i have not even done 20 % of the main story yet. I am roaming around, doing side missions, enjoying the huge world. I enjoy collecting schematics building my own weapons making money etc...Fallout 3 is an amazing game! You get the feeling you live inside the game. There are so many things you could do. I guess you get as much as you put in.

As far as dialog options, you get fair deal of how you want the dialog to play out. Plus, this game is rediculously funny!

I am actually going to finish up and i will be posting my stats in this game here on the forum so i can get some opinions on how i did...

But seriously, you need to put more hours into it and forget the main story for a while, do everything else, explore everything, raise your level and then finish up the game...

it is a very enjoyable experience...plus those bobbleheads are just so fun to seek out at first...

EvilSelf...

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

skreetpreacha

I like Fallout 3 but it does have downsides.

I main story is bad. They just switch Oblivion combat to have range more important. THe VATS is nice at first but after a while it get boring and slower that a turn base game.

I agree with u about the story part...since iam a huge fan of the previous fallouts i can say that they left some prettyimportant stuff out (not saying which though)....btw i finished the game full achievments in like 30 hours...lol...more than that...i'd say i'd get super bored...

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

skreetpreacha

I believe you may have been expecting the game to be more linear. You have to take advantage of the openess of the game. There are so many side-quests, so many weapons to create, so many people to meet, so many things to do. You just have to look at it like you're not just going to play through a linear story, you need to be willing to like the game for the intrinsic value that it creates.

You have to explore, ignore the main quest. There are endless side quests for the main game and i think five explansions for the game, I played over 100 hours and still haven't played any of the expansions.

I did not enjoy Fallout 3 at all.The shooting and gameplay sucked, and I agree with the whole all you do in fallout is level up and it gets really boring really fast.My advice is to pick up Oblivion.

Wow, I absolutely loved Fallout 3. The only thing that annoyed me was the level cap. I reached level 30 in like, 60 hours, and I clocked up 70 hours in total. Could have done more, but i'm playing it through again at the moment with bad Karma because different missions are available. As others have said, the main plot isn't a masterpiece, but the exploration was really fun, and finding all the crazy people in the wastes to help or end, hours of fun in my opinion.

To me, the game is about exploring the great landscapes and figuring out new ways to approach every fight. Besides, were you not at least a LITTLE impressed by VATS?orb_03_2006

i felt the exact same way as you TC, you're not the only one. I still couldnt believe i managed to stick through for 18 hours...and most of that time was me trying to convince myself i enjoyed the experience. but really, i didnt like it at all.

i felt the exact same way as you TC, you're not the only one. I still couldnt believe i managed to stick through for 18 hours...and most of that time was me trying to convince myself i enjoyed the experience. but really, i didnt like it at all.

chex81

[QUOTE="chex81"]

i felt the exact same way as you TC, you're not the only one. I still couldnt believe i managed to stick through for 18 hours...and most of that time was me trying to convince myself i enjoyed the experience. but really, i didnt like it at all.

fastr

its because everyone was drooling over it and the rest of us were trying to find that 'trigger' "oh, now i get it...AWESOME". A lot of my buddies who finished it and clocked 40+ hours in the end said the experience was average. LOL, im glad i gave up half way through...but i guess i can see the appeal some gamers may take from it.

Well, i played Oblivion before Fallout 3 and now i cannot even think playing Oblivion again.

Teh game is great but the fact that your enemies level up as you level up is plain stupid...

Fallout 3 is by far the better game, according to me...

EvilSelf...

I think Fallout3 is an awesome game. Although coming form Borderlands/ Demon Souls I have to say the menu navigation is clunky.

I started with fallout3, completed the maiin story, did some some side quests and cloced about 80 hours, THEN i played oblivion and found it to be much more emersive in terms of gameplay, but after about 200 hours or so on oblivion, I went back to fallout3, but only once i got the GOTY edition, mainly for the level raise and additional areas to explore, i dont think i would have played through fallout3 again if it wasnt for the GOTY edition.

Having said that, these games are less about the main story and what you are given to do, they are about doin what YOU want to do in them, explore, make up your own back story, do something unexpected with the NPC's etc etc

and if your still bored, then try and d o everything the opposite way than what you would normally, hell go on a rampage and kill as many NPC's as you can before you die or somthing, I just dont think these games warrent ''oh it sucked!'' look at the amount of work that went into creating these worlds, if it 'sucks' then your not exploring everything you can do within the software, its just closed minded, uninspired gaming

[QUOTE="orb_03_2006"]To me, the game is about exploring the great landscapes and figuring out new ways to approach every fight. Besides, were you not at least a LITTLE impressed by VATS?mrsniper83

Thats what turned me off on the game. It looked really corny and no skill envolved

[QUOTE="mrsniper83"][QUOTE="orb_03_2006"]To me, the game is about exploring the great landscapes and figuring out new ways to approach every fight. Besides, were you not at least a LITTLE impressed by VATS?BLAS1AN

Thats what turned me off on the game. It looked really corny and no skill envolved

Well deal with it because it will be in New Vegas :P

I thought the story was pretty good. I've played it through a few times and discovered something new each time I did. Like most other people are saying, the point of Fallout 3 is to explore the world. Some of the best times I've had on the 360 were where I've just walked aimlessly around the wasteland and stumbled upon something unusual and totally unexpected (anyone see the Ghoul with the plunger house?). I was really impressed with VATs and thought it was done very well. I reckon F3 is by far the best game to come out this gen.

TC, what were you expecting from the game?

I stopped playing Oblivion after I got out of the sewer... yet Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games. Different strokes for different folks.

[QUOTE="skreetpreacha"]

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

EvilSelf

Man, i think you are one of the few people here that feels this way. Conicidentaly, i am playing Fallout 3 right now. it is my second playthrough. I am on my 70th hour and i have not even done 20 % of the main story yet. I am roaming around, doing side missions, enjoying the huge world. I enjoy collecting schematics building my own weapons making money etc...Fallout 3 is an amazing game! You get the feeling you live inside the game. There are so many things you could do. I guess you get as much as you put in.

As far as dialog options, you get fair deal of how you want the dialog to play out. Plus, this game is rediculously funny!

I am actually going to finish up and i will be posting my stats in this game here on the forum so i can get some opinions on how i did...

But seriously, you need to put more hours into it and forget the main story for a while, do everything else, explore everything, raise your level and then finish up the game...

it is a very enjoyable experience...plus those bobbleheads are just so fun to seek out at first...

EvilSelf...

i finished the game in about 25 hours, thats kind of the point of my post. spent probably another 5 hours just exploring and side questing, but there are NO NEW GAME MECHANICS, its just the same thing, which is utterly boring to me

To me, the game is about exploring the great landscapes and figuring out new ways to approach every fight. Besides, were you not at least a LITTLE impressed by VATS?orb_03_2006

not at all... wow, i get to pause the game and get off a wopping 3 hits in slow mo on an enemy... it was decent at first, but again, gets old aftera few times... now if i had to do things to build up my AP and unleash different combos n such, that woulda been better (like Limit Breaks in FF)

[QUOTE="skreetpreacha"]

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

StarFire571

ya, that was fun for the first few hours, but it get old real quick, and i usually love exploring in games, but this one is so dull and repetitive

[QUOTE="skreetpreacha"]

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

EvilSelf

Man, i think you are one of the few people here that feels this way. Conicidentaly, i am playing Fallout 3 right now. it is my second playthrough. I am on my 70th hour and i have not even done 20 % of the main story yet. I am roaming around, doing side missions, enjoying the huge world. I enjoy collecting schematics building my own weapons making money etc...Fallout 3 is an amazing game! You get the feeling you live inside the game. There are so many things you could do. I guess you get as much as you put in.

As far as dialog options, you get fair deal of how you want the dialog to play out. Plus, this game is rediculously funny!

I am actually going to finish up and i will be posting my stats in this game here on the forum so i can get some opinions on how i did...

But seriously, you need to put more hours into it and forget the main story for a while, do everything else, explore everything, raise your level and then finish up the game...

it is a very enjoyable experience...plus those bobbleheads are just so fun to seek out at first...

EvilSelf...

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

u guys r kind of right... yes, exploring was fun at first, but since it just rinses and repeats itself, it got old to me after a little while...

for me, if the sidequests and enemies and dungeons/buildings were more varied and rewarding and the landscape was more populated and not so grey and dull, and of course if it introduce new gameplay mechanics throughout, it would have been a much better game for me.

and ya, the voice acting was pretty bad only because they had the same voice actor doing several different characters lol... I always love Liam Neesons voice tho :D

and the story wasnt that bad to me, just short and non rewarding

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

N7v1K0

[QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

DJ_Lae

Yeah really, should be at least 10.

I like WRPGs, I like shooters, I love games like ME that give you dialogue choices, so I thought Fallout 3 would be great, especially after the reviews.... And I was hooked on it for about 10 hours to see where the story was going.

But what makes games utterly boring to me, like Fallout 3, is there are no new gameplay mechanics introduced throughout the game. After awhile it feels like been there, done that. All you do is level up in F3, get access to a little better armor and guns, but the story ends real quick and quite disappointing to me, and thats it. Am I the only one who felt this way?

skreetpreacha

[QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

DJ_Lae

Is that sarcasm?

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"][QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

N7v1K0

Is that sarcasm?

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

lol, i would still consider 5 playthroughs worth your money...if you disagree, wow. What games this generation have you played through more than 5 times?

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"][QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

Yeah, it's fun for about 5 playthroughs, and then gets extremely old, repetitive and boring. Once you do all the quests, explore everywhere and get all DLCs, there's not much incentive to play the game again. The boring story, terrible voice acting, grey atmosphere and hordes of bugs and glitches just stop any replayability once you've tried everything.

N7v1K0

Is that sarcasm?

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

Ok, comparing Mass Effect to Fallout 3 is not suitable here. In Mass Effect you can clear everything in about 40 hours +/-. In order to clear everything in Fallout 3 you need 3 times more. The two games are different: Mass Effect is more of a shooter (especially 2), Fallout 3 is more of a RPG. If you want to compare Fallout 3, maybe Oblivion would be the best choice. Even though Oblivion's leveling system sucked. I played it first and once i tried Fallout 3 i forgot about Oblivion. I do not know why pretty much everybody is complaining that the game is grey and dull-looking...Well, duh, it is Post-Apocalyptic scenery...I really liked it actually: you kinda get the feeling it is you against the world (go out there and survive).

I cannot wait for Fallout: New Vegas. At least we will get some color and not just grey environment...Ha ha

EvilSelf...

[QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"] Only five playthroughs? Yeah, worthless game.chex81

Is that sarcasm?

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

lol, i would still consider 5 playthroughs worth your money...if you disagree, wow. What games this generation have you played through more than 5 times?

RPGs should deliver more than 5 interesting playthroughs, but non-RPG genres usually make up for short or uninteresting campaigns with good multiplayer. The time spent in this multiplayer, plus a campaign clearance, usually equals the length of more than 5 playthroughs of that particluar game for me.

Btw, in my previous post, where it says (since May'08) it should say (since May '08 ). Damned GlitchSpot won't let me edit my post

I thought it was one of the better games released this gen. These types of games don't need to introduce new mechanics father into a game, its like an fps with rpg elements.

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

N7v1K0

It's still pretty good value for your money (doubly so if you managed to pick up the GOTY edition cheap). I don't know how you managed to play through the first ME six times without getting bored, though...less changes in that game than Fallout 3. I managed three or four playthroughs of it and most of those were due to me achivement whoring at the time. One evil female playthrough and one good male playthrough and you've seen all the game has to offer, especially with the combat the way it is.

In an era where we get a ton of forgettable sub 8 hour action games, getting so much out of these big RPGs is a nice change.

edit - holy HELL. Eleven times? Okay, that's even weirder. I guess it's just down to personal preference, then, but I still don't see how five runs through Fallout 3 constitute poor value.

[QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

When I buy an RPG, I expect a lot of replay value. 5 playthroughs isn't much, I've cleared Mass Effect 1 nearly six times more than that (since May '08), and I'm not bored yet.

DJ_Lae

It's still pretty good value for your money (doubly so if you managed to pick up the GOTY edition cheap). I don't know how you managed to play through the first ME six times without getting bored, though...less changes in that game than Fallout 3. I managed three or four playthroughs of it and most of those were due to me achivement whoring at the time. One evil female playthrough and one good male playthrough and you've seen all the game has to offer, especially with the combat the way it is.

In an era where we get a ton of forgettable sub 8 hour action games, getting so much out of these big RPGs is a nice change.

edit - holy HELL. Eleven times? Okay, that's even weirder. I guess it's just down to personal preference, then, but I still don't see how five runs through Fallout 3 constitute poor value.

5x6=11? :P

5x6=11? :P

N7v1K0

[QUOTE="N7v1K0"]

5x6=11? :P

DJ_Lae

It was over the course of 2 years, remember? :P So it was nearly 1.5 playthroughs per month

great game... was hooked when it was first released... finally picked it up once again last weekend to start a second play through.. still enjoying it.

I think the game was really great BUT for some reason I stopped playing after

MEGA SPOILER

you rescue your father and then he dies. I'm at the large building you arrive after escaping from your father's killers.

END OF SPOILER.

I do love Fallout 3 but its main story was pretty meh. I had most of my fun exploring and and doing the side quests.

I personally thought Fallout 3 was complete garbage. It has a large world, but it is terribly uninspired, the combat is boring(I can't think of any game with FPS combat that is so bad and unsatisfying), the 'choices' are meaningless and from what i can gather in this thread, the story sucked too(I couldn't bear playing it long enough to find out). It seems difficult to find redeeming qualities. The only one lies in the massive game world that a lot of people seem mysteriously drawn towards. How anyone would want to spend more than an hour or two exploring it is inconceivable to me, but I guess that's what gaming has become.

I personally thought Fallout 3 was complete garbage. It has a large world, but it is terribly uninspired, the combat is boring(I can't think of any game with FPS combat that is so bad and unsatisfying), the 'choices' are meaningless and from what i can gather in this thread, the story sucked too(I couldn't bear playing it long enough to find out). It seems difficult to find redeeming qualities. The only one lies in the massive game world that a lot of people seem mysteriously drawn towards. How anyone would want to spend more than an hour or two exploring it is inconceivable to me, but I guess that's what gaming has become.

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