Fallout 3 on PS3 - How buggy?

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I purchased FO3 for PC back when it was released and spent countless hours trying to make it work. I never could get past that first city you enter (Megaton) I think.

I am considering getting it for PS3 since I am taking a break from WoW and have some gaming free time. I have always wanted to play FO3 but swore to never buy another Bethesda product again. I have a chance to borrow it from a friend but I am extremely bitter about the whole thing and just read a review that said it is buggy and crashes plenty on PS3.

I don't even want to get involved if it is going to be another experience like the PC was. Let me know what you guys think, thanks :)

Justin
 
Try giving the PC version another shot. The recently released 196.21 drivers have additional Fallout 3 fixes. I know someone playing through FO3 GOTY on PC right now and has only had 1 crash. Someone else I knew that played it on PS3 said he had 1 or 2 lockups playing through.

When I played through, I was using the 181.22 drivers and didn't have any crashes. The previous few driver releases would crash on zoning and game exiting, etc.
 
I just tried it 2 weeks ago with the most recent drivers and didn't even get to megaton.

Thanks for the reply though.
 
Playing the original (non-GOTY version) for about 100 hours, I had it freeze up on me less than ten times. One of the major issues was that when you use an energy or alien weapon that leaves a ash or goo pile, they don't disappear, causing your game save to grow as the game tries to keep track of every single pile. I only had to do a hard reset twice, most of the time if I just left the game up for a few minutes it would unfreeze (you could tell when because the music wouldn't stop if it was gonna come back).

For the GOTY version, I played that about 55 hours and also had about 10 freezes. Mostly all of them came as I was nearing the end of Broken Steel (after I had finished the main game, plus all the other DLC) and it I had to reset from the PS menu about 10 times in the last 4 hours of playing. It was pretty aggravating at that point, but I was trying to get 100% of all trophies.

Honestly, aside from being irritated the final hours of playing the GOTY version, it was never that big a deal. With over 150 hours across both versions, and it only got glitchy about twenty times, it wasn't a game-breaking experience.
 
I am somewhat interested in Fallout Myself. Thanks for this thread. I was about to ask the same question.

Now I just have to decide if it is worth getting the GOTY edition or not. It often looks like about a $30 difference.
 
Yeah, I found the regular game with no DLC's for about $23-$25 on Amazon but the GOTY was at least $45. The PC version is amazingly buggy so don't bother there.
 
Hmm I rarely had any issues with FO3 on PC, but I have a single GPU video card.
 
The 196.21 drivers just came out recently. Are they the ones you have?

Come to think of it ... I didn't have problems really either but I also used those mods that go through and take off the encryption or whatever from the music files that was causing problems with codecs.
 
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Eh I dunno, i'm honestly not going to even get all into trying to make it work on my PC. It brings my frustration and stress to the levels of wanting to hurt people and break things.

I think I am going to just wait until I get to 70 in MW2 and finish a run through of Titan Quest. Titan quest is weird in that I never feel like playing but the moment I force myself to sit down and play I get all sucked in and play for hours.
 
rcf1987 said:
get the pc version and the unofficial patch fixes tons of bugs
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That sounds interesting. I would prefer to play it on my PC but I have just had the worst luck with it. Any chance you could link for me. I'll google as well. Thank

Edit: I found it, thanks. I'll look in to it.
 
I've played the original Fallout 3 twice (2nd time was to get a Platinum trophy). I don't recall any freezes and I loved the game and used the Plasma rifle like it was going out of style!

Great game, highly recommended on a PS3.
 
I don't recall having a single lockup/crash on PC and I played through it before the patches.
 
Bankie said:
I don't recall having a single lockup/crash on PC and I played through it before the patches.
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Yeah I don't want to get into this whole debate on whether or not others can play it on their PCs. Been there done that :)

Just whether or not it is buggy on the PS3 so I can look into that option.
 
I'm not sure about freezes. I do know that it's the worst version of the three as far as graphics/framerate/load times goes.
 
I have it on the PC and had it crash a few times on me - thank goodness for autosaves.

My friend comes over and plays it on my PS3 (his PS3 is 100 miles away at his 'rents house, but he still buys games). I've seen it freeze once in about 15 hours of play, but that was the only downside.

The graphics and framerate are def better on the PC if you can run it on high settings, but if the only way for you to play it is on the PS3, then it'll still be a good experience.
 
Blue Knight said:
I have it on the PC and had it crash a few times on me - thank goodness for autosaves.

My friend comes over and plays it on my PS3 (his PS3 is 100 miles away at his 'rents house, but he still buys games). I've seen it freeze once in about 15 hours of play, but that was the only downside.

The graphics and framerate are def better on the PC if you can run it on high settings, but if the only way for you to play it is on the PS3, then it'll still be a good experience.
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Thanks for the reply.

I don't have any games on PS3 that crash at all ever.. Wonder what Bethesda did that made this game so buggy..
 
I just reinstalled FO3. Updated to 1.7, ran the fix that removes codec requirements from sound files, then updated with the unofficial patch that has hundreds of fixes. So far no issues.
 
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