Is Fallout 3 worth getting?

BladeVenom said:
You should have been here when Oblivion came out. The number of Fallout 3 threads seems very few by comparison.
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True, but I think I have to go with the guy who mentioned Doom 3.

Fallout 3 is fantasic IMO. You never have to even touch the main quest and you can kiss dozens of hours goodbye easily.
 
Q-BZ said:
True, but I think I have to go with the guy who mentioned Doom 3.

Fallout 3 is fantasic IMO. You never have to even touch the main quest and you can kiss dozens of hours goodbye easily.
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I believe I am the "guy" you are referring to :). Yeah, when D3 came out, it was practically hericy (sp) to talk about anything else here at the [H]...until people started to realize that the only real scary thing about the game was when something jumped out at ya from a closed door. Then people started mocking the game...I never played it myself though, heh.

So true about kissing dozens of hours away without touching the main quest. I dont know how many hours ive spent in the game so far (I dont have it from STEAM) and I dont know how to check, but, since work for me has been slower than a snail surrounded by salt....Ive been playing at night after the kids go to bed till bout 5am...so, at least 5 hours a night (give or take) since Dec. 26th. So....15 days (not including tonight) @ 5 hours a night.....I can guesstamate at least 50 to 75 hours so far and im, as I mentioned earlier, have only been in and around the southeast side of the map.

I just dont understand how someone can truely "play" this game in under 20 hours and finish it. Its just my opinion, but I dont think its possible to TRUELY explore and truely PLAY this game having done EVERYTHING there is in that amount of time. Who wants to spend money on a game to only get it over and done with so quickly? I just dont get that at all.
 
SAW said:
I believe I am the "guy" you are referring to :). Yeah, when D3 came out, it was practically hericy (sp) to talk about anything else here at the [H]...until people started to realize that the only real scary thing about the game was when something jumped out at ya from a closed door. Then people started mocking the game...I never played it myself though, heh.

So true about kissing dozens of hours away without touching the main quest. I dont know how many hours ive spent in the game so far (I dont have it from STEAM) and I dont know how to check, but, since work for me has been slower than a snail surrounded by salt....Ive been playing at night after the kids go to bed till bout 5am...so, at least 5 hours a night (give or take) since Dec. 26th. So....15 days (not including tonight) @ 5 hours a night.....I can guesstamate at least 50 to 75 hours so far and im, as I mentioned earlier, have only been in and around the southeast side of the map.

I just dont understand how someone can truely "play" this game in under 20 hours and finish it. Its just my opinion, but I dont think its possible to TRUELY explore and truely PLAY this game having done EVERYTHING there is in that amount of time. Who wants to spend money on a game to only get it over and done with so quickly? I just dont get that at all.
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I just now finished the game with nearly 70 hours of gameplay and im sure theres stuff I missed. Im gonna start a new game and be *bad* this time :D
 
Freezebyte said:
I just now finished the game with nearly 70 hours of gameplay and im sure theres stuff I missed. Im gonna start a new game and be *bad* this time :D
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Heh...yeah, I plan on doing the same thing after im done too :)...

I also NOTICED just a few minutes ago where it says how long ive played...never paid any attention to it before....at current game, ive played 53hours and 27min. Guess I havent played "exactly" 5 hours a night EVERY night, heh, and I still have 3/4ths of the map yet to explore.

The only reason I noticed this time around was because I was looking for a previous save point where I could go back and blow up all those cars again....this time taking screen shots...Im about to load them up here in a bit and post them in my other thread.

If you wanna try it out...go to the Nukacola plant and then head east on the main road...you will find an overpass where there are LOTS of cars all jumbled together...start shooting at one and sit back and watch the fireworks....HUGE explosion man...
 
This game IS Oblivion with guns. I HATED Oblivion with such a strong passion and this game is no different. I forced my way through 6 hours after leaving the vault and I wanted to rip my eyes out.

If you liked Oblivion you'll like this, otherwise if you hated Oblivion I would find someway of playing before purchase to see if you like it otherwise you will have wasted your money. This game is probably my personal biggest overhyped/bad game of 2008. I even called it a long time ago with that "omg FO3 preview video" thread.

All the things I said was pretty much dead on.
 
I didn't play Oblivion for very long, but I've gotta say I disagree. I completed Fallout 3 and loved it so I decided to try Oblivion, I couldn't stand it. Maybe it's the environment in FO3 or just that you dont have to walk as far to find something interesting. It's a big map, but there's lots of little stuff to see, where - from what I could tell, Oblivion is just miles and miles of woods and crap. I only played for an hour or so before giving up though.
 
aaronearles said:
I didn't play Oblivion for very long, but I've gotta say I disagree. I completed Fallout 3 and loved it so I decided to try Oblivion, I couldn't stand it. Maybe it's the environment in FO3 or just that you dont have to walk as far to find something interesting. It's a big map, but there's lots of little stuff to see, where - from what I could tell, Oblivion is just miles and miles of woods and crap. I only played for an hour or so before giving up though.
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you should give oblivion another chance. i installed/uninstalled 3 times before i really got into it. i did the same thing you did and just didn't give it a chance.
 
Maybe, it didn't help that the game looked like ass compared to Fallout on ultra, it's hard to go back and play older games when I still have new ones I haven't played!
 
next-Jin said:
This game IS Oblivion with guns. I HATED Oblivion with such a strong passion and this game is no different. I forced my way through 6 hours after leaving the vault and I wanted to rip my eyes out.

If you liked Oblivion you'll like this, otherwise if you hated Oblivion I would find someway of playing before purchase to see if you like it otherwise you will have wasted your money. This game is probably my personal biggest overhyped/bad game of 2008. I even called it a long time ago with that "omg FO3 preview video" thread.

All the things I said was pretty much dead on.
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Ive played Oblivion Bro....the only similarites I see are maybe the character models and physics...aside from that, they are COMPLETELY different games. Have you looked and READ my thread yet? If not, go and look/read, esp the last page...I just now uploaded some pics I think you will find VERY cool....I doubt you will see anything like that in Oblivion. :)
 
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