Fallout 3 Is Better Than You Think

Does anyone else think that stepping out of Doc Mitchell's house should be at night so you could see Vegas' glow immediately?

Random event: I walked out to the Super-Duper mart for the quest as as I see the building, I see a sudden nuclear cloud appear. Once I get there, I find the corpses of a rad roach right beside the corpse of a raider with a fat-man.

The first time leaving the vault in Fallout 3 was a huge deal. This was the first time that the world of Fallout was depicted in 3D. And it was beautiful.

Playing fallout 3 as a child I would just replay the vault section over and over again but once I got to the door to the wasteland I reloaded a save and did it over again seeing how scared the guards were to follow me out there and having the door sealed behind actually made me feel fear of what was on the other side of that door.

I like pickpocketing power armor into children’s inventory and making them wear it... Tiny power armor!

Did anyone else realize that if you eat the sweet roll immediately, you get a new speech option for Butch?

The whole "you can't kill children" argument is mostly due to a change of time and priorities. Even at the time of fallout 1's release, international versions patched children out all together to avoid the whole child killing dynamic. When fallout eventually came to digital markets via steam and gog, the censored European versions were specifically used. Therefore the only readily available versions of the original fallout have no killable children either. Killable children just isn't something 99% of game devs want to deal with, even New Vegas didn't tackle it.

Fallout 3 was my introduction to open world games (I was about 12 so my parents were slowly starting to let me play violent games) and it became quickly my most favorite game of all time, I still to this day can't find a game that gives me the same feeling the first time playing fallout 3 gave me

I wish I forgot everything about Fallout 3 and New Vegas so I can both replay them all over again. They both have a special place in my heart.

I remember the first time I did the Tenpenny tower quest, helping the Ghouls and then coming back to find all the humans dead, I was so mad because of how much i went out of my way to help them only for them to do go ahead and kill 'em all anyways that I wound up killing all the ghouls, its one of those things in Fallout 3 that still sticks with me.

I loved fallout 3s introduction to the wasteland. It reminded me of coming out of the sewers on Oblivion.

Context is hugely important when starting a game. In NV you arent a vault dweller who grew up in a vault and had no way of knowing what any of the major factions are. Therefore, after your encounter with benny...why would it make sense to get a history lesson from a nearby town as if this is your first time learning of the NCR...or Ceasar's legion...or the wasteland. I can believe there is some expectation of knowing the context of the world you occupy, given that it is your LITERAL JOB to navigate as a courier beforehand. Unless they go with "they were hit with amnesia"

i was playing fallout 3 the other day, and i overheard two mutants talking to eachother. i was sneaking because i wanted to hear them continue since it was unheard dialogue to me. one mutant said "i was thinking. and it hurt! it hurt my head! but i remember things... from before. i think i knew a woman... or maybe i was a woman? it hurts!" and the second mutant kind of shut him down and said "ha ha! you talk a lot! it sound funny when you talk! like a stupid human! hahahaha!" and it made me kinda feel bad for them :/

Unrelated: But can we talk about how useless the Chinese pistol was?

I thought 3 was better than 4 , 4 felt more like a chore, I rushed to beat it by the end. For 3 I had fun reading every letter on every typewriter.

One thing i always loved from Fo3 is the way you can approach problems from unconventional ways. "Escape from Paradise" has you rescuing the little lamp brats, but one wants to stay behind, Penny who wants you to rescue Rory. When you and Rory have to make it to the exit, you have two options; kill all the slavers or tell Rory to run and hope he doesn't die in the process, which he likely will. However if your skill is high enough you can pick pocket all the slavers' weapons including the minigun from the sentry over the platform (also don't forget the unique pool stick, unarmed slavers will try to use it) once everyone is disarmed you can reverse pick-pocket Rory that very same minigun. When you tell him to make a break for it, all the slavers are going to run towards him with their bare fists, while he uses the minigun. He is going to kill all the slavers in his way and you won't get good karma or lose standing with them. It's basically Butch 2.0 in which you empower an NPC so he can save himself, the game never telegraphs to you this, it is an option you have however because it counts on you being crafty.

Fallout 3 is one of the defining games of my early teen years. My first fallout game. Spent probably at least 300 hours on it

1:41:22 ‘Lets be massive nerds for a second’. Jon, we’ve been watching a full review of the Lore of Fallout. I think you’re preaching to the converted

Fallout 3: I love for the exploration Fallout NV: For the diverse characters Fallout 4: for the weapon customization and ease of modification for even more weapon customization (and maybe outfit mods)

The best thing about fallout 3 is the ability to just pick a direction and just wander. Go see what's happening in that village you can see in the distance or what loot can be had from that empty looking campsite nv is a great story with some great outcomes but if you're bored with the story you can't just turn left (or right) and see what's out there like you can in fallout 3