Aja on 22/11/2016 at 22:52
I never actually finished it, so maybe I should do that before I judge it.
faetal on 22/11/2016 at 23:06
I agree with this thread.
Starker on 23/11/2016 at 01:00
Quote Posted by henke
Just like when I played Fallout for the first time mere months before Fallout 3 came out, and y'know what? From the completely objective perspective of someone without nostalgia shades on: FO3 > FO1. Indisputable evidence that video games are only getting better. Nobody argue with me on this!
Heh, good one. Almost caught me.
froghawk on 23/11/2016 at 04:58
FO3 is a terrible game but I could never make it past the intro in the originals so you may be on to something
icemann on 23/11/2016 at 05:12
I absolutely loved Fallout 3. Alongside GTA 3 and Mario 64, it's one of the best transitions to 3D that I've seen. Especially for a RPG series.
Onto the topic of this thread - TBH I really don't think there wasn't any time prior to the 70s where it wasn't a great time to be a gamer. Each decade has it's own unique bits and ends that made each special and fantastic times to be in as a gamer. I was born in 1980 so I can't speak on the 70s, but to break it down by decade:
80s - Early PC gaming (Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry etc etc), the rise and fall of Atari with the 2600, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, Nintendo's rise. Video game arcades were HUGE during this time period as well as the 90s.
90s - PC gaming gets really good, rise of FPS, RTS, RPG and flight sim games, the super nintendo and sega megadrive era, Playstation 1 came about towards the end, 3D graphics cards come about, Virtual Reality makes its first appearance but is dead by about the end of the decade.
2000s - PS2 and PS3 era, XBox, Nintendo Wii etc. Large amount of FPS games in this time period + open world sandbox games (Assassin's Creed, GTA etc etc), Mass Effect comes about + The Witcher.
2010s - RPGs get quite epic (Mass Effect 2 & 3, Witcher 2 & 3 etc), FPS games start to predominately mix RPG and stealth elements, Kickstarter backed games start to make a bit of an impact, indie games bring back the solo / small team dynamic for games dev, Virtual Reality comes back with a vengeance (largely thanks to Kickstarter via the Oculus Rift).
And that's just the highlights that sprang to mind for each decade.
Jason Moyer on 23/11/2016 at 05:27
I thought FO3 was a good 3D homage to FO1 and FNV was a good 3D homage to FO2. FO4 is Fallout: Borderlands. Which is good, but...
demagogue on 23/11/2016 at 06:50
My first major encounter when I got outside in FO3 was with a guy dressed in an ant suit going on about some kind of spat by nerds in Halloween costumes and the town was tired of the whole thing. It kind of lost me from the start. My laptop at the time wasn't really capable of running it very well either. So it didn't click.
It was my first game with a really open 3D world though, and I was impressed by that. Ok, well I guess second after GTA3. Skyrim is still the winner on that front.
I also played FO1 and FO2 around the time FO3 was coming out and thought they had a lot of charm.
They were old school RPGs though, so it's not really fair to compare them to FO3 anyway.
icemann on 23/11/2016 at 08:06
A guy in an ant suit? That shouldn't have happened directly outside the vault. He's supposed to be located far up in the north east. Game must have bugged up. On my first play through I didn't encounter him until about 3 weeks of play in.
The stuff with him plays out quite similar to the Silver Shroud stuff in Fallout 4. One of the few good aspects of that game.
demagogue on 23/11/2016 at 09:59
It wasn't like literally the first encounter, but let's just say as soon as I was out of that vault I shot out like a bat out of hell to just roam the earth, and had walked for miles and miles fighting random things that came along before it occurred to me I should start back up with the actual game, and that just happened to be at that village. It was just like throwing a dart at the map with how much I just ran around.
Starker on 23/11/2016 at 11:11
As far as I'm concerned, FNV was a good roleplaying game trapped in a crappy engine, FO3 was an okayish open world game with roleplaying trappings. Things like worldbuilding, story, tone and dialogue sucked horribly compared to the original Fallout.
