Probably been picked over to death but I'll have my go, if only to ward off boredom for a bit. Be warned, I'm vindictive and condescending.
DalekJaas said:
I am completely unfamiliar with other Fallout games.
First problem. Correctly stated. I feel you do need a background of the games to really know what's going on, such being THE POINT OF A SEQUEL. But nevertheless...
1. I am a massive Oblivion fan (insanely modded of course), but I still played vanilla oblivion and enjoyed it immensely. As such I was optimistic for fallout 3. In comparison to Oblivion, Fallout 3 has worse environments, less immersive scenery and what I call 'ridiculous' wildlife. I mean, somehow I expected it to be more realistic.
Okay. Perhaps you are too stuck in Medieval to really enjoy it? To each their own. I feel kinda opposite of your view here. I felt the terrain in Fallout 3 was more diversified than Oblivion. Environment is actually pretty strong if you turn the blasted radio off. The subtle background music (though bearing a suspicious likeness to the music of Oblivion) and ambiance noise do help build it up. Nothing creeps me out as much as going into an abandoned vault.
I love how you complain about wildlife not being more like a High Fantasy game.
Super mutants look absurd and speak ridiculously. There are crab things and giants. I thought hundreds of years of radiation would have made things look, well, more deadspacey. Not make them stronger.
Prior knowledge required. Super mutants are spawned from FEV (hooray for Mariposa,) which enhances muscle mass but lower intelligence.
2. Retrofuturism: This is purely personal taste but the I can't stand the 1950s theme of the game. I mean, I understood it, I figured the bombs fell in the 1950s. But when I was informed the bombs sometime in our future in made no sense whatsoever. I just don't get the 1950's theme when culture developed way more past the 50s.
I'm going to laugh when you say you like Bioshock.
3. The voice acting is worse than oblivions, and that's saying something.
Eh. Hard to tell. More diverse though.
4. I CANT JOIN THE BAD GUYS!!!! I completely agreed with what the enclave was doing, screw the irradiated and save what's left of the world. But you can't join them, what's up with that?!?!
Oblivion had so many factions to join, you could really play how you wanted to. That brings me to 5.
Yes. I didn't like the fact I got shoehorned into the Brotherhood. But hey, it's not like you got to ally with Mehrunes Dagon. All you got to do there was impersonate a member to steal the book.
5. Ok, seriously, who thinks that the 'Brotherhood of Steel' is a cool name? It sucks. Its an awful name for the people you have to join. It reminds me of the homosexual steel mill workers from 'The Simpsons'.
I for one think it is pretty nice. Not quite as cool as "The Enclave," but whatever. Perhaps it's the fact I grew up with the earlier version: the Mutant hating technophiles. Besides, it seems a little more creative that "The Fighter's Guild" or "The Mage's Guild." Wait, what's that? The Thieves Guild? Astounding.
6. This is a pet hate but; in any game with guns: THERE SHOULD BE IRONSIGHTS!!!!! I get so annoyed when I right click to raise the gun to my eye level and it doesn't happen. That is such a big immersion killer for me. I know its not an FPS..... but still, it drives me insane. Any good game with guns has sights of some kind. And snipers don't count, I need that ability for all weapons except the obvious ones (big ones). EH!
Eh, I agree with you here. I do like iron sighting a gun.
7. I couldn't get immersed in the story because I had discovered within 2 hours of the game that its setting was so ridiculous that I just didn't care. Sure I was mildly impressed with the tutorial and saw some realism ( I think) in the poorly named RAD ROACHES but when you get outside...the guns have no sights and the environment is insanely dull.
You started out strong. You know a game has a bad ending when they release DLC to completely change it. The 'insanely dull' part I find a bit hard to swallow when I remember you are comparing it to Oblivion. What was more interesting? The tree-riddled field, the forest, or the vaguely swamp-like forest?
Yes I blew up megaton, and thought it was boring. Then I killed everyone in that tower because I didn't care. The story just didn't pull me in, it may have worked wonders for you, but for me it was all too far fetched.
Arbitrary morals for the win! The writing is awful (for both games really.) Perhaps I too couldn't believe nuclear devastation could occur in that way. It's always more plausible for a giant extra-dimensional god to just appear to destroy the world because... he can?
I will say that one of the few parts of the game I liked was in the virtual reality land with your dog dad, but that got boring quickly too.
Yep, agreeing here.
In conclusion, I don't like Fallout 3, I really, really don't. I'm sure people will flame me or whatever but remember this is purely personal opinion.
Well to each their own. Personally if I didn't want to get flamed, I would start with something softer for a title (My Honest Opinion of Fallout 3 in Comparison to Oblivion.) I'd also make an attempt to maintain some semblance of spelling and grammar. There are a few Grammar Nazi's here. I would try to make my supports sound and tight, and perhaps not open with a statement that ruins the entire validity of the following essay.
) Todd Howard said he wanted to stay true to the other 2 Fallout games, which you stated you hadnt played, and i understand, im just clearing it up for you. The other 2 games had the 1950's cliche, so Todd Howard wanted to keep true to that theme.
