Why is everyone so down on Fallout 3?

[chaosyoshimage]

Yeah, I'm going with "Bethesda can't write". Well, they can, but dialogue seems to be a problem (I typically enjoyed what I found on the computers and in the books of The Elder Scrolls games I've played). You know what I want to know? Why so many people insistently think New Vegas should have been an expansion pack. According to them it's not it's "own game". By that logic, neither are classics like Mega Man 2 or Majora's Mask, but whatever...

 

[Janktrio]

I really liked Fallout 3. Hell, I like it even more than New Vegas. New Vegas definetly had great writing but the plot didn't feel that immersive for me. I never really felt the urge to follow the main plot as much as I did for Fallout 3. Also, Fallout 3 had a much better world than New Vegas. The world in Fallout 3 looked and felt like an actual post-nuclear apocalypse, where everyone is barely trying to survive and you can see the ruined remains of humanity from before the war. The world in New Vegas felt way too orderly and clean to be a post-nuclear apocalypse. While it made sense in game why everything wasn't destoryed, it just wasn't what I expected from a game about a post-nuclear apocalypse.

 

[VanityGirl]

People were down on Fallout?

Fallout 3 was great, no major, wide spread, game breaking bugs, no backwards flying dragons... The game was fantastic.
I was such an evil jerk on Fallout 3!

 

[xvbones]

Fallout 3 is a good game. But most people who say that have played the older, much better Fallout 1 and 2.

I was obsessed with F1 and 2. Obsessed.

I played through each of those games dozens and dozens of times, i created every possible character in each, pacifists, slavers, psychotics, diplomats, merchants, ninjas, fucking everything.

I have seen, robbed, befriended, murdered or fucked every single NPC in both of those games one hundred different ways apiece.

Fallout 3 was a fucking magnificent game. Its sole failing was that about 30 hours in, you're really just running around collecting ammo.

That and the (original) end was kind of a But Thou Must forced messianic sacrifice, but screw it, the rest of the game was fucking splendid.

To repeat:

I was obsessed with Fallout 1 and 2.

I thought Fallout 3 was fucking splendid.