Fallout Fallout 3 isn’t as bad as you think...

[laclongquan]

Graphic is dated

Forget dated, the game looked terrible at the time.

Leaving aside the lowres look of 2008, Fallout 3 has its own innate visual theme of apocalyptic urban look (enb). From Big Town to DC ruins... It does not look vibrant and colorful for sure~

Dirty, full of trash... no, a lot of us doesnt like that visual theme.

 

[Hagashager]

Even back in '08 people on BGSF (including me) were complaining about the disgusting green filter and abundance of rubble. That green filter man, it gives Deus Ex: Human Revolution a run for its money.

That all said, F3 has a charm to it. It's not a Fallout charm, but it is charming. I had fun with F3 back when it came out. Some of my favorite gaming moments are from F3.

 

[laclongquan]

Weird, I did play F3 for the 1st time just last year. I dont remember being bother about green filter or anything ( I dont install any mod that mess with ENB aspect).

The trashy ruins though... Oh well, nothing a porno poster and billboards mod cant fix~ it's still trash but I dont be bother so much whenever I take a close look at the surroundings.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

All Bethesda games looked terrible at the time in the post 2D era.

Morrowind's environments were stunning at release.

 

[eli]

 

[SharkClub]

Morrowind's environments do look unconventionally pretty. It's a very alien looking landscape which helps to set it further apart from attempts at photo-realistic landscapes (or in Oblivion's case, standard cartoony high fantasy landscapes shrouded in bloom).

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

If only we had *known*.

 

[d1r]

Fallout New Vegas only getting one year of dev time is the biggest tragedy in video gaming history.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Oblivion looked good at release except for the potato characters, it just aged horribly like most games from the overbloom era. Sort of has a quaint fantasy charm to it though.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If only we had *known*.

what the quest in the top is actually like when it's not being exaggerated by a fanboy:

 

[Vic]

I prefer orange filter over green filter so New Vegas obviously is the better game.

 

[xuerebx]

With enough mods, any Bethesda game can be tweaked to your liking, more or less. As a stand-alone post-apocalpyptic sandbox game, it's pretty neat (with the right mods). But if you play the Fallout games sequentially Fallout 3 (and the rest) have a totally different feel than the prior games in the series. I think if they went with their own IP they would not have pissed off the fans of the original series (not that they care, but anyway).

Even back in '08 people on BGSF (including me) were complaining about the disgusting green filter and abundance of rubble. That green filter man, it gives Deus Ex: Human Revolution a run for its money.

That all said, F3 has a charm to it. It's not a Fallout charm, but it is charming. I had fun with F3 back when it came out. Some of my favorite gaming moments are from F3.

Ohh Hagashager, I remember you on the BGSF forums Not sure you remember be - I used to go by the username TESFanner.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I love both the green and orange filters in Fallout 3 and Fallout NV.

 

[Reggin Backward]

I also use the mods to remove the filters on both games and lo and behold, it's no longer nauseating to look at. Lmao at the inflated graph for the Khan alliance quest, it's true that everything is linked story/lorewise but only a few of these steps are necessary for the completion of Oh My Papa. As for Fallout 3, it's alright and the physics engine with ragdolls and the dismemberments was a funny experience back in the days. Who didn't enjoy dropping 50 frag mines at the feet of an npc just to send him tickling the clouds?

 

[Hagashager]

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Ohh Hagashager, I remember you on the BGSF forums Not sure you remember be - I used to go by the username TESFanner.

Well hot-dog, it's a small internet after all! I remember you as well. Though it does makes semse I'd encounter another BGSF goer on a forum for cantankerous old RPG fans.

 

[DeepOcean]

I still remember game journos trying to argue why a sadistic middle aged man pretending being a little girl while running a simulation and demanding you to kill random NPCs in it for LoLs was a good quest or why Camp Little Light existing wasnt a good reason to not let Bethesda's design team get closer to a computer ever again.

 

[laclongquan]

I still remember game journos trying to argue why a sadistic middle aged man pretending being a little girl while running a simulation and demanding you to kill random NPCs in it for LoLs was a good quest or why Camp Little Light existing wasnt a good reason to not let Bethesda's design team get closer to a computer ever again.

Aaaah the good ol day when game journos dont understand the joke/meme of a sadistic middle aged man pretending being a little girl torturing bunch of people

 

[Don Peste]

Enjoy your replay!

 

[Yosharian]

Am I the only one who finds most if not all of these Bethesda quests to be utterly retarded? I can't stand these goofy ass quests/encounters

 

[Falksi]

This needs to be in the next Fallout game...

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Who wrote the words and lyrics to that song? Redd Foxx? Sounds like it's right off one of his old party albums. Fun fact: there's a czech pornstar by the name of Red Fox.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Am I the only one who finds most if not all of these Bethesda quests to be utterly retarded? I can't stand these goofy ass quests/encounters

It's not so much the fact the quests are goofy, it's how much they shit on everything that came before it. Since I skimmed through the pictures posted by Don Peste, Fallout 3 took a huge shit on Harold. What's he doing in Washington D.C.? Why did he mutate in to a full tree? Why did he become a tree god? Fallout 3 your first game and have no idea who Harold is? Burn him alive because he's helpless. That whole area was complete ass. It goes well beyond just tossing in something from the previous games to show how "Fallout" the new game is because there's things from Fallout and Fallout 2 all over the place.

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah that's true I guess

 

[Cael]

Am I the only one who finds most if not all of these Bethesda quests to be utterly retarded? I can't stand these goofy ass quests/encounters

It's not so much the fact the quests are goofy, it's how much they shit on everything that came before it. Since I skimmed through the pictures posted by Don Peste, Fallout 3 took a huge shit on Harold. What's he doing in Washington D.C.? Why did he mutate in to a full tree? Why did he become a tree god? Fallout 3 your first game and have no idea who Harold is? Burn him alive because he's helpless. That whole area was complete ass. It goes well beyond just tossing in something from the previous games to show how "Fallout" the new game is because there's things from Fallout and Fallout 2 all over the place.

Reminds me of what happened after BTech was sold off to Wizkids. They made it their mission to shit on the entire setting and kill off every single character in the most banal and stupid way possible. Any faction that was loved was made into retarded perverts or clowns. Unknown or hated factions were made into supermen. It is the new manager syndrome that happens in any organisation that gets a new insecure and useless manager. The motherfucker wants to stamp his authorataaaaa on the place and makes changes for the sake of making changes or just to be contrary with little regard to what went on before. It generally fucks up the place.

 

[laclongquan]

At least Oasis area has some background, some writings, some origin to it.

Lots area in Fallout3 just dont have any.

I am speaking of course about Shalebridge with its ant mound. Why is it there. What does it do? What role it play in the F3 story, or Fallout world.

At least Calveston has t eh decency of being delete its official name so nobody know about it there unless they pay attention to cell name. Shalebridge brandish its label on the map like an idiot brand~

Same stituation with Shalebridge is the Corvega building, the ant infestation, and the half finished SM lair in the basement.

All F3 show is a complete underinvestment on the writing aspect.