Yeah, touring the sewers makes me uncomfortable to this day. New Vegas is my favorite but they really hit the nail on the head with the atmosphere with 3.
@@jordantomblin2302 it’s poorly written because of what Bethesda work ethics is. With Todd Howard saying it best “It Just Works!”. Unlike New Vegas where their writers was so great that it leads to other games writing like Horizon Zero Dawn franchise.
First npc I came across had a slave collar. It gave me the option to disarm, which promptly made him explode and kill us both. I remember the look in his eyes when they flew at me lol.
Fallout 3 was my first Fallout. I bought it few days after my mother had a stroke... She told me to buy something that makes me happy and I did. It helped a lot through one of the best example of escapism I ever experienced.
Fallout 3 was my introduction to the series. Little did I know that I'd end up becoming a huge fan of the series . It also encouraged me to delve into the RPG genre as well.
If it weren't for FO3, I would've never even payed Skyrim. Magic was "weird" and "nerdy". I only played CoD and Halo and other masculine FPS. But knowing Skyrim was connected to FO3 made me give it a chance... FO3 was definitely a gateway drug. The best game to combine modern/futuristic FPS with badass RP for its time or before. Reshaped gaming as a whole.
Tbh I have played both fallout NV (FIRST) and played fallout 3 after, with NV you get sent all over the place early on, like fallout 4 (playing that now) and it helps discovering things to do, like go to this place help them they sent you halfway through the map and on the way you just discover stuff to add to your to do list
Fallout 3 does have the best combat music best wasteland atmosphere nice main story but still not the best no unique weapons barter skills is bad no thing good to buy repetitive literally every interior location looks the same metro , rooms with drawers the whole map is filled with raider raider super mutant super mutants the game has no challenge very easy the dart gun is really easy to build really op one shot any where in the body the like the head will get both legs crippled , darts are very common, trash combat trash boring weapons really and accuracy no iron sight ( aim ) just a crosshair , is really hard to maintain equipment ( repair ) money is not the problem there is nothing To but buy with money so you will have plenty of it no npc has 100 repairs even if you have a 100 u can’t fully repair the weapons u need the same weapons type for repair equipment have really bad health my inventory has to be filed witch Chinese machine gun , very easy game op complains no challenge dog meat has 1000hp u can find home at level one no ammo types no attachments ( scope ) etc every location is the same useless items lots of junk and materials and only 20% needed for creating weapons and their components are very common boring , not a lot of enemies just radiers , and super mutants hundred die more respawn to be killed with a skilled 19 year old with really good accuracy power armour enemies are very weak no challenge radiation is soo pathetic is supposed to be a harsh wasteland radiation is basically a cough treated with 50 Caps to a doctor every op chems and rads are very common trash dlc TP is nice the npc are broken OP is really bad is the worst war I ever seen is supposed to be devastating and destructive and cool because is 2076 i think , really short dlc fallout nv and fallout 4 has the best dlc and every varient is weak and the is not a lot of enemies the game is dead easy on very hard first play through except for PLO
@@LTmxr you make a fair argument. While I can’t say much on fo2 as I’ve not had the pleasure of experiencing anything prior to fo3, I must state that the fo3 metro could have had better story. I’d say fo5 could be somewhere like NYC. Imagine the ruins there. But it would also need a great story. So I’d say if you were to take the aspects and put them together. It look nice. Not to mention you could add a single synth that has “seen it all” and travels the wastes. Then have a institute member “presuming the institute ending is cannon” call for the players aid.
@@LTmxr tbh. I wish they’d bring back a lot of fo3 and NV into the newer games. Like a card game (don’t have to be caravan) that you could gain skill in. Imagine luck and charisma upping your card ability. Heck have a casino and let us play some 21. Honestly Bethesda’s fallout could get a lot of decent help from the fans.
I will never forget the day my friends dad came over, gave this game to me and said "I can't figure out how to play this game but you might". God bless you for giving me one my favorite games of all time
I remember being a kid and playing until 3am. I was just so enthralled with the setting and the story. 3 is exactly what you want when you think of "nuclear wasteland"
When I was young, my friends wanted me to get Modern Warfare 2 so we could play multiplayer. My mum and I went to the game store to buy it, but right next to MW2 was Fallout 3. My young self couldn't read well, all I knew was the game my friends wanted to play was about shooting, and there were two guys that looked ready to fight on the front covers. I ended up choosing Fallout 3 and did not regret my purchase. I went from the vault, to Megaton, to Tenpenny Tower and loved every moment!
You went there and failed to buy modern warfare 2 (lmao) or you changed your mind and picked fallout 3 instead? Or you thought you could play modern warfare 2 with your friends in fallout 3 (lol)?
That's actually partly why I play New Vegas in Hardcore: an actual need to keep my companions safe, including by taking a decently high charisma stat to increase their nerve. Battles become more tactical, requiring me to look out for them and cover their weaknesses or at least avoid hitting them with my own attacks.
@@reillywalker195 It is something I love about 3 and New Vegas allowing that. It really makes for good role playing too. I did a role-play of a character who goes through the events of 3 and NV. She had both Star Paladin Cross and Veronica die on her in battle and it made her hecka sad. It was extra sad with Veronica since I didn't get to continue with her quests since she was dead - so it actually has a negative effect on the player and keeps the stakes high. So now my character is regretful of being too aggressive towards Caesar's Legion out of her hate for them - since those damn hit squads were always after me and that's how Veronica died.
Fallout is not about the wasteland. Fallout is about what happened after the apocalypse, what have the survivors done, built, created. It is about the new civilization, the new world that rose from the ashes and not just the ashes
@@WillWright77 ok lemme make a comment describing what he means fallout 3 is too destroyed to be 200 years old think about how much people can do in 1 year small houses would be pretty common right? in 20 years, thats 20 years. there would be farms, hell they might unite to form small villages to protect themeselves from gangs then in about 80 years what do we have in fallout 1? small towns, hell even the boneyard which was nuked pretty hard has a bit of a civilization aswell as dealers who learned how to create new guns, shops, hell entire companies are forming like caravans to supply other towns and trade. a common currency is developed, and this is 80 years after the bombs fell lets look at 160 years afterwards... oh that entire southern region of fallout 1 from 80 years ago? its owned by a democracy with over 700 thousand people and even has a goddamn university. theres a massive crime city filled with crime bosses and even "entertainment", not to mention that even the smaller towns are quite large and have trading options that make sense. Redding having a gold mine with 2 mining companies competeting for it. uranium mines in broken hills to provide for energy weapons. New reno and its drug trade growing as law doesnt exist now lets look at fallout 3 what have the people of washinton accomplished after 200 years ...they cant even pick up their goddamn trash its now about how bad the wasteland is, not about the civilizations that can rise from it. It feels like if it was made 20 years after the bombs dropped. i would enjoy fallout 3 more if it was made after about 20 years the bombs dropped and also making up a new story with new factions hell i wouldnt even mind the enclave (if they had a better goal/better reason to poison the water)
The only two F4 mechanics i want is quickloot (without manually opening container) and combat style and animations...everything else can rot for all i care...
sure, but the problem is that nothing has changed in 200 fucking years, its genuinely like the game takes place less than 5 years after the bombs fell which is really immersion breaking (on top of the countless other things that makes it impossible to get immersed) 200 years is the time since the napoleonic wars for us, and altho the world was nuked in fallout, the ammount of surviving equipment thats far more advanced than our current time would mean civilizations would have alot of tools at their disposal
@@Helperbot-2000 sure, but Fallout 3 takes place in D.C…. The capital of America. So you’d think it would have been up there on china’s list of places to bomb the crap out of. The soil, water, air and everything else is going to be a lot more radioactive than Las Vegas, Nevada and for a lot longer lol. Which would make it way more difficult of a place to thrive in.
@@PuffnStuff117 would be a clever point, but D.C sure has alot of mostly intact buildings so that doesnt work as an argument. we know what cities look after just ONE nuke, and you want me to believe they threw dozens of far larger nukes without even flattening the area? lol look at the boneyard, the ruins of los angeles, a far less important target and a ridiculously large area meaning it would have even less nukes in comparison to D.C, yet theres hardly any standing buildings that arent maintained by inhabitants, theres just... the *bones* left. like come on, even new vegas' freeside isnt far off beeing as damaged, and the areas surrounding? almost completely flattened, and vegas wasnt even hit with any nuke directly.
My first Fallout was 4, I got used to it’s, kind of child like aesthetic. When I finally got Fallout 3, it scared the heck out of me, the place looked dead. The metro tunnels terrified me to no end, and I died so many times. My fav game still tho😂
@@snake2106 very good game , I love fallout 3 , it mores of my things , city Nd tunnels , I bought new Vegas , with all dlc nd I played for like 2 weeks bro , loved it it but there was a lot of just open area , but I loved it tho , nd my ps3 fucked up 🥲🥲🥲 actually I’m play fo3 on my ps5 so I’m wonder if fallout Vegas is on there too!!
I will NEVER, EVER forget the 1st time I went outside Vault 101. It has been my fav moment in gaming history, period. FO3 was just the apex of gaming experiences, still unmatched today.
I miss the metro tunnels. One time i entered near Rivet city and ended up being chased by ghouls and got spit out near that metro near grandma Sparkles shack half dead and irradiated. It was an amazing experience and i spent probably tow weeks after that exploring every last one i could, i still don't think i found them all.
@@Guitardude69 Yeah, the utility tunnel with the manhole cover next to that building with the BOS fighting supermutants. It's the same tunnel the broken steel DLC starts at, once the DLC is installed it get changed to the presidential metro.
there was a massive lack of features in this game but honestly I feel as though it contributed to that empty feeling of the wasteland, you could get immersed in wandering
New vegas is my favorite but dammit you had a solid point about the wasteland intro. I remember being 11 seeing all that the first time and feeling intimidated, not really being sure if I could handle everything that game could throw at me.
Not the most realistic world aesthetic though. The entire point of fallout was a new world built from the ashes of an old world, and Bethesda focused on the ashes
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567but personally I think for Washington D.C. it makes sense though because it’s the capital so it’s going to have a much higher rate of destruction than somewhere like Las Vegas would have leading to it being more difficult to build back up somewhere where there’s less people and less space to rebuild.
@@PeptoAbismol it depends on the build my man. Sure, explosives are clunky as F3 (although some explosives are crazy fun, like Mercy that is an automatic grenade launcher). But shooting with the pump-action shotgun, the riot shotgun and the 5mm carabine is so F ing satysfing. The possibility to aim down sight completely change the experience. F3 has awesome enviromental storytelling and DC has many little stories, secrets, dungeons. But in regards of game mechanics there is no competition. NV offers much better crafting (you can do many things like transforming your Energy cells into handmade grenade), ammo types (much more combat variety and you can even pick a perk that grants the ability to make your own personal handmade ammo), kung fu moves in 3rd person camera, slowing time with GRX implants and sooo on
Fallout 2 is my favourite. Fills me with nostalgia about being a teenager, living at home with my parents and spending 10hrs a day exploring each and every quest.
@@FalloutHelper It's a fact that your opinion is wrong. I used to share your wrong opinion, but a wise man showed me the classics are the best. You just can't beat the 90s.
@@equalityforever302 I Do love the classics but I just prefer the 3D aspect and how fallout 3 at the same type of grimy asphere of the old games you can speak your opinion freely but no need to be a dick about it
@@ovaetwoandrewc9126 More like average New vegas fanboy. They are all cultish dickheads. I honestly hate NV thanks to how shitty NV fans are in general.
@@danielsherrill6324 when was that supposed to be then? because then other things break even more than before, the super mutants make even less sense if it takes place soon after the bombs, because it is specified directly that all fev research was moved to mariposa pre war, which is an ever bigger problem than the fact that super mutants exist at all in dc. and of course the brotherhood makes zero sense if thats the case too
Fallout 3 has real dungeon crawls. You can lose an entire hour exploring a single point of interest on your map, with cool stuff to find and files to read.
The rewards in Fallout 3's dungeons feel like proper rewards, as well. New Vegas has some good rewards in dangerous places like Vault 22, Vault 34, Dead Wind Cavern, Black Mountain, and the Deathclaw Promontory, but many of the game's best items like snow globes are in comparably safe places.
For me nothing will ever beat the dark dirty atmosphere of fallout 3. Will always be one of my all time favorite games. Thinking about that green tinted wasteland gives me nostalgic melancholy. Even turning off the radio and listening to the ambient music. I just love it.
@@gwkiv1458 Does feel like that's why a lot of people like it huh. For a lot of us it was our entry point. Heck, it was my first ever proper RPG and we remember that feeling of first experiencing this big world. After being enlightened more as a gamer, I've soured on it quite a bit. The ending enraged me even back then though
I heard it was planned on being like that but they wanted to include the BOS, enclave, and super mutants so they set it much later. Kinda lazy writing IMO. If it was set 20 years after the war they could have done a lot with the government factions battling to take over DC as if they'd regain control of the country.
@@CyranofromBergeracdang, they really doofed it. I wonder if that's why fallout 4 is so bright, as if they tried rectifying this. Yet, it was more likely they wanted it to appeal to a more general audience
Well the wasteland really shouldn't be *the wasteland* in f3, it's been what like 200 years? There's no way there's only three proper settlements, add on to the fact that they haven't built up these settlements very much
@@PolishGod1234 what sounds better Son ventures into a harsh wasteland to search for his father OR A fucking mailman overthrows Las Vegas oh yeah and it has something to do with fallout
I was just thinking this too, I recently started replaying 3 because it was on sale for Xbox for 2 bucks. It really does have such a great attention to detail. Something I feel none of the other fallout matched. Was really taken back by how fun this game still is 15 years later. One of the greats
Fallout 3’s purpose was to introduce the fallout series. It is almost a carbon copy if the first game. Though it is distinct and enjoyable in it’s own right.
@@numbcrep if you read the entirety you would see I said it was distinct and enjoyable in its own way. It’s purpose was to introduce us to a Fallout 3d, which it did with flying colours. Every memorable feature and fan-favourite of the original was carried over to Fallout 3. It was the best move that could’ve been made by Bethesda.
Only complain i have on fo3 is that they never ever explain to the character about on why they use bottlecaps as money, and not just that, your character knows it after leaving the vault... they could have add it to the overseer computer as some random info with the pictures and info about megaton and at least it would make some sense 🤔 Other problem is that the main story develops 95% of the time in a fifth part of the map and the rest is almost irrelevant route-wise for the main story, if you didnt explore by yourself then you're gonna miss a lot of places... not like on fonv where you travel all over most of the map by following the main story
New Vegas is my favorite for gameplay, story, characters, role playing, and replayability... But damn, NOTHING beats that post apocalyptic atmosphere of Fallout 3. They really did nail it on that end. It really is one of, if not the most amazing theme directions of any game ever made. It has to be played to be believed. I actually do feel sorry for those who didn't have 3 as their first Fallout game, because it was mine, and it really does leave a permanent impression on you the minute you leave the vault in this game.
I agree 100%. It was my first and the impression it left has never went away. New Vegas has more things to do and more gameplay depth without a doubt. But the Spirit of Fallout 3 is unrivaled. The experience of playing through the first time is seared into my brain forever. I still remember where I was, what I was doing, what day it was, who was around me, all the details from my first day playing it. Tbh I can’t say the same for the others - or most of the games out there I’ve played for that matter. Only a handful of games have left that great of an impact on me.
Fallout 3 will always be my favorite fallout game, and maybe even favorite video game of all time. There is something so special about it, sure NV may be better mechanically, but the atmosphere is amazing! I can explore for hours on 3, something that I don’t enjoy as much in NV. I wish I could narrow it to one specific reason, but the game has a “FEEL” to it. I get excited every single time I start a new play through. I really believe that the DLCs (specifically The Pitt and Point Lookout) really paved the way for future DLC and what fans want. The moral decisions you make in some quests in this game really make you wonder what is for “the greater good”. It’s spectacular.
I love fallout NV mechanics, story and characters more but I love Fallout3's world more. The atmosphere, the city, the look, and I absolutely love the metro system
The Fallout TV show inspired me to start a new FO3 run recently. Being my first Fallout game, I couldn't help but draw some comparisons to Half-Life 2. Maybe it's the fact that most human infrastructure lies in ruin, while at the same time you have a technological apex predator faction trying to subjugate everyone else.
I get homesick for my megaton house some days… miss the republic of Dave and Riley’s rangers, and that kid that lost his family to the giant ants, glad he still had someone to take him in at rivet city. War never changes
I played Fallout 1 And 2 for the first time, and instantly forgot they were set in 1950's sci-fi. Fallout 3 nails the aesthetic. (Also it's writing and story are just as good as the classics)
I mean...thats Fallout. The Retro-Futurism was always meant to take a back seat in favor of big buff mad max esque apocalyptica. I much prefer Fallout for what its core concept is meant to be. Its just more my style.
I guess the one problem I had with it was personally, I didn’t feel like the main character was, well, the main character. Most of the main quests focus on you following this person when they do something. You follow Dad when he traps himself in the activation room, dying. You follow Li when she heads into the brotherhood, convincing them to let her in. Even with that, it’s a great game
It completly changed and set the course of the way of the game. From combat based on turns, to real time fights, open world ... all that came next is just fallout 3 evolving from this one
It’s basically no secret that Bethesda got massive amounts of inspiration from fallout 1 while making this game, and as such it actually feels the most like fallout out of everything else. Fallout 4 and new Vegas were more inspired by fallout 2, which was more of a mess of various references and hit or miss humor than an actual fallout game.
It give a feeling that the capital was heavily hit, lots of radiation, smells like death and misery, etc. It fit pretty well. Places like Las Vegas or Boston? Not hit hard, no color filter. Life is hard, but not as hard than Washington or Pittsburgh.
The starting town infront of megaton is actually Springfield VA. I used to live there. The school infested with raiders is an elementary school down the way from where my fathers house is. Infact, I found his house in this town...while I was living there during my high school years. Nuts, right. PS:Look at my last name and look up the game developers list and see my cousin worked on it. He worked on a secret government facility in the game. I cannot find it, but my cousin made a desk with a placard sitting on it. The name was "Mr.Munson" as a tribute to our grandfather who in real life was one of the few OG OSS(later CIA)agents. He snapped a picture and made it a portrait for my uncle as a fathers day gift after completing the games development.
I was in gamestop back in 2012 when I came across Fallout 3. Never heard of the series before, but once I read the back cover, I knew I had to play it. The game had me hooked immediately and have been obsessed with all the games since. Fallout is probably my favorite also.
@@matt7144 takes place long enough after the bomb dropped to make sense though. I personally like the 30-70s vibe. The post apocalyptic landscape and theme is just a bonus lol
Fallout 3 is the second game I got for the Xbox 360, first being Halo CE anniversary. I was so stunned at Gallout because before the Xbox 360, I had a small Nintendo and never played something so massive, the open world, the guns, the music, the story and ESPECIALLY the atmosphere was a huge shock to me. Im playing Fallout 3 on the same Xbox 360 I've had since 2012 as I type.
The world isn't supposed to look like shit 200 years after a nuclear war. Fallout 3 looks like 20 years after nuclear war. Fallout new Vegas is what 200 years after Nuclear war is supposed to be.
well to be fair Mr. House in the lore was able to make sure a majority of the nukes weren't near nevada, i think you can find one nuke crater in new vegas and its the one with the only 5-6 centaurs in the game.
Let's be clear. Fallout 3 is your favorite game for one reason and one reason alone: It is because it was the first Fallout game you played. The game is objectively inferior to every other game. Fallout New Vegas has better writing and more refined mechanics. Fallout 4 refines those mechanics even further and gives you much more diverse story options. Fallout 1 and 2 are incomparable in terms of gameplay, but have objectively better stories considering Fallout 3 poorly ripped them off. If Fallout 3 is your favorite game you have not thought clearly about the games.
This is a point I always make Fallout 3 just nails the post apocalypse aesthetic. And with a huge map full of hudden things to find, easter eggs, and quests (violin) it rewards exploration so well I absolutely LOVE fallout 3
My thoughts exactly. They nailed the atmosphere and the raiders seemed way more aggressive like they should be. Everything was way more menacing in general in 3.
Definitely falling in love with 3. Crazy how much it reminds me of 4. I almost feel dumb for never playing it back then. The game was ahead of its time
Fo3 was my first fallout game and holds a special place in my heart. I spent several hundred hours scouring the wastes from Anchorage to "the Pitt" and enjoying the environmental storytelling. That was at release, I just played through again last year and everything was still so familiar.. Like sitting on your long lost favorite chair, what a game. If you don't like it the best that's fine, everyone has their own opinions and that's great. If you flat out hate the game though you're just a funless a Mungo.