Fallout 3 GOTY $20 at Amazon

I've been working at FO3 (on the 360) pretty steady for the past couple of months. I've put in about 95-100 hours now, having finished the main game and also Operation Anchorage and The Pitt DLC.

I have only experienced 3 glitches/crashes in that whole experience. Once I got stuck where I was in some kind of little crack in the ground and couldn't move/jump out, so I had to reload the save. The other two were full-on crashes which required a restart of my xbox, both of them were in the past few hours playing the Pitt DLC. I heard that this DLC was the most glitchy/buggy, and I guess my experience follows that.

But in all the performance/stability has been a non-issue for me.

And yes this game is pretty great. It really nails that atmosphere thing how when you walk out into the wasteland it feels like a foreign and dangerous place. What really amazes me is that despite the massive size of the game world, and the gratuitous use of prefabbed components (i.e. you see the same desks, tables, bookshelves, computer consoles, beds, etc. all over the wasteland), every single location feels unique and believable. Every. Single. Location. There's just so much detail there. And the destruction all seems so real. I saw some real-life photos of abandoned/ruined buildings taken in Detroit, and the first thing that came to my mind was Fallout 3, because they looked almost exactly the same. You come across a little abandoned hovel where someone has scrounged up a mattress and a few boxes of items, and it just looks like someone would have done that, yet subtly different than the hovel you found yesterday. You can almost see the story of each location, the guy who kept his collection of frag grenades lined up neatly on the shelf, or the guy who collected cameras, etc.

I remember when I was low level I was really scared and only went out in the daytime, and even used sneak to cross terrain because I just didn't know who or what was out there. As you play more and more you begin to get comfortable and soon you're able to identify the different factions, and know how they interact with each other, etc.

Anyhow, sorry for rambling. Great game, great price. I'd recommend picking it up if you have the time to play through it.

Ruahrc
 
[quote name='Ruahrc']I've been working at FO3 (on the 360) pretty steady for the past couple of months. I've put in about 95-100 hours now, having finished the main game and also Operation Anchorage and The Pitt DLC.

I have only experienced 3 glitches/crashes in that whole experience. Once I got stuck where I was in some kind of little crack in the ground and couldn't move/jump out, so I had to reload the save. The other two were full-on crashes which required a restart of my xbox, both of them were in the past few hours playing the Pitt DLC. I heard that this DLC was the most glitchy/buggy, and I guess my experience follows that.

But in all the performance/stability has been a non-issue for me.

And yes this game is pretty great. It really nails that atmosphere thing how when you walk out into the wasteland it feels like a foreign and dangerous place. What really amazes me is that despite the massive size of the game world, and the gratuitous use of prefabbed components (i.e. you see the same desks, tables, bookshelves, computer consoles, beds, etc. all over the wasteland), every single location feels unique and believable. Every. Single. Location. There's just so much detail there. And the destruction all seems so real. I saw some real-life photos of abandoned/ruined buildings taken in Detroit, and the first thing that came to my mind was Fallout 3, because they looked almost exactly the same. You come across a little abandoned hovel where someone has scrounged up a mattress and a few boxes of items, and it just looks like someone would have done that, yet subtly different than the hovel you found yesterday. You can almost see the story of each location, the guy who kept his collection of frag grenades lined up neatly on the shelf, or the guy who collected cameras, etc.

I remember when I was low level I was really scared and only went out in the daytime, and even used sneak to cross terrain because I just didn't know who or what was out there. As you play more and more you begin to get comfortable and soon you're able to identify the different factions, and know how they interact with each other, etc.

Anyhow, sorry for rambling. Great game, great price. I'd recommend picking it up if you have the time to play through it.

Ruahrc[/QUOTE]

Fallout New Vegas didn't have the same feeling, which ruined it.

I want Fallout 4 to be worked on by Bethesda instead.

Its like Treyarch working on COD, its just isnt the same as Infinity Ward.
 
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