Fallout 3

[thatfallout3guy]

Obviously my favorite game of all time, so I had to do this.

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[thewizardassassin]

Loved it for about 6 minutes, then got extremely bored when it became repetitive and...well...boring. Never bothered with New Vegas. Ist Das Nicht Scheibe.

[thatfallout3guy]

*Stabs you with Trench Knife* You don't get bored of it, it just makes you bored because you are unworthy!!

[Mog]

I know a ridiculous amount of stuff about Fallout 3, I've played it so much it's no longer just 'sad.' Amazing game.

[thatfallout3guy]

Tell me about it, I played so much that I've started confusing it for real life, long story short never assume that you have animal friend :/

[Noven]

I think I logged about as many hours into it as Oblivion, but I do believe I know a ton about it after so many hours lol So, very fun game, imo

[thatfallout3guy]

Ok, we've established that it's an amazing game, and if you think other wise then you will get stabbed, and fed to the Yao Gui. What about some crazy moments? Like this one time I was doing Big Trouble for Big Town, and I taught them how to use small guns, so they got into a pentagon formation, Red yelled, "Stick together!" Then a grenade landed inbetween them and killed them all, best moment ever.

[Rygand]

Fallout 3 is one of my favourite games of all time, I will admit this. It's not really how awesome the gameplay is -- though it is, even though it's rather copy pasted from Oblivion all together, just with, you know, guns, as they say.

No, what makes Fallout 3 an amazing game is how immersive it is. It's a game that I can honestly call an experience, and a great one at that. The deep world and characters suck you in and won't easily let you out. You'll be singing along to Galaxy News Radio tunes for the rest of yours days, that much is a guarantee.

As to my favourite moment... Well, this is cheating a bit, but mine is actually from New Vegas. I had started the game but hours before this, and was fucking up some Powder Gangers. One of them had a flamer, and I saw it fit to pick this weapon up from the oddly not too dismembered corpse of the Powder Ganger. However, picking the Flamer up made me overencumbered.

So, much to my distress, I had to drop the fun weapon, and as such, I did so. What followed this action was the most epic thing I have witnessed in a Fallout game.

Somehow, the Flamer bugged up, and ended up -under- the dead Powder Ganger, as I dropped it. The game did not like this, and went "FUCK THIS SHIT", and there was this loud THUMP noise, as the Flamer spun under the Powder Ganger, or more so, snapped, launching the poor corpse literally miles away. I followed the flight of this dead man with my cursor, and he landed so far away, I had no idea where it was. It was amazing. And I laughed, so hard that my sides hurt.

So yes, that is my favourite moment -- so far.

[Mog]

So your favourite moments is when the game glitched and you like it so much because it's immersive?


I love Fallout to bits, but it's far from immersive. Running through miles and miles of samey grey and yellowish land not once did I suddenly 'snap to my senses' and realise I was playing a game, Not once did I see an NPC glitch spazmodically when getting up out of a chair and think to myself 'wow, I do that all the time' and not once did I pull up my pip boy mid-fight to inject a few stimpacks into my face and remark to myself 'Wow, this is so damn realistic.' Fallout 3 and New Vegas are bloody brilliant games. They're funny, clever and very enjoyable to play. But they are not immersive.

[Rygand]

Ah, Moogle, old bean, I beg to disagree. A game does not have to be realistic to be immersive. Depends on the person, I do suppose, but per example, think of all the silent protagonists over the course of gaming, all put in place for means of immersion.

Such as Link, from your favourite game ever. Ocarina of Time.

No, but seriously, I found it very immersive. I logged hours on end to it, and felt actual urgency with peril I faced, actually cared what happened to characters, and what have you.

Obviously, when it does glitch out like fuck, that breaks immersion. And my favourite moment -- Well, I appreciate comedy above all. And the timing of this particular moment was perfect!

But as said, it's but a moment. A small fraction of the game. Tiny. Does not mean it was what made the game amazing to me. Fallout 3, and New Vegas as well, were memorable throughout the whole game, and by how well all of the various events have been engraved into my brain, I'd say, to me, at least it was an immersive experience.

Just need a bit of suspension of disbelief!

[Mog]

Jan 16, 2011 6:34:19 GMT -5 Rygand said:

felt actual urgency with peril I faced, actually cared what happened to characters

mfw you anything.
Who said anything about it being realistic? I'm talking about god awful glitches, pausing time to heal (something only you can do), spending an age sifting through items and what have you.

Imagine having sex with a beautiful woman. The situation is perfect, you're both having the time of your lives and she's hitting all the sweet spots. Now, occassionally during sex you are instantly teleported into a giant ball pool alone. A few minutes later there's another flash and you're back to your conquest. This repeats. When you're in the ballpool you're not exactly bored but it seems to be breaking the flow of things somewhat. That's Fallout 3.

('Cept the woman has a moustache and stares directly at your face all the time.)

[Rygand]

Taking one out of the action is a complaint that could be put under the category of realism, after all, it effectively takes out of the game for a snippet, most likely ruining immersion for most players in process, for that moment, something, that would not happen in a real life situation. Or, at least, that's what I figured you meant.

Anyway, your interesting example aside -- I honestly don't know why we're debating about this. It was immersive for me, I didn't really mind the menu scrolling, V.A.T.S and such. Just took it as "oh, post-apocalyptic weird science nonsense, I can dig it" and strolled on.

Each to their own.

[Mog]

We're debating about this because it's a forum. I wouldn't expect you to have an absolutely objective opinion, like me. *Giant in the sky*

[thatfallout3guy]

See Moogle, this is what happens when you get the PS3 version, on PC and 360 I have never experienced an immersion breaking glitch, I had it after they fixed all the big stuff. So I'm with Rygand, it's the most immersive game I've ever played, and hotkeys made it so I didn't have to go through the inventory that much, and I liked the inventory system, better than some games I've played, also I'd like to say that it's a great RPG, not because of the story or characters, like most RPGs, but what does RPG stand for? Role Playing Game, and Fallout 3, New Vegas, even Oblivion to a less extent let me play however I wanted.

[Noven]

I loved Fallout 3 as well, and I do see the point where it's not immersive due to vats and the pip boyk. I'm sure it's very subjective, so no one is going to feel the same way. For me, I felt immersed.