Question about Fallout 3

[clipperfixer]

I am looking for a decent single player fps. I see alot of rave reviews about it. I also read some reviews at Newegg where the reviewer says the game is slow and hard to get into, one of them said it was kind of like Stalker. I hated Stalker. I never want to infect my computer with it again! I know fallout 3 is a role playing game/ shooter but I am not into the role playing games much at all. I enjoyed the popular titles Bioshock, Cod series, Fear, and Far cry etc. I am not into zombie killing and prefer enemies that have some smarts rather than just hoard you. Anyway before I put out yet more money for a game I will hate I have to ask if you think with my gaming preferences am I going to like this?
Thanks!

 

[MJinZ]

As an RPGer, Fallout 3 was shit.

As an FPSer, well Fallout 3 is not an FPS.

 

[zagood]

It's a lot like Stalker, yah. Might want to stick with what you know - I enjoyed Bioshock 2 and FEAR 2 quite a bit, and they're pretty cheap right now.

 

[acheron]

It was a decent RPGish game. If you're looking for an FPS, it's not one.

 

[clipperfixer]

Yes, I thought from the few bad reviews I saw they were from fps guys that I would not care for it, but it got tons of good reviews for sure. I loved Bioshock, I guess 2 is in order.....

 

[tedrodai]

Heh, oddly enough, I tend to enjoy (good) RPGs more, though PC FPSs can be great too, and I don't like Bioshock at all. I couldn't make it 1/2 through the game before I got bored of it. About Fallout 3, I concur you probably won't like it. It's more RPG than FPS, and while it has some good points, overall I wasn't too impressed with it.

And it crashes a lot.

 

[Malak]

Fallout 3 is interesting but only fun if you like RPGs, it is not an FPS.

MW2 campaign is pretty intense. Rainbow Six Vegas is great for playing solo.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

You will not enjoy it. On the FPS-RPG spectrum, it's far to the RPG side of Stalker, which is only barely an RPG.

 

[exar333]

As an RPGer, Fallout 3 was shit.

As an FPSer, well Fallout 3 is not an FPS.

You are right, a game cannot be good if it doesn't exactly fit in your idea of pidgeon-holed genres. /sarcasm

 

[Arglebargle]

Given that you dislike Stalker, I can't give you really appropriate advice. I have it installed 5 times on my computer (for different editions and mod versions).

Fallout 3 uses a lot of mechanics from Oblivion (which I really disliked), but I found it suprisingly more enjoyable. User Interface is awful though, unless you like console type GUI.

Just Cause 2 maybe?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Given that you dislike Stalker, I can't give you really appropriate advice. I have it installed 5 times on my computer (for different editions and mod versions).

Fallout 3 uses a lot of mechanics from Oblivion (which I really disliked), but I found it suprisingly more enjoyable. User Interface is awful though, unless you like console type GUI.

Just Cause 2 maybe?

JC2 is a third-person action game with very dumb enemies that puts very little emphasis on aiming. There is a fair amount of shooting, though.

I find it to be ridiculously fun, but that's just IMO. It's basically GTA with a much bigger map. The story is worthless. It's primarily a big sandbox.

I believe JC2 has a demo so maybe it's worth checking out if that sounds like what you'd like.

I almost suggested Mass Effect 2, which is less RPG-ish than Fallout 3, it still has some of that. Actually, the abilities in it are dumbed down enough to resemble Bioshock's abilities more than most RPGs. It's pretty shooty-shooty if you like that, especially if you play as a soldier. Definitely more approachable for the RPG-averse than the first one, but it might not be a good fit.

For smart enemies, I've always liked the Halo series. On Legendary they make them significantly stronger and smarter instead of just throwing more of them at you. Halo 1 and 2 are available for PC; a lot of people don't like the PC versions but they're probably really cheap by now and the campaigns are decent. Maybe it's a dumb suggestion; almost everyone I know has played Halo at least once and they are pretty old, but still, I wouldn't mind playing the single player again sometime.

 

[Bl0cks]

Yes, I thought from the few bad reviews I saw they were from fps guys that I would not care for it, but it got tons of good reviews for sure. I loved Bioshock, I guess 2 is in order.....

If it's any consolation, I tried Oblivion and hated it, but I really enjoyed and beat Fallout 3. I am the type of person who enjoys a good story, and Fallout 3 delivered on that part. FPS wise, its a joke, you can aim on your own, but I used VATS 80% of the time. RPG wise, you repair your weapons, have a choice of weapons to choose from, armor, all of those aspects are there. I have never played Stalker so I can't give you a comparison there.

Bioshock 2 on the other hand I really enjoyed. I have beaten Bioshock 1 and 2. Again, I mainly interested in the story, but the guns plus powers make it a truly enjoyable FPS. You can choose to run into combat, or sneak up on opponents.

 

[smackababy]

Fallout 3 was about atmosphere, and it did that amazingly. If you are into heavy action, this is not the game for you.

 

[ShawnD1]

If it's any consolation, I tried Oblivion and hated it, but I really enjoyed and beat Fallout 3.

I thought this as well. Oblivion pissed me off because it never seemed clear why I was doing anything. Some guy releases me from a jail and now I'm outside. Ok so who am I, what am I doing? What's up with this place? I didn't know enough about the situation to care what was going on.
Fallout 3 is a bit of the opposite. It has characters in it. It's clear what you're doing. You meet people along the way that are memorable and say their own unique things.

Overall, I think you'll like Fallout 3 if you like to dick around and not actually do the story. Grand Theft Auto Vice City was one of those games where you can spend hours just roaming around, crash cars into things, shooting people, looking for secrets, looking for guns, etc. Fallout 3 is a lot like that idea. The story is a very very small part of Fallout. There are lots of places to explore that have nothing to do with the story, but they seem interesting because they give some perspective of what this post-nuclear world is like. There are caves with bears in them, caves with deathclaws in them, caves with raiders in them, side quests involving killing a bunch of twilight style gay vampires, other vaults with interesting back story to them, etc. I also liked roaming around and shooting rockets at every car or train I saw.

TLDR: it's an adventure game. If you like to go on a treasure hunt, you'll like Fallout 3. The RPG and FPS elements by themselves are horrible, and the game is unstable. I love the game, but I can't even play it right now because it keeps crashing and I don't understand why. It worked fine and could play for hours at a time, then suddenly it doesn't work and crashes every 2 minutes. It's completely random like that.

 

[Malak]

For smart enemies, I've always liked the Halo series. On Legendary they make them significantly stronger and smarter instead of just throwing more of them at you.

The only thing Halo had going for it was coop, otherwise it's a terrible FPS. You get no feeling out of the guns at all. MW2 has a better campaign and much more difficult opponents. I still haven't beat it on hardened, but I'm about 3/4 of the way through.

 

[Blintok]

Well i do like RPG and FPS and liked most of the games you mentioned. One thing i hated about most fps is the feeling that you are running the game rails. i like the more open ended games where there are more than one solution to a problem.

Fallout 3 had its moments but at the beginning when you first leave the bomb shelter it was an ok, WTF do i do now? but i plugged away at it and did finish it.

one of the fun things i liked to do tho is get up on some high point and use the sniper rifle. getting those impossible long distance shots where u cant even see the bad guys, only in the scope. Watching the rebels running around freeked out as one of their buddies just blew apart and they are trying to find out where the shot came from.

 

[OCNewbie]

I absolutely loved the game (though I didn't finish it, a habit I have with most all games). One thing I did, which I feel actually made the game more engaging/realistic, was I NEVER used fast travel (not sure if that's the exact name or not), even to places I'd already been. I feel fast travel makes you lose the sense of scale of the map. It's very fun to just explore, and discover things. Do NOT use walk-throughs, etc., or you'll tarnish the experience. The one knock on the game, was that I found it a little too easy once I got to max lvl (this was without any of the add-ons). Nothing really seemed that much of a challenge. I forget what difficulty I had it on, but it had to have been at least the base difficulty.

 

[zerocool84]

If you love FPS's Fallout 3 sucks. If you love RPG's Fallout 3 sucks.

Low level cap, crappy voice acting, HORRIBLE story, side quests that you could care less about, and many other things suck about the game. The only reason why I enjoyed it was the freedom.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I have almost 200 hours into this game. One of the coolest gaming experiences I've had in years.

Ignore the haters.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

If you love FPS's Fallout 3 sucks. If you love RPG's Fallout 3 sucks.

Low level cap, crappy voice acting, HORRIBLE story, side quests that you could care less about, and many other things suck about the game. The only reason why I enjoyed it was the freedom.

i'll add to that i found it extremely repetitive. i quit halfway thru, which was a helluva lot more than i gave oblivion. i'm very much looking forward to fallout online.

 

[zerocool84]

i'll add to that i found it extremely repetitive. i quit halfway thru, which was a helluva lot more than i gave oblivion. i'm very much looking forward to fallout online.

Yea 99% of the quests were go kill this person or go save this person.

 

[Soccerman06]

Fallout 3 works just fine, you just need to be able to use google to figure out whats wrong with your computer. Usually it has something to do with multi-core cpus or something to that effect.

 

[CurseTheSky]

It's far from my favorite game, but I thought it was decent. Skip the main quest line (after the radio station) and go out exploring. Find new weapons, kill monsters, do a few quests, and have fun.

 

[acheron]

As far as stability, I had no problems as long as I stayed in the game, but if I tried to alt-tab out of it I would sometimes get crashes. It seems to be different for everyone though.

 

[mundane]

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