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Heh heh. The Fallout 3 threads make me laugh.
We also had Shamus Young and the Blisttering Stupidity of Fallout 3 http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=27085
Where he says "This is going to be a 7,000 word series on some of the things wrong with the central story of Fallout 3. Yes, I know this is a celebrated and beloved game. It made a bunch of GOTY lists back in 2008, and still appears on lists of favorites today. To be honest, I liked it too."
"TO BE HONEST I LIKED IT TOO." Haha.
So back in 2008 when he was spending lots of time on Fallout 3 and LIKING it, was he a fool? Maybe he is still a fool.
How comes so many posters on the Codex that loathe Fallout 3 can argue with so much precision against it. Give SO MANY DETAILS, about the perks, about the storyline, about the backgound etc. Maybe they played it back in the day and if they were honest "liked it too".
I only played Witcher 2 for ONE HOUR ONLY. I think it's crap. I can't argue with precision how crap it is because I only played it for one hour. I stopped playing it.
Alpha Protocal - 20 hours - it's crap. Don't ask me for details - I just remember the rubbish combat. That horrible WORDSEARCH, some interesting conversation options. I stopped playing it.
So - to the guys that argue with so much precision against Fallout 3 - maybe you read the Guardian or Times or Telegraph. One day you came across the Daily Mail - and secretly enjoyed it. Now you need a shower but the fact you really enjoyed it is eating away at you...
So - to the guys that loathe Fallout 3 now, thanks for playing it soooooo much, because without you guys we would not be able to have these detailed discussions aout how rubbish it really was.
To be fair, it's not uncommon to play a game you either dislike or think is crap. DA:O is like that for me. I was excited about it when I first heard about it.
Then I played it.
I wish I didn't.
What a dull, lifeless mess. To my eternal shame I even finished it. I mean damn. Not one of the highlights of my gaming hobby, but I was so fucking bored and desperate for something new to play I tricked myself into thinking it would get better. It never did. So if push came to shove I guess I could post a scrollbomb about why it's crap. It's a long and well worn conga line that one. But really, why bother? Some people like it, a few even for legitimate reasons no doubt. The punchline is that they may even like it for the same reasons I hated it. Strange, but more than likely true.The true problem with these kinds of discussions is that people forget there is always a flipside. Whether it's weaker or stronger is up to the contestants, but there is always another side to critiques.
I will say one thing though; the ferocity of hatred against F3 is something else and borders the pathological. I've read rants about it that are positively surreal. That's the part I find fascinating. The undercurrent is a riptide and a half.
F3 is a terrible Fallout game, but an OK modern Elder Scrolls game.
True that.
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