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A rare Bethesda hater appears, quick, catch him! Fallout 3 was magnificent, a wild commercial success and one of the greatest CRPGs of all times. I'm sure Fal

A rare Bethesda hater appears, quick, catch him! Fallout 3 was magnificent, a wild commercial success and one of the greatest CRPGs of all times. I'm sure Fallout 2 was good, I don't know because the control system is so bloody awful I couldn't get more than 2 hours into it. It is acclaimed, but it's hard to replay it. In today's world it is a bad game. Fallout 3 is still a good game. Bethesda games are constantly replayed. Skyrim, fallout 4, etc. are all still on Steam charts top played lists. Right NOW. 10 years after release Fallout 2 is not. You are on the wrong side of fact Vs fantasy.

avtolik 2y ago
I have replayed Fallout 2 like 20 times. I checked your claim about the steam charts. Currently the 30-Day Avg for Fallout 2 is 159 and for Fallout 3 - 376 players. I wouldn't call this a huge win. F2 is much older and the graphics are not aging well.
- technothrasher 2y ago
  To be fair, those Steam stats are probably not reflecting reality. Fallout 3 doesn't work very well with current Windows versions, and so many of the Fallout 3 players these days (most?) are playing it in the New Vegas engine via Tale of Two Wastelands.
- mattmanser 2y ago
  People are obviously going to play Fallout 4 now, it's Fallout 3 with updated graphics and mechanics. 20,000 players.
iamacyborg 2y ago
More popular doesn’t necessarily mean better, a lot has to be left on the cutting room floor for something to gain mass appeal.
tmtvl 2y ago
Fallout 3 was very successful. If selling many copies is the yardstick you measure quality by, it may well have been one of the greatest CRPGs of all time. By other metrics it may fall a bit lower down the ranks. For example, the writing is quite bad (the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago).
- JKolios 2y ago
  >(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago) This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.

avtolik 2y ago

I have replayed Fallout 2 like 20 times. I checked your claim about the steam charts. Currently the 30-Day Avg for Fallout 2 is 159 and for Fallout 3 - 376 players. I wouldn't call this a huge win. F2 is much older and the graphics are not aging well.

technothrasher 2y ago
To be fair, those Steam stats are probably not reflecting reality. Fallout 3 doesn't work very well with current Windows versions, and so many of the Fallout 3 players these days (most?) are playing it in the New Vegas engine via Tale of Two Wastelands.
mattmanser 2y ago
People are obviously going to play Fallout 4 now, it's Fallout 3 with updated graphics and mechanics. 20,000 players.

iamacyborg 2y ago

More popular doesn’t necessarily mean better, a lot has to be left on the cutting room floor for something to gain mass appeal.

tmtvl 2y ago

Fallout 3 was very successful. If selling many copies is the yardstick you measure quality by, it may well have been one of the greatest CRPGs of all time. By other metrics it may fall a bit lower down the ranks. For example, the writing is quite bad (the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago).

JKolios 2y ago
>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago) This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.