After numerous crashes on my PC, I'm going to shelve this game. From what I remember when I played this game last, this game is one of my favorites. This game was my first time playing an RPG and my first Fallout, both of which have had a huge impact on my life. The Pitt and Point Lookout DLC were my favorites, both adding interesting new settings. Operation: Anchorage and Mothership Zeta I did not care for. Anchorage gave us a cool look on a much talked about point in Fallout history, but the simulation setting I do not like. Zeta was all about Aliens, which has been around Fallout since the beginning, but was always minor and in the background. Putting it in the foreground is not something I care for.

Thanks for listening, children.

The game that took my Fallout virginity and the game that turned my interest from shooters to RPGs. It doesn't hurt that I live near the Capital Wasteland so I know a lot of the area - even after it's been turned to a radioactive hellscape of misery and pain. Fallout 3's map is massive and chock-full of interesting, scary, weird, and irradiated locations to explore. The gunplay is dated but still engaging and satisfying. Walking out of Vault 101 is still breathtaking even now. The DLCs are also commendable - Point Lookout is my personal favorite, a timeless and invigorating foray into the dark and mysterious swamps of Maryland, faced with violent locals, swamp ghouls, and other horrors. The punga fruit hallucinations are whack though. Many of Fallout 3's unique quests are memorable and captivating side adventures while you track down your deadbeat Liam Neeson dad. Also, I appreciated the religious themes in the game, which were both nonintrusive and appealing - nobody ever talks about how the plot of the game is based on a Bible verse and I'm not sure why. The main quest is serviceable and treats the major themes of the game well although it isn't exactly moving either. Overall a solid experience, even worn by age.

(Escribí esta reseña en la ficha del juego base, aunque realmente al que he jugado es a este):

La historia principal se me ha hecho mucho más corta de lo que esperaba (aunque el hecho de que algunas de mis habilidades ya estuvieran llegando a los 100 puntos debería haberme hecho sospechar que el final estaba cerca) y, por lo que he investigado, ya he completado casi la mitad de las misiones secundarias del juego base (aunque tengo la edición GOTY, que creo que viene con todos los DLC).

Todo esto no es ni bueno ni malo, es para dar contexto a mi opinión, que es la siguiente:

El juego es sumamente inversivo, con un universo y ambientación difícilmente superables (el diseño de sonido es especialmente eficaz) y un abanico de posibilidades jugables inmenso.

La trama como tal no es gran cosa, pero el Yermo está lleno a rebosar de personajes de lo más variopinto con los que podrás intercambiar interesantes diálogos y/o golpes y disparos con todo tipo de armas; y también de monstruos mutantes que podrían llegar a hacerse un hueco en tus pesadillas.

Con el tiempo supongo que iré completando misiones secundarias y explorando otras opciones que ofrece el juego, por lo que puede que en algún momento vuelva a escribir algo aquí e incluso que le suba la media estrella que le falta.

My girlfriend and I wanted an RPG to play through together, and I don't think our decision could have been better.

Fallout 3 has something for everyone; action, politics, awesome levelup/perk mechanics, VATS, comedy, exploration. The works.

However, saying this, the game did kind of just... end. It wasn't really clear that we were on the final mission until the credits started rolling.

While we may have moved on for now, I can see us coming back soon to play through the countless missions awaiting us, including all the DLCs.

Here we are after the base game + some good amount of sidequests + all DLCs.

It's pretty clear to me now why this one is so important and acclaimed.
The main quality of the game IMO is the immersion in a fucked up world. The world is so well done that you really feel like being in a wasteland.
The graphics are "ugly" but I think it is intentional since a world like that could not be anything but ugly.
The clothes, weapons, interiors and etc, everything contributes to this feeling.
The weakest aspects of the game IMO are the game-breaking bugs and repetition.
Starting with the bugs, I played on PC, and holy fuck, I have never seen a game be this shitty when it comes to this aspect.
Sometimes my character would get stuck on SOMETHING, and I would have to use TCL to get back, or my prompt controls would appear on the screen, so I had to use some console command to make things work.
Innumerous out-of-nothing crashes.
There's this one specific bug that annoyed me to the extreme, which is the Glowing One bug. That shining ghoul. Whenever he would do his explosion attack, the game would simply crash in a terrible way. Never found a solution to this, except loading the save again and killing the MF as soon as possible.

About the repetition, the gameplay loop is nice and kinda addictive, but it can NOT sustain itself for too long, it doesn't have the diversity to do so.
30 hours in, and you'll start to notice some patterns in the weapons, enemies, clothes, and ESPECIALLY building interiors. It gets really annoying after some time, and then, your entertainment level starts to decline.

Overall, excellent game, really enjoyed my time with this one, although, in the end, I was STARVING for something minimally different.

Will keep my save with me, and someday, I might get back to do some other side quest.