So I Tried…Fallout 3
Each edition of So I Tried… I will try a game that I have never tried before. Will I find something new to love? Will I find something new to despise? I'll take a full half hour, no matter how bad it gets or how badly I do, to see if this is the game for me. This time I went for the PC version of Fallout 3
What I thought it was
An FPS based on the Fallout universe. I’m a bit of an RPG nerd so I pretty much disregarded Fallout 3 at the time of release as it didn’t seem anything like the original games. That’s not necessarily that bad a thing, but I had it down as just another shooter so it was on my “to play” list, just not high on it. With the recent release of number four, now seems like a good time to promote it up to the top.
What it actually is
It’s a pretty cool little mash up of the RPG and FPS genre. It’s closer to a shooter than anything else, but you can see even in the first half hour that this is going to get as complex as I want it to in the long run and I’m going to be able to customise my game in the way that I loved with Fallout 1 and 2. I met the Tunnel Snakes, who seemed far cooler in the WTFBBQ they starred in a few weeks ago. I really want to slap Butch already. I find out about my father leaving the vault and begin my first proper shootout of the game, then the timer goes off and my half hour is up.
Will I keep playing?
Yes. I didn’t really want to stop playing to write this article if I’m honest! At the very least, I need to play long enough to give that aforementioned slap to Butch. There’s something about him I really didn’t like.
I really felt Bethesda did a great job of drawing you in and making you feel the character was uniquely you in the rather prolonged introductory sequence so even though I didn’t play much of the game, I already have a bit of an attachment to the character. I’m going to resume playing right now and I feel that this is going to end up being something of a time sink for me.
COMMENTS
Acelister - 11:18am, 16th November 2015
The best thing about waiting this long to play - all of the bugs have been modded out, and if you need help with literally anything, there are twenty guides easily available, and a handful of people you can ask!
Dombalurina - 10:10pm, 16th November 2015 Author
Yes. It also means that I already know it's worth playing as other people have done the whole checking it out thing for me. Sometimes, there's a lot of benefit in being too lazy to play a game.
Hamiltonious - 03:03pm, 17th November 2015
Tunnel Snakes rule!