Fallout 3 - Life After Vanilla??

[MooSey-UK]

Firstly I just want to state that I have consistently slated this game as being a POS. I've just finished the MQ, mainly for my own satisfaction and closure........
However, there is potential here.
I love the concept and art work but the characters and mood are imo laughable and never had the same depth as Oblivion. The mood for a post apocolyptic world is so upbeat with some of the npc's you'd think you were in a gay carnival with free booze!
And yes it's all very brown.

Oblivion vanilla was a bit bland but membership of the guilds gave it more substance than FO3. Lots of good mods did away with the bland.
simillarly STALKER may have it's flaws but the mood of the game and responses from npc's was spot on and really set the tone for the situation.

So now FO3 is mature and the initial excited big guns and nude mods have run their course, are there any full on game fixing mods for FO3?
I did a big topic here on Oblivion modding so am aware how much time and effort it takes to get a really good mix of mods to suit taste.
because I never truly enjoyed FO3 I never followed the mod scene. Of course now it would be a huge curve to research.
Im asking now if any kind souls can recommend great mods to turn FO3 into the game it should have been.
Many thanks.

 

[Tefal]

the weapon modification mod is awesome (lets you use kits to ad full auto, silencers, extended magazines, scopes and the like) All with visual changes to the guns

 

[m4cc45]

You hate the game but want mods for it? Sounds very bizarre to me. What kind of mods are you after? The more mods you put on it the more likely it will be unstable - I certainly haven't seen a bug-fix mod yet.

You could try the DLC for Fallout - which is going to be a higher quality than the rest of the add-on mods.

Just for the record I found the characters very good. Not all of them are up-beat. You do get some but then it's obvious they're intoxicated or mad. I certainly felt a connection to some of the characters. The mutant guy who you have the opportunity of rescuing was a great companion for the little time he's in the game. The guy who tells you to go and 'kdinap' the people (also near the end) was annoying so I shot him and opened up a World of pain!

I didn't like it at first but once I got into it I found it to be a fabulous game!



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[MooSey-UK]

It's not I hate the game.
The games setting on an alternate timeline, concept and artwork make for a fantastic setting. It's the fact the MQ is utterly rubbish and that the very samey wasteland do not encourage me to want to explore. DC being segregated and only accessable via metro is tedious.
The whole idea is great but the gameplay flawed.
As I neared the end I enjoyed it most with Fawkes, Dogmeat and myself walking (not fast travelling) to the BOS citadel for the final showdown. I had more attachment to Dogmeat than my in game father. I was glad when he died to save me from topping him myself.
Thats just not good for a MQ. The same people who bought us Oblivion managed to give us an epic MQ.

So I don't hate the game, I've seen the potential to undo Bethesda's meddling in a great story setting and implement some mods to make it the game it should have been to play.

I had a quick peek at FO3 Nexus and as I suspected it's chocka with mods.
I guess I'll get researching and downloading.

 

[D D Danneh]

Wait, you thought Fallout was bland but Oblivion wasn't? In F3, all the dungeons are different. In Oblivion, they're all recycled and exactly the same. The landscape in Oblivion is all the same. Okay, so the FO3 landscape isn't particularly pretty, but there is a little bit of variation with towns, structures, etc.

The Oblivion main quest was laughable. You go from a prison to being practically a god with no plausible reason. At least in Fallout you feel like a common person helping others, instead of some unstoppable magic wielding warrior.

I find the Fallout voices much better, as the same people use the same voice, as opposed to people saying things in different voices (beggars being the main example). The moods of people are much better. There is much more variation in people, as opposed to them all being exactly the same, and only being affected by the speech mini-game thing.

I have to admit, FO3 didn't match up to my expectations, but I do think it was a better game than Oblivion - if just for the fixed leveling. I haven't got it on PC, but I'll get it eventually, so I can check out some mods. Oblivion was definitely better with mods.

 

[Meridian]

Wait, you thought Fallout was bland but Oblivion wasn't? In F3, all the dungeons are different. In Oblivion, they're all recycled and exactly the same. The landscape in Oblivion is all the same. Okay, so the FO3 landscape isn't particularly pretty, but there is a little bit of variation with towns, structures, etc.

The "dungeons" in F3 are based around about four different templates - same as Ob really.


I have to say that to a large degree I agree with the OP: F3 looks good, but is in most other respects inferior to Oblivion. Which was inferior to Morrowind in most respects apart from looks. Ooh - a pattern...


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