Role Playing General

[#1]

Is there literally no way to end the game, and go back and continue with the side quests and what nots?

if not, I am highly disappointed and will be making a new character just to do nothing more than all the sidequests first, then just be done with it because there is not point to beating it.

just awful.

plus, at the end,  after you get the geck, why cant you just take rad-x (which is what i did), enter the code, and walk out of there alive? its not IMPOSSIBLE to die from that.

[#2]

yeah i hated it, nothing fallout about the ending

[#3]

it screws tons of people (including myself) who thought it would just be like oblivion, get the main quest over with, and just fiddle with the random other things for fun, but NOOOOO, i went ahead and beat it, and am unhappy with what it leaves you, so now ive got to go and start a whole new character and do all the little stupid stuff i did on the first one just to get to where i want to continue with the side quests. awful. they should seriously patch this and make it so you can send that chick inside, have her disarm it, and you go about your life of PWNING and having fun.

[#4]

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RocThePanther wrote:

it screws tons of people (including myself) who thought it would just be like oblivion, get the main quest over with, and just fiddle with the random other things for fun, but NOOOOO, i went ahead and beat it, and am unhappy with what it leaves you, so now ive got to go and start a whole new character and do all the little stupid stuff i did on the first one just to get to where i want to continue with the side quests. awful. they should seriously patch this and make it so you can send that chick inside, have her disarm it, and you go about your life of PWNING and having fun.

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I agree 200%.....thank god I saved the game manually just before entering the Jefferson Memorial. Bethesda killed the ending of this game because it's totally pointless to beat it.

[#5]

Did you exspect something defrent? If you played oblivion, you would know how horrid the storyline is, almost nonexsistant. Hell oblivion ended in the same way leaving you fealing disapointed, and like there was something missing. I think i know what it is. We as a RPG comunity like having an opening and ending movie to the storyline. It gives it a hole new depth and perception. I also think that the displays for the compas and amo/life guage where such crap, at times i thought i was playing a old ps1 game. Why i still say this is not an RPG, its a FPS with RPG elements.

[#6]

I guess I didn't think it was that bad since I barely even touched the main story so by the time I got to the end I had nearly filled the map and done a crap load of side quests so I felt ok with it just ending I guess. I will say that I was a bit confused as to why my character died so suddenly my only guess is that the machine exerted so much radiation inside when it turned on that I instantly died but other than that ehhhh. I will say the narration at the end was kinda cool but other than that the main story was just ok. Not totally horrible but it definately could have been better on certain parts.

[#7]

Well what you need to do is save before the ending, so then you can leep playing, it does annoy me that the main quest is so short and that the game ends right after, i was hoping that the game would continue because i still have so much left of the wasteland to explore, and i still have tons of sidequests i never found yet.

[#8]

My character doesn't believe in martyrdom so I guess I'll never complete the main quest!

(okay, _I_ don't believe in martyrdom, but really neither does anyone else. The pro-martyr support group tends to die off )

[#9]

I would agree with most of the comments about the ending.

Overall I think Fallout 3 compared to Oblivion had much better stat system that did not feel counterintuitive in anyway and also had better AI, especially with the allies that one could team up with the exception of dogmeat (Big fan of Fawkes). I was let down by the ending though and the overall story did not feel as epic as Oblivion's. I get the feeling that the game ended as quickly as it did because Bethesda is planning to release the inevitable expansion packs for the game, one which may be out by the end of the year to early next year, I don't feel that add-ons/expansions will do as well as the did with Oblivion though, I certainly dont feel like purchasing any right now after beating the game as quickly as I did.

Fallout 3 is certainly a good game overrall, although I was expecting to be playing the game up to Xmas time. Right now I am thinking of putting the game up for sale to get Resistance 2 for its campaign and CO-OP modes. I do have Valkyria Chronicles on pre-order which I will be playing much longer than Fallout 3, glad the game is getting so many great reviews.

[#10]

The ending was just horrible. Not only was it poorly designed and executed, but they tried to tie in the karma to create the 500 endings. I can see where they can get this number from, but does it matter? All of the different endings have no effect on the actually game, since you cannot play afterwards. It is not like in GTA IV where one of the main characters will die and you will think, "Damn, that is going to change the game." In Fallout 3, Sarah Lyons dies and you think, "Better that **bleep** than me."

Maybe we are spoiled after games like MGS4, RFoM, GTA IV, Heavenly Sword, and countless others that had decent endings.

Message Edited by polishpride212 on 11-07-2008 02:33 PM