Fallout 3, such a waste and a disappointment

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#1 Aerest
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Regardless of it's rating for the PS3 version of the game which is the one I have and the only one I have played and will be playing. I'll cut to the chase on saying that Fallout3 is overall a very good game done by Bethesda, everytime is spectacular excepts it lacks one thing; a aftermath.

Bethesda made this game with such a beautiful and artful enviroments, cakes, big world, similar to a massive multiplayer online role playing game with flawless designs, satisfying destructible objects, played just like a mmorpg since you can level, buy armour, weapons, save but whats the point of exploring the wastelands and doing all sidequests/optional quests when there's just NO aftermath!? Meaning, when you finish the game, you can't play afterwards, you either start a new file or restart at the last checkpoint, which is before the save.

This game is such a waste and a disappointment since you simply can't continue after the last quest of the main mission. I simply want to roam, explore, linger, kill, buy and make decisions on quests in the wasteland and not have this obstacle in the way, preventing me to do all that. I don't want to hear some pompus baffoon saying words similar to exact or revelant to these questions: "why can't you just play around the main quest?"

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#2 Scianix-Black
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Bethesda made this game with such a beautiful and artful enviroments, cakes, big world, similar to a massive multiplayer online role playing game with flawless designs, satisfying destructible objects, played just like a mmorpg since you can level, buy armour, weapons, save but whats the point of exploring the wastelands and doing all sidequests/optional quests when there's just NO aftermath!? Meaning, when you finish the game, you can't play afterwards, you either start a new file or restart at the last checkpoint, which is before the save.
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#3 GillasEggs30
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Ummm... Fallout 3 was great.I really dont know why you dont like it.
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#4 Denji
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Only gripe about Fallout 3 was it was shorter than I expected it to be. But the again, you can play it over differently each play through, so I guess that sort of makes up for it. But it's not as long as Oblivion though. I played that game for months.
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#5 TheCraving
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To be honest, I agree. I don't like the fact that once the story is complete then thats it, game finished. This isn't what an RPG should do in my opinion. Of course, I've spent most of my time exploring the wastes and doing all the side quests but I do feel that Bethesda should of taken the Fabled 2 approach and have it so that when the storyline ends it simply opens more quests for you to do.

But still, aside from that, Fallout 3 is great. A wonderful game.

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#6 theMarshell
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I personally hated it, I liked oblivion better but thats my opinion.
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#7 Aerest
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To be honest, I agree. I don't like the fact that once the story is complete then thats it, game finished. This isn't what an RPG should do in my opinion. Of course, I've spent most of my time exploring the wastes and doing all the side quests but I do feel that Bethesda should of taken the Fabled 2 approach and have it so that when the storyline ends it simply opens more quests for you to do.

But still, aside from that, Fallout 3 is great. A wonderful game.

TheCraving

PRECISELY my point. Well understood my friend. I have not played Fabled 2 nor would I but I have heard upon completion of the game, players can still manage their estate, income, do quests etc and that is the approach Bethesda should have taken.
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That just wouldn't make any sense from a story perspective. With the game ending the way it did, do you honestly expect your character to just continue exploring the world? The message the ending was trying to get across wouldn't have worked if they just let you keep playing the game afterwards.
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[QUOTE="Aerest"]Bethesda made this game with such a beautiful and artful enviroments, cakes, big world, similar to a massive multiplayer online role playing game with flawless designs, satisfying destructible objects, played just like a mmorpg since you can level, buy armour, weapons, save but whats the point of exploring the wastelands and doing all sidequests/optional quests when there's just NO aftermath!? Meaning, when you finish the game, you can't play afterwards, you either start a new file or restart at the last checkpoint, which is before the save.
Scianix-Black

What's with the cakes today?

The Cake is lie......

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#10 Leon7J7
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Fallout 3, such a waste and a disappointment"

Aerest
Just like this thread........
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#11 bigmike402
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does oblivion have after math?

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#12 TheCraving
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[QUOTE="bigmike402"]

does oblivion have after math?

Technically it could. After players dedicated hours upon hours of game time to it, they finally turned off their game consoles and realised that life around them has rotted away, leaving them with nothing but 100+ hours on Oblivion.... That is the aftermath of Oblivion.... Nah, I don't know, never played it.
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#13 lmhansen
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[QUOTE="Aerest"]

Fallout 3, such a waste and a disappointment"

Leon7J7
Just like this thread........

Hahaha... Best math I've seen in 15 years :)
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#14 Aerest
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does oblivion have after math?

bigmike402


I have played The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on PC and X360 back then, finished it, I believe you could play after completing the main quest or in other words, play the aftermath since it's been a long time since I last played it.

Other sources also suggest that there is a aftermath upon completion of the main storyline quest in oblivion, I'm alittle lazy to link it, googling seems to befit most people that are eager to know.

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#15 buzzn77d
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I understand your gripe. It can be avoided though... Just don't finish the main quest until your completely done exploring the wasteland and any side quests.

Should you be forced to avoid completing the main quest in order to explore the rest of the game? Probably not, but is it that big of a deal?

Patience is key... don't rush this game.

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#16 Aerest
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That just wouldn't make any sense from a story perspective. With the game ending the way it did, do you honestly expect your character to just continue exploring the world? The message the ending was trying to get across wouldn't have worked if they just let you keep playing the game afterwards. Silent-Hal


First and foremost I will like to apologise to the mods for breaking a rule, double-posting. As for the reason, don't know how to answer two different quotes in one post and lack the patience to wait for someone to post after me.

To answer your question, there are several plot endings to the game, depending on the character's decisions, also: *SPOILERS*







DO NOT READ THE PARAGRAPH BELOW, SPOILERS!! - Fallout 3
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players that chose not to die should be able to play during the epilogue which is just after the ending of the main quest to complete other tasks, quests, exploration, items etc. Regardless if it failed to "work" as you said. Simply living right after it, even though the outcomes are very different.
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DO NOT READ THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE, SPOILERS!! - Fallout 3

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#17 Wild_Card
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while i agree that afterthe main quest you should be able to keep doing side quest a simple work around is put off doing the mian quest or the last mission ofthe main quest. funny thing is that i bought this game on release day, iv spent maby 30 or so hours and have not even done the first main quest mission"following in his foot steps" iv just been doing side missions and exploreing,
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#18 punisher1
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I don't think you are dissapointed. I think you just really enjoyed the game and did not want it to end. But you must understand one thing. That game is not GTA. It is not made to go on forever.

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#19 samuraiguns
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First and foremost I will like to apologise to the mods for breaking a rule, double-posting.Aerest

Lol. they dont mean Double-Posting, they mean like Spamming Double-Posting.









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#20 MrClean44
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I will agree on one and only one thing, yes i do wish you could keep playing after the ending.... but other than that GREAT game.
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#21 Aerest
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I don't think you are dissapointed. I think you just really enjoyed the game and did not want it to end. But you must understand one thing. That game is not GTA. It is not made to go on forever.

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Indeed I enjoyed the game, prior the this "problem" as the title suggests, I am disappointed. Now I do not plan to play it ever again and I intend to sell it as soon as possible.
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#22 Canvas_Of_Flesh
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Geez, you would think no game in the history of gaming has ever had an ending. Games typically end...deal with it.
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[QUOTE="Aerest"]Bethesda made this game with such a beautiful and artful enviroments, cakes, big world, similar to a massive multiplayer online role playing game with flawless designs, satisfying destructible objects, played just like a mmorpg since you can level, buy armour, weapons, save but whats the point of exploring the wastelands and doing all sidequests/optional quests when there's just NO aftermath!? Meaning, when you finish the game, you can't play afterwards, you either start a new file or restart at the last checkpoint, which is before the save.
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Portal... Made cake famous...
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#24 Titans23
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I personally hated it, I liked oblivion better but thats my opinion.theMarshell
me too