Fallout 3 Is The Best Fallout

[@jordantomblin2302]

Yeah, touring the sewers makes me uncomfortable to this day. New Vegas is my favorite but they really hit the nail on the head with the atmosphere with 3.

[@yeaboi587]

Yeah I think most would agree that either 3 or NV are their favorites. I’d pick 3 as it felt easier for me to get into than NV.

[@jordantomblin2302]

@@yeaboi587 It’s easy to get into but I find the dialogue so poorly written compared to NV, and that’s what takes the cake with me.

[@Niggurath-n4h]

@@jordantomblin2302 it’s poorly written because of what Bethesda work ethics is. With Todd Howard saying it best “It Just Works!”. Unlike New Vegas where their writers was so great that it leads to other games writing like Horizon Zero Dawn franchise.

[@danielc9312]

You are a braver soul than I. I stayed clear away from those if I didnt need to be there.

[@octotongue]

@@yeaboi587 I fucking hate New vegas

[@timmyjohnson191]

First npc I came across had a slave collar. It gave me the option to disarm, which promptly made him explode and kill us both. I remember the look in his eyes when they flew at me lol.

[@slowking9193]

🤣😂

[@joelyazzie195]

Bruh same 😂

[@johnblackrose]

Im NGL.....first time i saw a slave i was like hes escaping and killed them.....

[@Ostr0]

​@@johnblackrose🗿

[@torad_2120]

​@@johnblackrose🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@LanternsLight]

It was my first fallout game and it holds a special place in my heart.

[@Basedlocation]

Very cozy

[@jackmorrissy3906]

Same

[@thedeadlynose5127]

Same thats probably why ots my fav

[@technne-gu1yu]

Tbh I have played both fallout NV (FIRST) and played fallout 3 after, with NV you get sent all over the place early on, like fallout 4 (playing that now) and it helps discovering things to do, like go to this place help them they sent you halfway through the map and on the way you just discover stuff to add to your to do list

[@Minultima]

That's why it's the best

[@deadWu]

Fallout 3 was my first Fallout. I bought it few days after my mother had a stroke... She told me to buy something that makes me happy and I did. It helped a lot through one of the best example of escapism I ever experienced.

[@MichaelCarrfan69]

I hope you and your mom are doing better 🙏🏾

[@حضرمون]

Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game as well. I am playing it again now.

[@audio1njun208]

hope your mom is doing better bro, just lost mine a year ago. but fallout has fs helped me through the year, im replaying fallout 4 and having a blast!

[@deadWu]

@@audio1njun208 She is a wreakage, but she's still alive. I'm so sorry about your mother, I'm constantly worry about mine, so I can understand your pain and I hope it will be easier to live with it in time.

[@DestroyTheBeast]

Fallout 3 was my introduction to the series. Little did I know that I'd end up becoming a huge fan of the series . It also encouraged me to delve into the RPG genre as well.

[@gunlampoon7788]

If it weren't for FO3, I would've never even payed Skyrim. Magic was "weird" and "nerdy". I only played CoD and Halo and other masculine FPS. But knowing Skyrim was connected to FO3 made me give it a chance... FO3 was definitely a gateway drug. The best game to combine modern/futuristic FPS with badass RP for its time or before. Reshaped gaming as a whole.

[@rambo-cambo3581]

​@@gunlampoon7788 okay

[@smiletut]

Fallout 3 aesthetics with fallout NV storytelling would be instant GOTY change my mind

[@LTmxr]

Fallout 3 does have the best combat music best wasteland atmosphere nice main story but still not the best no unique weapons barter skills is bad no thing good to buy repetitive literally every interior location looks the same metro , rooms with drawers the whole map is filled with raider raider super mutant super mutants the game has no challenge very easy the dart gun is really easy to build really op one shot any where in the body the like the head will get both legs crippled , darts are very common, trash combat trash boring weapons really and accuracy no iron sight ( aim ) just a crosshair , is really hard to maintain equipment ( repair ) money is not the problem there is nothing To but buy with money so you will have plenty of it no npc has 100 repairs even if you have a 100 u can’t fully repair the weapons u need the same weapons type for repair equipment have really bad health my inventory has to be filed witch Chinese machine gun , very easy game op complains no challenge dog meat has 1000hp u can find home at level one no ammo types no attachments ( scope ) etc every location is the same useless items lots of junk and materials and only 20% needed for creating weapons and their components are very common boring , not a lot of enemies just radiers , and super mutants hundred die more respawn to be killed with a skilled 19 year old with really good accuracy power armour enemies are very weak no challenge radiation is soo pathetic is supposed to be a harsh wasteland radiation is basically a cough treated with 50 Caps to a doctor every op chems and rads are very common trash dlc TP is nice the npc are broken OP is really bad is the worst war I ever seen is supposed to be devastating and destructive and cool because is 2076 i think , really short dlc fallout nv and fallout 4 has the best dlc and every varient is weak and the is not a lot of enemies the game is dead easy on very hard first play through except for PLO

[@LTmxr]

I do respect ur opinion read my comments about why I hate fallout 3 fallout 2 the best in my opinion

[@smiletut]

@@LTmxr you make a fair argument. While I can’t say much on fo2 as I’ve not had the pleasure of experiencing anything prior to fo3, I must state that the fo3 metro could have had better story. I’d say fo5 could be somewhere like NYC. Imagine the ruins there. But it would also need a great story. So I’d say if you were to take the aspects and put them together. It look nice. Not to mention you could add a single synth that has “seen it all” and travels the wastes. Then have a institute member “presuming the institute ending is cannon” call for the players aid.

[@LTmxr]

@@smiletut fair point

[@smiletut]

@@LTmxr tbh. I wish they’d bring back a lot of fo3 and NV into the newer games. Like a card game (don’t have to be caravan) that you could gain skill in. Imagine luck and charisma upping your card ability. Heck have a casino and let us play some 21. Honestly Bethesda’s fallout could get a lot of decent help from the fans.

[@AdvanceLAMP]

When I was young, my friends wanted me to get Modern Warfare 2 so we could play multiplayer. My mum and I went to the game store to buy it, but right next to MW2 was Fallout 3. My young self couldn't read well, all I knew was the game my friends wanted to play was about shooting, and there were two guys that looked ready to fight on the front covers. I ended up choosing Fallout 3 and did not regret my purchase. I went from the vault, to Megaton, to Tenpenny Tower and loved every moment!

[@rosemarydwitasari4693]

Just like my friend, but my friend wanted me to get Borderlands 2

[@kabardino1337]

You went there and failed to buy modern warfare 2 (lmao) or you changed your mind and picked fallout 3 instead? Or you thought you could play modern warfare 2 with your friends in fallout 3 (lol)?

[@ghostpopp]

@@rosemarydwitasari4693 that game was also fucking amazing

[@senorquack5182]

MW2 was also fucking top tier

[@shellmorton822]

@@kabardino1337 dude ended up choosing fallout, that’s a success in my books

[@samsam30932]

The companions actually dying makes me really sad though but yeah it’s definitely an awesome game

[@reillywalker195]

That's actually partly why I play New Vegas in Hardcore: an actual need to keep my companions safe, including by taking a decently high charisma stat to increase their nerve. Battles become more tactical, requiring me to look out for them and cover their weaknesses or at least avoid hitting them with my own attacks.

[@duanebetz9270]

I hate when Dogmeat gets killed 😢

[@littlegreen9274]

@@reillywalker195 It is something I love about 3 and New Vegas allowing that. It really makes for good role playing too. I did a role-play of a character who goes through the events of 3 and NV. She had both Star Paladin Cross and Veronica die on her in battle and it made her hecka sad. It was extra sad with Veronica since I didn't get to continue with her quests since she was dead - so it actually has a negative effect on the player and keeps the stakes high. So now my character is regretful of being too aggressive towards Caesar's Legion out of her hate for them - since those damn hit squads were always after me and that's how Veronica died.

[@jgambe78]

​@duanebetz9270 he's got a stupid amount of hp, if he dies on you you've gotta be trying to kill him

[@Tyson-i7r]

Having your companions die and then forcing you to be good so you can actually have companions is also what makes Fallout 3 worse than it already is

[@andrewambrusko3651]

I will never forget the day my friends dad came over, gave this game to me and said "I can't figure out how to play this game but you might". God bless you for giving me one my favorite games of all time

[@Deadman1000]

I remember being a kid and playing until 3am. I was just so enthralled with the setting and the story. 3 is exactly what you want when you think of "nuclear wasteland"

[@asentrybustingmedic6288]

The capital wastes really feels like a wasteland

[@Helperbot-2000]

sure, but the problem is that nothing has changed in 200 fucking years, its genuinely like the game takes place less than 5 years after the bombs fell which is really immersion breaking (on top of the countless other things that makes it impossible to get immersed) 200 years is the time since the napoleonic wars for us, and altho the world was nuked in fallout, the ammount of surviving equipment thats far more advanced than our current time would mean civilizations would have alot of tools at their disposal

[@Helperbot-2000]

​@@yeahright5227 are you dumb? what are you trying to disprove by saying that?

[@PuffnStuff117]

@@Helperbot-2000 sure, but Fallout 3 takes place in D.C…. The capital of America. So you’d think it would have been up there on china’s list of places to bomb the crap out of. The soil, water, air and everything else is going to be a lot more radioactive than Las Vegas, Nevada and for a lot longer lol. Which would make it way more difficult of a place to thrive in.

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@PuffnStuff117 would be a clever point, but D.C sure has alot of mostly intact buildings so that doesnt work as an argument. we know what cities look after just ONE nuke, and you want me to believe they threw dozens of far larger nukes without even flattening the area? lol look at the boneyard, the ruins of los angeles, a far less important target and a ridiculously large area meaning it would have even less nukes in comparison to D.C, yet theres hardly any standing buildings that arent maintained by inhabitants, theres just... the *bones* left. like come on, even new vegas' freeside isnt far off beeing as damaged, and the areas surrounding? almost completely flattened, and vegas wasnt even hit with any nuke directly.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

@@PuffnStuff117 Sure but it's still 200 years and it feels like development completely stunted

[@ydlog]

Walking around in fallout 3 is more tense that new vegas or fallout 4

[@ianlauer9283]

You haven’t dealt with new Vegas death claws and cazadors

[@ydlog]

@@ianlauer9283 I fought them. It’s the atmosphere of fallout 3 for me

[@papafoundry5537]

@@ydlog atmosphere of what? Shit?

[@Nero180]

@@ydlog fallout 3 is garbage

[@xsammy6644]

@@Nero180 Nah.

[@patrickstella7444]

I will NEVER, EVER forget the 1st time I went outside Vault 101. It has been my fav moment in gaming history, period. FO3 was just the apex of gaming experiences, still unmatched today.

[@lokehangel4527]

W opinion bro

[@thomasd5488]

I agree 💯%.

[@jesse-jayloader239]

A memory shared by many ❤

[@phonymex3340]

DUDE! thought I was the only one!!!! Def one of the fav moments in my gaming experiences.

[@jackflashvideographyandpho7523]

Not to mention that the time spent inside vault 101 was dope af.

[@Porkchop65210]

Fallout 3 atmosphere with new Vegas storytelling and fallout 4 mechanics would be one of the best games of all time

[@AB-sw4kb]

Fallout 4 mechanics 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Summon256]

The only two F4 mechanics i want is quickloot (without manually opening container) and combat style and animations...everything else can rot for all i care...

[@Tyson-i7r]

​@@AB-sw4kb🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@coltonhunley3576]

And they could really do thay all with modern graphics and everything to man they need sell the fallout brand pr let somebody else do it thats going to get shit done not wait 20 more years

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

I miss the metro tunnels. One time i entered near Rivet city and ended up being chased by ghouls and got spit out near that metro near grandma Sparkles shack half dead and irradiated. It was an amazing experience and i spent probably tow weeks after that exploring every last one i could, i still don't think i found them all.

[@Guitardude69]

So, question, have you found the one that leads to the whitehouse? It's got some pretty sick loot if you got a high enough luck.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

@@Guitardude69 Wasn't that the tunnel you had to use to get to the airport for the end of the broken steel DLC?

[@Guitardude69]

@@GhostOfSnuffles Nah, it just takes you to a place called utility. Then again I've never played broken steel

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

@@Guitardude69 Yeah, the utility tunnel with the manhole cover next to that building with the BOS fighting supermutants. It's the same tunnel the broken steel DLC starts at, once the DLC is installed it get changed to the presidential metro.

[@Guitardude69]

@@GhostOfSnuffles Oh alright. Well then nevermind. I've only ever played Operation: anchorage, point lookout and mothership zeta.

[@deathstar4489]

My first Fallout was 4, I got used to it’s, kind of child like aesthetic. When I finally got Fallout 3, it scared the heck out of me, the place looked dead. The metro tunnels terrified me to no end, and I died so many times. My fav game still tho😂

[@yancyjarquin4683]

Yesss fallout 4 i love it cus of all the mods and new shit but fallout 3 or Vegas is just something else bro

[@JRuthless719-Mula]

Idk why i cant stand Nv shxts ass.

[@snake2106]

​@@yancyjarquin4683Fallout new vegas is the best fallout as an rpg

[@yancyjarquin4683]

@@snake2106 very good game , I love fallout 3 , it mores of my things , city Nd tunnels , I bought new Vegas , with all dlc nd I played for like 2 weeks bro , loved it it but there was a lot of just open area , but I loved it tho , nd my ps3 fucked up 🥲🥲🥲 actually I’m play fo3 on my ps5 so I’m wonder if fallout Vegas is on there too!!

[@southsidetherealest2860]

fallout 3 is the reason I couldnt get into 4

[@badrat484]

A lot of people are pretty unfair to Fallout 3

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

No it deserves all the hate it gets

[@bobREALOG]

​@@frankhorriganfromfallout2 unfortunately that runs with all of the games in the fallout franchise

[@ovaetwoandrewc9126]

average no mutants allowed user

[@angreydoggo4357]

@@ovaetwoandrewc9126 More like average New vegas fanboy. They are all cultish dickheads. I honestly hate NV thanks to how shitty NV fans are in general.

[@Jestin612]

​@frankhorriganfromfallout2🤦

[@brotherhoodofsteel4751]

Fallout 3 will always be my favorite Fallout game

[@Plumberboi91]

FINALLY someone agrees with me. FO3 was amazing

[@ogpapabless9777]

Fallout 3 was perfect if I could play anything for the first time again it would be this for sure

[@nateajv12]

Playing it for the first time now, just left the vault 🙌

[@FalloutHelper]

Fallout 3 has always been my favorite fallout game just the atmosphere and danger made it the best for me

[@FalloutHelper]

@@equalityforever302 Ok and that's your opinion

[@equalityforever302]

@@FalloutHelper It's a fact that your opinion is wrong. I used to share your wrong opinion, but a wise man showed me the classics are the best. You just can't beat the 90s.

[@FalloutHelper]

@@equalityforever302 I Do love the classics but I just prefer the 3D aspect and how fallout 3 at the same type of grimy asphere of the old games you can speak your opinion freely but no need to be a dick about it

[@equalityforever302]

@@FalloutHelper Because you're a fake fan.

[@FalloutHelper]

@@equalityforever302 it's okay man the only reason you don't like fallout 3 is because you're like 12 and never really played them it's ok man

[@fanwtn5124]

Best world aesthetic goes to FO3 While game mechanics goes to NV FO3 Centaur crawling along DC street still haunting my dream

[@voicelessglottalfricative6567]

Not the most realistic world aesthetic though. The entire point of fallout was a new world built from the ashes of an old world, and Bethesda focused on the ashes

[@ThePoliceDonut]

@@voicelessglottalfricative6567but personally I think for Washington D.C. it makes sense though because it’s the capital so it’s going to have a much higher rate of destruction than somewhere like Las Vegas would have leading to it being more difficult to build back up somewhere where there’s less people and less space to rebuild.

[@voicelessglottalfricative6567]

@@ThePoliceDonut I suppose, but they did the same thing for Fallout 4 as well

[@PeptoAbismol]

game mechanics? vanilla combat in FNV isnt that great, i had to get myself some mods just to give it more appeal lol

[@TiomesTheOne]

​​​@@PeptoAbismol it depends on the build my man. Sure, explosives are clunky as F3 (although some explosives are crazy fun, like Mercy that is an automatic grenade launcher). But shooting with the pump-action shotgun, the riot shotgun and the 5mm carabine is so F ing satysfing. The possibility to aim down sight completely change the experience. F3 has awesome enviromental storytelling and DC has many little stories, secrets, dungeons. But in regards of game mechanics there is no competition. NV offers much better crafting (you can do many things like transforming your Energy cells into handmade grenade), ammo types (much more combat variety and you can even pick a perk that grants the ability to make your own personal handmade ammo), kung fu moves in 3rd person camera, slowing time with GRX implants and sooo on

[@lokimartin314]

In fallout 3 nobody is growing crops for food, there still scavenge old store for 200 year old food.

[@danielsherrill6324]

The time was changed last min in devoplement was supposed to be after bombs fell not hundreds yrs later

[@BoshyG]

​@@danielsherrill6324 either way doesnt nake sense

[@gwkiv1458]

I think in republic of Dave they grow crops. Other places too im sure

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@danielsherrill6324 when was that supposed to be then? because then other things break even more than before, the super mutants make even less sense if it takes place soon after the bombs, because it is specified directly that all fev research was moved to mariposa pre war, which is an ever bigger problem than the fact that super mutants exist at all in dc. and of course the brotherhood makes zero sense if thats the case too

[@critica77y77]

Rivet City has its own farms. Plus, Point Lookout exports fruit to the Capital Wasteland.

[@KlaveirYT]

I liked how as you got closer to galaxy news radio you could hear the broadcast where as the further out you go the more static you hear.

[@garethjohnstone9282]

Fallout 2 is my favourite. Fills me with nostalgia about being a teenager, living at home with my parents and spending 10hrs a day exploring each and every quest.

[@sulkingsalamander6181]

Fallout 3's atmosphere would be amazing if it were set about 120 years earlier

[@Da60FOVDemon]

More like 175

[@jeffkenney9890]

YES EXACTLY

[@CyranofromBergerac]

I heard it was planned on being like that but they wanted to include the BOS, enclave, and super mutants so they set it much later. Kinda lazy writing IMO. If it was set 20 years after the war they could have done a lot with the government factions battling to take over DC as if they'd regain control of the country.

[@gwkiv1458]

​@@CyranofromBergeracdang, they really doofed it. I wonder if that's why fallout 4 is so bright, as if they tried rectifying this. Yet, it was more likely they wanted it to appeal to a more general audience

[@JAK-oi2wu]

Agreed

[@blakhat4871]

New vegas is my favorite but dammit you had a solid point about the wasteland intro. I remember being 11 seeing all that the first time and feeling intimidated, not really being sure if I could handle everything that game could throw at me.

[@yancyjarquin4683]

Broool fucking same it was scaryyy

[@GAMENITE]

Yeah dude i found myself scared to even leave megaton for a time. They really made you feel like someone who had never seen life beyond the vault.

[@yancyjarquin4683]

@@GAMENITE I wanna play fallout 3 so bad but every time I buy a ps3 it ends up not working after playing it 1 or 2 times

[@GAMENITE]

Honestly the only way to play it now is on pc with mods

[@yancyjarquin4683]

@@GAMENITE why with mods ?? And what kind of mods

[@Remo1147]

Fallout 3 is my favorite as well, nothing like that first play through experience

[@gwkiv1458]

Yepp, especially through the rose tinted glasses of your childhood. Ahhhh 2008.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

@@gwkiv1458 Does feel like that's why a lot of people like it huh. For a lot of us it was our entry point. Heck, it was my first ever proper RPG and we remember that feeling of first experiencing this big world. After being enlightened more as a gamer, I've soured on it quite a bit. The ending enraged me even back then though

[@elemental3066]

there was a massive lack of features in this game but honestly I feel as though it contributed to that empty feeling of the wasteland, you could get immersed in wandering

[@siiweeyy1321]

Playing fallout 3 as a kid was the scariest gaming experience I’ve ever played 😂 next to the original WaW Nazi Zombies (nacht der untoten)

[@Deserty7582]

Finally a Man of culture

[@snootygamerinteractive4987]

Fallout 3 has real dungeon crawls. You can lose an entire hour exploring a single point of interest on your map, with cool stuff to find and files to read.

[@reillywalker195]

The rewards in Fallout 3's dungeons feel like proper rewards, as well. New Vegas has some good rewards in dangerous places like Vault 22, Vault 34, Dead Wind Cavern, Black Mountain, and the Deathclaw Promontory, but many of the game's best items like snow globes are in comparably safe places.

[@kameronwaddell3633]

​@@reillywalker195bro 2000 caps for a snow globe is nothing what

[@Samtreee]

Fallout 3 is my favourite for this exact reason, they nailed it. The wasteland just isn't the same in the newer titles.

[@Lightning_God_kashimo]

Well the wasteland really shouldn't be *the wasteland* in f3, it's been what like 200 years? There's no way there's only three proper settlements, add on to the fact that they haven't built up these settlements very much

[@dravinllanith28]

Sacrifice good lore and storytelling for "muh atmosphere"

[@mace5725]

@@dravinllanith28 3’s story makes a lot more sense than NV’s

[@PolishGod1234]

​@@mace5725 no it doesn't. New Vegas has far superior writing and realism

[@mace5725]

@@PolishGod1234 what sounds better Son ventures into a harsh wasteland to search for his father OR A fucking mailman overthrows Las Vegas oh yeah and it has something to do with fallout

[@MyCraftDad]

ASHURS ARMOR is one of my favorite in the series with with skull on the side dude it's so sick

[@charliemcintosh894]

I'm always glad to meet another F3 favoriter, not many of us out there.

[@misfitlife1866]

I played fallout 3 really young, so I always thought it was meant to be horror game. Now that I’m 25 it still creeps me out

[@davezanin1863]

Fallout 3 is my favorite, love it, currently have a play through going right now still learn new things

[@Revolutionist646]

Fallout 3 is worth the money. Freaking spectacular game. I love the DLCs too

[@beyondnetero894]

For me nothing will ever beat the dark dirty atmosphere of fallout 3. Will always be one of my all time favorite games. Thinking about that green tinted wasteland gives me nostalgic melancholy. Even turning off the radio and listening to the ambient music. I just love it.

[@FarothFuin]

Only complain i have on fo3 is that they never ever explain to the character about on why they use bottlecaps as money, and not just that, your character knows it after leaving the vault... they could have add it to the overseer computer as some random info with the pictures and info about megaton and at least it would make some sense 🤔 Other problem is that the main story develops 95% of the time in a fifth part of the map and the rest is almost irrelevant route-wise for the main story, if you didnt explore by yourself then you're gonna miss a lot of places... not like on fonv where you travel all over most of the map by following the main story

[@DeceptaconAgain]

The wasteland in 3 is so barren it has the best “fuck this place is shitty” vibes. I dig it

[@chewbacca7154]

Each fallout world has one single color in the landscape 3: grey NV: Tan 4: red 76: brown

[@calwu8252]

I’d say 3 is Green and 4 is Blue

[@kabardino1337]

To me everything is brown, except 4 and 76 which have all the colors and very bright 🤢

[@Mandy-ve2sh]

Ah yes, because as well all know, the Fallout series started with Fallout 3

[@ThtSunbreaker]

Nah 76 is *CELL SHADE*

[@chasetucker1131]

3 green

[@Moo-cx6un]

They are all good and I like that they are all different.

[@Fallout_Monty]

Fallout 3 is sooooo underrated

[@Paulxoy]

Very

[@Luke_Rowe]

If it was rebooted and the guns had ironsites it would be amazing

[@Firealone9]

New Vegas is my favorite for gameplay, story, characters, role playing, and replayability... But damn, NOTHING beats that post apocalyptic atmosphere of Fallout 3. They really did nail it on that end. It really is one of, if not the most amazing theme directions of any game ever made. It has to be played to be believed. I actually do feel sorry for those who didn't have 3 as their first Fallout game, because it was mine, and it really does leave a permanent impression on you the minute you leave the vault in this game.

[@Sparecards]

I think Bioshock has the best theme direction tbh

[@Helperbot-2000]

fallout 1: half life 1, 2 ep1, ep2 and alyx: team fortress 2: portal 1 and 2: left 4 dead 1 and 2: FTL:

[@Imperatrix216]

Fallout 2

[@thevaeringi]

I agree 100%. It was my first and the impression it left has never went away. New Vegas has more things to do and more gameplay depth without a doubt. But the Spirit of Fallout 3 is unrivaled. The experience of playing through the first time is seared into my brain forever. I still remember where I was, what I was doing, what day it was, who was around me, all the details from my first day playing it. Tbh I can’t say the same for the others - or most of the games out there I’ve played for that matter. Only a handful of games have left that great of an impact on me.

[@kameronwaddell3633]

Fallout 1 has an actual wasteland but ok

[@Thebestskier12]

Fallout 3 will always be my favorite fallout game, and maybe even favorite video game of all time. There is something so special about it, sure NV may be better mechanically, but the atmosphere is amazing! I can explore for hours on 3, something that I don’t enjoy as much in NV. I wish I could narrow it to one specific reason, but the game has a “FEEL” to it. I get excited every single time I start a new play through. I really believe that the DLCs (specifically The Pitt and Point Lookout) really paved the way for future DLC and what fans want. The moral decisions you make in some quests in this game really make you wonder what is for “the greater good”. It’s spectacular.

[@dantewilliams2757]

Here king you dropped this👑

[@The-Lone-Patriot]

Huzah a man of quality.

[@CyberneticWolff]

Npc: please give me clean water . Me in game: i dont have water.. BUT I DO GOT A GUN

[@ronaldlarocque4913]

I get homesick for my megaton house some days… miss the republic of Dave and Riley’s rangers, and that kid that lost his family to the giant ants, glad he still had someone to take him in at rivet city. War never changes

[@gwkiv1458]

Good shouts

[@depressoespresso8116]

I guess the one problem I had with it was personally, I didn’t feel like the main character was, well, the main character. Most of the main quests focus on you following this person when they do something. You follow Dad when he traps himself in the activation room, dying. You follow Li when she heads into the brotherhood, convincing them to let her in. Even with that, it’s a great game

[@radiantbladez]

Fallout 3 was my first jump into Bethesda games and it literally absorbed my life for quite a while as a kid.

[@dezpotizmOFheaven]

You forgot to mention that you can blow up Megaton with the Nuke D':

[@ParkerFriedChicken]

I've never had more fun playing a game than FO3.

[@isaiahsmith8379]

The voice acting alone in this game is legendary

[@oatshmealp2861]

I’ve always loved fallout 3 I wish they’d just build the future fallouts off of it

[@Nrchy13]

They already do?

[@kabardino1337]

@@Nrchy13 they do, otherwise we would be playing New Vegas and 4 and 76 from the top-down clicking the mouse everywhere as if it was a 90's game again

[@Nrchy13]

@@kabardino1337 Probably why I said that they already do

[@Nrchy13]

@@kabardino1337 anyways, new vegas was the same engine but it wasn't built off of 3. Was built off of 2 if anything

[@darkninjamandelta]

Downtown DC is so crazy to explore, I started playing again this week and I haven’t played since I was in middle school lol

[@MysteryCookie006]

Me: Fallout 3 is my favorite New vegas Nostalfag: **Dies of rage**

[@Deserty7582]

I hate New Vegas for THIS REASON

[@tacticalmattress]

It's the same when you mention DS1 or DS3 is a better game than DS2. You'll summon at least one broken unfinished game sympathizer.

[@fishingpatriotisback]

Petition for Fallout 3 Remastered!

[@bigurethra]

Fallout 3 was not only my first fallout but also my first game of all time, it came out a few months after i was born and it took me 16 years to beat it

[@LikeGamesfamilia]

patrolling the mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@tundrafrost9404]

Atmosphere is everything in this game. It. Is immaculate! Whenever I play, I actually feel like I’m traversing a broken down world.

[@mattc7420]

I played Fallout 1 And 2 for the first time, and instantly forgot they were set in 1950's sci-fi. Fallout 3 nails the aesthetic. (Also it's writing and story are just as good as the classics)

[@preachymink9468]

I mean...thats Fallout. The Retro-Futurism was always meant to take a back seat in favor of big buff mad max esque apocalyptica. I much prefer Fallout for what its core concept is meant to be. Its just more my style.

[@slipvskorn]

My one big complaint about fallout 3 is that there is no ads

[@AjarSensation]

and no iron sights

[@joeyfoster-wd6fs]

I remember my older brother and I navigating the metro when I was a little kid. Holds a very special place in my heart

[@queldron]

Nothing beats the atmosphere of Fallout 1.

[@joshforeman95]

Agree its my fave too bro

[@mudshrooze]

I find it so stupid that We fallout 3 lovers have to defend our position. most people online who claim NV is the best Simply because the polls online say so. their both great. but 3 is definitely my favorite

[@chriscruz8644]

It's Not Only My Favorite Fallout But My Favorite Game of All Time. I Wish I Could Play it For The First Time Again.

[@son0fgrim]

i mean... its always good to give the red headed step child a bit of love.

[@zulfikarmuhammad6518]

who's here after fallout 3 is free at epic games?

[@AudreyStryder222]

I love fallout 4. Unapologetically i could live in it happily

[@matt7144]

The fact it’s so livable makes it less of a fallout game though

[@AudreyStryder222]

@@matt7144 takes place long enough after the bomb dropped to make sense though. I personally like the 30-70s vibe. The post apocalyptic landscape and theme is just a bonus lol

[@alejandrollanten9689]

​@@matt7144lol no, fallout 3 is less fallout than 4 all for the atmosphere

[@ManyDog]

The world isn't supposed to look like shit 200 years after a nuclear war. Fallout 3 looks like 20 years after nuclear war. Fallout new Vegas is what 200 years after Nuclear war is supposed to be.

[@paulklp8262]

New Vegas looks like exactly like 3 with a sun tan.

[@ManyDog]

@@paulklp8262 naw, new Vegas has color besides green and grey

[@eckolecko2130]

@@paulklp8262incorrect

[@MrToren01]

well to be fair Mr. House in the lore was able to make sure a majority of the nukes weren't near nevada, i think you can find one nuke crater in new vegas and its the one with the only 5-6 centaurs in the game.

[@alejandrollanten9689]

​@@MrToren01even in fallout 1 the World feels a lot more colorful than fallout 3

[@BadassName17]

I liked how going through the metro system wasn’t always optional but needed to get through the city most of the time until you got the fast travel point.

[@JonathanGarcia-p6i]

I'll never forget playing this game for the first time 😢❤😊

[@PhilipPetrunak]

Let's be clear. Fallout 3 is your favorite game for one reason and one reason alone: It is because it was the first Fallout game you played. The game is objectively inferior to every other game. Fallout New Vegas has better writing and more refined mechanics. Fallout 4 refines those mechanics even further and gives you much more diverse story options. Fallout 1 and 2 are incomparable in terms of gameplay, but have objectively better stories considering Fallout 3 poorly ripped them off. If Fallout 3 is your favorite game you have not thought clearly about the games.

[@dillil307]

Speaking honest truth here, sir.

[@randybellwood1778]

I call it "Majora's Mask Syndrome"

[@mace5725]

Bros huffin copium

[@lyreco7910]

Neckbeard moment

[@Deserty7582]

Nobody cares, you're completely wrong, what you said doesn't make ANY sense

[@evilhollowchocolateapocaly5078]

I was just thinking this too, I recently started replaying 3 because it was on sale for Xbox for 2 bucks. It really does have such a great attention to detail. Something I feel none of the other fallout matched. Was really taken back by how fun this game still is 15 years later. One of the greats

[@mikeharrington418]

Best one they made and the best opening scene with the music. They never had it correct since

[@HardKnox23]

That’s it! The atmosphere. The bad graphics and dark edges make this a horror apocalypse Cartoon

[@nmgaro2156]

It completly changed and set the course of the way of the game. From combat based on turns, to real time fights, open world ... all that came next is just fallout 3 evolving from this one

[@Tac6497]

This was my first fallout game and man did it do its job making me feel like I wouldn't survive 1 day if I was there in real life

[@CriticalShot1]

I love fallout NV mechanics, story and characters more but I love Fallout3's world more. The atmosphere, the city, the look, and I absolutely love the metro system

[@PrestonGarvey2287]

No no, it’s no secret that word has been sent that there’s another settlement who needs your work, I will mark it on your map.

[@l0rd0f5k33p]

Yes, Preston

[@PrestonGarvey2287]

@@l0rd0f5k33p Thank you, general. Report back once you are done.

[@Bucatini98]

And also tenpenny tower is so perfect

[@DaRealMan45]

I love the ambient music like when exploring a metro in this game

[@the_crystalg7111]

He mentioned the first sight leaving the vault, I wanted to have him add green as a description to the sight. Cause that's all I think of fo3, just green

[@oblivionlord1242]

The PITT DLC alone is what made it my favourite fallout

[@SorenArouet]

Totally agree. I played the first titles when they came out. Having a FPS with that atmosphere was beyond my dreams.

[@BobaFatt997]

Also, the scale of the story in Fallout 3 is massive - it’s a genuine epic. And seeing the Brotherhood and the Enclave face off is just sick.

[@autoxy57]

I truly love how people from Capital Wasteland still live in places like Megaton and Rivet City in 2277, 200 years after a Great War.

[@Rusty.Shacklford951]

Bros Patrick star with the "ATMOSPHERE!"

[@ebergonzalez7822]

He made captain price lamo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DbBoomstick]

My thoughts exactly. They nailed the atmosphere and the raiders seemed way more aggressive like they should be. Everything was way more menacing in general in 3.

[@RACECAGD]

I love the quick loading screens

[@raviolimasteroli2341]

I’m the same way, love New Vegas to death but nothing makes me feel more like the most chaotic, evil, supervillain mother fucker than doing Burke’s quest, then immediately turning on him to wipe out Tenpenny Tower

[@magicmonkeyking4137]

Fallout 3 may not be considered "one of the best." But it certainly holds a special place in my gamer heart. I remember I got it and the strategy guide for it as a Christmas present from my cousin and it was my very first Fallout game I played and owned. I made so many memories because of that game. Lol like this one time: after I smoked a few bowls and was exploring the metro tunnels, it was so dark I turned my pip-boy light on and as soon as I did, a feral goul came out of the darkness right in front me! I was like: "OH SHIT!!!" Fortunately, I had the combat shotgun ready in hands and BOOM! Blew his brains out. Never gonna forget that.

[@banana2649]

Same. It just feels more lonely than new vegas or fallout 4, even the first two games. They nailed the atmosphere

[@drewce_wayne]

Not to mention dlc went hard as fuck man the Pit is still a banger to this day

[@TrenchbabyMel203]

Definitely falling in love with 3. Crazy how much it reminds me of 4. I almost feel dumb for never playing it back then. The game was ahead of its time

[@MidnightMechanic]

Fallout 3 feels dingy and devoid of hope, Fallout 4 feels bright and hopeful by comparison.