Are you confused about whether you actually like Fallout 3 or not, Hedek? Not like it matters all that much to me, it's just curious how your opinion seemed to change from reluctant admirer to total disgust.
One day, youre saying after you supposedly beat it "If only they didn't call it Fallout 3 it would have been (and i quote) "by far my favorite game in years." You went on to say again later that it was a very good game. Now it's "not my type of game", one of several recent totally negative comments by you about it, including your rant in the beginning of this thread pretty much ripping it from top to bottom. Then you say you beat the game before, now you say you cant stomach more than 5 hours of it.
Which is it, man? Are you just wetting your finger and seeing which way the wind blows before you form your opinion? Just trying to be a rebel or something? It's ok to admit that you like the game, you know = ]
Or is it?
Indeed, but the opinion of people can change over time. And only fools refuse to admit it. In the past I have found myself liking games I despised at first. And sometimes it's the other way around.
I am impressed by how attentive you are to reading what people write here. Unfortunately I am not as thorough when writing my own posts. I don't always proof read them. As a result the structure of a sentence can give it a different than intended meaning (english isn't my native language).
So to quote myself at the beginning of this thread (December 22nd) I did finish the game, once:
"Fallout 3 is the first Fallout game I didn't feel like replaying once I finished it... I even replayed Fallout Tactics, twice."
Then later on in this thread I said
"But in all honesty, even had it been called something else, it's not my type of game. I never managed to play more than 5 hours of Daggerfall, Morrowind, or Oblivion. Same with Fallout 3."
When first writing this post I had put in a short explanation of things I didn't like in those 3 TES games and finishing with "Same with Fallout 3" meaning Fallout 3 has the same features/design elements that I do not like.
But I wanted to keep the post short and thought this wasn't a thread about Daggerfall, Morrowind or Oblivion so I removed it but forget to remove the "Same with Fallout 3". Skeptical people will probably tell you I'm making that excuse up... but it's the truth unfortunately I have no other means of proving it other than asking you to trust my word. But in this case I have nothing to gain or lose from bashing on Fallout 3.
Now to quote myself from other threads:
November 26th:
"Thankfully unmodded Fallout 3 is already a hell lot better than Oblivion."
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5899
November 19th:
"Excellent breakdown. And I could add several other things I didn't like. Despite all this, Fallout 3 is still an excellent game. It's definitely worth buying and easy to recommend. Still, there are so many things in Fallout 3 that could have been done better."
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5868
November 11th:
"I'm playing and enjoying Fallout 3 and complaining it's not faithful.
Am I the only one thinking Fallout 3 is a great "game" but not a great "Fallout game"?
http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5776&page=2
As you can see, clearly I went from "liking it"/"it's a great game" to "after playing it more extensively and finishing it, I don't like it that much anymore".
Reason for this: I was excited about Fallout 3, I was in total hype! Watching that trailer with that Inkspot song and Ron Pearlman saying "War... war never changes" gave me shivers and reminded of some of my best gaming moments. It's nothing Bethesda PR did in particular. The mere fact of calling it "Fallout 3" was enough to hype the **** out of me before they even released any info, or started doing any interviews and advertisement.
See I'm admitting I got fooled by my self-made hype, how often do you see that? I bought Fallout 3 ONLY because it's called "Fallout 3". Still, when I finally got the game, I knew it was very different from the previous ones, so I did my best to play it with an open-mind. And at first I found myself enjoying it alot. But as time passed I got bored. Really bored. For instance, VATS was cool the first 3 hours, annoying after that. I did my best to use it the least... but I'm not a very skilled twitch/FPS gamer so I couldn't do without it in tough fights.
But still I wanted to see the end of the main storyline, more out of duty than entertainment, specifically because I felt it would be unfair to write anything further about Fallout 3 if I don't finish it first.
So after more extensive play, I found out it's not my type of game, exploring every inch of the wasteland on foot bored me, and realized the huge difference that makes with F1 and F2 where you only explore a few select areas scattered across the wasteland. I still believe it's a great game for people who enjoy that kind of sandbox games: Gothic, Oblivion, etc. It's not my type.
I am however able to make the difference between "great games in a genre I don't like" and "crappy games in a genre I like". Something a lot of so-called professional reviewers can't do.
So yes I'd still recommend Fallout 3 to anyone who likes that type of game. I still think it's a great game if not the best in that genre, it's a better Oblivion in every way. But after extensive gameplay, and finishing it once, it's clearly not what I like, and especially not what I was hoping for a sequel to Fallout 1 & 2.
People change their mind all the time about games. I bet if most reviewers were asked to re-review all the games 6 months later many scores would drop. And if they don't it's out of ill-placed pride. And it's funny to see Oblivion getting bashed by the same people who praised it in their initial reviews.
(beginning of sentence removed due to people blowing it out of context, see my answer to Prime Junta's post). I'm not a gaming journalist. I don't think anyone decided to buy Fallout 3 based on what I said about it. If I misled anyone by liking it at first and changing my mind later on, I'm sorry.