Why does this game get so much hate?

[King Manuel I]

Everywhere I go, if a discussions going on about Fallout, someone says something about how Fallout 3 sucks. I’ve watched a few YouTube videos of Fallout 3, and I don’t see why it sucks so much. So, anybody got some reasons why it’s apparently so bad?

[skidmark]

You spend more time in menus (PipBoy) than playing the game. The colors (yea, what color?) suck ( there's mods). There should be an assigned key for grenade throw. There should be an assigned key for map. There should be an assigned key for stimpak.

[Sovereign]

It “sucks” because it’s radically different to it’s predecessors. Most of the hate this game gets is from people who like FO1 & 2 and simply can’t handle that it was trying (and mostly succeeded imo) to do something different.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by skidmark:

You spend more time in menus (PipBoy) than playing the game. The colors (yea, what color?) suck ( there's mods). There should be an assigned key for grenade throw. There should be an assigned key for map. There should be an assigned key for stimpak.

You do know you can fix most of those "problems" by just using hotkeys right?

[skidmark]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by skidmark:

You spend more time in menus (PipBoy) than playing the game. The colors (yea, what color?) suck ( there's mods). There should be an assigned key for grenade throw. There should be an assigned key for map. There should be an assigned key for stimpak.

You do know you can fix most of those "problems" by just using hotkeys right?

Sorry, no, I didn't know.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by skidmark:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

You do know you can fix most of those "problems" by just using hotkeys right?

Sorry, no, I didn't know.

Yep, you can assign various items to number keys so you can quick-use stimpaks and chems or swap weapons without having to go into the pipboy.

[Mosh]

Salt because it's the highest rated Fallout game with most GOTY awards and sales.
They revived this bankrupt franchise in full 3D.

[skidmark]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Because people have there reasons. Some of those reasons are dumb and some of those reasons are actually valid points

A generic statement that is true for anything and really says nothing.

[skidmark]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by skidmark:

Sorry, no, I didn't know.

Yep, you can assign various items to number keys so you can quick-use stimpaks and chems or swap weapons without having to go into the pipboy.

So how do you do it?

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by skidmark:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Yep, you can assign various items to number keys so you can quick-use stimpaks and chems or swap weapons without having to go into the pipboy.

So how do you do it?

Sorry for the late reply.

It’s been a while but believe you just need to select a item in your inventory and then press a number key (1-9) to assign that item to that number.

[Jjp7123]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ1gyIzg78&t=87s

The real reason people hate Fallout 3 is because of a hate for Bethesda. Way back in 1997, Interplay and Black Isle Studios were the original founders of Fallout. However, despite Fallout 1 and 2 selling 500,000 copies, it wasn't enough to save the company from going bankrupt. Eventually Interplay got purchased by another company after the release of Fallout: Tactics who wanted to make another Fallout game to make money: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which is hilariously terrible. Interplay was about to release Fallout: Van Buren, The Original Fallout 3, which was about 90% complete before the studio got shut down. The company that purchased Interplay wanted to focus their resources on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which was canceled due to the low sales of the first game. Due to the poor mismanagement of the company, Interplay was forced to sell their Intellectual property, Fallout, and Bethesda purchased the rights in 2004. Basically, Fallout 3 was going to happen, but due to mismanagement of a company that canceled one project, and lack of money to finish another project, Fallout 3 never happened; it became a completely different game. So a lot of fans see it that they were promised something that was stolen at the last minute and replaced with something they didn't want and that Bethesda doesn't deserve the rights for a IP they don't know how to handle properly.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Jjp7123:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ1gyIzg78&t=87s

The real reason people hate Fallout 3 is because of a hate for Bethesda. Way back in 1997, Interplay and Black Isle Studios were the original founders of Fallout. However, despite Fallout 1 and 2 selling 500,000 copies, it wasn't enough to save the company from going bankrupt. Eventually Interplay got purchased by another company after the release of Fallout: Tactics who wanted to make another Fallout game to make money: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which is hilariously terrible. Interplay was about to release Fallout: Van Buren, The Original Fallout 3, which was about 90% complete before the studio got shut down. The company that purchased Interplay wanted to focus their resources on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which was canceled due to the low sales of the first game. Due to the poor mismanagement of the company, Interplay was forced to sell their Intellectual property, Fallout, and Bethesda purchased the rights in 2004. Basically, Fallout 3 was going to happen, but due to mismanagement of a company that canceled one project, and lack of money to finish another project, Fallout 3 never happened; it became a completely different game. So a lot of fans see it that they were promised something that was stolen at the last minute and replaced with something they didn't want and that Bethesda doesn't deserve the rights for a IP they don't know how to handle properly.

Yep, butthurt fanboyism at it's finest. XD

That video in particular is a truly horrendous embarrassment for the fandom.

[Wonder of U (Sha)]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by Jjp7123:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLJ1gyIzg78&t=87s

The real reason people hate Fallout 3 is because of a hate for Bethesda. Way back in 1997, Interplay and Black Isle Studios were the original founders of Fallout. However, despite Fallout 1 and 2 selling 500,000 copies, it wasn't enough to save the company from going bankrupt. Eventually Interplay got purchased by another company after the release of Fallout: Tactics who wanted to make another Fallout game to make money: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which is hilariously terrible. Interplay was about to release Fallout: Van Buren, The Original Fallout 3, which was about 90% complete before the studio got shut down. The company that purchased Interplay wanted to focus their resources on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which was canceled due to the low sales of the first game. Due to the poor mismanagement of the company, Interplay was forced to sell their Intellectual property, Fallout, and Bethesda purchased the rights in 2004. Basically, Fallout 3 was going to happen, but due to mismanagement of a company that canceled one project, and lack of money to finish another project, Fallout 3 never happened; it became a completely different game. So a lot of fans see it that they were promised something that was stolen at the last minute and replaced with something they didn't want and that Bethesda doesn't deserve the rights for a IP they don't know how to handle properly.

Yep, butthurt fanboyism at it's finest. XD

That video in particular is a truly horrendous embarrassment for the fandom.

The video is not about "fanboyism" of the fallout series; it's a critique on how Fallout 3 is a bad "RPG" and not necessarity a bad game. The title does fit his narrative, but it's still click bait.

As much as it sound ridiculous, I watched the whole video to see how ridiculous his claims were, but, at the end, I can agree with him with certain points. I actually recommend watching the video if you have time; it can widen your insight on the matter and it's entertaining to say the least.

In my opinion, while I can agree that Fallout 3 is mediocre in the story department, Fallout 3 is an amazing game; I've spent so many hours on it.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Altria:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Yep, butthurt fanboyism at it's finest. XD

That video in particular is a truly horrendous embarrassment for the fandom.

The video is not about "fanboyism" of the fallout series; it's a critique on how Fallout 3 is a bad "RPG" and not necessarity a bad game. The title does fit his narrative, but it's still click bait.

As much as it sound ridiculous, I watched the whole video to see how ridiculous his claims were, but, at the end, I can agree with him with certain points. I actually recommend watching the video if you have time; it can widen your insight on the matter and it's entertaining to say the least.

In my opinion, while I can agree that Fallout 3 is mediocre in the story department, Fallout 3 is an amazing game; I've spent so many hours on it.

He literally spends half the video sucking off FO1 and claims upfront that FO1&2 are objectively two of the best games ever before going on to bash FO3 for not being exactly like them, that's butthurt fanboy 101. He has a couple of decent points and more then a few crap ones, but it's pretty clear that his arguement is very biased and he's a massive a$$hole to boot.

[Lord Of The Pings]

Originally posted by Mosh:

Salt because it's the highest rated Fallout game with most GOTY awards and sales.
They revived this bankrupt franchise in full 3D.

Why would anyone be salty about that? Unless they hate the fallout franchise, in which case they would most likely not care, or also bash the old games as well.

[RA Ranno]

I never thought the fallout 3 hate was that big. Yeah, you'll see justified opinions towards how it changed the franchise, but the hate isn't super wide. You'd have to only pay attention to the hate to see it as very hated.