Prologue

You know, I’ve read numerous times that the process of making a video game is long and difficult, even after the process of Testing. That we should not complain about the games we have. I strongly disagree with that, because then we would be allowing developers to continue producing mediocre games. And yet, there is the case in which mediocre games get high scores because they are fun. Fallout 3 is that kind of game. I’m not saying it’s overrated, but do you think that had the game not gotten a 93 out of 100 score in Metacritic, Fallout: New Vegas would be as buggy or cheaply presented as Fallout 3? I think not, and you should begin to consider it. Had the critics be stricter on the game’s score rather than just pointing the element of developer’s mediocrity as just another fact, then Bethesda would have though it twice before releasing Fallout: New Vegas in the same state of Fallout 3. And that’s where the games’ quality begins to decline. With this I don’t want to criticize here other video game reviewers, I just want to make clear the previous statement, and if you think about it well, you know it’s true. If the community doesn’t ask for better games, then developers won’t make better games, either because they think their game is great or because they think that with no complains they can keep producing more games with the same level of mediocrity.

I’m not saying Fallout 3 is a bad game. It’s very fun, and the overall premise to explore a giant world and do whatever you want is why the game works and why so many people get hooked to it. However, you don’t have to be a critic to notice the game is very mediocre, or at least its developer, Bethesda. Full of glitches and bugs, mediocre animations and gameplay, the game doesn’t fail because the premise is stronger than anything else, and the fact that the game is satisfying enough to keep you engaged to it. However, the fact that after an hour or so of playing, the game crashes for no apparent reason, or a weird glitch forces you to restart the game; is more than unbearable; criminal, unforgivable and intolerable. And for such, the game gets a lower score. “But yeah_93, the game is very fun and it’s great, why do you give it a low score?” Didn’t you just read what I said? I find it insulting that even after a patch, the game still has so many annoying bugs and glitches. I won’t deny that I was hooked 35 hours to the screen, 15 more hours after finishing the main storyline, but I won’t forgive the game for the suffering it makes in every session. Yeah, most games have glitches. But yeah, most of those glitches take some work to find, but in this game, they are a reminder that you are playing a mediocre game.

Then again, I hope to clear every other aspect of the game in my review, so keep reading in order to know the other factors of the game. I won’t make this review as long as the other ones, because there is no story or character development in this game, even though it’s a RPG. And as such thing happens, then this will be perhaps my most objective review, giving that there are no things or characters to analyze, just things to describe. And that isn’t a good start. Just keep reading to know the rest.