• Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition
  

  8 minutes playtime

  no achievements

i probably played more like 60 hours of this game, but steam only reported the time i had the launcher open. it showed its age right away with needing compatibility mode to even run on windows 10. even with that it froze up on me 8 or so times, but it autosaves whenever you go through a door and load a new area and i quicksave a lot, so that wasn’t a huge setback. also it’s one of very few games that ignores that i set windows to use dvorak keyboard layout, so when it says press E and i press the key that’s labeled D but normally works as an E, that doesn’t work. of course i can just press the key labeled E, but this is one of 3 or so games i’ve seen ignore my keyboard layout.

coming from fallout 1 and 2 i appreciated hacking and lockpicking as minigames. hacking was a fun puzzle to solve to figure out which password is correct, but lockpicking as far as i can tell was just a random angle to put the bobby pin. also bobby pins seemed a bit scarce so i’d quickload and try again if i broke more than one on a lock.

i missed having to trade action points between movement and attacking (though maybe actions points came back faster if i was sitting still?) and i only got the option to have someone join me just before the ending. other than that it had everything i like about fallout games, and it was cool to see a 3d wasteland. definitely worth the sale price i paid for it on a site i’d never heard of before.