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but the majority of us don't feel that FO3 needs any fixing.
Simple fact; I've been talking to the head of Fallout 3 Nexus lately and he was completely taken by surprise by the mass of traffic to his site. He ran TES Nexus before, and to his great surprise F3N got the same traffic as TESN does from day 1: 50k visits a day. That's twice as much as NMA gets, and almost as much as GB does, it is, in fact, a pretty huge number for a recently launched site, and all they offer is mods - dark0ne having decided some time ago he doesn't feel like competing with the Vault or NMA on Fallout 3 info.
This reminded me of one of the awards Oblivion got: it got a GotY from some site, and one page later that site gave the mod of the year award to Oscuro's Overhaul mod.
It's a kind of having your cake and eating it situation. Why is there such massive interest in mods if the game is so perfect? Why is Oblivion's fanmade patch probably the only one I've ever seen that has a longer fixlist than Bloodlines' fanmade patch? How can you claim a game is the greatest of the year and then claim a mod that overhauls it is the best of the year - if we were talking about a massive mod that keeps the core but adds a lot of stuff then sure, mod of the year + game of the year, but OOO is very specifically aimed at picking up the broken pieces of Oblivion - like level scaling.
Also, Fallout 3 does in fact need a lot of "objective" fixing but that's not the modding community's job. We're talking about a game that is so unstable that it manages to crash on Xbox 360/PS3 and while it runs fine for some, it has a mass of problems for others. But hey, Bethesda is hard at work on DLC rather than having put its entire team on patching this buggy mess, because there's no money in patches I guess? As a consumer, that does annoy me.
Oh, and some things in the game are actually pure fixes of the easiest sort: I've already seen animation and texture mods that do not do a lot at all, they just put in stock animations or put the Fallout 3 textures through a filter and then place it back - simple fixes for a game that appears to have been tweaked down for the Xbox.
I mean...really really? I'd say there's a ton of dumb-ass design bits in Fallout 3 just like there was in Oblivion, and you don't need to dislike the game to prefer one or two fixes.
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