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Fallout 3 - Game Developers & Bugs

by Couchpotato, 2014-07-20 14:12:42

Pixelated Shawn Bird shares his opinion about how game developers should fix their games. He uses Fallout 3 as an example, and I agree with him.

Last year during one of the big Steam sales I finally got my hands on Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition for around $5 and I thought I was stealing it. That was until I sat down to play it and found that the game would constantly freeze and I would have to bring up my task manager to shut it down. At first I thought it might be a silly glitch, but then I learned that it was a deep rabbit hole of which there was no return.

I am not a PC gamer because I know my way around installing games and screwing with game files and folders. I only became a PC gamer about five years ago now and it is because of how easy Steam makes it to play games. Sure I had Diablo II and a few others back in the day, but for the most part PC gaming was out of my element and so I stayed away and stuck to consoles. Consoles, you know like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, hardware that could still play Fallout 3 on if I had it for those systems. I actually did own it for both of those systems at different times, but of course traded them in for that lustrous gaming credit to purchase other games.

I have put hundreds of hours into Fallout 3 and even all the DLC for it. I have completed 99% of all the game’s missions. I even collected all the bobbleheads on more than one occasion. So you might be asking “Why rebuy it?” Well I miss it, a lot and now on PC I can livestream it and/or make YouTube videos of me playing it and all the whacky things that happen. Fallout 3 is an amazing game, one of the most popular from last generation. It is the reason we all are clamoring for a Fallout 4, that and surely partially because of this whole debacle. That is what upsets me the most about this whole situation. If it was a game I didn’t care so much for I would just cut my loses and go on my way, but I love Fallout 3! It is even on my top ten list of games from last generation. I really want to play it again and unfortunately, I can’t under these circumstances.

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Fallout 3

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release: Released


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