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Topic	Remember the original Fallout 3 ending? spoilers
masterpug53 07/27/21 9:57:49 PM #10:	I can't think of a better example of an entire plot collapsing on the pillar of one bad scene than Fallout 3. The whole game through I kept convincing myself that the story had potential, and that potential was going to pay off just around the corner. But around the ending of Vault 87 it felt like the plot was careening down a cliff towards a premature conclusion, and by the time of the Liberty Prime assault I kept telling myself 'no, no, no, this can't be the ending already, can it?' And then everything came crashing down hard once the ending reared its ugly head. I was so deeply incensed by the ending that it burned away the rosy outlook I'd had concerning the rest of the game I'd played up to that point, and I forever looked at Fallout 3 with a very critical eye. In the end (pun intended), the ending wasn't supremely offensive in and of itself; it was a culmination of all the bad writing and worldbuilding that had preceded it, and the only difference was that the game no longer had any potential past that point to redeem itself. And for the record, I don't really think Broken Steel 'fixed' anything. Fawkes / Charon / Whatever the Gutsy was called being able to go in your place didn't really make a difference at that point, when both you and Sarah just get knocked unconscious anyway (and the ending slideshow will still throw some rather unnecessary shade your way for letting Fawkes do it). To be honest, the only thing I actually liked about the original ending was that Bethesda had the stones to cap off the main quest with a definitive ending, not the usual wishy-washy 'the world's saved, now bum around until you get bored' anticlimax. But even after all that, I still enjoyed replaying it just for the sake of farting around in the sandbox (at least until New Vegas came onto the scene, and even then it took me about a year to really, truly appreciate NV). And there's a small scattering of quests / locations / moments in FO3 that I would still consider genuinely good. But what few itches NV didn't scratch infinitely better, FO4 eventually managed to reach. I have no desire to ever return to FO3 at this point. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. https://imgur.com/eW67nT8 - Artwork by Wii_Shaker <cite>masterpug53 posted [p:956527613] in Remember t... [t:79586187]...</cite> <quote>I can't think of a better example of an entire plot collapsing on the pillar of one bad scene than Fallout 3. The whole game through I kept convincing myself that the story had potential, and that potential was going to pay off just around the corner. But around the ending of Vault 87 it felt like the plot was careening down a cliff towards a premature conclusion, and by the time of the Liberty Prime assault I kept telling myself 'no, no, no, this can't be the ending already, can it?' And then everything came crashing down hard once the ending reared its ugly head. I was so deeply incensed by the ending that it burned away the rosy outlook I'd had concerning the rest of the game I'd played up to that point, and I forever looked at Fallout 3 with a very critical eye. In the end (pun intended), the ending wasn't supremely offensive in and of itself; it was a culmination of all the bad writing and worldbuilding that had preceded it, and the only difference was that the game no longer had any potential past that point to redeem itself. And for the record, I don't really think Broken Steel 'fixed' anything. Fawkes / Charon / Whatever the Gutsy was called being able to go in your place didn't really make a difference at that point, when both you and Sarah just get knocked unconscious anyway (and the ending slideshow will still throw some rather unnecessary shade your way for letting Fawkes do it). To be honest, the only thing I actually liked about the original ending was that Bethesda had the stones to cap off the main quest with a definitive ending, not the usual wishy-washy 'the world's saved, now bum around until you get bored' anticlimax. But even after all that, I still enjoyed replaying it just for the sake of farting around in the sandbox (at least until New Vegas came onto the scene, and even then it took me about a year to really, truly appreciate NV). And there's a small scattering of quests / locations / moments in FO3 that I would still consider genuinely good. But what few itches NV didn't scratch infinitely better, FO4 eventually managed to reach. I have no desire to ever return to FO3 at this point. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. https://imgur.com/eW67nT8 - Artwork by Wii_Shaker</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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