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While the game’s world is undeniably huge and feels lived-in, and the characters often present the player with interesting moral dilemmas, the game falls flat in a number of ways and makes so many strange story choices that its induction into the video game canon is dubious at best. Its open world and customizable level-up system set it apart from other games at the time, while simultaneously paving the way for more and greater open-world games to come after it. Released in 2008 to wild success and instant critical acclaim, Fallout 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. I will admit that it does some interesting things, but it’s just so damn boring.
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But when it comes to Fallout 3, folks, I have never felt like more of an outsider looking in when it comes to something that seemingly everyone praises for being brilliant. And while I’m not the biggest fan of Skyrim, I still sunk a few days into it and can appreciate it for the unbelievably ambitious and oftentimes beautiful game that it is. I lost a fair portion of my fourteenth year to Oblivion when I was trying to kick a World of Warcraft habit, so I certainly understand the appeal of the vast, open worlds that Bethesda offers. In fact, they are behind one of my (and Aaron’s, coincidentally) favorite games, Dishonored, and have provided me with hours of entertainment with the Elder Scrolls series. Would you douse that torch and lower that pitchfork, please? Listen, I have nothing but respect for Bethesda. Look, I don’t relish writing this article, alright? I mean, sure, I’m typically working with a baseline hum of dread that propels me to do my daily activities, so I’m pretty used to the whole “I have a bad feeling about this” thing, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want to incur your spicy, spicy wrath, you know? Ah well, hopefully in the short time we’ve known each other I’ve accrued enough of your trust to keep you on-board for this piece in which I hesitantly (yet proudly, I must admit) tell you that I think Fallout 3 is terrible and should be left to rot in the bland, gray wasteland it has created for itself. Your breath smells like you could stand to drink more water, by the way. I was aware of that going into this series, but even as I type out this long preamble to what will inevitably be one of the shorter installments of this series, I feel the amorphous, faceless, pulsating rage of The Internet looming up behind me, breathing heavily on the nape of my neck in the way that only a bunch of angered fans with a yet-to-be-defined grudge brewing in their gut can. In the business of canonization, you run the risk of alienating large groups of people due to your sometimes-controversial viewpoints. Today on Now Loading, I imagine I will be perturbing quite a few of you in a way I have not yet done. The sketch comedy series, not the federal government. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls? Here?! *GULP* Hello and welcome to Now Loading…The Video Game Canon! The only weekly Internet column that is being investigated for crimes against The State.
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Now you won't be able to run these games at full resolution with full 8x AA and AF, but you can at least get them to run pretty high res with everything set at like 2x, maybe 4x and smoothly. Here is a cheaper one, but I would not go any lower than a GeForce 200 series or ATI Radeon HD 4600 series. You can probably go to any electronics store around you at pick up a card for like 100 dollars and it should run the game great. said: " Shove like a 100 dollar PCI-Express card in that puppy. It will run fine for a few minutes, and then just craps out. Which I explained in this thread: I did some of the stuff that they said and got TF2 and Portal to work again, but Fallout 3 still does that. I have been having the problem for a few months now. Do not have anything running in the back ground. " said: " I think I'll just go ahead and buy it, it's only $25.