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I finished Fallout 3 a while ago. Something that I've noticed that has been somewhat of a trend in games these days, particularly the "epic" ones like Mass Effect, GTA4, etc, is that the main game (i.e. everything that is not optional in order to progress and beat it) has been extremely short.
When I finished Fallout 3 I clocked in at about 20 hours, which is extremely short by my standards. Factor in that probably about half that time was spent on optional side quests and towns, and that's a really, really short main game.
I've yet to wonder whether this is a bad thing or not. If you want to, it may take you probably around 50-60 hours to go through everything the game has to offer. The question is ... do you want to? I did attempt to try and play through it again, but ended up stopping. Though I think most of that was that probably pulling from wow, so maybe if wow wasn't around I would have made it through again (doing some different extra stuff of course, and playing through it as an evil asshole).
Still I wonder if this is a problematic trend with games today. The same thing happened with Mass Effect. I think the main problem was that the optinal content was so disjointed from the main game. Occasionally, while traveling from planet to planet you'd get a distress call, a communcication or a crewmember would do something and would kind of trigger a "hey you busy, mind doing this little side item, plz". It's ok, but there's still no real compelling reason to do so. In Fallout 3, you kind of just run into sidequests, so it's very possible you just end up going through the main game and just missing them all.
The sad thing is I do want to keep playing Fallout 3 since a downloadable add on was released last week. The catch is that I have to go through Microsoft's lame Games For Windows marketplace. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the inconvenience is fucking retarded. For one, I bought Fallout 3 from Direct2Drive. It was an easy transaction, I gave them money, they gave me game to download. Fast (well buying it was anyways), and convenient (download -> install -> play).
For one, why the fuck is the downloadable content not available on the same service I used to buy the actual fucking game? Second, now I have to go and register on yet another fucking site just to get downloadable content. Not only that, I can't just pay for it either. I have to buy "points" and then, and only then, can I actually purchase the DLC. What a fucking incovenience.
When I finished Fallout 3 I clocked in at about 20 hours, which is extremely short by my standards. Factor in that probably about half that time was spent on optional side quests and towns, and that's a really, really short main game.
I've yet to wonder whether this is a bad thing or not. If you want to, it may take you probably around 50-60 hours to go through everything the game has to offer. The question is ... do you want to? I did attempt to try and play through it again, but ended up stopping. Though I think most of that was that probably pulling from wow, so maybe if wow wasn't around I would have made it through again (doing some different extra stuff of course, and playing through it as an evil asshole).
Still I wonder if this is a problematic trend with games today. The same thing happened with Mass Effect. I think the main problem was that the optinal content was so disjointed from the main game. Occasionally, while traveling from planet to planet you'd get a distress call, a communcication or a crewmember would do something and would kind of trigger a "hey you busy, mind doing this little side item, plz". It's ok, but there's still no real compelling reason to do so. In Fallout 3, you kind of just run into sidequests, so it's very possible you just end up going through the main game and just missing them all.
The sad thing is I do want to keep playing Fallout 3 since a downloadable add on was released last week. The catch is that I have to go through Microsoft's lame Games For Windows marketplace. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the inconvenience is fucking retarded. For one, I bought Fallout 3 from Direct2Drive. It was an easy transaction, I gave them money, they gave me game to download. Fast (well buying it was anyways), and convenient (download -> install -> play).
For one, why the fuck is the downloadable content not available on the same service I used to buy the actual fucking game? Second, now I have to go and register on yet another fucking site just to get downloadable content. Not only that, I can't just pay for it either. I have to buy "points" and then, and only then, can I actually purchase the DLC. What a fucking incovenience.