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How One Gamer Got a Piece of 'Fallout' Gaming History

Gameranx: "From Ellen Degeneres' hands to yours, Matthew Perry's copy of Fallout 3 finds a new owner."

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StillGray4149d ago

Indeed. I think she gave the game to one of her staffers, who probably just sold it.

Smelly1sam4148d ago

Saw this on reddit and couldn't believe it.

Merrill4149d ago

Fallout 3, the game that has left the biggest impression on me this generation, other than Demon's Souls. I wish I could play it again for the first time.

BenRage34149d ago (Edited 4149d ago )

I just started playing Fallout 3 for my first time about three days ago. I'm not sure why it's taken me this long to play it, being that I've owned it for years. Perhaps I was worried that it wouldn't live up to Fallout 1 & 2 (two of my favorite games of all time). When I heard they made it a first person style game, I was very worried. And I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying it right now. My time spent with multiple playthroughs of part 1 & 2 have served me well, because the game is so well made, that the transition was flawless. I knew exactly what character to make and there was little to no learning curve. Bethesda really did their homework with this masterpiece and the few bugs I've run into aside, this is on of those rare near-perfect games that has me addicted to my television 5-6 hours a day.

rawshack4149d ago

i played this game for 2 years strate it is a masterpiece

mynameisEvil4148d ago

Hmm, I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece, just as I wouldn't call any of Bethesda's games a masterpiece. However, I do think it's probably the best game developed by Bethesda and, up until New Vegas came out, I had played no game as much as I had that game.

With that said, I do think you'd find more loyal to the Fallout franchise within New Vegas. It acknowledges the events of the previous games, something Fallout 3 did incredibly sparingly (No mention at all of the NCR? Or The Tribal from Arroyo? Very few mentions of the Vault Dweller were made, etc). The story is, at least in my opinion, better, though this is something that's very much a person-to-person thing. The setting is more Fallout-ish in New Vegas, etc.

Basically, I'm saying that if you're enjoying Fallout 3 as a fan of the franchise, you'll probably like New Vegas more.

But whatever, I'm getting way off-topic. I find it interesting how the title of this article calls this a piece of Fallout gaming history. Matthew Perry gave Ellen a copy of Fallout 3. I can understand how it's a lucky find and all that, but it's not like he found the very first copy of Fallout 3 ever produced or some pre-alpha/alpha version of Fallout 4 (speaking of which, I'm still pissed that wasn't announced at the VGAs). Or, eh, maybe I'm the only one doesn't doesn't find a copy of a game signed by a celebrity to be "gaming history." I probably am the only one, really.

NukaCola4149d ago

Matthew Perry got the role of Benny in New Vegas because his donation on Ellen. Did an amazing job.

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Phoenix764149d ago

I loved Fallout 3 so dam much that after completing it 3 times on my PC...... I then brought GOTY Edition for my PS3.
Despite the bugs and crashes..... 100% complete lmao.

rawshack4149d ago

i played it both on xbox and ps3 the ps3 goty edition had the most bugs

Lord_Sloth4148d ago

Guess she doesn't put much stock in gifts given to her by people.

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Now is the Best Time to Get This Incredible RPG Bundle on Steam

If you are looking for an awesome RPG, look no further. Steam is offering a significant discount on its Fallout Franchise Bundle.

SimpleSlave4h ago

"You can get all Fallout games in a bundle at a significant 20% discount on Steam. Individually, all these games add up to $244.91. With the discount, you can get them all for $195.91. That is $49 less than the original price. Quite a significant discount for such a popular franchise."

😊 😂 🤣 😐 - But why?

Just wait for a sale and get most if not all of it for a fraction of that price.

20% off...lol

Tacoboto3h ago

The games were just on a real sale over the last week or two for the show promotion. Fallout 4 was $10, 3 was $5, NV was cheap as heck too.

So what the heck is this

Inverno3h ago

The original games have been given out for free by Amazon for GOG and Epic, 76 is free now on Amazon if you have prime, Epic has also given out new Vegas for free and 4 has gone down to pretty cheap prices. 194 bucks is a total ripoff when you can get these games individually for less. Don't forget cd keys might sell em for a dollar less at times too. Come on man, us cheapskates won't touch anything near or above 100 lolz

isarai3h ago

Bro that's a ridiculous ripoff are you kidding me? 🤣

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Fallout 3's Reveal Led To Death Threats And Bethesda's First Security Guard

The artist behind Fallout 4’s Deathclaw reveals just how bad things got back when Bethesda took over the series

anast1d 7h ago

People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,

But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.

LucasRuinedChildhood1d 7h ago

As much as Bethesda deserve criticism, that's not really relevant to the reveal of Fallout 3 in 2007.

VenomUK1d 4h ago

The default angle Kotaku always go for is to highlight the worst in gaming.

I would’ve focused on the creative.

anast10h ago

The game went downhill at Fallout 3's release. This is when they started to cut corners.

gold_drake1d 3h ago

there is no "but". the hell lol
you dont send death threats, period.

anast10h ago

Usually, you have good comments but this isn't one of them. It just rides the mob. We can do both condemn the actions and not let them use it for other things.

I can say I received a death threat and everyone needs to shut up. People are not honest and will use horrible things to their advantage.

Armaggedon22h ago

Not all games “look” current.

anast10h ago

Their games always look like the gen before it.

Armaggedon53m ago

Yeah, but thats not the result of laziness, incompetence, or a bad engine. Thats what happens with their type of open world games. Its hard for people to find a point of comparison because no one makes games like Bethesda does.

gold_drake3h ago

mh ok thanks, i still think ur wrong in this mate.

anast2h ago

No problem. I'm not here to convince you. I'm only stating an actuality. What your words do if we look at them like events.

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What Made Fallout 3 One Hell of a Game?

Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG remains an unabashed classic, more than a decade and a half on from its launch.

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ZeekQuattro4d ago

For me its the fact that I could put hundreds of hours into it and still find areas I missed in my earlier runs. It was also my first FO and despite what I had to put up with at times such as overall crashs and killing my orginal PS3 with the YLOD it's still my favorite entry to this day.

-Foxtrot4d ago

Tons of reasons

But my silly little one…hunting for unique weapons and armour

Something Fallout 4 just didn’t really have as much because they replaced most of it with randomly generated customised weapons. Even Elder Scrolla doesn't do it as well.

Yui_Suzumiya2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I remember during my first playthrough of Fallout 4 back in 2015 I somehow got an automatic combat rifle that shot explosive rounds by defeating a legendary creature. Unfortunately that was the only playthrough I ever got that weapon. It's a shame because it was absolutely epic!

Vits3d ago

Sense of exploration. That was why older Bethesda games were so good. They might have had glitches, broken mechanics, meh visuals, etc., but they were some of the best around when it came down to the sense of exploration. You could go wherever you wanted and you would find something cool; it might have been a faction, a weapon, an enemy and much more. And that is what they are lacking now. Skyrim still had a lot of that, but Fallout 4 dropped it by focusing on an interconnected world and more randomly generated rewards. Fallout 76 just kept that trend and added multiplayer, and Starfield went even further in killing it by creating a whole universe with parts completely isolated from each other.

EazyC3d ago

I think the retrospective of Fallout: New Vegas' existence has somewhat diminished the view of Fallout 3 in the eyes of many, but it getting out of the vault in Fallout 3 was, for me, the most remarkable experience I've had in a videogame.

I was 12 when it came out, and I remember I just saw the score it got in Gamemaster magazine (remember those!? 😅), and I just went to the shop and bought it with my pocket money.

Not knowing anything about the game, I thought the whole thing was going to be about growing up in a vault, especially given that I'd spent about 2 hours in it....I literally could.not.believe it when you got out and it was just this wasteland on every direction. Amazing.

Tody_ZA3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Probably because these Bethesda games were hand crafted so that exploration meant something. Unlike Starfield where this sense of exploration is replaced with the illusion of scope and procedurally generated worlds. A player can always appreciate when they wonder into an unforgettable new encounter by accident or stumble across a new questline that becomes their favourite. Just like a player can always tell when they're ploughing through filler on auto pilot, that they'll forget the moment some resource numbers go up and nothing worth remembering occurred.

I mean, in Fallout 3 you could nuke an entire town as a SIDE QUEST. In The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, the Dark Brotherhood questlines were my favourite in any RPGs and you could completely avoid them if you didn't care for them. In The Witcher 3 side quests take you on ridiculously dark and mysterious storylines that are some of the best I've played in RPG history. There's a reason why people still talk about KOTOR to this day. Difference between a developer creating something or just padding a game world with stuff.

Fist4achin3d ago

There were some side quests that could yld have been developed into an entirely separate game. Some great writing there.

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