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How Fallout 3 is better than Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy is on it's way out the door. As Western Developers, continue to redefine what it means to be an RPG, Square/Enix is finding itself to be less relevant in a growing western market. The Final Fantasy games may have defined what it means to be a JRPG, but Fallout 3 carries the RPG market into new and game changing levels. I would like to see Final Fantasy carry on its once mighty torch, but eastern developers are going to have to rework the formula.

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Yi-Long5590d ago

In Fallout 3, I truly get a sense of an actual adventure and exploring, and mostly you kinda do it on your own.

It's a brilliant game. You just start off somewhere, and at the end of the night you've had 1 or 2 new adventures, like coming along a bunch of vampires who are terrorising a little community, and you will be able to solve that problem in multiple ways. I just loved that.

Final Fantasy is much more lineair and predictable, and the fact that we only got the horrible english dub, didn't help much either.

dangert125590d ago

i agree cause fall out three is open world on a serious scale not really leanier i mean your first mission could be someone else 6 mission or even 7,8,3rd were as ff everyone was forced down the same hole

TBM5590d ago

Personally id take any FF game over the fallout series. I tried to get into it but I couldn't bring myself to like them.

Troll-without-Bridge5590d ago

I dont understand this pathological behavior of obsessing with exploration in bland areas. I mean, fallout is really bland and ugly, holds no interest, the houses are replicated, the halls are replicated, NPC's give you dull missions, the combat is broken and the RPG elements don't work! Its one of the worst RPG's ive ever played, if not the worst. I can have a similar experience by "exploring" the local dumpster, its the same vista and same design.

edhe5590d ago

Never noticed how most houses in one urban area are *THE SAME* ?

AntoineDcoolette5590d ago

Considering that the entire place was nuked.... it isn't exactly supposed to look lively and it keeps the immersion. I really enjoyed exploring what there was in this post apocalyptic world and seeing how people survived. Though yeah the most bothersome thing to me was all the copy paste subway tunnels in Washington DC you had to navigate to get anywhere. As for the combat being 'broken' and RPG elements not working what are you talking about? And there were quite a few interesting quests.

TheGameFoxJTV5588d ago

Have you even played the games? lol

Thugbot1875590d ago

This is an apple to an orange comparison; you really can't compare the two RPG's. You have Japan's linear Style vs. Open world sandbox. The storyline with FF are way better, with characters being much deeper, and killer cut scene enhancing the story. On the other hand Fallout 3 is rich in exploration vats system is just killer. The world and settings are rich and you do feel like a lone wolf in a post atomic bomb era.

The older gaming core loved JRPG's since Nintendo days. It was the time when the western world didn't really see the money in RPG genre. Now the landscape has changed and the western world has found a sub genre of RPG's that have got the following of a new core, which happens to be much larger than the older JRPG gaming core. This is honestly like comparing NBA Jam, vs. NBA 2k.

tablav5590d ago

I agree. These are in NO WAY comparable games.

One is a JRPG with a command-based active battle system.
The other is a FPS/WRPG.

I see no way you can compare these fairly.

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ZombieAssassin5590d ago (Edited 5590d ago )

Eh release a Fallout game that isn't full of bugs/glitches and doesn't require me to save every 5 minutes incase the game crashes and when you release DLC make sure it works...then I'd say Fallout is better than a majority of the FF games.

Although they are two totally different games and there is really no need to compare them. All I know is I don't want eastern developers to change their ways and try to make more western games...I mean the reason people love JRPG's is because they have that Japanese feel. I like Fallout and Final Fantasy and they should be able to co-exist.

Kee5590d ago

They are beyond comparison. I have a friend who bought New Vegas and loved it. He hates FF. Now, I liked fallout 3 but didnt buy NV because of all the crippling bugs 3 put me through.
Now, I prefer Final Fantasy because of the strategical turn-based combat and the compelling story.

The article says "How fallout 3 is better than Final Fantasy" Well, it's not.
I would, however agree that Fallout 3 is better than FF XIII.
But all the FF games that came before 13 (well the 6 of them I played) trump Fallout 3.

king055590d ago

Western RPGs are better than the crappy FF now, but not the elite ones like 4,6, and 7.

Jikla5590d ago

you forgot 9. One of the last good ff's before the ps2 era.

Da One5590d ago

You also forgot X and FFT/FFTWOTL

Tommykrem5590d ago

I also think Fallout 3 is better than FFXIII.
But I actually like FFXIII better.
Elder Scrolls is looking to take them all to the cleaners anyway :D

Troll-without-Bridge5590d ago

Fallout 3 had to work to be even considered "decent". Nothing in the game works, nothing.

edhe5590d ago

Worked great for me, and millions of others who played it.

It obviously just hates trolls.

tablav5590d ago

@Mihael-Keehl

I had the PS3 version of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, which APPARENTLY had worse bugs.

I played both nearly to 100% completion and only ever experienced one freeze and a glitch where somebody was floating, but you could still interact with them.

@Tommykrem

I'm the same. Fallout's scale and acheivement is awe inspiring, though I personally enjoy me some FFXIII, even if it is a different experience to older games.

TheGameFoxJTV5588d ago

I had PC version, the version that's usually the least buggy, and the only time my game crashes is when I would use mods that were in-compatible.

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Fallout 3 Remaster Is Allegedly Planned For Release At Some Point In The Future

A remaster of Bethesda Game Studios' 2008 action role-playing game, Fallout 3, is planned for release at some point in the future.

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LucasRuinedChildhood137d ago

Would be nice if they had New Vegas ready as well, especially because of the show.

Hopefully this doesn't have the same performance issues as Oblivion Remastered.

cloganart136d ago

I haven't seen anything on these performance issues? What's been going on?

walken7135d ago

Probably the Unreal Engine issues, I skipped it for that reason.

Snookies12137d ago (Edited 137d ago )

Throw in all the DLC as well, like Oblivion and I'll definitely bite. I recall having one trophy left to unlock on the PS3 version with 100+ hours in my save. When my save file got corrupted, lol. Very sad day.

To be fair though, Bethesda was trash at Playstation ports anyway.

Michiel1989136d ago

all devs sucked at porting to ps3 for the first like 3 years because no one had experience with the cell architecture. Even 1st party took a long while to get proficient with it, the difference between uncharted 1 and 3 is massive for example.

Extermin8or3_136d ago

Oh oh oh I can do this too. GTA 7 will be made at some point in the future. Fallout 5 will enter development in the future too

jznrpg136d ago

Everyone there should know most gamers want New Vegas and Morrowind more than anything.

Christopher136d ago

Which is why we won't get them. Gotta keep floating "support this one and it might happen".

BlaqMagiq1136d ago

Can't wait. Won't have to go back to my PS3 to play this when it comes out.

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Fallout 3 remastered on the Nintendo Switch 2 is what we deserve, not the worst Fallout game

Fallout Day's disappointing news that Fallout 4 is coming to Switch 2 is a shame, as this 17-year-old entry is more deserving of a new port.

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jambola208d ago

Why exactly do you think you deserve it??

Phoenix76208d ago

Fallout 4 isn't the worst game in the franchise. It's either Fallout 76 or Fallout BOS that's the worst.

gigoran8208d ago

PC and all other modern consoles never got a remaster of 3, but obviously the switch 2 was the tipping point to make it a reality... ahuh

1nsomniac208d ago

Meh, I thought 3 was garbage. I'm not a great fan of the franchise to be fair. They're like B-Movie films, really shallow and janky. 4 was definitely one of the better ones though.

UltimateOwnage207d ago

So the article makes a snippy entitled statement and acts like that is going to encourage a publisher to give them what they want. Okay.

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Six Times When Games Turned Into A Horror Game

Ever play a game a game only to discover at some point it transforms into a horror game? No? Well Netto's Game Room shares six games that do just that!

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P_Bomb382d ago

Immediately thought of the El Dorado zombie dudes in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

raWfodog382d ago (Edited 382d ago )

Not necessarily a ‘horror’ moment, but I remember feeling really tense and anxious when the Flood were first introduced in the original Halo. I never felt more on edge or nervous in that whole game as that moment. I think it was the whole buildup that something terrible was coming but you didn’t know exactly what.

Another non-horror game that had me feeling it was Subnautica. The deep dark depths, and knowing that sea monsters were lurking nearby, had me jumping at every sound.

NettosGameRoom382d ago

That scene where you first see them attack is pretty crazy!

Relientk77382d ago

I remember being scared of the Asylum level in the most recent Thief game from 2014.