In which it takes a little bit for me to remember how Fallout 3 works. Well it's finally here. Fallout 3. A game that destroyed a company and continues to divide what was once a loyal fanbase even to this day. Was it worth it? Well, we'll find out. Produced by Bethesda Softworks, best known for the Elder Scrolls series of RPGs, the game is the sequel (of sorts) to Interplay's venerable Fallout series of ground-breaking late 90s RPGs. Fallout 3 takes place in an all-new setting, the Capital Wasteland, and features a first/third-person game engine ala modern FPS. After a false start with 'Project Van Buren' that ultimately drove Interplay to bankruptcy and resulted in the original closure of Black Isle Studios, Fallout 3 was finally released with much fanfare some eleven years after Fallout 2. Was it worth it? Although highly praised upon its release and winning numerous industry accolades and awards, even now the game engenders some resentment from the series die-hard fans. This will certainly be interesting. This Let's Play has been requested as far back as during my Fallout 2 days. This will be my first official entirely blind Let's Play, as I've never played Fallout 3 (beyond the first hour or so of gameplay) to completion. Every other game I've LPed so far was a game I had extensive experience with, played front to back and otherwise dominated or at least held vast knowledge of. So this will be a new experience for all of us. Playing the Game of the Year edition from Steam. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhGP0UBOjI

One of the best racing games I've played. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ISzfUfBIM

Fallout, a Post-Nuclear Adventure, Interplay's stand-out RPG from 1997, launched a venerable gaming series with a relatively down-to-earth first installment. With a mix of thrilling combat, mind-challenging puzzles, and diverse characters all set against a dour, retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic world to explore, Fallout is sure to always have a spot on the list of greatest RPGs of all time. Even thirteen years later, it's still for sale on various websites. When the nuclear holocaust of World War III rained down upon the world, your parents were lucky enough to make it to one of the vast hardened underground shelters, and the safety of Vault 13. Forty years later and the Vault is in trouble: the water purification chip has failed, and in one hundred fifty days, the Vault will run out of water. You have been selected to set out, alone, into the wasteland, to find a chip and save your people... but the outside world holds many surprises. Life in the Vault is about to change. The first Fallout will always be my favorite, even with all its bugs and (relatively) short play-time. The story and setting is tighter than in future Fallouts, and the bleak, serious atmosphere emphasizes the weight of the mission on your shoulders. I played this game in three 'sittings', divided here into 'Acts'. Each Act (arbitrarily delineated by me based on how long I could sit there playing the game and being entertaining) roughly corresponds to a distinct segment-arc of the game. So you'll see several videos all grouped together at once. I sped up the less interesting/repetitive parts with some fast-forward musical interludes. Otherwise everything you see is how it played out. There's some random graphics issues in it that I was unable to resolve but hopefully it's not too distracting. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVWUF03RAQ

This time I'm going to be playing not just Fallout 2, Interplay's sequel to the smash hit RPG Fallout, but I'm also going to be playing the Restoration Project. The Restoration Project is a mod created by the No-Mutants-Allowed user Killap, designed to add back in much of the content that was cut from Fallout 2 due to time constraints. It also fixes multiple bugs and adds some additional graphics features. Your home, the village of Arroyo, is dying. The tribe founded by the original Vault Dweller from Fallout needs you to venture into the Wasteland to retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit, a device said to 'bring life to the Wasteland'. Along the way you'll meet more strange mutants, unique characters, and even some old friends. You'll even get a chance to revisit some of the locations from Fallout 1... but the Wasteland has changed in the last 80 years... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQvzYmxsJM