The Distracted Gamer

A number of people are complaining that Fallout 3 ends after you’ve completed the final quest.  Also it seems that if you just do the main quest you’re looking at about 12 – 20 hours of game play (YMMV obviously).

I’m not sure this is a major problem, but if you don’t know about it & you don’t have a save game just before you complete the final quest I recon you’d be a bit annoyed.  Especially when this didn’t happen in the previous Fallouts or in Bethesda’s recent previous RPGs Oblivion & Morrowind.

I’m also hearing & reading that people aren’t fans of the level 20 cap.  I’m wondering if Bethesda will do what Blizzard did for World of Warcraft and release an update that provides a cap increase.  I get the feeling though that the game designers are wanting you to replay the game rather than just keep going doing all the quests in a single game like you could with the other games.  I’m not sure why or whether it’s the right decision (I can’t play the game due to lack of Xbox360, PS3 or decent PC) but it doesn’t seem to be hurting people’s love of the game.  The forums where people have complained about these issues are full of other people defending the design and saying it’s great.

Like I said, I can’t play the game, but if you like extended gameplay rather than just getting is finished, then you might want to avoid the main quest to begin with.  But if you’re short on time & just like the cathartic experience of completing the game, you’ve got the option of doing that too.