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Re-evaluating Fallout 3

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 Quite recently Bethesda decided to do something unprecedented. They actually fixed bugs in one of their games, which meant that after close to a decade of having to tinker around with it, Fallout 3 now runs out of the box again, without crashes, more or less.  St. Todd of Bethesda I'm surprised he didn't make us buy the damn thing as a remaster again I played New Vegas to death in my teens. It's just simply a great game, despite all its faults and how it was left on the side of the road to die by the publisher, never allowing Obsidian to flesh it out properly. (Not that Fallout 3 was finished when it came out, it's just that Bethesda managed to hide the unfinished parts more elegantly than Obsidian.) But why am I talking about New Vegas if this "article" is about Fallout 3? To simply put it, it's impossible to talk about F3 without bringing up New Vegas, or at least a lot of people feel like it's the case. The issue lies in the fact that while Fallou