Is this a good game? i played it for a while, broke out if the vault and explored but it seems kinda boring to me...

>New Vegas fanboys who think FO3 is one of the worst games ever.
to be fair I thought that of 3 before NV released, I just can't stand the cringey writing and buggy combat

Calling it the worst is extreme though. There are merits to be found in the exploration and dungeon design.

Unlike Fallout 4 it is worth a play though

>exploration
It's been a LONG time since I played it, but I don't remember anything particularly noteworthy about exploration. I was giddy about getting to the D.C ruins and of course, I was presented with rubble and tunnel workarounds
>dungeon design
Hmm maybe, too long since I played it like I said.

Might boot it up again because I only played the base game and BoS expansion, hated both but I was excited about playing that swamp expansion, made a mistake and started the alien expansion first, couldn't bother going through it and just dropped the game altogether there and then

FO4 was defo more fun than 3

FO3 is the “shoot and loot” formula perfected. Which is ironic since it’s possible to do a pacifist build. You want to explore to find more junk to collect and Bethesda’s approach to quest design pre-FO4 means that you often run into quests while doing other quests. That’s what makes the game hard to put down.

I could see how if it was your first fallout game it might be hard to go back but it had a really gay skill tree thing, was too easy, no ammo conservation (which makes sense cuz the year was closer to the apocalypse, they wasted time and added gay shit like building a SIMS vault, completely ruined power armour, had really gay quests.

it has horrible dialogue, boring characters expect for 2 or 3 memorable ones, and horrible world design
3 is more interesting in all those aspects and more

agreed

It's definitely one of my favorite games. I don't think it aged well at all though.