Three and a half years since part 2, and two years since the release of the trailer, the third part of A Quest for Heaven for fallout 3 is out. http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/19717/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D19717%26preview%3D&pUp=1 (http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/19717/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D19717%26preview%3D&pUp=1)
Why, you ask, do you care? Because this is probably the best mod series ever done for a PC game. It is epic in scope, beautiful in execution (there are a number of simply gob-stopping moments of wonder), relatively stable, smart, and loads of fun. If you haven't played any of the mods in this series, and have Fallout 3, you owe it to yourself to at least try these.
The story is essentially a 'follow the breadcrumbs" tale. The PC discovers hints of some survivors of the great war several hundred years ago, and goes to see if there is anything left of their community worth salvaging. The story gets deeper as the PC finds that there are other groups looking for the same set of survivors, and the story eventually leads the PC into space and even into some alternate universes (but not, alas, the one in which Spock has a beard).
The mods do feature some absurdly overpowered combat situations that you will probably have to go into god mode to survive, but that only happens about once per module. Mostly, it is problem-solving, and the puzzles are generally logical and fun to solve. A few of the puzzles involve finding a hidden lever or button; those are annoying but very rare. And, as I said, the visuals can be eye-popping. This one is worth re-installing FO3 for, but probably not worth buying FO3 for.
You can just play the third (and largest, and best) module if you want.
Interesting. I go back to FO: NV every once and a while, but for whatever reason I've never felt compelled to go back to FO3 (and I never bought any of the expansions for it, either).
Quote from: Caliga on November 08, 2013, 09:27:43 AM
Interesting. I go back to FO: NV every once and a while, but for whatever reason I've never felt compelled to go back to FO3 (and I never bought any of the expansions for it, either).
Dude!!!! :huh: Broken Steel...The Pitt....Point Lookout. Cal WTF.....
Quote from: Caliga on November 08, 2013, 09:27:43 AM
Interesting. I go back to FO: NV every once and a while, but for whatever reason I've never felt compelled to go back to FO3 (and I never bought any of the expansions for it, either).
Alas, this mod requires all the DLC.
They're probably all really cheap now. Maybe I'll look into that.