Hidden Flash Sale - Fallout 3 GOTY 75% off

Apparently a lot of (not all) users have trouble installing or running the game in Windows 7. Bethesda never has been one for solid programming.

Nice catch, Bernardo.

I play it on windows 7, works fine for me.

I had issues with it. It took some finagling with the d3d9.dll but some others with Win7 were not so lucky.

Many people have difficulty getting the game to play at all, never mind the several bugs they could encounter in-game.

Just a notice that it was made for prior versions of Windows and support stopped by the time Win7 came in.

I have no idea what warranted that notice on FO3, seeing as other games do not have that tag.

Well, Fallout 3 is not optimized for any version of Windows. I installed a boatload of mods that claim to improve various performance and stability issues, and for the most part they seem to be doing their thing.

A lot, basically. I checked Witcher EE just in case and it was 75% off. Pretty sweet.

isthereanydeal.com: Steam -75%

it's RPG/FPS hybrid with a lot of non-linear play from what I understand. I haven't actually played the new Fallout games though (Fallout 3 or New Vegas) so I can't say how much is FPS and how much is RPG. can someone shed some light on this?

It is good. It's a first person shooter RPG, but you can play in third person quite happily. It's as non-linear as Just Cause is really. You can't quite blow as much shit up in FO3 as JC2 but it is really open world and very much based on your decisions. The perk system / upgrade system works well.

Oh, and if that isn't enough... MODS.

Small print: You'll have to suffer GFWL.

agree

Here in the United States the base price is the same on both sites ($20 USD). I've been looking through GamersGate's Thanksgiving sales as well and honestly they aren't all that interesting.

"you'll also get to play it without the Steam client" is the reason why a lot of people WILL NOT buy it