Since its Steam forum is filled with complaints about crashes and bugs, I think it might be better and more effective to ask my question about Fallout 3 here.

I just arrived in Rivet City and was about to find Dr. Li who was said to have met my father. The problem is that I just picked up GTA V at the store. So my question is from here how long it would take to finish the game given I try to do all the side quests and stuffs? I really want to start GTA V but I do not want to continue Fallout 3 much later since I have been playing it for quite some time. If it's something less than 10 hours then yeah I probably can wait to start GTA V after I'm done with Fallout 3.

My prediction is that it might take much more than 10 hours 'cuz Fallout 3 came after Oblivion and I spent more than 100-150 hours in Oblivion.

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I think my save had about 60 hours.

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That's still fast in my books haha :P

I can easily put a few hundred hours into a save, so it's basically just about how fast you want to finish it.
If you WANT to finish it can be done in about 6 to 10 hours. But why would you want that? :)

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It is 60 hours+, like about 80 - 90 if you really explore it all and finish all the quests.

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If you ONLY do the main quests you can finish it in 10 hours easly

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even less than that, if you already know where to look, you can find your father right after coming out of the vault :D

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I played 3 times the game, 1st time I didn't even know I would find him there, cutting a huge portion of the main story. The other times, I knew he was there, but strangely still went there...

In the end I never went to the radio station in my life.

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Try ALL the side quests? That is going to take a lot of time and more than one playthrough, since some require specific types of Karma. You could rush through the game and beat it in three or so days, but I think it is better to just drop the game and try it again later if you really badly cannot wait for GTA V or even better take breaks from both of them. Like one day play GTA V, the next play Fallout 3.

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id say, play GTA, leave Fallout for later time.
Even if you decide to finish F3, ull still miss many things due ur "GTA hunger"

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all the side quests and stuff? 100+ hours. probably more if you have the goty edition.

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Won't do justice to yourself or the game if you rush through it imo, just get GTA out of your system and come back to it ;)

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Sell both games, buy a puppy and go for long walks in the fresh air.

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:(

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+1

unless you live in romania, then go pokemon irl and catch your own dog for free and keep both games....but otherwise transportation there costs more than a puppy anyway
only thing nobody lets you into the tall grass unless you already have one. its a bit of a catch 22. use a dog to pin the other dog long enough to snap a collar around its neck. so either make a net and sneak past the random people who stand there blocking the paths to the dog fields or look for somebody named oak who'll let you borrow a puppy if you do his entire job for him

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I think the first playthrough of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas took around 80-90 hours each. Rivet City is not that far into the game, maybe about a 3rd of the way through. Don't quote me on that, its been a while since I played fallout3 for the 3rd time

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I spent over 100 hours on fallout 3, in a single run, without dlc, I did almost everything, but as I said before, If you stick to the main quest you can end it fairly quickly

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single run? what do you mean?

my definition of single run and single sitting are the same.

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id imagine he means single run through the game, my time sits at 154 hours for what is pretty much a single playthrough of goty of fallout 3, wheras new vegas has 234 hours and is at least 2 completions of most of the dlc and ive not even done a legion slanted playthrough yet :)

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FALLOUT 3 is superb. One of the best games ever made. Ever.... If you end up enjoying the game and get immersed, you're going to invest many, many hours. I don't know anyone that enjoyed it that didn't spend less than 100 hours playing it. Just talking about it makes me want to start a fresh game and slaughter mutants with the Lincoln repeater.

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I wonder how people were able to spend so much time on Fallout 3 (without starting over and without DLC). I played the game without any DLC and after 20 hours I was done with the more obvious quests, after 30 hours I had to use an online guide to find any remaining quests and after less than 40 hours I had completed every single quest in the game. I didn't visit every single dungeon/location, but most of them (and you won't miss out on anything if you don't explore everything since FO3 makes use of the usual Bethesda level scaling bs, though at least it's not as bad as in Oblivion or, to a slightly lesser degree, in Skyrim). Compared to Elder Scrolls games or New Vegas the game doesn't have much content.

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Even though I miss the grand and complex structure of the imperial city in Oblivion, I do not think that Fallout doesn't have as much or even less content than Oblivion or Skyrim. Sure the whole wasteland thing could be created with less work than the making of the forests and the meadows in Oblivion but there are lots of hidden dungeons and areas easily covered by the wreckage which seems greatly interesting to me.

And did you play Fallout 1 or 2? I'm not sure they have the same gameplay mechanic to Fallout 3 given a different developer made them but I did take quite some time to get used to the game and I did play Oblivion extensively (some told me that it's not that much different comparing to Oblivion)

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Play gta first, then savor fallout, it's a much better game. I have 400+ hours over several playthroughs since when it first came out and I still have not gotten everything, half the fun is going around killing raiders and getting to level 30.

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Just pretend your character is taking a weeks off from blowing up mutants.

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Closed 11 years ago by samstone13.