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Steven Dennis
United States
Mandeville
Louisiana
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The base game is available for $30 as a platinum hit or for $60 with DLC as a GOTY edition. Is the DLC worth the extra 30 bucks?
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Ben Smith
United States
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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I bet you can find the base game for even cheaper than $30; shop around.
I bought the game when it first came out, and it was fun and I played it a bunch, but never beat it and never exhausted all the many quests and skills and goodies. I was quite tempted to buy the expansions when they came out, but then thought it was a bit silly considering I hadn't even come that close to beating the base game.
So my advice is, unless you KNOW that you want to put 40 or 60 hours of gaming into this game (my rough estimate) and explore every nook and cranny, I wouldn't say it's worth paying the extra for the GOTY because the base game is just so big and expansive on its own.
Also, you can just buy the expansions as through Xbox Live marketplace as you want them, for about $5 each. I see 5 of them available, so that would only be $25 to get them all. Right there you are beating the price of the GOTY edition.
Anyone else have thoughts on this? Since I haven't played all the expansions, I can't give the ultimate answer here.
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Brian Baird
United States
Pflugerville
Texas
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Base game is $20 these days from a quick search at Amazon/BB online... With the new game out soon, I'd expect the GOTY version to see a price drop.
There's only one DLC I'd say that's a /must have/ - the one that extends the level cap & allows you to continue after the game end of the base game. The rest are interesting to various degrees - they're all "sidequests" essentially, taking you to different new areas with new stories/setup.
I own the GOTY version; it's worth noting that the content comes on a second disc but you have to install the DLC to the harddrive on your console. To play the game, you use the "regular" Fallout 3 disc that is part of the package. Effectively it operates just like the DLC.
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Steven Dennis
United States
Mandeville
Louisiana
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You're right, looking around retail prices are $20 for the base, so the $40 more GOTY only adds $25 worth of DLC and is not worth it.
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Brian Baird
United States
Pflugerville
Texas
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$20 is a great price for a great game. There's a ton of content & value in just the base game.
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Scott A. Reed
United States
Lawrence
Kansas
Space. Space. Wannagotospace. Space. What's your favorite thing about space? mine's space.
I just wasted 100 :gg: on this.
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Depending on how much you can get the base-game for, discs for Broken Steel / Point Lookout and Operation Anchorage / The Pitt are available on Half.com for $10-12 apiece. The only DLC that's not available on a disc is Mothership Zeta, which I think is 800 MSP in the marketplace. I bought the DLCs, installed and played them through (since you only need the base-game disc to play) and re-sold them.
Additionally, depending on whether you are doing PS3 or Xbox 360, half.com has GOTY editions for $35 for PS3 and $40 for 360.
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Matias D
Finland
Raseborg
Unspecified
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This thread gets the residue seal of approval. Was just sitting at work pondering which version to get on my way home today. Very good. Thank you.
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Tim Bass
United States
St. Charles
Missouri
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I've got a copy of the GotY edition for trade or sale if anyone is still debating.
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