Bethesda have the atmosphere, the graphics and the gameplay down pretty good, but like Oblivion, there is an issue with how the NPC's react and talk:

For example, sometimes NPC's will suddenly start runnning or turning in a really unconvincing fashion, responding to slight stimuli instantly, even if they didn't see it. Better animations for running, walking, and interacting wouldn't be bad. For example, make them move more and interact with their environment - if there's a pool table, have them play pool. If they become hostile, put some animation in that shows them becoming angry, don't just have them be standing still one second and attacking the next second.

Oh and put in more actual quests. Yes, Fallout 3 does have 100+ hours of content in total, but very few actual quests that show up in the pip-boy. Bethesda needs more of these, even if it cuts down on some of the random encounters and self-discovery quests.

No! Fucking no! Just stop Bethesda, just stop and think! You don't have to end the game at the end, that's fine. But why in the name of holy FUCK would you take away the level cap? That was like the one thing that kept it from becoming the next Elder Scrolls game. It's the only thing that actually makes you choose your path, and gives different classes meaning. If you take away the level cap, it becomes Oblivion or Morrowind, and you can just get all your skills to max. In fact, you can already do that with those damn skill books. I don't mind the bobble heads (although they make setting skills to 10 initially meaningless), and a few skill books would be fine, but there are way too many. God dammit, just fuck it. These people don't know how to make an RPG. I guess if they can make a working game with Fallout 4, then I'll still get it. But still, Jesus Fucking Christ...

I could go for fewer game-ending glitches.

I would want better navigation or directions because I got lost trying to find places like tocoma park I also wanted to go into a vault other than 101 that had people in it

@SnakeDude4Life: I agree with everything you said. Florida might be an interesting change in scenery - I would almost want it to be sunken and the mountains/hills are the islands where people live. Or at least have part of the area be like that. Also, mutant dolphins.

Drive-able vehicles. And nudity.

thats right learn your lesson

I can has more non-combat options? Combat's cool and all, but when it seems like my only path to advancement is *always* combat, it takes away from me really caring about the progression of the story.

maybe I should just re-roll as a strong guy and see if I enjoy things more than I do now as the med-tech guy . . .

More of the same please. Level cap? Eh, I guess, I don't need it taken off considering how bad ass I ended up on my first playthrough, but whatevs.

But anyway, yeah, I'll take Fallout 4. Sometime in the next 2-3 years would be swell.

I already solved the level cap problem: setgs iMaxCharacterLevel 100

I figured why, if I just laid out cash for the new DLC, should I not reap some exp reward for playing through it. And then I answered my own question, and set my maximum achievable level cap to 100

NPC's were terribly glitchy, that needs a big overhaul.

Fallout 2 allowed the game to go on after you beat it. It shows how much Bethesda paid attention to the old games!

Now they can reintroduce this feature, call it an innovation, and be granted a new GOTY before the game even comes out! Hell, before the game has even left the design stage!

Oh.. Next fallout? How about some BETTER FUCKING GRAPHICS?! This isn't 2004, Bethesda, your graphics engine needs a fucking overhaul.. SERIOUSLY. Some of it looks good, but most of your game looks like last gen when compared to games that were released years prior. (See BIOSHOCK, Drakes Fortune, Fuck, even The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker looked better than these polygon rich environments and characters..) And don't give me any shit about how "big" this game is.. Honestly, it's comparable to Wind Waker. It's just a matter of the studio making the best of what they have at their disposal. It's not hard to hold back a LITTLE BIT on the overworld to make the rest of the game look good.

Stop clinging to that engine, and perhaps adopt a new one.. or UPDATE THE ONE YOU HAVE. It's almost 2010, and you people have us paying full price for a game that isn't complete and looks like it could have been put on the fucking Wii.

Another thing, Bethesda: Stop the exclusive DLC bullshit. If you release a game for ANY system, support it. if you're not going to fully support a game on a certian console.. DON'T RELEASE IT! You've screwed at least one million people by playing favorites with the consoles and DLC http://www.vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=Fallout+3, and hundreds upon thousands of the people who spent $60 on your game now won't get to see everything that they should be seeing. When you alienate a specific group of gamers, they don't forget it when you release new games... They sometimes tell all of their friends "That studio releases incomplete games with shoddy graphics, they also don't release patches or updates for the system I own... don't buy games from them"

Ranting again, I apologize.

To see people complain so violently about an amazing game is disgusting.
less dungeon crawling would be nice.
enviorment destruction would be nice.
vehicles would be nice.
but the game is solid as is. and the soon to come DLC changes the level cap.

Any new Fallout will always be a polarizing thing, because of the brilliance of the first one, and the mediocrity of the other games in the franchise.

That being said, I think Bethesda did an absolutely fantastic and faithful sequel.

It makes me sad to see people bash it (ahem... no mutants allowed) just because Bethesda were the ones who made it. I guarantee that if you slapped an Interplay label on the thing, most of the bashers would have came in their pants after playing it.

Here is to more Oblivion with guns!!!

A different setting would be nice. While the environment was incredible the first time I played I really got tired of the Capital Wasteland's mucky browns and grays after a while. Just because the world ended doesnt mean some things cant be pretty. The earlier suggestion of Florida would be neat. You could have Pirates instead of raiders!

Maybe set it somewhere set apart from the where the nuclear disaster happened, someplace more suburban, and expand the map to still have a devastated city elsewhere that could maker a nice contrast as you travel around. With that in mind, a more convincing suburban set up. I find it hard to believe sometimes that people where living in small 8 house towns outside of DC before the blast. Actual sized towns, even if all the buildings are accessible would be nice.

Better voice options that actually lead to changes in attitude or have more effect on the good/evil side of your character. After playing through several times I realized that the dialogue almost always loops back around to certain default lines which makes conversations seems totally wonky (Insult the NPC, he responds angrily, then suddenly reverts back to his set conversation that explains cheerfully how you should understand him).

Less monotone voice acting. I feel like Oblivion didnt suffer from this as much, but that's probably just because I havent played it in so long.

There are plenty of other things, but I dont want to flood this too much. Fallout 3 was an amazing game, but there is always room for improvement.

The graphics were awesome on the 360. I fucking loved Fallout 3, but I wish there were a few more quests. Probably my fault for getting through them too quickly, haha. Fallout 3 is worth every penny.

Fallout 4...hmm...I have to agree with most everyone that no ending and no level cap is definitely needed. I'd also like to see more content, maybe...say, 10 more quests. I'm a quest addict, and the more, the better. I would also like to see better DLC. Operation Anchorage was great, but I got through it too fast. I needed more! MORE!

I'd also like to see even greater detail in the story, and additional weapons. I can't think of much else I'd like to see at the moment.

I'm still waiting for the day a sandbox game takes place in Chicago. From what I can recall no game has done that (ala GTA) and Fallout's story would perfectly justify the only interesting place in the entire Midwest as a setting. Also, more of the same and plenty of nudity and guns that shoot more titwankingly awesome destruction. 'nuff said.

@ Random

No, go back to No Mutants Allowed.

And all I want is more VA's for the NPC's, its fucking retarded that for such a giant world they got such a tiny amount of VA's, far to many characters sound alike.

@Kyousuke Nanbu

Random is right, shut up and go back to WeTakeItUptheAssFromBethesda.

I have a few ideas

have be set in multiple locations across the WORLD! (but let us revisit each area if we want to), a few ideas for areas I have are

post-apocalyptic New York

post apocalyptic Southwest like the original Fallout 3 was set

post apocalyptic Miami like SnakeDudeForLife said

post apocalyptic eurpoe

and finally post apocalyptic China

oh and I also wouldn't mind if they padded out the areas with more well.....vast wastelands

I just saw this, it was a while ago that I played it. But one thing that stuck in my mind that I loved and was drawn into at a deep level was when you would go into dream like reality's, in fallout 3 you get in to that dream pod thing (cant remember the name) and your in a little town with all made up children and people! I loved that and really like more of that please. I like it, it makes you feel like your someone else, you know draws you in. I Also think something happened like that in Oblivion as well!

hmm.. I wonder, if in fallout 4 we could write our own note,, because sometimes the player forget what they have to do or where do they need to go in or out of quest.. What if hacking a computer more interacted with players, player should write down the hack code (given by his/her dad in the story or someone in the start of the game) and then proceed to searching the passwords, maybe it takes long to write it down first, but thats the art, (just like lockpicking, i like that!!) we become real survivor in this game,

hmm, this sound impossible but i wonder if there's no pause while using pip-boy (when hidden), because i like reading notes while i wait sittingdown in the middle of the night.. And add flares or we could make torch in the game.

I think Bethedsa did an awesome job with Fallut 3. Though there a still a few thinks in the game that need to be tweaked, such as:

Make more deaths for bloody mess, im sick of seeing somebody's every limbs get blown of thier torso all the time, make it more detailed. Make more quests, after i finished the game i just spent another ten gameplay hours before i decided to go murder everybody in tempenny tower and rivet city. Make it so you can have a girl friend also. Allow the player to have more than one follower, i like the idea of having my own personel army, not all the players have to do this, it can just be an option.

Make more accesible buildings and doors. Make the hand to hand combat better as well, when i look at my character punch he looks like Mike Tyson after he has been injected with a local anesthetic to his entire upper body, there's no point upgrading your characters unarmed to 100 if he/she looks like a dweeb when ever he/she throws a punch. Destructable buildings is a good idea. No cars, that would just screw up the whole point of fallout, if you include cars it would pretty much be GTA in a post apocalyptic wasteland, so just stick with the fast traveling system.

More guns and melee weapons, and dont make the good guns such as the sniper rifle and the 44 magnum have so little ammo yet they decay quicker than a dingo with a baby. Last but not least, TITS! TITS! and even more TITS!

You also need more followers because all the human and non-human companions do is make people get annoyed and cheat all of the time. but then again I've never designed a game before unlike u so just change a little and change the level up to about 40 so no one can shout at u ooh and keep that beginning perks I love that bit on fallout nv