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I have fallout 3 plus Broken Steel and Point Lookout in boxed version already, I was wondering if this purchase would be worth it just to play the other DLC's especially Mothership Zeta which from memory was never available without buying the Game of the Year version of Fallout 3.
I would welcome anyone's opinion.

Thank you
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Of the other three DLC I liked The Pitt the most. It had good atmosphere and, while not as open as Point Lookout, still offered some freedom to explore. Its only flaw was being a tad short. Mothership Zeta was also good but its environment didn't appeal to me. You might enjoy it more but I play Fallout for the post apocalypse, not alien spaceships. Operation Anchorage was, in my opinion, the weakest DLC of the bunch because it strayed farthest from the core game. There's no looting and the maps are very linear until the very end. It does add some very good equipment, but it's easy enough to download very good equipment from mods.
The Pitt would've been more interesting if you had more time to play with the unique items it brings, but it gives all your stuff back almost immediately. They also really needed to include a workbench before the very end of the addon.

Operation Anchorage was the first of this game's dlc and it shows. There isn't much substance, and there's certainly no challenge with the infinite health and ammo pickups.

Mothership Zeta should be a fun romp but it drags on too long with excessively large maps and a severe lack of enemy variety. It does offer several of the best weapons though.
My opinion is that the Fallout 3 DLCs are pretty poor all round, but are required for many mods that make the game a better experience. I've also read (not yet tested, waiting for the game to go on sale) that the GOG GOTY version is more stable than the retail or Steam releases.

You already have the best DLCs. Of the others, The Pitt is OK but the other two are very weak. If all you want to do is play them, I'd say the purchase isn't worth it. But as I said, it might be for other reasons.
The DLCs you mentioned have the same problem as the main game: the story is almost non-existent, and what little story that is there isn't very good.

Point Lookout was the best DLC IMO (except I never played Broken Steel so that could be better, but I've completed all the other DLCs).

My opinion about Mothership Zeta: I enjoyed the alien rifle and the environment as a whole. IMO they did a great job of simulating the inside of an alien spaceship. However, that's the only good thing I can say about it. The characters have no depth. And one of the plot lines they introduce in that DLC becomes completely abandoned, as if the game had never brought it up. That is very unsatisfying and stuck out like a sore thumb for me. And the gameplay gets extremely repetitive after 20 minutes; you are just doing the same thing over and over again... except for 5 minutes at the finale.

The Pitt was alright, but it's a really cliche story (to even call it a "story" is being generous) that's been done in countless RPG games before.

Operation Anchorage has a few cool mountain vistas, and a cool moment or two when enemies assassins come at you in Chinese stealth suits. Other than that, that DLC is pretty bad. It tries to let you choose NPC companions to form your elite forces squad, but except for the specifically scripted one who is voice-acted, the companions' AI is totally incompetent and game-breaking, i.e. they will not enter the building in which 90% of a mission takes place.

Is that stuff worth the purchase for $19.99 USD? No, IMO.

Have you played Fallout: New Vegas? If you have not, then I highly recommend to use your money to buy that. That game is well-worth way more than $19.99 USD. It is still vastly superior to 99%+ of modern AAA titles that cost $50-60 USD and one of the best RPG games ever made (except that most of its DLCs kind of suck, but the main game is fantastic).
Post edited December 03, 2017 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
I'm afraid the answer rate buttons do not seem to be working for me at the moment however, it would have been difficult for me to choose the best reply anyway.

So, thank you everyone who replied.

I have decided not to purchase this game just for the DLC's and also, possibly, because I already have New Vegas but for some reason after nearly 100 hours of play I just did not seem to be progressing very much further in the story so I haven't played it since January of this year so perhaps for me the Fallout franchise has lost it's appeal.
cdeford brings up a really good point about mods.

If you buy the complete edition of Fallout 3, you can then use the Tale of Two Wastelands (TTW) mod to port it to the Fallout: New Vegas engine, allowing you to play the game with Obsidian's tweaks and FNV mods such as jsawyer or Project Nevada. So even if the DLCs don't appeal to you, that might be a reason for you to repurchase. TTW is now the only way that I will revisit the Capitol Wasteland.
I really enjoyed the DLC, but I'm a lot easier to please than a lot of the idiots here.