Fallout 3 is awesome

[Octopod]

Ive put maybe 17-20 hours in to this game already in the past two days and have barely even started the main quest. I love this game. It may be the best video game I have ever played. I'm taking my time with this one.

[Dylan57]

Fallout 3 is the reason I bought a next gen console and its DLC is why I got a 360. Its definitely one of the best, if not the best, games I've ever played.

[JJJ]

I am eagerly awaiting the Broken Steel DLC so I can get back to playing the damn thing (motherf&#$%# level cap!)

Regarding repetitive ruins, mostly agreed. I will say this: this game has bathrooms *everywhere*. Thats realistic I guess. But after the first 25 hours or so of searching every one, I realized I never found a single thing of value in there. Almost never enemies either. I asked a friend and he never found anything either. So at that point I just never entered bathrooms again. I'd recommend doing that right from the start if you are a F3 newbie.

By the same token, the subways are really repetitive. At the start of the game you need to navigate a lot of them. I explored everywhere in them, expecting to find secret bases, hidden treasure etc. For the most part I found mostly ghouls... So I'd restrict subway runs to only quest-necessary stuff.

[Octopod]

Hmm, Ive found first aid kits in several of the bathrooms. Thats helpfull to me since I seems to be almost dead all of the time. Ive just been running around exploring for the most part. I keep running into wierd encounters and I keep thinking that I might be messing up some quest I havent received yet. Is this possible?

[Octopod]

Just a thought. Does anyone else think this game kind of feels like a single player mmo? ... if that makes any sense.

[MrPopo]

I've always felt that the Elder Scrolls games (and now this game) feel like a single player MMO (though the combat is far more active).

[Flak Beard]

I got this last Christmas, put in about twelve hours and stopped playing. I don't know, it doesn't seem like a bad game. I just can't motivate myself to play it for some reason.

Maybe because it feels so much like Oblivion, and I put over 150 hours into that. I guess I've had my fill of Bethesda games this generation already.

[DerekG52]

Completely agree at it being awesome. I had it preordered and was playing it nonstop when it came out. I hit the level 20 cap before I even did anything on the MQ. When I beat it I got really burned out on it and haven't really touched it since. I think I'll start again when I get some of the DLC's. I really need to make a melee char with the deathclaw hand.

[Octopod]

Im at about 86 hours now and I havent even finnished the main quest yet. I got the three DLCs so that I could raise my level and not just waste XP (I'm at level 22 now)but I havent started on any of them either. I bet I get a good 200 hours out of this game. I love just wondering around exploring taking out raider camps and whatnot. I took the perk that puts all the locations on the map at level 21 and I wish I wouldnt have...would have been much better to just find them on my own.

[RadarScope1]

I'm glad I'm behind the curve on this one. I'm going to get the Broken Steel DLC as soon as I hit level 20. It would suck to have gone and explored/killed more without the benefit of getting the XP. 45 hours in now. I can see how some would lose interest. At a certain point it just busts wide open and you're thinking ... uh, what now?