Old Fart Grambo's Game of the Year

Fallout 3 is indeed a feat... it's also WAY more depressing and affecting than I anticipated, even with all the dark humor around the edges.  I'm going to have to play it alongside another game like Fable or something to take the edge off.  Oblivion was a light romp in comparison.  In that game, I was like, "oh, it'd be fun to take my character in this direction, la da dee, la dee da...", while in Fallout I'm just worried about surviving at this point.  Scavenging for anything that can help, and terrified by pretty much any glimpse of movement I see above ground.  Because 9 times out of 10, it's nothing friendly.

Is there a demo available. I may have to check this one out. My only concern is that it's a FPS, right?

It's sort of a hybrid FPS.  You CAN play entirely as FPS, but your ability to use weapons effectively if governed by your skill in that area.  Thus if you put your crosshairs right on a guy and pull the trigger the shot will still go wide quite often until you build up enough skill. 

On the other side of things it appears that enemies are governed by the same laws as well because I have gotten into some massive to to toe shootouts with things where there lack of skill was apparent with bullets whizzing by me left and right, while at other times they are plugging me easily from a distance with rifles and obviously are skilled in that area.

VATS adds a very fun and entertaining aspect to combat too.

Except for little some glaring immersion killers this is a very good game with a mediocre story so far.

So you're playing this too, Ted?  Did you take the sheriff's cowboy hat so you could pretend you were a gunslinger traversing a world that had "moved on"?

I took down Three Dog just for the hell of it.  I stopped playing the game right away though, as I didn't want to continue the storyline from there.

So I boot up today from my last continue and suddenly some nervous chick is broadcasting on the radio frequency and I think, uh oh .... maybe I have the wrong station?  A few minutes on she announces she hopes someone will come by and take over for the fallen Three Dog.

Bottom line - revert to older save and resolve not to be such a smartass anymore.

By the way - anyone at level 6 yet and choose the Bloody Mess perk?  Pretty awesome stuff there, especially in VATS slo-mo.  You can actually see eyeballs flying out for certain creatures.

Does that make me demented?