Fallout 3

Well, at least it's not as nuts as the Oblivion character leveling system was, which was really close to unplayable without being modded. But the likelihood of mods that tinker with the leveling system (more XP to advance or more levels with fewer skill points/level) is another advantage to the PC version.

Believe me, if I had a PC capable I wouldn't be playing it on my 360, but my comp's motherboard just fried a couple months back. My choices were to wait for the money to get new comp then jump on the fallout bandwagon late in the game, or play it now. I know everyone seems to agree the level cap is 20, but because I'm stubborn I want to see if that experience bar moves at all tonight.

If i wasnt a student right now i would buy. i managed to get obliviion to run on my system on a gforce 7600 256 meg of video ram
2 gig of ram

Used my first Fatman last night, and then my second. Damn those Behemoths are hard to take down.

I've only got one left to kill, then I'll start using the Fatman for kicks. I can't wait til I get the Fatman MIRV.

Unspoilered because this is an important point that can really piss people off if they have autosave turned off and didn't make a save right before the end.

I've played through now, and have started an "evil" game. The evil option is, IMO, underdeveloped, as is common in CRPGs. I've attached a must use mod for those who want to give evil a try.

Also, if you find inventory management as annoyingly tedious as I do, especially given the need to keep weapons and armor in good repair, I'd suggest making use of the one cheat I regularly use:

You can also just hit the tilde (~) key and type in "setgs iMaxCharacterLevel #" (without the quotes) in which the "#" means the max level you want to be able to reach.

One word of warning: If you set your max attainable level too high, you may reach a point where you level up and have skill points left over after maxing out all of your skills. If this happens, you're fucked because the game will not let you proceed past the skill point assignment screen until you have used all of the skill points you earned for that level.

Well, you can, in that situation, always use the console command "player.setav unarmed ##" where ## is a low enough number to let you spend all your skill points, followed by "closeallmenus". There should be plenty of similar workarounds.

Yeah, I made Megaton go boom. Even took a brief visit after to bask in the radiation.

Baba as president will at gunpoint force Fokl to make a planescape hardcore rules mmrpg.

GAH! Lost my power supply on my computer. This is even though it's hooked up to a UPS. Get that replaced - and my primary IDE drive is toast, the one with the Fallout games files on it. GRRRRR.....

Sucks that you can't actually enter the town, which means on my evil play through I completely screwed my chance to get the Strength bobblehead.

On the topic of Megaton and the strength bobblehead/sherrif:

[?=OR...]You can just wait till the Sheriff enters his house and avoid any bloodbaths whatsoever. Seriously, try it. He goes home and you can follow him in while he eats dinner.[/?]

If the house follows the usual OB/FO3 rules, living quarters should be open all day and locked at night. It's vice versa for shops. Sometimes characters seem to lock their doors when they leave, tho - I have no idea what's the pattern there.

Anyone have a clue what is in Burke's house?

Most are, but the sheriff's house is an exception. There are other exceptions as well, usually indicating that it's a home worth getting into.

Not yet, but my lockpick is almost high enough to find out

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Found this over at No Mutants Allowed, and it's just way too good not to post.

I'm going to have to get that game.