Finished: Fallout 3

After months of playing Fallout 3, I finally finished it tonight. Having not played a role playing game in a long time, Fallout 3's hybrid of first person shooting along with leveling up my character and choosing abilities to customize the experience made it one of the best adventure games I've played since Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Some of the things I didn't like in the game was the lack of polish. But when you consider you can see for miles and then actually go there (albeit ever so slowly), you can't really knock the game for having rough polygons as landscaping. The animations of enemies were also pretty last generation. And, oh, how lame was the voice acting. What did they have, like four people playing a hundred characters?

But overall I really enjoyed the game and it deserved they hype that it got. It was great gameplay tied into a pretty deep customization system. I also thought the multiple choices for my characters dialogue was pretty good. It wasn't blaring which dialogue choices would lead to what outcome and some helpful information was hiding pretty deep in conversation trees.

Though there are many different endings, I have no intention of playing through it again or even downloading any of the new chapters for sale. It took me this long to play through the campaign and I'm still behind on some of the other games I want to play. But I'm glad I played this ground breaking game.