After playing it for 25 hours total already... Time for some full impressions.

Considering the insane amount of time I stuffed into Oblivion, playing Fallout 3 feels no different. Which is good, but I gotta say that the "NPC schedule" stuff from Oblivion should've remained a bit... Minor this time around. It's a real fuckin' joy that the quest-giver NPC can literally walk all over D.C. So, with the quest starter of "Blood Ties", she can walk from one side of the map, all the way to the other at any given time. So either you're waiting for 3 in-game days for her ass to return, or you're just gonna ditch it.

Nontheless, I'm currently at level eight in the game. At neutral karma. Speaking of karma, as I was butchering a entire town from their folk, I reached level eight and got that Karma achievement for having good karma at that given level. As I checked that pip-boy thing, I was a "Neutral Karma: Mercenary". I wanted the rugged pip-boy achievement :'(.

Hell, want another achievement gag...? Remember how you could pick-pocket friendly NPC's in Oblivion and make them your personal luggage carriers? I tried to do that in Fallout 3. It worked! These Brotherhood of Steel that surround the G.N.R station now carry 1000 bottlecaps worth of my shit. BUT.

... Remember one of the early in-game previews, where the guy pickpocketed a fella' talking over the intercom and put a live grenade in his pocket? Yeah, that.

So, I was over packed with my crap that I wanted to sell once I got the hell out of there. I decided I'd pull that old trick from Oblivion and load some of these pretentious Brotherhood assholes up as my personal baggage-carriers. Mashing A to dump my stuff on his body, I probably must've put a grenade on his body. Cause not two seconds after I walked away from the scene... "*BOOM* Kill that sonuvabitch!" - "Achievement Unlocked: Psychotic Prankster".

And that's how I royally fucked myself over with the main storyline. As these Brotherhood guys play a viral role in the game some point later. Thus, forcing me to reload a recent save. Three levels earlier.

Eventually, thinking I learned from my mistakes. I went off to find a fella' by the name of Mr. Burke. He's that guy who wants to blow up the disabled nuke in Megaton. I thought I'd snitch on him and earn some easy money. But that plan went wrong as little Mr. Burke killed the major/police guy and swore vengeance on my ass. Eventually after having completed the main questlines in Megaton but the "Power of the Atom" which comes from him... I wanted to blow up Megaton afterall for points.

But snitching on him caused him to disappear from the world. I eventually walked all the way to Tenpenny Tower where his boss Tenpenny hangs out. Using my incredible "FUCK YOU LEMME IN!" charm, I made it to the roof. Just to find out that Mr. Burke has gone missing completely. As Sir. Tenpenny's senile mind only cares about shooting wandering people with a sniper rifle.

... Thus screwing any possibility ever completing "The Power of the Atom" on this save file.

But putting the "Lol u did it all wrong" stuff aside. Currently, my stats are focused on Sneak, Lockpicking, Small Guns and Repairing. And I found a new charm in the game: Pickpocketing people of their wealth, then placing a mine on the ground, slowly backing off and shooting the guy once. Instant win. But being focused on these four makes the other two (annoying) aspects of this game ever so... screwed.

Health, and radiation.

See, I gotta cough up 50 bottlecaps for one Stingpack. Which only heals me for 35HP each. Considering I take a good amount of damage over the time, I spend nearly all my money on these things. Hell, with 700 bottlecaps I can only fully heal myself twice. So, using the game's other manners to gain health... Food and water...

They "balanced" those things out too. So everytime I get a mere 10-30HP from eating food or drinking water, I get 5 points to that radiation meter-thing. Thus eventually screwing me again on having to spend 400 bottlecaps at a doc to heal me of my radiation.

Yeah... I'm nitpicking. I love the game.

Some other stuff:

• NXE is a big gimmick afterall. Can't say I dislike the sleek background and such, but I would've liked it if it was optional. Like I said before.
• NXE's also rather... complicated. Well, they put stuff all over the place, so it's somewhat difficult to get what you want quickly.
• NFS: Undercover... I love the NFS series so much that I even blindly bought NFS: Prostreet. But they're really going downhill. I loved Carbon and Most Wanted, how is it so difficult to blend those two together!? They fucked up again.
• About NXE... How in the hell do I change my theme? I can only select random pictures from the stuff I have on my USB or HDD. I want my Jets theme back.
• I'm on the fence on whether I should buy Left 4 Dead for the full price, or wait 'til it's about 30-40 bucks. I gotta say, I'm really hooked to the simplistic gameplay. But it's a bit on the short side. I really had it with spending 60 bucks on stuff I put away after 4 days.
• Far Cry 2... That game... I got a game breaking glitch at 73% in(Which many have), I really wanted to complete that game... But Ubisoft is pulling our legs here by patching the PC version and telling us console gamers to "avoid it" by just making 15 different saves. Not only do I have to start over from scratch: I risk on getting fucked over again.