So my experience with Fallout 3 last fall was less than ideal. I am a huge Bethesda fan and I hold Morrowind as maybe the best open world RPG ever made. Still, I never really got into Fallout 3. The wasteland didn´t click with me, the story felt was less engaging than those in Bethedas previous titles and the game managed to constantly get totally and utterly lost so that I didn´t know how to get to my destination. I also had some other games craving my attention aswell as some stuff going on in my life at that time that just created this hate whenever I looked at the Fallout 3 box.  I got way too sidetracked and after 20 hours of play I hadn´t gotten anywhere in the game.
2 days ago I decided to change this. I´m currently right in the middle of my vacation and I have loads of time to spend on epic games. I rebought Fallout 3 through Steam and started a new game. 9 hours later I had completed the main story. I didn´t do any of the sidemission, didn´t allow myself to get sidetracked and I used the fact that I was playing the PC version to my fullest advantage. Unlimited ammo and godmode. Yes, cheating made Fallout 3 way more satisfying for me. It made me able to play the game like a shooter with infinte ammo Rocket Launchers and Miniguns.
The story actually took my by surprise and I after getting past the point where I was before it actually got interesting. There are quite a few nice twists in there combined with some unique and cool locations.
Somehow both the Fallout 1&2 nostalgia the old Morrowind madman in me woke up and now I think its nice to wander through the wasteland. Without the constant worry of dying and knowing that I´ve completed the main story I´m now really into the exploring.
I think back to the old Fallout days and suddenly I wonder why I disliked the game so much the first time I played it.
Its still no Vvardenfell but I´m actually into Fallout 3 at the moment. Something I didnt think was possible.
Im currently working my way through the Broken Steel DLC and after that i´ll probably jump into Operation Anchorage or The Pitt.
Somehow Fallout 3 hooked me this time around and somehow I managed to evade the gamebreaking problems I ran into last year.
Sometimes its a good think to give games a 2nd chance. Its also nice to feel that you can change your mind about a game like this.
Now I´m thinking about going backwards in the Bethesda catalogue and actually starting up the Game of the Year edition of Morrowind again.
Open world RPG summer here I come ! Its really the perfect vacation games.