I love Fallout 3.

But Fallout 3 doesn't love me.

Fallout 3 has issues...

...A miraculous understatement I know. The level of patches required for this game is through the roof, I have seriously not played a game so incredibly...clunky...in such a long time. There are times of pure brilliance and other times in which I am absolutely convinced that there was no bug testing of any kind whatsoever. Or the bug testers were monky's....Monkey's without eyes...

So far the bugs have given me little...frustration... Instead these bizarre instances have brought another emotion.

Laughter.

Take the Big Town quest.
During the end of the quest you can opt to protect the town via a variety of ways, each one corresponding on how you've created your character. Good with small arms? You could "train" the residents on how to shoot. Have high intelligence? Why not repair the dormant robots sitting in the junk yard?

Ya'know...the robots...C'mon...Go fix the robots! They're in the junkyard! The robots stupid!

After ten minutes of watching a plethora of gathered townspeople yelling and berating me to fix the robots in the junkyard, I finally realized what had happened. I went online and it was totally confirmed.

They're are no robots, it's a bug. They've de-spawned.

Instead the gathering of people just stood yelling over and over about how dumb I was just standing they're...Clearly not grasping the concept of..."spectral" robotics. I made a new save and showed it to a friend of mine. He just sat there. "This is in the final game?" I just smiled. "C'mon man! Go fix the robots!"

Training the group is even more hilariously robotic. Again we go to the junkyard. The one guarded by the broken ghost robots. And miraculously a shooting gallery of nuke-cola was assembled. The group began firing indiscriminately into the set up. I began getting into it, firing away. Until I realized that the group had turned and ran away.... To fight the super mutants that had appeared. With absolutely no announcement to me of an attack. Here I am still shooting bottles and the townspeople have decided to fight the super mutants without even calling to me. Thant makes sense.

My final moment of insanity was something that just happened a moment ago. After completing Oasis I returned to Megaton to do my annual "end-of-quest-stick-things-in-locker-victory-moment"(Btw, I've heard there is a bug in which items in you're locker will disappear.) I ran into Lucy the girl from the Bloodties quest. Without thinking I decided to talk to her, in which she immediately shunned me and told me to sod off due to my murder-spree in Arefu...A town I hadn't visited since completing the quest quite a while ago. Perplexed I immediately fast traveled to Arefu to understand what had happened...Just to find everyone slaughtered....By one of those Yaio bear creatures...Who showed up as a friendly in VATS because...You guessed it...I had the friendly animal perk....And thus...

I was responsible for killing everyone in town.

What...The...Hell...Bethesda... :P

I don't know whether or not to be infuriated or to be laughing my ass off. A word to the wise: Make multiple saves. Did I mention the time I reloaded a save and re-spawned a quarter of the way in the ground...making me bounce up and down over the geometry of the ground...and the actual ground plane... No... Another time then.

Surely others can understand what I have been experiencing?

...Bounce...