I don't generally read my games, I play them. Is the writing in Fallout 3 wonderful? No, but it gets the job done and some of it is very well written. The whole questline with Moira in Megaton is well written, humorous, and memorable.
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Not only was Moira's voice, character and acting incredibly annoying -- if she was in a stage play, people would throw fruit at her. Her quests were utterly ridiculous -- explore a mine field, step on a mine, purposefully get yourself hurt until you are almost dead, get yourself moderately irradiated, or irradiated till you are almost dead and so on. If anyone went to a movie with that in it, they would walk out or demand their money back. On top of that, the reviewers would bury it.
Some of the level designs in this game are a joy to behold. I just got done with a ruined facility that produced comic books. It was totally logical in its layout and yet quite fun to play because it had been rigged with traps everywhere. No dialogue, just some wicked fun combat and exciting trap locations.
The comic book facility is one of the areas that made me stop playing. There was nothing in it, but killing ghouls who all did the same thing -- growl and charge you. Then there was the exciting opening of a hundred boxes to find... junk. When I got to the end of this huge boring area, I asked myself "Was that it?... I want that time back." As I asked myself that same question, for almost every area I visited, I stopped playing after 15 hours and have been unable to force myself to play it again.
I forgot to mention the only place of note in the comic book area, was the crazy human who did not talk, he just shoots at anything that moves. Again, brilliant, well thought out RPG design.
I watched HG Wells Time Machine with Rod Taylor this morning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(1960_film)
and now I feel that 10 years have passed and I am in a world filled with Eloi (young players) and Morlocks (reviewers), who reward AAA game developers with 10s out of 10 for complete garbage. The only way humanity can go from here folks, is down to degeneracy.
>I second Rune's suggestion Can'tbebothered. Join us.
I don't know, F3 was pretty much the last straw and there seems to be almost no one left in the computer games community that is hardcore about standards. So at this point I am considering returning to pen and paper RPGs.