Last night, I defeated Fallout 3. I'd have to say the game is pretty good. It is certainly huge, interesting and seems to fit in well with the previous games (mostly). The game has one trait that I found somewhat odd, it became progressively easier as it went on. This may be due to the fact that I deliberately avoided the main quest until after I had done everything else, but I think the main reason was because issues that apply in the early game--finding and repairing good weapons,having plenty of ammo, sneaking to get criticals--cease to matter in the late game. It probably also helped that I built my character with the express intent of shooting people in the head: high agility and perception, perks to enhance targeting, moderately high luck, and perks to increase critical damage. By the end of the game, I was walking into a room filled with power armor equipped enemies and 2 shotting them.

Of course, once you hit level 20, you can take the only perk worth taking at that level: Cheat. Now, the game calls this perk "Grim Reaper's Spirit", but that is insufficiently precise. Cheat lets you refill your AP guage every time you drop an enemy in VATS. Now, if I can drop basically any enemy in the game with my chosen weapon in under the maximum VATS allowance, I can simply make every shot a head shot. At some point after I hit 20, I ceased to sneak unless I was pickpocketing or doing something that could make people turn hostile. I simply walked through rooms dropping people on my way to quest objectives.

Regardless, I'm done with the game now. There may be more to do, but it has consumed basically all my free time for the last week or so. Perhaps when the expansion (aka DLC) comes next year, I'll visit the Capital Wasteland again. For now, I'll just wonder how so many national monuments survived a nuclear war.

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