No... I'm gonna wait with buying it. Need to finish Drakensang before and with max. an hour per day playing it, I'll be busy for some weeks. Damn those epic RPGs...

i don't like drakensang...prefer gothic, the witcher & so on

Fallout 3 is absolutely incredible!
And no, V.A.T.S. doesn't work THAT well since you need a lot of action points to aim your weapon (I love the nod towards the old turn-based combat) and headshots don't always kill your enemy (funny fact: not even "crippling" your enemy's head does - WTF?) so it's not always a viable solution. When you take on enough additional perks you can boost your chance on landing headshots from afar though and THEN the system starts to shine. ^^

Even if you prefer the setting The Witcher or Gothic don't come close to the polished gameplay, story, quests etc. of Fallout 3 - it's like Oblivion (same engine after all) on crack - or better yet, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. done right. Which other game can you think of that starts with your birth and sees you growing up in the prologue?

Sadly I found out that after like two days of playing I'm dangerously close to the main story's ending even though I tried to pursue every possible side-quest I could find...

Baal - hah - I thought I was the only one with problems. For me the game crashes from time to time (strangely enough it did that in the beginning and then only crashed once yesterday) and has strange flickering (from time to time as well) on the right side so that the desktop shows through - LOL.

Baal - hah - I thought I was the only one with problems. For me the game crashes from time to time (strangely enough it did that in the beginning and then only crashed once yesterday) and has strange flickering (from time to time as well) on the right side so that the desktop shows through - LOL.

@McMoist - you know, I'm currently in a specific state where I want to play the game so badly that I don't want to play it anymore.
Lemme explain: like I wrote I'm pretty close to the ending (even with all the stuff to do Fallout 3 doesn't seem to be a long game - which isn't bad, I'm all for short but sweet games) and I want to savor every moment of it.
To me "replayability" is a foreign term since I never play through a game more than once unless it's some kind of arcade stuff without any story etc.

I'm pretty awful nowadays to be frank. I never finish anything.

I bought Pure for the Xbox 360 and I played it for a day. Now it's collecting dust. I downloaded Far Cry 2 last Friday and I've done like 3 missions. I dunno what the hell is wrong with me. I've been waiting for FC2 since last year or some shit and now I have it, it gets completely neglected.

Guess I'd just rather have a beer and a wank

Have you checked for uptodate drivers for your soundchip, Mike?

lawl if i deinstall all mah codec packages the game seems to run without problems cuz i read that it's a audio codec problem which let fallout3 crash/freeze...
that just means that while i'm playin the game i can't watch any movies, episodes & stuff... xD
gosh... x]

edit: LAWL! it's still freezin...but only every 10-20 mins now...omg~

lawl if i deinstall all mah codec packages the game seems to run without problems cuz i read that it's a audio codec problem which let fallout3 crash/freeze...
that just means that while i'm playin the game i can't watch any movies, episodes & stuff... xD
gosh... x]

edit: LAWL! it's still freezin...but only every 10-20 mins now...omg~

Baal - hah - I thought I was the only one with problems. For me the game crashes from time to time (strangely enough it did that in the beginning and then only crashed once yesterday) and has strange flickering (from time to time as well) on the right side so that the desktop shows through - LOL.

@McMoist - you know, I'm currently in a specific state where I want to play the game so badly that I don't want to play it anymore.
Lemme explain: like I wrote I'm pretty close to the ending (even with all the stuff to do Fallout 3 doesn't seem to be a long game - which isn't bad, I'm all for short but sweet games) and I want to savor every moment of it.
To me "replayability" is a foreign term since I never play through a game more than once unless it's some kind of arcade stuff without any story etc.

Just like I thought, another buggy piece of crap by Bethesda software

Meh, i'll hold of with buying it, untill they fix the majority of bugs. Can't be bothered to work to get a game working.

yeh...i never had that much trouble with a game before~ -_-"

Oh, you inexperienced player, you haven't seen hell yet.

By the way - since I have only minimal technical troubles I'm actually more worried about gameplay bugs. E.g. currently I have the population of one whole town glitched out since I chose a certain dialog option that lead to a quest lock-up (items that should have spawned did not)... ^^

I'd be far from calling this a piece of crap - more like a rough diamond.