I got my copy of Fallout 3 collector's edition (I got a lunch box! Yeah!) on Wednesday night, and I haven't played any other games. At all. Period. Unless you count the Mirror's Edge demo, which I don't. It's a demo.

The point is that Bethesda finally made something I could get into. I've played Oblivion, and I hated it.

Let me rephrase : I played it on PS3, 360, and PC. PC is by far the best choice, and was enjoyable, if a little too big. The console versions just...sucked. I don't know what it was : lack of hotkeys, draw distance, general glitches, etc. I don't know what made it blow, but they did.

I like fantasy games, so I have no problem with the story and gameplay. Well, ok, I do have a beef with the gameplay, but the subject of the gameplay is just fine.

Fallout has always been fun for me. I love the sense of humor, the open adventure, the traits/perks... I have yet to find one thing that I didn't like about the Fallout series (1 and 2 ONLY, Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel can go die, they aren't real Fallout games). When I heard 3 was being released, I was surprised that it's been 11 years, and also very excited. I read up on it, and was a little scared that Bethesda was making it. I mean, I like Star Trek, and those Bethesda games were a punch to the nuts for fans. Not only that, but with my only good experience with them being on PC, of which I am currently out of, freaked me out. But, by the week before it released, I was excited. I wanted to see what they could do with the Fallout story, as well as quirkiness. Come midnight launch, I had it. I had to work the next morning, ironically at the very place I had been at midnight the night before (or morning, I don't know how you judge midnight). After work, I went home. I opened my lunch box, took out all the goodies, only to put a few back in for safety, got the game out, and put it in my PS3.

I didn't stop for 10 hours. I went to bed. I woke up, and played it again. And again.

I'm addicted to this game for whatever reason. Fallout 3 is just plain awesome. Like really awesome. I can't thank Bethesda enough for protectiing what I know of Fallout, and adding their own touches to it. It works so well. I love Fallout. If it were a woman, I'd marry it and call her Suzy.

Fallout 3 is my game of the year. It's that good.