I was going to pick Fallout up on steam after it is sale'd to $10.

I paid full price for bioshock and that was the last "game" I will pay good money for. I don't mind waiting a year or more anymore for the games to go down in price and patched and DLC'd.

Bioshock put me to sleep after half the game. Artistically brilliant, gameplay dull as doornails.

uh, the game was a walkthrough, what with the consolized checkpoints every 10 fucking feet. Even ignoring them was a breeze. It was linear, scripted up the wazoo, and your standard FPS gameplay.

There was little "character configuring," you could choose *any* path and still beat the game easily. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2007/08…

The second half was absolute droll repeat of the first.

I'm not giving it a *bad* score, but it was no system shock/System Shock II/Deux Ex, by any means. The game was available for $10 less than a year after release on Steam. I shall do the same for Fallout 3. Another issue with Fallout3 is my brother got the game and it was crash city for the first 6 months after release, until a patch came out and fixed.

Oblivion was a job. Another gorgeous game that I enjoyed for about 3 hours, but one I felt like I should be paid for to play, since I don't normally run hundreds of errands without getting paid one way or another.