@ Steve: To their defense – the bobbleheads actually do something useful. They either add +1 to a given attribute or +10 to given skill value.

This means that they do have a considerable in-game value and are not merely achievements. They are basically just rare artifacts that help to boost your stats. If they did nothing in game terms, I wouldn’t bother with them.

My son has the game (for the XBOX 360 – I refuse to put the DRM on my PC)…

Anyways, once I saw the “bobblehead” collection, I opted out. Any game that goes the World of Warcraft route of having gimmicks to entice people to play has me turned off. WoW became one epic virtual barbie doll dress up game. Replacing playability with gimmicky “achievements” is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever been forced to put up with.

@ Zel: I wikid. :)

It’s an old habit from Morrowind – I tend to wiki useful stuff like that and use it as a reference as I play. This used to be necessary in Morrowind because it was lacking the quest arrow and most objectives didn’t even show up on the map.

In fact, I used to have two Morrowind maps hanging above my monitor – one with the locations of all the important cities and quest locations and the other one which had all the fast travel routes. :)

Well, as far as I’m concerned, I’m not tired of the Fallout 3 thoughts. I rather enjoy long series of posts on the same game, because they match the way I actually play them : one at a time, as thoroughly as possible, until there’s nothing else (interesting) to do. I rarely play more than one game at a time and if I somehow stop playing (because it’s boring/frustrating) and move on to another odds are I’ll never come back to finish the former.

Anyway, you actually collected all the bobbleheads ? Congratulations, I never took the time to do it and finished the game with only 4 or 5 of them. Did you find them by yourself or did you get some helpful advices from the wiki ?