I bought Fallout 3 - Game of the Year Edition.

I started and I loved being in the vault. I just like being able to explore everything. It wasn't that huge so I never had the feeling it's going to take hours of pointless running to see every corner.

But then you get out and I thought 'well okay, let's see'. I didn't put any time in exploring anything. Megaton was literally in front of the vault entrance so I ran there right away. I enjoyed the town, again not that big to get lost or anything and I managed to talk to every character. However then you get sent out to deliver a letter. I didn't mind that at all so I just ran over to that other town and as I thought, it wasn't as expected. Until then it was all fine but then I get told to go find 'The Family' so I was like 'Seriously, am I supposed to run around looking for some NPC called Ian?'. It just happened that I ran to that ghoul who sells rocket fuel and I noticed he had a dialogue about them. He told me they're somewhere in the east so I just ran towards the east and at one point I found the entrance.

I finished the whole questline but then when I go back to Megaton and get the info about my father's location I just get bored. I go out, run towards that direction, some kid wants help and then I have to run for so long again, find so many people and and and. I keep turning the game off, do nothing for hours and then deciding that I do have to finish it anyway so I go back and then I end up turning it off again. It feels like I'm working, not playing a game.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Especially dialogues are so annoying. Does Bethesda know that in real life people actually don't put a lot of effort into sounding like they're in a movie? People talk fast in real life and that's what I want in a game where I sit there and listen to dialogues every 30 seconds. Even if I didn't listen to anything for 2 hours, every time I talk to someone I just literally fall asleep and always pray that there is nothing else left to ask once he is done talking.

Fallout 3 is more of exploration game but fallout new vegas has better dialogue and characters so you'll probably enjoy that and take time with the conversations i remember the ghoul saying that the entrance is in his shop and you should try the wikia if your lost.

1. You don't have to listen to the dialog. You can read the text and skip through it as fast as you can read.
2. You don't have to do every quest. You may not even want to, especially if you are role-playing and you feel your character would not do what the quest giver wants you to.
3. You don't even have to do the main quest if you dont feel like it. You can role-play a character that does nothing but collect toasters. It's a role-playing game, in a wide open sandbox world. Games like these are what YOU make them. If you really want, you can complete the main quest line in a couple of hours by skipping considerable amounts of content. It's your game, you control what your character does, so only do what you want to.

-Gunny out.

I think your major problem is that you are doing each side quest one after another, in which case it would seem like work. I love Fallout 3 and I couldn't stand simply doing quest after quest, one after the other.

Take some time off, 80% of the fun of Fallout 3 (at least for me) is simply just roaming around and exploring, Doing whatever the hell I want, when I want. It also helps to roleplay a bit, if you simply create a character whose only purpose is to "do stuff and help people" then its going to get boring real quick. Be creative. Make a renegade mercenary, a slaver, a scavenger, an evil psycopath, a mad scientist, a BOS soldier, a raider. Whatever you want.

Explore the ruined buildings around you and read about their backstories which they often have on terminals and such. Immersive yourself in the world of a post-apocalyptic "World of Tommorow".

Not to mention those two quests your talking about are two of the dullest in the whole game, at least in my opinion.