lost in the wastes

i love Fallout 3. from the moment i first stepped out of the vault to the keying in of 216 into the purification system, every step, every hour has been a true adventure and i have spent many hours playing it, around 150 i guess so far, i daren't check after this holiday weekends massive 15 hour monster boost and toast fueled session.
is there a reason i play so much? many play games to complete all the game modes, veteran being highly prized, some trophy whore and just have to get every one the game has to offer, but me, i play this so much because to date, there is nothing on the PS3 that gives you so much freedom. ok, so the freedom is spent wandering a sun bleached radioactive wasteland but to me that is heaven.
lucky for me i saved the game just before my final deviant act in which everyone eventually dies and the enclave facists take over the wastelands, yay, go team enclave! so after i tested a few possible endings and got boreed of listening to ron perlman going on about what a total bastard i had been through out my life i turned around and walked right back out into the wastes to go on living my dream.
you can never be to sure just what the game is going to expect of you next, at the moment i am doing the nuka-cola challenge and cursing drinking so much of it with carefree abandon earlier in the game - d'oh! but i am only 2 or 3 bottles from completing the quest and a long trudge back to the westside of the map. in between hunting for bottles i have happily slaughtered a community of tree huggers, blown up an aliens corpse and fought running battles with slavers and bounty hunters after my arse for a few caps.
the thing is, no one persons experience of fallout is going to be the same as another gamers as the route and choices you have are vastly variable, this is the true sandbox game, the king of the pile of mininukes.

Steel be with You.