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Actually, after having a little think about my original complaint about voice acting, I realise that my criticism was unwarranted. Fallout 3 is undeniably supberb. The way various sections of programming have been meshed to produce situations that often surprise and amaze is really breathtaking. Like no other game, Fallout 3 has continued to interest me and I think my quibble with some of the voice acting is mean and petty. After Playing a while the other night and saying out loud, 'Jesus Christ!!!' as I was attacked out of the blue by what I had thought was a snoring, sleeping Death Claw matriarch - the beast frozen in mid air by VATS as it leaped toward me as I scrambled in my Pipboy for a decent weapon - my voice acting complaint faded into obscurity. I realise now that there were various limititations Bethesda had to contend with when it came to voice acting and that I simply hadn't properly considered them before making my criticism. I take it back Bethesda - all is forgiven:) Fallout 3 ROCKS!!

Ah! Good point about the wasteland having a limited gene pool :) About the ghoul in Calvert mansion (Desmond Lockheart) - voiced by Jeff Baker

Fallout 3 is unquestionably one of the finest games ever created and I hesitate to criticise but... Why, oh why, oh why did the developers allow the same voice actor to use the same god damned voice on so many characters? You must know the one I mean - the old 'dagnabit', 'what in tarnation', creaking, high-pitched, 'old timer cowboy' voice. Everywhere you go, he's there, sounding like the old timer in 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. I mean why didn't the actor at least use a slightly different voice when voicing all those characters. Surely that's what you pay an actor for - to use his or her acting abilities! I swear, I like to play as a good guy but I've blown the head of many a character out of sheer irritation at that damn old timer cowboy voice. And believe me, I've nothing against old timers - truth be told, I'll be one myself in a few years:) It's just that I guess it could be any style of voice acting used ad nauseam which would irritate me. I just can't see the reason for such repetitious use of style. Anyone else feel this way or am I just an easily irritated old timer? :biggrin: