I was excited to play Fallout 3 and with good reason, in a lot of ways its incredibly awesome.  The game itself is awesome, but the PS3 port is just horrific.  I mean seriously, it is REALLY bad.  A quick rundown

  Every time a friend signs on, which is all the damn time for me, it freezes.

   The R2 and L2 button don't work half the time, you have to start and restart your controller.  Of course R2 uses the targeting system and lets you set weapon hot keys so you need it all the damn time.

   There are no trophies months after trophies were enabled.  That takes what?  10 minutes of coding time to just transfer over the achievements from the PC version?  I mean come on, how hard can it be?  a ton of other games friggin did it RETROACTIVELY even.  

   The game chugs and hicups from time to time which is really inexcusable.  I mean why in the world does their game run worse on a superior machine?  Sloppy coding in the extreme.  Kojima needs to start a community college class on PS3 programing these clowns can attend.

   It has a game stopping bug periodically within the first 20 minutes of game play.  Do they have no QA department at all?  Maybe a day one patch after all the review copies obviously had it?

   Luckily I decided to rent before I buy so I think I'll return it to Blockbuster today for store credit and download the PC version (which is 10 dollars less anyway).  Seriously though, they can rot in hell for doing such a horrific job on porting.  It's EA's Madden 08 all over again, but this time we KNOW they can do it right (the PS3 oblivion was actually superior to the 360 version in graphics, draw distance...everything).  

    I hate to say it, since i love the PS3, but get it on the PC if you can.  I downloaded it before posting this, started it up, and played a few hours, loads better if your PC is decent at all.

   Whats with all the special Ed PS3 ports?  Is the way EA now makes most of their gaming money off the PS3 (thanks largely to Europe) not enough of a carrot to get them to code right?

   The one bright point, no mandatory install and semi short load times.  Plus, obviously, the PS3 controller is a lot better then the 360 when it works (though both are inferior to the mouse/keyboard combo) and the game is awesome despite the faults.

That sucks, although I'm sure all versions are going to have some issues at release, Oblivion for the 360 and PC weren't exactly glitch free.

On the bright side if they ever get around to releasing the map editor you'll have access to a slew of awesome mods and free dlc with the PC version.

I feel ya! My PC version is pretty bad as well. After a few minutes in the game, I get weird artifacts on screen and my whole computer freezes! :(

Oh, and EA didn't port the game right?

Hmm, IMO the 360's controller is superior. It looks great on my bigscreen with 360 hooked up to it.

I agree, but I think he means for the game (as in reaction time and the response in game to the degree of movement on the stick, if that makes sense).

Anyway, kind of sucks that the PS3 version is a bit of a dud, but I wasn't planing to buy it anyway (I know most PS3 fanboys will say that, but hey, I ain't a PS3 fanboy).

Fallout is still a PC series for me, so i already was going to buy the PC version, but i'm dissapointed at this team, because the Oblivion team used the same engine and did good console versions, including the PS3, and this team pulls a Madden 08?? really bad...

it puzzles me that such a big release and bethedsa made a lesseer port than 360 version ar hey trying to loose sales, its not as if they cant code for ps3 just look at oblivion as proof of that

i dont know but gamespot give it 8.5 on ps3 & 9.0 on 360 .. this is the first time gamespot dont put the same score for both consoles also IGN give it 9.4 for ps3 & 9.6 for 360 ? is the issues that big ?

It is odd, maybe Bethesda just didn't care about the Ps3 any more after the sales of Oblivion and thought: Fuck them were not going to put this much effort in a Ps3 game again.

Although that would seem odd as well because at least I was expecting good sales for the Ps3 this time now that it is simultaneously released.

That's messed up. I got the 360 version and the only real gripe I have is the disc spins constantly and sounds like a plane taking off.