Picking locks is not that hard. If you thought this was bad, Oblivion was 10x harder. More often than not, you either have to have your bobbypin in a vertical position, or in a 45 degree diagonal position pointing up to the left or right.
I beat the game yesterday morning, and I've done a good portion of side quests as well. I've reloaded and started going back through hitting all the little things before I do the final mission again. I've got probably 80+ hours into the thing already after having the game a week. It just happened that I asked for the week off...been waiting for this sequel for 10 years.
This morning I created a new game save, I played through the first time as a good girl, hoping to sleep my way to the top of the wasteland. Not a lot of options to do that, so in my 2nd game play I'm playing an evil guy...looking forward to blowing Megaton this time through. I waxed pretty much everyone in the Vault on my way out except Amata.
I'm currently writing up a FAQ for Gamefaqs for this, I also wrote the FAQs for the Thieves Guild and Mage's Guild in Oblivion. Fallout 3 is just an awesome game, so open ended like its predecssors and well done. Definitly worth it, you get your money's worth here.
Actually he did get it the first time, but I reloaded my save point.
yeah, unless you have a few missiles to use