One of the reasons I considered getting the Xbox version over the PC version was because I’m not above the Pavlovian attachment to Xbox Live achievement. Good news! The PC version has them. Since Fallout 3 was lead developed on the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live for Windows is now free, the PC version allows you to get exactly the same achievements.
A couple of quick notes:
You need to activate the live features. Select “Live” from the menu screen before you start playing. If you do it during a game, it will end your game without saving it. That is a total pain. Also, if you activate live after you start playing you won’t be able to see your save games any more when logged in, only when logged out, which won’t give you any achievements.
There is a fix for finding your save games. Go to the My Games folder in My documents. Find the Fallout 3 folder and copy your save games from the default directory into the one that has your Xbox Live user id. Now you should be able to log in and see them. Your achievements will not be retroactive. Luckily I really only need to replay the vault section to get what I missed.
Tags: fallout 3, Xbox 360, xbox achievements, Xbox Live