I haven’t actually started it yet, but I fired up Fallout 3 tonight just to get it patched up, and it reminded me of just how annoying the Games For Windows Live interface is. It wouldn’t connect at all to Live for a good half-dozen attempts, and made me re-enter my email address each time because it wouldn’t remember it as a default until it successfully connected. It crashed once. I finally discovered that it wasn’t compatible with Xfire and had to stop it before it would work.

And even when it does work, the interface is inconsistent. You can use the mouse to select certain things, but not others. Xbox 360 controller button references appear even if you don’t have one attached. But clicking on those buttons doesn’t do anything; you have to hit the key on the keyboard they correspond to. Ugh, they’re supposedly redoing the GfW Live client, but they’re taking their sweet time.

I still haven’t received my replacement for the missing Collector’s Edition code for Fable 2. You need to enter it early on in order to take advantage of it, so I’ve been holding off on playing it, but I think it’s missed its window, as I was hoping to squeeze it in before Fallout 3. Onto the to-be-played-at-some-point-in-the-future pile it goes…

And as if I didn’t have enough games already, I bought Eets and the new Penny Arcade episode through Steam. I already have Eets on the 360, but the PC version was dirt-cheap this weekend and will make for a good laptop game. And I liked the first PA episode, even if I won’t have time soon for this one.