Bethesda announced today that Fallout 3 on the PS3 will not be launching with trophies.  When asked about it, the response was in essence “Maybe later.”  Not very good news to someone who had planned on picking it up for that platform.

That begs the question though, does Sony need to change their policy regarding trophies?  Currently, they aren’t required.  Microsoft on the other hand does require that Achievements be included in every game that lands on its platform.

When it boils down to it, I think Sony made a mistake by not making them a requirement from the get go, and will need to buckle down and change their policy to remain competitive.  For someone who owns both platforms, deciding which one to buy a game for can come down to features like trophies/achievements.  In order to hook players in and really give the an experience comparable to the Xbox 360, something needs to change.

The full list of Fallout 3’s Xbox 360 achievements have been dug up by the people at Xbox360Achievements.org.  Most of them look to be generic “kill x number of bad guys” and the various completetion of the game’s chapters, but there are a few that involve reaching a particular level with good, neutral, and bad karma so it will take at least 3 play throughs to get them all.  The one that looks particularly fun is placing a grenade or mine while pickpocketing.  Can’t wait for this one!

WHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  Who’s looking forward to Fallout 3?  I know I am!

For those of you that have been looking forward to this post apocolytic strategy/RPG/shootem up, the game is dated for October 28th.  So grab your Pipboy, make sure Dogmeat has been fed, load your shotgun, and let’s go kill some mutants!