Fallout 3 Saves are Big and Can Fill Up a XBOX 360 HD

Today I finally realized that I wouldn't have time to play Fallout 3 again if I wanted to, so I finally deleted 6.5 gigs worth of add-ons and saves. Most of it was saves because saves as large as 5mb or 6mb a piece were using up my memory and around the early summer of 09 I realized that I had to either delete the entire folder for that game or go through as many as 450 to 500 plus saves before deleting them one by one to free up space. I decided to be more careful with future games to prevent them from taking up that much space, but since I have one of the original XBOX 360s the hard drive is only like 20gb. Inevitably despite not playing video games very much these days I finally had to get rid of that game. Its good and maybe I'll play it again for nostalgic reasons in like 5 or 10 years since its too old to sell or trade in at any considerable value.

I had every single downloadable add-on for that game and I played it a lot back in 2009 when I would have either been bored or doing that, but also because I would You Tube gameplay videos featuring URLs to websites of mine with stuff like a good cheat I stumbled on, massacres, and weapon demos for the add-ons some of which got quite popular. Whenever playing through a game with the idea in mind of You Tubing parts of it saving in the right places often is key to being able to come back later and film an event or do a quick re-take.

Maybe this is why Bethesda Softworks restricted all users to 100 saves max in Fallout New Vegas. I strongly suspect this of being the case, so hopefully Bethesda learned their lesson.