10 Video Game Sections You Didn't Know You Could Skip

As expansive as Fallout 3 might be, the game's critical path is actually relatively short, with the early game setting the player on a path to meet up with their father.

On an initial playthrough you need to complete a number of quests which will eventually lead you to your dad's location at Vault 112, but once this location is known there's absolutely nothing stopping you making a bee-line for it on a future run.

And so, upon exiting Vault 101 at the end of the game's prologue, you can skip a few hours' worth of missions by just heading straight to daddy at Vault 112.

Now getting there isn't a simple amble by any means, but the game makes no concerted effort at all to prevent you from booking it to dad once his location has been ascertained.

Hilariously some players have even reported legitimately stumbling upon Vault 112 by total accident while exploring the Wasteland, in turn accidentally skipping over massive swaths of the story much to their chagrin.