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Fallout: New Vegas has been eating my life. Which means I've finally got a good reason to use the above quote as a title! (Ten points to your House if you recognize what it's from!)
This is the Fallout I've needed. I love 3, love it to bits, but it left holes in my post-nuclear-apocolypse loving soul. For one, since it took place on the east coast, there wasn't much (other than standard items) that was familiar. Not hardly a mention of the NCR, or the epic battle the Enclave fought in the west. Even all the BoS characters running around didn't say much. For second, they did away with the whacky and random encounter stuff scattered all over. That's what hurt me the most. What's a Fallout when there isn't a chance of stumbling upon a dancing super mutant in a top hat?
And this is why the first trait I snagged when making my New Vegas character was the Wild Wasteland trait. It makes me tingly in my happy places. I've had four instances of it kicking in, and so far I've gotten every reference. :D I think I'm nearly done with my first play through. (The Render Unto Caesar quest just opened up, so....) But then I'll go back and do everything.
Also, another difference I'm kind of 'meh' over is the alignment requirements for certain companions in F3. And the limit (your dog and one companion, regardless of what the companion is). Happy to be back to companion free-for-all, and a more sensible companion restriction. I'm currently running around with Boone and Rex, and determined to keep both until the end. I think I only need to complete two more quests with Boone before he trusts me and tells me his story.
Plus...MAKING THINGS AND GATHERING PLANTS! I'll be honest: gathering plants and making things is 85% of what I do in Oblivion and 85% of what I did when I played Warcraft. So adding it to Fallout just sent me over the moon like a zombie looking for heaven.
Only sad part was running into a pretty minor character (one of the Gomorrah prostitutes) and realizing her voice was so familiar because it was Andrea Thompson. :/
Oh, and we're getting mass snow storms here. Internet and cable keep going out, but I've got plenty of spiced tea, crackers and batteries for my controller. :D
This is the Fallout I've needed. I love 3, love it to bits, but it left holes in my post-nuclear-apocolypse loving soul. For one, since it took place on the east coast, there wasn't much (other than standard items) that was familiar. Not hardly a mention of the NCR, or the epic battle the Enclave fought in the west. Even all the BoS characters running around didn't say much. For second, they did away with the whacky and random encounter stuff scattered all over. That's what hurt me the most. What's a Fallout when there isn't a chance of stumbling upon a dancing super mutant in a top hat?
And this is why the first trait I snagged when making my New Vegas character was the Wild Wasteland trait. It makes me tingly in my happy places. I've had four instances of it kicking in, and so far I've gotten every reference. :D I think I'm nearly done with my first play through. (The Render Unto Caesar quest just opened up, so....) But then I'll go back and do everything.
Also, another difference I'm kind of 'meh' over is the alignment requirements for certain companions in F3. And the limit (your dog and one companion, regardless of what the companion is). Happy to be back to companion free-for-all, and a more sensible companion restriction. I'm currently running around with Boone and Rex, and determined to keep both until the end. I think I only need to complete two more quests with Boone before he trusts me and tells me his story.
Plus...MAKING THINGS AND GATHERING PLANTS! I'll be honest: gathering plants and making things is 85% of what I do in Oblivion and 85% of what I did when I played Warcraft. So adding it to Fallout just sent me over the moon like a zombie looking for heaven.
Only sad part was running into a pretty minor character (one of the Gomorrah prostitutes) and realizing her voice was so familiar because it was Andrea Thompson. :/
Oh, and we're getting mass snow storms here. Internet and cable keep going out, but I've got plenty of spiced tea, crackers and batteries for my controller. :D
