FALLOUT 3 - MORE TO COME!

Edit 11/24/08
Did that play it 'till 630 in the morning thing again. Actually, I was going to keep going. I didn't see a reason to stop. RE: Dreamsower's comment. I generally do not like lame-ass LOTR knockoff fantasy settings (Ouch, that was harsh. Why did you say that when it's not always true. You liked Willow.) I loved Willow. I wasn't as on-dick as every one else was on LOTR, but I enjoyed it. It was beautiful. I think I hate the culture associated with that type of movie. Also, shit that's popular and every one thinks is good always upsets me because a lot of times there's stuff out there that's better.
Yeah, Fallout involves a lot of walking, but even that is fun for me, or at least poignant. I walked into a home where two skeletons were sleeping next to each other, holding each other. That upset me very much. I'm in Arlington Cemetery right now. My grandfather is buried there. The records of his burial are probably lost. His gravestone might even be knocked over. Fallout 3 is helping me realize how attached I am to the area around my home. There's history there, and that fucking means something.
Fallout 3 Falls Church looks nothing like real Falls Church, but that's cool.
The space in Fallout 3. The amount of area you can walk in is very intimidating. I don't like going into towns because I really don't have time to track down every inhabitant and talk to them about their life, but there is value in it unlike a lot of other RPGs. Less is fucking more.
Walking sucks, but Fallout 3 does a pretty good job of putting in warp points to cut down on the walking.
It's a very open-ended game. I got mad because I completed a story quest last night. I didn't actually complete it, I was just in the "next" part of the game. I've been doing what I find interesting, and that works for me. The father plot is weird. I like helping make the wasteland survival guide.

I'm late for an appointment.

Edit 11/23/08: I have played this game until 6 in the morning. I could not concentrate in class because I was trying to come up with the perfect character. I still am working at that.

I don't really like Bethesda. They made the Pirates of Carribean names. They made the Elder Scrolls. Everybody was on Elder Scrolls dick, and I never understood why. Then again, you may have figured out that I'm not as big on RPG culture as I was. I really like good RPGs (KOTOR, FF7, Arcanum, Fallout1&2, Baldur's Gate 2), but I judge all others fucking harshly for rehashing good RPGs over and over. I mean that's true of a lot of shit though. W/e.
From the start, you know Bethesda's not Black Isle or Interplay or Troika or any of the people who made the original games. This is a work of fan-fiction, and one of the big Retcons is that the Vaults are social experiments. I don't like this. I don't think it makes sense, but I guess if the game goes into the history of the Vault-Tec corporation it would become clear. It's also a really easy to fall back on cliche because it seems like your character was the experiment which was done very recently in another game that I kindly don't want to mention by name. They made a history for the war so that you could connect it to the present day, and it really wasn't necessary. In picking up a game like Fallout, you know you're going into another universe. The point isn't how we get there. The point is what to do when we're there.
I long for the days of the simple premise: your vault's water purification chip is broken, get a new one or your tribe is dying, get them a Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
I don't know.
The game has a lot of walking without a lot of clarity as to where you are walking to, and my biggest hiccup right now is I don't have the time to go walking around and learn another world. I got fucking homework. The combat system of the game is really good. The character-leveling system is pretty good. Nowhere near as hard as the one from the first two games. The motion-capture is great. The dialog options are great. The voices of the enemies are also great. I miss Black Isle's writing. I miss knowing where to go in each town. I wish I had an HDTV for it, because right now people have bright flashlights for eyes and it looks stupid.

Liam Neeson talks very fucking slowly. I haven't slept much. I'm stressed out. I'm going to go have a smoke. Why didn't I think of that before?

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