Just received notification that Gamefly (home of relative AWESOME) has mailed me the PS3 version of Fallout: New Vegas. It is bloody flaming RARE that a brand new release makes its way to me through Gamefly’s non-euclidean queue processes, let alone one I SO want to play, so I am now moderately open to the existence of some kind of benign force in the world. I shall write a mini-review as my obsession allows.
UPDATE: OCT 21st, 12:06 AM (Hawaiian Time): Have decided to adopt a Dragnet format for what I’m pretty sure will be optimal hilarity. Discovered an envelope containing New Vegas in my mailbox upon returning home from work. Am not necessarily too tired to play, but attempting to do so would LITERALLY ENSURE I am still awake and playing when it’s time to go to work tomorrow. History indicates this would be a negative development. May try waking up a touch early tomorrow to get some time in before the hard deadline of having to go to work. Also received Bully: Scholarship Edition for the 360, but this game will (naturally) be given a lower precedence. Mixed a poor man’s sangria, got in two episodes of season 10 of Stargate: SG-1 and got my happy ass to bed, visions of VATS headshots dancing in my head.
OCT 21st, 11:15 AM: Managed to create my usual trifecta of characters for any alignment-based game: the Good-even-if-it-hurts jack-of-all-trades Guy (so, myself); the steals-and-seduces-her-way-into-riches-but-uses-good-works-to-throw-people-off-her-game Neutral Chick (so, Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop), and the kill-everyone-in-sight-ghoul/vampire-melee Evil Bastard. I’m all about alts. So far, like the little changes from the first game, particularly stuff like grouping weapons by ammo type and the Wild Wilderness perk, which turns regular wasteland encounters into bizarre and silly encounters… which makes for a nice change of scenery if you’ve played the first game way too much as it is. And yeah, the American Southwest postapocalyptic wasteland looks pretty much like the American Capitol Area postapocalyptic wasteland, just with different landmarks… though there are a few little localization touches applied over top of models from the first game to make it southwest-y, and that’s good enough for me. However, have yet to engage in combat with anything, as I’ve been too busy looting the shit out of the starting area… semper paratus, bitches. I’ll see if I risk playing some more when I get home tonight.
OCT 22, 3:44 AM: Yep, no sleep for me tonight, I see. Neutral Chick discovered the remains of what I am certain was Indiana Jones in a refrigerator in the middle of damn nowhere; stole his hat, a “Suave Gambler’s Fedora” which conveyed nothing better than the [PER +1] she was already getting from her Pre-War Hat. Good reference, but would have preferred a crystal skull instead. Good guy helped the village of Goodsprings fend off an attack from a gang of escaped convicts looking to murderize one of their defected members; got shit for a reward, to include post-battle corpse looting, so a bit of a fail there, but his reputation with the village went from “neutral” to “liked”, so I’m sure Good Guy felt warm and fuzzy on the inside. Downside: the Powder Gang now considers him “shunned”, so… what, he’s not invited to their birthday parties now? Whatever, Guy stole a Powder Gang uniform off their boss, so he’ll just change clothes and get into character if they try to waylay him down the line. …And Evil Bastard MAY have murdered the entire population of Goodsprings in their sleep, I don’t know. Only (yes, this is her name) Sunny Smiles’ dog put up a fight, but then Evil uppercutted it right in the face. At which point, yes, it learned to play dead. (boo, hiss) (well, Evil Bastard doesn’t have the speech skill for a better one-liner. He put those points into USEFUL things, like Maiming and Killery) (which should be, but are not, skills in this game) Dashed off a pint of Crown Royal (not to be confused with Royal Crown, which does the OPPOSITE of put you to sleep) and headed to bed. I’m sure I’ll have another update when I finally put the controller down around 6AM tomorrow. *heavy sigh*