When last we saw our heroine, she'd stumbled ( into spoilers for Fallout 3. )
January 6th, 2009
December 30th, 2008
When we last saw our heroine, Ellen was sixteen years old and had just received her GOAT scores. As I mentioned at the time, that was the point when the screen went white for another timeskip, and that's ( where we begin now. Spoilers for Fallout 3 ahead. )
There we go, then. Our next entry will be Springvale.
There we go, then. Our next entry will be Springvale.
November 20th, 2008
Okay, first things first: I understand that the Fallout franchise has a pretty big fandom and that they're only marginally less terrifying than the kind of people who can read Transformers: Kiss Players and come out the other side thinking they've had a really good comic book experience. Allow me to state here and now that I've never in my life played any of the other Fallout games. Not the original, not Fallout 2, not Tactics, not Brotherhood of Steel- none of them. My entire knowledge of the games comes from Tvtropes, some glances around the Fallout wiki, and the comic series that the Penny Arcade guys did for the official Fallout website. I went straight to Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 because the wiki indicated that 3 wasn't a narrative sequel. I’m good with that. I'm not really interested in the other games just yet- I mean, I figure I'll play them one day, but right now I'm good with what I've got.
Also, I bought the strategy guide for the game. I've read some of it. I've deliberately avoided the parts that talk about the central plot and anything, anything marked with spoiler warnings, other than an accidental blundering into some of the background info early on in the book. I don't want to be spoiled for this game; I want to blunder through blindly. The character is, after all, sincerely and truly out of her element and it's more immersive this way. At least if I get completely blocked I have the book to turn to- and probably more save files than previously believed to be humanly possible to fall back on. In the meantime, if y'all've played the game or read the info, I'd appreciate it if you refrained from spoilers. Or at least put them in whitetext so people have to check the spoilers on purpose. Thanks.
That being said, on with the show!
( Cut for length and spoilers. )
Also, I bought the strategy guide for the game. I've read some of it. I've deliberately avoided the parts that talk about the central plot and anything, anything marked with spoiler warnings, other than an accidental blundering into some of the background info early on in the book. I don't want to be spoiled for this game; I want to blunder through blindly. The character is, after all, sincerely and truly out of her element and it's more immersive this way. At least if I get completely blocked I have the book to turn to- and probably more save files than previously believed to be humanly possible to fall back on. In the meantime, if y'all've played the game or read the info, I'd appreciate it if you refrained from spoilers. Or at least put them in whitetext so people have to check the spoilers on purpose. Thanks.
That being said, on with the show!
( Cut for length and spoilers. )
November 19th, 2008
So I acquired Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 while I was on vacation this time. I started playing it at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
daniidebrabant's tonight. I will, I think, be alternating between it and Half-Life 2: Episode 1. I need to write up the Half-Life episodes for y'all, but I definitely want to do a Camwyn Stinks At Video Games run on Fallout 3. I've bought myself a strategy guide and read over some of it, but I'm making a point of leaving it at my place when I go to play, so that I get the full flailing experience.
I have decided that while Gordon's response to his in-game situation was "And that's when I knew Baby Jesus didn't love me any more", and Jack's in Bioshock was "I just wanna go home and work on the Kennedy campaign!", the Vault 101 Dweller's- at least so far- is "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH BIG BLUE CEILING BIG SHINY THING IN CEILING WHAT THE HELL." After all, neither she nor anyone else she knows has ever actually been outside. She's got a worse case of not recognizing the real world than most gamers. And I get to periodically stop when she's wandering around the Wasteland, look up at the sky, and RL scream "AAAAAAUGH BIG BLUE ROOM WITH NO CEILING AIEEEE." Agoraphobia's a bitch.
This is gonna be fun.
daniidebrabant's tonight. I will, I think, be alternating between it and Half-Life 2: Episode 1. I need to write up the Half-Life episodes for y'all, but I definitely want to do a Camwyn Stinks At Video Games run on Fallout 3. I've bought myself a strategy guide and read over some of it, but I'm making a point of leaving it at my place when I go to play, so that I get the full flailing experience.I have decided that while Gordon's response to his in-game situation was "And that's when I knew Baby Jesus didn't love me any more", and Jack's in Bioshock was "I just wanna go home and work on the Kennedy campaign!", the Vault 101 Dweller's- at least so far- is "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH BIG BLUE CEILING BIG SHINY THING IN CEILING WHAT THE HELL." After all, neither she nor anyone else she knows has ever actually been outside. She's got a worse case of not recognizing the real world than most gamers. And I get to periodically stop when she's wandering around the Wasteland, look up at the sky, and RL scream "AAAAAAUGH BIG BLUE ROOM WITH NO CEILING AIEEEE." Agoraphobia's a bitch.
This is gonna be fun.