Fallout 3 is truly as awesome as I had hoped it would be. First off, I have to ask if there has ever been a game where the player begins looking up at his father and various medical
personnel after having been birthed?
Blastin' an enemy to pieces. I'd tell you what kinda enemy that is, er, was...but, well...you can see why I can't.
The game features an amazing post-
apocalyptic Washington DC (referred to as the Capital Wasteland) that is truly giant and filled with such a variety of quests and interesting tasks to complete that the game seems to have no real end in sight upon first glance...and perhaps even second, third, forth......
My first endeavors took me around 30 hours and after completing them I realized I had barely even touched the main storyline. Another thing is, each one was truly engrossing, even if it meant wandering across the wasteland for 5 minutes to reach each destination.
Typical wasteland sight, you could probably rent out that train-car for 600 a month in the city.The combat system is an excellent mix of good old-fashioned FPS style combat with an interesting system in which the player can select different parts of the enemy to attack while time is essentially frozen. The system is called VATS and allows for the player to cripple the different parts of their enemy (head, arms, legs, etc.). Basically, time freezes, you zoom in on the enemy and it displays the percentage of hitting each particular body part. You then choose which sections you wish to attack and depending on how many Action Points you have, you proceed to attack however many times. Make sense? It's totally sweet, allowing for the player to utilize their FPS aiming skills like in any other comparable title while storing up Action Points for those all too important death-
dealin' blows. The look and feel of the VATS system is similar to Fallout 2, making it nostalgic for those players who fell in love with that game years ago. Oh yeah, also, when you kill an enemy in VATS mode it has a totally sweet slow-mo sequence of you blasting them into little tiny pieces (pictured above). It truly never gets old. The game has all sorts of depth beyond the combat, featuring lock-picking, computer hacking, a vast array of speech decisions that affect the outcome of your various quests and just general interactions with people and a grandiose amount of items to play around with including foods, drinks, drugs, weapons, armor and the occasional fun extra like a bobblehead doll that enhances your abilities.
My description barely scratches the surface of what the game has to offer, so if you have a PC, an Xbox or a PS3 (even though the Xbox and PC versions are designed better, ha!), I highly recommend grabbin' yourself a copy. Assuming, that is, you have nothing to do for the next month or so.
VATS system in action on a particularly large enemy. This guy was a cupcake in the game actually. Hear that Super Mutant Behemoth? You taste delicious with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
Anyway, I could go on and on about how incredible the game is and how everyone should get it and play it and make sweet love to it down by the fire, but I think I'd rather just keep playing it.
I'm sure you know how to surf the
interwebs anyway, go find out your own info.
Also, your dad in the game is totally Liam
Neeson, ha!
That on the left is a picture of the chains that bind the moon to the earth that you are supposed to destroy in Infinite Undiscovery. I do not know why you have to destroy them except that they make bad things happen. I also don't really know who put them there or why, and I've played the game for 15 hours. With that said, my main problems with Infinite Undiscovery lie in relatively dull storyline, the lack of a comprehensive enemy that I could find except a very vague evil "Order" of some sort, and some personal issues I have with real-time-combat based RPGs. Also, the voice-acting is so comically bad it actually makes it enjoyable in a strange way. But hell, as I mentioned above, I've played 15 hours in 2 days so it can't be that bad...or I'm just really bored.
So, I was playing Fallout earlier and I reached level 20, assigned my various skill points, chose a perk, etc. I then proceeded to pick a lock in the dungeon I was in, and it gave me no experience points when it usually would have. To make sure something wasn't goin' wrong I got in a firefight and mowed down a few Super Mutants only to see that they didn't give me XP either. So, I'm all like what the fuck man, can level 20 really be the highest? Turns out it is, and that's totally weak man. While the game continues to be fun, it definitely loses a certain appeal. Whenever I'm in a fight now I'm thinking, hm, this is just a waste of ammo and I have more of an urge to run away than continue. So, in the words of the late Pierre Bourdieu, the level cap should be way more than 20 because that shit is weak man.
So, I've been hearing so much meaningless nonsense from other players over the speakers while playing COD4 recently that I've decided to share some of it with you. Firstoff, we've got the fact that I played a number of games with a person whose Xbox Live account name was... (this is for EVERY GAME btw)...drumroll please... "doodoojelly". That's right, doodoojelly. I had to stop playing when I kept seeing "you were killed by doodoojelly" pop up on my screen. An honorable mention that I should give is the discussion I overheard about how you can be Jewish as an ethnicity, but not be Jewish in general, or some such nonsense. It occurred between a few fervent 10 year old idiots. And lastly, I had to hear some jackass go on and on about his "ACOGs", which is a type of scope that you can attach to your various weapons. I quote, "I'm gonna take out all my ACOGs". Now, that quote doesn't sound that bad, but just imagine the little bastard listing all of them after that, "my AK ACOG, my M4 ACOG," etc...whatever, I guess that one's boring but it was seriously annoying, for serial.
