I’ve finished the game at this point (so have Evan and Ben, those fuckers finished the main quest before me), and I plan to post more about it soon but this is a start. If you have played the first hours of the game and read this, you will be able to see just how different everyone experience is going to be from one another when they complete it. I did not know how to start talking about such a long and involved experience. I thought of writing a review like piece, but that would not explain properly why Fallout 3 is “of the hook” as you kids say. Just discussing the game over the weekend made me realize just how much more I can still do. And I think the best part is, I didn't have to.
Though there are rewards for completing more quests for more people, I found the most appealing aspect to be exploration of the Wastleland. The stories you will learn, and manipulation of the characters in the game (if your speech level is high enough OH WAIT mine is, my speech talk Tenpenny into letting ghouls stay at his tower; your speech got you a golden shower). Plus I still need Dogmeat. Well anyway here is my first hour or so, my father was very proud…
After cheating on my G.O.A.T, saving that asshole's mother from those puny radroaches, and killing my childhood crush’s father in cool blood just because he wouldn't let me out of that shithole, I was on my way to discovering the reason my father had left the fault and destroyed our simple lives. As my digital eyes got their first ever look at the digital sun, I realized that I was truly at home. Here I could be king and the world, (or at least what was left of it) and it was my playground. Now in the wasteland, even the nicest of people are not really nice in the traditional, 50’s sitcom way. They are picks; they hate their lives and as well they should. As I walked to the near by town of megaton, I experienced this first hand. I disliked everyone in this town.
The sheriff, who was the first person I confronted in the vault was nice, but because of all the shit he had been through he became more of shithead as I kept talking to him. The doctor who I had just meet told me to stop bitching about my wounds. If only there was a dialogue choose that said, “I’m paying you asshole so why don’t you shut the fuck up and do your job.” Don’t get me started about the religious fanatic, I barely talked to them and I doubt I will ever again.
Then some hotshot in this hellhole, told me that he had seen my father. I was thinking, finally, normal people in this wasteland, and what does that bastard do? He says he will tell me what I want to know if I give him 100 caps. 100 fucking bottle caps! So I told him to eat a dick and I wandered Megaton aimlessly looking for anyone who knew where my dear papa had gone. But I could not find anyone who could give me anything to go off of. I was stumped. So I went back to the man with the my head down and 100 caps that I had collected in my pocket. I guess what that fucker did, he told me that because I did not except his first offer that the price for that information that now the price for my dad’s location was 500 caps. At this point I was about to kill this fucker, when I noticed that I just got a new speech option because my speech level is so high. Fortunately it let me lower the price back to 100 caps. So I cut my losses, got the info I needed and never talked to that fucker again. Seems I may have a reason to blow up this shit hole after all.
Out of the four people I have talked to who are lucky enough to have Fallout 3, no one had the same experience in their first few hours then I did. One love, vote Obama…well I guess you already did that... he’s already elected.
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