deKay's Gaming Diary

Two days of play in one handy diary entry. Hurrah!

I was heading for Rivet City, at first through the Metro, then overland along the river. Found a house where a drunk called Dukov lived with his two lady friends, and considered killing him, but decided against it. Found loads of bandits and super mutants on the way down the riverside, as well as some centaurs, who are like squid-faced man-crabs that spit actual crap at you. Nice action!

Eventually made it to Rivet City (after rescuing two hostages from the million mutants on the way), and talked to as many people as I could. Found Doctor Li, who told me my father and her had a lab in the old Jefferson Monument. Before heading over there (although it was just next door to Rivet City), I got roped into the Blade Runner ripp-off storyline of an escaped android. Dr Zimmer wanted me to find and return him, but I bumped into another android who gave me an android bodypart with which to convince Zimmer that his android was dead. He’s not, but Achievement Get! anyway.

I had a sneaky look in some places I shouldn’t onboard the Good Ship Rivet, then went over to the Monument to kill more mutants and find my father’s audio journals. They implied he’d gone way west of Megaton, to Vault 112, so I returned to Megaton and set out.

I reached an old Metro station half way to the vault marker on the map, and was then attacked by mercenaries out to kill me. A mini-nuke not only killed all three of them at once, but launched the body of one onto the roof of an abandoned diner. Thankfully, he left a leg behind for me to search and obtain all his goodies. Killed a raider called Sam who was also not only shooting the mercs, but me as well! He left me a sniper rifle. Aces!

Then I found a church, which was obviously a raider hideout, as once I’d entered they came home. Luckily, I saw them and laid mines out in the doorway. Boom!

Finally (for now), I came across a mercenary barracks. REVENGE! Killed all the mercs there, then had a kip in their bed. Now I’ve just found an entrance to their officer’s quarters…

Oh, and I’m now on level 12 after almost 20 hours play. I gained two levels in quick succession as one of the perks is to instantly gain another level, so it was rude not to!

GNR Relay dish GET!

So many Super Mutants and Super Mutant Brutes to kill both in the museum and on the run to the Washington Monument! And then I found a barracks, full of brutes, so I ran away.

I’m on Level 8 now too. Still loving it!

Today I managed to make it to the Galaxy News radio tower, where I had to see off a giant super mutant outside it, before being given a quest by Three Dog to go to a museum.

Took aaaaages to get there, mainly because I kept getting lost in the metro system. And, when I did get to the museum, I found a million super mutants waiting outside. They took some taking down!

I’ve played for about 14 hours now, although my in-game clock says 12. I know it’s more due to a few reloads I had to do because I did stuff wrong, or forgot to actually reach and “find” a location before fast-travelling away (meaning I couldn’t fast-travel back!).

Oh, it’s just like Oblivion all over again! It’s impossible to stop playing! Nooooo!

Today, where I only played for four hours, I managed to find Lucy West’s Brother, went exploring a lot, and started making my way over to the Galaxy News radio tower. Found the Metro entrance you need to take to get there. There was a raider waiting outside, so I shot at him with my hunting rifle. My first shot missed, but hit the car he was standing in front off, which then exploded taking him out.

But the best bit? Just as it went bang, “I don’t want to set the world on fi-yure” started on the radio. B-E-A-U-TIFUL.

And setting the Protectron robot on the raiders in the supermarket = aces.

I’ve been waiting for this for what seems like forever. Forever since Oblivion, anyway. It’s like every other game between Oblivion and Fallout 3 has existed solely to pass the time. Anyway, I’ve spend five hours game-time (but actually, longer – read on) already today. That’s a lot for me. Addicted? Of course not. Honest.

I’m really, really enjoying it.

The opening sequence in the vault was brilliant. I redid a bit of the escape as I didn’t manage to save Butch’s mother first time, so my five hours is a bit longer there. Then when I made it to Megaton, I told the Sheriff about Mr Burke’s plans, he went an confronted him, and to cut a long story short, I ended up accidentally getting the Sheriff, Burke, two bystanders and Moriarty all killed. I was shocked with myself.

After about half an hour’s more play, I was overcome with grief, so reloaded an earlier save and prevented the deaths. So add *another* 45 minutes or so to that 5 hours

Then I went on Lucy West’s Sexy Quest (it isn’t sexy) and found… spoiler. But on the way, I stumbled across Vault 106, so after the Best West Test Quest Fest, I went in. Amazing! Found my first bobblehead in there (well, second really – there was one in the game box ;P) which gave me +10 Science. And now? I have no idea! So much to do! So many places to explore!

LOVING it.