• 18Dec 08

  I became the Scourge of Humanity

  I recently finally finished Fallout 3. My character ended up being pretty immoral: looting everything that wasn't nailed down and being a complete jerk to everyone. He wasn't much of a murderer though, unless someone pissed me off. I loved my title at the end: Scourge of Humanity.

  I must say that I was pretty impressed with the game. The size of the game world and its details, the hilarious dialogue options, and fun combat really had me hooked. I was pretty happy with myself though since I didn't rely on any guides to get my through the game. Not like I really needed it; the game did a great job of telling you where you need to go.

  About the only disappointing thing I found was the game became way too easy on the default difficulty, and was even too easy on Hard. I never had any ammo shortages. I could take a lot of punishment once I gained a few levels, and stimpacks/health items practically grow on trees. And if anything really bad happened, I could go back to my house and heal up at My First Infirmary. It only went downhill once I got a follower. Charon mowed through enemies – it got to the point where I had to tell him to wait behind so I could get some EXP.

  The most egregious part was radiation. It's practically a non-issue. Get too much radiation? Go to a doctor and he'll fix it up. You're swimming in caps, so who cares. And My First Infirmary will clear it up for free. I wish that radiation was more permanent, or harder to clear. It would have made the game more challenging.

  I decided to play through the game on Very Hard as a good character. I wouldn't be able to loot tons of ammo, murder people to make life easy, or lie to shorten quests. I'm also not going to purchase an infirmary, nor am I going to recruit a follower. I also am trying to avoid save/reload as much as possible.

  The game is a totally different experience. I chose to go out and explore the wasteland rather than advance the questline, and it's pretty frightening. For the first few levels, even molerats would take me down in a few hits. Raiders were bad news…I ended up running away from many encounters. And let's not mention super mutants. I was terrified of them. My paltry arsenal couldn't do much against them, and I didn't want to waste my tiny ammo supply on them (since I needed all the bullets I could get for vicious dogs). One time a pack of 5 dogs attacked me, and I had to use up several of my precious frag mines on them or else I would have been toast.

  The exploration is a lot of fun too. I love walking to a location, and spotting or hearing an explosion in the distance. Makes you feel like there are things going on in the world. Random encounters also contribute to that. I ran into a group of non-hostile hunters. A little bit later, I was on a hilltop and watched them get slaughtered by super mutants.

  Now that I'm level 7 and have better weapons, I can fight some of the tougher enemies. I still have ammo shortages on some weapons, and I try not to use my best ones too often since I don't have spare weapons to repair them with. I chose to try energy weapons, and they are rare at this point in the game.

  I end up having to eat a lot of irradiated food and need to monitor my rads – I am only allowing myself to remove them with Rad-aways, which I only have a couple right now. I am raising my medicine skill to make stimpacks more useful.

  And with that said, off to raid Vault 106.

  • Posted Dec 18, 2008 11:09 pm PT
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• 19Aug 08

  Warhammer NDA lifted - WARDB is now live!

  For those of you heading to WAR, check out the new Warhammer Online database. I'll get a disclaimer out of the way: Yes, I work for Curse. But we're especially proud of WARDB, and want to spread the word. For anyone who's played MMOs before, you know how valuable a database site can be in your journey.

  www.WARDB.com already has a ton of items, quests, and NPCs for the game. So if you're in the beta, you can use the site to help you. We've got a ton of other features as well:

  • Career Builder - a tool to simulate mastery builds
  • Renown Builder - a tool to simulate Renown builds
  • Battlefield Map - See where the battles are occurring on your server
  • Character Profiles - View your character, achievements, and items
  • Guild Profiles -Profiles for guilds showing their rank and members
  • And much more!

  We also have a Wiki live at www.thewarwiki.com

  I'll make another post later on about my experiences so far in the game.

  • Posted Aug 19, 2008 1:33 pm PT
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• 29Jul 08

  Poison

  While I wish this was about the band, this post is about another thing I haven't seen since growing up in the 80's. I somehow contracted an awesome case of poison oak. I guess when I was hiding in the bushes to surprise an upcoming group of people, I squatted in some poison oak and got it on my legs. And not knowing I did so, I managed to spread the oil on my arms. I can't even remember the last time I had poison-something (I guess ivy does not grow in CA), but it looks like I have a horrible disease. While people tend to stay away from me now at the gym, the itching is driving me crazy.
  • Posted Jul 29, 2008 11:27 am PT
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