Into the Trenches

As much as I’ve been talking about Fallout over the past day it’s starting to feel like a Fallout blog here. Maybe I should alter my banner…

I’ll worry about that later. I’ve played Fallout some more and I’m falling in love with this game. Really, I am. I’m still having a bit of a hard time working out a strategy that works for me when it comes to combat, but overall I’m finding that it’s a very fun game with a lot of depth to be plumbed. And I haven’t even played it very much. I love games that involve puzzles and what I’m finding with Fallout is that the game is a puzzle, just a different kind than I’m used to playing.

I’ve never been particularly fond of games that take a top-down view, but I really don’t mind in this case (except when I get attacked by something behind a wall that I don’t see until I’m right next to it; that’s the third-person shooter player in me coming out). And as silly as this sounds I have no idea where to find what I need to get into Vault 15. I’m tempted to hit up Per’s Walkthrough, but I really want to get through it on my own so I’m resisting. Every once in a while I’ll use a game walkthrough, but only when I’m so frustrated I’m about to throw a very expensive item out my window.

So anyway, finding that thing is my goal tomorrow; right now I’m enjoying an overdose of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and I’m much too tired to think about finding things in a game.