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Posted January 03, 2009
So last night, I put a kettle of water on for tea and sat down to start a new game of Fallout 2. An hour later, my roommate knocked on my door and asked me about the kettle. I repeatedly smacked myself on the forehead as I walked to the kitchen, where I found that I had indeed let the water boil out of the kettle and ruined the poor thing.
Early this afternoon, I put a pot of water on for tea, a solution I'll have to stick with until I buy a new kettle, and sat down to continue my game of Fallout 2. An hour later... yes, I had done it again. Twice in two days! This isn't something I normally do often (or at all), so I can only assume that Fallout 2 is to blame for sucking me in and making me forget about the real world.
It's an awesome thing for a game to do, but I lose a lot of cookware this way. :P
Posted January 03, 2009
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Triplanetary: So last night, I put a kettle of water on for tea and sat down to start a new game of Fallout 2. An hour later, my roommate knocked on my door and asked me about the kettle. I repeatedly smacked myself on the forehead as I walked to the kitchen, where I found that I had indeed let the water boil out of the kettle and ruined the poor thing.
Early this afternoon, I put a pot of water on for tea, a solution I'll have to stick with until I buy a new kettle, and sat down to continue my game of Fallout 2. An hour later... yes, I had done it again. Twice in two days! This isn't something I normally do often (or at all), so I can only assume that Fallout 2 is to blame for sucking me in and making me forget about the real world.
It's an awesome thing for a game to do, but I lose a lot of cookware this way. :P

Yet another reason why gamers as addicted to Fallout as you and I are need roommates. They are the people that can do the stuff for us, so that we can waste our time playing the games. You could get like a loud alarm clock right next to you that will go off when you need it to that way you won't have this problem. Or you can move your PC into the kitchen, or near it, that way you can look over your shoulder to see whatever is cooking just so you don't burn it. The easier solution would be to get less addicting games, but when will that ever happen?
Posted January 04, 2009
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Darreck: The easier solution would be to get less addicting games, but when will that ever happen?

When you buy Fallout 3.
Posted January 04, 2009
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Darreck: The easier solution would be to get less addicting games, but when will that ever happen?
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Shala: When you buy Fallout 3.

Holy shit son, a bomb with the potency of a supernova has just been dropped.
Post edited January 04, 2009 by EyeNixon
Posted January 04, 2009
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Darreck: The easier solution would be to get less addicting games, but when will that ever happen?
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Shala: When you buy Fallout 3.

Nope, it won't :(.
I played Fallout 3 about 10 hours a day when it came out, it is even more immersive than Fallout 1 and 2.
Posted January 04, 2009
I fell asleep within the first ten minutes of the tutorial, that's "immersion" for you.
Posted January 04, 2009
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Shala: When you buy Fallout 3.
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EyeNixon: Holy shit son, a bomb with the potency of a supernova has just been dropped.

I realized the potential of it, and I committed.
No really, the tutorial was cool the first time around, but after that it got annoying. Especially with Liam Niesson just phoning it in on his voice acting.
My main complaint is that stats were unimportant, and my rate of fire would over come any crappy accuracy I had. Accuracy by volume.
Posted January 04, 2009
I'd say I've clocked more hours in Fallout 3, than any other fallout
but I played it on a console.
And that to me, is a completely different world.
Posted January 04, 2009
I'm pretty sure Fallout 1 or 2 would have lasted just as long if you had to manually walk everywhere and shoot annoying enemies constantly with no sense of reward as you reached the level cap twenty hours ago.
Posted January 04, 2009
This is what my sister and I refer to as Sid Meier Syndrome, any game that man makes has that "just one more turn... last time I looked at the clock it was 9PM, why is the sun up? Ahh just one more turn..."
I must admit that I had exactly that with Fallout Tactics yesterday, just had to clear a few more buildings and it took a lot longer than I thought it would. Especially with my people sucking and walking over mines they knew were there...
Post edited January 04, 2009 by Aliasalpha
Posted January 04, 2009
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Aliasalpha: This is what my sister and I refer to as Sid Meier Syndrome, any game that man makes has that "just one more turn... last time I looked at the clock it was 9PM, why is the sun up? Ahh just one more turn..."

Sid Meier's Pirates was my fave. Crusin' the seas with a bigazz fleet blowing up all my allies.
I previously played F1 & F2 but never played Tactics...just installed it actually. Stuff is mondo hard, I'm not fast enough for the realtime stuff, squad turn based for me.
Maybe I'm just anal.
Posted January 05, 2009
I don't understand how anyone could play Tactics on anything other than the turn based mode, there's absolutely no time to act or think in real time, it's just reacting.
Posted January 06, 2009
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EyeNixon: I'm pretty sure Fallout 1 or 2 would have lasted just as long if you had to manually walk everywhere and shoot annoying enemies constantly with no sense of reward as you reached the level cap twenty hours ago.

Funny, I hit the 20 level cap after +/- 52 hours ;) And you DON'T have to walk everywhere, traveling via the map and "Q" key for auto-walk saves a lot of time (hauled some heavy stuff to Megaton twice or three times, tho, felt like playing 18 WOS with rad scorpions and vicious dogs instead of signal lights and cops :) )
Posted January 06, 2009
I played on Very Hard (which gave me inflated experience points), tried to avoid enemies as much as possible because they were incredibly annoying, and still had an amazingly easy time while reaching the level cap at my eighteenth hour.
What the hell were you doing? Killing radroaches for hours on end on Very Easy?
Post edited January 06, 2009 by EyeNixon
Posted January 07, 2009
Fallout 3 was good for the first 50 hours and then you have a hard time finding quests to do because there aren't any! The first fallouts gave me way more immersion and made me laugh way more too. The funny thing is I only got Fallout 1 & 2 because I heard of Fallout 3 about two or so years ago. Fallout 1&2 >>>> Fallout 3 :)
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