Been a while...

It's been a busy month since I posted last. Trying to find insulin that I could afford kept me occupied, plus work has gotten a little more involved. Last month at this time, we had my manager, myself, and four other people working at the place I work at. As of right now, we have my manger, myself, 1 person that only works weekends, and 1 person that put in her 2 weeks notice a week and a half ago. That is going to make things a little rough for me, and a lot rough for my manager. My manger IS trying to hire new people though... she has interviewed at least five people that I know of. Hopefully the skeleton crew thing will go be fixed soon... I hope so, it would be hell during the Holidays.

Otherwise, I have been distracted by Fallout 3. For those of you interested in the game but don't have it, I will repost some stuff I have written elsewhere. It's all spoiler free:

While it is very good, with superb graphics and gameplay, it doesn't quite match up to Fallout 1 and 2 in a couple of areas: First the humor isn't as present in Fallout 3 as it was in it's predecessors. They do try for humor, but it isn't as good, memorable, or dry as F1&2.

Second, the dialog isn't as memorable. There were lines in F2 that I have memorized, and still smile at. Not so with Fallout 3.

Third, the random special encounters either aren't there anymore, or I just haven't found any. I loved some of the special encounters you found in Fallout 2: The Cafe of Dreams, The Star Trek tribute Guardian of Forever, the Bridgekeeper from Monty Python's Holy Grail, and encounters like that. These encounters seem to be gone from Fallout 3.

Don't get me wrong, the game is still awesome, but it doesn't have the heart and soul of the first 2. Bethesda did try very hard, though, and I welcome F3 to the Fallout family.



Also, something else I wrote in response to another post:


You should really play Fallout 1&2 to understand the "heart" of where F3 came from. Fallout 1&2 are set in California, Nevada, and Oregon, but a lot of the groups you meet in F3 are in F1&2, 2 especially. The groups I am talking about the most are The Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave.

The other highly recommended game to give you perspective on where Fallout 3 came from is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, since Fallout 3 is using the same engine and is done by the same people that did Oblivion. You will see where a lot of F3 came from there, too.

All three of these games (F1&2, Oblivion) are very good, and highly recommended. F1&2 may be a little difficult to find, since they are over 10 years old, but they are well worth it. Just keep in mind that they are old games, and set your expectations that the graphics aren't going to compare with the modern games. Never the less, they are very high quality, and very entertaining.

That's it for now. Hopefully I won't wait so long to post next time. But with the holidays coming, who knows?

-'Mad