168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout: New Vegas has become something of a white whale for me, if the thing preventing ﷽Captain Ahab from harpooning Moby Dick was that he kept getting distracted by all the other whales he could be skewering.
I’m sure I would like Fallout: New Vegas if I gave it an honest shot. I like Obsidian’s games, I like choice-driven RPGs (especially if they’re first-person — 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is an all-time favorite), I enjoyed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pentiment, the most recent work from New Vegas’ director Josh Sawyer. And, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Outer Worlds, the cꦑlosest thing Obsidian has made to a sequel, was one of my favorite games of 2019. There’s no good reason for me not to have played this game.
And yet, every time I start New Vegas, I only get an hour or two in before stopping. My last attempt was last summer. My wife was gone on a trip for two weeks, and I took the same time off work so I could plug away at some extracurricular projects. Mostly that meant writing, but one of the less important projects I wanted to accomplish during that time was finally playing Ne🥃w Vegas. It didn’t happen. I made it through the first hour or two — long enough to create my character and start wandering the desert town whereও the game begins — but not long enough to get hooked.
Character Creators: Blessing Or Curse?
I’ve made other similar attempts before, and this is as far as I ever get. Part of the problem is that the game starts with a character creator, which is a feature that I always love in a choice-driven RPG. When I play a game like Fallout: New Vegas, my goal is to play as a distinct character — not just a version of myself. I used to play myself but, when I did, I just ended up making all the good choices because that’s what I think I should do. When I play as someone else, ✱it giv💯es me the opportunity to remove myself and really think about how my character would respond. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll pick all the evil choices, but it’s permission to not be a boring paragon of virtue.
ꦦ More Games ꦿLike Fallout: New Vegas Would Fix The Games Industry
If games need🍰 five years (or more) of development, studios need to let other devs work with their IP.
I enjoy playing this way, but it also makes the hurdle to getting into a game like this a little higher. I can’t just pick it up and play it, I need to think through who my character is, wh🌜at they look like, and what kinds of choices they’ll be making in my playthrough. There’s a bit of storytelling work to be done. Not serious work, but the type of effort you would put in when preparing a character for a D&D campaign.
New Vegas Vacation
That barrier may have stopped me in the past, but I’m sick of having to admi🐈t that I haven’t played a game everyone who knows my taste says I’ll love. And I finally have a plan to fix it. Next week, I’m going on vacation. My wife has a work trip in Baltimore and I’m going with her. She’ll be attending a conference during the day which will give me plenty of time at the hotel. I could take my PS5 and Switch and play the usual buffet I have access to at the Golden Corral of gaming I call my home. But, I’ve decided to only take my laptop. I might even delete all the other games I have on it, so that New Vegas is my only option.
Animal Well 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:debuting to such glowing reviews really feels like the universe is testing me, but I will follow through.
The specifics may still be subject to change🙈, but the purpose is clear. I&r🉐squo;m locking myself in a sensory deprivation tank, where the water I float on is Fallout and the darkness surrounding me is also Fallout. When I get back, I’ll have — at the very least — put a dozen or more hours into Fallout: New Vegas. And, with some luck, most of that time won’t be spent in the character creator.
Will There Ever Be A Fallout Game Set In A Midwest Cityꩵ?
Fallout has spent plenty of time on the coasts, but a spin-off from 2ꦰ3 years ago was the last time the series visited the Midwest.
