Maybe I should get New Vegas, so we're all on the same page. I've never tried NV. It would be fun if we're all out there together.

Can 't get it today though. Maryland's in the middle of a blizzard.

Lonesome Dove is a sniper too! She's headed for the prison next in fact. She'd rather have a real sheriff for Primm than give it over to the NCR.

I actually prefer FO3 to NV. For lots of reasons.

Renee, New Vegas requires Steam, whether you buy it on a disc or not. So you could just download it instead. That is what I did. I figured since I have to go online to to play it, I may as well buy it online too. That is if you buy it for your PC of course. I imagine you could download it from X-Box Live too though. And since it is snowing, that means you don't have to wait to create a new character!

Do it! New Vegas is amazing (although my love for the game leaves me biased). I've taken a break from TES so I'll be playing NV for a long while.

As you may have heard NV is very different from FO3 landscape/enemy-wise. by this I mean all enemies arne't leveled with the player, some higer level enemies are places in certain places as a tool to keep you from progressing, leaving the open world gameplay a problem; but none the less it's still fun to play!



Snipers are amazing. Lori is also very skilled with a 9mm but she prefers to keep at a safe distance these days.

The main thing I prefer with NV is the companion system. I've never been one to play the game completley alone, and I find the companions of NV have so much more character to them. I also prefer the weapons system.

Aargh!

Taking a look in here was a mistake, now I'm getting the itch to dig out FO3 again...

Oh, I'll just get it for Xbox. Xbox doesn't require Steam, at least I hope not?

I'm playing Skyrim today (snow outside and all that) and I might roll a new toon for Oblivion today too on PC. I'm going to create Renee Gade III today for that game.



Sweet!


There are no mistakes in life, CT. Yes, you should play Fallout 3. * grins *

I'd advise against Fallout New Vegas on the 360. I had it, and got rid of it.

For me it started out with gamebreaking bugs, and by the time they were done patching it it still had gamebreaking bugs, only now half the time it would just freeze up before I could even finish creating a character. It was still buggy, and far too unstable.

Of course, not everyone on the 360 had the same experience, but still, it'll either be very good (and it certainly was a good game underneath all the bugs), or it'll be straight-up unplayable.

Yep, this is one of my big dislikes about NV. The PC version has lots of bugs too. Most of it is just silly stuff, like dogs with their eyeballs floating in the air beside their head, or scorpions doing handstands. But I had one completely gamebreaking one. Or at least it would have been if I had not been on the PC. Thankfully I was able to use the command console to get around it.

I have been running into a brand new bug this time playing. The game freezes whenever I try to load my most recent hard save. But it loads off the quicksave just fine, and any other hard saves. When I make a new hard save, it won't load off that one. But then it will load off the previous one just fine. Makes no sense to me at all.

Bugs? Yicch. I hate the things!

Well, depending on how much it costs, I'll either get NV or I won't. If it's less than 30 bucks at the game store, I'll go ahead and get it. We'll see.

See what it costs pre-owned. I really wouldn't say it's worth buying new. Too likely to bug out.


Now, the problem I've got with Fallout 3 is resisting the temptation to start a female character called Lexa Kimbo

Yes, you should roll that toon, CT. Make sure to buff her stats too.

Just kidding. What will Lexa Kimbo specialize in?

I can't remember what I paid for it on Steam. I think I got it on one of their sales for about $20 or $30 US. It should not be too expensive, it is a rather old game now.

I just checked Steam, and they want $10 for just the base game, and $20 for the Ultimate Edition with all the dlcs. So it's a decent price.

Not a bad price, I agree. That's actually a very good price.

She'll be a sniper, so; small guns, sneak, repair, and I'll have to boost lockpick and explosives (for mines). Or maybe I'll switch repair and lockpick around...

Then I'll be faced with the challenge of not making too many puns on account of her name.

You know what I love bout Fallout 3? The G.O.A.T. That whole entire part when they have to take the GOAT is hilarious. I forgot how funny it is. There's a lot of subtle humor during this scene.

Like does anybody else notice when the teacher is reading the questions he goes "Oh no!" during one part. That just kills me. And also towards the end he is reading the final question to his class, and he has to look down at a sheet to remind himself to say the right things about the Overseer. The entire time he's doing this, his voice is just 'meh', as if he's trying not to roll his eyes

I'll be honest, I've not paid any attention to the G.O.A.T. since my first couple of runs of the game. After that I just skipped it. I do remember the last question though, that was funny, the way he sounded so very tired of asking that question

After the first time, I have just skipped over the Goat too, so I cannot remember most of it. Just a few things like killing grandma...

Ahh such a shame. It's so funny. All the comments that are made as the students hand in their tests also are perfect. There's one gal who is surprised she's being slated for the Maintenance department for instance. And the Tunnel Snakes give the teacher a lot of semi-rude comments that had me cracking up

I´ll never be on the same page anyway!

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP SAYING TOON!!!


...don´t want Warner Brothers on our tail...

What else would serious, hardcore gamers like ourselves call them?

Fair dues...


RELEASE THE TOONS AND LETS PWN EACH OTHER!!!

Last night Lonesome Dove mosied on over to the prison and delivered a little frontier justice to the Powder Gangers. After a long walk filled with shootin' varmints of the two and six-legged kind, she found the Ranger Station and was able to get the new Sheriff of Primm en stated by the NCR. She did a little more varmint shootin' for Ranger Jackson, and in return he gave her a shiny new rifle. It doesn't have a lever, so Dove is not sure if she likes it. But she decided to try it out anyway, and is fixin' to amble on over towards Nipton to see what all the smoke is about.

Yeah, for me in the UK the unltimate edition was £15. which is a bargain compared to the £30 retail proce in normal shops (for the Xbox versian). You get some great additions, such as four amazing quests, a wide selection of new weapons and a raised level cap to level 50.




I noticed this when I was playing FO3, was pretty funny!




Some amazing quests SubRosa! I love the goodies you get from Ranger Jackson... Lori, too, appreciates the rifle given by him.

Last night Lonesome Dove mosied on over to Nipton, and my was there ever a fussin' and a hollern'. Dove cyphered out what had happened from the runner-up winner of the lottery (he of the broken legs). So when she a-seened them thar legion fellers she just let her new NCR rifle do the talking, starting with the one wearin' the dog hat.

Speakin' o' dogs, them legion hounds kept their distance. Dove has learned to keep the peace with most four-legged varmints these days, so'se she don'ts needs to waste any lead on 'em no more.

Well, after them legion fellers was crow-bait, Dove went after them what their cohorts had enslaved. She finally caught up with them a fair distance to the east, and commenced to putting her new rifle to a lot of work. A couple of yankee carpet-baggers was passin' by at the same time, and they was right neighborly enough to lend a few bullets the exchange as well. Though one of 'em found his maker before the end was done. That was too bad, 'cause Dove was hopin' to sell off that legion gear to the feller. Still, she freed the slaves just like Lincoln. Only she was a might taken aback to find out they was Powder Gangers! Sheeiit, if Dove'd knowed that, she'd never bothered in the first place. Oh well, no good deed goes unpunished they say.

That meant a long haul back to the Ranger Outpost to get her gear repaired up good as new, and to sell off her well gotten gains. In fact, Dove made several trips back and forth a'tween Nipton and the station, to get the most out of her sweat and gun-grease. Along the way she stopped to shoot some six-legged varmints in the dry lakebed between the two locales.

Lonesome Dove meandered east from Nipton and found the Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle. She put it to good use when she found a Legion camp on the shores of the Colorado River. She 'splored a bit thereabouts, and put down some Lakelurks while she was at it. Headen' back west, she found Camp Searchlight, but didn't get too close on account of the radiation.

Heading up North, she came upon a small Legion camp and put them devils down. She found Novac and sold off her loot at the Dino Gift Ship. After talking to Ranger Andy she went and took a looksie at a Ranger station that had been quiet. All she found were bodies, and a taunt left behind by the Legion.

After that she headed east again. This time she teamed up with an NCR Ranger, and rescued a passel o' NCR fellers that the Legion had nailed up on crosses, taking back the town of Nelson while she was at it. Another Ranger came running up after and gave her an emergency raido. Said she could call 'em up if'n she was in a fix, and he and his posse'd would come a runnin'. Dove thought that was right neighborly. At least there is still some honest, God-Fearin folk left in the Wasteland.

SubRosa, your short little updates on Lonesome Dove are both whimsical and fun to read!

I'm also enjoying the updates, SubRosa! Dove made a good shout decided not to waste her time on the Legion Hounds!

My goodness, Dove does seem to enjoy hunting down those blasted Legionnaires!

Well yesterday I installed the Saxxon's Quests mod... and I love it, It adds a bunch of new quests, two new companions; and so much more.

Writing Dove's updates in a cowgirl drawl does add a little something. Those Legion rascals are thicker than flies on a mule's butt! It's hard not to kill 'em!

Saxon's quests? What are they like, killing the High King, plundering the English countryside?

In other news Lonesome Dove continued her meanderings. She headed back to the homestead in Goodsprings and set for a spell, unloading her well-gotten gains and relaxin' on the porch with Easy Pete. Then she was off east again, past them signs warning about the dangerous horny toads. Sheeeiiiit, what horny toads them wuz too! Bigger than a pre war truck, and hittin twice as hard. It was a good thing Dove had her Gobi Explorer with her, and plenty of home made jhp ammo for it. By the time all was said and done about 18 'o them toads was buzzard bait, and Lonesome Dove had opened the road to Vegas.

She mosied on east some mores, and stopped off at the 188 Trading Post to load up on more ammo. Then she clumb up Black Mountain, and rescued a ghoul from the clutches of a neefarious mutant who'd rustled him up for a mechanic. They parted ways, and Dove finally meandered Up North some mores.

She saw a Ranger running across the Wasteland, so's she followed him. They run across one one badman after 'nother, and put those varmints down with six guns a blazin'. In the end the Ranger led Dove to Camp McCarran, in the old airport by Vegas. Dove wandered about for a spell, jawin' with folks, and found a feller with a motherload of .308 ammo. She spent a good bit o' caps on him, but left with near a thousand rounds of armor piercers and hollow points for her Gobi.

She did a bit of 'splorin' afterward. She got bushwacked by some badmen in Freeside. But they learned an old Cowboy lesson. Never bring a pool cue to a gunfight. Afterward Dove even put some lead into a big ole' rat this one little sprout was chasin'. He'll be eaten' good tonight!

Stoppin' off at a Comanchero outfit outside o' the city, Lonesome Dove found they had a .50 caliber Barrett for sale. Made for killin' whole herds of brahmin with one bullet she hears tell. That did look real nice and shiny. But a bit too much in caps at the moment. Still, its somethin' to save for...

Wow go SubRosa! *w00t w00t* It cracks me up, you're really getting into the spirit.

I'll have to play some FO3 tomorrow. If it's sunny outside.

We'll have to keep an eye on the Maryland forecast to determine what Renee is up to game-wise.

And I can´t start playing until Lothran leaves Bruma..

I created my second FONV mod yesterday. Simplified Ammo Crafting streamlines the ammo crafting for firearms (but leaves the energy ammo untouched, as I think that is simple enough). I removed all the different types of Cases, Primer, and Powder, and replaced them with just one item for each: Shellcasings, Powder, Primer, and Lead. All cartridges and shotgun shells now use only these four simple components.

So now you can breakdown a .357 round, and make a .308 round from it, etc... It makes everything a lot easier, and gets rid of the two dozen plus crafting items that otherwise clutter up your inventory.

It does not remove the vanilla Casings, etc..., but it does take them out of all the recipes, leveled lists, scripts, and so on. Any container or script or game effect that would have spawned them before, will now spawn the Simplified components instead. But if you had any vanilla components in your inventory or laying around before you start using the mod, they will still be there. They just won't do anything anymore.

I am still playtesting it, but once I am sure I did not miss anything, I will probably upload it to the Nexus. If anyone wants to try it out, let me know and I will email it to you. I can always use more guinea pigs! playtesters.

Would be glad to help you, Sub. But as you know I don´t play Fallout: New Steamas...

Yesterday Lonesome Dove mosied on over to tha' nor' east. She found Camp Golf, and after a bit of speechifyin', she helped whup some o' the local NCR troops into shape. Headin' out along the shores o' Lake Meade, she saw the big legion fort across the water. That was about as welcome a sight as a radscorpion in your boot! Skirtin' the opposite shore, she put her Gobi to good use peggin' varmints of the sex-legged variety.

Dove tried to lend a neighborly hand to a NCR feller who was trapped in a lakelurk cave. But after she cleared out the ways behind him, the darned fool ran deeper into the cave. He lasted about as long as an ice cube in the Mojave.

Later on Dove came across a pioneer camp at Bitter Springs, and has been workin' on givin' the poor folks some help. She's already rustled them some supplies, got rid of an unneighborly sniper (through more speechifying). Now she's tryin' to get them mores gunmen from the NCR camps around the desert. Along the ways she's done a little bounty huntin' around Vegas too, bringing some Fiends to justice, frontier-style.


In other news, I also worked up a mod with some more food recipes. So far I have Mojave Chili, Wasteland Burritos, Fried Lakelurk Cakes, Deviled Lakelurk, and Mojave Salad. I am thinking of adding a Cactus Smoothie, though I'm not sure what it might do. Maybe add some Action Points.

Good reports there, Sub. Though I have to ask if you ever play Fallout 3? Would like some reports from there too

They're pretty good, actually. Highly recommended.

One of my first mods was a companion called Delilah. She fits perfectly with Lori. Delilah is basically a portable doctor who you have to do quests with to update her doctor status. She also a fairly decent melee user, so I use her as a tank for my more fight-from-a-distance Lori.

Well, Lonesome Dove mosied on down the Colorado, and pretty well 'splored everything there is in FONV, and durn near kilt everything too!

So I rolled a new toon for FO3. Oda Hidetaka is a samurai from Japan's Sengoku period. He is one of Oda Nobunaga's sons, who was also called Oichi "the land's greatest beauty". In my game, Hidetaka is actually one of Nobunaga's daughters, pretending to be male in order to become a samurai. The world thinks Hidetaka died in 'his' teens. But in actuality 'he' was kidnapped by the aliens of Mothership Zeta.

So what I did was take another game save at the Vault exit, and then redid the face, race, stats, and so on to create Hidetaka. Then I used the TCL command to walk up into the air, and went over to the Recon Theta Crash Site. That way Hidetaka did not discover any locations on the map, or encounter anything on the way. Once I was there I let him get sucked up into Mothership Zeta. I just RP'ed that none of that happened, and that he was taken from 16th Century Japan instead.

I spent the last two nights crawling through Mothership Zeta with Hidetaka. He found that after the aliens had experimented on him, he could understand what the other humans onboard were saying. Even though they were clearly gaijin! He also found that his katana Takizakura makes short work of aliens! But the turret guns were more problematic. So he picked up one of the alien's arquebuses and put it to work. She found it less accurate than the ones they had back in Japan though, so eventually switched to another one from Earth, made by a smith called General Atomics (a Laser Rifle). It is the first time I ever completed MZ, and the last dlc I had left to finish. So that was sort of a milestone.

Ooooh... I'm slowly getting ever so tempted to purchase FO£ once I'm done with this round of NV adventure...

I have a few screenies of Lori to share.

Welcome to Novac

That's a big lizard!

Which way to Vegas?

A bit o' gambling

Don't mess with my town

I love the pics of Lori! What is that outfit she is wearing in the first one, at NoVacancy Novac?

She looks kind of like Kate Sackhoff in the pic with Godzilla.

I see she cleans up really nice too. That is a fancy outfit to gamble in. I hope she did not lose it at the blackjack table!

Oda does indeed look like a samurai!

And great shots of Lori, Rihanae. In 'Which way to Vegas', I think my house is up in the mountains over Lori's left shoulder.

Subrosa, it's an outfit from the Wasteland Freelancer Outfits collection. They look great! And I agree! She does look like Katie... I've never noticed that before!

Hehe Acadian!

Hidetaka has been roaming the Capital Wasteland for the past few days. She found Megaton, and agreed to help Moira write her book. Though it turns out that writing is not what Hidetaka will be doing! In return Moira is showing Hidetaka how these wacky abacus-in-a-box things with the glowing screens and keys on a board.

Well, I took the plunge... I now own FO3! I'm kinda just getting a feel for the game again ATM so I've got a test character purely to play a couple of the quests. However, saying this, I've already got me perma-character all planned out.

She is called Dylan Bowcross (A bit of a mouthfull ) and her origins are that of the linear storyline. However, she is a lot less rebelaious than the game INSISTS the Lone Wanderer is. She will be in traiing to be a doctor under her fathers guidence before the whole drama of the vault forces her to leave.

She will use a submachine gun and her skills will be Small guns and Medicine... haven't decided on a third yet.

She is inspired by one of my most favourite post-apocalype heroines from my favourite movie, but despite this she is very different.

I'll u[pdate more once I've finished my current breif playthrough haha

Yay! Another Fallout 3 gamer!

I had been debating it for a while, but I couldn't think of a character I wanted to play. I think that was my biggest turn off! Haha. But Dylan is so appropriate for the FO3 world it felt perfect! haha

Congrats on taking the FO3 plunge!

Hidetaka found the Dunwich Building today. Even for an awesome monster basher such as her, that got creepy. But now she has the Melee Weapons Bobblehead.

I never did find the Dunwich to be creepy. Did I miss something in there?

Yes, I know it´s Lovecraft based now but I didn´t see any significant difference in there comparing to all the other dungeons.

Personally, I think the Dunwich is proper scary...I think I've been in twice; one with the ghoul mask and one without...I'm not sure it wasn't scarier when I didn't have to fight my way through...

That bit where the lighting changed and the hallucination happens...Scared the crap out of me the first time... ...

As I'm easily led with these things, daughter is playing New Vegas at the mo...So I fired up the old FO3 save...

I appear to be just south of Oasis and am exploring/selling the detritus I pick up (having shot the crap out of any raiders/Talon that get in Arnaud's face) on the way...

I managed to find that dude that begins The Pitt DLC thing...I didn't want to do it, and it wouldn't let me back out of the convo...I switched it off...Hopefully my save isn't too far back from that...I can't remember... ...

What I find creepy about the Dunwich Building is that the lighting is a lot lower than other places, combined with the sounds of the ferals hissing and growling the darkness. Then you hear the pat-pat-pat of their running feet, and a misshapen head leaps out of the darkness to bite you. For me, the Feral Ghouls are the creepiest monsters Bethesda has ever made. Not even so much for what they look like, but for what they sound like when you can't see them, but know they are out there.

Combine that with the sad story of Jaime searching for his father, only to find him turned into a ghoul. Then when he is going to leave, you can feel how the book - "It's warm against the stone" - keeps him there, and his voice changes to a ghoul's in his final recording.

I had a Wow moment earlier...

We went into D.C. proper and found a load of stuff around the Georgetown area...Killed a load of Super Mutant Overlords...Awesome!!...

But then we found a townhouse...Apparently owned by "the McClellans"...

Went in, found a deactivated Mr Handy, activated it...As you do...And one of the options you can take is, "Read a poem to the children."...

And, as all the other options looked likely to result in a fight or something...I chose the poem one...

So I followed it to the kids' room...Whereupon the Mr Handy proceeded to read the poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains." to a skeleton holding a teddy bear...

Fair dues...There's not often I'm actually moved by a computer game...But that was pretty damned heavy (an poignant) moment after spending the proceeding hour or so doing the simple "Blowing the crap out of things and collecting the stuff"...Y'know?...

After how long of playing this game, I'm pleased that it can still throw a proper awesome surprise at me...