Slimejuggernaut

Too busy to play Fallout 3 at any rate. I did play a couple of other games, mostly for review purposes. Especially Dragon Age: Origins and its sequel Awakenings took a lot of my spare time. Had a lot of fun with them. Also started playing Oblivion again, we bought the GOTY for PS3. This time I am staying away from the gates and just walking around the landscape doing all the little quests in the villages and cities and collecting nirnroot.
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I am a very slow and careful player. I tend to check my environment every few steps, and save my game very frequently. If, in a game, health regenerates automatically, I wait until the bar is back to 100% after every enemy and save before and after any fight. If it doesn’t, I use other methods to get as close to full health as possible and rest/sleep/eat all the time.

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When I left the Vault, my objective was to go to the nearby town Megaton and find out if my father had been there recently. I decided to follow the dirt tracks outside the Vault and see where I ended up. I soon found a little devastated village called Springvale. It appears the residents had to leave in a hurry as there were still some suitcases left and some post boxes had leaflets in them. There was also a little round floating robot thingy that was not hostile towards me, but neither could I discover any way to communicate with it. A huge sign pointed me towards Megaton but I decided to walk around some more when suddenly someone took a shot at me. Using the V.A.T.S. I found it was a Raider and I quickly ended his life. Because I wanted his armour, I walked closer to his body and discovered an elementary school. Curious as to what may have been left behind, I entered it. Immediately the little bar showing where enemies are showed at least four red marks. That got me scared alright, even on Very Easy. I usually play it very safe and make sure I rest after one or two enemies to get my health back, but I hadn’t found anywhere safe to do so yet, so I knew I would have to kill them all in one go. Walking around, killing them one by one I soon found out that there were more than just the four initial red blibs, but it was not as difficult as I had feared. I did get hit a couple of times but managed to kill them before they could do any real damage. I now have a decent enough set of apparel and some weapons and ammunitions and it’s time to move on.

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We bought a PS3 and some games, among others Fallout 3. Nipeng had never played the previous titles in the series, but I have and I was really curious to see what Bethesda had made out of it, but at the same time very reluctant to try it as the reviews I read all said it was kind of a mixture between RPG and FPS. Although I enjoyed the first two Fallout games, I thought they were very hard. I actually prefer story-driven games, adventures and action-light RPGs and never play FPSgames at all… so this sounded way too hard for me.

As Nipeng played, I watched and enjoyed the game more than I had expected. Then when I discovered there is a “very easy” difficulty setting, I could no longer hold off and decided to have a go at it. In the next couple of weeks (or months, probably, this is a long game and I am a slow player) I will post my views on the game as I play short sessions.

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Due to some very aggressive marketing, the GC in Leipzig was cancelled this year, leaving the GamesCom in Cologne as the only expo worth visiting, Cologne is much closer to home (in fact, to go to Leipzig I used to drive to Cologne and then fly to Leipzig) which saved me a lot of time, but the general atmosphere and the number of adventure games shown were heaps better in Leipzig. I did see some nice games, both behind the doors and on the ‘public’ floor. In particular Dragon Age: Origins seems promising. I bought a couple of games that have no English release (yet) and met a lot of great people, amongst others Steve Ince, Dan Connors and the adventure-treff.de guys. Still, I hope next year the GC Leipzig will be back, I enjoyed that fair a lot better the past couple of years. Also, I got NO manuals signed this year, although I did bring several. In Leipzig there were signing sessions and some other opportunities to speak to developers.