Games for Lunch: Fallout 3
In a nutshell: Growing up in a post-nuclear family.
10/28/2008 5:26 PM | 2 Comments | Page 3 of 4
0:29 It seems the local bullies have been invited to my party. One tries to be nice to me, but the others ostracize him for his tenderness. Bullying. Bullying never changes.
0:30 Meanwhile, a robot cuts the cake. The future is awesome!
0:31 As I talk to some people at the party, I pick up bits of other conversations from across the room. The crosstalk is both impressively realistic and a bit annoying at the same time. Thank god for subtitles.
0:33 Apparently Amata help put together the entire party. And the Overseer confirms that she seems to like me. Wow, now I feel like a jerk for talking about "Mean Christine."
0:34 Here I am enjoying my party, when head bully Butch comes up and complains that the robot destroyed the cake. He demands the sweet roll I got as a gift from Old Lady Palmer. I get to choose from a wide array of responses, including spitting on it and giving it to him and insulting his mom. That last one sounds appealing...
0:36 Insulting Butch's mom seems to have gotten his ire up. He starts punching at me, but none of the gathered adults seems to notice or care. Meanwhile, Dad gets a message on the intercom about a special surprise upstairs. He says, no one will mind if I slip out for a few minutes. I think Butch will mind, as he's still busy punching me! I can't even figure out how to defend myself!
0:37 Eventually Officer Gomez comes over from the barstool to pull Butch off of me. He asks me what that was all about. I tell him it was "just boys being boys," which seems to satisfy him. While the facial expressions and voice acting are top-notch, the mouth movements on these characters are really off-putting somehow.
0:38 An older woman named Beatrice comes in and calls me "dearie." I respond rudely, telling her I'm not a five-year-old girl. She just laughs and condescends to me some more. She wrote me a poem. "You've got to be kidding me," I tell her. "No, I wrote it just for you." Man, she's immune to sarcasm, isn't she?
0:40 I'm off to see what Dad's surprise is, even though I'm not very eager to leave the party. A little subtle arrow on my compass points the general direction, while the Pip-Boy has a more detailed map.
0:42 Down on the reactor level, Jonas and Dad give me a BB gun. Dad leads me down to an empty hall with some targets I can practice on. Finally, some action! Enough of this baby stuff!
0:43 When Dad says he hopes I like my present, I rudely tell him that "a shotgun would have been nice." There's genuine hurt on his face as he responds: "Maybe you haven't grown up as much as I thought." Man, being a jerk in this game is going to be tougher than normal...
0:45 The targeting system for the BB gun is decent enough to hit the close, non-moving targets. Then a Radroach appears at my feet. I activate the V.A.T.S. system, which lets me pause the action and target the giant insect by body part. This gets annoying quickly and I just end up shooting it freehand.
