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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2024
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:12:12 -0700
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On 6/1/2024 10:04 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> * Dead Space Remaster
> * American Truck Simulator - Nebraska DLC
> * Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider
> 
> 
> Well, that's my short list for my month. Did you do any better? Let's
> find out.

Hours wise maybe, who knows.  Titles wise no.

> 
> What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2024?
> 

Fallout 3 Unmodded.  I'm determined to get through the DLCs this and 
I've got through 3 of them.

Operation Anchorage - I enjoyed this more than last time.  I decided to 
leave this until I was what 17 or so and felt pretty powerful so as not 
to screw up the game by getting power armor and a stealth suit so early. 
  I enjoyed it much more than last time, possibly because I had a good 
small guns skill and a number of perks that helped.  I still missed some 
stuff and felt a bit too powerful.  But that ended pretty quickly once I 
hit level 21 and started running into the bullet sponges that were 
added.  I don't like the bullet sponges - ghoul reavers, super mutant 
overlords, etc.  I just feel lie I'm spending a bunch of time in a not 
very enjoyable fight.  Fallout is best when the fights are short and 
brutal.

Mothership Zeta - This was initially more enjoyable, but as I hit it 
after 21 it too had a lot of bullet sponges.  I couldn't tell which by 
name as they were all named "Alien". I went through blind and after 
getting through looked some stuff up about it and missed a perk that 
would've made the alien weapons perhaps useful.  I always like the alien 
blaster before.  But the alien weapons weren't very good compared to 
what I already had without the perk.  Unfortunately I hadn't really set 
up for energy weapons either, which I'm sure doesn't help.  It felt 
excessively long and repetitive after awhile.  From what I've read 
you're better off doing it before level 20 due to the shields they get 
at 21+.

The Pitt - This is my favorite so far.  I probably short circuited the 
quest though by killing off the ex-BoS boss as soon as I met him, but I 
was playing a goody two-shoes with no bad karma and didn't see why not. 
I discovered why not, only after killing him :(.  Too late then.  I 
didn't like hunting down all the steel, and felt robbed as I couldn't 
find the last of it to get the last reward (I tried looking up where 
they were but as I'd got 90+ of the 100 I didn't feel like going back 
and checking every location again, not to mention a lot of the locations 
are very non-descript so it's hard to do a proper guide.)  This one 
feels like it should be played much earlier than I did.

Overall the rest of the game was getting pretty boring by the time I got 
to the DLCs.   I also really should've not installed Broken Steel 
(raises the level limit and adds the bullet sponge enemies) until end 
game, and I still think the game needs the xp reduction mod I was using 
previously.  I probably should still mod the game as the CTDs are 
getting more frequent, perhaps every couple hours now, invariably when I 
finish off a mob for some reason.  But I'm close to the end with only 
the two DLCs left.

I at one point didn't fire up the game for a couple days, not for lack 
of time, I just wasn't that into it, but I didn't fire anything else up. 
  I'm just on the old 'determined to finish' attitude I used to have for 
everything right now.

I probably shouldn't be dragging Red & Shorty everywhere, as they're 
supposed to be temporary companions, and probably making the game too 
easy.  (I had Sticky earlier too, but finally decided to drop him off at 
Big Town as he was annoying for his constant talking and penchant to 
take friendly fire.  For some reason Red and Short don't seem to get in 
my way even though I've got them set up with melee.)

*****

I'm torn what to play next.

Fallout NV is looking a bit more appealing to me now, as whatever love I 
had of the open world of Fallout 3 has long worn off, and feel like I'd 
appreciate the more linear quest of NV now than when I played it when it 
was released.  However I do remember it has a lot more crafting which I 
hated and still dislike in most games.

Elden Ring DLC is coming out soon and it seems many people have started 
playing again to hone their skills, which means co-op is probably 
flourishing again, so I'm tempted to go back for that.

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