Fallout 3: Roy the Douche and Alien Blaster
This might be the start of a log of notable experiences I have in Fallout 3. The game's just too... fricken' impressive to ignore, to not put thoughts to paper (or screen, in this case.) It has some pretty big shortcomings (mostly in the field or immersion; the NPCs are quite sterile at times,) but otherwise? Great, great video game experience. And
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I love that game. I finished it last night in a four hour marathon through the final parts of the primary quest. The final part is both intense and fun as all hell.
And Roy Phillips? The ghoulish douche? I exhausted every dialog option with him down in the sewers and realized he was a jackass. That there was no way he would let bygones be bygones. All he did was talk about killing every human in Tenpenny Tower.
So I accepted the job to blow him away and did.
The bastard had it coming, see?
I assuaged my guilt over that by gunning down every slaver in Paradise Falls and freeing the children they held as slaves there.
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And yeah, I guess I should have seen Roy's backstabbery coming, but... I'm so used to everything going perfectly in RPGs that it literally made me pause and think about everything that led up to that point. I felt so mad that I just killed the guy.
Well, anyway, you ever find Alien Blaster?
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But all the little subplots and things going on in Fallout are just so pitch perfect. There's some deficits to the game, but the world that was built and the plots and stories that you're walking through are not one of them. They're amazingly good.
And I could never find that damn ship.
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Do you want any hints as to where the UFO crashed?
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