Release Date: October 29, 1988
Systems: Windows, Mac OS X
Current Time Spent: 51.5 Hours
Yeah, I came back to Fallout 2 after not having played it in almost eight years, but thanks to that stupid show over on Amazon, I have a hankering to revisit all of the Fallout I either never completed or never played. So I'm jumping back into Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas while concurrently starting Fallout 4.
In
Fallout 2 I decided to return to my character of Judith, who was my third or fourth character, the previous one being Jude because after attempting a new character, I decided that I liked how Judith's story had shaped out to that point. I'm not going to recap the whole thing, but
you can read about it here, although I did progress a bit further after arriving in Vault City. Judith traveled through there, made her way to New Reno, found her way down to Vault 15.
I did have Judith enter Vault 15, but there were just too many Khan raiders to deal with and my companion Vic wasn't much help in a gunfight despite him saying he was good with small guns. So now I'm just wandering around the wasteland, heading towards the New California Republic (aka Shady Sands), trying to uncover as much of the map as possible and completing any open quests I might already have and any more I find along the way.
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Systems: PlayStation 3, Xbox 36o, Windows
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
Current Time Spent: 23.4 Hours
I created my character of Juanita sometime back in August/September 2016. I don't fully remember the backstory I created for her, but it was something like she was a young girl, maybe 18-20, and had decided on the life of a courier because it was either that or brahmin herding and she didn't want that life. She wanted to see the Wasteland and the rest of the world. So after a couple of successful jobs, she was given a package/letter (she doesn't remember as it has not yet been revealed in the game) that got her attacked, shot, and left for dead. Revived by Doc Mitchell in the town of Goodsprings, Juanita had to have a significant amount of surgery to remove the bullet fragments which left her with a shaved head. Now she's on a mission to find out why she was singled out for the package she carried, if the Mojave Express had set her up, and who had her killed.
I don't remember much of the specifics about where I was game-wise, but I remember that Juanita helped defend Goodsprings. I got on the wrong side of Caeser's Legion and the Khans while doing something around a roadside casino. I helped the citizens of Novac in whatever way that entailed. She cleared out a rocket testing facility* near Novac, which might've been the last thing before further wandering out in the Mojave Wasteland. So Juanita headed for New Vegas to the East without knowing what else to do or where else to go (partly because I kept triggering an attack by the Legion where she was overpowered and killed every time).
But not really knowing what you're going to do next is one of the reasons why I love the Fallout games. I'll follow the main quest for a while until I find a bunch of side quests to do and then do those for a while to get better gear and level up a bit. Then hopefully regain the main quest and be just a little bit overpowered; then destroyed by a deathclaw.
But that's just part of the world/experience.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Instrumental
*P.S. For whatever reason, I didn't think the Space Suit would have a better armor rating than the Tempered Leather Armor, but that is what Juanita is now wearing as I try to make my way to Dr. Usanagi somewhere on the Vegas strip.
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