See I don't just like money in games(Fallout) it's a necessity for me because I have to spend them, and more often then not the things I do spend them on are completely frivolous and useless. But I needs the shiny new item that merchant I just passed has. It gets pretty bad for my character I will give you a for example: my character in New Vegas(his name was James Martin in case you cared) was the biggest goody two shoes you would ever meet in the Mojave Wasteland. And one day while wandering the wastes I met a merchant who had a weapon mod that I had been looking for for something like 12 hours(not in game but real time) problem was I didn't have enough caps for it, I didn't really need the mod because I wasn't using that weapon but in my blind ambition I went to the nearest town razed it to ground murdered every single soul within until I had the caps for the part I was looking for. Needless to say some folk in the Mojave weren't really happy about my wholesale slaughter, I'm sure they would have been even more pissed if they knew why I did so I ended up reloading a save because I was being hunted down by the very people I had previously swore to protect.
Other times I don't reload another time I just say screw it, I had spent 15 hours trying to gain the trust of this faction but then out of nowhere some NPC walks by with some sweet ass armor so I go to my nearest merchant to see if maybe he had some that was just like it(I feel it's important to mention that for this particular play through I wanted nothing but be part of this faction). Unfortunately for this settlement the merchant did not have in stock that awesome armor I saw that guy wearing a couple of minutes ago, so in a fit of rage I went around putting C4 in everyone's pocket that was in the vicinity and promptly blew those ass-goblins up, then casually mowed down everyone who started coming out of their shacks to see what the commotion was.
To make a great story short I didn't even end up getting the armor because that guy left the area and I could never find him again... but when I do, keep him in your prayers.
Generally I try to really be the good guy like this other time me and two homies hit up one of the rival faction's base and killed everything that moved, well except for the children because apparently even if they are Legion recruits you still can't kill the little bastards. But then someone has a shiny toy that I haven't seen and all hell breaks loose and I will murder everything in my path until it is mine, the Wasteland is a pretty dangerous place. Most of the time I have the self restraint to not murder people in their beds in games like these... most of the time.
Well I thought we would take a moment to remember those lost in the infamous Massacre of the Gauss Rifles.
In loving memory of...
Elder McNamara
Head Paladin Hardin
Head Scribe Taggart
Paladin Ramos
Paladin Sato
Senior Knight Lorenzo
Senior Scribe Schuler
Knight Torres
Scribe Ibsen
Apprentice Watkins
Initiate Stanton
...and many others lost to our memories.
war, war never changes
toodlekittens
Hahaha I'm the same way. In fallout 3 I would rescue everyone I could, I preferred to use speechcraft to get out of sticky situations rather than shoot my way out, and I was basically a turn the cheek kind of adventurer. However, I had my vices (*spoken slyly because it's a reference to this blog*).
ReplyDeleteOne day, I found myself sneaking up the stairs to Lucius Simm's Megaton home at 3:25 am. I crept to the play where he was laying and put 6 lead bullets into his slumbering face. Only a true BA of the wastelands deserves that duster and hat combination; I won them fair and square (kinda).
I figured I had some positive karma to spend. But, whether my situation damns me, or the heavens regard my actions as a momentary shimmer of human weakness, I. Looked. Awesome. Awwwwwww Yeahhhhhh!
I actually never had the balls to flat out kill Simms... actually I avoided killing black people in the game period because I felt like it would make me a racist. (This comment is getting rather long...) When it was time to take the bobblehead from Eulogy I killed everyone but I had Dogmeat kill all the black people including Eulogy. I suppose for refusing to kill black because I thought it was racist made me a racist.
ReplyDeleteAnyways what I did end up doing to get that sweet looking Sheriff's outfit I let Mister Burke kill him and then I killed Burke and got all the sweet stuff I could want for another 30 minutes.