~Fun with Fallout - Abandoned vaults and giant scorpions
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I finally went and caught Regigigas in Pearl cause... I dunno, I was looking for a Steelix in the Snow Temple and decided I might as well. PAIN IN THE BUTT I TELL YOU. Had to go down there with three members of my team replaced with worthless regis. >:( So I think it was Splotchy, Callima, and Accident, and Callima's still only like... level 56 so she had a hard time putting the level 70 Regigigas to sleep and not dying in the process. Especially since I had to do it like THREE TIMES IN A ROW BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T STAY IN A BALL RRGH
but anyway I caught it. I should probably go after Heatran at some point. Giratina I'm not too concerned with since I'll get one of those in Platinum anyway. Need to go back into Leaf Green and catch Mewtwo at some point though.
Also set Cresselia running, oh boy, running legendaries, that doesn't get old at all. It wasn't fun in Gold/Silver and IT'S NOT FUN NOW. STOP DOING IT.
Anyway
On a side note, I came across a kind of cruelty rating for games. It goes something like this:
Merciful:
* You only ever need one save file, and that only if you want to turn the computer off and go to sleep. You never need to restore to an earlier game.
* Say that there is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you try to push it, the game says something like 'You'd better not. You'd lose that nifty pocket screwdriver'.
Polite:
* You only need one save game, because if you do something fatally wrong, it's blatantly obvious and you'll know better than to save afterwards.
* There is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you push it, all your stuff gets vaporized, including your clothing, and you catch a draft and die of pneumonia.
Tough:
* There are things you can do which you'll have to save before doing. But you'll think "Ah, I'd better save before I do this."
* There is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you push it, all your stuff gets vaporized, and you can't finish the game.
Nasty:
* There are things you can do which you'll have to save before doing. After you do one, you'll think "Oh, bugger, I should have saved before I did that."
* The same as Tough, only there's no sign.
Cruel:
* You think "I should have saved back in the third room. Now I'll have to start over."
* The same as Nasty, only you just hear a humming noise when you push the button. Then, fifty turns later, you type 'inventory'... "Hey, where's all my stuff?"
And I realize now that I go into almost every game that has a save file assuming a Nasty level of difficulty, if not Cruel. MUST SAVE OBSESSIVELY IN MULTIPLE FILES IF POSSIBLE BEFORE ANY KIND OF DECISION
and even worse i don't even think of Cruel or Nasty as unreasonable, just as a different kind of difficult. thanks, sierra!
In other news SHORT INSTALLMENT OF FALLOUT TODAY since I need to actually play more now. WHAT LIES WITHIN VAULT-15?
Previous editions
Just have to get past the old prospector first.
QUICK, INTO THE ABANDONED WELL
A cave. Intriguing.
CAVE RATS! I NEVER SAW IT COMING
Rat stew.
Anyway looks like this vault has had a bit of trouble, what with its door fallin off and such.
LET'S GO INSIDE
OH FINE, I'LL GO LOOK AT THE LOCKER IF YOU INSIST, GREEN BOX IN THE CORNER
I forget what was in here, but apparently it wasn't important enough for me to cap. I ASSUME IT WAS AMMO OR SOMETHING
Big rat.
THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL
Kapow!
It might look like my buddy Ian here hasn't been very helpful but he has. You'll see.
Lame, giant mutated rat doesn't have any giant mutated loot. WHAT A RIPOFF
I obsessively checked almost everything you could click on in here. It's all broken. I trimmed most of that for your convenience. You can't fix any of it either if you were curious.
Oh hey, a level!
So here's what your stat screen looks like normally. Intriguingly blank window down there, hmmm.
Oh neat! I like this kind of thing.
I imagine slaughtering a town would probably push you into the negative territory.
RAT-CATCHER
Anyway lets use this rope I traded from that lady to go down this shaft here
ROPE IS ALWAYS USEFUL
More walking tumors! What kind of vault is this.
Being dead and all.
GIANT ROCKS, THE FINEST IN BEDDING
MORE ROPE YES gimme gimme gimme
Oh neat, your appearance changes with your armor! You don't see that enough in my opinion.
I CAN USE ANY TOILET I WANT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT I'M A WOMAN
Anyway moving along
LET'S GO DOWN THE NEXT SHAFT
Man. Rats.
Hey cool, I knocked that rat around according to my status box.
Man, I probably could have used those emergency supplies too.
HUMANS???
Or all the cats the original Vaultdwellers had, who knows.
Anyway at this point I let Ian go kill stuff while I raided all the lockers. Hey, dynamite!
YOU'RE DOIN GREAT IAN
KEEP IT UP
Sucker.
Ian gives the pig rat a much needed pep talk.
YOU MEAN THIS VAULT DIDN'T HAVE A WATER CHIP AFTER ALL
OH NOOOOOOOOO
Well that's done anyway.
Cool, eye shooting.
I'LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT, STATUS BOX
YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU CHECK EVERY SQUARE INCH
The great Ratcatcher, friend to us all.
HA YES
TOLD YOU
You can read these for a skill boost I think.
Alright alright I'm going
BACK TO SHADY SANDS
Darn it, now I'm hungry.
YEAH LET'S DO THIS I'M PUMPED
SCORPIONS
Well if they insist I'll come right in
Big scorpion.
RIGHT IN THE SCORPION BRAIN
Ha ha ha didn't even touch me
Also yeah I'd imagine being shot in the brain would knock you a little bit senseless
anyway went through murdering radscorpions and went up a level! Now I can get perks!
This could be interesting.
Eh.
Could be useful.
Haha this would be nice, but it's one of those things where I feel like an item might do the same thing. But I could be wrong.
OBEY ME
This could be nice, hmm.
Oooooo
But my int is already at max.
Hmm!
Then I went and asked Alix what to do.
He recommended Awareness! Alright let's do it then.
Then I dumped the other points into some stats like last time but I assume you're not very interested in that sort of thing.
AAAA YOU SHOT ME IN THE BRAIN AAAA
No problem.
YOU GUYS ARE PANSIES
Mmm, junk.
>:(
While waiting for the day to pass. Aaah, the satisfying strikethrough.
TAKE MY RADSCORPION TAIL
TAKE IT
And it went right up his nose.
Wooooo
PESTER PESTER PESTER
ya wuteva bai
Interrupted!
LAME
CAN'T I JUST CARRY WATER WITH ME
RADSCORPION IN THE LIGHT!
sadly not neon colored
Movin right along in search of good times and good news
with good friends you can't lose
This could become a habit!
Hey neat, a box of stuff! I forget what stat influences this sort of thing but I ain't complaining.
froooot
WOOO JUNKTOWN WOOOOO ROADTRIP
What a lovely town.
Like many games that let you put away or take out weapons, I often forget to put them away. WOOPS
Man me and this law, I have a feeling we're not going to get along
Leather, clothing of the future
I like jumping topics randomly HEY DO YOU LIKE PIE?
Oh now I've got Mogwais to deal with great
I just like the scenery don't mind me
also i was obsessively checking for items
Tee hee, killian darkwater
So Gizmo vs Killian, interesting
For a fee.
MAYBE I WILL
or maybe i won't, it depends
QUEST!
Alix says this isn't as straightforward as the others. Oooo. BUT WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IN OUR NEXT EDITION
I finally went and caught Regigigas in Pearl cause... I dunno, I was looking for a Steelix in the Snow Temple and decided I might as well. PAIN IN THE BUTT I TELL YOU. Had to go down there with three members of my team replaced with worthless regis. >:( So I think it was Splotchy, Callima, and Accident, and Callima's still only like... level 56 so she had a hard time putting the level 70 Regigigas to sleep and not dying in the process. Especially since I had to do it like THREE TIMES IN A ROW BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T STAY IN A BALL RRGH
but anyway I caught it. I should probably go after Heatran at some point. Giratina I'm not too concerned with since I'll get one of those in Platinum anyway. Need to go back into Leaf Green and catch Mewtwo at some point though.
Also set Cresselia running, oh boy, running legendaries, that doesn't get old at all. It wasn't fun in Gold/Silver and IT'S NOT FUN NOW. STOP DOING IT.
Anyway
On a side note, I came across a kind of cruelty rating for games. It goes something like this:
Merciful:
* You only ever need one save file, and that only if you want to turn the computer off and go to sleep. You never need to restore to an earlier game.
* Say that there is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you try to push it, the game says something like 'You'd better not. You'd lose that nifty pocket screwdriver'.
Polite:
* You only need one save game, because if you do something fatally wrong, it's blatantly obvious and you'll know better than to save afterwards.
* There is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you push it, all your stuff gets vaporized, including your clothing, and you catch a draft and die of pneumonia.
Tough:
* There are things you can do which you'll have to save before doing. But you'll think "Ah, I'd better save before I do this."
* There is a large button on the wall, with a sign above it that says 'Inorganic Vaporizer Ray'. When you push it, all your stuff gets vaporized, and you can't finish the game.
Nasty:
* There are things you can do which you'll have to save before doing. After you do one, you'll think "Oh, bugger, I should have saved before I did that."
* The same as Tough, only there's no sign.
Cruel:
* You think "I should have saved back in the third room. Now I'll have to start over."
* The same as Nasty, only you just hear a humming noise when you push the button. Then, fifty turns later, you type 'inventory'... "Hey, where's all my stuff?"
And I realize now that I go into almost every game that has a save file assuming a Nasty level of difficulty, if not Cruel. MUST SAVE OBSESSIVELY IN MULTIPLE FILES IF POSSIBLE BEFORE ANY KIND OF DECISION
and even worse i don't even think of Cruel or Nasty as unreasonable, just as a different kind of difficult. thanks, sierra!
In other news SHORT INSTALLMENT OF FALLOUT TODAY since I need to actually play more now. WHAT LIES WITHIN VAULT-15?
Previous editions
Just have to get past the old prospector first.
QUICK, INTO THE ABANDONED WELL
A cave. Intriguing.
CAVE RATS! I NEVER SAW IT COMING
Rat stew.
Anyway looks like this vault has had a bit of trouble, what with its door fallin off and such.
LET'S GO INSIDE
OH FINE, I'LL GO LOOK AT THE LOCKER IF YOU INSIST, GREEN BOX IN THE CORNER
I forget what was in here, but apparently it wasn't important enough for me to cap. I ASSUME IT WAS AMMO OR SOMETHING
Big rat.
THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL
Kapow!
It might look like my buddy Ian here hasn't been very helpful but he has. You'll see.
Lame, giant mutated rat doesn't have any giant mutated loot. WHAT A RIPOFF
I obsessively checked almost everything you could click on in here. It's all broken. I trimmed most of that for your convenience. You can't fix any of it either if you were curious.
Oh hey, a level!
So here's what your stat screen looks like normally. Intriguingly blank window down there, hmmm.
Oh neat! I like this kind of thing.
I imagine slaughtering a town would probably push you into the negative territory.
RAT-CATCHER
Anyway lets use this rope I traded from that lady to go down this shaft here
ROPE IS ALWAYS USEFUL
More walking tumors! What kind of vault is this.
Being dead and all.
GIANT ROCKS, THE FINEST IN BEDDING
MORE ROPE YES gimme gimme gimme
Oh neat, your appearance changes with your armor! You don't see that enough in my opinion.
I CAN USE ANY TOILET I WANT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT I'M A WOMAN
Anyway moving along
LET'S GO DOWN THE NEXT SHAFT
Man. Rats.
Hey cool, I knocked that rat around according to my status box.
Man, I probably could have used those emergency supplies too.
HUMANS???
Or all the cats the original Vaultdwellers had, who knows.
Anyway at this point I let Ian go kill stuff while I raided all the lockers. Hey, dynamite!
YOU'RE DOIN GREAT IAN
KEEP IT UP
Sucker.
Ian gives the pig rat a much needed pep talk.
YOU MEAN THIS VAULT DIDN'T HAVE A WATER CHIP AFTER ALL
OH NOOOOOOOOO
Well that's done anyway.
Cool, eye shooting.
I'LL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT, STATUS BOX
YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL YOU CHECK EVERY SQUARE INCH
The great Ratcatcher, friend to us all.
HA YES
TOLD YOU
You can read these for a skill boost I think.
Alright alright I'm going
BACK TO SHADY SANDS
Darn it, now I'm hungry.
YEAH LET'S DO THIS I'M PUMPED
SCORPIONS
Well if they insist I'll come right in
Big scorpion.
RIGHT IN THE SCORPION BRAIN
Ha ha ha didn't even touch me
Also yeah I'd imagine being shot in the brain would knock you a little bit senseless
anyway went through murdering radscorpions and went up a level! Now I can get perks!
This could be interesting.
Eh.
Could be useful.
Haha this would be nice, but it's one of those things where I feel like an item might do the same thing. But I could be wrong.
OBEY ME
This could be nice, hmm.
Oooooo
But my int is already at max.
Hmm!
Then I went and asked Alix what to do.
He recommended Awareness! Alright let's do it then.
Then I dumped the other points into some stats like last time but I assume you're not very interested in that sort of thing.
AAAA YOU SHOT ME IN THE BRAIN AAAA
No problem.
YOU GUYS ARE PANSIES
Mmm, junk.
>:(
While waiting for the day to pass. Aaah, the satisfying strikethrough.
TAKE MY RADSCORPION TAIL
TAKE IT
And it went right up his nose.
Wooooo
PESTER PESTER PESTER
ya wuteva bai
Interrupted!
LAME
CAN'T I JUST CARRY WATER WITH ME
RADSCORPION IN THE LIGHT!
sadly not neon colored
Movin right along in search of good times and good news
with good friends you can't lose
This could become a habit!
Hey neat, a box of stuff! I forget what stat influences this sort of thing but I ain't complaining.
froooot
WOOO JUNKTOWN WOOOOO ROADTRIP
What a lovely town.
Like many games that let you put away or take out weapons, I often forget to put them away. WOOPS
Man me and this law, I have a feeling we're not going to get along
Leather, clothing of the future
I like jumping topics randomly HEY DO YOU LIKE PIE?
Oh now I've got Mogwais to deal with great
I just like the scenery don't mind me
also i was obsessively checking for items
Tee hee, killian darkwater
So Gizmo vs Killian, interesting
For a fee.
MAYBE I WILL
or maybe i won't, it depends
QUEST!
Alix says this isn't as straightforward as the others. Oooo. BUT WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IN OUR NEXT EDITION