LadyCrimson

Agree with Rosbjerg - if it's a true phobia it's not something cured by rational thoughts. I don't have any advice....I don't like flying either, but don't have any serious issues. The main thing for me is my allergies make me a little paranoid that one day my head will explode upon take-off. Also, not afraid of heights but am afraid of falling, eg ladders are almost bad enough to be an actual phobia, but not quite. I refuse to get on them 99% of the time however. Oddly, I'm not afraid of climbing trees. I guess they feel stable.

Except for some strategy games, I've never been very into turn-based combat. It works and I know why it's used/some like it...and pausing to give orders to party members is fine...but still..not my favorite thing. ...thinking maybe my problem last night was that I'm not liking the current character. Fun as the companions are, the tactic of letting them do all the killing was becoming dull. Plus the Ferocious Loyalty wasn't quite working the way I'd hoped. The DR does work, but not a terribly fun way to play (half-health all the time) for very long. So hm...the patch is tomorrow? Guess I'll wait and see what ppl say about it, then make a new chr. after I (probably) download it.

I'm not sure I could go back to that sort of visual look for a game I've never played before. Up to a few years ago it would have been no problem, but the recent games I've played have kind of spoiled me into certain visual layouts. :/

....I fired up the game last night and...I do believe I've finally become a bit burnt out on NV - yes, even the Boone Experience. Altho I can still run around watching him kill stuff for a while. I think my last game/chr, which was a very in-depth playthru, + too much video editing, tipped me over the edge. ...guess I'll take a break. The boredom of having nothing else I particularly want to do should have me scurrying back to the game in a couple days...

I still don't agree with the isolationist thing. I can understand wanting to preserve the tech and not wanting to 'hand it out' willy nilly because it might be dangerous, but that doesn't have to equate to societal isolationism.

The thing that gets me is how unaware many people are of just how many calories are in their favorite foods. So for that, some of those food docs. are kinda useful. As to Asian food...if it uses soy sauce, it's high in sodium. 2 tablespoons (a common number in recipes) can have 2 grams of sodium (85% of "daily" requirement). Even low-sodium versions are usually over 50% of daily. Soups are usually really bad sodium wise, too.

Heh yeah, SuperSize me fails because it tried to target "McD's/fast food" when what it was really doing was just showing what a high-fat, high-sodium, high-carb, low nutrition diet can do to someone if that's all they eat all the time. Nothing new there. Someone who eats nothing but sausage & pepperoni pizza 3 times a day, or a pint or two of ice cream a day...or eats a Chili's/Applebees platters twice a day...same thing. Basically, restaurant food should typically be restricted as your twice or thrice a month eating out treat, maybe once a week. Using it as your staple daily diet is not good for most people, no matter the venue.

Did I say I hated fast food? No. Depending on the place/personal taste, some of them can be tasty. My objection stems from the usually ginormous amount of calories (mostly of the 'bad fat' sort) for amount of food eaten and their general lack of nutrition value. Even the so-called 'healthy' options on most of their menus pack 700-900 calories for one shot. I'm a tiny person who doesn't spend 2 hours a day working out...I can't eat like that 2-3 times a day without gaining weight. Edit: I forgot..the other issue is massive sodium. Massive. I find this more objectionable as I become older...the entire food industry is horrible about sodium. Plus I agree with Hurl...eat such too often and you start to feel rather terrible.

I think that's why I find them dull. I'm not into serious isolationism in stories because I don't understand it. Individually I can understand introversion and a strong lack of desire to be face-to-face social very often, but isolationist is another matter. It's not interesting because it makes for a static/dull culture, and one that's likely doomed in the long run because of it, as you mention. Although I do realize in NV they were trying to lessen that aspect of themselves a bit.

So do you have to have played the other Fallouts to understand the whole BoS thing? I see people talk about them all the time, and to me they were very boring in NV. I don't find their motivations interesting at all.

::sadpanda::

The males in my family have history of heart disease and my twin cousins have to be very careful. Sometimes genetics kinda sucks. Getting older too. I find the video game diet works wonders, and it's a lot more fun than eating carrots. But yeah, I've done that...carrots, yogurt, fruit. Sigh. Last night I indulged in a fast food burger, which I haven't had in a long time. My mouth nearly exploded from all the grease and stuff. Tasty tho.

I just looked at the age/sex and photo threads at the Beth forums. It didn't surprise me or anything, yet of course, still.... ....I now feel very old. Like, magical tree in the elven forest old. Time for my nap.

@Walsh my own bad upper back is a frequent cause of mild head and neck aches. I don't get truly bad ones very often but still annoying. Couches are often too "cushy" to be comfortable sitting for long for that reason so I have to be reclined/lying down on those. Bah. Hope your issues can get better.

Yay, Beth forums are up. They look...flatter. Don't like the font. Otherwise not much different. As long as I can read and post. Yak yak yak. (you'll have to excuse me, I haven't slept). Oh yeah...I forgot about those really really long load times on console for some people. In that case, such quests would annoy the heck out of me for technical reasons. Yar.

Yea, that's what happens to me too. I think "I don't want to go back there right now" so I don't, but then some other quest I do want to do takes me back or near there so I figure why not.

Sometimes it's really hard to find even an instrumental track for a video that isn't on YouTube's immediate no-no list. If my second choice is on their list I'll scream and give up and go back to making straight up no-backtrack game videos. Recompressing/reuploading is no fun. I'm all for protecting music but man, you can't even use a sample, practically, of something in a YT video anymore. Humbug!

I suppose all my years of playing games like Diablo has inured me to the concept of fetch quests. I generally don't care if they exist. It's true that if they're all very very simple ones ("get me 10 bear skins!" ala WoW) I'll find it exasperating after a while, but I guess I find most of the quests in NV to be at least better than that, so I don't care. I know a lot of them are in the vein of "Kill so and so" or "get info from..." or "find 5 entertainers" but the fact there are usually dialogue options for different ways of solving/doing them makes it less of 'fetch' to me. I mean, how else are you going to design/initially set up a quest but to tell someone to go somewhere to do something, whether it's finding an item or talking to an npc or pulling a switch? It's what's within it/where it may lead to that's more important, imo. The end of the debated quest is interesting, thus to me it's not really a fetch quest, it's a "npc history/motivation quest." I have more antipathy against being forced to run through multiple loading screens in order to get to a merchant or area, that you need to go to multiple times, ala Camp McCarran or The Strip.

Another topic: I've read a lot about how companions will sometimes pick up all these weapons from the dead and such, but I've NEVER had that happen to me. Until last night. Was ambushed by several bandits AND one of those special legion parties that show up randomly once you're vilified, and while being swarmed, Boone scooped up a 10mm machine gun, shot it for 10 rounds, shouted it was empty, and reverted back to his default rifle. I'm guessing I usually equip any companions I have with something other than their default weapon, so quickly, that they don't think most things are worth picking up. That and they're usually at a distance, too far away to 'want' to rush over to pick up something. But this time I left Boone with his default rifle....

No. In real life I think berets mostly look stupid on people. I'll stick to getting him a RedSox uniform.... (edit:no offense to ppl who like berets...I mean military berets, too, not the cutesy knit caps some ppl call berets) Agreed. I think most of the quests (even some of the 'fetch' ones) are done well enough and are non-annoying. There's always going to be a few for every player that they don't like...I don't understand why people get upset over a few quests that they think are 'tedious.' With all the quests in the game, do you expect all quests to fit your personal tastes/reasoning? There's plenty of other quests related to those areas/camps, no one forces you to do the ones you find dull. (edit:except the main quest, in theory, you 'must do'...but then again, no you don't...only if you care about playing the very end game bits)

To be honest, I think I spend more time recording/editing combat videos than actually playing in any sensible fashion, lately. But yeah...kinda makes up for most of the last several games I've bought, which all ended up essentially shelved in a few days. Two Worlds1 I played for almost 3 weeks I think...which until NV was the longest time spent on a game at once in 3 years. NV has renewed my game-time obession, at least for a while. I remember when almost all new games did that to me. *memories*

His name always makes me think of Ludlum. The Boone Identity The Boone Supremacy The Boone Ultimatum I only had three, and the 3rd was on Raul. Poor Arcade. I've grown quite fond of him in an exasperated-sibling kind of way tho... @Cant - yeah, I made a new chr. last night. A no-combat one that's purposely built for multiple companions and Ferocious Loyalty. High END (to survive half-health for FL at times), max CHA, low everything else (includ. 5 INT to get Arcade early via Ant Nectar) and focus on repair/barter/speech/lockpick. No combat/damage/vats perks. Only time I fire a shot is to attract attention once in a while, but mostly I use the followers 'caution' reaction to trigger fights. So far it's been interesting. Multiple followers means it's not hard, but it is interesting/fun! (ps...getting Arcade at lvl2 is a bit too much, tho, with his high dmg. energy pistol. He outspeeds/outkills Boone if you go back to the early areas once you grab him. So I made him Wait for a while. heh)

Apparently, on the PC, if you remove all his inventory stuff (or you'll lose it), then use the console command 'resurrect' on Boone, he'll revert to his original equipment state, thus removing his 'quest armor' and making him a paper doll again. Yay. And as a bonus, you've duplicated his beret!* LOL *not that pc users couldn't dump lots of berets into the game via GECK...but still funny. hehe. Also, I assume it'd work to reset all companions default gear.

Heheh...I still haven't remade a chr. w/10 CHA so I can have all of them. I need to do that just for that area, it would be wicked fun I'm sure. But in general, is going with 6 still working well for you? I continue to have issues anywhere w/self-closing doors because of the way they follow single-file, altho granted such places are rare. The third one always gets stuck behind the door....and out in the open, three has been more than enough for tankage. So far my preference is to stick with just 2, only both of them human...no ED-E/Rex.

Yeah, across the river. No map marker. If you have multiple human companions to tank for you it can be total chaos! But you can also do the usual sniping/can't touch me business. It's also the spot that