Planet Bob

Oh dear, I think I manged to screw up almost every single quest in "Junktown"

 

I couldn't manage to end one of the quests, so by looking it up in gamefaqs I realized that I practically didn't figure out the "correct" path of most of the story bits, by either having a bad timing of things, doing stuff in the wrong order or by just failing them generally.

 

Thank heavens at least it looks like I didn't do anything game breaking so far!

 

Lets hope the story/script designer of the next part (a location called "Hub") did think more like me and designed his part accordingly

Okay, okay. I considered continuing to play with that unfinished quest for a while, but ultimately I'm too much of a perfectionist to let this slip. So today I started with an older save game, completely replaying the whole "Junktown" bit. Knowing what to do this time, I wasted less than an hour for this

 

Back to "The Hub", I first spent a lot of time wandering through the city. If it wasn't for two smaller sub-quests with some action, this would've been a pretty boring experience. But so I at least finished of a gang of raiders and some very big monster. Still, I'd really love to see some bigger dungeon with a lot of monster to fight by now

 

I organized a caravan transporting water to my vault, so I won some more time for the main quest of finding a replacement water chip. I got some clues regarding a nearby third vault, so I decided to try and find that next.

And it got very interesting in Nekropolis! In fact so interesting, that I almost missed tonights Heroes episode!

 

Nekropolis finally is a really dangerous place, with ghouls lurking on every corner. There's a lot of fights and I also like the story for this bit so far: I decided to help a smaller and friendlier ghoul tribe survive against a dominating and more evil ghoul group.

 

Right now I'm fighting a group of some kind of heavily armed super-ghouls, which is a very tough battle. I hope I can make it tomorrow!

Tonight I finished most of "Nekropolis", where I finally found a water chip! Too bad that besides rescuing my vault my reports of "mutants" scared my boss a lot, so that he sent me straight off to my next mission, finding out what's going on there.

 

I ended up in post apocalyptic Los Angeles, again getting thrown between several rivaling fractions. And again I had a quest getting corrupted - there's a surprising lot of bugs in this game...

 

Anyway, even when this already was the fifth day where I usually bail out and end my articles, I decided to play it at least for another day: I'm having way too much fun to stop right now!

Phew, free at last! After sinking almost the complete weekend into Fallout, I finally beat it! What a fantastic game, by far the best game featured in the Interplaying series so far. Everyone should absolutely experience it at least once in his live

 

A word of advice if you're going to play it though: Install the latest fan made patch, it corrects hundreds of bugs. I experienced a lot of them, albeit nothing really game breaking. I bet it's a lot more enjoyable that way and I wish I had known about it earlier. You can get it here: http://teamx.ru/node/297

 

For some unrelated Interplay news: While Interplay canceled Earthworm Jim and actually didn't release anything at all for WiiWare so far, they recently announced MDK2 for the service :D

 

Watch this space for "Descent to Undermountain", the next game I'll be Interplaying!