It is so great, Jarrod, to see you are still playing Fallout 3 and all the support you are getting.   Since I only get through this type of game by the skin of my teeth,  there is not much I can do to help you.  But do eventually find the "green place".  It is a great respite after the post nuclear wilderness. 

As to another topic that came up here... someone said.......... 

>>I can't play more than one game at a time.  I get too caught up in the story, which is made so easy by the graphics.  Now books, I can have several going at the same time without problems.<<

I am the same.  But for me it is that I can't switch between the keyboard and other controls from one game to another.  Or as the person who posted the above said the stories.   Books are easy.

Wishing you luck Jarrod as you move ahead.   I am am slowly getting myself going in Gothic 2/Night of the Raven.   Every new RPG I try is a major challenge.  But that is what makes it so much fun.

Kay

Wow, now Enclave are just falling out of the sky!  Well, almost - they're coming in on helicopters, touching down right in front of me (I think to try and annex me).  I thought it was part of a cut-scene or something, so I didn't react as swiftly as I should have.  Still, I walked away, and they didn't.

The groups of Super Mutants seem to be increasing in size.  One or two well-aimed shots to the head, via VATS with my Plasma Rifle, seem to dispatch them readily enough.  What should we call a group of Super Mutants? A tumour of Super Mutants, maybe?  Actually, that sounds in pretty poor taste.  They're pretty big, like American Football (ie gridiron) players, so I'm thinking: a jock of Super Mutants...  Any other suggestions?  They often have rocket launchers and miniguns now.  It's nice when the Enclave show up near them, as I can let them take care of each other (although I try to kill them at the same time, to maximise my experience).

An interesting thing - after professing a certain desire for all things techno, the friendly Outcast trader wasn't interested in my shiny Brotherhood armour I was trying to swap for stimpacks.  Very inconsistent.

I've just made it to the National Archives to retrieve... something I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think it was something to do with the Constitution.  Tough place to get to.  Had to go through a lot of tunnels.  And baddies everywhere.  I've recently reached level 15, and have just taken the 'Lawgiver' perk, but I don't know how much impact it will have on the game.  I'm worried I should have bought a more practicle perk.

Still going strong, although I'm thinking of revising my '30 minute' decision process.  30 minutes is hardly enough to sink your teeth into Fallout 3, so I'm going to raise the minimum time to play it to 45 minutes.

I don't have any companions at the moment, too worried I'd get them killed.

Good to know where I can get free armour etc, thanks Spike!  I used a similar tactic in Morrowind - I made a spell that when cast made the target totally agressive, and attack me.  Of course, attacking people unprovoked in Morrowind was a problem with the guards, who'd come over and arrest you.  However, if the person was aggressive and attacked you first, well, self defence is a different matter!

The poor, re-spawning guard near the armour vendor in Vivec often, inexplicably, lost his reason with me, attacking me violently.  I was forced to defend myself.  Then, after I was safe, all of his gear was sold to said vendor.  The next day he would respawn, and we'd go through the same dance again.  The spell was equally useful for guards standing outside a vault.  In fact, sometimes one of the guards would come to your aid against the other.

Also, I haven't thought about modding yet...  can the PS3 version be modded?  I still feel I have so much to explore, and perhaps I'll consider modding it (if indeed I can) when the game starts to grow stale.  That said, I've been reading your modding thread, and getting ideas for the future [Image Can Not Be Found]

Yeah, thanks Scout - I thought that might be the case.  I'd have thought you'd need to be able to fine tune and customise a lot of things that the PS3 wouldn't allow you to access.  Still, I've been wrong about a great many things before, so why not this too? [Image Can Not Be Found]

No need to apologise, I wasn't running headlong into modding FO3 just yet anyways.

I cut down on my PC gaming since I got my PS3 (and quit WoW) - my main bread and butter gaming on the PC are strategy titles.  I like it this way, it makes my PC seem almost a little more professional now that I don't really game on it.

Jarrod, you are going great.   Doing just what you need to do.  Finding your own way through this very good game.  Keep going.  Keep posting.  You let me relive it through your posts.  If I can help you,  I will.   But to be honest I crawl my way through these games and limp out at the other end barely alive.  But I am here for you if I can be.  Kay

Well, I'm proving myself quite contrary - I haven't done anything to further Reily's quests for the time being.

I talked to all of the people that Crowley sent me after, and got all of their keys.  I have to admit that I executed Tenpenny (with a headshot), but left everyone else alive.  Tenpenny was just a bit too wealthy, powerful, and ignorant - and just too dangerous to leave alive - he died for the twin reasons of: I didn't want him to be a fly in my ointment at a later date; and he also had a leading role in the attempted annihilation of Megaton.

Rather than give the keys to Crowley, I've wandered off to find Fort Constantine, which someone had helpfully marked on my map.  It was East of Jesus, and would require me to walk far, far away.  I quick-travelled to a place on the map I'd discovered way up north, and walked west from there.  I'd had a place marked as Vault 92 (I think) and Oasis, so I thought I'd quickly stop in at both of them.  The Vault was ok, a little too time consuming for my tastes without a great pay-off, but Oasis was pretty cool.  I did the quest there with Harold/Bob.  Moved by sympathy for the poor fellow, I euthanised him (and received a neat little perk in the process: 5% damage resistance).  What did you guys do about Bob?  Kill him; accelerate his heart; or stop him from spreading?  And did you receive any benefits for the last two choices?

I came across a well-put-together group of Enclave, including someone in Tesla armour, and someone in 'heavy flamer' armour (or something like that), and some of those well-hard sentry robots.  With a crit to the head, I can take out an Enclave soldier with one shot, which is nice.  However the sentry 'bots were a bit harder.  Got some nice gear to trade afterwards (which I took to Fort Independance and traded the tech for stimpaks).

I fought a few more Enclave along the way, and have just reached Fort Constantine - which is where I will pick up from.  I'm level 16 at the moment, and really enjoying the plasma rifle, VATS, and critical strikes.