2 months of GTA IV? Dude, it ain't THAT big! Then again, with save points...

The point you raise about a gaming lull is valid, tho. Maybe I should avoid buying too many games right now and wait until I can actually ENJOY all of them fully because I'm not thinking 'omg I want to play that other game which is only slightly more awesome than this awesome game'. Not to mention the financial perks that come with delaying buying games.

Well, I haven't been posting about it, but I'm still playing Fallout 3. My evil check from hell is still doing her thing... I got her up to level 10 today and i'm running around tearing the hell out of stuff with my rock-it launcher. 85 skill in heavy weapons is a help. I recently got jumped by the regulators... pwnt them, of course. I also visited the wreckage of Megaton. Moira was laying outside but she was dead and zombified. I've been doing a great deal of exploring as well... there is so much stuff I missed the first time around it's amazing. I've also realized that near most (all?) of the broadcast towers there's a sewer entrance and some dead Chinese.

Anyway, I'm still enjoying myself. I picked up the animal perk so now I should get jumped a bit less. Too bad it doesn't work on death claws, but the dart gun is a great deal of help in those helpless fights.

Attaching this screenshot... I'm thinking of making it my avatar.

oh, no, I never did try going back to vault 101. I should do that, thanks for the idea.

The pic is from one of those radio tower bunkers with the dead Chinese in it. It's a door that opens from the floor with steps down. I think the same pic may be on other, similar doors elsewhere.

yea, I tried going back in but it won't let me. I wanna kill the chick.

You should pick up a radio signal (Vault PA system) when you're outside the vault? Or maybe you already did and it still won't open?

hmm, dunno. I moved on.

Did you ever find the guy doing experiments with mole rat meat? He has a machine that takes mole rat meat and wonderglue (both supplied by you) and turns it into wondermeat.

There's an ACTUAL underground railroad hide-out? I thought they were just offering like a 'virtual' membership, that they weren't really physically represented in the game. heh. Cool.


Peltz, did you find the alien blaster at a special location or just...outside? I found one some wastelander or raider who attacked me near the super duper market...it was just random, because he must have picked it up somewhere.

@ Satis: the explosion came from the blaster, yeah. It's a random event...you can have an alien blaster (and a load of ammo for it) come crashing down from the skies, heh. The gun and ammo are strewn around randomly, so if you're there keep an eye out. If you have Dogmeat you can try to have him fetch the weapon, I suppose.

Always a chance of a wastelander picking it up, of course, like in my game. Bastard didn't have any ammo for it but I already had some from a different place, thankgod.