Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?

On Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:56:32 +0200, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
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What Have You Been Playing... IN JANUARY 2025?

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Finished Fallout: London finally. Well, one of the three endings. And
that took, by the game's reckoning 3 days, 11 hours 41 minutes total. Or
83 hours, 41 minutes. I guess I took my time with this but I don't feel
I did everything. My character is only level 42 and I think last two
level ups were in the rather combat heavy ending.
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Story wise it was interesting, well told, even if it doesn't start off
that well. Kind of makes me want to see another one of the three endings
but I don't know how much replaying that would need. Also I guess it
means murdering off the other factions, one of which I actually
like. This was already annoying with New Vegas.
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Gameplay is a tweak on Fallout 4. Different guns although I think some
are the same. Not much in the heavy department, I think I found one kind
of rocket launcher. Not sure if the light machine guns count as heavy
weapons or not.
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Some different perks, mostly the same. Enemies maybe differently
distributed and animals/monsters different. Power armor not available
even though you can find fusion cores. Those are apparently useful in
some energy weapon. I didn't much bother with any of that, just bullets,
pellets or a switchblade in the back.
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So, all in all, quite happy with Fallout: London.

Interesting review, thank you. "Fallout London" is one of those games
I keep hoping to get around too, but the investment in time coupled
with the somewhat janky Bethesda-RPG mechanics make me keep putting it
off. Once I get into the game, I'm sure I'll have fun. It's just a
matter of convincing myself to start.

One of the things I most liked about the "Fallout" games (and
Bethesda-RPGs in general) is the open-world exploration; just going
off and wandering; finding new regions to discover and the sheer
expanse and broadness of the world. Unfortunately, what I've seen
about FO:L is that it's a much smaller, much more constrained world
and --like FO:Vegas-- much more involved with the characters and
factions. That makes the game much more of a hard-sell for me.

Eventually, I'll get to it. But I'm in no rush.