What’s up with those endings? Foul language and spoilers

I recently finished playing Fable 2 and Fallout 3. Somehow or rather, with all of the hype, i really expected more, but i shouldn’t really be like this. I’m rather satisfied with how things ended. Not really…. there should be more….

First, Fable 2. I pre-ordered a limited edition, and when it came, i was jumping for joy, but something felt amiss, and only after playing it did i realize it. I was missing the limited edition stuff! There was meant to be a special code for limited edition players, allowing them to use Halo armour, and energy sword plus an additional dungeon. Okay, so the Halo stuff is crap, and not really looking like the real master chief armour and sword, but REMEMBER!!! it is meant to be a parody! From what i heard, the sword and armour was meant to be upgraded into something SUPER at the end of the extra dungeon, though this news is rather unreliable at the moment till i get my code.

Yes, because i lack the code, i had to go to xbox.com and click and click and click till i finally reached the page where i could get microsoft to send me my code… and what do you know, they say they would send it to me within 10 business days?!?!?!?! WTF?! I’ve waited so fucking for this game and now you say wait another 10 more days?! UP URS! I hate dealing with microsoft…. their OS are easy to understand, use and manipulate, but when it comes down to technical support and ACTUALLY DOING STUFF, it sucks…. Get a Mac? HA! AS IF! The only reason why i don’t use mac is because GAMES are STILL MAINLY ON MICROSOFT!!! I’ve seen how ‘reliable’ macs are… yeah right, every single mac that a friend or family member of mine owns has known to crash, be irritable, naggy, and down-right stubborn. Apple is worse than microsoft in terms of getting the computer to DO THE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO!!! So i’m sticking to Windows…. yeah, my japanese games ONLY work on Windows…. so there.

Anyway, i finished fable 2, and what do you know, we get three choices… CHOICES!!! IT IS THE WHOLE BLOODY POINT OF THE GAMES I’VE BEEN BUYING!! Too many choices, but not as bad a Fallout 3…. that game is just MEANT to tempt you EVERY SINGLE FUCKING CORNER!!!

I don’t understand why some people find Fable 2 to be a let down…. sure, we all expected more, but in my honest opinion, i think it is a stroke of genius….. maybe those guys who complain just hate Lionhead studios or something. I think the story is just poetic and romantic…. really plays alot with my feelings, and i actually like that. I felt really drawn into the game, and i down right loved the story. Of course, it would be better if we didn’t feel so guilty about doing every single bad thing. And the part of getting taller and more well-built, and having those weird blue lines on you (called ‘will scars’) just really gets to me… well, not for the male character. I played both male and female, though i have yet to go down the path of down right evilness and vile shit. I’m a righteous person by heart and i REALLY REALLY REALLY find it hard to do bad…. call it my upbringing. Anyway, when i played the female character, (and i had LOTS of fun playing the female character… oooh, you guys who stubbornly choose to ONLY play the male, you don’t know what you’re missing out. It may not be different game play wise, but it sure is fun.), i built up my character to be the ultimate fighter. And i mean ultimate. Strength and skill and will all pumped up to maximum, and since i was a ‘good’ person, with halo flying over my head, i had swarms of people running to me, asking me for autographs and wanting to f up my character. BUT!!! If you notice, female characters who are tall, muscular and have blue tattoos that make them look tribal, aren’t exactly popular in reality…. sure, they may make it onto the ‘extremist’ magazine covers…. but still…. well, it’s a game anyway.

A few bugs to work out though, had to restart the game a couple of times, and though they are exactly ‘end of the world’, they were irritating. For one, after i want to lock-out of targeting a civilian, their damn name and bar still appears on the top. I know i’m not locked on to anyway, so when i try to shoot a gargolye, the dumb civillian’s stats pops up instead of me getting a good aim! Oh, the best bug i’ve seen so far is when i jumped off a ledge, and when i landed, my character was frozen in permenant free fall animation. I could still move, but i loooked like a some sort of magician, or like Jesus crucified on the cross and hovering around…. yeah, i looked like that in the game. It didn’t stop till i restarted the game. Another bug is Garth’s tower. Moved in with my new wife since she loves brightwood, but adjusting her budget was a bug…. once set, i couldn’t change it, and so she would eat my money away every single day…. she was happy with just less than 100 gold, but i was stupid, didn’t read, and gave her 1000…. so i lose 2000 a day, don’t know why it doubles, but it does. Maybe another bug…. their math problem needs work. And getting corrupt but not evil is just too tiring and troublesome…. sleep for 7 days, another 7 days, another 7 days…. heck! It took me the entire day in real time to get my corruption from maximum pure, to just middle of corrupt!

So, i love Fable 2, and love the dog…. though sometimes, i have to wonder, aren’t there ANY better looking NPCs than the whores?! I mean, come on! I know it is suppose to be middle ages time, but there HAS to be someone better! Lady Grey? She’s dead! Call me fickle or what not, but i have my standards! Even IF it is in a game! Started on ideas for my own Fable fic. Though i have compiled a list of funny stuff i got from Fable 2, i should be posting them soon, right after my midterms though.

The dog really needs to learn to stay AWAY from danger and let ME do the fighting…. sheesh, i have to heal the dog almost everytime.

Another note on Fable 2 and their play on emotions. Since i am a storywriter, i tend to do stuff in game that would…. emulate a story…. Lucien was really a tragic enemy, though i initially wanted to blunderbuss him point-blank in the face, though i paused…. and that damn ass of a thief had to take the glory. I WANTED TO SAVOUR THE FUCKING MOMENT YOU FUCKED UP FUCKING FUCKER!!!!

Bah, so chose being all goody-two-shoes, and chose sacrifice…. wrong choice… what the fuck to i get? A fucked up statue, that’s what. FUCK THAT! I’ve got LOADS of other statues around the fucking place! You know, i think that part was the trick choice by the producers…. if you really believe that other people’s needs are before your own… THEN YOU’RE A FUCKING MORON!!! There aren’t ANYBODY who is THAT selfless! What the fuck! I went through hell, lost EVERY FUCKING SINGLE THING THAT I HELD DEAR TO ME, YET STILL CHOSE TO SAVE THOSE UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BASTARDS EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME!!! AND WHAT THE FUCK DO I FUCKING GET?! A FUCKED UP STATUE AND A ‘THANK YOU’ NOTE?! FUCK THAT AND FUCK YOU! I guess they are trying to say that even though you would save everyone, and lose everything you have in the process yet still able to be pure and selfless, then the reward you would get is simple gratitude. There is no greater reward than gratitude for those who choose such a path….. yeah well, not everyone can run a true and pure charity. Everything and everyone has a goal to themselves. Just because they aren’t benefitting themselves in the physical sense, does not mean they aren’t benefitting from it at all. Emotionally, mentally, yeah, they do that only to make themselves feel good. Whatever. My next character is going to choose the REAL ENDING… like… GETTING MY DOG AND FAMILY BACK!!! FUCK THE REST OF THE WORLD! I gave you everything, and did so much, helped so much, yet you people are ignorant, ungrateful, unfaithful, untrustworthy and just damn dumb. This time, i’m taking what’s mine, what i worked so hard to get. And NO ONE CAN SAY OTHER WISE…… dammit, got all riled up just from a game… see? They really play with your emotions.

Next is Fallout 3…. ah yes, another weird and queer game. Bathesda studios….. you know, i really love your works. The openness of Oblivion, and now Fallout 3. The controls were simply genius and classic. Sure, the older Fallout games were nice, but this one really takes the cake. The one thing from the previous fallouts that really irked me, was the fact that once i ran out of AP, that’s it, i’m dead. But now? No. With a minigun in hand, i can say ‘FUCK YOU AP’. Of course, the AP system is still handy. I can make snipe shots with that unstable hand of mine. I can do hard-core damage dealing to one enemy, using the VATS and once i run out of AP and the enemy is still alive, use real time to finish them off. Of course, the VATS does have its weakness. For example fighting multiple enemies. Once you’ve used your AP to finish off one guy, the screen doesn’t automatically go back to real time. It goes into SLOW MO as your enemy dies, or explodes if you got the bloody mess perk, which is pure genius by the way…. the original makers of fallout were pure geniuses for that. It also made searching for the body to loot much easier actually. Just find a body part, and you can loot the entire body. Anyway, while you’re going in slow-mo, the other enemies would have run up to you and gave you some damage before you can control your PC once more.

Well, watching your enemies die slowly and watching your bullet fly in slow mo is fun, so i won’t say much. But you know, Bathesda studio, your games have a strange tendecy for the oldest and most IRRITATING bug of all games…. the hang. Oh no, it isn’t just fallout 3, oblivion had its fair share of hangs…. though Fallout 3 has to take the cake. It is acting like my mother! It would hang and i would lose all data by the time i’ve played a certain amount of hours. Okay, so i’ve played long hours, but oblivion didn’t hang when i went through a 14 hr crunch time. Fallout 3? Ten hours. And that is the longest i’ve played before it went stall on me.

Oh yeah, weapons maintainence is a chore….. i had to keep finding weapons to repair my stuff with, which isn’t really that hard, unless you’re using really, REALLY exotic shit, that have REAL FIRE POWER, then you’re in deeper shit than anything else. Yeah, i’m talking about the BIG GUNS. Minigun, missle launcher, fatman, galting laser, and of the small guns, the sniper rifle. These weapons are so RARE that each time i find one, i would want to bring it home, store it and make sure it doesn’t run out. Armour is another thing….. i love the merc stuff, merc adventurer, merc charmer, merc cruiser, merc troublemaker, merc veteran. These clothes can be used to repair each other. The very first place i encountered them however, was in the capital, so before that i was wearing shit crap. Okay, so i was wearing proper armour, but like i said the merc clothes can be used to repair each other, so it is THE ideal clothing. Next would be raider armours, since raiders are almost everywhere. So yeah, repairing is a bitch, unless you have the caps to go to a shop. In most cases, NO, you don’t have enough caps.

Which brings me to the next point. Caps. Caps are the main source income, besides trading. But a lot of times i find myself strap for cash or items needed to get DESPERATELY needed ammunition and stimpacks. Look, i’m dying, dry on ammo, and strap for cash. What the hell am i suppose to do?! That is why i consort to using melee weapons and pistols to kill irritating raiders and mercs who get in my way. And then i loot their bodies, sell off their weapons that i don’t like and armour. Note, that i don’t really like the shotguns and laser weapons. I like the 10mm pistol (i used the same one that Amata would give you throughout the entire game, i just love that gun, it is my life saver many times), hunting rifle, Chinese assault rifle, sniper rifle, and the minigun. So i have five guns with me at all times. For melee, i have a ripper and a chinese sword. I have no idea why they chose China as an enemy, but i don’t really care. Sure, i may be chinese, but i’m from Singapore, not China. But one thing i love about the chinese assault rifle, it packs more firepower than your normal assault rifle. It may be different for some other people, but from what i got, my chinese assault rifle kills super mutants with one clip. Does yours? Of course, i found it really dumb the first time i saw the super mutants. Sure, they were already damaged from their fight with two brotherhood of steel paladins, but still, to go down in one shot from my pistol? PLEASE…. Well, it’s all about stats, anyway. I love that 10mm pistol….

So Fallout 3 also has a dog… dogmeat. BUT!!! The thing is i didn’t meet dogmeat immediately…. i played HALFWAY of the game before i stumbled across a disposal yard (I’m not kidding, i was already halfway done). My char was more of a scout/sniper…. who has really big firepower (my minigun ammo count was NEVER below 2000), so i wanted to snipe them from the building i was on top of, but then my perception was high enough to notice a friendly killing off the enemy. So being curious, though i was more stupid than anything, found dogmeat. He wasn’t as cute as Fable 2’s dog, but he sure was nice to have around. I love dogs, and dogmeat reminded me strongly of my own german shepard who died quite some time ago. So i immediately took a liking to dogmeat. The problem with dogmeat? HE DIES TOO EASILY. Sure, he’s a dog, and this isn’t fable 2, but STILL! I wasted half of my stimpack supply on the damn mutt and he still runs off and dies without me knowing where he went! And he tends to take the long routes, while i, being an oblivion veteran and overall monkey, tend to jump over rocks and obstacles. Note, that enemies also tend to take the long routes, so it is useful in battle. HOWEVER, the dog wouldn’t even go past a fence the same way i went! Through a gap! Bah, i spent more time telling dogmeat to stay put etc. and stuff than anything else. In the end, he died and i gave up. HOWEVER! I did get new choices later on as to who could follow me. Either the righteous paladin from the brotherhood of steel who escorted my pc’s dad across the wasteland years before, or a giant super mutant who actually has proper speech patterns and actually has a brain and manners not to shoot anything and everything that moves. Fwakes is his name, and he packs a giant gatling laser. And trust me, with him around, you never need to worry about your ammunition levels or your back. This guy is amazing. I only did one thing while in the slaver camp of paradise falls, snipe the guy with the minigun (took out his head, and his body exploded from the bloody mess perk, man! Gotta love that perk), and the entire slaver camp became my enemy. Then let my mutant buddy do the rest. Yup, that guy not only packs a punch with his handy gatling laser, and he can take alot of hits…. and i mean a lot. Since i’m a scout type character, it’s good to know he has my back. And he won’t charge out blindly, unlike dogmeat. Of course, he also tells you whether a place is dangerous or not, just like how dogmeat growls when he senses danger. Fwakes would warn you in the most obvious statements, though it is useful… sometimes. And no one seems to care about the giant super mutant with the giant weapon whenever i talk to them. Even Fwakes notes that once, much to my surprise and laughter.

Ah yes, laughter…. i really love that large robot the brother of steel uses. I gotta tape what it says down, it is so funny! I love that big metal can! I mean, i’ve never heard of such obvious propaganda in my life before! And what it says is just too funny to ignore.

And yeah, what is up with that super computer wanting to be president? I didn’t believe i could do it, but i managed to out-talk/out-wit a computer….. It went into shut down shortly after…. cool. But the whole base had to explode on me…. how typical. You know, those power armour belonging to the brotherhood of steel and the enclave…. they all look like mixes of stormtrooper and some other game…. killzone, i think. Not only that, they also look like jet-pack soldiers, with those cylinders on their back. Yeah, ready to blow sir!

Another thing about the dog….. after dogmeat died, and i went to little lamplight…. you know, the city with all kids, dumb brats….. they had dogs! I mean i saw at least five dogs! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? ARE YOU MOCKING ME OR SOMETHING?!?!?! FUCK YOU! I WANT MY DOG BACK!!!

Now, for the ending…. like i said, i fancy myself to be poetic and romantic, or whatever…. so i chose to jump into the chamber of lethal radiation to save the world. The first time i did it, however, i was clueless on what the FUCK was i suppose to do. I ran around the place, looking at all of the instruments, and finally realized the bunch of numbers on the first console…. well, they weren’t exactly blaring. And since i remembered the freaking story when i played it, i remembered the keyword to get it started. Revelations 21:6, “I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.” I can’t remember the rest, and i’m not religious, but that line was rather significant to me. Why? Because Chrono Crusade the anime had it. And because it sounds cool.

Anyway, So i got it started, and i look straight into the tank…. only to see a giant statue of…. who? Sorry, but i’m not american, nor do i take particular interest in american culture and history…. But i would think it would be a guy called…. Jefferson? Who? Mainly because the place is named after him. So anyway, my pc dies…. WTF?! EXACTLY! SHE DIES!!! (yes, i used another female character…. trust me, it’s fun to play the opposite sex, and i’ve played too many games where it is a male main character, so i think women with weapons are awesome) I WAS LIKE…. WTF?! NO CONTINUE?! And i just managed to get that bastard of a colonel’s suit…. dammit! Yeah, i was wondering about that colonel guy…. is he a clone? How did he managed to survive that chamber of deadly radiation? Wasn’t my char’s dad also in that chamber? Would daddy dear be still alive? And yeah, when daddy dear died, i was pissed to hell…. i spent three days in real time finding him, only to have him offed by radiation?! Hell no! I ain’t settling for this crap! But i continued, and at the end, facing off with the colonel, i glady took my minigun, VATS headshot him at near point-blank range…. and once more, thank you for bloody mess perk.

So anyway, at the end, i decided to be goody-two shoes once more and sacrifice myself, jumping into the chamber of inevitable doom! It was right for a storyline, after all, but i remembered something…. DON’T I HAVE FWAKES WITH ME?! He’s already a super mutant! Radiation doesn’t hurt him! He could fucking stroll in that fucking chamber and everything would be fine and dandy! BUT NOOOOO, I HAD TO GO HERO AND GO IN!!! But then again, there wasn’t an option for Fwakes to go in…. either me, or the Sentinel Lyons…. bitch, she should go in. But like i said, it isn’t right for the storyline….. STILL! YOU COULD HAVE THE DECENCY TO TRY TO DRAG ME OUT! Bah….. this is getting dumb. Right for the storyline….. dumb and wrong for the character….. sigh, oh well. By the looks of this ending, there wouldn’t be a sequel…. wait, there isn’t?!

So yeah, that’s my take on these two new games…. wish there were more for each, though…. Especially fallout 3, like somehow or rather, your character survives, and recuperates in the Citadel, being herald as the hero of the capital wastelands…. extra missions, like hunting down the remaining enclave members, storming every single one of their bases with the brotherhood of steel, bringing an end to the super mutant problem, also with the brotherhood of steel. Then there would also be an all-out war between the brotherhood of steel from the citadel, and the ‘outcasts’, that would be cool. Then as the fighting begins to reach its peak, more problems come in, like enclave reinforcements from elsewhere force the outcasts and the citadel to join forces. Or the brotherhood central decided to ‘replace’ their forces in the capital, and since they do not recognize the outcasts as well, the outcasts and the citadel join forces to combat their former comrades.  Then Arroyo, and the new republic of…. what’s that place? Bah, all of the free states and factions are forced to band together against the Enclave, who have prepared a giant army! Then we get ‘the chosen one’ from fallout 2, and our hero the so-called ‘lone wonderer’ or ‘vault kid’, would gather their forces together to combat the enclave! SEE? THERE CAN BE AN AFTER STORY! NO NEED TO FUCKING KILL OF THE MAIN CHARACTER AT THE END!!!!

But i could always make a fic…. yeah, let’s do that.

So like i said at the beginning, this game is just plain evil…. IT IS SO FUCKING EASY TO LOSE KARMA!!! You can just steal almost everything that is lying around, draw your gun and fucking headshot practically ANYONE…. they really tempt you at EVERY FUCKING SINGLE CORNER, and i KNOW i said it before, but i’ll say it again and again, no matter how many times… because IT IS SO TRUE. THIS EVIL GAME WILL FUCKING TEMPT YOU AT EVERY FUCKING TURN!!! It is much harder to stay good than to stray over to the bad side…. so those of you who wish to play hard? Stick to the good side. It’s fucking hard to stay good with all of that nice shit lying around to steal, nice places to lockpick and steal more shit. Even nicer to headshot everyone and loot their shit. That way, you won’t have to deal with buying and selling, just fucking kill everyone.

I like some of their music…. which surprises me to no end…. i actually like old sounding crap.

Another damn irritating thing about this game…. THE MAP IS JUST TOO FUCKING HUGE!!!! You can’t really expect us to walk around the entire map?! At least let us repair motorbikes! Let us RIDE THEM! I SEE THEM ALMOST EVERYWHERE!!! COME ON! This map has got to be as big as, if not bigger, than the oblivion map! and in oblivion, we get HORSES!!! WHAT THE FUCK DO WE GET IN FALLOUT 3?! FUCK NOTHING BUT OUR TWO FUCKING LEGS!!! FUCK THOSE! Fwakes! Let me ride on top of you. Oh yeah, that mutant can run…. no joke. He actually ran faster when trying to catch up with me that i thought he was on sugar bombs.

Oh yeah, another bug from Fallout 3…. when i had that brotherhood paladin tag along, whenever i turned to face her, the entire screen would go whack…. it looked as though i was watching some avant-garde painting….

Sigh…. well, now to start drawing up plot lines for my own fic…. great, two more fics to add to my lists of stories to finish writing…. great, just great….