To Hell with 2008
Good riddance.
My 2008 resolution was to beat a Bioware RPG. I should've said a Bethesda RPG because I beat Fallout 3 and didn't get to Mass Effect in time. I think this year I'm going resolution free.
Fallout 3
When I was building Xerxes 3, I told myself that the first game I'd play on it would be Fallout 3 and I wouldn't touch it until Xerxes 3 was finished. Almost a grand and two nights of my favorite kind of work later, Xerxes 3 was fully operational. For the last three days all I've played is Fallout 3.
To put it lightly, it's amazing. I'm a huge fan of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series to begin with and no amount of "Oblivion with guns" cynicism can dampen this experience. They really hit the nail on the head. It's a sequel that's not completely derivative of it's predecessors and it's different without being alien. I've sank around 14 hours into it already and I've barely explored the whole map. I don't think I've even really started the main storyline. I'm having too much fun doing sidequests and finding little hidden secrets.
Like I told Katie, Fallout 3 is one of those game where I know I should come up for air, I just don't want to. It's one of those games worth holding a trip to bathroom to pee for an hour just because I don't want to stop playing. Even though I've turned it off, I can still hear the songs on Galaxy News Radio over the blowing winds.
The Reason I Never Update Anymore
It's not because I'm home. It's because of Never-Ending Video Game Trivia. Look me up. I can't get enough video game trivia. I stay in the top 50 in rankings and I'm easily in the top 5 of questions answered. I know a lot of the answers and the ones I don't know, I guess. Sometimes I learn something awesome about a game I've played and sometimes I learn some trivial shit from a game only one person has ever played (I'M LOOKING AT YOU ROBOTICA AND PRINCESS DEBUT) but this never ceases to kill a ton of time.