I loves this. Very cool holiday special! I have only ever played RPGs of the D&D variety, but I really liked the kind of story this one seems to create. I hope you do something similar next year (or make it its own show)!
I decided to put *everything* in my stash and only take out certain stuff before going on adventures. Doing that made it fun to try out items I'd never even consider before.
This sounds pretty cool. I might do the same in my New Vegas playthrough.
One thing I do is avoid fast travel in Bethesda-style games. This is usually great in the beginning, but the way the games are designed makes it hard to keep up after a while. It certainly made the first ten or so hours of New Vegas great. The feeling of tracking down Benny through the desert, of visiting towns and getting to know the people there through their quests (which usually can be solved without wandering too far away from town) before moving on to the next settlement.
But then you reach New Vegas, and are given tons of quests that send you all over the map. Not fast traveling becomes a much heavier burden to bear. So I either stick to avoid fast traveling, and spend way too much time walking back and forth through the desert, seeing the same stuff over and over again, or start fast traveling and then the game's world loses much of it's identity.
Some games has a way of using fast travel which makes sense in context, like the horse carriages that are outside every major city in Skyrim. They definitely help somewhat (at least if I'm trying to roleplay), but for me they don't solve the problem completely.
I which more games were like those first hours of New Vegas, when you move from settlement to settlement, staying a handful of hours in each one before moving on. The only game that uses this structure (that I can think of at the moment) is Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, and I loved that game for it. at
I relate to this so much. For the last few months I have spent a lot of time thinking about what "home" is. Like Austin, I've moved around a lot (nine times in my 27 years). At this point, I'm pretty sure "home" is some variant nostalgia. It's the reason I love Dickens so much. In Dickens, home is the same as family and friends. Home is the place where all the people you love can and do gather to talk and enjoy each others company.
So when I look at my one room apartment, I know it's not home. It's just where I live. And I love living here; it's cheap, nice, quiet and the woods are just a few hundred meters away when I need to go for a walk. But there are times when I realize that isn't enough. "Home" has spoiled me and I can only hope that I don't have to spend the rest of my life trying to find it again.
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