So I figured out why I can't get into Fallout 3
By Daroki 2 Comments
After beaitng Demon's Souls (and by beating I mean getting a Platinum trophy in the game), I decided to pull Fallout 3 off the wall of shame and start trying to go through it. And I'll be damned if I can't get into it. It's not like I haven't given the game a fair shake, I've put in over five hours at this point and it's just not grabbing me. This weekend I spent some time doing other things and trying to figure out why that is, and finally I've come to the conclusion.
1) Too much game after completing something like Demon's Souls:
God, the last thing I think I want right now after spending 190 hours playing Demon's Souls is another 100+ hour game. It's just too damn much right now for me to jump into.
2) The environment isn't as spectacular as Rapture:
One of the last games I played before starting back in on Demon's Souls was Bioshock (another wall of shame game that I completed). I loved the environment of Rapture and I was looking forward to continuing to explore that place. The Wasteland is great, but it's not Rapture, and it's not compelling me to explore it like I did Rapture. If I played Fallout 3 before Bioshock, the Wasteland would probably fascinate me, but right now not so much.
3) The Wasteland DOES NOT scare or intimidate me:
I could see the Wasteland being a pretty tense place, except I'm coming straight from Boletaria in Demon's Souls, so it does nothing to me. Raider coming in on me? I'll drop into VATS, put a few bullets in it's head, and then pick off the rest. If I played Fallout 3 before Demon's Souls, this wouldn't be a problem, but it's doing something at a lesser level.
4) My 4 year old knows what's best apparently:
So I went to the arcade with my son last weekend and the first thing he wanted to play was Raiden followed by Dimahoo. Chi wanted some shooty bangs at the arcade and even though he's not good at it (I don't expect any 4 year old to be a master of Japanese bullet hell shooters to be fair) even when he's dead he's intrigued by the patterns of death spreading across the screen in only a way that an observer can be since the player's a bit too busy trying to avoid all that crap.
So I listened to the 4 year old and downloaded Gundemonium Collection on the PS3. And THAT is what I was looking for. Short burst gameplay flexing a different set of skills than what I had been playing before was flexing and with Fallout 3 was continuing to try to flex. I think I'll spend some more time with GundeadliGne, Gundemonium Recollection, and Hitogata Happa and blow stuff up. Hitogata Happa already has given me my favorite trophy outside of Demon's Souls on my PS3 trophies list ("No, YOUR time is up!" for killing a boss when time had expired) and was the first time the name of a trophy made me laugh out loud. If you're looking for some doujin bullet hell fun, and don't want to get the whole collection, I recommend Hitogata Happa over the other two since it has a little Every Extend Extra thing going for it too which is an interesting risk-reward mechanism that makes the game stand out from the other more standard shooters. Maybe I'll update the wiki here or write a review of the games when I spent a bit more time with them, and maybe then my palette will be cleansed enough to go back to the Wasteland and hopefully enjoy it as much as every one else has seemed to.