I've started playing Fallout on PC. I've started about 13 years late, but I've started...and it's destroying me! I grew up as a console player, playing linear RPGs that say "Go here", "Do this" and "Fight like this...". Fallout said "Here, work it out yourself you wanker!"
 
I got Fallout 3 when it first came out, it was linear, I completed, bought the DLCs, completed them, got bored, sold it. It was good but overrated.
 
Anyway, to the point.
 
I bought, installed and ran Fallout. I probably broke the record for longest time spent creating a character. I just couldn't decide what skills I wanted/needed. After consulting an expert I made my choices and I was ready to hit the wastelands! I immediately questioned these choices when I was killed by a fucking RAT in the first dungeon. Thankfully I'd saved just before and didn't have to redo the character creation.
 
HUZZAH! Survived the first dungeon! I'm out in the big world now! The game oh-so-nicely gave me a hint on where to go....Vault 15! It also told me where the vault is. How nice, eh?
 
The game must have been feeling generous, I made it all the way to the vault without being attacked! The inside of the vault wasn't so kind. A bastard molerat gave me an old fashioned raping. Dead again!
 
Loaded my last save....all the way back near the start! Yay. This time I was attacked twice on the way to the vault. I avoided dying by running away from them both. This time in the vault I was careful, I made it to the end of it. Great, I need a rope to get down the shaft. Where the frell do I get a rope?
 
I left the vault and went the local town, Shady Sands. All the lovely townfolk were talking about Radscorpions. Fuck that. I'm too young to die. I REMEMBERED TO SAVE MY GAME! Ok, I looked around. No rope. I know, I'll check out this Junktown people keep mentioning. I went south, oooh I think I found Junkto....OH MY WORD...Ghouls!
 
I don't have I managed it, but I managed to kill the swarm of 6 ghouls that wanted to touch my bum...without needing to heal! Yeah!
 
I moved on...I fount Junktown....I looked around....found fuck all...saved my game... Where the fuck is the rope?? I consulted the aforementioned expert. It's in Shady Sands he says. Great.
 
Back in Shady Sands....looking everywhere....finding nothing...ok, I'll check a walkthrough. It's on a fucking shelf. A shelf I walked past about a dozen times before. Epic fail.
 
RIGHT! I have a rope...TO THE VAULT! At this point the game feels the need to remind me I'm running out of time to get the water chip. No shit.
 
Ok, I'm in the vault, killed some rats, used the rope and moved to the next area. More rats. More dead rats bwahah. Found another rop....oh, and another shaft to go down. Third area. More rats. More dead rats BWAHAH! I like this SMG....
 
ARGH! Molerat! I'm dead again....
 
I go to the load game screen.......Frell. My last save is ALL THE WAY BACK IN SHADY SANDS. Frustrated, I worked my back to where I died AND SAVED. Molerat dead this time! So I look around the area and found nothing.
 
What the fuck do I do now?
 
To be continued.....If I ever work out where to go/what to do