Monday Random Thoughts - Fallout 4 Edition

- I did not play too much warcraft this weekend.

- Logged on Saturday for an alt raid.

- Took forever to get enough people to do it.

- Even did the first 2 bosses with only 9 before a 10th showed.

- We only managed 6 bosses in an hour and a half, but it was productive.

- Two people switched to mains for tier bosses to try and get their 4th tier piece.

- Both got it.

- So even if we did not do much, it was a productive night.

- And a lot of alts got gear.

- Funny part is one person was on a cloth alt.

- The only cloth wearing player so you figured it would be a good night for them right?

- 6 bosses, not one cloth piece.

- Reminds me of whenever I tank on my warrior.

- We disenchant plate every week over and over, unless I am there, then no plate drops.

- Such is life they say.

- Now to fallout 4.

- Friday night I started playing, a little behind the pack.

- Did not really have time during the week to play.

- My play time usually comes on weekends, even more so this weekend as I was sick, so I played fallout 4 all weekend.

- See, there is a good side to having a cold sometimes, you can play games and not feel bad you are not doing anything else.

- I am really liking it thus far, but as with everything there are some things I can nit pick about.

- Mostly color issues.

- I love the feel of fallout 4, that 50s style.

- And the music is great and fits the style well.

- Sadly there are not a great deal of songs so listening to the radio plays itself out really fast.

- I really like dogmeat, the companion.

- Even if I now have many others to choose from, he is the one I like best.

- Could it be because he is so cute?

- Could it be because I do not need to give him stimpacks?

- Could it be because he can not die?

- Could it be because I still get the loner bonus even if he is with me?

- Or could it just be that over all he is the least intrusive?

- Maybe a little of all, but I have not really tried all the others out yet.

- Tried one for a short time only and then dismissed him.

- Then I could not find dogmeat again.

- Where did you go?

- Seems he went back to where I originally found him.

- Well... that makes sense.

- Not used to games making sense after playing blizzard games so much.

- I hate that I can not get the camera further out, I am not a first person shooter type of player.

- Honestly I hate FPSers for the most part.

- I try to play with the camera out as far as I can most of the time.

- Unless I am scouring an area for goodies.

- Sometimes they are easier to find in first person.

- Okay, have to ask this, is it my color blindness or it is nearly impossible to see stuff in the game sometimes?

- Kill a mob on the road at night, go to loot its body, where the hell is it?

- I think I have spent more time trying to "find" bodies of people I have killed as I have killing people.

- Is it my color blindness doing it, or is it really that hard to see.

- It is one of those cases I hope it is not just me.

- There was one area, hubris comics, there on the second, or was it third, floor, I could not see where the hell I was going, I mean, at all.

- It was so dark I was firing off weapons just to make some light.

- If I did not do that I would have never finished the quest there.

- I ended up going through a path that I swear I could not see was there, at all.

- If they start making mods for this game there are two I would really love to see.

- One would be to make it brighter.

- The other would be to make loot sparkle some.

- Like in warcraft, and basically every other RPG out there.

- Stuff just blends together.

- I am up to level 11, have completed a fair deal of quests, and died more than a couple of times.

- Your standard everyday gaming stuff.

- First death?

- Deathclaw, of course.

- Was not expecting him to come out of nowhere and he beat me like a red headed step child.

- Other deaths, getting sniped to death by a mob I could not figure out where the hell they were.

- Nor could I get out of line of sight or distance it.

- Then there is the, admit it we have all done it, moment there you go to make a jump it looks like you can easily make and you don't exactly make it.

- Splat, street pizza.

- Word of advice, save often.

- And I am not talking just letting the quick save do it for you.

- Sure that saves often, but you want to have saves before you enter each big area too.

- A separate one, not the base quick save.

- Why you ask?

- Because you can get stuck quite easily is some places.

- I got stuck in one I was too stubborn to reset my game because I did not want to have to do what I did all over again.

- I spent about 30 minutes jumping moving positioning, just to try to get out.

- I did, finally, but that I when I learned, have a lot of save back ups.

- Now I save before anything dangerous.

- Don't want to work a long dungeon and then get stuck in a wall and get screwed.

- Saving is not a bad idea either way.

- Even before talking to people, so you can test out how they react to you.

- Maybe even see what you can get away with.

- Ask for money up front, ask for more money, or just be a jerk to one of those guys that is a jerk to you.

- You might not want to keep a game where you were a smart ass to them, but it was still fun to basically tell them to go screw themselves.

- There are bad guys around every corner here it seems.

- Funny how the main city is in Fenway park.

- Love the one guys description of how you play baseball.

- Won't spoil it for you if you want to play, but it is worth asking him all about baseball to see how he thinks it used to be played.

- I walk from place to place a lot, even if I can quick move.

- The reason being is you never know what you will find.

- I've found tiny settlements, I've found small dungeons, I've found people just traveling in the middle of nowhere.

- None of which are marked on the map.

- It pays to explore.

- Still getting a hang of upgrading weapons.

- Helps having read that you can downgrade weapons you loot and then their upgrade is put into your pack under mods.

- Then you can use that upgrade on a weapon, even if you do not have the skill to make that upgrade naturally.

- So luck does play a part in getting some nice upgrades.

- I love building settlements.

- And I hate building settlements.

- Placing stuff is so darn hard sometimes.

- But once you get it going it seems to get better.

- Just wish we had a better view while placing items.

- Speaking of things I would like when building settlements.

- WTB a flat surface to build on, anywhere.

- Trying to place housing is like finding a needle in a haystack.

- I gave up in some places.

- Others I have a really nice settlement going.

- Okay who else just put beds out in the middle of nowhere at the beginning?

- Please say it wasn't just me that made my people sleep under the stars.

- Hey, at least I gave them the nice beds and not just some sack on the ground.

- I've put more work into the other settlements that I think I forgot about my main settlement.

- I have to look up some stuff today, because I really do not know much about the game just yet.

- Like what is max population of the settlements.

- What the hell do the +s, the hearts, the starts, and other notations mean on some thing.

- I think the stars are legendary.

- Think the +s are upgrade levels.

- Have no clue what the hell the hearts mean.

- My gear loves me?

- Maybe?

- I also what to see what type of gear dogmeat can wear.

- Want to deck out my pup.

- The art is done well, the presentation is done well, the sounds are done well, and the game has been over all good thus far.

- Not sure how it is going to hold up as time goes on for me, as I won't be playing during the week and I will forget where things might be when I log on during the weekend again.

- With something like a dozen active quests it is only logical I will forget what my plan of attack was not playing for a week.

- My goal however is to build a castle, somewhere.

- Have not decided where yet, need to find a nice place with lots of flat land.

- Then I want to invest all my time and energy building one super city.

- Just for the fun of it.

- We all need goals in life and in gaming.

- Mine is to build a castle so high it touches the sky.

- Have a great day.