Posted October 15, 2010
It took me a while to get into it, and I'm sort of only playing it because I'm waiting for New Vegas (yeah, I'm waaaay late, I started with FO3).
The combat at first really turned me off, but I did something that takes a lot of patience, and now I'm a friggin tank. (As you leave Arroyo, you can spend a few days (IRL) traveling down to New San Francisco to complete a Brotherhood quest (steal Vertibird plans, as well as some *Advanced Power Armor*) to immediately jump to lvl 8, join the Brotherhood, and receive Power Armor training. Which means you take almost no damage across the board.
Getting down to New San Fran from Arroyo, however, takes some (read: A LOT of) patience. Here's the trick: Only move in small increments, and save your game every few steps, and reload your game when you run into trouble. It is well worth it.
I've just made it to Redding after I bought the car, and I left my companions to take out Frog Morton. With breaks to heal (killing one squad of thugs at a time), I took out all of them myself without dying with only a combat shotgun and a Desert Eagle.
No, FO2 is no Planescape: Torment, but it's still really good. Yes, I will finish it, even after FO: NV comes out :P
The combat at first really turned me off, but I did something that takes a lot of patience, and now I'm a friggin tank. (As you leave Arroyo, you can spend a few days (IRL) traveling down to New San Francisco to complete a Brotherhood quest (steal Vertibird plans, as well as some *Advanced Power Armor*) to immediately jump to lvl 8, join the Brotherhood, and receive Power Armor training. Which means you take almost no damage across the board.
Getting down to New San Fran from Arroyo, however, takes some (read: A LOT of) patience. Here's the trick: Only move in small increments, and save your game every few steps, and reload your game when you run into trouble. It is well worth it.
I've just made it to Redding after I bought the car, and I left my companions to take out Frog Morton. With breaks to heal (killing one squad of thugs at a time), I took out all of them myself without dying with only a combat shotgun and a Desert Eagle.
No, FO2 is no Planescape: Torment, but it's still really good. Yes, I will finish it, even after FO: NV comes out :P
