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So I Just Played: Fallout New Vegas - Old World Blues DLC

This DLC was definitely...not what I was expecting. But I loved it!

I've always liked when games that seem not too focused on technology go full sci-fi, and that's exactly what this DLC did. It's like in Dying Light when you're going to meed Dr. Camden and you go from a semi-destroyed city into a pretty functional science lab, except you go from a destroyed Mojave Desert to a scientific complex in a crater (which was originally the base of a mountain that got blown open in a failed experiment, fun fact!).

I was pretty intrigued by the story. Why did Dr. Mobius harass the Think Tank? What's the deal with all those robo-scorpions. Why in the Kentucky-fried fuck can home appliances talk!?

I went with the ending in which the Courier gets all their original organs back and spares Dr. Mobius while destroying the Think Tank. Seriously, they nonconsensually cut out parts of my body, did you really think I was gonna take that standing? I don't see Dr. Mobius doing that to people!

In summary, this DLC, like all four of them for New Vegas, is something I consider like a required reading. The base game already slaps but the DLCs all build upon the existing world beautifully!

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Fallout-ifying random video game characters, part 1

So I'm into Fallout and I got this idea recently where I turn random video game characters into Fallout characters! I'll include a story for them as well as their gear and any notable skills/perks, mixing elements from different games (for example, a character living in New Vegas may have a perk from 4). I may also have them connect to existing Fallout characters, too. Here's my first one, dedicated to someone I did an rp with a while back!

Sucrose (Genshin Impact)

Background/Story

A former scientist at the Institute, she was led to believe all her life that she was a Synth. Sucrose, whose name is simply a moniker for her sweeter-than-sugar personality, wholeheartedly believed that she was made to be a new and beautiful generation of synthetic people that would soon populate the Commonwealth, and eventually the greater United States.

However, this all turned out to be a ruse - an experiment created to see how a regular old biological being born and raised within the Institute would react to being led on like this. Upon finding out, Sucrose became greatly disillusioned with the Institute and fled, hoping that she would be able to expose them one way or another. It was she who led a certain Vault Dweller from the nearby Vault 111 to locate the Institute. Such was how the Sole Survivor found their child and decided to wipe out the Institute for the Minutemen to take over the Commonwealth.

Despite seemingly knowing now that Synths would never be able to populate America over humans, Sucrose decided she wished to travel beyond the Commonwealth. She parted ways with the Sole Survivor and headed southwest to Appalachia, where she would eventually make a home in Burning Springs.

Equipment

Apparel: Reading Glasses, Lab Coat Weapon: Institute Laser (formerly), Laser Rifle (current)

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength: 2 Perception: 6 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 5 Luck: 5

Notable Skills

Science: 90 Energy Weapons: 70 Medicine: 85

Notable Perks

Computer Whiz

Robotics Expert

Educated

Entomologist

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Fallout-ifying random video game characters, part 2

Here's another one!

Cloud Strife

Background/Story

Cloud was born in the Capital Wasteland and from infancy was experimented on by the Enclave. They had seemingly created a new strain of the F.E.V. (Forced Evolutionary Virus) that would have many benefits of being a Super Mutant and none of the drawbacks. Cloud was regularly injected with this new strain through childhood - and to the Enclave's credit, they were not entirely wrong. Cloud kept his human form and gained the enhanced physical brawn typical of Super Mutants. These enhancements led the Enclave to grant Cloud some amount of military power.

Being what the grunts of the Enclave would call one of the higher-ups, however, had a downside. While not heard firsthand, Cloud had a decent idea of just how horrible the Enclave was. It was during the battle over Project Purity that he deserted the fascist paramilitary and made a temporary alliance with a local chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel. He was among those who helped set in motion the activation of Liberty Prime and the ultimate destruction of the Enclave.

He, too, left his homeland and set off for Appalachia. There he would have a home for over a decade until he eventually met a certain scientist arriving from the northeast...

Equipment

Apparel: Enclave Power Armor/Helmet (Formerly), T-45 Power Armor/Helmet (Current) Weapon: Super Sledge

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength: 10 Perception: 5 Endurance: 8 Charisma: 2 Intelligence: 4 Agility: 3 Luck: 6

Notable Skills

Melee Weapons: 100 Unarmed: 65 Repair: 75

Notable Perks

Fight the Power!

Toughness

Center of Mass

Bloody Mess

That's right people, I'm connecting the crossover characters to each other too!