--- In fallout3@yahoogroups.com, "themolemenprophecies"
<themolemenprophecies@...> wrote:
>
> I decided to not get Fallout 3, and my reasons are twofold:
>
> 1. I saw a gameplay video for it, and it looked so...unappealing,
> stylistically. The video featured a player in power armor running
> around shooting people with a minigun. And the slain weren't blown
> back 20 feet, with huge chunks of meat blasting away from their
> bodies; no, instead, they just kind of slumped to the ground. It
> seems lame that I'd have to enter VATS just to watch a guy get blown
> away without destroying immersion.
>
> 2. I have no job and no car, so a car is pretty much my number one
> priority at this juncture. (It's rather hard to get one too, what
> with not being able to secure a job due to not having a car, haha).
>
> (If anybody knows where I could get a car that isn't a paperweight
> for under a thousand dollars, I'd be grateful for all eternity).
>

I understand your reaction to Fallout 3. My problem is that so few
games appeal to me that I must give it a try. Other than The Witcher,
this is the first game since Oblivion to interest me. Good luck with
finding a car, Smiley. It is a rough year for many of us.