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That's not bad to start the check, especially with the President's help. We shouldn't have to spend any valuable cards on this (like SPs or ICs). Reminder, please be sure to leave me something to do. I can only play one card, but I'm over my hand limit - it'd be wasteful not to play something.

Re Fallout 3:

Pete, enjoy your character however you build him or her, but I humbly suggest in future builds to avoid Fast Learner. You level up fairly fast in the game to begin with, and without the expansions, will probably hit the level cap before you've even finished the game (depending how thoroughly you explore, even as soon as halfway through). Even with Expansions I think the level cap raises but you still level pretty fast. (Now, if you're playing on PC with a level cap removal mod, that may be a different story...)

Perks are valuable and you only get so many of them, and there's a lot of other ones worth taking. If in doubt, I suggest boosting stats directly if nothing else looks good, or if you're early level still and plan to explore very thoroughly, the perk that enables you to get more skill points from reading books.

All the perks are fun, and you are not "doing it wrong." Just a suggestion for the future.

I have become such a lame gamer that I never finished Fallout 3. I amused myself early on by mapping the game locations to real places I drive by every day.

And, not having the Billy West love, I actually found it distracting that they hired maybe 3 voice actors for the whole game.

we have our xbox back - so very happy. and dh finally got to play RDR, bought for father's day.

What does he think of RDR so far? I thought the graphics were some of the best I've seen.

I actually found it distracting that they hired maybe 3 voice actors for the whole game.

And only used about two dozen face models. I cannot tell you the number of times I have wiped out an entire band of raiders or mercs composed entirely of identical quintuplets.

Yeah... if you're going to provide voice acting for every line of text in the game, then be prepared to--if not hire more voice actors, still hire a few versatile voice actors who can record very different modes of speech, and be prepared to implement those extra voice packs. F3 was particularly annoying in that every ghoul had exactly the same voice: "Moe" or old lady. (Or like in KoTOR, every alien saying "Mucha lakka pakka....")

I would prefer reading text with no voice than have the same 3 voice actors over and over again. Or do what they used to do--record lines of speech for important pieces of dialogue, but not voice everyone. That was fine.

The few relatively unique voices were good though. Although her voice is not everyone's favorite, I love what the actress who played Moira did for the character.

I can't help but think of Marathon, and the BoB's saying "Thank God it's you!" as they blow up in your face. God, that game was awesome.

BSG

sorry I forgot there was also the check to do. I play no cards.

I tune out the replicated voices in Fallout 3. That may be due to a lot of playing of Borderlands.

All the perks are fun, and you are not "doing it wrong." Just a suggestion for the future.

Oh well. Still, it's moot as I have no plans to play the game a second time. I only intend to play it through the first time up until the point that it does something to annoy or bore me. It's kind of my filler game until Halo, and then Brink get here.