A Letter From The Heart
Fallout 3,
I honestly do not know where to start with this letter. We have known each other for such a short time, but it has felt like you have been a part of me for so much longer. You have shown me so many things in the last few months, things I had never thought possible and I am so very grateful to have you in my life. For once, I am finally able to be myself around someone and for that I can never thank you enough. Who else could I run around all day with killing Molerats with a plank of wood without being mocked? Even when I bludgeon helpless Wastelanders to death, you are there my love, watching their heads roll alongside me. We were meant to be Fallout 3!
In the 99 days that we have been together, we have been through so much. I cannot begin to describe the fear I felt when that Behemoth suddenly decided it wanted to tear us apart (literally), but you pulled out your Chinese Assault Rifle and you sure did own that son of a bitch! I jumped with joy when that beast fell to the ground as dead as my sex life will be once my partner realises how much of a nerd I am.
Do you remember that time we blew Megaton to smithereens? Oh how we laughed! And that young lady who kept flirting with you and asking you to help her with her silly little “research”? Well, I’m glad she isn’t much of a challenge for me now.
Oh Fallout 3, what ever would I do with out you? The many hours we have shared, stealing bottles of Nuka Cola, out running Deathclaws and trying to work out how to maim those little brats who insist in calling us “mungos”. I truly cannot remember what my days were spent doing before you burst onto the scene in a blaze of 1940s classics.
And how you have made everything so much more easier for me! Never in my 20yrs on this earth would I ever think of saying that all my problems could be solved with one simply system – V.A.T.S. What you have brought into my life is a button press away from pure bliss. I feel like the luckiest lady in the world Fallout 3, and my eyes twinkle with delight when I see your face getting covered in blood, eye balls and splinters of bone.
My life now holds new meaning with you in it and my heart leaps in my chest every time you whip your Pipboy out for me to play with. I know we had problems at first when I found it difficult to navigate properly, but you were very patient with me and slowly I grew to learn how to handle your Pipboy correctly and it only made our bond stronger!
I will hold you close to my heart Fallout 3, even when your DLC comes to me on the 27th of this month and we end our time together before your successor sweeps me from my feet. Your achievement points will be the sign of our perfect time together, I will never forget how you have changed my life.
All my love,
Elysium
I don’t know why I haven’t got this game yet, as I know I’d absolutely adore it. This post has just made me want it even more.
Wait, I do know, it’s the lack of having any money at all!
Oh Tom, you would LOVE this game! If I didn’t have a few more achievements to grab I would lend it to you, but.. but… it’s my baby!
The cheapest it’s going for at the moment is £30 though
You two were made for each other, just like me and SSX3.
Ryan, it was love at first play
I’m very impressed, i felt like i was replaying the game again…. though i was slightly nicer the the citizens of megaton. Wish i’d blew them up now, sounded fun! i’m currently kicking some fire breathing ants ass on level 10ish. didn’t think i’d be into this sort of game when the gf bought it but it has changed by opinion and its seriously (slowly destroying my sex life) addictive. I consider myself the weapons dealer of the wastelands and everybody seems to hate me now. Being Irish i’ll consider myself the new Colin Moriorty.
[spelling is terrible, sorry]
By way of reply…
Dear Mass Effect,
your took me in with your third point perspective despite my stick-in-the mud FPS ways and showed me a wider world, a world full of almost infinite detail that had been lovingly crafted and sculpted around the story I wandered through. So much so that I didn’t feel like I was the only person but more than the whole universe around me and alive. I frankly felt like creating an RPG in your honour. You give me wonderful weapons to blow things up with and funky powers to hoist aliens into the air so I can shoot them like clay pigeons, you give me an excellent levelling system and fantastical planetoids where the sky rains fire plus weird and wonderful aliens to shag. I felt like Kirk in powerarmour.
Thank you mass effect, you gave me a whole universe to blast.
~Dr.P
Well written, an open book that pulls all the right punches in the right places and is how a love letter should be. I was going to say something about the game itself, but it will seem lame in comparison (and I want to save something for my GTP comment). But I will say the line about shooting a behemoth til he was as dead as your sex life when your partner finds out your a nerd, is absolute genius.
I can’t believe just how much time I’ve spent in this game.
I’ve completed it four times now, each following a different path, unlocked all 50 achievements and STILL I am now wandering around the wasteland looking for unmarked quests and such.
I love this game so much. Hear me Elysium! The game loves ME! NOT YOU!!
hehehe.
Gib00 – You’re Irish? Where abouts are you from? :] My family originate from Wexford! It is a great game and VERY addictive!
Dr.Penguin – Thanks for posting! I still love the alien shagging part of your love letter, top notch matey!
BuckShotGeorge – Thanks for commenting here and on GTP, much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the letter
Taz – Hey you! Thanks for replying! Everytime I see you online you’re playing away at Fallout 3. I’m jealous you’ve maxed out your achievements, I’ve still got quite a few left to get!
AND IT LOVES ME! MEEEEEEEEEE!
I love this, its truly informative. It made me pine for the game but unfortuanetly I have bills that need to be paid before I play games. I will get it eventually. Thanks for the letter. ^_^
Have to say this letter describes all my thoughts when i play this game, i have a ways to go in the story but im savoring every second of it.
I need this game and much like Tom, I have not gotten it yet, but unlike tom I know exactly why, I am so wrapped up in other games from the video game holiday rush, I’m holding off on this single player experience till the price comes down and I have enough time to dedicate to it, if I tried to play it now I would either get distracted with gears and L4D and not give Fallout the attention it deserves or I would get sucked in so much that Gears and L4d would not get the attention that they deserve, so everything in its own time, but oh yes, I will have her, as all of you already have.
Love the letter hun, very brilliant! And I love Fallout 3 as well, incredible game. If you havent played Oblivion or Morrowind yet you should give it a try they are just as good but different in their own way. Take care my friends!
Nice letter Elysium…fallout 3 is a great game . I playing my 4 playthrough right now and enjoying it more than when i played it the first time.
Loved the letter. I am taking my time with Fallout 3 and havent even come close to approaching the achivements everyone else has received…but I do intend to get them all! This game will probably always be my favorite…(least until Fallout 4 rears its head.)
Be careful, Fallout 3 killed my previous two lovers (Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, respectively) and stole their identities. You are harboring a monster fugitive.
I recommend you find a less horrible rpg to fall in love with, particularly one without arbitrary action elements. Planescape Torment might not be the “coolest” boy at school but from what I understand he cares about you a lot.
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I thought I was ready for a long term commitment with Fallout 3, and for a while it was great. Then I got my head turned by the first pretty 3rd Person Shooter that came along and Fallout and I drifted apart. I started spending more time at parties with my new love, GoW2, and Fallout 3 remained on the shelf.
To be fair, none of these relationships have been serious. I’m saving myself for my soul mate to arrive on the scene. I have a feeling that come March, a certain little survival horror sequel an I will be spending a lot of time together…
I’m so fickle.
Meh, Fallout 2 is better than Fallout 3.
Fallout 3 focuses too much in the combat, in Fallout 2 it was possible to run through the game with a stealthy approach, sneaking away and stealing, breaking into places, fighting no one, and it was also possible to be a diplomat that speaks to his enemies to dissuade them from attacking. Both of these character types could finish the whole game without a fight, by solving puzzles specific to their skills. In Fallout 3, because of the forced fights, such a character is not possible unless it uses the NPC’s.
The dialogue quality is worse, and the towns seem pretty empty, in Fallout 2, the towns were much more full of people and quests. A single town usually had 10+ side-quests, with different good/evil solutions, faction-specific solutions, or a choice of being combative, stealthy, or smooth talking.
Also, the use of Intelligence in dialogue is laughable, if you guys saw what Intelligence did in Fallout 2 dialogues… like showing a scientist how his method for manufacturing drugs is innefficient (Using real-life research and real-life technobabble, mind you), winning a supersmart radscorpion in chess, doing a “Hannibal Lecture” on a raider and demoralizing it, figuring out where does a character hide a stash just from his demeanor, and much more… compare that with “[Intelligence] So you fight the good fight, eh?”.
By gods!
That… that wretched thing! Basking there in the limelight, with a sarcastic smirk on its face. How can you love a monster like that? Don’t you see the blood under its fingernails? It’s nothing but a shallow husk of a being, wrapped itself in my old lover’s skin. The fragrance of my sweet old lover can barely cover the stench of rot underneath.
It’s nothing but a monster, a hideous, bloodthirsty monster I tell you. Rid yourself of it, before it consumes you as it my old sweet love did.
real life sex games…
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