Okay, maybe that headline does real gamer nerds a disservice, as I only play one computer game anymore…when I have mental blocks and just don’t want to go outside for a bit.<\/p>\n
So I play Fallout 3.\u00a0 It’s the last game I’ve paid for (almost a year ago).\u00a0 When you only play like one game, it’s got to be customizable or you end up falling asleep after 10 minutes.\u00a0 Thankfully, it IS pretty customizable.<\/p>\n
The mod community, for the most part (except for the hairpacks…why can’t someone who isn’t an anime nerd do graphics modelling?) is doing pretty good work expanding the game and making it more worthwhile to play characters other than “stealthy sniper guy” or “pyro melee guy”, the two character classes that seem to do best at a vanilla (unmodded) version of the game.<\/p>\n
One such mod is the “playa” mod, and I’m talking about Seducing Women<\/a>.\u00a0 Holy hell, this is a surprisingly good and entertaining mod.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a multi-part quest to hook up with lots of women, find pornography, and research the orgies of the upper class types.\u00a0 Gives the charismatic type player a shot at getting enough experience to keep from being lunchmeat early on in the game.<\/p>\n The Weapons kit mod<\/a> and RobCo certified<\/a> mods help the techie players out a whole lot…both are reasonably imbalanced, but if you apply Mart’s Monster Mod<\/a>,\u00a0 you’ll balance that right back out.\u00a0\u00a0 That guy went and buffed up a whole lot of monsters wandering around the wasteland.<\/p>\n Raiders, Mercenary, Regulators, Talon expanded<\/a> is an awesome mod if you want a little more diversity out of the game.\u00a0\u00a0 Adds a bunch of new combat armors, too, which is really why I dig it…combat armor is rad.\u00a0 The Rivet City armor, especially, is great…black, helps your small guns skills out (built in speed holster or something?), and it doesn’t have Talon Company bad white eagle claw on it. Reneer’s Radio Mod<\/a> accomplished a super simple thing that I wanted since I first started playing the game, which was just to change the radio station or turn it off.\u00a0 I can only take hearing “Wonderful guy” and “Let’s go sunning”, along with most of the Enclave station, for only so long before I just turn off the sound altogether.<\/p>\n And if you play this game and you’re not using the mod manager<\/a> or FOSE (script extender)<\/a> then you’re probably missing out.\u00a0 They’ll help you get all those various mods working together right.<\/p>\n Now if only there were a graphics modeler who knew how hair should look like 1. in real life, and 2. in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.\u00a0 The only good hair mod I’ve found for male characters is the bald hairstyle<\/a> mod.\u00a0 The ONLY one.\u00a0 Every other one looks like a generic woman’s hairstyle that has been screwed up a little bit.\u00a0 And the women’s hairstyles are totally not what you’d expect in a world where there aren’t any hairspray or gel factories.\u00a0 In fact, I have no idea how the hell that hair was supposed to be held up.\u00a0 Most were ported over from Oblivion, and to be honest, they looked like ass in that one, too.\u00a0 They’re bad anime haircuts, people, I’m sorry you spent so much time rendering them, but they look like ass.\u00a0 They look extremely fake and are way, way over the top.\u00a0 The vanilla Fallout 3 haircuts are way better.\u00a0 The only reason I make a deal about this is that there are actual NPC’s in the game who’ll cut your hair, and it’s a waste if there’s only like one hairstyle that doesn’t look like ass.\u00a0\u00a0 Bald makes a whole lot more sense in a radiated world than wood elf hair or emo hair, okay?\u00a0 And it looks a billion times cooler.<\/p>\n Improved glasses and shades<\/a> makes a lot of sense, and adds a use for one of the more useless clothing items in the game.\u00a0 For that matter, Improved goggles<\/a> is right in that same vein.\u00a0 Makes sense something that protects your eyes from a hostile environment might make your vision a little better.\u00a0\u00a0 Galloping Gourmet<\/a> makes food considerably less worthless.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of “healing you instantly”, it heals (and maybe irradiates or another effect) you over time.<\/p>\n