Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to New Vegas
After I watched my buddy’s kiddo play Fallout: New Vegas for 15 minutes while suppressing my desire to yell “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!”, I wandered back over to Steam and did a reinstall thinking that I’d go through the intro again and wander around Goodsprings.
I had a leisurely chat with Easy Pete, made eyes with Sunny Smiles, and had some conversations with Victor that I overlooked the first few times I played the game.
And then I remembered the modding community.
So I hopped over to Nexus and checked out what was was (warning: some of the mods there are not particularly safe for work… kids these days).
There are new texture mods, bug fixes, and character skins. There are additional perks and additional creatures and additional quests.
You know how there are different radio stations available on your pip-boy? There are mods that give you new radio stations. Listen to themely radio plays, listen to radio stations that have additional songs, heck, dump another 100 songs from the era into New Vegas Radio.
Heck, The Frontier is new DLC that gives you at least another 15 hours of gameplay.
And, yeah, I used the mod that gives you an additional 15 stat points at the beginning of the game. Why start with all 5s when you can start with all 7s?
Once again, I am discovering how brilliant of a game this was and, yes, I am disappointed that I don’t know how to share it with the kids these days.
So… what are you playing?
There is a minor problem with some of the music radio stations you can get…
I’m not sure how to explain…
Um… a few years back, Maribou and I were eating breakfast at our little diner and the radio was playing one of the cheerful radio stations that was doing an “80s Saturday Morning”. They played Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”. Immediately after, they played Cindy Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”.
These two songs are, indeed, 80’s AF, as the kids say.
But, as someone who remembers the 80s, lemme tell ya: NOBODY LISTENED TO THESE SONGS NEXT TO EACH OTHER AT THE TIME. Sure, maybe there were people who enjoyed and appreciated both artists… but they weren’t played together.
Anyway, one of the juxtapositions I’ve enjoyed is Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” right next to Little Richard’s “Lucille”.Report
It is quite amusing these days to hear stuff just jammed together as “old people rock music”, like you’ll hear Stone Temple Pilots followed by Steely Dan and then Bon Jovi…Report
The local Kroger chain’s background music is like this.
As for why they settled on music from the mid-60s to mid-80s for background, the other day I watched a grandma — that is, someone my age — dancing down the aisle to some 70s song, much to the delight of the little girl in the cart grandma was pushing. Grandma still had moves.Report
When the grocery store was playing Joy Division, I stopped in the aisle and confirmed… yeah. That’s Joy Division.
I imagine that they did studies that found that when you play “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Oreo sales increase 12%.Report
I mean… I kinda see what they were going for. The Top Ten songs off of the sales chart and the Top Ten songs off of what we now call the R&B sales chart and they’re 8 years apart but, much like married couples, it’s not a big deal to meet someone dating someone born in 1966 who was born in 1958. They’re both a million years old. None of my beeswax.
Maybe young people just can’t tell the difference between Bing Crosby’s stuff from WWII and Frank Sinatra’s stuff from after the Kennedy assassination.
Why should they? They’re both a million years old. None of my beeswax.Report
I have been on a Stellaris kick lately, which, if you know anything about Stellaris, means it’s fun, and soul and time-sucking all at once. RIP a normal sleep schedule.Report