Fictional thoughts

In Fallout games we get a lot of scrap. In F3 we had to decide what was good for selling and what needed to be blatantly ignored.

In FNV we got to use some of our scrap to make food, ammo and other small things. They even had DLC that added NPCs who wanted specific scrap for special reasons.

Then you have F4, where every single piece of scrap was useful in construction, and creating. That was what I needed, an excuse to actually interact with these things.

Now in the next game, whatever it is called, I want a little more. I want specific vendors who will pay a lot more for specific items. Like this weapon’s merchant wants hammers and will pay a lot for it. This doctor will pay a lot just to get some blood packs. This other drug dealer would pay a lot for a specific drug.

And you can keep asking for more quests about collecting certain items. And just take the highlighted items from F4 and you have a recipe for success.

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Also the next Fallout game should take place in Hawaii. The game should be about a boat or blimp filled with NCR people who crash on the island and have to deactivate the nuclear core on the island. Only the island is attacked by sea monsters, special ghouls, a military facility with a factory that builds wandering robots, and a madman who lives in a volcano and has a faction of religious fanatics who think he is a god.

Your job is to kill the sea monster mother, rebuild a town for people to gather in, find a cure for the ghoul problem, stop the warlord, stop the factory robots, and deal with the cult. Amid other wacky and dark quests that show how awful America was in the old Dystopian past.

The game can open with the ship crashing and you making your character. Are they a soldier, doctor, mechanic, engineer, scientist, ambassador, or someone who snuck on board and just wants a new life?

I love video game websites, but not for any of the good reasons. A video game is announced and a website is made to draw you in and inform you. However until the game releases you will probably get more info from ANYONE ELSE.

What if there was a Star Wars game, where you didn’t play as a Jedi, you played as 3 kids growing up with Force powers?

During order 66 a Jedi managed to grab 5 younglings and take them with him to a faraway planet untouched by most civilization. He then trains the kids on how to use the Force and tells them that people like them are hunted and killed and that they should hide their powers. Years go by as the tutorial teaches the player how to control the characters and the friendship that they all share.

But then an Imperial ship shows up and after a showdown, their adoptive father dies, but not before killing MANY Storm Troopers. In the battle, 2 of the children are taken and disappear with the surviving antagonists. Their Father’s dying breath is to give them the password to his ship and to hand his lightsaber to the member of the 3 who is most like a melee fighter.

The three bury their Adoptive Father, swear to stay together as a family and also swear to find and save their Brother and Sister. The three then set out and are newly introduced to a Galaxy in the midst of Rebellion and War. But these 3 only have one objective, reunite their family.

Each character would be different. One would be the basic melee specialist and focus on using the lightsaber and other hand to hand techniques to fight off most enemies. The next would be the “Wizard” of the group and be very adept at using their powers and abilities to make effects and changes in the world, story and in battle. The last would be a tech specialist who used guns, gadgets and was the best pilot. Unlike the other two, this one could easily tap into the Force and have it guide them to build, repair and do amazing things.

This is all so that we can get a Star Wars game that gives you room for choice and diversity in your play. Your characters get new abilities and equipment and build changing relationships with one another. They can grow closer or farther apart, but in the end they love their siblings enough to put their feelings aside and unite under their mission.

Of course one lost sibling would have become a Sith and the other a Jedi, forcing the the 3 to make a choice when it all comes down to their overpowered, yet equally matched family members who are battling each other in the middle of the climax.

But this is just the bare bones, this doesn’t include the other terrifying and benevolent forces at work in this game. Allies and enemies, sacrifice and reward, in the end it’s just an idea. I hope that we get a game that makes me feel like a kid watching the old Star Wars movies again.

What is a good video game? How do you find the formula that makes it just perfect. That game that caught your attention, held you there, lifted you and guided you through the entire experience, and now when you look back on it all you can do is smile. How did that happen? 

 At some point you played a bad game, it isn't hard to find a bad one. Or you played a game that just doesn't mold well with you. Something that someone else loves and admires, but something that just rings like a hollow tune in your ears. You can't help it, the flavor just didn't suit your needs. 

So, how do you find it? How do you experience that blissful high that we call fun in a video game?  I remember he first time I enjoyed a game, it was before I even played it or even knew how to read. My father was playing Final Fantasy 6 and I just walked into the room with my toys and froze, staring the screen where little people were using magic to fight monsters. I sat down on the floor right next to him and asked what was happening, the next few hours felt like someone was turning lights on in my head. Gods, magic, technology, kingdoms, monsters, dragons, Knights, ninjas, a yeti, an evil empire, a diabolical villain, the plight of a band of heroes, death, loss, fear, hope, adventure, ghosts, dinosaurs, summoning, airships ... I could literally type this for the next 10 minutes.   Never in my wildest dreams did I ever even consider a world where there felt like no boundaries. Where the concepts of fantasy shattered into a new more incredible scenario and setting. I watched a monk, a ninja, a samurai, and a ghost, fight across a train, then battle the train, then watch as the samurai was forced to say goodbye to the departing souls of his son and wife. For the first time in my 4 year old life, I was sad as my dad read to me the lines that came from a video game.  I wanted more, but after a week my dad had beaten the game. So I thought the great adventure was over, until I walked in on him playing the game again and saying how he needed to hunt down all the dragons. Then he did it again and said how he needed to collect all the Espers. The AGAIN when he said that he heard about a character named Gogo. Every time he returned there was a new adventure, some new kind of treasure or secret hidden away in this world where madness, magic, and loss tore at every turn.

Steven Universe. I like it … I like it a lot.

I remember a while back when I saw commercials for it and all I could think was, “This looks dumb.” … I was wrong. At first Steven Universe was what I thought it was gonna be about, “A goofy kid, surrounded by American versions of Sailormoon, and the kid is just an annoying goof who gets on my nerves over how childish he was.”

But … but then I saw Lion 3 Straight To Video. I teared up guys/gals. I thought it might just be some kind of glitch, it happens with cartoons, sometimes a great episode comes out and tricks you. But then I saw Jail Break. Everyone who has seen this episode knows exactly what I mean right now.

Plot twists, character development, story growth, action, emotion, and THAT SONG! I was struck by lightning. Not only was I struck, but I was realizing that something was happening, Steven was growing up. Maybe not physically, but mentally.

He was less ready to jump to a happy conclusion and more set to analyze a situation. Sure he wasn’t asking question, WHICH DRIVES ME CRAZY, but he’s a little boy and he doesn’t ask questions until his teens.

So yeah, this show has pulled at my heart, meddled with my thoughts, and made me want to see MORE. I have to see the next episode, and I don’t care if it’s a silly episode, we are now at the point where every new episode is information relevant to the story. I LOVE IT! And I haven’t even scratched the surface.

There are so many theories I have, about the history of this alternate earth, the origin of the gems as a species, other alien races possibly at war with the gems seeing as the gems apparently need so many weapons, and the extent of Steven’s abilities, and his future as an adult.

I understand that this is riddled with spelling errors so I’ll cut to the point.

The cartoon with the chubby kid who has a gem instead of a belly button, is amazing. Watch it if you like deep histories. Watch it if you enjoy character development. Watch it if you want the feels. Watch it if you love to theorize. Watch it if you need a heart driven adventure, about a boy with magic, and a journey to become the hero he is destined to be.

Hi there every body, this thing is made specifically so I can talk about WHATEVER I want. It may be adult and/or contain strong language along with violence and graphic images.