Forum:Ever play a char. who didn't fast-travel?

Has anyone ever tried that? I tried it once and it was really interesting; only carrying what you need, running out of ammo and armor unless you stumbled across a trader. I didn't use the map at all so unless you reconginzed your surrounding you couldn't just head for a town. It did get a little triesome around lvl. 15 or so and I stopped doing it, but you really get a feeling of isolation when you spend hours without jumping into town to drop off gear!

Anybody got some other unique playable ideas? I like starting a new character with a particular theme in mind. I'd like to hear your suggestions on what you thought made a good play though.

CJ

Yeah, but I did it in Oblivion. I have recently made a Fallout 3 char that is going to use fists and nothing else. I gave it a rather funny name "Fisty McGee" xD ViperXeon 18:27, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that was one thing I always liked about Fallout; just how good you could really get with just your fists. I always thought a play-though like that turned into something close to Fist of the North Star! :)

CJ

I tried doing that for a while, but just got sick of running low on ammo, or constantly running across those damned giant scorpions at high levels. Over and over and over again, within freaking yards of each other. Generally, I start off doing that, and try to keep it up for as long as possible, but I quickly run out of patience, carrying capacity, or .32 or .44 ammo.

My response to playable ideas. Who was the most scariest dude in the 1950's? Stalin. I made a Stalin character and he is equiped with a Chinese jumpsuit and a Chinese commando hat and embraces the idea of Bad Kharma'd communism. It is really interesting to see James is surprised that Stalin murdered people (reference to the Power of Atom or whatever it is called).

I prefer to not make my character all super powerful and loaded up from the get-go so I purposefully give my character certain low starting stats/skills which I'll have to build over time. I also don't go looking for the uber best armour and weapons right away. I enjoy the leveling aspects of any game. Otherwise there is no point if you can just kill anything in your path, pass every speech check or pick every lock. I see a lot of people go and do Anchorage right away so they can get great armour and ammo and high levels quickly before starting the main quest. That's just not me. I find the best way to play is just to do a completely different style of character to the one you did before. So if the first time you were all beefed up and blasting anything that got in your way go for a more stealthy/diplomat kind of character next. No fast-travel is a good idea but as you've noticed it can get annoying. There are certain places I don't fast travel to and others where it is more convenient and of course if you need heeling or to replenish supplies it just makes sense.ShadowSentinel 19:03, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

Totally, that's the best way to play, in my opinion. It gets really hard with Mart's Mutant Mod and Increased Spawns on, which I feel is a little more realistic (Otherwise you rarely see more than five enemies at a time...) and really makes that sneak skill a little more valuable, because you have to run, hide, or generally sneak around A LOT more and you lose ammo/weapon integrity fast if you stumble into shit all the time... Using the Better Living Through Chems mod makes it even more difficult and realistic, as it makes Stimpacks addictive... No more using five or six stimpacks at a time unless you can do something about it reasonably soon. OId school! Metalfrenchtoast 19:07, February 1, 2010 (UTC) EDIT: I just looked at the list for BLTC and it doesn't make Stimpacks addictive, but excessive use of Stimpacks will give you Brock poisoning. Word. Metalfrenchtoast 19:19, February 1, 2010 (UTC)