Thought I would try a topic like this, mainly because I'm growing more and more amazed at some of the changes in Me as a result of the game. Granted its not anything as significant as bringing me to tears (though, apparently, that is a key industry goal for some people). But less significantly, I have started listening to some of the 1950's music like "Blue Moon" and actually LIKE IT NOW. :shocking:

This coming from someone who was never exposed to it in youth, who grew up in the Van Halen / Def Leppard era and who regarded most music like this as belonging to history - certainly not modern video games. Yet here I am enjoying tunes from 25 years before I was born, and looking forward to hearing them again. Somehow it just didn't take this way with Fallout3 - perhaps its the music selection or perhaps I'm just getting old. Either way, I find it a profound affect - something that I never expected from the experience of a video game.

Did it change you at all? Or am I just a certifiable nut job that shouldn't be making threads?

im growing hair is strange places now

Altering my personality to things I think make me a better person.

Actually, I'm considering building a custom NV "soundtrack" playlist by buying select MP3 tracks that were featured in NV via Amazon. I'm going to get Blue Moon for sure, Ain't that a Kick in the Head, Orange Colored Sky (was in one of the trailers but sadly not in the actual game), Something's Got to Give and Why Don't You Do Right?. I may DL the other tracks too, we will see I guess... =p

New Vegas hasn't done anything for me, but after hearing the music in FO3, I began collecting 78rpm records. I have about 180 records now from 1910's-1950's. Awesome music! Awesome hobby!

I've decided I have to marry the first guy in a checkered suit who shoots me in the head...
Oh, and that I'll have to slap the first person who says 'Johnny' and 'guitar' to me in the same sentence!

Dont Forget I got spurs/Jingle jangle

How YOU doin'?

Seriously though, FO3 was the game that really turned me on to older music. Also, coincidentally, I was starting to get into Ballroom Dance at the time (and I still do Ballroom Dance). So it was really FO3 and Ballroom Dance happening at the same time that sold me on the music. FNV continues with even more new/good stuff, although some of the songs (like "Aint That A Kick In The Head") are used often in Ballroom Dance too (that song is a mean Foxtrot ).

Fallout 3 made me addicted to coka~cola, and I have someone going west for me to find some sarsaparilla, although I heard it was nasty, but all in all it didn't change me that much, I was already a gun nut, it just added to it.

I haven't had it since I was a kid, but IIRC, it tastes similar to root beer.


*edit, after looking into it, that's b/c sarsparilla is an old fashioned root beer using sassafras as the root for flavoring.

umm it killed my social life, but it increased my wallets inventory.

I finally have something GOOD to say about Obsidian.

Neverwinter Nights 2 svcked.
Alpha Protocol svcked.

Fallout: New Vegas is better than Fallout 3 and actually seems to have stabilized the GameBryo engine as best they could. While it's not better than FO1 or 2, it still delivers on the same good memories of those games while bringing their charm to a broader, newer audience.

Fallout made me love classical music.

Oh and even though the actual way to accomplish it isn't the same it encouraged me to pick locks. I lost the key to my lockbox and had my old lady's bobbypins in my room as well as a screwdriver so I fooled around with the lock for 20 minutes and to my surprise it opened. Its very easy once you get the hang of it. The trick is to jig the bobbypin up and down under the pins in the lock while turning the screwdriver.

I really like Frank Sinatra now. I have lots of his music on my hard drive.

*writes this down on notepad*

Well, prior to before I started playing Fallout games, (I began with Fallout 1 and worked my way up to New Vegas), I liked 50s music. I can't really see any changes in me. haha

Changed me?
Not really.
I have some quirks though like saying nuka-cola instead of coca cola and whenever I see a cap on the ground I wonder if it's a blue star sunset sasparella cap.
Other than that, nope.

I got my first girlfriend

You took the Lady Killer perk IRL?

Yes, how did you know? I took alot of stomping on cockroaches to level up though.

You should've killed a Yao Guai, those earn lots of exp.
But you better be prepared though.
Had to find a schematic for a railway rifle and assemble it to take it on.
But I leveled up and finally got Confirmed Bachelor.

Just buy a pick gun they cost around $30-50, can pick just about any lock in seconds.

Basic locks only take a few seconds anyways after you figure it out. All Benny needs is a stealth boy and a bobby.....wait wrong line. A bobby pin and a screwdriver can be found around the house and I already own plenty so I'll stick with those.

I find myself collecting different boxes of cleaners obssesively.

Abraxo cleaner.. must.. get.. more..

Like someone else said I found myself liking old music, thats about it.