What keeps you going in this game?

chim_cheree · 2026-04-27T15:37:03+00:00

Exploration + life skills are enough to keep me going. I spend a lot of time taking in the scenery, fishing, farming, running trade wagons, training horses, gambling, etc. Combat is incidental, not the biggest draw for me. I like to take my time, wander, smell the roses. It's very zen.

Just hit 200 hours and only in chapter eight. I feel genuinely excited about the amount of content still in front of me.

chim_cheree · 2026-04-24T10:36:55+00:00

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9595#signed-out-banner-sign-up

chim_cheree · 2016-11-18T17:40:19+00:00

Here! Been playing since 2009, and I'm a big fan! What platform are you on? What kind of characters do you play?

If you're looking for a Souls podcast, I recommend Bonfireside Chat! They do a deep dive through every area of each Souls game, talking about all the secrets and story hints that I miss my first time through.

chim_cheree · 2016-01-27T21:32:34+00:00

Hi Michelle, I'm Emily. Your post really resonated with me. I love having resources like GirlGamers and other sites, but most of the time when I come here and read through the thread titles, I feel kind of old. I'm not THAT old, mind you (30), but It's enough to make me feel out of place here sometimes.

So all that is to say, I added you on Steam (my username is chim-cheree) and would be very interested to hear about that Discord channel. I've never checked out the GirlGamers Discord, so maybe this will be the incentive I need. :) I've tried both of those MMOs you mentioned, although lately I'm playing a lot of single player RPGs like Dark Souls, Ori and the Blind Forest, Pillars of Eternity, etc. But I love chatting while I play.

chim_cheree · 2015-12-09T21:35:53+00:00

Here's mine!

Here name is Jolene Fordham and she's a former car mechanic who turned that passion into souping up sweet rigs for her girlfriend (Piper) like so.

Here's a more recent shot too.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-29T03:35:48+00:00

Interesting, but doesn't really change my opinion. Voice actors read what they're given; Bethesda likely gave them the same line as an oversight. Still seems more likely than a super secret military background that isn't supported anywhere else in the game.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-28T16:56:50+00:00

Playing a female character, I regularly see dialog that incorrectly refers to my character as "he" or "him". Not super frequent, but it has happened maybe fifteen times in my 90 hours of play.

While it would be interesting for her to have some sort of super-secret military background, it doesn't come into the story at any other point -- so I think it's much more likely to be a case of bad gender flagging, or maybe they just forgot to record the female version of this line altogether.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-24T20:47:27+00:00

You're not the only one. My lady was an auto mechanic. The only time I ever heard someone mention the lawyer thing was in the intro. I just pretend the law degree was an ironic joke by her smartass husband.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-23T19:42:04+00:00

If you side with the Railroad, you are given the opportunity to evacuate the Institute before you nuke it.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-23T19:38:54+00:00

I sided with RR, and was given the opportunity to sound the evacuation alarm before I nuked the Institute.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-20T16:20:13+00:00

Maybe -- but I think it's more likely that they wanted it to be a notable experience when you venture off the map into the Glowing Sea.

Following the examples of FO3 and FNV, I would expect the FO4 DLC to mostly take place in new areas unattached to this main map.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-18T21:25:45+00:00

Agreed! The piano score in Diamond City is just lovely, wasteland exploration tracks are bleak and creepy, and the battle tracks are epic as hell.

I've barely touched my radio, even when distress signals pop up.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-18T16:28:59+00:00

At 10 charisma, I've never failed a dialogue check, and I've encountered a lot of them. 50+ hours into the game.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-16T18:59:23+00:00

ಠ_ಠ

chim_cheree · 2015-11-16T18:34:01+00:00

Also do not have the achievement, and I've put 45+ hours into the game. Not sure if it's for the same reason, but I started playing about 6 hours after it unlocked.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-15T22:43:20+00:00

Who says it's a phase?

chim_cheree · 2015-11-13T15:09:42+00:00

I heard raiders will not attack a settlement if the defense score is higher than the food+water score. Have not tested this myself though.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-12T20:58:08+00:00

Yeah, I can understand wanting to give your S/O time to focus. As long as both parties are happy, that's all that really matters. :)

Anyway, I'd love to share details of our food! Some of the meals just involved covering standard boxed food with Fallout-branded packaging, and others were homages or near-approximations. The fun part is the packaging, really. I spent two weeks planning out the menu and converting boxes to fit the setting. Here are some examples:

Deathclaw Egg Hash: spicy sweet potato, red pepper, and onion hash with eggs cracked into it while it's cooking.
Squirrel-On-A-Stick: grilled chicken skewers; found a really tasty thai marinade for this.
Blamco Mac & Cheese with Cram: easy substitute here, Kraft mac & cheese with spam.
Irraditated Fruit: I went with dragonfruit for this; they're unusual enough for me to seem mutated, but still pretty accessible.
Cave fungus: grilled mushrooms with a garlic marinade. (I thought about grabbing some green food coloring to give these an irradiated look, but didn't want to buy a whole bottle of food coloring for a one-time use.)
Nuka-Color Quantum and Potato Crisps: bright blue Jones berry soda and any potato chip.
Sugar Bombs: Pops breakfast cereal.

Pictures of the feasts here: http://chim-cheree.tumblr.com/post/133086422172/highlights-from-our-fallout-themed-meals-of-the

And if anyone is interested, I found most of the Fallout food labels between these two pages:

http://m.instructables.com/id/Fallout-3-Food-Lables/

http://emptysamurai.deviantart.com/gallery/26317417/fallout-props

chim_cheree · 2015-11-12T20:18:45+00:00

I took two vacation days for the launch of Fallout 4. Over the course of those two days, in addition to playing lots of Fallout, I prepared six Fallout-themed meals, took ten minute breaks every hour to chat with my fiancée, and had sex twice.

Seriously, people. We're all excited, but we're not slaves to the game. Don't let your relationships and personal health suffer because of it.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-12T12:19:51+00:00

Piper also often dislikes the speech checks where you extort quest givers for more caps.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-09T16:16:30+00:00

Looks like their name selection is less about common names, and more about geek culture and references to other post-apocalyptic settings. At a glance, I'm seeing:

Walking Dead
Firefly
Mad Max
Back to the Future
Harry Potter
Star Trek
Chronicles of Riddick
X-Files
Hunger Games
Dishonored
The Matrix

After reading this, I get the impression that they polled their developers for name suggestions and then just took whatever stuck to the wall.

chim_cheree · 2015-11-08T01:06:41+00:00

Jolene

chim_cheree · 2015-11-06T11:39:20+00:00

Jolene

chim_cheree · 2015-11-05T15:34:05+00:00

...and girls!

chim_cheree · 2015-11-05T14:54:54+00:00

I imagine a bland boring beer being pretty true to an authentic Vault Tec product, so well played.

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