Big black mid-tower of failure
I just don’t have the spirit to deal with fixing this machine. It’sﾃつliterally paralyzing. I’ll sit around for hours in the time where Iﾃつwould normally be playing games and instead just sit aroundﾃつdoing…nothing. Just staring at my big black mid-tower of failure.
It’s not that I don’t have other machines that I could playﾃつon. My new MacBook Pro is supposed to have a pretty hot video card. Iﾃつcould install Windows on that. And Asus just gave me a couple of newﾃつreview laptops, both of which are supposed to be wicked fast forﾃつgames. (Disclaimer: Asus is currently a sponsor of Boing Boing, butﾃつthese are just review units. They may suck!)
But the thing that’s killing me is Fallout 3. I absolutelyﾃつadored playing it, but I’ve already put several hours into it ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶敕つprobably a couple of dozen. And I could restart with a new characterﾃつon these new machines, but I don’t wanna. I hateﾃつreplaying games.
Getting my save game off the broken gaming machine may be possible,ﾃつbut if you can believe it I don’t have another working PCI-E videocardﾃつaround the house, so I can’t even get the machine to start running
long enough to get it on the network.
So it looks like my only option may be…evil. If I install XP orﾃつVista on my MacBook Pro ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 the one machine I’m taking with me asﾃつI go out of town for the next three weeks ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 I could installﾃつFallout 3. And since I played a good character the firstﾃつtime, the best chance I have of not playing the same game over is
being a real bastard. A child-killing, junk-stealing, mutant-lovingﾃつbastard.
Maybe this won’t be so bad.
Comments
I know this is kind of old and you’re probably done with this. but why not take the hard drive out of that PC and put it as a slave drive on another. You can then treat yourself to your game save.
This actually could be a blessing in disguise with the 20-level cap on developing your character, and the free-form nature of the gameplay. Still a bummer though.
(I’m actually planning to restart this game as a villain myself)