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She taught me one thing in life - some people are never happy. Rule is, just deal with them as little as f'ing possible. I never needed her explicit permission - citizenship was enough. I hate it when a game which has NPC's giving wrong infomation... either due to stupidity or sheer evilness. It ruins my immersion of a world that revolves around my needs.
I'd seriously advise Fallout 3. I actually know a this guy - ESRB-compliant, writing like a person with 5 broken fingers, chooses to forego basic sanitation. It's impossible for you to have any conversation with him - not even a 'so, what game are you playing' one. His older brother got the hype of F3, and bought it for the PS3. So the guy played it after he broke his CoD disc in a posterior-related accident. Anyway....
1) Half of his inventory was burnt books and tin cans. Apparently he just picked up anything he saw as he went along. When full, he'd just dump stuff from the top until he could move again.
2) He never understood the idea of 'condition' or 'damage rating'. He went with the assult rifle becasue it 'looked sick' - even though it was literally broken. And he had better weapons in his inventory.
3) He never read any dialouge. Ever. He'd just skip.
4) He had no idea of the plot or anything. He'd just shoot all ghouls because he thought they were zombies he'd seen in Shawn of the Dead.
5) Once he died running through a minefield. He re-loaded and tried exacly the same again... and again... and again. Perhaps in a past life he was a WWI general.
6) He did no side missions. Ever. Well, he never talked to anyone, not even shopkeepers.
7) He completed the game!
Pretty cool, huh? Unlike the previous Fallout games, this guy could do it his way, like really his way! If this isn't proof that FO3 is the friendliest, most open and accessible game out there, then I don't know what is. Props to developers, everyone deserves to be entertained in the ways they choose to be entertained.