What to do in Fallout 3 when you don’t want to play Fallout 3

Wait…what?

Fallout 3 is a damn fun game. And while it’s certainly a game that you call out of work for in order to keep fighting in the Wasteland, a person does get tired of missions and saving lives or hurting others and sometime, you just really need a break from it.

That break doesn’t mean playing another game.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any screenshot software, so this post will be without images, but believe me when I say we’ve done all this and now, YOU CAN TOO!

Mission 1: Collectables

One of the first things my group got into was to start collecting one object and stashing it in their Megaton houses. For some it was plungers. For another, it was the mutated limbs of everything he killed and teddy bears. Be sure to arrange them artfully around your domicile. Teddy bears went one on each step up to the bedroom. Mutated limbs covered the patio and formed a protective ring around the entrance to the house.

Mission 2: The Bedroom

My favourite of all time was how one decided that he wanted to grab every whiskey bottle he could find. He lost karma in order to steal them all, empty or full. And then he put them into the bedroom on the floor. After several weeks, the entire room was covered in whiskey bottles so many layers deep that to enter into there caused the Xbox to choke and gasp over having to render it all. At that point, he knew his work was done. He put Abraham Lincoln’s shotgun on his bed as the cherry on his sundae.

Mission 3: Milkman

When bored, one can take on the Milkman Mission. “What is this?” you say. Why, it’s when you run around and gather up milk bottles and then deliver it delicately to the side of the door of every one in Megaton. You have only a few hours to do it or else the milk might go bad and you’ll miss breakfast time! …How long does it take irradiated milk to go bad?

Mission 4: A New Home

You actually don’t HAVE to live in Megaton or the Tenpenny Towers. Sure, you get a work bench and a robot and no one steals from you but when you’re playing as THAT sort of bad ass character, you don’t want the kindness of strangers. You want to forge your own home. And that’s exactly what my roommate did. He ran off into Minefield, killed everyone there, and then shacked up in a bloodied house as his new home. And really, you could do this anywhere. Just make sure you kill all the inhabitants and that there’s a comfy bed waiting for you!

Mission 5: Kill them all

Sometimes, it’s just fun to practice tactical maneuvers by walking into say, the station of cannibals or the grove of the tree huggers and just see if you can blow them all away. Make sure that you just have yourself a good ol’ fashioned shoot out where you kill everyone possible. If you die, then just keep at it over and over again until you are the victor! And then move your stuff into their homes. It’s always better when they’re important to the mission, like Three Dog.

What is your favourite way to not play Fallout?