{"id":1244,"date":"2010-10-18T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2012-09-24T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:59:53","slug":"i-love-an-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"I Love an Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s getting dark outside as I use the last few shots of my laser rifle to dispatch some rad scorpions. It’s time to save my game and head to bed. But out in the distance, I see what looks like a factory.
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\nI can’t fast travel back to this location because I haven’t plotted it on my map…so to quit now would mean I might not see this factory again anytime soon. But I want <\/em>to check it out. My health isn’t great, my ammo low, but I still push forward, my curiosity getting the better of me. I run away from some robots before getting through the double doors.
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\nApparently the ruins were once home to a car factory, and as I look around for parts to scavenge I find out more details about this little area, which holds a few secrets of it’s own. The building doesn’t have much to do with the main game, or at least it didn’t at the time I discovered it, yet the exploration triggered a sense of adventure in me. It wasn’t about saving enough health and ammo to get to the next game. It was about my own initiative to want to learn <\/em>about that building in the far out distance. How many games can do that?
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\nI have a lot of fond memories of Oblivion and Fallout 3, and I’d imagine Fallout New Vegas will be more of the same, which is terrific. It’s the type of game that I can’t make on my own (adventure\/exploration), yet I spend too much time thinking about how I’d do it. What a great genre that has so much untapped potential with today’s next gen systems.
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\nAnyways, I thought it’d be fun to discuss some exploration games that you’d recommend or remember fondly. And anyone else jumping on the New Vegas train this week? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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