In life I always do my best to conserve money and that has carried over well to games, and my spending habits in games has carried over to life as well. You see in life you I always try to conserve as much money as possible, always checking out sales and such and in games I always try to do the same.

However, recently I’ve been doing my second play through of Fallout New Vegas, I was about ten hours in and realized that I had a ridiculous amount of caps, even though I was playing on hardcore mode and the hardest difficulty, I already had enough food to last a life time, I never ran out of water, hell I even had more ammo then I could waste. So I decided to do something I would never do in real life. Just spend it.

OH MONEY MONEY

I bought crazy weapons from Gun Runners, tons of ammo, armor for myself and companions and still had enough to buy junk for my Suite. And that’s when the game really started to shine. It was fun going for the survivalist thing early on, but that’s not what Fallout is about, Fallout is about blowing people’s heads off and laughing about it.

Yeah it sounds morbid but that is really it. Just like in the recent article about Mass Effect, Fallout NV is an illusion, a facade of interactivity, a mirage of characters and experiences.

BOOM HEADSHOT

Now this made me think, what if I did this in real life? No not the shooting but the spending, so during the holiday break I bout some games on Steam and took my sister out to eat since we hadn’t really talked recently, and you kn ow what? It was nice experience, and I’m glad I spent the money. So now my only regret is that I hadn’t started sooner, giving gifts, and spending my money on the people close to me in my life. You only get one chance at life, and you can’t take your money with when you’re gone, so spend it right and live life.