Firstly just some Facts. I own the PC Pipboy edition and after 21 hours of downloading and installation finally got to play last night.

My visual quality is Ultra.

This will read like Im playing the game as I type. Tense is weird

Created a male character and explored the house. Everything was very clean and shiny. Decided to use my actual name , Matthew for my first run through. Was kinda cool to hear it. Although I must admit I did like a guy I met in New York on my trip there.

I liked the information from the TV. The weather reports, what life might be like in China, the Fatman advert.

Felt a sense of urgency running for the vault with the family., had a chuckle with the wife berating the Husband for wanting to take the suitcase (did they end up making it?).

Wow, the guy from Vault Tech wasnt on the list. Dont vault tec staff have their own vault? or was it too late. Also what happens to the soldiers preventing people from going in? Do they die... are they safe in their armor?

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Felt something was off even as we were escorted with the Doctor to the pods for decontamination. Not off as in Graphics wise, but off as in being a lot time Fallout player you know when you are about to be hoodwinked.

The scene where the 2 people essentially steal your kid and kill your wife while you are half frozen/half awake is .. well awesome. Not awesome in the sense of its a bad thing to have happened. but thematically great. I had so many questions. My biggest one is if the pods are not linked to each other, while was my characte half woken up when they gangers ? went to steal the kid.

Reading the blogs later on was kinda weird. Now the Vault Tec plan was that the experiment there was for long term suspended animation but they only gave the staff monitoring the experiment enough food for x time waiting the all clear symbol. The overseer was the only one who knew about the real long term experiment. So how was he expected to deal with the security staff with guns?

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Leaving the vault was a grand sight and i must admit i felt a bit overwhelmed. Dead trees, some brush, some buildings.. oh and my old home not far off. Now normally I pick a direction and wander off, this time I decided to go for my old place.. mostly to loot it.

I met up with Codsworth who called me 'Mr Matthew'. and then we were off killing flying bugs and then he tells me about Concord.

Again, bad me.. i went straight there. One mandatory stop to get the dog ( I guess if you avoid that place you never get the Dog? Ive not used any of his abilities yet). Then I hit down dispatching people with my 10mm pistol.. now getting low on ammo. So I get in some head shots (still not used VATS yet) and I pickup the Laser Musket.

Fallout I have noticed as a series does seem to like letting the player tour a Museum.. even if the Museum is not decayed and or dying. I dispatch the Raiders inside and then find a Fusion power core? behind a locked gate which I pick

Then I find Preston and have a talk. He actually just wants my help to get back to my old place.

I finally leave him to his own devices and set off for a Walk. I find a large quarry which sadly appears to graphically be buggy.. Ive walked on water and then through some quarry stone and the ramp I go through that. Not sure what he wants me to do (told me, I just wasnt paying attention)

So far am REALLY enjoying the game. Had some tough battles, killed 3 ghouls and looking forward to getting stuck back in tonight.