I don’t want to set the world on fire… I just want my damn platinum trophy.

I should start by saying this by no means is a review, if you were looking for that you will sadly be disappointed.

Well if you read the title, and you played the game, then you of course know that I’m talking about Fallout 3. Like I said this by no means is any sort of review, it’s more of a dilemma I’ve had with this game. The dilemma being on how to play and eventually beat the game. Simple enough right? “Just fucking finish the game!” Well not so simple for me.

Ok, so I’m just going to enlighten you with some history on how I got myself into this precarious position. It all happened last week when Jed, Anthony and myself met up. Now we usually grab some food and just drive around aimlessly, get lost, talk about shit, then eventually find our way back. But this time we chose to forego the getting lost and hit up some burger spots instead, grab ‘em and go eat at Anthony’s house. All well and good until Anthony tells us that he got a platinum trophy. Now I for one didn’t buy into the trophy hunting game, even when Jed was going trophy hungry and blitzing through rockband 2. I don’t know, but maybe it was me always thinking that platinum was never going to happen, which is why I never really yearned for it. But when Anthony said he got it for Prince of Persia (a game I beat, and had, well sort of, it belongs to my brother) I suddenly became consumed with needing a platinum. Quite geeky I know, but it’s just the thought that I could have gotten one as well.

So after that night, my insatiable appetite began to grow. And not just for platinum trophies, but trophies in general. My hunger for trophies had caused me to go through older games that were “trophy enabled” and try to “catch ‘em all” (reference doesn’t quite work but I had to include it). You can probably guess that I gave up pretty quickly. You really need to devote a large amount of time to get a platinum. Now my laziness always wins, and if I begin “working” for something my brain usually kicks in and reminds me that “bitch you’re doing work, slack off motherfucker!” (that’s right, that is how my brain talks) and I usually listen.

……Hmmm I’ve seemed to de-rail this blog away from the original idea and into one about my laziness. Well to get back on topic, I’ve become trophy hungry because of Anthony. And now that I have recently picked up Fallout 3, I can actually see myself getting a platinum. Herein lies the dilemma: I don’t know how I should play this game. I mean, should I play it the way it’s supposed to be played? As in, do what I feel like, make decisions based on what I would actually do OR bypass that and go the completist route and get that elusive platinum trophy the first time through? The game is so massive that I don’t think I can play it another time. Don’t get me wrong, the game is awesome from what I’ve played so far, but it would take a great deal of time to go through it again. Time I am not willing to invest. As of now, I am leaning towards the completist route, so I can finally taste the platinum but I really had every intention of playing the game as a “grade A” asshole. I can’t give up that dream just yet, so you can count on me making multiple saves just for that.

- Julian