I feel good about playing other games.
Right now, I have so many uncompleted singleplayer games that I used to play for a little while then put down in order to move onto the next hotness that I made a spreadsheet of them all so I can keep track of them and complete them all one by one. Right now I'm working on the Far Cry series, coincidentally. I also play a hodge podge of other games, like Call of Duty or War Thunder or Euro Truck Sim or Hades.
Ada is one of my favorite characters in the game. The other is the Mechanist themself. Probably for different reasons than you, though... :/
Daring would make for a poor companion. He's completely incompetent in the wasteland, the only reason he ever survived ten feet in the wasteland is because Argyle is a badass. Unfortunately, Argyle died and Daring lives to bask in his mistaken glory.
Of course, that's mainly from a radio serial. Who knows if any of those events actually existed to begin with, other than Argyle's corpse lying in Rockopolis.
The first time I played Fallout 3, Vault 106 scared me so badly I couldn't enter that place for years. I don't think I ever explored it again until my most recent playthrough a couple years ago, and even then I was on edge.
Automatron has the best characters in the whole series, Ada and Isabel Cruz
Fallout 3 because it feels more like a true post-apocalypse (even if it logically shouldn't be apocalyptic any more 200 years after the war). Fallout New Vegas feels less like an apocalypse game and more like a cowboy gmae.
Where's the Institute
This is the only inkblot where I actually see anything. The two bears high-fiving, the head on a pillow, the mushroom cloud, the bearded man. I see them all
Honestly...hardcore mode is a joke and you'll probably forget you're even playing it by the time you reach Nipton. You don't have to make any ridiculous changes to your gameplay.
Fallout 4's survival mode on the other hand is a pain in the ass, but I have a whole Sigmund Fraud's Declassified "Survival Mode" Survival Guide for that.
The GTA IV theme song slaps. I didn't even know FNV had a "theme song"
The Service Rifle and Survivalist's Rifle are fine in my opinion, but the Assault Carbine and Marksman Carbine are too modern in my opinion.
Where's my Institute ending
Goodsprings is just a nice, cozy town.
In FNV, they also usually can't be modified
It's definitely an acquired taste. I think subsequent playthroughs are a lot better than your first time through since you have a slightly better understanding of the DLC's mechanics. I definitely encourage building up certain skills, like melee weapons and sneak, so you aren't completely ineffective though. Even when I played through it at a high level and with a thorough understanding of the DLC, seeing Camp Forlorn Hope for the first time after leaving the Sierra Madre is a massive breath of fresh air, literally.
Jodie is awful at math
I don't want to set the woooooooooorld ooooooooooon fiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeee
I think Johnny Guitar is a kinda annoying song. I agree Big Iron is overrated.
Patrick Stump
Borked Steel