

I bought it and headed back to campus.Ĭue a relatively significant period of time where I would build a new character, get them to level five or six, change my mind, and start over (I know I'm not the only one who does this.) After eight or nine times I finally settled on, "Dashing Dongwood", a roguish character inspired by Fallout 3's Herbert Dashwood.

For all intents and purposes, it appeared to be an English copy, too.

You can imagine my surprise when I found a copy of Fallout 2 in a bin full of classic games. I'm studying abroad in a beautiful foreign country and here I am, scrounging for a reason to spend more time sitting in front of a computer screen. Of course, being a huge nerd, I used this free time as an excuse to explore the local "Saturn" store (basically a big electronics store not the sort of place you probably think of when you think of France.) That meant I couldn't use Steam to download new games, and since I hadn't considered bringing very many with me, I was at the mercy of whatever I could find locally. The campus internet wasn't exactly fantastic, and it was metered to prevent over-usage. While I was studying abroad in France, I found that I had more free time than I had expected.
