I don't know how that Radscorpion made it to Goodsprings less than half an hour into my playthrough, or why it decided to murder every living thing within range, but I laughed my ass off. With my pathetically low Guns stats and a fairly low-condition Varmint Rifle providing no benefits, it killed Cobb and then took me down in two hits too. A Giant Radscorpion was sitting on the front porch, several dismembered corpses strewn around it, with Cobb from the Powder Gangers pointlessly firing shots at it. I made it back to the Saloon, and immediately everything became clear. I was very confused, because not only had I not done anything to fail the quest, I hadn't even spoken to Trudy or Ringo to trigger it yet. While walking through the streets of Goodsprings, the music sting played, and 'QUEST FAILED: GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT' swept across the screen. I went up the hill to kill some more Geckos for him, survived his ambush, and then started to walk back to town. After clearing out all the Geckos, I ran into Barton Thorn, an NPC I somehow managed to miss every single time I've played this game in the past. I finished the immediate intro and then headed to the Prospector's Saloon, and when I got there I decided to do Sunny Smiles' tutorial missions to get the free Varmint Rifle, even though my Guns stat is so low I likely won't be able to do much damage with it for a while. It was like coming home, especially compared to the aborted Skyrim replay I started and abandoned less than two hours in a week before. Almost immediately everything started rushing back to me, from the layout of Goodsprings to the locations of the skill magazines and snow globes I would need to pick up.

I built myself a Speech/Lockpicking/Science character with a heavily INT-focused SPECIAL build and got started. After reinstalling it and all the DLC, I started a new playthrough last night.

After my 4000-word essay on Fallout 4 from a few weeks ago, I got a bit nostalgic for the good times I had in Fallout: New Vegas.

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