Bald, beard, let’s give him a scar, get the nose right. “That’s a good name, don’t you think?” They then pull up the machine that will give a good best guess at what you’re going to look like in 20 years or so… and you pick out what you want your character to look like. Choose a gender and hear your father announce to your mother “It’s a (whatever you picked)!” and then let you enter your name.
I think that a comparison between Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas gives one of the best examples of Doing It Right versus Missing The Mark.įallout 3’s character begins with you hearing your mother’s heartbeat and then your own cries as an infant as you enter a brightly lit room. This is no time to start a new game.īut that got me thinking: What are the best ways to start a game?
