Finally getting around to playing Fallout New Vegas. I bought the game when it was new back in 2010, played for maybe an hour or two, and then put the game on my shelf where it sat untouched for more than a decade. I just couldn’t get into it back then and would typically fall back to playing something like COD instead.

As for why I’m getting back into the game now, my wife and I went to Vegas/Phoenix earlier this year while touring the National Parks out there (Zion, Grand Canyon, Saguaro, etc.), so I finally got the urge to boot it back up again looking for the western ghost town feel. My first thought was to replay RDR, but instead, I decided to try something I had never played before.

The PS3 was my main system from 2008 to 2019, so I have a bunch of controllers for it, but almost all of them have some sort of problems (most commonly, stick drift or phantom button presses). Because of that, I’m actually playing with an old PS2 controller I had laying around in it’s original box for years that probably dates to 2005 or so. I bought a cheap adapter for it on Amazon that goes from the PS2 connection to USB, and it actually works better than using a PS4 controller because the vibration function actually works.

Before then, I was playing Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare on the PS3, which, even in 2023, still has well populated online multiplayer.