A Videogame Canon

Batman is perhaps one of the most beloved and enduring fictional heroes in American popular culture. While only a small number of people actually follow the Batman comic series, one would be hard pressed to find a person who does not know about Batman. He has had been in many different forms of media, but has always been fluid enough to remain recognisable as “Batman” since his origins over seventy years ago. However Batman has also had to change and adapt not only to suit his medium, but to suit the changing culture and values of his audience.

Batman in the Comics

After Mason comes to reality with what happened to him, he and agent Woods get ready to find the broadcast station where Dragovitch plans to broadcast the coordinates in which he will unleash the nova chemicals on the world.  As Mason recalls, the broadcast station is on a ship called the Rusalka.  Here, the team must stop the numbers from broadcasting and kill Dragovitch.  Well, they don’t really have to kill Dragovitch, Mason just really wants to.   The team battles their way through the ship and gets to the inner guts and belly of it.  But here, they discover that there is more to the sh

In this gaming log, I am going to detail the system that makes Fallout what it is: the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S.  Inspired partly by the ability to shoot specific body parts in the turn-based combat system of the previous Fallout games, V.A.T.S pauses the otherwise real-time combat system to allow the gamer to specify where on their enemy they want to shoot.  When using V.A.T.S.

Since I have mentioned him in quite a few of my gaming logs up to this point, I figured I would detail exactly how I acquired my companion and best-bud, Boone. 

The evil Colonel Agustin Allende is coming for Luisa, the sweet but steely woman of Mexican revolution.  After a heated argument with old-timer gunslinger, Landon Ricketts, the two of us mobilize to help Luisa out.  Unfortunately, she is capture by Allende’s men before we can find her, and we must rescue her from the caves!

In this gaming log, I’m just going to describe one of the quests I completely recently, called “Crazy, Crazy, Crazy.”  Basically, a super mutant named Neil approached me and automatically started a dialogue with me, saying that a super mutant named Tabitha has taken over Black Mountain. One of her rules is that no humans are welcome to the area and any that approach should be shot on sight.  I assumed he wanted me to kill her (super mutants aren’t exactly easy to understand), so I headed up the mountain to start the quest.

Companions play a major role in the Fallout series, arguably more so in Fallout: New Vegas than any of the previous titles.  A companion is a permanent follower that you recruit to aid you in certain scenarios- be it combat, picking locks, or hacking computer terminals.  In Fallout 3, companions would only join you if you had a certain karma requirement (evil companions wouldn’t follow you if you had good karma, and vice versa), but this was eliminated in Fallout: New Vegas.  Instead, in New Vegas, each character has their own little nuances about them.  For instance, Boone kills Casesar’s