Metroid New Vegas - A Samus Aran play through

[RedSarge]

Greetings Nexus! After taking a long break from playing Fallout New Vegas to play some of those "other" games, I'm back playing New Vegas again because, just like a stray cat and a bowl of milk, I just can't stay away!

 

Deciding to do something very different than just a pro-NCR or pro-Legion play through (never done pro-Legion yet!!!) I've opted for a challenge based on availability of resources and rarity of gear, precisely imposing strict rules on a RPG style play through where every action my characters makes, has to first "make sense" within the characters beliefs and values.

 

So far I'm having a blast, and it's been both challenging and rightfully easy at times, using the right choices for the character.

For this play through our character is Samus Aran, intergalactic bounty hunter and space pirate nemesis.

Samus has crash landed on this planet (is it earth? was she in cryostasis aboard her Hunter class starship? Who knows?).. and it's up to Samus to figure out this world, it's players and ultimately how to escape the surface and return to space bounty hunting.

 

 

After crash landing Samus was depleted of energy required to maintain her powerful Varia suit, with the desert sun beating down on her, Samus left her disabled Hunter starship and searched for a means to refuel and repair the craft. It was then, after being watched form the foot hills that a group of raiders attacked. Armed with only her emergency pistol, Samus could at best stun her attackers, who in return where armed with crude but effective ballistic weapons and blades and bats. Samus was quickly overwhelmed, at least that is how Samus remembers it. Discovered by a Securitron named Victor, Samus was taken to Doc Mitchel's for urgent medical care.

 

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Samus remained unconscious for some 12 hours before awakening, with only an old vault suit to her name, he bright blue Zero suit and her emergency pistol, both sold to Chet as they were deemed damaged beyond repair but worthy of trade. Samus would have a word with the Doc about that!

 

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Humoring the Doc, Samus took his small exam in order to see if she "had all her faculties", she assured the Doc, that she did.

Specializing in science, bartering and energy weapons, her background with the Galactic Federation gave her an edge over most combatants. Of course, crash landing on a strange uncharted world left a lot of questions. But Samus resisted to urge to question the Doc, nor mention the Galactic Federation.

 

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Being a skilled bounty hunter, despite her injuries Samus skill level was still at a comparable high to average test results. This is a wacky wasteland however, and many strange creatures and factions do inhabit it.

 

With this vit-o-matic test complete and a few parting words about the local area, Samus set out.

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UNTIL NEXT TIME...

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[RedSarge]

And we're back. Of course a brutal rad storm blows in from the east almost instantly after leaving the old Doc's place.
Samus heads to Chets store and buys back her Emergency Stun Pistol and her Zero Suit, which according to Chet, was shredded and stained with blood when he got it.

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Time to head out anyway... except Samus can't see a thing and this simply won't due. Not eonugh energy to transform into the Power Suit so...

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I'll have to sit this one out. :confused:

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Just a glass of non-irradiated water please!

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The storm blows over, and Samus takes Sunny up on here offer to show her around the local area.

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With a group of escaped convicts threatening the little town, Samus heads up to the gas station to talk to Ringo.

If the former Caravan guard is willing to cooperate then the town can be saved.

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