Fallout 3 can sap hours of your life. After doing all the hard labour required of me this weekend, I thought I'd treat myself to some Fallout 3. The Mrs was sparko on the sofa, so why not! This is my second time through, the first I played a goody-two-shoes and went off piste for hours at a time, blithering about. Now I'm playing a Pete at his most evil. It's a stretch, I know.
While loading sections (blissfully quick), Fallout 3 gives hints. It said "Repair your items to keep them working..."
This was poignant because I'd run out of "Condition" on a combat shotgun at the worst possible bloody time. So I thought "How do I repait things?". In the previous game, I'd just wait until something was screwed and drop it. So I looked into it and repairing stuff is easy - just have another example of the item that's fucked and use one as spare parts for the other. Press a key. Few seconds. Done. A revelation! It would have made life a million times easier in the last game and suddenly a lot easier now.
There's a game I play on my iPod Touch called "Stoneloops!". It's rather good fun, I recommend it. I was always wondering why I didn't get all of the powerups that I seemed to create. Then I found out that you had to catch them. Seems to make sense. Now all the ridiculously hard levels got a lot easier.
Instructions. I recommend them.