There's a lot of less compelling content in Fallout 2.
I ran to Klamath picked up Sulik, headed straight to the Den to find Vic.
Then they offer me a lot of activiteis to raise caps to free Vic.
It was boring. I decided to stab the two gun dealers in the Den and then clean up Metzger's Den.
Can only pick one companion and I found Vic to be better since he has the Rifle option.
Narratively, this points the way to Vault City.
I bought fake Citizen papers for 200 caps to enter the inner courtyard (god it was too cheap, wtf is Black isle thinking?)
The Citizenship test is too steep to pass. I talked to Lynette and she wants me to solve the Gecko plant problem.
I find this retarded. All her acting about finding my vault suit genuine and she still refused to grant me access to the computer.
Well fuck it. I told Vic to stay outside of VC, jabbed myself with Psycho and charged into the Vault. I killed the Janitor and ran past everyone else.
Next stop New Reno for much needed caps thru gambling and guns. Worked for Mordinos till the fatman refused to talk further after I whacked Salvatore.
It's fine, I got all I needed thru gambling and headed to Broken Hill to help Marcus with his small town problem.
After that is solved, he offered himself to join the team. I took his minigun instead. Maybe I will come back for him once I find some energy weapons.