This was well thought out, especially the part about the Fallout 1 village. When I was in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, we took over an abandoned building complex rather than live in tents for a few months. The first thing we did was to sweep out the dirt and rocks, board up the windows, install generators and lights, set up a shower system, etc. It was primitive, and even dirty because of the daily layer of sand, but it wasn't outright filthy. That was just months, rather than years, so your point about the normal but primitive looking village in Fallout 1 is exactly right.
Arguably the King of Domino Worldbuilding in Literature is George R. R. Martin. Everything happens as a consequence of something else and all the character‘s actions are more or less rational in the context of their environment and background.
I'd go even deeper and say that the problems started in the very beggining with the Reapers as the main antagonists of the series. Their very establishment with the edgelord Sovereign is just very dumb. First of all he's a synthetik lifeform which is obviously created by someone yet he kinda denies that it's origin is just as much of an "accident" as he claims organic life that he so loathes to be. Second is that whack "you'll never understand" attitude when asked about their motivations towards genocide. All of the structural issues imo stem from these problems with the Reapers nature. They claim to be all knowing godlike machines while the really are a rampant overgrown Adeptus Mechanicus. And even less so. Imo they're idiots bceause all they do is consume, make more of themselves using the biological material from races they've reaped and then they just hybernate in the dark space which is an absolutely biological way of existence. It makes them even more primitive than the very races they destroy. They're just big bullies of the Galaxy that say edgy shit when they murder you. And when the devs tried to come up with some redeeming quality for them that is consistent to what was established in the lore so far it's no surprise that they've failed.
I’m pretty sure the rad scorpions are explained by them being offspring of pet store scorpions at places like pet smart which are in every outer shopping mall in the east coast
Idgaf what you are trying to say. Dumb clickbait title. Bethesda has owned the game the longest, had the most creative control, did the most for the game series. Bethesda’s vision for fallout IS what fallout was meant to be. Fallout isn’t the one off little project by a tiny team in the 90s anymore. Get over it.
I have never understood why ME2 is the fan favorite. All it improved was combat and graphics. ME1 actually had a plot. ME2 has no plot. It's just you collecting people. Then you have a boss right with an aborted Terminator fetus.
why does everyone keep saying "wHy ArE tHeRe SuPeRmUtAnT's In ThE eAsT??" they literally said in fallout one that the remaining supermutants in the Unity fled to the east to escape. like i get its a small detail but still.
That's not even the lore of why there are mutants on the east coast. In fallout 3 it's because a vault experiment from vault 87. And in 4 it's because the institute.
the NCR looked at the Wasteland, and said no The Legion looked at the wasteland, and said no Mr. House looked at the wasteland and said "no thanks!" every faction in New vegas saw the Brutality of the wastes and said no, and decided to Rebuild and bring civilization and Progress they tried to rebuild in ways of their own ideas and possibilities, But no. we gotta have Failing Infrastructure, Small villages disconnected from everyone, Shit factions *COUGHCOUGHFALLOUT4COUGHCOUGH* who care not for the people forced to LIVE in these barely livable buildings and think its "impossible" to rebuild and clean up. impossible to have something that is more than "the wastes" it fucking pisses me off. i LOVE new vegas, i tolerate fallout 4, now i havent played 1 or 2, but just hearing what i CAN do in the game, they feel like really old new vegas. i dont get why i have to Degrade myself to tolerate living in filth in fallout 3, 4 and 76. for fucks sake i can LIVE in the lucky 38 in New vegas and i get a CLEAN, TIDY ROOM WITH CLEAN WATER AND WORKING ULTILITIES.
Mass Effect 2 intro whit Normandy destruction was heavly critizied. The killing of Dhepard was viewed as and is still viewed very badly. It would have been better if Shepard escaped alone in an escapepod and was found by the Batarians and held and tortured and later rescured by Cerberus. Thos would tie in the Batarians from Mass Effect 1 and the first Mass Effect book. This would alsl heighten the Batarian Humanity rivalry. It would made it easier for Shepard and players to work with Cerberus.
Only just found out about this after following a DM of the Rings link. Heartbreaking and tragic, i loved his stuff so much, and followed him for years. RIP Shamus
Instead of pointing out the same ‘Evelyn was selling to Netwatch’ thing, I will say, we don’t know if Jackie would never get along with Johnny. It’s heavily implied that V and Johnny rub off on each other the longer they spend together. So, it’s very possible they’d become chooms, it’d just take a while, same as it was with V and Johnny.
Eh, I have to disagree. The Vaults would most definitely be stuck in a time freeze in terms of culture and social norms. Think uncontacted tribes. The rest of the world, depending on how connected people are, would get pockets of warped culture. This is a whole field in international development. Check out Jared Diamond. The Children of the Atom would be a decent example.
Ok to be that guy for a sec 2:21 but people tend to forget that Black Cat actually does have powers, enhanced agility and more specifically the power to bring bad luck everyone around her. Kinda like the reverse of Dominos powers if you want an example. But I think what makes Sable so annoying is that she’s a terrible leader and somehow makes it Spider-Man’s fault. “You let devils breathe get away! you only make things worse!” BITCH YOU WERE DRIVING WEAPONIZED COVOYS THROUGH NEW YORK STREETS AND SHOOTING ROCKETS AT AN TANK WITH A CHEMICAL WEAPON ON BOARD, YOU CANT TALK SH*T! God the comeuppance I wished would’ve happened but never came!
Coming back to watch this banger again after being reminded up it. The loose trash and rubble all over the ground in inhabited places 200 years after the bombs fell drives me nuts. It seemed especially egregious in FO4 and took me right out of the game at times. Oh and rest in peace sir.
(4 years later but here's my 2 cents) Whenever I hear about losing in cutscenes I always think about Xenoblade 2, specifically the...For spoilers sake lets call it the Big Head fight. I literally put down the controller for this fight, just to see what would happen. I won 30 seconds later without any party character taking even 20% damage. Then the cutscene was all "IT'S TOO STRONG! WE CAN'T WIN!!!"...It is the only time in the 3 Xenoblade games(haven't played X) I felt just, I don't have a better word for it, insulted by the devs. This is a silly boss, it's an easy boss, a boss I just beat, but NOPE!!! I don't know what would be worse, if it was hard or this.
yk what’s interesting bethesda understands the concept of changing lore and situations based in where the region is in bc look at elder scrolls region and factions and even who governs is noticeably different between morrowind oblivion and skyrim so todd definitely understands the idea of a world being vastly different depending on location but with fallout it was more so like lets try to make this ip as future proof as positive to have a pop culture game that has similar factions and mobs and imagery all around wich is so stupid to me but alas
I agree tha tthey completely fucked up F4. But F3 is in my opinion still a very very good RPG and that weird 50's vibe in the future haded a lot of charism to the game.
In retrospect, New Vegas was like a prototype for first-person RPGs with that turn of the millennium Interplay ethos. I wish this genre could have developed. I’m thinking deep immersive sim, except open world RPG.
Also, the platinum chip isn’t a macgufin. MacGuffins are objects whose function within a text is /reduced to/ being a plot device. The Platinum Chip is a plot device, AND it is a device for setting and character development too. The Platinum Chip contributes to the NV’s broader themes, can’t forget that. FEV in fallout 3? MacGuffin… in Fallout OG? Much more more.
Back here to say this after 4 years. Bethesda HATES Fallout even more than I thought, since they have single handedly ruined it, something they didn't do to Elder Scrolls. Guess it is true that Todd Howard hates anything he didn't create.
I've been playing Fallout 76 lately, and I feel like they did a better job adding new enemies to fit the location. With the cryptics, mole men, ect. It's a shame it took this game of all games to do it. Praying they learned their lesson and do better with Fallout 5 or whatever they do next.
Agreed I will give credit to bethesda for their creativity of monsters in 76. Hope they learn their lessons with the failure of starfield and use their creativity on 76 to make something good.
New vegas wasn't made by bethesda, he is speaking about 3 and 4 (and to a certain degree 76), the last time Tim cain worked in fallout was more that 20 years ago, if we are talking about the modern fallout games his word has no relevance
The guy made one Fallout game and Bethtards use him as the be-all-end-all of what is and isn’t canon despite the fact that he was mostly a coder/programmer for it. He's being nice to Bethesda because the man doesn't want to burn potential bridges. It's a professionalism thing.
So much wasted potential on introducing new mutated enemies, and i guess they did to an extent with the mirelurk queen, mirelurk king, yao guai and others i forgot, probably also others in the fallout 4 dlcs i completely skipped due to how disappointing fallout 4 was. Like come on bethesda make it more interesting, there's no way there's not more mutated enemy types after a nuclear winter and after so much time has passed for organism to actually mutate, but instead they make reskins of enemies like glowing ones and stuff like that that don't really add anything new, instead of putting in actual effort to make new interesting enemy designs that could be terrifying, creepy, etc. I'm not saying i prefer quantity over quality but it just seems lazy to me.
