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See, I like Morrowind too, but ever since playing Daggerfall I’ve started to realize that Morrowind was the first example of the now-standard Bethesda formula of taking something from the previous game that needed to be improved and, instead of improving it, just dropping it entirely. Morrowind...

Eh, not exactly… Arena and Daggerfall are even older than F1 and F2. I’ve only played Daggerfall (the version remade in Unity specifically), and while there’s a lot about it that I enjoy that’s missing from the later games, there’s a lot that isn’t so great. The vast, vast majority of quests are...

Well to be fair, New Vegas did introduce the idea of a pulse gun (not the Fallout 2 version). They had the decency to make it an experimental thing with only one prototype in existence, though.

I’m almost positive that the Steam version has killable kids. They’ve always been killable for me, but I haven’t played for a couple years. As far as Tim Cain’s “limitless positivity” I did hear him mention once that making Fallout 4 about synths, or even having synths exist in the universe at...

I can’t help but feel like their games would run a lot smoother if they didn’t feel the need to attach physics to every single piece of clutter in the game. I remember first playing Oblivion and thinking it was so cool that you could pick up anything, kick shit off tables, and so on, but by the...

Never saw this random encounter, it is pretty cool.

I’d say specifically the tracks used for metro tunnels captured the ambient-horror vibe of some of the tracks in the originals fairly well, but most of the surface music was too peaceful sounding for my taste. It was like the Modoc song over and over again. Anyway, @PaxVenire has made a couple...

You make fair points regarding fascism’s root in socialist thought, but the thing is you can’t really claim socialism while allowing private ownership of capital. Also, socialism at least pays lip service to the idea that all people should be equal (with some more equal than others…), whereas...

To be fair, I seem to remember the plot being that the player would be able to stop the launch of at least some of the nukes, and failing that, would be able to decide which towns get hit and which don’t. I think this would’ve been cool from an RPG design perspective. The player’s skill would...

Yes, that’s a better way of putting it. I could see it going this way too. The main thing is that I find the whole thing more tragic (maybe not the right word) if the powers that be were too incompetent to pull this off and it ended in their destruction as well. Now that we’ve seen the Enclave...

Technically only militant and hyper-nationalist is unique to fascism, left wing ideologies can be authoritarian and suppress political opposition. Though some would argue that authoritarianism isn’t compatible with left wing beliefs, but let’s not get bogged down in that. I’d say one of the...

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I think that some people prefer the “prestige TV” that has dominated this “golden age of television”, think stuff like The Sopranos and all the shows it inspired. Then there are people who enjoy pulpier style television that, in the past, rarely had the budgets that TV can get now. I think...

And not to beat a dead horse, but it’s just so frustrating to me that Vault-Tec becomes more villainous and conspiratorial with each portrayal, starting way back in Fallout 2. In the first Fallout they are nothing but a private contractor taking advantage of a bloated defense budget. They built...

Yes, this is how you critique capitalist America in an intelligent way. Corporations profit from the current status quo of the world, which is on the brink of nuclear war. They have a vested interest against any potential for peace. They, along with the government, essentially played with fire...

The cynic in me says they’re doing the Bethesda thing of allowing fans to write for them so they can use fan theories to explain shit that they clearly put no thought into.

Thanks for this. Funny how the wiki just makes shit up. Makes me question whether the ghoul crazies used guns, which I (correctly) remember them using, or whether the street ghouls are called mindless ghouls, which I (correctly) don’t remember them being called. You’re thinking of Mariposa...

It’s refreshing that Sawyer attempts to sympathize with people that are upset with the show instead of just criticizing them as “negative”. I really don’t expect any of the names associated with Fallout to shit on this show outright, even if they really didn’t like it. That would just seem...

Oh yeah, I seem to remember the character of Herbert Dashwood from Tenpenny Tower theorizing that the radscorpions may be descended from pet scorpions in the area. Which goes to show that Bethesda really tried to justify all their nonsense in Fallout 3, whereas come Fallout 4 they just gave up.

Ghoul crazies are from Fallout 2. I don’t remember the ghouls on the streets of Necropolis being called “mindless ghouls”, and I know better than to take the wiki’s word for it, but if this is true I suppose you have a point.