It was a game that took place in the future of the past.īethesda saw this template and concluded that a Fallout game needed to take place in the desert, it needed to be about water, it should contain screwball comedy, and that it should be the 1950’s forever.
It wasn’t about the 1950’s, it was about the future that the 1950’s anticipated. It had a streak of pitch-black comedy running throughout it. It drew influences from Mad Max, campy 50’s sci-fi movies, and pulpy comics of the same era. The original Fallout game was a gritty world where you explore the vast California desert in search of a water purification chip. I loved the pulp-comic look of the art in the original Fallout. But I wanted a version of this rant that people could take in without needing to sit through 15 hours of 480p video.) (Yes, I covered a lot of these points way back in 2010 when we covered Fallout 3 on Spoiler Warning.
I’ve broken the series into five parts to help soften the blow. If you’re one of those people that can’t stand to hear people say bad things about stuff you like, then this is going to be hard for you. None of it fit together, none of it made sense, and it was filled with awful, frustrating situations where you were forced to do stupid things because doing something smart would resolve the problem without requiring the player to go out and shoot things. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend that the entire story wasn’t a giant heap of sophomoric tripe. It made a bunch of GOTY lists back in 2008, and still appears on lists of favorites today. Yes, I know this is a celebrated and beloved game. of the things wrong with the central story of Fallout 3. This is going to be a ~7,000 word series on some Because listing ALL the things wrong with it would take 200 years.
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