Interesting Thing With The Bethesda Fallouts (I've Been Playing A Bit Of Fallout 4 Recently) Is That

Interesting thing with the Bethesda fallouts (I've been playing a bit of Fallout 4 recently) is that they, at least in my opinion, misunderstand the fun parts of the first 2 games. I don't think think the setting is a very important part in those games, it's a part of it but it's just set-dressing for the gameplay and fun quest stories and how the players interact with them. I think there's some potential in say Fallout 4 for interesting quests or stories (I've done a couple of quests but a lot of my knowledge is from the Joseph Andersson video), but the solutions to any story just leads back into the shooting gameplay loop. This is, I think, antithetical to the format of the originals, which were based a lot more in having the format of a TTRPG. If your TTRPG sessions all boiled down to shooting people with basically no alternative solutions to quests I think your players would get bored. Since it's got shooter mechanics this kind of salvages it, it becomes it's very different own thing. But the wonderful gameplay loop of those first two games is lost, and I kind of miss it. Man, I need to replay Fallout 2.

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fallout fallout 4 fallout new vegas fallout 3 fo4 fallout 1 fallout 2 fonv i have never interacted with fallout 3. This praise of the originals also applies to New Vegas I've just been colored by video essays. Gotta get a grip and start forming my own opinions seriously though it's really interesting how much Bethesda focuses on the setting of fallout and pre-war america who the hell cares about the pre-war world in Fallout 2? You're busy handling the post-war world which is pretty disconnected also you drive that beautiful car. what a car. love that car same with fallout 1. you're too busy focusing on all there being KNIGHTS now you don't need to care about their exact origins even if you can learn it I guess Fallout 1 & 2 originate from a place of a lot more wack-ass ttrpg source books in the 80s. our crazy asses were wild then

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you better start believing in ghosts.... because you're in one

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