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I disagree that it's "Out of the way" - Like the Chess Playing Scorpion, you just wander into a building and talk to a guy. Seymour the talking spore plant is also right out in the field, openly saying "Pssst over here,I got something to say to you" on a loop until you talk to him. But yeah, I...

I get why New Vegas did this - Having Hoover Dam be more of a blank slate location, allows it to act a lot more as a representation of the larger conflict. It being straight up just a source of water and power makes it clear why control of it is so important, in a way that a fleshed out Hoover...

The favorite one I've seen recently is "Well they changed the location of Shady Sands in Fallout 2" - Apparently referencing the fact that there's less distance between NCR and Vaults 13/15, it's on slightly different terrain, and if you try to overlay the maps of the two games the locations...

So disclaimer before I begin: I have not played Fallout Yesterday yet, I haven't had the time, and I am waiting until it's mostly complete before I try. However, my understanding of it is that it operates in the original Van Buren continuity, and tries to recreate it as faithfully as possible...

At least one of the families (The Mordinos) is effectively a newcomer family. There's very little sense that any of the families have a definitive history in New Reno, and by the time of New Vegas they're all switched out. I think there are solutions to the New Reno Families but "Give them a...

San Francisco honestly evokes more mixed feelings in me than any other part of the game. Because conceptually I like the Shi, I think they're a really cool concept. The idea of a group of Chinese naval officers helping rebuild San Francisco after the war is really good. It's kinda like the same...

People complain that Fallout Tactics isn't retrofuturistic, but it in fact is. It's a game set in the future, but instead of the future as we imagine it, it's how people in the early 2000s imagined it :smug:

Sinthia, the Prostitute that gets taken hostage in the Crash House says it.

Honestly, if we went down the "Removing this would be a better option" pipeline for Fallout 3 - We'd end up having to remove practically every single inhabited town and NPC from the game :smug: I always felt it was a shame we don't see new Mutant types like this in Fallout, and instead see...

Kinda disagree - Gaming being a more widely embraced hobby means that different types of games get to be made. I think the big problem is that Fallout 3 kinda released at the worst time it could have. You had the autist era of tabletop inspired video games - Original Fallout You had the...

I'm going to say Fallout 2. I agree that Fallout 1 has a more consistent tone and cohesive design focus, but there's also a couple of things that make it difficult for me to go back to the original: -It just lacks the quality of life fixes of Fallout 2 - I don't like that Friendly Fire causes...

Come to think of it, Radscorpions are a particularly egregious one. Like ok, Supermutants and Brotherhood I can kinda understand thinking "We gotta move these over" since they're iconic. But with Radscorpions It's like, we're in an entirely new environment that should have it's own wildlife...

People tend to think of media as emerging in a vacuum, completely formed from inside the brains of creatives, but this isn't true. A lot of media is the result of conversations with executives, having to limit the scope of ambition due to budgetary or time restraints, post-hoc justifying why...

Either you're misremembering, or you took what Vault City characters said at face value. Vault City was one of the main importers of slaves from the Slaver's Guild. Metzger himself says it's one of the main places he wants to communicate with via radio, and if you're a Slaver, you get access to...

Yeah, adding fixed numbers to population in a fictional setting is often a losing game IMO.

I get the urge for this, and I don't like the guy much either. But like...Don't base your opinions on media on culture war stuff, that's extremely lame. "X person or X group of people I dislike, dislike this so I like it" and vice versa are really boring ways to come to conclusions.

100% I always say Fallout 2 is my favorite, and it's largely because I feel like it's the most Economically interesting - Like take Vault City for instance: A weaker game would have just made them an isolationist society, but Fallout 2 does something more interesting: It makes them actively...

Thanks. I come by every now and then to check in with how things are.

Back in 2016ish it used to be that this is the place people on the Fallout subreddit would tell you to avoid because "It's where all the weirdo fans of the originals who hate the new games hang out" Which means naturally we got our fair share of people coming over to defend the new games, or...

I think what Fallout 1 did well with the Brotherhood of Steel was make them less of an ideology and more of a culture. Like you get the sense that they have some ideals, but these are ambigous, and the game focuses a lot more on their mythologized history, internal politics, and cultural...