Funnily enough while Hbomberguy made a good video for Fallout 3 and MATN argued in bad faith, when Matthewmatosis criticized Dark Souls II Hbomberguy pretty much made a response to that with many bad faith or disingenuous arguments.
In fact, if the game were set 20 years after the war. A ton of shit in Fallout 3 would actually make a shit load more sense. Including the Lone Wanderer's birth basically being only around a year after the Great War and the scars of the war were far more visible. Itd make sense why James was trying to get into Vault 101 seeing it wouldve barely been a year after the war and theyd take everything they could get. And hell, even the lawless wild wasteland state of the Capitol Wasteland would make more sense
Because these retards are some of the most insecure babies in existence. They think criticizing anything they love is an attack on them, they think they have to come to the defense of the company that makes their favorite because they somehow believe that the company cares about them. It's extremely pathetic.
It's almost as if that was their intention, but later changed it in mid-to-late development.
That and for views because he knows how insecure Bethesda fans are. He knows they need validation, so he knows his videos will get a tons of views if he defends Bethesda games. It's so transparent that is borderline pathetic.
Aahahahahahahahahahahaha. This genuinely made me burst out laughing, holy shit. It's made even more funny by the fact the town has a water purifier (like you said), so the image of the inhabitants drinking dirty ass water while the purifier is right there but it's not used is hilarious.
I actually think what he specifically said is that the crater is deep enough that they're close to groundwater which is then purified, not that the dirty puddle per se is the source of water. This in turn is the justification for the existence of the settlement - easier access to water. I think this is a fair and interesting inference, but of course is never indicated in the game. The only explanation is that the Chldren of Atom were already there and could be co-opted to help build a fortified settlement.
The molerats are the ultimate example of bad faith. He doesn't suggest it is a possibility, he says "Oh, I always assumed..." It's retarded either way, but to try and pretend that the obvious conclusion of seeing three molerats outside of a large settlement is that these represent the food supply of that settlement, despite the fact that it's never discussed or alluded to by any of the inhabitants, is downright hilarious.
I don't really think we can give Bethesda much credit for generating new factions in Fallout 4, because they were uniformly terrible. The Minutemen are contentless blank slate who exist largely to remove the responsibility on Bethesda to populate the Wasteland with interesting people in places, replacing it with minecraft/tower defense minigames. The Railroad is a cringely generic "Resistance" group with no depth, they exist as a force of pure negation to oppose "the bad guys," meaning that they could only be interesting if the peopel they oppose are. But the Institute, while a decently solid foundation, is nonsensical and uninteresting. Nothing it does makes any sense, and since they're at the center of everything in the game, consequently nothing else makes sense.
Let’s not forget that he also said that the megaton nuke created the crater in the first place, allowing them access to this groundwater. Never mind the fact that the megaton crater is much bigger than any other crater in the game and it didn’t even explode. He even addressed this ridiculousness on a Reddit post in response to that creetosis guy, saying that “fallout isn’t supposed to be realistic” so apparently that justifies any stupid head canon he can come up with.
I think it is pretty obvious that the crater was meant to have been dug by the bomb itself, or perhaps by the bomb and its crashing plane. Which is probably retarded, but I would say that's a level of retardation that I don't really mind.
If anything after the release of 76, people have became too kind to this game, or at least kinder than they used to. In those peoples's mind something worse coming out somehow means now they should be nicer to the previous bad thing because it looks better by comparison to the new worse thing. This of course is pretty stupid because one of the reasons people got upset with Fallout 4 was because people predicted it when Fallout 3 came out due to being able to see the trajectory Bethesda was taking with the series.
Except I would add that, in contrast to Fallout 3, the exploration in 4 is pretty bad. Only the gunplay is a decisive improvemnt, but even then it's pretty meh.
I didn't liked the exploration in either game because it felt i was going through a theme park instead of an actual somewhat believe world. But yeah, i agree that the exploration sucks in Fallout 4.
And it's pretty sad that the only thing in the game that isn't terrible wasn't entirely made by Bethesda (that is if they actually had anything to do with the combat and ID Software did all of the work).