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Rad-Nessie!
I started playing FO76 again and wanted to see an irradiated Loch Ness Monster, and I showed my process as well ❤️
Is it familiar? Because it is to me
Ah yes the random loot from the mailboxes
Hey I seen you simp for Seph and play Skyrim! I ❤️ U
Have you played fallout 4 though?
no I haven't. my brother is the one who has played the fallout series and he always tried to get me to play it, but i never got into it
guys it’s happening
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my depression robot men!!!! Are coming back!!!!
We are starting to announce some of the cast for Death Shroud 2 and you can see people are excited 😂😂😂
This is just perfection, imagine being a police officer on your daily shift, you get called down into the subway to deal with a rowdy drunk then suddenly the ground starts shaking and air raid sirens blare and people start rushing down the subway stairs, soon the people coming down are burning and waving trying to put themselves out and they start sealing hte doors to the subway as soon no one alive is coming through. Or just a guy on his way to work, or being sent down somewhere to help repair some damaged pipe, dear god
Fallout game idea
I want a Fallout game set right after the bombs fall. Right after. Not like 76 where it's 25 years after (which doesn't count anyway 'cause it's multiplayer and online), I mean right after. You watch the bombs fall like in Fallout 4, only this time you don't have a Vault to run to. You watch as it destroys everything and you just barely miss the blast zone, or barely close the door of your family bunker or one of the Vault-Tec preservation pod. You wait a few hours, a few days, maybe a few weeks, but like everyone else you come crawling out. I wanna see the raw emotion in every single interaction after that, the processing, the loss, the grief and mouring as everything sets into place and people realising it wasn't a dream. I wanna see, not raiders, but desperate looters threatening you for any supplues, who are genuinely good people, they're just scared and trying to get by and they're sorry they really don't wanna hurt you but they need that water please they have kids-
I wanna see fathers trying to desperately keep their kids safe, a sister desperately looking for her sibling, wondering if they survived like her, if there's a possibility, or if they died. I wanna play a character who themselves are looking for their parents, siblings, etc, anyone they knew. I wanna see people recognizing bodies and skeletons, name tags, uniforms, accessories and having a bittersweet moments of half closure/half mourning as they cry over their family, friends, lovers, even enemies who they can admit didn't deserve to die like this, because they may be dead but at least they know what happened to them. I want a quest where the character you play goes to the home where they grew up and sees their things, old pictures, maybe their parents bodies, and they just can't handle it- But they're not alone, everyone's in the same boat and everyone's going through this right now, we've got this-
I want to see people slowly becoming ghouls throughout the game, settlements made of nothing but tents with people quarantined and dying of radiation poisoning, like at the police station in Fallout 3. People who were once doctors and nurses setting up outposts and trying, like the first town you go to in 76 and there's a makeshift clinic in an old church, volunteers trying to help create support groups and networks. People getting sick from new viruses and diseases as their once hygienic lifestyles no longer exist, they don't have luxary showers and soaps everywhere anymore, so new illnesses quickly spread.
I wanna see any military personal banding together to be scouts for a group of settlers, they're the ones assigned to actually going out and getting resources, teaching people how to shoot and defend themselves. People who used to be engineers making the first blue prints for generators and water purifiers, contractors and builders teaching people how to build shacks, teachers taking it upon themselves to take in all their students who are now orphans. Farmers teaching people to plant and being the only people able to regularly supply food. Maybe the player's charcter's skills and special stats are based on what they're job was before the war, if they had one. A doctor? Intelligene and science stats are higher, a politician has good luck and charisma, an athlete has good strength and agility, ect.
The end of dollars and cents, the start of cap currency and going back into the days of casual trading rather than luxury supermarkets. "I'll trade you some water for some tatos", no more taking things for granted. NPCs comment how surreal it is to feel like their living in the old times where trading was a thing farmers did. The whole world went back in time and feels like they're in the goddamn 1300s.
People discovering what's safe or not to eat anymore, being fascinated as crops start to mutate together and make a single, new plant, being terrified of animals mutating.
People reminiscing about movies and shows that they never got to see the end of, books that they wrote that will never get finished, a comic series they'll never see end or know what happens cause the writer's probably dead. Singing around campfires together after finding a intact guitar and people making requests for songs they'll never heat again, songs left in time. Someone raids a radio station and finds holotapes of some preserved songs and everyone at camp is so happy for the first time since the war, and they dance and finally feel some normality again. Songs they thought were lost, returned. In times where it's calm and they've finally processed, actually having the heart to joke around, discussions about craving food they'll never have again, wishing for a nuka cola that wasn't flat and warm, wanting a clean bed, complaining about walking everywhere when they used to have cars, etc.
I wanna see people trying to keep law and order before it slips away, old police officers and lawyers trying goddamit because this country let us down enough, we won't do the same to these citizens, these people-
People who once worshipped the American flag losing hope and realising it's faults and hating it. Patriotism turned to anger and rage, and a fight and fire inside them that keeps them going, keeping them alive, telling them to survive, determined to do better than the country and world of the past.
Those holotapes, notes, and terminals throughout the games, they're history. I want to actually play living in those moments, those times, those unsure, terryfying times. I don't want to just see it as history. I wanna play that person who's holotapes and terminal entries will be found years later by some vault dweller.
Fallout has always done an amazing job with this, the stories from the pre war ghouls in the Underworld, the pregnant runaway with no name in Fallout 4, the vaults scattered in games and time frozen in those places, the camps and desperate help zones built in some sort of cry for normality in 76, people trying to immortalise themselves like Mr House. The start of factions and/or cults, the start of people worshipping atom, the start of trade caravans being a thing, maybe making your own faction or trade company. But I don't want to just see it in the easter eggs in games, lost in time, I want to live through it. Just once. Just for one game let the player be the scared survivor leaving holotapes, notes, and terminal entries that'll be discovered one day, the only proof they ever existed.
Whenever I see things like this it makes me want to play 76... I shall not fall for the propaganda...
It brings me joy how deep of a world with such abundant examples of excellent writing and game design exists for tons of potential fans of the show to get into. It's like the opposite of the hollow feeling I get after having watched a short but captivating show and finding little to no interesting canon or fan content to consume afterwards while still craving the world/writing, at least I assume.
I'm so fucking excited for the new Fallout fans dude you have no idea!!!
Imagine discovering about FEV for the first time only just watching the show? Then finding out about Frank Horrigan??? Then The Master???
I think the way the president in 2 and Horrigan talk about "muties" sells the threat a lot more because there's a cognitive dissonance there that feels so real among bigoted treatment marginalized groups today. They don't really make sense, but they believe these things unwaveringly, and have committed a number of unspeakable atrocities based on nothing more than a hollow understanding of the world around them. Sure the Enclave in 3 talk about mutants needing to die, but it feels like a reiteration of "the strong must survive, the weak must die" that characterizes like 98% of Bethesda game factions, not like a bias informed by centuries of isolation and propoganda.
At this rate I might be the one who hates fun but I've been thinking about it and I hate how the enclave has been "mutated" (hoho) into what it is now in modern fallout products. There was something legitimately intimidating and different about them in 2, something that made their threat to all life as you knew it very tangible. I hope that's even remotely coherent
in fo2 they felt like an army of americans committing an organized genocide. they waxed philosophical in mixed company but laughed cruelly amongst themselves. they could not abide the existence of life that was not subordinate to them. they were distinctly republican patriots who owned slaves. now they're too nebulous to directly threaten rightists' worldview, by design.
in complete fairness, there's shit in the margins of fallout 3 about them detaining, scanning, and incinerating crowds of survivors, and John Henry Eden is, in concept, a satire of republican stagnancy. the thematic read is still technically functional as of 76, but it's so timidly executed that Impressively Unironic Enclave Roleplayers are easily the most notable 76 subculture.
please understand they took a softer approach so they could sell more variants of the fascist enclave hat in the atom shop. please understand there was no other way
I feel like viewing the Commonwealth residents through the lens of extreme suspicion and deception goes a long way in making the game enjoyable, but ultimately the fact that only 5 to 10 NPCs in the game really give you actual substance means you'll be using that suspicion to basically write the characters for yourself, extrapolating on the vague details of pretty much everyone's life. Also Fallout does seem to constantly criticize old world America, but often the criticisms only apply to America and not to systems that sustained America and would inherently cause the same issues in practice. Mostly I see the issue with the BoS and NCR. They describe both with overall good goals that are hindered by corrupt people or incompetent leadership, and find it important to repeatedly let you know this. I think the concept of a state that sources its goods from slavery and exploitation, let's people die of starvation and thirst, and incarcerates people on mass due to a set of prejudiced values wasn't evil enough for the writers when making pre-war America, and thus they focused on the most egregious crimes our government has committed as well as fictionalized ones. I think it's because the writers enjoy the concept of a liberal democracy where law and order holds the society together and people of a certain class make decisions for others (so long as the ruling class sometimes makes decisions to benefit the ones being ruled). I understand NV criticizes NCR's imperialist expansion but only insofar as it objectively screws people over both materially and personally, the act of imperialism is not what is being criticized imo, but rather abrupt imperialism that doesn't provide adequate compensation to those affected. That's what the NCR would be if it fixed all the issues the game criticizes, a nationalist, imperialist force that adequately compensates those it steps over to make a better world. Same with the BoS, really the only criticisms they hold for BoS is to not randomly shoot people on sight and to share sometimes which, to me, does not feel like a disavowal of their western, hegemonic dogma, but rather just their militarism.
Todd Howard’s brain is equal parts American idolatry, stupidity, and a pathological need to lie
The Ash Heap is for the goth aesthetic and that's good enough for me 🖤
We Need to stop pitting the Appalachia regions against each other!
The Forest is BREATHTAKING
The Toxic Valley is MAGNIFICENT
The Ash Heap
The Mire is FLOURISHING
The Savage Divide AWE-INSPIRING
The Cranberry Bog is INNOVATIVE
My hope for Fallout 5 diminishes the more I see anybody from Bethesda saying anything about Fallout and making it abundantly clear that they just don't give a shit about either Fallout or writing interesting stories. Everything they say outside of the games just feels so out of touch with anything that makes Fallout interesting, and everything inside the games just keeps going the direction of generic, lazy, tasteless slop. Like wtf are the new quests they added in the 4 next-gen update?? The thing that they learned from decades of criticism of their games is... bring back a faction people were tired with in the previous iteration A THIRD TIME 💀. It's literally a joke and I'm sick of people being called haters for desiring an ounce of quality or effort beyond what it takes to milk the most money out of a fandom or forcing random people to crunch to death to design a wonderful sandbox for the narriative to do absolutely nothing with. Even outside of Bethesda, Tim Cain had an interesting artistic vision but lacks the perception to apply his political criticisms in a uniform and consistent manner. I'm curious as to whether or not the unionization will help at all with the consistent rushing problem that has plagued Fallout since it's conception, because even if none of the creative directors for the next game know or care to know how to make an engaging world for consumers, I'm sure there are artists in there who could make the experience worthwhile (maybe not worth $60+, but technically 4 didn't feel like it was and I still got it) if given the time.
whenever i see people acting like betheseda are actually being bullied by mean old fallout fans i think of the fact one writer for fallout 4 openly admitted he didn’t care about the lore of fallout