The wasteland is neither depressive and gloomy nor a huge satire of humanity.
Later, the towns’ size increases, which turns your first encounter unique. The game begins with a small, unremarkable town. You do not meet fantastic events in the beginning. You do not immidiately hear about the booming center. It’s not just alien because it’s supposed to be the first Fallout experience. You emerge from the vault into a world that’s completely alien to you. In the first game, you are not born in the wasteland, unlike 2 or New Vegas. Fallout didn’t have an interesting combat system either, but its strength was always in its storytelling. Perhaps one day I’ll see the beauty of a million algorithims that decide whether my character dies or becomes a banana octopus, but until then it’s the storytelling that’s much more exciting. Combat in video games is mostly for easy fun, something to do while checking out the latest records and thinking how overrated the canon is. The forums in RPGCodex define players as either storyfags or combatfags. As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. Master! Master! One able to survive, or even thrive, in the wasteland. “The Unity will bring about the master race. No amount of name-dropping things from previous entries will help you capture the old spirit.
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That wasn’t the heart of the series though. New Vegas continues Fallout 2 and how it turns the wasteland into a wacky, fantastical world. Although New Vegas had plenty of references to the old games, and a lot of characters made a comeback, Fallout 3 felt like an actual continuation of the series, at least continuing what begun in the first game. Playing the original Fallout‘s failed to convince me Bethesda did a disservice to the series. Bethesda were criticized with ruining the original spirit of Fallout, and New Vegas was praised with reviving it. The series wasn’t known for its fantastic turn-based combat that’s based on luck. The cries went beyond Bethesda’s changing the gameplay. If your exposure to RPG’s consist of their fantasy series and Dragon Age, you were probably a little shocked by the angry vitriol aimed at Fallout 3. I was introduced to the Fallout series via Bethesda’s entry. For the first time in your life, you are looking at the outside world. To the west, you can see a natural light.