Bethesda NEVER Understood Fallout
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Published 2020-01-27
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Even as a 12 year old kid it always bothered me that nobody in the Bethesda Fallout universe ever had the idea to maybe clear some rubble and rebuild damaged parts of pre war buildings
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Bottle caps were not used in currency in Fallout 2. They had actual money (coins) issued by NCR. There was even a quest where you found an 'old treasure' at it turned out to be thousands of bottle caps, now worthless. :D
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I can’t believe YouTube recommended this to me, i watched it all, went to his channel and then saw he passed away. Rest in peace
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The creator of mad max said that even after the apocalypse, humans still make beautiful things. And thats why there was cool stuff everywhere. Bethesda has you believe everyone suddenly likes to live like methheads
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Fallout 2: people have built entirely new villages Fallout 4: Picking up trash is hard
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Terribly accurate. "This was supposed to be a series about the wild world that emerged from the ashes of nuclear fire, Bethesda thought it was about the ashes."
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I had a real trouble figuring out or making sense when FO3 was playing as of what the exact timeline is and when was this nuclear war. I tried to explain it to my brother, when I finally got it and he asked "So, nobody cleaned up area for 100s of years?"
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Explains why they don't understand it soo much that they looked at Shady Sands growing and trying to rebuild society and decide to make it stagnant like their setting by literally nuking it out of canon
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Notice how Goodsprings doesn't look like a garbage pile and it looks like people have actually been living there and maintaining the place?
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FO3: Your dad's super important so you have to go find him FO4: Your son's super important so you have to go find him FONV: Benny shot you in the head, welcome to Vegas.
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The image at 10:24 represents the idea perfectly. The bartender is busy cleaning the bar table, while the whole bar is just filled with rubble. Absurd. And not in a fun way.
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You know what's crazy? Adventure Time did fallout better than Bethesda ever could
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In New Vegas, the 1950’s aesthetic works more, because it’s used less. The only place where people wear 50’s attire is the strip, the rich place. Also, House controlling the strip before and after makes the aesthetic seem actually reasonable. People use pre war attire, but it’s a sign of power, success and wealth.
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Not saying every city has to be perfectly pristine, but you’d think that people would pick up the trash off the ground of their bar after 200 years if they want customers
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I’m a mod author (writer) for a NV project and we regularly discuss how Fallout 3 and 4 are frustratingly “post apocalyptic” even though it’s been 200+ years since the bombs dropped. It’s also a big gripe of mine with the upcoming TV show. The whole point in New Vegas is that the west has pretty much rebuilt itself save for the major cities.
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This is probably the best essay I've ever seen on the topic. Bethesda doesn't understand how good and well-thought the original Fallout games were.
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My favourite juxtaposition between Bethesda and Obsidian: In Fallout 4 there was a stupid quest where a ghoul kid sat in a fridge for two hundred years and you return him to his ghoul family, about ten minutes walk away. Fallout New Vegas had a charred corpse in a fridge wearing the Indiana Jones hat.
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"War never changes" is actually about how they'll always be the Brotherhood of Steel, deathclaws, radscopions and supermutants.
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Bethesda... Bethesda never changes
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This video has aged immaculately
