Fallout
Welcome to c/Fallout, the unofficially official community to discuss the franchise.
Be sure to check out !falloutmods@lemmy.world, moderated by a friend of ours :)
Join us on https://matrix.to/#/#falloutnewmatrix:matrix.org!
Rules:
-
Keep it civil. Don’t insult other community members in posts or comments, and don’t make posts designed to insult other community members or parts of the fandom with different opinions.
-
Posts must be on-topic.
-
No real life politics. That means no political advocacy, and no real life political discussions vaguely dressed up as on-topic posts. If you want to discuss real life politics, you are free to start your own community.
-
Posts must be coherent.
-
If a post is otherwise allowed but has realistic gore or nudity, please mark it NSFW.
-
Spoilers about newly released official content must be marked as [SPOILERS] with post images blurred and no spoiler information in the thread title. Comments must adhere if the thread OP specified a non-spoiler thread.
PS: Don't use the fandom! please use fallout.wiki for everything instead.
Banner art by Ivan Kalinin
view the rest of the comments
Fallout 3 enjoyed what I call Muddy Water Syndrome.
You are wandering the desert for a week. you've been without water for 3 days. Your lips are cracked. your tongue is leather... and you find a puddle, filled with muddy water.
and you greedily gulp it down, and its the best goddamn tasting water in the world to you, at that moment.
But then you get rescued, and go home, and you'll never drink a single fucking glass of muddy water again because its actually fucking terrible outside of that one specific instance.
Fallout 3 was that muddy puddle, and it'd been 20 years since our last drink.
Once the rose-tinted jubilation died off, the flaws became very apparently. Poor writing, Poor World Building, the world didnt matter cause nothing you did affected the greater wasteland beyond the current questline and settlement beyond deciding which one or two enemies would spawn randomly to harass you in in the midst of all the regular generic enemy spawns.
you could honestly say the same about new vegas though. and a ton of other critically acclaimed games