As far as I’m concerned Fallout started and stopped with 1. There were no sequels.
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I love Fallout 1 and New Vegas to bits but the couple of times i’ve tried to play 2 i’ve fallen off very early on. Like between the ant/scorpion dungeon, rat dungeon and poison gecko dungeon it feels like they’re aggressively trying to make me stop playing their game before it gets good
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Fallout 2 has that Scientology parody at the end and then the '90s action movie boss (it was the evil president all along!) which really makes it feel like the direct-to-home-video sequel. It’s at the very end of the game and it happens so fast that it always felt rushed and sour to me. Thematically, ‘power & political structures will reconstitute themselves and be so short-sighted as to recreate catastrophe’ is a good place to go, but I think Fallout has to tread carefully with the level of tech and organization the bad guys have to keep it from feeling dis-congruous. I thought New Reno and its mob family stories were much more successful, working in the Godfather themes of the violence behind all power, just less cloaked at the mob level.
I just can’t get into New Vegas’ atmosphere, it looks, sounds, and tastes like a carnival of the gormless, even if a solid script is sitting behind it. Fallout 1 nails its tone and that is so important to me.
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These are good Fallout opinions, well done everyone
Fallout 3 is probably the #1 quality : time I played ratio game on my personal history. Don’t do it folks, don’t fall (out) for it, don’t make the mistakes I’ve made
ahem
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today i played a stage in n++ called shagargamel
I realized that March Madness is in a couple weeks and that I always use Fire Pro to pick my bracket. Since I actually have a bit of spare time I picked up a mod that lets me view the edit point totals for all the edits I downloaded, which should give me more than enough options when I do the weird math that determines which wrestler represents which team.
The thing is… I have a bit over 1400 edits and you still have to go through them one at a time. I think I have about 10 days before the teams are selected so that’s only about 140 a day I gotta get through.
The things I do for my art…
(Still more fun that Tomb Raider II)
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Jason Rohrer finally dropped a discount for The Castle Doctrine.
For reference, The Castle Doctrine is the game where you become Mr. Law-Abiding Citizen: build your home into a deathtrap maze littered with electrical grating and violent dogs in an effort to protect your wife, your two children, and your money. You can’t just build an impenetrable holdfast, though: your family needs an unimpeded route to the exit, which they will take in the event that they spot an intruder. Furthermore, you have to test your defenses before they go online—by which I mean, you have to break into your own house and get to your safe successfully, without the benefit of any tools, while all defenses are completely active. This means that improperly preparing your house could result in your wife killing you with a shotgun during a safety drill misadventure.
The dark side of this property-rights fantasy is that you are constantly tempted to rob others’ houses, to inflict upon them the same miseries that you are working so hard to avoid yourself. Take saws to cut through plywood walls, drugged meat to put dogs to sleep, bricks to smash open windows or knock open doors, wirecutters to fry electronics. If you die or flee, any changes to their house are reverted; if they kill you, they get a bounty based on how successful you’ve been at robbing others. Loot their safe, and you’ll get a big chunk of their money, and they’ll have to pay to fix any damage you caused. Killing their family members is permanent.
While there are PC-generated houses populating the list, only other humans will try to rob your own house, and you get security footage of their attempts. That means the game is strongly dependent on having an active community.
The community had not been active for a very long time—until yesterday!
In anticipation of the sale, I made a cheap starter house with minimal defenses and went about my day. I went to work; I came home. I played Hearthstone. I completely forgot that I’d made a new house.
When I came back today, my family was all still alive, and my house had killed six players, earning more than $3600 in bounties, but since I hadn’t logged in to upgrade my defenses, eventually somebody came through, drugged my dogs, and stole most of my earnings. I’ve fixed things back up and moved my safe, but we’ll see if I check in frequently enough to avoid becoming too appealing to players with more costly robbery load-outs.
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if i made a game that made me seem like a huge racist i probably would let it fade into obscurity but i suppose we all go our own way
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…I always thought this came across as pretty obviously critical of the compound-dwelling First Amendment fanatics it’s portraying, who go so far as to invent and embody the Other from which they’re so desperate to defend themselves. Is there something about this I’m overlooking?
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i’m sure that’s what it actually is but it never came across very good to me lol
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Nah, that’s fair. There’s probably also stuff to be said about making a game that purports to be critical of a philosophy it portrays which is nevertheless satisfying and entertaining in its play, but that’s just video games in a nutshell
this is why i only play jrpgs
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this is the same guy who made the “art” game which destroys your PC, right?
really made me think
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no that’s zach gage (assuming you’re talking about lose/lose, he also made a book that burns itself). Jason rohrer had a 486 up through like 2015 and cries when he has to cut grass because he can smell the suffering
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oh you’re right. i wonder why i made that connection
Best thing from Rohrer is providing the material so this post could be written:
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apparently the appearance of the aliens in this game are procedurally generated, so if you fill up your hard drive with millions of identical files, you can only shoot the aliens which look the same and not worry about deleting anything important.
as long as you don’t shoot another alien by mistake, i guess
Doesn’t he also live on like $4 a year somehow?