i jsut realised: the widely-acknowledged best of the 3d fallouts also has the protagonist be a “just some guy” delivery person, as opposed to 3 and 4’s protagonists who are the great and mighty chosen ones
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I played fallout 1 & 2 with no animated talking heads or voices or music (but I had the music tracks in a playlist playing randomly in winamp in the background). I played fallout 2 first so that’s the one I remember the most
Tim Cain actually talks about this specifically in one of his videos… he wants the PC to be as indeterminate as possible to widen the space for roleplaying as wide as possible, so all his PC backstories are just-some-guys. In Fallout you’re literally randomly selected by lot to leave the vault which is why you might be an incompetent idiot or whoever else.
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Fully agreed, I started it with incredibly low expectations, was stunned at how much I like it by the end of episode 4, treated episode 5 and 6 as a middling Vault sidequest, then episodes 7 and 8 were so full of enervating exposition and neverending flashbacks that I mostly just felt tired by the time credits rolled. Whenever something as effortlessly fun as this starts constantly making me wait for the Plot to stop happening, it’s over.
The big reveal about apocalypse being treated as a commodity by those responsible is cute on paper (and I like how it inherently comments on Bethesda’s treatment of the series), but it felt like suddenly being whacked on the head with Themes instead of having them grow organically from the start. I was actually satisfied with the amount of hangoutitude in the first half, Purnell’s plotline felt like an actual journey through the unknown, it’s only afterwards that the plot started brutally turning everything I liked into a predictable sludge - everything connecting closed off so many possibilities that were better off open, and seeing MacLachlan be so incompetent about handling his predicament despite the skillsets he must have utilized to get this far felt so contrived.
Still, in the end, I’m trying to focus on how the story was just Fallout 3’s story but done much better (similarly to how the opening was Fallout 4’s opening but done much better). Copying Bethesda’s approach to retrofuturism, as marketable as it is, has obvious limitations, but it’s much better to see Jonathan Nolan capitalize on the strengths of a flawed but entertaining material like this than have him do whatever he was doing with Westworld.
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Capital G gamer
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it reminded me of that recent Michael Sheen/Adam Curtis miniseries about unions in Wales (that no one watched, it was very mid), characters just monologuing the standard Adam Curtis set of themes at each other (alienation, life mediated through fictional narratives by those in power, blah blah blah)
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I think there’s going to be a plot twist in this show that john sugar is an alien or something.
Ripley was good and very beautiful to watch but I sincerely believe Lieutenant Columbo of the LAPD would get him to confess within 24 hours of stumbling out of the airport in Rome
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I’m not doing this again
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that’s fine I’m strong enough for the both of us
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fucking winkler tomahawk profiles
im here for the parker awoo and nothing else 
Fuck this.
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Maybe it’s for the best. They’re old and Cross doesn’t really got the juice any more
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skipped to the last episode of The Fugitive. I had to know
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