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In Fallout 76... You play 'A single player game set in a post-apocalyptic world' (even the multiplayer isn't really 'multiplayer' it's just other people --there--) ✔️ within a 'well-written plot and quests' (dubious as I found 76 utterly forgettable...) ❌ have 'freedom regarding the way you...

Yeah, I goofed on the timeline, I was rant-typing ... But I'd still argue that puts the potential tech of pre-war fallout at LEAST akin to what we have now, if not a little more. I don't even per-se dislike the hyper-retro-futurism, but I do hate that somethings are pushed so hard (like valve...

Honestly... WHY does EVERYTHING have to 'look retro' I am super fed up with the 'Jetsonification' of Fallout, I want more Mad Max, less play-dough hyper-50's Americana. I struggle to maintain that society/culture/ technology has progressed by essentially NOTHING over the course of 150 years...

Aww yeah Bethesda comin' to ruin yer Fallout's coast to coast... Wassat y'say you have a piece of well established canon/lore yet unfucked, we'll get right on ret-conning the ever-living heck right out of it.

This makes me hate Bethesda a little more.

1. Discord, Reddit random crap shouted into the Twitter void 2. Probably about a dozen or so on a regular, at least like 3 on a near-daily basis. 3. Designing tabletop games & music, my other 'fandom' is Battletech. 4. EVERY - SINGLE - DAY, it's basically the reason I get up each day. 5. A...

But it's clearly NOT marketed toward me... That's the point I'm raising...

I hate this, it genuinely looks like a set of a 1940's / 50's dystopia, I see NOTHING that tells me this is set in a sci-fi (pulp or otherwise...) future 200 years ahead of our time. Heck, the most sci-fi thing I see is what appears to be a lighting or camera telehandler from the crew... My...

The ONLY existent 'plotline' (s) of any sort is/are essentially single-player as the multiplayer implementation during questlines is- like a lot of things in Faww-aaaht zebbiddy sticks, actually terrible. The person that is 'leader' does all the interactions while the people they play with...

I certainly think Beths approach of post-war reclamation effort is misplaced. 210 years had passed after the war... Surely that's enough time for a society to have a good working knowledge of the 'ruins' of the old world, especially when there is copious material (either deliberately stored via...

I beg the question(s): Would it be? And Why? The ultra-50's, cold-war thing really only came into force circa Fallout 3, and furthermore in 4 (and the continued Bethesda-ification of the franchise). I beg you to go back and look at the design concepts that the originals came from. The only...

I don't care that the timeline 'split' there were still close to 200 years of human initiative and growth from split to war. Even contemplating the 'late' appearance of micro transistors, the FO world would be in a position far advanced compared to the one we know right now. The world of Fallout...

And you'd be guessing quite wrongly. 76 has none of what those games offer... the building is far simpler (and a lot of the build options are locked behind the paywall of Fallout First or whatever it's called... buy fake digital money to spend on the even faker building parts... The main play...

I mean, what else am I going to do... enjoy the story?! explore the deep and philosophical questions raised by the game?! Reflect on the commentary of the human condition?! I must have missed those parts last time I played either 4 or sloppity socks

Honestly: Failout 4 is far better for this... sure, no online "social" to show off your work, but the building is IMHO far better.