They should make a fallout game set in Florida, it would be so funny, Sunshine Wasteland. The flamingos are not mutated for whatever reason. Radioactive swamps full of the most terrifying mutant crocodiles and alligators. A retirement home full of old ghouls who haven't stopped playing shuffleboard for the last 200 years. Raider gang full of Florida men.
Fallout 3 is so funny to me because every person in the Capital Wasteland is by far too stupid to have actually lived this long.
The largest city in the area is built in a decrepit Aircraft Carrier. A cramped steel cage with no insulation and no ventilation. No access to fresh water, no place to sustainably grow food. These people would die of thirst if they somehow didn't bake or freeze first. The bow has literally fallen into the Potomac and somehow people still live here.
Megaton is a town entirely made of scrap metal and wrecked airplane parts. The main gate is powered by a jet engine within spitting distance of the pub. The entire town is built over a pit, and the only way to get around is climbing a steep slope or walking over catwalks that should've rusted away a hundred years ago. Do I need to mention the nuke?
The entire D.C. area is completely overrun with Super Mutants and Raiders. Where are these people getting their food from. What kind of farming infrastructure is there in the radiation swamps of coastal Maryland. How have there been 200 years of cannibals. How have they not all gotten Turbo-Kuru and turned into ghouls or something.
This entire city is unfit for human habitation, why is everyone here?
Freeside is so strangely homoerotic to me and I love it. The king watching a man dance to music right in front of him for who knows how long, Arcade Gannon and everything he’s got going on, James Garret and Fisto, Fisto, I kinda get something from Mick and Ralph. Like idk why but the whole place reeks of queerness to me, then again I could see the queerness in anything if you gave me a chance.
Anyways, Freeside is the gay and trans place to me.
Relax to the sounds of Fallout: New Vegas ambient music, crackling campfire and watch how Mojave Wasteland living it's life. Everything is handpixelled with love and patience.
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There are 17 different events in a final video. Timestamps in description. Enjoy o7
What’s Fallout like? Like I know I can google what kind of game it is but more than that what games would you compare it to? and is it more story-based or gameplay-based?
That's a difficult one to answer and I'm not sure I have the authority to do it lol
But I'll try!
The Fallout fandom is fairly complicated due to the IP being passed around and the lore/values of its storytelling being muddied over the years. That being said I think both old-school and new fans would still agree that the story is the most important element, as they're meant to be role playing games where you make decisions on often heavy matters (especially in the games of the original devs).
Fallout 1 and 2 are turn-based isometric rpg-s from the late 90s. If you like that type of gameplay, they're fantastic games and cult classics. They don't shy away from heavy themes.
Then the IP got sold to Bethesda and their version of Fallout is a FPS/TPS action experience, as seen in Fallout 3 and 4. The combat is fun but even the newest game is shit by shooter standards. If you played an Elder Scrolls game (like Skyrim), they're like that but set in a retro futuristic post apocalypse. A large slice of the fandom has only played these ones and skipped the original turn-based games.
Fallout New Vegas was made by the original team but using Bethesda's engine. Many fans would tell you that out of the modern titles, that's the one with the best writing.
Fallout 4 was a very popular title due to the scrap and build system. As you adventure, you can scavenge all sorts of trash and then build your own little settlements in the wasteland and populate them with settlers. Add mods to that, and the community really did some magic. It made people connect with the world of Fallout on a personal level.
The story in a nutshell: in an alternate timeline, survivors of a devastating nuclear war are trying to rebuild and make the irradiated wasteland of the United States liveable again but every group and faction has a different take on how society should be rebuilt. When the writing is done well, your choices have weight and it's impossible to be fair and please everyone. You get to discover a variety of different factors that lead to the Great War and you have to wager whether humanity is doomed to make the same mistakes all over again. Is there a way to avoid them? What kind of sacrifices does that require? Etc.
A lot of it is supposed to be a critical look at war, 50s Americana and the dangers of nationalism, rampant consumerism, xenophobia, etc.
Hope this helped a little! It's difficult to find two Fallout fans who are on the exact same opinion of all the games. I personally think, the fun part of the games is when you get to carve a little slice out of the wasteland for yourself and your community and the stimulating part is the overarching story and lore.
It's no wonder the original writers made The Outer Worlds too, which I don't consider a legendary game but the similarities are obvious in the themes.