vifon @vifon@mastodon.online

"The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because humans themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes. An industrial age machine.
Without the use of computing machines they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making. A highly imperfect and unstable solution." — Helios, Deus Ex (2000)

#deusex #politics #philosophy

…and then we have Fallout 4 which is a bad RPG, a bad TES, a bad Fallout and an okay-ish shooter.

I'd say both games are very good, just very different despite the obvious similarities.

Ironically when I played Fallout 3 back in the day, I expected more Fallout 1/2 and got disappointed initially. I learned to enjoy the TES side of it afterwards. Now I was playing Fallout: New Vegas expecting more Fallout 3 and got disappointed again. #expectationmanagement

TL:DR: If you liked Fallout 1 & 2, play Fallout: New Vegas. If you liked The Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3 will be right up your alley.

I'm close to finishing #Fallout: New Vegas, so here's a few of my thoughts about F:NV and Fallout 3:

Fallout: New Vegas is a quite decent Fallout but only a passable #Bethesda game. The exploration is lacking but the quests do feel falloutey. I barely need to use my gun, most of the problems can be solved more or less peacefully.

On the other hand, Fallout 3 was a great Bethesda game but a very poor Fallout. The exploration was great but most quests boil down to a shootout.