Thinking about that fallout 76 ad where like 9 people stand around and watch a ground burst nuke go off like it’s a pretty firework is like. Genuinely upsetting. Not only can I not think of any worse way to reflect the themes of the series, with the opening of Fallout specifying that WWIII only lasted an hour and with it destroyed almost all life on the planet at the hands of nuclear weapons, but it’s also just an irreverent and frankly dangerous way to discuss the most horrible weapons mankind has ever made. It would be different if it were actually some kind of satire, some kind of distinct point being made, but it’s literally just LOOK NUKES COOL and it’s more a re-invigoration of the cold war’s nuclear obsession than it is an indictment of it.
New Vegas: Ends with player traveling The Divide to meet a man that will damn the player for their actions, and uses the old world’s sins: it’s nuclear firepower. The player is then given option to nuke a location, with the implication being that to do so is morally unjust and disgusting. The moral high ground, however, requires great sacrifice, and gives weight to the player’s choice for proper good: to disable the nukes entirely. The words Ulysses leaves parallel’s the serie’s iconic phrase “War never changes” by saying people must change, because to repeat the sins of the past is to doom us to eternal nuclear disaster.
Fallout 76: Players set off three nuclear explosions to fight irradiated skyrim dragons. coUNTRY ROOOOOOOADS TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOME
I ran a donation thing over on twitter where I’d draw really shitty deathclaws for everyone who helped me out!! there ended up being a lot more than I anticipated @~@ here’s all the beautiful pals that came out of it though!
how the writers wanted benny to come across: your mysterious killer. master schemer you have to track across the mojave in order to solve his machinations,. leader of one of the most powerful groups on the new vegas strip who will do anything to make his plans work out. seemingly always two steps ahead of his adversaries
how benny actually is in game: somehow manages to fuck up a point blank headshot. twice. everyone you meet trashes his hideous jacket. can’t keep any allies because he is a compulsive backstabber. potato face. says phrases like “give those charlies a shake for the ben-man”. writes you the least romantic one night stand note ever conceived. gets caught by the legion because he refused to walk around without hair pomade
i get why caesar is confident that the legion will take over hoover dam and new vegas. he has the numbers and loyalty/fear from his troops and the fact that he lost last time was kind of a fluke. however, he failed to take one thing into consideration: i hate him. i have the ability to run into his shitty hell fort and kill everyone with a chainsaw because i control the main character of the game, and i will in fact do that because i hate him.
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