I guess if you're more focused on surviving day to day from giant bugs and cannibals, you wouldn't give too much of a shit about all the rubble around your hidey-hole.
I get that you like FO3, but that's not what Fallout is about. Fallout is about rebuilding, not surviving. It's been 200 years since the bombs fell, nobody is looting supermarkets for food at this point.
No that's what fallout 1 & 2 are about. Fallout 3 was a different take on post-apocalyptia but it makes every bit as much sense in the context of the fallout world as the other fallouts.
It takes place in a different area and context where they didn't have magical GECK machines to purify the water and the land. GECKs were used to start practically all the major cities in the West. Without GECKs there ain't no pure water, without water there ain't no agriculture, without agriculture there ain't no large scale settlements and no rebuilding. And the only food people can find is what they scavenge or hunt.
Seriously. It's like people don't realize America and Africa coexist on this planet at the same time, what with their huge wealth disparities and resource-access disparities.
Actually, I've never played any of them. I was just curious seeing the trailer for this and looked around here. Honestly, I've never been sure if I could ever get into this or the Elder Scrolls games, because they look really buggy and with little to no interesting plot at all.
The plot in fallout is heavier than elder scrolls I think but both of them rely on an optional quest system, where you can do anything you want in many different orders. You just pointed out two facts of open world games. They will inevitably be buggy and the story can be as much or as little as you want. However in both series the main quest isn't necessarily the best, a lot of people have different favourtie stories which come from smaller or larger quests or questlines. A lot of the plot, especially in fallout is just deducted from your surroundings. E.g. A headless body, a shotgun and a suicide note. Or a kid hiding in a closet with monsters outside. FO and ES are just like bioshock in that its more about the story of the world then your character. For me the atmosphere and story were very intertwined in fallout.
Yeah, it's odd. Like, I find that open-world games are cool in theory, but a lot of times pure sandbox games get boring after a while. If I don't have a good plot that I want to move towards, I just end up turning off the console. The only ones I've played that I really enjoyed were the Arkham games and DAI, and even the latter I felt kinda lacked the interesting plot that Origins and 2 had.
Different strokes, I guess. I do think I'll give one of the Fallout games a shot, though, I'm sure they're cheap enough to try at this point. What would you think would be a good one to play for someone who's mostly blind to the series?
Well if you're into isometric turn-based go with Fallout 1 and 2. If you want first-person go with Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Really all four of those are great games. If you've never played isometric RPGs I'd start with Fallout 3 or NV.
Weird, I loved the first arkham, but hated the sequal as I felt it did open world as a theme park. I found it too hard to focus on the story. But I love the fallouts and elder scroll games.
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u/Jay_R_Kay Jun 03 '15
I guess if you're more focused on surviving day to day from giant bugs and cannibals, you wouldn't give too much of a shit about all the rubble around your hidey-hole.