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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sorry but the game is bazingabrained in writing terms. Unbearable teenage 90s cringe.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The way it treats the indigenous proxy characters is also pretty yikes.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Massive yikes! Relatedly the introduction of slavery as a concept to Fallout... eh not a great move.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry but the game is bazingabrained in writing terms. Unbearable teenage 90s cringe.

It had more edgy and tiresome pop culture references than a season of Family Guy.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

cat-vibing love the original and was very disappointed.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel the same way. FO2 really had a "aren't we cool dudes" Gen X edgelord vibe, the same one that infested a lot of games of its time.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interplay was sadly heading that way in its entirety back then... Brotherhood of Steel on PS2/Xbox upholds this thought.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

When Fallout 76 came out and the deep horror I felt when visiting The Glow in FO1 was completely bleached out in favor of "NUKE THE MAP FOR LE EPIC LOOT DROPS" agony-deep