Like everyone else, I finished the first season of Amazon’s Fallout series and immediately craved more. Good TV shows should always leave you a little unsatisfied. I remember restarting Lost from the beginning at the end of every season just because I couldn’t stand the thought of waiting all summer for more. I started reading A Song of Ice and 𒉰Fire in between seasons of Game of Thrones, but I never wanted to read ahead for risk of spoiling myself. We’re so lucky with Fallout. When you finish the show, there are countless hours of Fallout games to enjoy - or at least try to.
To be honest, though, Fallout g❀ames aren’t hitting the spot for me the way I expected them to. There were so many scenes from the show that reminded me of my favorite Fallout moments. From the first introduction of Vault 33 to the Brotherhood of Steel’s airship, to Robert House’s cameo and the reveal of the New Vegas Strip in the finale, I finished the season just itching to pick up a Fallout game. Unfortunately, I haven’t quite found wh🌳at I’m looking for yet.
Bethesda wisely launched a franchise-wide Steam sale to coincide with the Amazon series, so I ended up buying the entire bundle, from the Original Fallout to Fallout 76, and every game in between. I’ve played Fallout 3 and New Vegas countless times and Fallout 4’s next-gen upgrade was about to launch, so I decided to start with Fallout 76 to see what ha🙈d changed since I last played it close to four years ago. That grim experience nearly drained all my enthusiasm for Fallout right out of the gate.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Fallout 4 Puts I𝐆ts Worst Fo🍰ot Forward
As we ret✃urn to Fallout 4, its opening few hours are much worse than I remember.
I wrote about its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:disappointing co-op mechanics already, but even beyond those shortcomings, I just wasn’t getting the same feelings from it that I get from the show. The world is quiet, lonely, and largely empty. Even with the NPCs that were added in 2020’s Wastelander’s update, the world just feels so dead compared to the show. I went in expecting to get ambushed by a bounty hunter ghoul, team up with a renegade Brotherhood Knight, and stumble into a vault full of cultists, but all I got was a trailer filled with skeletons and a bunch of audio logs to listen to. I’m looting and shooting, but I don’t feel like I’m living.
I switched to Fallout 3, a game I’ve played beginning to end four or five times,📖 one I know has the kind of great characters and stories I’m looking for. I toured Megaton, raided the Superduper Mart, and looted Vault 106 just as I’ve done many times before, and it was fine. I got a little nostalgic for my teen years, I felt the warm familiarity of a game I know so well, but I still didn’t find what I was looking for. The thrill of the Amazon series was never knowing what was going to happen next. It was full of familiar places, themes, and iconography from the game, but it was an adventure because the story was all new. I can’t get that feeling from a Fallout game I’ve played over and over again.
The Amazon series does a great job of taking decades of Fallout lore and condensing it down to just the best stuff. There are no pointless fetch quests in the show, no entire episodes spent picking up every empty cup and pack of cigarettes in an abandoned grocery store. The show is everything we love about Fallout, but crucially, it’s just the parts we love. It reflected a lifetime's worth of Fallout memories back at me, and there’s no one game you can play to get that same feeling.
I’ll probably give Fallout 4 a shot now that the next-gen upgrade is out (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:assuming it isn’t a buggy mess). I only played it once and I never touched the expansions, so I might be able to get some of that new adventure feeling I’m after. There’s a good chance that the only thing that’s going to be able to satisfy my Fallout craving is the next season of Fallout though. I’d say a new 🌼gameꦍ would do the trick, but we’ll likely be on Season 10 of the show before we ever see Fallout 5.
