Originally posted by EvilAngelYou forget the most depressing part.
I'm probably just a bit too tired now but reflecting on it, Fallout 3 is like an uber depressing game.Spoiler:
Let's reveiw.You start the game and pick sex/apperance, your mother then dies.
You have a birthday party, in which a bully will either: take your present, beat you up, or promise to beat you up later, you are at this point 10 years old.
Your father abandons you and leaves you in a Vault alone until the end of time(or so he planned). Meanwhile the Overseer decides he's going to kill you. (I tried to surrender the first time around, and he'll try to beat you to death with any weapons you gave him)
The world is as it is in the game. Generally filled with nasties, you have to treck across the barren wasteland after your father as you literally have nothing else.
After you finally catch up to him, after going through a very resident evil or, dawn of the dead kind of experience all he does is question why you left the vault
You work together on your mothers dream (something good? .... wait for it)
Your father is killed.
(Optional) You get a distress signal from the vault your best friend is begging for help. Assuming you go back, you find the overseer wants to keep everyone locked away forever, or rather for the next 2 (max) generations. Or do what Amata wants and let them open the vault for trading etc, though that means opening the doors to the horrors too. No matter what you decide you will never be allowed back again.
You get kidnapped by the Enclave and asked to kill thousands or more for the sake of killing all of the bad guys aswell. Thus utterly tainting your mothers dream.
You choose, either to Sacrifice yourself for your mothers dream, but it's nicely stated that ultimately nothing's changed. Or make someone else do it and they get all the credit.
That ending was a bummer, after all of the story i thought there had to be a cliche rainbow at the end ^^' Apparently not though.
Spoiler:
You at some point in Megaton will hire Nova, a prostitute. She goes into the room and takes a nap right away. =(
Originally posted by EvilAngel
I'm probably just a bit too tired now but reflecting on it, Fallout 3 is like an uber depressing game.Spoiler:
Let's reveiw.You start the game and pick sex/apperance, your mother then dies.
You have a birthday party, in which a bully will either: take your present, beat you up, or promise to beat you up later, you are at this point 10 years old.
Your father abandons you and leaves you in a Vault alone until the end of time(or so he planned). Meanwhile the Overseer decides he's going to kill you. (I tried to surrender the first time around, and he'll try to beat you to death with any weapons you gave him)
The world is as it is in the game. Generally filled with nasties, you have to treck across the barren wasteland after your father as you literally have nothing else.
After you finally catch up to him, after going through a very resident evil or, dawn of the dead kind of experience all he does is question why you left the vault
You work together on your mothers dream (something good? .... wait for it)
Your father is killed.
(Optional) You get a distress signal from the vault your best friend is begging for help. Assuming you go back, you find the overseer wants to keep everyone locked away forever, or rather for the next 2 (max) generations. Or do what Amata wants and let them open the vault for trading etc, though that means opening the doors to the horrors too. No matter what you decide you will never be allowed back again.
You get kidnapped by the Enclave and asked to kill thousands or more for the sake of killing all of the bad guys aswell. Thus utterly tainting your mothers dream.
You choose, either to Sacrifice yourself for your mothers dream, but it's nicely stated that ultimately nothing's changed. Or make someone else do it and they get all the credit.
That ending was a bummer, after all of the story i thought there had to be a cliche rainbow at the end ^^' Apparently not though.
These are all reasons that I love Fallout, and Fallout 1+2 were even better than 3(which I love anyway). Dark setting, dark themes, dark humor. If you haven't, play the first two games.
Also I'm not sure if you've tried it but maintaining neutral karma in Fallout 3 is really difficult.
Originally posted by Cyner
These are all reasons that I love Fallout, and Fallout 1+2 were even better than 3(which I love anyway). Dark setting, dark themes, dark humor. If you haven't, play the first two games.Also I'm not sure if you've tried it but maintaining neutral karma in Fallout 3 is really difficult.
It's not that it's dark that gets me, I've watched, read and played plenty of dark things and stories. It's the way the game tells it's story that i think it affects me.
I can't help but feel bad for the poor sod that is my character.
I also i find it somewhat challenging philosophically. Just so you know the next part of my post is me reading far too much, and getting far too interested in a game. You have been warned.
I find that the who game pretty much sends the clear strong message that: Nothing you ever can really do will change anything. So all that matters are the choices you make here and now, because in the end of it all. It won't really make a difference.
Also, at least on the path i took, to be the good guy, you have to play the bad guy. So while you're doing the thing that is ultimately right, everyone thinks your an assh*le
It's safe to say that it's nothing truly more than that the game hit me deep. And it is as you say Dark.
Originally posted by EvilAngel
I find that the who game pretty much sends the clear strong message that: Nothing you ever can really do will change anything. So all that matters are the choices you make here and now, because in the end of it all. It won't really make a difference.Also, at least on the path i took, to be the good guy, you have to play the bad guy. So while you're doing the thing that is ultimately right, everyone thinks your an assh*le
It's safe to say that it's nothing truly more than that the game hit me deep. And it is as you say Dark.
Yeah that's basically how life is. If you are a person of high morals and you really are doing the right thing. Not that many people are going to thank you for it. There is even a high chance of being punished for it.
If you are an honest person, people don't want to hear the truth. People will hate you if you tell them the complete and honest truth.
Humans will never change, everything we do now has been done before in different way. The only thing that does matter is how you affect the lives around you right now, friends, family, strangers, and enemies.