Shanghai Tippytap - 2010-06-15
This, and this general theme, is what bethesda got all wrong. In fallout 1 and 2, the cheesy retro-50s style was pre-war. It was the ultimate kitsch, contrasted against the brutal rat-eating slave-trading post-war mad max reality. Instead, bethesda made the post-war all retro and kitschy as well, completely losing the contrast between the two. It's tough for me to believe that American civilization was nuked into oblivion when some dizzy cooze is giving me a tour of her coca cola collection.
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StanleyPain - 2010-06-15 I disagree to a certain extent. I think the present-day culture was fairly well represented as being a sort of amalgam of pre-war garbage and a desperation to somehow reclaim it. I also think it was implied that since the Commonwealth apparently still lives in a manner similar to pre-war, that imitating that was somehow being "upper class" or whatnot. The problem with how Bethesda presented it is that far too many of the denizens of the wastes were simply too entrenched in a sort of generic Mad Max thing rather than something that would culturally evolve on its own.
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Jet Bin Fever - 2010-06-15
Yeah, I really liked most of the GNR bits... I only wish they weren't interrupted every two minutes with howling and the same news clip about me blowing up a city or something.
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Goethe and ernie - 2010-06-15 "Have any of you ever seen.... a tree?" Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up
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Caminante Nocturno - 2010-06-15 PROTIP: If you kill Three Dog, he is replaced by an old woman named Martha who talks about an asshole that killed their DJ. You still get music.
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Desidiosus - 2010-06-15
I was sad that Herbert suffered such an ironic fate after you went to all the trouble to do what seemed like the right thing at the time. :(
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