• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    It’s cursed, it has all of the wierd Bethesda East Coast lore, tone, atmosphere, writing, and style, but on the West Coast, and does the West Coast factions dirty.

    It also canonized some absolute bullshit, but this isn’t a spoiler thread, is it?

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      I knew Bethesda would one day come for the West Coast canon.

      Oh, well. At least we won’t have to argue with a new generation of nerds who missed all the points and blatantly support the fascist factions.

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    I have many negative options of this show. Ultimately, while Lucy was…okay… Norm and chet had my favorite dynamic and didn’t act like complete morons most of the time.

    They seemed to have set out with the intention of making the BoS a slapstick comedy rayher than a serious player consisting of intelligent humans. Especially Knight Titus and Maximus felt like horribly written characters.

    I understand them going for humor but… I feel the slapstick nature of it really took away my enjoyment of it.

    While fallout has had humor in it, I felt it was backseat to the actual atmosphere of its story of surviving the wasteland. In the series, slapstick seems to be all it is.

    Also I don’t understand why they added the thing about ghouls.

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      Silly, over the top gore is a core part of Fallout. Every game after two has a perk called “Bloody Mess” that increases the chance of enemies just turning into a pile of flesh when killed

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          It’s a nod to Bloody Mess the Trait, which allowed critical-specific overkills to happen even for normal kills.

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            Sorta yeah, but critical kill even without the trait would leave and exploded body by chance.

            Silly, over the top gore is a core part of Fallout.

            That’s what I’m replying to, fallout has always been bloody and explosive gore is just part of the base game no traits.

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              Yes, but the trait Bloody Mess literally was in the first games, it was just translated into a Perk for 3 when they got rid of traits. It isn’t a reference to 1 and 2 being gorey, it’s a literal named continuation of the Bloody Mess trait in perk form.

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                As far as I recall there is no dismemberment on crit without flavor text or special weapon on 3+ unless you had bloody mess, on f1-2 is was a lower chance than with the trait but still possible.

                But again my point is that its always been gorey more so if you make the correct choices.

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                  I just think it’s a bit silly to say that, it’s like saying Stimpaks are a reference to Fallout 1 and 2 having health points, and not a literal carryover from 1 and 2.

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    Amazing season. The only thing holding it back (and the only reason I might hold back on hyping a season 2) is the fact that New Vegas isn’t canon anymore. What the fuck guys.

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      What do you mean NV isn’t Canon anymore? >!The show takes place 15 years after the game, plenty could have happened since then!<