I want the few survivors to be scraping out a living in the decaying corpse of a vast city and I want the game to make it very, unsubtly clear that this is Not Good. Barely any children and clearly shown the effects of constant low level radiation exposure on the handful of people left. Old tech etc. And old discoveries should reinforce the utter horror of nuclear war and there should be no hope for humanity, no magic technology, no super hi tech ark, nothing aside from the empty promises of outfits like vault tech. I want it to be really fucking clear that the player and everyone else are at the very tail end of humanity and that there is no hope for the future, just a slow, dwindling wrapping up of an extinction event.
It can be fun and cool in places, but ultimately even the gameriest gamer should get the message that Nuclear War Is Bad and it's not all giant cool robots.
i think the failing of the recent games was writing on that front. FO3 is a hellish setting overflowing with bleak environmental storytelling, most everything wants to kill you, and the plot is about literally just getting a little clean water to the few people left
and then the writing swoops in with 'nuke a town' 'poison the water for no reason' 'cool robots' 'wholesome wasteland feudalism'
Yeah I know what you mean. I think part of the issue is also that the player kinda grows in power and abilities until they are basically a superhero. A lot of bethesda games have that issue I think so you wind up with so few consequences for your character that you kinda dont experience how the wasteland is if that makes sense.
I want the few survivors to be scraping out a living in the decaying corpse of a vast city and I want the game to make it very, unsubtly clear that this is Not Good. Barely any children and clearly shown the effects of constant low level radiation exposure on the handful of people left. Old tech etc. And old discoveries should reinforce the utter horror of nuclear war and there should be no hope for humanity, no magic technology, no super hi tech ark, nothing aside from the empty promises of outfits like vault tech. I want it to be really fucking clear that the player and everyone else are at the very tail end of humanity and that there is no hope for the future, just a slow, dwindling wrapping up of an extinction event.
It can be fun and cool in places, but ultimately even the gameriest gamer should get the message that Nuclear War Is Bad and it's not all giant cool robots.
i think the failing of the recent games was writing on that front. FO3 is a hellish setting overflowing with bleak environmental storytelling, most everything wants to kill you, and the plot is about literally just getting a little clean water to the few people left
and then the writing swoops in with 'nuke a town' 'poison the water for no reason' 'cool robots' 'wholesome wasteland feudalism'
Yeah I know what you mean. I think part of the issue is also that the player kinda grows in power and abilities until they are basically a superhero. A lot of bethesda games have that issue I think so you wind up with so few consequences for your character that you kinda dont experience how the wasteland is if that makes sense.