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Inside
2016
Oppressed over wanting to return to primal flesh, relatable
When people say videogames are art Abe says "Hello" in my mind
Simpsons: Homer's Oddysee
Final Fantasy III
1990
Final Fantasy III was perhaps the best Final Fantasy of the NES era. It introduced the modern job system as we would come to know it, or at least a prototypical version of it. Unfortunately, Square seems to have one developer with a functional brain, so many sections induce artificial difficulty via forcing you to use a certain job, like the dragoon job; or they require the mini status to be induced on your party for a full dungeon, which isn't fun.
I have never seen something like this story before, anywhere
One of the first things that dragged my attention was that feeling that "Unpacking" gave me. Discovering stuff about someone's past by their objects is amazing. Also, It's strange how the Finch's house itself looks so alive and so dead at the same time.
It starts in a fun way with molly, but suddenly you're involved and didn't see 2 hours passing away. Even the credits are well thought, going from upstairs to downstairs rooms.
Damn, Annapurna!
One of the first things that dragged my attention was that feeling that "Unpacking" gave me. Discovering stuff about someone's past by their objects is amazing. Also, It's strange how the Finch's house itself looks so alive and so dead at the same time.
It starts in a fun way with molly, but suddenly you're involved and didn't see 2 hours passing away. Even the credits are well thought, going from upstairs to downstairs rooms.
Damn, Annapurna!
Eldest Souls
2021
gameplay had almost nothing to do with souls and that is a VERY GOOD THING
Fallout 3
2008
This game is good, that's a baseline, but upon doing my first replay from teenage years I have come to realize a lot of moments in quests would have just been done better in New Vegas.
Take for instance the quest where you go back to Vault 101, you just say one sentence and the Overseer is like "damn okay I guess i have been kind of tyrannical, sorry ill stop."
Lots of other moments too where its like pass a speech check to convince someone, or just say another non-speech check option and still get the same outcome. Its very much designed around "every character build has to be able to do this", but they just made it so its not really fulfilling for any specific build.
Not sure if its related to this game, or just on coincidence, but when I started playing it I was getting death anxiety every day. Don't know if its because the game is post apocalyptic, or (again), just a coincidence that i started playing this game, but I do think when I think about Fallout's post apocalypse I get anxiety.
Take for instance the quest where you go back to Vault 101, you just say one sentence and the Overseer is like "damn okay I guess i have been kind of tyrannical, sorry ill stop."
Lots of other moments too where its like pass a speech check to convince someone, or just say another non-speech check option and still get the same outcome. Its very much designed around "every character build has to be able to do this", but they just made it so its not really fulfilling for any specific build.
Not sure if its related to this game, or just on coincidence, but when I started playing it I was getting death anxiety every day. Don't know if its because the game is post apocalyptic, or (again), just a coincidence that i started playing this game, but I do think when I think about Fallout's post apocalypse I get anxiety.
Fallout 3
2008
I only played this when I was about 8 and I never left the first big town area, but man was that first big town area good
Fallout 3
2008
I lost count of how many times I played through Fallout 3. There was even a time where I had all of Three Dog's lines memorized. The capital wasteland might not be a joy to look at, but the things to see and do eclipsed Oblivion.
Fallout 3
2008
childhood game. very biased towards it. has a lot of flaws but a lot of charm too
Fallout 3
2008
This won best writing at the GDC Awards if you want to understand how dire video game writing and what's considered good writing has been. Emil Pagliarulo is the enemy of the written word, there is no clumsy piece of dialogue or ham-fisted theme he can't make worse beyond your wildest imagination.
The morality and gameplay have been completely gutted of previous Fallout complexity, and in its place the Bethesda formula has been injected. For what it's worth, it's not a bad formula. Exploration guarantees you finding something weird and interesting. Once you abandon the hope of finding something meaningful and thought-provoking and accept it as a series of vignettes of bizarre stuff it goes down cleaner.
It does abandon the Monty Python jokes of Fallout 2 though, which is a net improvement. Very much a mixed bag.
The morality and gameplay have been completely gutted of previous Fallout complexity, and in its place the Bethesda formula has been injected. For what it's worth, it's not a bad formula. Exploration guarantees you finding something weird and interesting. Once you abandon the hope of finding something meaningful and thought-provoking and accept it as a series of vignettes of bizarre stuff it goes down cleaner.
It does abandon the Monty Python jokes of Fallout 2 though, which is a net improvement. Very much a mixed bag.
i think making a game so bad that you had to make dlc to retcon the ending is incredibly funny
Probably the best overall DLC for FO3. This is mostly due to the fact it's the only DLC that's a really open and allows you to explore and do whatever. The others are either linear or break the game. It still suffers from from the usual Bethesda flaws like bugs and an average story.
id fucking raaather put my dick into the vaccum cum of space then play this piece of shit GRAAAAHHHH
Probably the most frustrating piece of content for Fallout 3. You'd think "alien abduction escape" would be prime fodder for the developers to play around with, but the whole thing is woefully underwritten and mostly focused on providing an unexpectedly difficult combat encounters to give the players a handful of new weapons. Very half-baked, even by Bethesda standards.