Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Fallout going all in

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> I missed that entire series due to me not having a computer that could run it at the time

Same ditto. Seems odd to pay $1000+ for a gaming machine when the game’s less than $100. Most of my computer entertainment works fine on a $250 machine, and my personal office work can’t justify anything more than a $450 tax deduction. I also don’t have much satisfaction after pouring hours into a game — not much to show for my 1000+ hours of The Sims.

As a boomer, I’ve grown up with decades of “dystopian future run by unethical corporations” even before the 1984 book and cyberpunk. The world’s hardly utopian, but, after 40+ years, it’s not as bad as it was supposed to be. (We don’t have flying cars, either, mind you.)

That said, I do have the FFG Fallout boardgame, and preferred the CYOA part of the game over the mechanics. But that speaks more for non-replayable narrative games than Fallout itself.