Post Apocalyptic Games Are Afraid to Be Dark

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  @RammAndTheLamb · 11 months ago · pinned

  Babe 2: Pig in the City is really the glue that holds this whole video together. Thank you George Miller!<br><br>Sorry for some of the pops in the audio, I got a little passionate towards the end :p

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  @GHOUL4R7 · 11 months ago

  It&apos;s tiring to have adult (not porn, just for older audiences) games being so family friendly and sterilized. It fails to satisfy the itch I have for darker experiences.

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  @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 · 11 months ago

  I can explain why Fallout 4 has no Hookers !<br>Fallout 4 wants to ignore so much the themes and stories of civilization reconstructing itself and society coming back, that they rather put as minimal aspects of real societies in the game as possible<br>Is a theme park ride of a world, not a real place like it New Vegas <br>I don&apos;t even think the question of prostitutes arrived in the writer&apos;s heads to be censored, they never even thought about that, to maintain the illusion that the world was nuked 2 weeks ago

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  @Mikkel.Desidia · 11 months ago

  The whole honest thing is actually a big problem now days. All of us are just used to having 7 layers of irony and sarcasm to protect ourselfs, and the one who is sincere about smt? Gets punished by being called &quot;cringe&quot;, &quot;gay&quot;, &quot;not that deep bro&quot;. &nbsp;No emotional moment comes without a joke so thing dont get to emotionaly hard, to the point that idk if people actually know themselfs under the layers of irony.

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  @Kydrou · 11 months ago

  One of the missing features is &quot;Desperation&quot;.<br><br>Nobody seems to actually struggle. Fallout 4 is less a Post Apocalypse, and more a Post-Post Apocalypse.<br><br>You could replace the intro to any Quest from Fallout 4 to the meme: &quot;Oh, No. -- &nbsp;Anyway...&quot;<br><br>There are active markets, bars are no actual refuges, jails are basically unused.<br><br>The world has been sanitized.<br><br>Sure, there are Raiders, Supermutants and Ferals, but they only actively attack YOUR settlements, or are stationary.<br><br>Nothing&apos;s actually organic.<br><br>The set pieces you find in Spawn Spots, never STICK. They are TEMPORARY. You can help settlers, pay or defeat raider tolls, anything; but they don&apos;t stick around. No trace of their Effect on the world at large.<br><br>That&apos;s why there&apos;s no &quot;Ladies of the Night&quot;. Because it&apos;s degrading, and would imply people can&apos;t get out of the hell they live in. Specially in a world that, devastated and all, you still have effective healthcare by the same purple syringe. Or plant your own crops, or boil your own water. Or make your own chems.<br><br>There&apos;s no TRUE STRUGGLE in this world.<br>Everything&apos;s a facade.

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  @omnilov3rr · 11 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkYLTDLOmk&amp;t=354">5:54</a> the death of Adam Adamowicz, he was the artist for the aesthetic of fallout 3 (which for the most part carried over to NV) when they made fo4 the art style took a drastically different approach and a lot of that can be attributed to lack of Adam

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  @Dr.Beam_likes_Fallout · 11 months ago

  New Vegas was actually dark. The vaults, the lore if you look deeper into it, and other instinces

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  @defaultyboi7564 · 11 months ago

  Edging us with Metro footage the whole way. The superior post apoc game 💪

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  @Darkilikill · 11 months ago

  The thing I&apos;ll never understand is why are 18+ games, movies, etc... censored at all?<br>Seriously, we have some adults censoring adult content because they think other adults wouldn&apos;t be able to handle what was created by adult artists? Absolutely ridiculous.

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  @roguehunter1353 · 11 months ago

  Games have either lost their ability to be dark due to the audience of today, to the current events which many people would see as &apos;sensitive&apos; or game developers have generally lost their touch in making dark games which generally sucks when you compare Bethesda Fallout games compared to the older Interplay Fallout entries, New Vegas and even Fallout 3 which still relatively dark and then Fallout 4 removed a majority of dark themes and suggestions when it&apos;s a rated M game.

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  @patrolfp1847 · 11 months ago

  Almost a bit surprised you did not mention the story of The Survivalist/Randall when you were talking about Fallout. Regardless, a fantastic video as always.

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  @ayrandabenoja5827 · 11 months ago

  Fallout 4 was my gateway into this wonderful series, I liked it. After finishing it I moved on to New Vegas and was blown away by how it handled things that I didn&apos;t get to experience in 4. So much so that I felt a sense of &quot;why wasn&apos;t some of this in 4?&quot;. Looking back at it Fallout 4 did feel too sanitized to me - it wasn&apos;t willing to explore things and ideas unlike New Vegas. Like the latter felt gritty - you can see that in Prim, Camp Forlorn Hope, Westside, and Bitter Springs.

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