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Mumbles commented that the blood mechanics in this game are crazy. This seems to be a thing with late-period Bethesda games: Ragdolls act like balloons full of strawberry jam. Which makes it all the more inexplicable to me that “high-definition blood splatters” is always among the most popular mods. There are a lot of things visually wrong with how people die in this game, but “the blood decals are too low-res” isn’t one of them. If anything, the extra detail would draw attention to the problem.

I dunno. It’s just strange, is what I’m saying.

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Here’s a spoiler for Josh: I watched the episode and I SEE WHAT YOU DID.

I never teamed up with former mayor MacCready, so I can’t really comment on what they’ve done with him. I hear people say that he’s actually a pretty good companion, but I favor stealth gameplay and companions do not mix well with stealth. I thought it was surprising that he was in the game, but it doesn’t even make my list of top 100 Fallout 4 gripes. I mean, if I was given the choice between:

1. Re-work an unpopular character to give them another chance. (MacCready in Fallout 4.)
2. Hopelessly butcher an existing popular character by bending their story into nonsense and mercilessly flanderizing their personality quirks. (Harold in Fallout 3.)

I will take #1 every time.

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“Does this game look good?” is the question. I had a bunch of nice things to say about it when the game was new:

1. It’s got lots of color and they don’t abuse the color filter like in Fallout 3.
2. The faces don’t look like potatoes, like they did in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
3. The weapons look pretty cool compared to Fallout 3.
4. The supermutants are a little less like Fallout 3 and a little more like Fallout 1.

But that’s praising the game by pointing out how awful Fallout 3 looked. A more fair question would be, “Does Fallout 4 look good for a game in this time period, with these system requirements?”

I don’t know. I’m just glad that wretched green filter is gone.

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