{"id":18806,"date":"2013-02-12T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18806"},"modified":"2013-02-12T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:34:11","slug":"fallout-3-ep12-memorial-memorandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18806","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 3 EP12: Memorial Memorandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GR3HIttzPCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GR3HIttzPCM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re watching, don&#8217;t forget about the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0Agy-quAatA_9dFIwSlJCMVFEQjVSbTBHNDAzY1pWaGc#gid=0\">glorious Fallout 3 spreadsheet of fun and alcohol poisoning<\/a>, which is derived from the <a href=\"?p=18282\">Fallout 3 drinking game<\/a>. It even has charts! Note the new section at the bottom. Given the astounding number of drinks being imbibed, there&#8217;s a new section that will keep track of the blood alcohol of the current theoretical drinker.  When their BAC reaches lethal levels, they are pronounced dead and a new drinker is brought in. The game has killed two people so far, with most of the damage happening in Operation Anchorage. <\/p>\n<p>Also, the author of those charts (Deadfast on this site) should totally put some kind of self-credit on there someplace. <\/p>\n<p>Allow me to phone in the rest of this entry with a little copy &#038; paste action <a href=\"?p=8272\" title=\"Spoiler Warning Fallout 3 #12: Memorial Memorandum\">from 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I want to stress again how silly it is to have such flagrant and absurd plot holes in the game.  It&#8217;s one thing for a player to gloss over a plot hole or two during fifteen minutes of exposition spread out over forty hours of gameplay.  It&#8217;s another thing to spend months writing and recording dialog and building up a world around those plot holes. Dad is supposed to be kind, wise, and brilliant, and yet his actions indicate he&#8217;s careless, selfish, short-sighted, and stupid. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be so ashamed if I was ever fortunate enough to get Liam Neeson to enact my dialog, and then I handed him something that wasn&#8217;t even consistent enough to support his character. <\/p>\n<p>And as somone pointed out earlier in the series, Bethesda didn&#8217;t always behave this way.  Morrowind had its flaws, but the plot was stable enough.  Oblivion fell short of Morrowind, and the character motivations were a bit questionable, but the thing still managed to make some kind of sense.  Now we have Fallout 3 where the premise is absurd, where the characters either have no motivations or their actions make no sense, and where you can&#8217;t say and do perfectly reasonable things because the nonsense plot says so. <\/p>\n<p>These three games do seem to indicate a sort of trend. Our only hope to reverse this malignant development is for all of us to band together as gamers and complain about it.  On the internet. On a blog. To each other. Long after the game has faded from the public interest.<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/wwii_poster.png' class='insetimage'   alt='wwii_poster.png' title='wwii_poster.png'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>If their games don&#8217;t improve, it means <em>you haven&#8217;t been complaining <strong>hard<\/strong> enough.<\/em> Do your part!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) While you&#8217;re watching, don&#8217;t forget about the glorious Fallout 3 spreadsheet of fun and alcohol poisoning, which is derived from the Fallout 3 drinking game. It even has charts! Note the new section at the bottom. Given the astounding number of drinks being imbibed, there&#8217;s a new section that will keep track of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[279,208],"class_list":["post-18806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-fallout-3","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}