{"id":32510,"date":"2016-06-01T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32510"},"modified":"2023-12-16T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T18:13:01","slug":"fallout-4-ep1-lore-never-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32510","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 EP1: Lore Never Changes"},"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\/mgxO55-4wAU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mgxO55-4wAU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>In this episode we argued if it had been 3 or 4 years since the last time we played Fallout on the show. We were ALL wrong. We covered New Vegas <a href=\"?p=11281\">FIVE YEARS AGO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re playing a lot of Fallout 4 around here these days, which is giving me a first-hand look at the radically different ways people approach this game:<\/p>\n<p>My son Issac (14) is not a roleplayer. He plays Fallout 4 because he likes finding legendary items, killing legendary creatures, and collecting suits of power armor. Doesn&#8217;t care to mess with mods. (His other two big games are Terraria and Borderlands 2.) He&#8217;s only ever made one character (named Issac) who is the default male character. He&#8217;s level 68 right now, which I didn&#8217;t even know was possible.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter Esther (16) is a roleplayer. She gets getting mods for more customization options. She likes making characters and building houses, like she&#8217;s playing a first-person version of the sims where you sometimes need to murder the neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to play <a href=\"?p=29524\">as I always have<\/a>: Tons of mods, permadeath, and ignore the main quest in favor of collecting comic books. I&#8217;m still playing female characters based off the same base save from 2015, since I haven&#8217;t worked up the energy to sit through the intro again.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode I said the intro is &#8220;perfunctory, but not short&#8221;. It&#8217;s not long enough or in-depth enough to build a strong attachment to these characters, but it is long enough to get in the way of the fun. And even if the writing had more punch, this engine is <em>terrible<\/em> at melodrama. The stiff facial expressions. The stilted animations. The awkward pace of conversations where characters either pause too long before delivering their lines, or they talk over each other.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk more about this as the series goes on, but this intro is pretty good at showcasing the upcoming problems with the game. I have many nice things to say about Fallout 4, but none of them are related to the main quest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) In this episode we argued if it had been 3 or 4 years since the last time we played Fallout on the show. We were ALL wrong. We covered New Vegas FIVE YEARS AGO. We&#8217;re playing a lot of Fallout 4 around here these days, which is giving me a first-hand look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510","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=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56847,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions\/56847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}