If you have a good-ish rig (as it’s poorly optimized) and the patience for some annoying bugs, it’s very good. The devs poured their everything into making London feel like a varied and dense place with its own identity separate from the Commonwealth, some underlying similarities notwithstanding (eg. no FEV means no supermutants but you still have loads of ghouls and raiders hooligans to kill), and it expands on visual story-telling that Beth Fallout games are actually good at. Aside from that, the quests are better (even if they sometimes fall into the vanilla shoot-n-loot formula), there are a lot of skill/perk checks in dialogue and I also quite like the companion roster and their unique quests. YMMV on some of the goofier factions (one of them are raiders who LARP as 18th century British sailors) but I personally like Fallout when it embraces some absurdity.

That being said, I wouldn’t quite say it’s Fallout 4’s New Vegas like some have. It still has some fundamental flaws, some of which are actually worse than vanilla F4, like the main quest’s handling of the faction conflict. Also the settlement system is still an unfinished mess and some of the original game bleeds through there.

There are planned updates which will include stuff for the main quest and even some “DLC” so who knows how much better it will get?

Does the universe say anything about the actual Cultural Revolution? Because I have my doubts China would still be the same state as in the 60s and 70s if it’s in a position to invade Alaska. For all we’re concerned, China could have been an actual lower-stage communist society pre-war.

I’d love if there were an explicitly socialist main faction in a Fallout game for once, as opposed to relative nobodies like the Followers of the Apocalypse or “socialist-y” factions with vague politics like the Minutemen. It kind of makes sense that there would be very few such organizations in America, given that the pre-war US was a quasi-fascist dictatorship which literally burned any “seditious” political theory (though I doubt vault dwellers would try to maintain/revive capitalism no matter how indoctrinated they were), but China is another story entirely so I’d be down for a game set there.

Playing Fallout London and, while I’m not an anarchist, it was refreshing that we got just that with the Pistols. Even if they aren’t one of the “big three” factions.

Tbf, isn’t all info we get about China filtered through US propaganda?

Guy looks like he’s really trying with that Sephiroth fit

Carnation Revolution be like

I HEE-FUCKIN LOVE CO-OPS

Me when I found out:

The comments of that thread are demonstrating your points perfectly, in particular to the DNC’s overall attitude. Even after all that’s happened, they are still denigrating pro-Palestinians for being “single-issue voters” and letting “perfect be enemy of the good” (ie, the same tired talking points which worked oh-so-well the LAST FUCKING TIME), and that encapsulates perfectly just how little Libs have learned or will learn; Whether it’s those with actual direct power, their donor benefactors, or, as shown here, the Blue MAGA dipshits on the ground carrying water for them.

Whatever moment of genuine self-reflection for the party is going to be drowned out by a cacophony of Yes-Men repeating the same mantras like a broken record. Just the same ideas that the a) the Dems ran the perfect campaign, b) that the Leftists/minorities stabbed them in the back and c) the only lessons to take from this loss are entirely superficial (my mind goes to when some MSM talking heads “analyzed” Hasan’s rant but all they took from it was that the Dems needed to reach out to the Twitch crowd).

Silver lining is that is that this leaves the Left in a position to expand and grow by absorbing more and more fragments of the Democratic party’s base, but that won’t come to us automatically no matter how much mainstream libs shoot themselves in the foot.

Petit-bourgeois Narodnik peasantoid adventurist brain: Build-up community center

Real Movement brain: Support Joja’s takeover

Ngl, I love vidya-themed concerts for the alternate takes on the tracks. Some are miss but some hit it out of the park.

I’m 99% Kim would be a spirited participant in “the Return” under the right circumstances.

Especially funny when Kim is one of the Moralist reps. Although, he is disillusioned with the Moralintern and is actually a decent person who doesn’t try to use or gaslight you, unlike Joyce or “Sunday Friend”.

Every time I replay DF, I’m blown away by just how much ambition it had. The very definition of “limited by the tech of the time” and is, to this day, the boldest approach to storytelling I’ve seen in a TES game (Morrowind’s main quest was fantastic but more linear and conventional). Here’s to hoping The Wayward Realms (same talent) is good when it comes out.

That said…

Thinking about replaying DF

Remembering the goddamn Direnni Tower

“The social and biological development of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens species has been terminally corrupted by its own copious consumption of the Potato.”

Step 0: Prevent William McKinley’s assassination

Sadly, the Fr*nch spirit has been slumbering since 1871, save for some stirrings.

I’d hesitate to say “Nazi” per se (correct me if I’m wrong) but qualifies as a general RW dipshit

Cant tell what exactly passes for “DEI” since plenty of “non-woke” games listed have black characters.