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🕑 Added 2017-07-07 14:11:14 +0000 UTC Just a quick update here for my patrons, I plan on doing a full channel update soon. My plans have changed a bit, and I think I'm going to go with the following in my next couple videos...First, I am working on a full retrospective and analysis of the Fallout series, the oldschool games, what they brought to the table, its spinoffs, and the Bethesda/Obsidian reboots and what features they improve or degrade over the originals.
I have a deep love and appreciation for the Fallout series, but like many oldschool gamers, I have seen some aspects that I love about the game mechanics or setting wither away or get shoehorned in over time. The perfect cocktail of Mad Maxian-apocalypse, the 1950's-inspired retro-futuristic "Before" world that has more than a dash of Flash Gordon inspiration, iced with a measured splash of pitch-black humor. I believe the Black Isle Studios staff executed this mix marvelously, but have been disappointed with Bethesda's misunderstanding (or revisionism) and mishandling of the series, despite some of Fallout 3, New Vegas and Fallout 4's successes.
After this big project I plan on tackling the OTHER company that spawned from Black Isle Studios, Troika -- and their three beautifully broken but marvelous games.
Let me know what you'd like to see in the future, or if you have any stories or input on the Fallout series. Thank you for your continued support!
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Hi Veljko, Thanks for commenting. Some interesting points here, and I agree with you in that most of the new Fallouts never captured the feeling that the old FO and Troika games did. I adored Arcanum and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, but had a hard time getting into Elemental Evil, despite really admiring how faithful it was to 3rd Edition D&D. On your suggestion, I went ahead and bought the DLC for New Vegas. I need to give that game more of a shake since despite some misgivings I had with it, New Vegas came closer to the original games than FO3 or FO4 did. I do want to get back into the Cyberpunk series again, I'm just trying to get my channel's momentum back up after the YouTube Adpocalypse (which seems to be affecting videos being seen by larger crowds too) and everything else. Cyberpunk Curated has always gotten decent views, but I experienced my biggest growth and expansion of talent in my more intense game analyses. I've had my eye on BloodNet for a while, I do want to check it out. DreamWeb was pretty stellar as well, at least as far as it's cyberpunk atmosphere is concerned.
Oh, _amazing._ :) That's right in my wheelhouse. To my mind, New Vegas is the only proper modern Fallout with the DLCs in particular forming the best part of it, even bringing back the pitch-black humor for some of it. I didn't really like New Vegas until I played the DLCs, I must say. And Troika... ah, Troika. In many ways Troika was Obsidian, but _more._ Brilliant original games that are _unutterably_ broken, and only really work with about a dozen fan patches. I think none is more emblematic to me than Temple of Elemental Evil which has the most faithful version of D&D rules I've ever seen and an almost _pathological_ dedication to recreating the D&D experience, but was also so broken on launch as to be, essentially, unplayable. As for what I'd, personally, like to see in the future, I have to say that I am a big, big fan of your work with cyberpunk games (it's a weakness of mine) and BloodNet might be an interesting thing to take a look at. It's not a particularly _good_ game, to be honest, but there's no more nineties thing in existence, I swear: from the absurd genrebending (it's an RPG blended with an action-ish point-and-click adventure) to the high-concept premise (vampires and cyberpunk, oh my). Might be worth a look.
