Fallout 3

As part of Operation: Replay Games I Already Have, I have been going through Fallout 3 for the past 2 weeks.

Walking around DC, owning the town

The Fallout universe is based on 1950s nuclear hysteria, except that that the 50s lasted for over a century and mutually assured destruction actually happened. This installment takes place in and around Washington, DC.

It's refreshing to play a game where the character can take over a dozen bullets and not die, unlike the chest high wall parade of late. Taking cover should be a small thing, not what the entire combat system is based around.

I have been trying to play these games differently that what I did before (as part of the Operation), like what I did with The Witcher and Mass Effect. I did not have a moral imperative, been different places, do different quests, and do other quests differently.

I let the ghouls into Tenpenny tower (the evil way), raided the comic company, and the Tacoma industrial park. Things I never found (or did).

So the Library of Congress (the real one) is going through a lot of old out-of-print music that's lapsed into the public domain. Someone made a mod that adds 100 new songs to the Galaxy News Radio, compared to the 20 or so that comes with the game. It seems like all everyone ever listened to in the 50s was the Inkspots.

You can't complain about this anymore. It's perfect!

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Fallout 4
In a far future of the past, a man walks across the platform of a darkened auditorium. Having cleared the Veteran's Hall of its mutated inhabitants, this man decides to give the speech he was supposed to centuries ago. He steps behind the podium. "War. War never changes." The scars across this man's face tell that war is something he knows well. He helped liberate Anchorage, and watched the Great War erase his world with a mushroom cloud.
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas is an interesting kind of game, and not quite all in the good way. For some, it's the only game they have on their neglected Xbox 360. For others, they wanted more Fallout 3. And New Vegas is sort of that, but not really. There is much less emphasis on the karma system, in that it hardly affects anything, and more emphasis is placed on your relations with another person's faction. If a town doesn't like you, the people won't be friendly, and if they hate you enough, they will start shooting. Last summer, I decided that I would replay it.
Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter first came out on iOS and Android ahead of the Fallout 4 release. Naturally, I checked it out, and I later played it on Steam. I noticed that radiation reduced the maximum health of dwellers, instead of being a separate stat. I didn't know that Fallout 4 would work that way, too. I've heard that Fallout Shelter is better than Fallout 76. Granted, this is a time waster kind of game with microtransactions, but it actually works!
Fallout
And now for another game from Twentieth Century. Fallout is a fairly old game that every other game nerd seems to be continually high on. And by "old game", I mean "game franchise". I wonder how many of them have actually played the first one.
Fallout 4 Season Pass
During the last Christmas Steam sale, I picked up the Fallout 4 Season Pass. I had considered getting it about a year prior before the price got jacked up to $50. But I had not played the game yet, so per my DLC policy, I passed. The season pass was on sale for $30 (its original price), and that seems about right for the regular price.
Papers, Please
Papers, Please is a bureaucrat simulator where you man a border checkpoint in a fictional totalitarian country during the late cold war. Gameplay mostly involves examining people's passports and other entry documents and calling 'gotcha' on them. Otherwise, you let them through if you can't find anything or you're lazy.