RPG Tourist

Fallout 4 is a really strange game. If it was business software it would be an office suite. We have the PS4 version with all the add on content installed but Animatron and no mods. Although I have finished most of the quests I am still on one character. I always play as a charismatic hacker anyway. When the tragic overwhelms the comical, I return to one of my sim settlements and fiddle with something like building a beach condo for my homeless companions. Settlement building can be comical, frustrating or overwhelming but it is engaging. Nuka World really defined how I felt about the game. I know opinion is divided on Nuka World but I loved it. I thought there was a New Vegas feel to it. Raiders should have been a player faction all along. That would not have fit into the plot very well but the story wasn't really Fallout 4`s strong point. I do give Bethesda credit for incorporating local Boston historical narratives. Institute members weren't convincing villains and...

The other day I read this article https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm9549/nuclear-war-experts-are-horrified-by-fallout-76 and it got me thinking about the Fallout franchise again. I have only played the last three installments published by Bethesda but I did play through the main story lines in all three. My feelings about the series have always been mixed. Overall the games are well written and designed. Some elements are better implemented than similar elements in Elder Scrolls. I enjoy the dark humour dispersed throughout dialogue, documents and computer terminals. I especially love hacking terminals. However the environment and the quests get to me after a while. I found Fallout 3 so bleak I couldn’t play it until after I had finished New Vegas. The nuclear devastation and the sorrow weighs heavily. Fallout’s factions and themes have sparked many worthwhile online discussions about morality and science. I have been watching some Fallout 76 game play video lat...

I call myself an RPG tourist because that’s my been my playing style at least since big 3D open world games came about. Unless things get too boring, I pick the most frictionless difficulty setting so that I can leisurely stroll about taking in the environment and the narrative. My desktop is inadequate and I can only play the most recent games on our PS4. Occasionally I document my progress or make dumb videos. YouTube Channel RPG Tourist's Red Dead Redemption Horseback Tour   Roleplaying a horse wrangler in Red Dead Redemption 2. Dragon Age Inquisition: I am Vasoth   Tales of an unlikely Inquisitor. Far Cry Primal   A Paleolithic mover and shaker.  Or maybe it's Mesolithic. Or transitioning. Or.. I'm not sure. Kingdom Come Deliverance   Medieval Bohemian Horticulturist and Man at Arms.