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I have complaints. by Dream Cast 09/30/2015, 2:17pm PDT
Kotaku's Luke Winkie wrote:

The members of No Mutants Allowed often talk about the difference of tone between Fallout and Fallout 3 in some pretty severe ways. This is a far more nuanced issue than they make it out to be, but they still have a point. Take the drill sergeant from Fallout 2. He unleashes the greatest Full Metal Jacket impression of all time if you approach him without your power armor. Take The Master, the final boss in Fallout. He’s a pink biotech horror who speaks in a friendly mid-atlantic accent punctuated with words spliced from audio files. Or what about Myron? The horny, pasty-faced adolescent drug dealer who comes on to you relentlessly if you’re playing a female. Those characters are still vibrant nearly 20 years later. As much as I enjoyed Fallout 3, I can’t remember a single face that populated the Capital Wasteland.


Fallout 2 in a nutshell: obnoxious pop culture references and juvenile sexuality. Whenever I see an undiscerning fan lionizing it - or erroneously crediting Black Isle with creating the original game - I feel compelled to beat on my keyboard in impotent rage like I'm doing right now.

The Master's still cool, tho. I'll even understand calling him the final boss, despite the fact it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the non-linear structure of that game, just because he certainly would have been the final boss in a lesser title like Fallout 2. But describing his subsumed voices as "spliced audio files" makes him sound like the cute robot from some shitty '80s movie, and that is beyond the pale Luke Winkie.
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No mutants allowed brings out the big guns by FABIO 02/07/2008, 7:18pm PST NEW
    That is AWESOME. I love everything about Fallout, the community most of all. NT by Jerry Whorebach 02/07/2008, 7:54pm PST NEW
    Re: No mutants allowed brings out the big guns by McMoo the Anti-Drug Cow 02/07/2008, 8:10pm PST NEW
        yeah soil erosion threw me too NT by FABIO 02/08/2008, 12:21am PST NEW
            It was a "promised" feature that Bethesda cruelly cut from Oblivion NT by Bodybag 02/08/2008, 7:03pm PST NEW
                When the secret meaning is revealed it seems crazier than if it was just random. NT by Worm 02/08/2008, 8:09pm PST NEW
    sort of old, still hilarious (and it breaks godwins law) NT by Grumah 02/07/2008, 11:15pm PST NEW
    web comic by FABIO 02/08/2008, 3:47pm PST NEW
        now I want to play Fallout 3 NT by Grumah 02/08/2008, 6:25pm PST NEW
    Kotaku shines a light on NMA, cockroaches scatter by WITTGENSTEIN 09/30/2015, 8:55am PDT NEW
        I have complaints. by Dream Cast 09/30/2015, 2:17pm PDT NEW
 
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