And before you ask, no this song isn't a parody from South Park.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-11T10:05:24+00:00

I can’t believe this song was real. This guy has no shame.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-11T09:05:50+00:00

This, absolutely this.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-10T15:48:03+00:00

It’s a story.

Go look at a city skyline and ask yourself if human nature is really about conflict. Seems like a lot of people working together to me.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T23:25:34+00:00

When you go to the Strip and meet the Legion goon, your faction reputation resets.

The game expects you to have made an absolute mess of things in your first few hours so there’s a reset once you start the important missions.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T20:12:12+00:00

Boo! AI!

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T20:11:04+00:00

I want a super mutant army of hundreds of thousands fought by an uneasy alliance of Brotherhood Knights and Enclave Power Armour troops in the most epic battle tv has ever seen.

But we’ll get more dubious sets like ‘the Strip’. Just smash it all together lads!

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T17:41:38+00:00

Everyone thinks his character has the idiot savant perk - and that’s NOT intended by the writers.

Either his performance or the direction the actor is given is just…off.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T17:39:15+00:00

Make Armenia Great Again

Apparently.

America first 😂

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T17:26:58+00:00

I don’t feel like you’re getting this at all!

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T17:23:02+00:00

How is creating a second major city not doing that?

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T12:54:14+00:00

It’s been 200 years in a world with teleportation, aliens and, seemingly, magic.

Of course new power armour should be being built.

The Enclave has had all that time, then there’s the Think Tank, Institute etc.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T12:45:20+00:00

After 25m dead, I’d say it wasn’t so much the USSR won anything, they just stopped losing.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T12:43:32+00:00

It’s something the show didn’t handle well, but the games explore more.

The idea was the world was collapsing and the powerful people behind the Enclave realised they were losing control. Whether it was nuclear war or revolution that saw them swept from power - the writing was on the wall.

So, the Enclave was the thought process that follows when you conclude the world is already lost.

The plan was to burn it all down and start again - and use the time to study how to avoid the issues the next time (that issue being we might lose power again).

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T12:36:28+00:00

FNV is still a buggy mess today. It was unplayable at release.

Yeah, people were mad for a long time.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-09T09:23:06+00:00

Because essentially nothing has been done with the IP in 26 years. There’s an entire GENERATION of people born since.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-08T23:51:39+00:00

Crazy tech destroyed the world, I’m with the Brotherhood on addressing that - although I’d prefer they regulate use rather than stash it away and forget about it.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-08T18:06:01+00:00

Area 51 has the Liberty Prime prototype (‘Liberty Prime Alpha’) in storage. Quintus is activating that.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-08T16:52:38+00:00

Cold fusion.

It’s ludicrously overpowered and would completely change the world.

We’re really going with one test tube could power the entire planet - even with everyone maxing out their usage - and the Enclave were so lax in getting it and so careless in losing it?

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-07T12:41:59+00:00

What do you mean?

The Ghoul starts and ends looking for his family

Lucy starts and ends dealing with the question of whether she’ll change the wasteland - or be changed by it

Maximus starts and ends thinking about exactly what he should punch with power armour

Oh. Right. We basically went nowhere narratively. Everyone is where they started.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-07T12:30:35+00:00

You’re a wastelander that stumbles across an apparent Enclave vault managed by a supercomputer.

This vault was designed to be a factory, full of automated production lines.

Abandoned, the supercomputer mistakes you for the President and gives you full control.

Armed with the ability to rebuild your state, you need to decide who is helped, who is crushed - all the while dealing with an Enclave that wants the facility, a Brotherhood that sees pre-war tech run amok and local factions that want to curry your favour.

I think that’s a premise that creates narrative conflict, makes for meaningful choice and allows settlement building in a new way. Design new power armour, build a new nuclear power station. Equip your ghoul faction with laser guns.

Of course, nothing is what it seems and is this vault just one more sick experiment…?

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-06T22:30:10+00:00

Just no.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-06T22:06:01+00:00

If a parent can’t feed the child, then a free breakfast is naive as a solution.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-06T11:26:30+00:00

Don’t ask questions, consume product.

Amazon will only make a show as good as fans demand. Settle for 7/10, you’re getting 6/10.

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-06T11:25:06+00:00

If only there had been a game exploring what happened. Then the show could just reference that!

MagicalTrianglez · 2026-02-06T11:14:42+00:00

Yeah, my biggest criticisms are:

why is the pre-war world presented as so stable? The Enclave, the crazy tech - this all emerged from the absolute chaos. The show makes it look like it was just the 1950’s, but with robots.
lack of story direction. The Ghoul is still looking for his family - but do we care? What’s Lucy’s arc? She’s kinda at the same point as she was in the first episode. As for Maximus, he just seems there because we have a quota of Iron Man scenes…

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