I feel obligated to post this, despite the hate it will bring.

I feel like the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg is the classic in this genre.

A farmer and his wife wake up one day to find their goose has laid an egg of solid gold. The next day, they wake and find another golden egg.

This continues every day for months and brings them unimagineable wealth. They build a bigger house, buy a bigger herd of livestock, and dress themselves in finer garments. Soon, their goose is known around the country for its remarkable talent.

The farmer, now fully aware of the luxuries he had been missing out on, studied the goose with greed in his eyes. He figured that if the goose laid golden eggs every day, its innards must be filled with more gold than he could imagine.

Deciding that one measly golden egg a day wouldn’t be enough for much longer, the farmer took an axe to the goose, cleaving her in twain. As he dove into the goose’s innards to find the hidden gold, he realized quickly that this goose was the same as all other geese on the inside, and the goose that laid the golden egg was no more.

It’s short and you can’t miss the moral if you try. Aesop was writing that real shit.

Nintendo 64 when you’re sick is the illest shit.

One time I got the flu for a week. That was the week I beat Star Wars Episode I Podracing.

There are other consoles for which I have nostalgic memories, but I never had anything that hit as hard as the N64 again.

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This post was meant to suss out the real Bomberfans, but I applaud you for being informative in the comments.

No matter how many times I see this, “A 101.5 ‘The Hammer’ FM of Moths” makes me giggle every time.

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Yeah they probably thought that about Neanderthals too, and here we fucking are.

Fucking awesome quote. I’m going to keep that one in my back pocket.

Turns out they were always asking, “What is a woman?” because they had no idea either.

“drink up”

Too true. Bethesda really peaked with Oblivion and Fallout 3.

That’s just my opinion, though. I know the Morrowind fans are having a good chuckle at what I just said 😅

Some genuinely nice men who are socially awkward/autistic might see this and take it to heart that they are bad at their core.

It’s my favorite way to play New Vegas, though maybe only because I think vanilla is waaaayyyyyy too easy.

But New Vegas is the frontier, it’s still largely unsettled. Of course there’s still abandoned stuff, the only superpower in the area for a while only cared about the Vegas city limits. The “clashing of aesthetics” is deliberate here. People still live in somewhat disarray, and an advanced state with manufacturing abilities is moving in. Even in New Vegas, The Strip is in luxury and the rest is destroyed. It highlights part of the class struggle present in the game’s world.

New Vegas’s (and classic Fallout’s) thesis about the apocalypse is “Yes, there was an apocalypse. Nuclear bombs were how the world ended, but it wasn’t because of nuclear bombs, it was because of the behavior of humanity.” And then you get to see those same behaviors play out again and again, even after the apocalypse. Constant resource struggle, faction alignment, pushing ideologies. “War never changes,” etc. There is no shame in preferring a cool wasteland that you get to explore, like in Fallout 3 and 4, but I think it’s a tad unfair to point to the clashing of aesthetics like it’s a flaw when the main factions of the game are Romans vs WWII America. It’s pretty intentional for the story.

And I’m sorry but it is a video game at the end of the day. I’m not fond of wandering for hours with nothing to do or see in my free time. New Vegas has plenty of empty space as it is, in my opinion. It’s actually a downgrade (exploration-wise) imo from the awesome worldspace of Fallout 3. Whatever you like is whatever you like, but this has got to be the first time I’ve ever heard someone say game worlds are better when they’re less dense.

Fallout 4 is the worse Fallout 3, imo.

The shooter gameplay is definitely better in 4, the crafting system is pretty neat too. The story is like a weird reversal of the Fallout 3 story, with stakes that don’t feel as real as Fallout 3.

None of that matters, though. It’s a Bethesda game, and people don’t really play those for the main story. Here’s what really matters. The world of Fallout 3 is so dense, the side quests so memorable, that if you’re the type of player who loves seeing what’s over that next hill I think it would be a disservice to NOT recommend Fallout 3 to you.

This is kinda what I see from most people that dislike New Vegas. It’s definitely not a post apocalyptic game.

In fact, before Fallout 3, 1 was the only real post apocalyptic game in the series imo. Fallout 2 is a continuation of the world’s lore, so all the tribal villages have developed into societies. New Vegas expands upon this, with the societies becoming imperialist states.

So yeah, if you like exploring rubble then New Vegas is NOT the game for that, and Fallout 3 does that much better.

But, if you’re more interested in how society would develop after the apocalypse, New Vegas definitely tackles that question head-on.

Fallout 3 was my first, and I do love all the insane shit you can find in the wasteland. It will always have a special place in my heart. But to me, the NPCs are what really give RPGs life, and New Vegas has some of the most well-written, realistically motivated people I’ve ever seen in video game format. While the Battle of Hoover Dam may not be as grandiose (even though you can put in the legwork to make it fucking awesome) as the Liberty Prime antics in 3, it feels like the culmination of decades of real conflict. It’s not good guys vs bad guys, it’s 4 distinct groups that all believe they have the best plan to carry humanity to the point at which it existed before the war. I love it for that.

Yeah, Bethesda said “you guys only need 18 months to make this game, right?” and Obsidian leadership said, “Yep.”

Try the Viva New Vegas modlist sometime if ever you feel inclined. Pretty sure there’s a Wabbajack installer (one click install). I still think New Vegas is phenomenal, even with the bugs, and I suffered through about 700 hours of constant crashing on PS3.

I recognize, though, that most people aren’t so head over heels for the game that they won’t suffer to experience it, nor will they take the time to mod it. But man, it really is worth even playing on vanilla.

I redownloaded Stardew Valley last night and was amazed to find it’s still less than a Gigabyte.

I know it’s not the same as a hyperrealistic 3D game, but I’m still amazed at how much stuff he keeps adding, but it hasn’t even scratched a GB.

That’s fair, but you did accurately describe the scenario in your reply. So you at the very least understand what the scenario is, even if you don’t get the motivation.