In Fallout 1 a lot of them are 'stupid' and 'dumb' and, to be completely honest, sort of. And you know what Fallout 3 decided to do? Fallout 3 looked at all of that and went 'Yeah let's keep some of them 'normal' but the worse-looking ones are rabid zombies now.' Why? Literally why? Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you make in-world-humans' fear of ghouls go from 'they disgust us' to 'they disgust us AND SOME OF THEM DO TURN INTO ACTUAL RAGING ZOMBIES AND TRY TO EAT US' Like? The level of dehumanization is astounding. The glowing ones can be found in very irradiated places because they're attracted to radiation like moths to a flame, but they're not violent. Their brain rots and they become husks of who they were. The radiation exposure they suffered was so bad it ate away at their skin and their muscles, and left them unable to do anything but hobble. Other humans dislike them because they look like zombies, and move like zombies, and that's scary. The ghouls serve as heavy-handed commentary on ableism and racism.

In the first two games there are no real inherently evil people. you guessed it! Fallout 1 and 2.Īnd what's even worse is that they took everything interesting from the first games, and took a giant ♥♥♥♥ on it.

The Church of the Children of Atom? A rehash of The Children of the Cathedral and the hubbologists, from. Even Harold, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ghoul with a tree growing out of him is a character from Fallout 2. The Enclave is modifying Deathclaws to use as weapons? Fallout 2. The Enclave being the Big Bad™? Fallout 2. Even the whole 'talk to your friends that want to leave to see the world for the first time and to the supervisor that won't let them' is exactly the same. The ending where they don't let you return? Yeah. The whole 'the main character is the vault dweller' thing? Fallout 1. It has literally almost no original plot points.

☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugsįallout 3 makes me so angry. ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks

Fallout 3 alpha and omega