Obsidian finally releases a new game, I might actually break my “no pre-ordering” pledge for this one. @thespectacularspider-girl you have any thoughts on it?
I try not to be hyped up about video game trailers any more but I’m going to break that streak because the BDE in this oh my god
The quirky old guy waking you up, asking if you’re feeling all right, feels like a callback to Doc Mitchell in a way, like, ‘remember the good Fallout? Yeah this is like the good Fallout’
They have a theme and it’s political and they’re telling us upfront - individuals vs faceless corporations, corporate branding taking a place over - is that not what Fallout is now? A load of branding pasted over something mediocre and that’s what they’re making the central conflict of their small-studio not-Bethesda game? The goddamn audacity. Plus, immediately indicating that people who think ‘games shouldn’t be political’ can fuck off
The absolute crunching on Bethesda after their Fallout 76 fiasco. Bethesda hobbled through their launch, stumbled tragically as bad reviews came in, tripped over a canvas bag, and thousands of customers’ private details spilled out of their pockets. And then Obsidian arrives and puts down a trailer. For a game that’s the same aesthetic - capitalistic branding juxtaposed against a crapsack world with funky creatures in it. Goggles and weapons and midcentury styles. But we know Obsidian can write. Obsidian can design satisfying narratives and memorable NPCs. Obsidian’s game looks way better than the Oblivion zoom-in conversation tech Bethesda is still using. Obsidian’s characters can emote to pull off jokes. Obsidian’s creature designs are fresh and interesting. They can make the Fallout we wanted, not a rehash, not an empty open world that throws franchise pieces at you and pretends to be an experience.
Bethesda just got done showing us they assume we’ll stay on their nuka-cola teats forever because they put a Vault Boy on it, fell on their own face, and Obsidian waited til they were done and stepped forward and put down a trailer for a well-animated vintage-style character-based anti-corporate shooter and I am so excited
I’m barely exaggerating when I say this is one of the scariest things I’ve ever fucking seen. Imagine being high in this situation. I would walk out of that room with a new mental illness
Going to this bar on a fun trip to Japan, getting drunk, having to piss, and walking in and seeing this shit. I would be uncomfortably silent for the rest of the night at least.
This is just tremendously disturbing to me, I keep thinking about what it would feel like to be in this room. There’s a sense of trust in my surroundings I expect when I’m in a public bathroom and to have to choose between this and nothing is psychological torture. This is satanic
Am I fucking insane or something for feeling this strongly about this horrific device? Am I missing some cultural context that makes this acceptable? I’ll be honest, I don’t think I fucking am! This is a god damn nightmare, everything about this. I thought seeing it in motion would in some way betray it’s status as a weird plastic statue and not anything resembling an animate being but that only adds to the horror of it. I want to erase this thing from existence, I’m not kidding
