Carey Mulligan in W Magazine (Feb 2014)
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Honestly, the true hero in Red Dead Redemption 2 was Charles Smith. He wanted to help everyone in need and was the most selfless and loyal person in the gang.
The year is 2021 and Bethesda is bankrupt after the final loss in a series of class action lawsuits. Todd Howard trips on his way down the courthouse steps and cracks his skull open. While in the ambulance, Todd has a Scrooge-esque visit from the ghosts of abandoned game mechanics past and realizes the error of his ways.
Todd comes to in the ambulance. The paramedic says, “Hey you, you’re finally awake.”
>pay $60 for Fallout 76
>launch game
>download 54GB day one patch
>finally get into game
>no NPCs to interact with
>only lore and story is through long boring audio tapes that can be interrupted but not resumed
>everything is a fetch quest
>constantly disconnected from servers
>constantly encounter hackers
>game encourages me to buy Atoms™ with real money
>drawl through this for 60 hours
>finally get to the end game
>launch nuke
>it explodes
>mushroom cloud
>leave the landscape awash in hellfire
>radioactive ash blocks out the sun
>eventually only a snowy nuclear landscape is left
>black screen
>can’t hear anything
>vision slowly fades in
>….
>“Hey, you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right?”
On a completely serious note, the Fallout franchise means a lot to me in the same way that Harry Potter means a lot to others, and watching Bethesda slowly destroy it before my eyes for the sake of making more money is quite saddening.