Bethesda fans will have to wait until next year for the release of the company’s most anticipated games: Starfield and Redfall. But the Xbox Game Pass is already home to many titles of the beloved company and this year it added Quake 4, some of The Elder Scrolls spin-offs, and Wolfenstein to their catalog, which at least gives fans something to play with while waiting for the upcoming titles to be released.
Unfortunately, the most successful games of their strongest franchises – The Elder Scrolls and Fallout – are not yet added to the Xbox Game Pass. However, they are still available for purchase and thousands of players are still rejoicing in their open-world adventures. It’s been 25 years since Fallout released its first game and since then, it has delivered a unique and enhancing gaming experience that can be summed up through some hilarious memes.
Freedom Of Choice
Bethesda has been recognized for allowing gamers to decide how they are going to play within many of their titles, and Fallout is not the exception. In most of the games, players can move freely on their map and choose which quests to complete first.
This led more than a few vault dwellers to put the main mission aside and complete the other multiple quests that were available, especially in Fallout 4. Given the urgency of the main quest, which is to find the player’s son, most can say that they did it as “soon” as they could but were really completing any other mission.
Carrying Weight
While carrying the maximum amount of weight still allows the player to jump, run and do all sorts of movements, passing the capacity by one pound is enough to disable any action and force the character to move incredibly slowly.
This drives most gamers to pass from happy Frank Schrader to grim Frank Schrader given that it is exasperating to move around in such slow motion, and sometimes it is too hard to drop valuable items that are stored in the inventory. Fallout 3 is one of the longest FPS games of all time, and completing it with a surpassed carrying capacity can make it all much painfully longer to complete.
Pausing Fights
Fallout is considered one of the best open-world games for casual gamers and maybe it is because players are allowed to do all sorts of things in the middle of combat. Eat? Change armor? Choose weapons? Get high on jet? Every player can do all that regardless if they are in the middle of a fistfight.
Gamers can only imagine what their enemies are thinking while watching them decide between wearing a hat or a helmet, a pistol or a shotgun, and dropping pre-war money, but it’s likely they look like serious Kanye West.
Deathclaws Are Savage
Nobody can deny that Deathclaws are challenging in all the Fallout games, however, in Fallout: New Vegas the creatures are so difficult to kill that most players were terrified of them and tried their best to avoid an encounter with the deathly creatures.
Fallout and Fallout 2 also had incredibly overpowered Deathclaws that were not only hard to defeat as a single enemy but also usually appeared in overwhelming groups. The difficulty of each encounter with these creatures proved why the Fallout franchise is considered one of the best Bethesda games.
Feral Ghouls Like Dark Cool Places
In the first games, they were called mindless ghouls, and ghoul crazies, among other fitting nicknames. It was until Fallout 3 that they were referred to as Feral Ghouls, but they all are unfortunate ghouls who do not longer have the ability to think or rationalize.
The degeneration of their brains leads to aggressive behaviors that Vault Dwellers know too well. Every player enters vaults, subways, or any underground dark place expecting their presence, although they can also be found in the light of day, however, they seem to rather play dead elsewhere for years.
Awesome Radio Hosts … Most Of The Time
Many think that the Fallout franchise has games where the gameplay is better than the story, and one of the reasons behind that argument is that playing is very enjoyable because of the fantastic soundtrack. Every Fallout player inevitably became a jazz fan, and it’s all thanks to the game’s radio hosts.
However, there are two radio hosts that definitely stand out and stole every player’s heart: Three Dog (from Fallout 3) and Mr. New Vegas (from Fallout: New Vegas). Their unique and confident personality put DJ Julie from Fallout 76 to shame, at least for some people.
Looking For Things
In Fallout players must look for a chip; in Fallout 2 for the Garden of Eden Creation Kit; in Fallout 3 for the player’s father; and in Fallout 4 for their son. In Fallout 76, players must look for Vault 76’s overseer, but many instead were looking for their refund.
The game was poorly reviewed by game critics and fans of the franchise, not only because of its unappealing gameplay and story, but because it had plenty of bugs, glitches, and other massive failures that gamers will not be able to forget anytime soon.
Chems Are A Thing
Whether it’s Mentats, Buffout, Psycho, or Jet, NPCs and Vault Dwellers consume them sooner or later, and some become addicted to them, which usually drives them mad. That was especially the case with Fiends in Fallout: New Vegas, but throughout all the games drugs are an important part of the history of the Wasteland.
Many gamers like to go on a killing spree with Fallout‘s epic soundtrack in the background playing on their pip boy, and that must have been the case for the majority of players who went inside Vault 3 listening to Big Iron to deal with Fiends, who were just chilling getting high on jet, like the meme hilariously depicts.
Tragic Vaults
Fallout may be more admired for its gameplay than for its story, however, nobody can deny there are places in the Wasteland that have intriguing stories that players can’t wait to discover, like the ones usually found in Vaults.
They were supposedly created to protect people from the nuclear explosion and radiation exposure that was outside, however, most ended up being places for sinister and cruel experiments that concluded in tragedy, which made every player look like excited Sponge Bob walking through Vault skulls.
Illnesses
Consuming chems provides benefits in combat that cannot be obtained through any other substance, which drives many players to overuse them and develop an addiction that can only be cured by a doctor for a couple of caps.
Some other players just feel curious about the effects of drugs in their gameplay, which also leads to losing some money to the doctor in order to revert any detrimental health effects. Either way, almost every player has arrived at Doctor Sun’s place like the pink guy that Nick Fury stares at.
