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So… Fallout has aliens? (lemmy.world)
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I saw a video in which some characters of the Fallout tv show open a fridge and find an alien and just toss it out because they want the working fridge. I’ve never understood (or really bothered with) why Fallout had the nuclear “event” which triggered the use of the shelters. Was it an alien invasion?

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[–] [S] -4 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Thank you for the explanation. As for the games and show - I have played Fallout 4 but the mandatory garish graphics made me pukish and I left the game at about 25% done. Never went back to it. Felt very stupid that they would choose to make the graphics bad as a theme of the game when I was playing on the Xbox One, specially when a lot of people report that the game makes them pukish.

As for the show… the no nose guy creeps me out. That’s why I didn’t bother with the show.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Hold on, are you saying that poor graphics fidelity makes you actually want to puke?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

    Yes. Though it didn’t happen initially. It just developed over time with that game and after a point I couldn’t play a single minute without feeling nauseous.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    ... How have you managed to play literally any other game then? It had decent graphics for 2015 and holds up ok today. If it looks that bad to you I can't imagine you're able to play anything but the most pristine AAAA games.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    That's what I'm thinking. OP might be some 180 mhz, 120 fps, whatever overclocking to get the most out of the game type of person. Which is fine, but when it holds you back from enjoying a large percent of all video games ever released, it's a little ridiculous.

    ETA: in fact I just did a couple-hundred-hour playthrough a couple months ago and it looked fine. A little muddy cause it's like 11 years old now, but it still looks good imo. The stylization really helps to make it not look as dated. Also I used a shitload of power armor mods cause I wanted to be a collector of exotic armors. My favorite is probably the NCR PA based on the one from the show.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    I’ve played Skyrim twice over. I’ve finished GTA Vice City. I’ve finished the first God of War. I’ve finished Far Cry… 4? The Nepal one.

    Don’t act smart.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Okay but Skyrim looks worse than Fallout 4, and Vice City looks like that. I guess I'm just even more surprised now that Fallout 4 supposedly made you nauseous if you could handle those other games.

    When you say "first God of War" do you mean 2018 or the actual first one on PS2?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    The PS2 one. And yes, I know Skyrim looks janky af. I still play to this day and I feel fine. I was looking at the clip of Fallout 4 the other day and it made me nauseous! Makes me irritated that I paid good money for it on the Xbox One way back when.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Is it motion sickness or is it just a weird "general gross" feeling?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    First time I was actually pukish. Like, a switch flipped while playing the game one day and I just couldn’t sit with the game any more.

    After doing some research on the art style and choices of the makers, it was irritation and a general gross feeling along with the pukishness.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    So... What choices did the artists make to give you that feeling? Because again, the only thing I can find when I search for people getting sick while playing FO4 is just motion sickness, and then all the comments mention other first-person games they have similar issues with and that going third-person helps alleviate that.

    I guess I'm still confused why anyone would get queasy playing a first-person game and it isn't motion sickness. Like you don't hear people complaining about getting queasy when they play any of the Doom games for example.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago

    I was playing third person and yeah I guess you could call it motion sickness. I didn’t bother diagnosing it beyond trying a few more times and coming out with an absolutely crushing sickness feeling. I even tried going first person and it didn’t help.

    And yeah, the graphics being weird and blocky and old school being the cause? It felt weird.

    Have played Tomb 2, Shadow Warrior, Carmagegeddon. Never felt this feeling. Never felt it with any other game either. Well, except with the Oculus Rift 2. That definitely made me pukish.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You're holding yourself back from some great storytelling and worldbuilding all because you don't like the look of the graphics. I've literally never heard anyone say they feel nauseous from playing any Fallout game.

    Also, you'd find the ghouls from any of the games before FO4/the show extremely discomforting if you didn't like how The Ghoul looks in the show.

    In lore, ghouls are insanely irradiated and mutated humans to the point they basically literally turn into leprous zombies. They're functionally immortal, radiation heals them kinda like Wolverine (that one may be a bit of a retcon), and a lot of them lose their minds from the whole ordeal and go "feral." In Fallout 3 in particular, there's a location that's populated entirely by ghouls and you can ask them what it's like. At least one of them goes into detail about what it felt like when their face-skin peeled off, along with their nose.

    Again, you're really holding yourself back from enjoying a fantastic universe, but you do you.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fair about the tv show. But the game made me nauseous and a few google searches did show me that others felt it too. I wanted to do finish the game. But I physically couldn’t.

    Oh well.

    Also, yeah I’m not a fan of the zombie genre in general.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I keep coming back to this thread.

    I was gonna say they're not actual zombies because they don't eat each other... But in every Fallout game (that I've played) there's literally a "Cannibalism" perk that lets you eat corpses for health. And The Ghoul most definitely has that perk in the show.

    So... Yeah.

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