Fallout, Finally

Nothing’s grabbed me in gaming hype lately. GTA V, fine. Bloodborne, sure if I’m bored. The Witcher 3, maybe eventually. Then Fallout 4 and suddenly I don’t care about any of that.

Beyond my Nintendo bubble, I only actually care about three franchises: Mass Effect even though that ending was a disaster, The Elder Scrolls except for the MMO, and Fallout. That’s it. Everything else can disappear from gaming. Civ 6 can stick around.

Why Fallout? Because no other game does it. It builds this post-apocalyptic world that manages to be sympathetic and dangerous at the same time, full of genuine mystery, where you can go anywhere and do whatever you want. It’s so densely packed with things to discover that it feels like an actual broken world worth exploring.

Fallout 4 is coming soon. I’m buying a new computer just to play it. Not joking. That’s actually happening.