I'm bored, so I decided I'd post up a few screenshots of my current favourite game... Fallout 3. The background and setting can be depressing, and playing it does make you feel very alone. But the tragedy has really brought the game to life for me, and most of the screenshots I take reflect that.
That's my dog, Dogmeat, and my character. Sporting a leather armour and an assault rifle. Behind me are a highway and the remains of Washington DC.
The National Mall, off screen behind my character is the Washington and Lincoln Memorials. In Front is the Capitol building where congress met... once. Now the only meetings there involve guns and blood.
These two screenshots should give you the scale of the place, I could walk to the far end of those screenshots and probably much further, a lot of it is quite unpopulated, towns are small and spread thin. Out in the wastes you truly are alone. And it's so very atmospheric: the music, the sounds around you, the size, the sheer scale, along with the plot, really really pulls this off well.
And lastly, my character in a bar. I've spent plenty of times just sitting there, listening to the radio, which plays a mixture of 1950's music (Inkspots "I don't want to set the world on fire." is my favourite), public service announcements and news, usually about something I've done.
It's just simply... stunning to play, its plays on its theme well, the world is a cruel place, and the best ending you can hope for is always bittersweet.
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