kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
Which is what I pointed out. Backstory and lore is not the same thing as a deep or compelling setting. Fallout barely has any backstory. I still find the setting to be a lot deeper than pretty much any fantasy game I've played besides Planescape.Trying to say 'Fallout's backstory/'lore' is better than Daggerfall's or vv, is just pointless.
This needs to be explained? For starters, how many settings with radiation and mutants can you list? Now, how many settings with medieval kingdoms and elves? I can guarantee you that for every vaporware Russian copy of Fallout you can name, I can name a dozen of the generic fantasy.KC, tell me, how is another setting with radiation and mutants better than another setting with kingdoms and elves?
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I'm not really a big fan of new elf subraces with different skin colors, and that's what most fantasy settings are: just a new skin color over the same old setting. I guess that view comes from reading fantasy books ever since I was really little, I've seen the range of the zircon-quality fantasy writer. It takes stuff like Mieville for fantasy to really interest me at all, kinda like how Blackhart probably can't get hard on just normal shemale rape porn, he's got to have jungle cannibal snuff videos.