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Even if Obsidian was just in charge of the writing and mechanics I'd be all over it. Obsidian understands the lore and the idea behind Fallout given a lot of the studio heads/workers there worked on Fallout 1/2. But Bethesda is taking the series in their own direction so its up to them to point the series the way they want. But Bethesda seems to always miss the point of Fallout. The title Fallout isn't so much about radiation. Its about the fallout of ones actions on the world. Bethesda Fallout games are never really that reactive, and they tend to botch the endings by not showing you what happens to everyone/everything in the end that you meet/interact with.
I'm hoping they can give Eden's Gate some depth, and make you understand where they're coming from and why they went on that path.
But its going to be played up as cookie cutter religious fanatics that you have to mow down.
The best villains are the ones you can look at and see that their not all wrong and make you question yourself as a character. But the team behind Far Cry hasn't really nailed that since Far Cry 2.
Vaas in FC3 was memorable, and enjoyable but it was just how crazy he came across as. Hoyt was a cop out in the second half, and the game lost momentum with him.
Pagan Min in FC4 wasn't that great. Its like they tried to make a new Vaas but it largely fell flat in its execution. Arguably the only decent choice was to not play and just wait for him given that the two good guys were equally bad and you had no option of offing them both and running the place yourself.
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