A Short Rant on modern video games and why my favorite video game is from 1998

    My favorite genre of video games are RPG's, also known as Roleplaying Games. In an RPG, you usually take control or even create a character in a story rich world and you get to decide how their story plays out. One of my favorite RPG's is actually a CRPG, the C stands for computer. CRPG's are adaptations of the classic pen and paper tabletop RPG games like Dungeons and Dragons, put on the computer. My favorite of these games is Fallout 2.

    

    Fallout 2 is a CRPG that was released in 1998. It is very old in the video game world, and that usually pushes most people away from it as it does not always look visually appealing and can be difficult to navigate. The game was released before I was even born. In the world of Fallout, the world enters an alternate timeline after World War 2, in which the US and China enter a Cold War in a new nuclear age. In the year 2077 the Cold War turned hot and the US became a nuclear wasteland. Set in 2241 in the west coast, Fallout 2 is the sequel to Fallout 1, another successful CRPG, however I think the sequel holds up better. 

    Fallout 2 is an enjoyable game as it is both comedic, and highly philosophical. The game dives into deep topics like existentialism, and allows you to play as a porn star at the same time. Your choices in the game are almost completely open which is something that is extremely hard to find these days in RPG's. Gaming in the modern day seems to focus entirely on profits rather than the quality of the game itself. I find this rather frustrating as being a gamer, I increasingly get disappointed by the release of new titles. Even the gaming fandom itself has taken quite the dive in the past 10 years, pushing for a focus on graphics quality and simplicity rather than focusing on the story and the open world aspect of games.