Some of the political commentary naturally flew over my head in favour of “Woah, Deathclaws” and cool head explosions, but the broad strokes concerning the mythos of American exceptionalism stuck.

Particularly with Fallout, I was hopelessly addicted to its premise, too. I got lost in these inspired worlds so quickly because I hadn’t played anything remotely like it. Having grown up on a diet of 3D platformers and Pokémon, meaty RPGs with such worldbuilding and mechanical nuance felt frankly alien to me. READ MORE: The best games you missed in 2020.I had played a lot of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and then Fallout 3, warts and all, which was my first proper introduction to the series when I was in my mid-teens. When it came out in October of 2010, I remember being on board the hype train. It will live indefinitely in my Steam ‘Favourites’ category, because looking through my 65 hours of save games is like reliving multiple past lives. I always seem to find a reason to return to Obsidian Entertainment’s Fallout: New Vegas.

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