Holy shit this game will continue to be shredded by entropy. What an experience to replay this game after finishing Pentiment, to see how far Josh Sawyer has come as a writer/director. This game continues to age like fucking milk, dude. Like GOD DAMN. Where do I fucking start? Of course, this was the best game ever to me when I was just a dumb teen but now that I'm older.. There are so many holes in this world. A lot of the ideas here really come off half baked, especially any philosophical and political idea. I would say that it's mostly just the fault of Fallout as a world/franchise but I think I would argue that the original fallouts handle this more maturely than a lot that's offered here.

Anyways let me list a few thoughts.

Diplomacy is a joke in this game. It is hilarious that this shares the same franchise with the first Fallout that has one of the best uses of diplomacy in games, crazy how far this series has fallen.. Especially everything after this game.

The combat still sucks. It did back then, still does. Funny note: My last playthrough I installed a mod that made headshots lethal. That made the combat really enjoyable, I have to admit that. Although it somehow made Dead Money hilariously more unplayable than before.

Honest Hearts. I don't need to say anymore, why should I? If you go on the wiki (fandom or whatever) it's littered with quoted apologies from Sawyer. Which is really funny btw.

WHY DID EVERYONE THINK OLD WORLD BLUES WAS FUNNY?

The Karma system still makes no sense.

The best piece of writing in this game was Dead Money and it's still trapped in the most hostile and unplayable world (oh my god there were so many CTD errors..) Even though the characters felt like they came straight out of someone's World of Darkness tabletop chronicle, they got more thought put into than eh- ballparking it here- 90% rest of the characters in this game. Dean Domino is a likable scumbag. Christine is just a likable person to talk to, kinda ironic, and DOG is GOD. Oh yeah and Elijah is the best antagonist in this game. Doesn't even come close.

What else is there to say about this game?

Never take off Boone's hat. Leave the guy alone.

Might as well write about this game while I'm watching wrestling on my second monitor.

This game and Disco Elysium have been the biggest influence on my writing and the stories I want to tell with tabletop.

Here comes quite possibly the most pretentious thing I will say on here.
Calling Pathologic 2 a game is downgrading it. This shit is something else. Which is REALLY funny to say, given the first pathologic is LESS like a game than this one!

This and Darkwood are going to be the "best" survival experience you are going to get. I put best in air quotes because it matters what you're looking for in a survival game.
For me the best survival experience includes exertion and the will to love.

And nothing else has more of those than Pathologic 2!

This is the funniest video game ever made. Which is funny because before this game was made, it was another MDickie game, Hard Time.

One of my guys got renamed to "Ghetto Kennedy", accidentally killed wrestling superstars by power bombing them into chairs, and then died after getting ambushed by a group of women wrestlers in a cage match.

One of my guys broke Misawa's neck with an arm drag.

This is MDickie at his weirdly best.

Glad so many people enjoyed Elden Ring n all the other souls like games. Are people ready for Armored Core? You better be. Cause this shit is amazing.

I think this is possibly the most re-playable game? Think about it. A lot of the missions here are so short and everything about this game is so fast, especially when you can be built to go like a fucking comet.
Oh yeah this game also has a really great story that involves with the conflict of the preservation of humanity.

Lets just say there's not a lot of games where I can say that.

One of the most pointless games since Bioshock Infinite! Yeah it's kinda that bad. Arkane sure have one of the most talented art teams that's wasted on such fuckin dogwater.

Nothing about the gameplay works! Nothing you do matters in this bum ass game!!!

Just play Hitman and have a good time! Fuck!!!

That new Dead Space is out and I'll probably never play it but I do feel like writing down my thoughts on this game given I replayed it a few weeks ago. All in one day.

This game holds plenty of good qualities to it. It's a well made action game with a variety of weapons that range from decent to pretty good!

Isaac has always been one of my favorites when it comes to horror game protagonists. Just a guy trying to get through another one of them bad days. He's awkward but smart, but unlike the average STEM guy, the dude is brave.

The art design for the new space station also just kicks ass.

Anyways, here's the spoiler. This game is not a good horror game at the slightest. It's actually a fucking awful one. It is so try-hard and over the top edgy, it's just eye rolling. Of course it's still in that era of horror where mfs didn't know how to instill dread into their audience without sensory overload to make people's nerves twitch. It's boring, it's predictable and so much of this game is fucking tone deaf! I swear there must have been a couple of guys on the team that just despised kids and loved dead baby jokes.

Then you got Isaac's girlfriend. Everyone agrees she looks dumb and no one cared yet the game kept beating you over the head about it with guilt and letting go, blah blah blah. It's so hard to even talk about it because this game is just one of the many horror games that fuck this up so badly.

At least the enemy variety is pretty good. Well- mostly good. There are some really great enemies in this game and really pointless ones. So back to the whole kid thing. The fucking day care level? I don't care who you are that level and those toddler necromorphs are cringe as fuck. Ooo, so shocking! The horror! This totally makes your game look so good, you morons! It's impossible to take the game seriously after that and then include your lightbulb ghost gf beating the shit out of you.

I would've enjoyed the game more if they just dropped the whole horror act all together cause if that is all they had to offer then nah man. Keep your marker.

I should make a list thats called "Video games I play while listening to Chat Pile" and this would probably be number 1.

I love being a shitty robot who stole the holy sword so the holy kingdom is out to rip me to shreds. So I hide in the middle of nowhere, growing hash with my cool holy sword that I totally stole. That's my favorite run.

Anyways this is one of the best RPG settings that have ever been conceived. Bible day, the angry muscle monks, flesh robbing robots, BEAK THINGS, and more!

One day I wish to write a world thats this hilariously cruel and fucked up.