(NSFW) DAE why don't people take gamers seriously??

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I know this is a lot of text, there's a TL;DR at the bottom In the original Star Wars trilogy, the Jedi were few and far in between. Only two Sith existed in the universe. Lightsabers were incredibly rare and every time they were brought out, it signified an important conflict. These things were special, and a lot had to happen before you'd see people use the force. Then came the prequels. Suddenly, there was a three-course buffet of Jedi, the Sith were disposable, quickly replaced, and lacked characterization, and lightsabers were everywhere. Suddenly, there were double lightsabers, there were people using two lightsabers, I'm surprised General Grevious didn't use four double lightsabers for shits and giggles at some point. It made for good action sequences, but the novelty of it all wore off. It was no longer special for the Jedi and the Sith to face off, for the powers of the Force to be exhibited. It was just routine procedure, something that was pulled out to flash in front of the audience. All that stuff that came before the Jedi and the Sith fought with lightsabers and the force? That's gone. Scenes are categorized by an opening section where lightsabers are used, and then a series of other sections that only serve to separate all the lightsaber scenes. It's just not special anymore. And then you have Fallout. If any of you played Fallout 1 and 2, you'd know that power armor was extremely hard to get. It was on the cover of the game but you'd go a long-ass time without seeing it. In Fallout New Vegas, the only game that didn't have power armor on the cover, you would only see the suits at Hidden Valley, the Battle of Hoover Dam, and on dead paladins hidden at 3 places on the map. And then there's deathclaws, those terrifying creatures that would run faster than a motorbike and instakill you with a glomp the force of which senpai has never seen. You could finish Fallout 1 without ever seeing a deathclaw, and when I played New Vegas the first time I only ever saw one, right before it killed me on the road to New Vegas. There's something elegant about the most iconic images of a franchise barely being seen at all. In fact, it's the rarity of something that keeps it from becoming the average. And then there's Bethesda. On the first mission of the minutemen questline, Fallout 4 has you donning power armor and using a minigun to turn a deathclaw into a cobb salad. You don't even have to seek it out; the event starts when you walk into Concord. There's a three-course buffet of power armor, deathclaws are plentiful, disposable, and easily replaced, and the ammunition for your shiny new minigun isn't hard to find. Suddenly, your power armor can nullify fall damage, you get night vision, you get a fucking jetpack, I'm surprised you didn't get an Iron Man chest cannon for shits and giggles. Notice the similarities? And now for the controversial part of this massive wall of text. I know it's not really popular to hate on Fallout 3, but it had a serious problem with this. You couldn't finish the main quest without running into the brotherhood of steel and sticking with them for a long-ass time. The novelty of power armor was entirely lost because it was everywhere by the time the game was over. There's brotherhood members in power armor, there's enclave members in power armor, everyone has power armor by the end of it. This supposedly rare thing has become commonplace, it's become the norm and as such the bar is set at having power armor, instead of power armor being defined by how high above the bar it rises. Fallout 3 and 4 are still entertaining to play, and the Star Wars prequels are still entertaining to watch. If anyone judges you for enjoying them, they're a dick. Still, it's sad that the iconic parts of those franchises feel hollow and overused. TL;DR Star Wars ruined the novelty of lightsabers by stuffing the prequels with them, and Bethesda ruined power armor and deathclaws the same way, by stuffing Fallout 3 and 4 with power armor, and stuffing Fallout 4 with deathclaws.

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