Posted February 01, 2014
just an observation, i found it odd, as id never heard of the last days of gaia, then all of a sudden......
Last Days of Gaia is an okay game, but it has some points where you start to wonder how stupid people are.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
The game plays 20 years after some terrorists used terraformer technology on Earth (the whole world turned into a dessert). And what happens? After all that time humanity isn't able to build anything more advanced than a shack built of junk. And they all seem to suffer from some kind of heavy amnesia! In one sidequest an old guy finds a flyer of an indoor swimming pool. He sees the pictures of all the water and the trees and thinks he found a secret map (there's a "How to reach us" section on the flyer) to some "Garden of Eden" or something. Idiot... I think I still could remember promotion fliers and swimming pools after 20 years... The idea is funny, but they all act as if they were born in a Vault-Tec vault which was closed for 200 years...
Even though it was a bit illogical, I liked the ideas they had. I still remember this scene where you met a group of people who were worshipping the "Railway God" at a train station O.O Totally nuts. I loved the game for those moments (and there were a lot of them). They just tried to hard to be "Fallout 3" (the Van Buren one, not the Bethesda one).
on a side note, my research also pointed me in the direction of a rusian game, very similar it seems, made by same people who did, 7.62, called "marauder: man of prey" looks quite good although nails to get hold of by all accounts.....
Post edited February 01, 2014 by falster