ive never played any of the (3d) fallout games, but occasionally i read stuff about them and i'm like "wow, looks like i missed out" and then i go look at a screenshot of fallout 3 and the textures are so high contrast, gritty, yet blurry, the lighting so hazy and muddled, the bloom so overwhelming, the hues so lacking, that my eyes can't even parse what's going on or what anything is, and i remember how that aesthetic's takeover of the action genre completely lost me on a whole decade of gaming
