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If you have any background knowledge of classic RPGs, then the video’s opening as well as the usage of reverse-psychology should immediately inform you ATOM RPG is a spiritual successor to the Classic Fallout titles. It Don’t Mean A Thing, Comrade, If It Ain’t Got Stalin’ The game, as much as the message itself, is a Wasteland of our past with no clear meaning but “A heap of broken images, where the sun beats” (line 22.) What you can be certain of is that you’ll always come away with a smile if you can see past the game at its worst to relish another moment when it outshines its inspirations. Does this statement mean ATOM RPG is political? No, unless having fun and cracking jokes about past events are damnable offenses, comrade there are political overtones such as hyperbolic statements of communism like in Fallout, but there are no overt messages. Pseudo-philosophical discussions of art aside, ATOM RPG is more than a mere homage to the Fallout games it clearly took inspiration from the game itself is as much a satirical celebration of the post-apocalypse fandom as a loosely-inspired parallel to the real anguish during the Cold War. Similar to the weird obsession Western audiences have to zombie media and the emphasis on consuming them like mindless hordes-oh, look, a late-Memorial Day sale on cheaply produced consumer goods to fuel my capitalistic desires what was I talking about again? Oh, right, ATOM RPG.

#Atom rpg end of the line mods#

However, given the vast number of post-apocalypse mods since the 1990s-especially for staples like Fallout-there is perhaps greater cultural significance to this genre because of the aftereffects of Chernobyl and the collapse of the USSR.

Off the top of my head, I can think of various Eastern European authors with no relation to this genre such as Anton Chekhov (The Lady with the Dog), Sergei Dovlatov (The Suitcase) or Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher book series.) The sheer prevalence of these mods and fan-made works might also be rationalized by the scarcity and the cost of new games, so, as a result, these players have greater attachment to their games than Western audiences. Now generalizations are not facts nor are they meant to act as evidence it would be more correct to state they are trends viewed from an outsider’s perspective, sometimes more rooted in truth than mere coincidence. Needless to say, and there are dozens of other examples you could mention from various media, if the world comes to nuclear annihilation there is one half of the world better prepared to deal with the reality of the situation. Finally, with regards to the Fallout franchise, there continues to be new fan-made expansions such as Fallout: Nevada or the development of Fallout: Sonora.

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The Metro series, created by Dmitry Glukhovsky, is both a well-respected international book series as well as a video-game series based on the life below the surface after the apocalypse in Moscow. These games still are updated with new mods, and the sheer number of mods from Eastern Europe eclipses whatever we’ll see in the West. The STALKER video-game series is loosely based off the real-life Chernobyl Disaster as well as the 1971 novel, Roadside Picnic, and the 1979 film aptly named STALKER.

If there is one thing I have learned about the post-apocalypse sub-genre it is that you can trust the Eastern Europeans know their stuff, and there is not a more avid fanbase out there. 'In Soviet Russia, the Fanbase Keeps the Legacy Alive'