Logience
Since: Apr, 2014
04/24/2014 00:00:00
To be honest, this fic is wrong for Fallout fanboys, and is basically a reimagining for the tastes of bronies, whose tastes are famously easily sated via putting "20% cooler" into every sentence.
gingerman
Since: Jan, 2014
04/25/2014 00:00:00
You know what? That's an excellent point. In hindsight it was kinda stupid of me to approach it from the Fallout side.
I will think of something witty and profound to stick down here. Some day
Deebro
Since: May, 2014
05/12/2014 00:00:00
Coming at it from a fairly personal perspective there, but decent points regardless.
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RoosterJaguar
Since: May, 2014
05/12/2014 00:00:00
Logience: that's not a very fair summarisation, though.
"Moral of the story: life goes on right till it doesn't." —Shaky, Crossed: Wish You Were Here
Deebro
Since: May, 2014
05/14/2014 00:00:00
@Rooster: to be honest, judging by other parts of the site he's not that fond of the community in general.
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Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
05/14/2014 00:00:00
He was never interested in discussing the story. Just looking to start shit after he got banned from another forum.
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Not That Amazing
I came to this fic a stalwart Fallout fanboy, a fresh-faced pony enthusiast and a keen scribbler of literate nonsense, so I was fairly guaranteed of having some thoughts about it. Now, after the end? It was an emotional and thoughtful ride, that's for sure. But I don't think it quite deserves "universal acclaim".
What bothered me most was the implementation of the Fallout aesthetic. Basically, the fanfic takes place in an Equestria that has been warped and hammered into a Fallout skeleton around which an MLP skin-bag has been fairly well draped. Laser weapons and flying battleships? I'm sorry, but I'm bothered by the idea that creatures that designed fish-shaped airships and the Friendship Express turned to designing high-tech, sci-fi weaponry, just like that. That's just an aesthetic issue, but as I continued to read, it just never stopped bothering me.
Also, they shoot guns with their teeth. I've tried not to, but I just find that funny.
Other than that, there are other gripes. The 1984 references were clever, but the Lovecraftian/Potter soul magic business was unnecessarily confusing and only seemed utilized on a whim. Littlepip will always strike me as a rather one-dimensional and boring protagonist to follow; not even the closing chapters and the events that followed made me care about her ultimate fate. The attempts to flash back to pre-war Equestria and explain how everything went to hell struck me as padding; call me picky, but I never really saw much of the show's rich personalities in any of their renditions here, which made their presence in the fanfic kinda bland and useless to me. I had other problems, but they aren't significant enough to mention here.
But...I still kinda liked it. Fallout Equestria reminded me of the things I wrote as a teenager, and it had a kind of nostalgic appeal - like I was revisiting my early steps as a writer and my lifelong love of Fallout, to the more modern tune of the Friendship is Magic series. My experience of it was simple: I was always finding problems with it, but I've been there too with my own work, so who am I to judge? Just don't believe anyone who tells you that this fic deserves to be sitting on a Barnes and Noble bookshelf with a price tag attached. It's cute, and for a fanfic, it's great.
But I know a lot of less famous writers out there who could have done better.