watching limmy play fallout 4 and he got to the worst moment in any video game ever which I've probably posted about on every other website I've ever used. but I haven't posted about it on cohost before so let's get this on the record. fallout 4 spoilers I guess but who could possibly care at this point
it's the part right at the beginning. you've watched the nuclear bombs drop on massachusetts. your home has been destroyed. any friends and family you had are dead. you've just watched your spouse get shot in the head and seen your baby stolen. you stumble out of the cryo pod and are immediately confronted with giant mutant cockroaches. there are dusty old skeletons all over the floor of the vault, including the overseer who seemingly just welcomed you to the vault moments ago
you look around the overseer's office, reading the logs on his computer, and you start to understand what has happened: vault-tec tricked you, this was never about keeping you safe, you were just the test subjects of some sick, twisted scientists. you've been frozen in those pods for possibly hundreds of years, and you have no idea what kind of world your baby was just stolen into by the people who killed your spouse
but then, well, you see a locked display case on the wall with a freeze ray inside, and your grieving, cryosleep-addled brain shits itself, and you speak aloud to nobody the words "nice... coming back for you later!" in that moment, for your character, nothing in life is certain except the fact that god DAMN is that a badass gun. I don't know what the future holds but I can tell you one thing: I'm gonna return later, to the site of my spouse's murder, once I have become a master of lockpicking!
you know, grief affects us all differently etc. etc. but I don't think I have ever looked at a locked door and thought to myself, "someday I will be skilled enough to get this fucker open!" it's a line that only makes sense if your character knows they're the protagonist in an RPG, and they're so excited at the thought of getting a freeze ray to use on enemies later that they forget how sad and scared they are
here's one positive thing I will say about that awful line. it would be really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really funny if you cut that exact moment out of fallout 4 and pasted it into disco elysium. that's some shit kim would chastise you for saying
