Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout
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Fallout invited detours through an open world while using a quest timer to create urgency. Its designer worried in hindsight that the water-chip deadline encouraged players to hurry past optional encounters.
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to give the game a sense of urgencyhe had to rush through the game and miss fun things to do