@Valikdu  
Wait, you like it? I thought you said— oh wait, that was a Background Pony. Got you mixed up. Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to put words in your mouth.

@Darth Sonic  
It doesn’t.

@Valikdu  
Let’s just agree the fic sucks and move on. This thing is becoming a semantics battle over bulletpoints.
 
Seriously, we’re arguing about why it sucks, not wether it sucks or not. This is pointless.

@Darth Sonic  
In order for something to be “too anime”:  
-has to be full of dumbfuck little cutesy talking animals  
-everyone has to be sword fighting for no reason, also swords have to beat guns every time  
-must have giant robots for no reason  
-must have incomprehensible plot  
-must blatantly not give a fuck about both real-world and in-universe natural laws (in-universe can get changed or ignored at a whim)
 
PH:  
-No. Ponies don’t count.  
-No. There’s a nice sword, but it’s can’t deflect bullets and shit.  
-No. Just the Fallout robots.  
-No. It’s looong, but it’s not incomprehensible.  
-No. The in-universe rules stay consistent.

@Background Pony #B1F0  
… And that’s why people complain about it being “too anime”. Not seeing the disagreement here.

@Darth Sonic  
Okay, so let’s act as if we’re talking about humans: a bright-red-and-black-haired alcoholic gambler/security guard turned magical flying cyborg adventurer who’s totally badass, a sexy lesbian (if I recall), and a fighter par excellence.
 
…Doesn’t sound any better to me.

@Background Pony #B1F0  
We’re reading MLP fan fiction. That sort of requires one to agree to take a Pony as seriously as a human. Otherwise 70% of good fan fiction ceases to be readable due to the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

@angrybrony  
66+ chapters about a black, red, and white alcoholic cybernetic gun-toting marshmellow pony in the grimdark magical apocalypse.  
And people complain because it’s “too anime” and “not retro enough”.

@Dustcan
 
@Dustcan  

 
65 chapters deer god i don’t even…

@Dustcan  
Counter argument: New Vegas is awesome (once you patch the bugs).

@Valikdu
 
Counter argument: Obsidian traded the gimpy “Lol 50s” gimmick for an equally gimpy “YEEHAW Wild West” gimmick.

@Darth Sonic  
Counter argument: the “lol 50s” visual style is toned down, and the writing is done by Obsidian. They make it less irritating.

@Valikdu  
Counter argument: New Vegas.

@Valikdu  
…or maybe it wasn’t as much the aesthetic as the F3 being the boring one.

@Darth Sonic  
So what? The original Fallout games (1, 2) had a lot less of that “aesthetic” than 3. Actually, 3 had so much that I got sick of it by the end. And you could graft armor onto yourself in 2 (so much that you lost charisma for it).

@Darth Sonic
 
Nope, that armor is actually physically-attached to her. As in, she’s a cyborg.
 
One unfair accusation that I constantly see levied at Project Horizons is that it’s more “anime” or “cyberpunk” than Fallout. Fallout Equestria and its side stories in general are less dieselpunk and more science fantasy/cyberpunk. Even artwork for the original Fallout Equestria lacks the retro-futuristic aesthetic established in Fallout 3, sadly, with magic beam weapons rarely depicted as being more than featureless boxes that wouldn’t look out of place in Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!
 
The old Fallout games before Fallout 3 weren’t very retro-futuristic, though. Instead, they borrowed liberally from 80s science fiction, with a theme somewhere between Mad Max and Blade Runner.

@Background Pony #B1F0  
That’s power armor. She’s a normal unicorn under it. What peeves me off is the lack of the 50s sci-fi aesthetic.

Black and red alicorn cyborg showdown! Kill me.

@Darth Sonic
 
I believe Somber admitted that he hadn’t actually played the games when he first started writing. I think it took him around chapter 20 before he did.
 
But this fight happened around chapter 65 or so. So yeah.

Proving once again that the writer never played a Fallout game in his/her life. This is full on animu, without any of the retro aesthetics it should have.