Hbomb was arguing, quite clearly that games, can by virtue of how their designed, encourage and discourage certain ways of interacting with the game's environment, and that by contrast to Fallout 2 where the first encounter with another human being tries to introduce you to speech as a viable alternative to combat, Fallout 3 treats Security Officers as immediate targets that you're supposed to feel nothing shooting, and then suddenly tries to remind you of the sanctity of human life when you meet the Overseer.
Like, say what you will about the Hbomberguy video on Fallout 3, it's more obnoxious than his newer videos and I think he's changed his style since then, but his point on Fallout 3 incentivising you to kill random Vault Security Officers just doing their job with no other alternative, and then giving humanisation with the Overseer was quite a clear point: I realise in hindsight just how utterly bad faith it was. I remember the first time I saw the Many a True Nerd video and I gave it way more credit than it deserved.
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