I would have loved if they let another studio do something with the IP, since obviously there wasn't enough time for Bethesda to make a game for it. Let the Wasteland devs make a top-down classic style RPG with it or something, or maybe let someone make a Fallout Tactics style strategy game, or anything else. Maybe let Paradox make an official version of the HoI4 Old World Blues mod. The IP is big enough that it can be more than just Bethesda games.
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Or somehow get Obsidian Entertainment to do another one.
Fallout: London is pretty decent. It may be a mod, but it plays like a proper Fallout title. Enjoy that in the meantime. It won't completely fill the void but it's better than nothing.
He's right. If they'd rushed to get a game out in time for the show it would have been a piece of shit and eroded the brand.
Bethesda, a company with an otherwise unbesmirched reputation for polish.
It wouldn't just be unpolished if they rushed it that much. Thier development cycles are still about the same length as other companies, even despite the lack of polish.
This is such a circle jerk. You don't like Bethesda games? Who cares. Move on. Lots of people love em
I hate Elden Ring. But I don't go on Elden Ring communities just to shit on it
You're saying that like there's one Bethesda game. I hate how banal Starfield is. I really don't like how FO4 isn't an RPG, though it's a good platform for content. Skyrim is pretty good with boring quests, especially the main quest. Oblivion is fairly good, though it started the trend of dumbing things down. Morrowind is spectacular. It gives players tools to play with and freedom to figure them out. The writing is generally fantastic. The world feels like it was a world and not a theme park.
I love Bethesda games. I hate the direction they've been heading for a long time. I doubt that's going to change, but it certainly won't if people keep quite about it.
People dont like Bethesda. The games are alright.
Yeah imagine how shitty the game would be if it was actually rushed
Plus they made a fuckton on new fo4 purchases when show released for zero additional cost. Steam had a killer sale for all the fallout games when the show released. Seems like no brainer especially because you never know if a show will be a hit. Look at Witcher, it never really caught on to the larger market outside of its already existing fans.
I have a feeling the Fallout show is quite similar in terms of not being popular outside of people who already like that particular universe.
Idk. I'm the only nerd out of my family and friends and a bunch of them watched and loved the fallout show. Including my parents who are 60 years old and haven't played an "idiot games," what my mom calls video games, since Robotron lol.
my FIL was super excited for the fallout show and spent a bunch of our last visit explaining the premise of fallout to me. been playing since like 2008 or something lol
fo4 is basically free. i got into it a few years ago, quite late, and paid like 10 bucks for the whole thing with all the DLCs on xbox and like 4$ on steam
What CEO would publicly acknowledge they did a shoddy job and missed a huge profit opportunity, putting their job on the line.
They still totally dropped the ball on this one. Especially since the big thing they did do is fuck mods by updating the engine and fucked Fallout London in the process. Muppets.
Probably one that's feeling the pressure from over 1000 workers organized into multiple unions and wants an out. At least that's my bedtime fantasy
Idk, I kinda agree. Look at how many shitty Pokémon games were made in order to launch alongside with a new series or movie. Those time constraints did not do those games any favor.
So I'm happy they didn't try to launch a new Fallout game when the series was released. I'll be wandering the Mojave Desert until then. And if something like 76 comes out again, I might just stay there forever.
Not as if Bethesda can be coerced into releasing games in a timely manner.
They could have made a studio work on a fallout 1 and 2 remake though...
Would absolutely love to see mod makers turn either 3 or NV into a fo1/2 experience because we're clearly never gonna see remasters of the original at this point.
Meh, the switch to FPS wasn't an improvement to me, I want to see the games remade but with a modern turn by turn CRPG engine. Hell, even if it was the Wasteland 3 engine I would be satisfied.
Or even a new 2d fallout..
Bro looks like he aged twelve years in the past four.
You mean four months? I am worried...
Tbh I think it's better this way.
Slow drip, remember that show you liked here's a game for it? For now buy our overpriced decades old game and enjoy.
Makes sense
Those 15 years of experience didn't do paid video game rant writer Ian Walker any good it seems.
But I'm not surprised a man who writes slop craves slop.
Clearly Xbox is still trying to integrate and learn hard lessons about managing its multitude of studios. They simply aren't at the level of Sony when it comes to predictability and consistency to pull it off.
Sony was able to time it with the last of us but that's the exception I'd say. Their Horizon show was probably supposed to be out alongside their remaster of the first game and Lego game, but yeah, that didn't quite work out. Similarly Concord's secret level episode will feel a bit off now that the game and its studio is shut down.
Ultimately, what do we want? Good media. If stars are aligned it's even better but if not, good media is forever good, and with Xbox they are still trying to figure out the good part.