I mean, if you were being honest then you would know for fact that Fallout 4 couldn't be a lazy cash grab, simply based on the time and systems put into it. That aside, they tried to make it more appealing to a mass market, while still trying to keep the new fans established with 3 and NV. I never said they did that balance well, but regardless that's most likely what they went for.
Nah, on the contrary, if you were being honest then you would know for a fact that Fallout 4 is actually a lazy cash grab.
7 years for the least amount of content in a Bethesda game? I'm all for giving the benefit of doubt but Fallout 4 does not have as much content even when compared to their previous games and so far, has only added onto the relatively empty game with relatively minute DLCs (Far Harbor may be a different story but it's essentially Point Lookout 2.0 so it's not much of a feat) and if you compare 4 to Fallout 3, FO3 has even more content that FO4. Even the new settlement mechanics feel like tacked on additions rather than actual mechanics due to the minute impact it actually has in the story. As for the shooting mechanics, I give credit to id Software who obviously knew what they were doing but Bethesda had to tack on their token RPG mechanics to turn opponents into bullet sponges and diminish the shooting mechanics implemented by id.
That, and the way they 'deal' with their modding community, and from what I've heard they can't even hire a proper moderator for their own .net (as evidenced by the video below)
I think that's the worst part of all though regardless of whether Bethesda was incompetent or merely shills. If Bethesda was as cold, exploitative or even malicious as EA or Ubisoft, it would be easier to criticize their games or it would be more obvious to the general consumer that they should be criticized.
While I don't think Bethesda is yet as bad as EA or Ubisoft the thing with Bethesda games not being as criticized and the general consumer is usually happy about the games it is all about one thing: MODS! *play trumpets*. "Mods will fix it" is usually heard by both people making fun of Bethesda games and people defending those same games. And it is true, try playing most Bethesda games without any mod at all and you will see how they do not stand very well on their own.
We can't really compare Bethesda with Ubisoft on any of both companies games. Why can't we?
Agreed. It's usually the first thing I download for each Bethesda game once a stable version is out.
Nah, they're all shady in my eyes, the same corporate motherfuckers in the same vein of the likes of Herve Caen, only now they somehow managed to succeed while Interplay crashed and burn, all those years ago since gaming was quite niche and the audience know the medium quite well. With the gaming world going mainstream, and a lot more people who's not exactly informed about video games, it's easier for these corporate shithead to exploit gaming industry to cash in so much money, in relatively short time and as little effort as possible.
I have this mental picture of bethesda when they finally realise Its hit the fan. A man in a polished suit just calmly pulls out a red folder labeled with something vaguely ominous. But more likely its a bunch dudes panicking flipping through rolodexes and screaming into phones and shit. Either way is cool.
Dare to say it's the CPU hits 100% in Boston. Must be the lighting and shadows calculations sitting at one core, IDK.
Next video game crash, when?
I would personally disagree, just based on some of what was added. The "evidence" for that is anecdotal at best, but I have a few friends who are indi devs that would love to have a crafting system like F4's, but say the coding is too difficult.
Again, no.
I make no arguments for the season pass or any of the DLCs. Also creating an engine, even one based on a previous engine, would most likely take years upon years, even if you were basing it off of a previous one. I know they get crap for it too, but in all honest Call of Duty developers are able to pull off some impressive work with their old engine. I'm not at all saying that they shouldn't upgrade, I feel they should, but I was referring to what was actually added to Fallout 4, mechanics wise.
