Fallout 4's success feeds my feeling on injustice

Greentoast11 said:
I don't think I would ever like to play prequel in the Fallout world, Ever since inception Fallout has always been moving forward , It's more fun to see the whole picture mature.
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I think the important thing about "Fallout" as a franchise is that you're talking about what comes after the nuclear apocalypse (the "fallout" from it, as it were) rather than what came before.

So a "prequel" set more or less any time after October 23 2077 could be fitting with what Fallout is. After all, different parts of the world would be targeted differently in a nuclear exchange, and would develop differently afterwards because of different local resources. So there's not that much difference between "this place got hit hard and didn't have a lot of things around to help it recover" and "this game takes place in 2100" in terms of the level of progress people have made.

You don't even need to reference the date if you set a Fallout game in a new place, really. If you wanted to set a Fallout game in Oklahoma, they could just have their own calendars and the only place the timeline would matter is "what elements from outside of here have influenced local society."
 
Some people are saying the sales are a good thing because Bethesda can then afford to experiment or allow other studios to do spin-offs like a New Vegas 2. But if we look at Call of Duty, it's a billion dollar franchise and it's churning out the same thing year after year. So I'm skeptical.

I hope they're right though, because Fallout 4 provides a wonderful framework for a more competent writing team to develop an actual role-playing game with some great gameplay elements that Bethesda has put in the game.

Bethesda did some great things with Fallout 4 but it falls short on some serious role-playing issues, and if a better writer can build on the framework Bethesda has created, there is a game of the decade waiting to happen.
 
Lanfear said:
Speak for yourself, man. I haven't bought anything from EA or Ubisoft in years, and this is the last title I'll be purchasing from Bethesda. It's not that hard. It isn't like boycotting food. Games are basically a buyer's market nowadays.
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Wow, what a rebel, you will change all bethesda plans for fallout (and the elder scrolls?) for the impressive next 8 year!
 
Yeah, I don't plan to pick-up another Bethesda release until I feel like they've learnt from previous mistake.
I'll probably do my usual thing and wait for the special GOTY version of Elder Scrolls 6, but I might wait till it becomes dirt cheap. Skyrim was pretty much a 6/10 at best for me, but I do have a place for Oblivion and Fallout 3.
F4 is again, a 6/10, but it's a different kind of 6/10 than Skyrim. I can't really explain it but whatever.
I've been burnt by Bethesda twice before, but I kind of expected it with Skyrim. I have no special love for Elder Scrolls, I played Morrowind after Skyrim so it hurts to see how much they've changed. Oblivion was the only other ES game I played before Skyrim and I thought it was a lot better. Yet New Vegas, NV was the shit, I hoped Bethesda would have at least learnt a bit from Obsidian, but nope.

That reminds me, I hate to say this, but on another note, I'm writing a video comparing Fallout 4 to New Vegas now, and it's a lot of fun to talk shit about 4 while praising NV.
 
My girlfriend bought me Fallout 4 for my birthday and made sure to buy it secondhand so as to not give Bethesda any of our money. I will not be purchasing DLC.

I should probably marry her someday.
 
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