ZigzagPX4
The Swiftness of the Ranger
http://fraghero.com/6-games-that-are-better-rpgs-than-fallout-4/
So while the site above is mostly a random game journalism clickbait site with usually inaccurate news, the fact that unimportant sites report on this shows that even the most basic levels of the audience understands the lack of RPGness to it. This plus the fact that it was linked from two Facebook pages, both of which were generally mainstream, shows that while Bethesda's target audience understands perfectly that Fallout 4 is a poor RPG, they simply do not care.
And while some of the examples of RPGs on that list isn't the best in the world (Mass Effect 2, as a sterling example of RPGs? Not really), the article outright mentions that Fallout 2 was a better RPG. At this point I would really go so far as to assume that Bethesda's target audience and most of the people on the Fallout 4 train at the moment perfectly understands and existence of the classic Fallout games and simply don't mind.
But in a way, this sorts of demonstrates awareness and shows that people aren't exactly blindly and mindlessly following Fallout 4 just because it appeals to all their wants. Instead, people play Fallout 4 because there are people that actually enjoy loot-shooters with repetitive outpost clearing and crafting/settlement system. Just a thing to keep in mind, that's all.
Also, I would like to bring back up the discussion on how exactly Fallout 4 fails as an RPG. Feel free to elaborate on all the little details.
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Clarification: Please stop asking me why the games I included these games, why I didn't include that game, etcetera. This list is derived directly from the article I linked, barring Fallout 2 and New Vegas, in light of the fact that we all know there's a slight bias towards them on this forum, and that they would definitely win if put on the poll.
Is this an unfair way of setting out the polls? Absolutely. But we're here to judge these games as RPGs. Not circle around how much we love good RPGs for the umpteenth time in this forum.
So while the site above is mostly a random game journalism clickbait site with usually inaccurate news, the fact that unimportant sites report on this shows that even the most basic levels of the audience understands the lack of RPGness to it. This plus the fact that it was linked from two Facebook pages, both of which were generally mainstream, shows that while Bethesda's target audience understands perfectly that Fallout 4 is a poor RPG, they simply do not care.
And while some of the examples of RPGs on that list isn't the best in the world (Mass Effect 2, as a sterling example of RPGs? Not really), the article outright mentions that Fallout 2 was a better RPG. At this point I would really go so far as to assume that Bethesda's target audience and most of the people on the Fallout 4 train at the moment perfectly understands and existence of the classic Fallout games and simply don't mind.
But in a way, this sorts of demonstrates awareness and shows that people aren't exactly blindly and mindlessly following Fallout 4 just because it appeals to all their wants. Instead, people play Fallout 4 because there are people that actually enjoy loot-shooters with repetitive outpost clearing and crafting/settlement system. Just a thing to keep in mind, that's all.
Also, I would like to bring back up the discussion on how exactly Fallout 4 fails as an RPG. Feel free to elaborate on all the little details.
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Clarification: Please stop asking me why the games I included these games, why I didn't include that game, etcetera. This list is derived directly from the article I linked, barring Fallout 2 and New Vegas, in light of the fact that we all know there's a slight bias towards them on this forum, and that they would definitely win if put on the poll.
Is this an unfair way of setting out the polls? Absolutely. But we're here to judge these games as RPGs. Not circle around how much we love good RPGs for the umpteenth time in this forum.
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