Anyhow, I just got a message about a thread, where I said that Fallout is dead. Guess what? They still think the franchise is not in the worst state. I say, grow some brain! Here it is:
Wow, talking about overreaction.
Was Fallout 4 disappointing? Yes. Was it the death of the entire Fallout franchise? Hell no!
Look, if you ask me to point out all the flaws of Fallout 4, then we're going to be here all day: lore contradiction (I can accept pre-war Vertibird... but pre-war Jet? Really?), lack of internal consistency (Was the X-01 a PRE-war or a POST-war armor? Seriously, they had an edit war over this at Nukapedia!), disappointing lore (I still know next to nothing about the history of the Railroad and I PLAYED as a Railroad character!), oversimplified dialogue system, oversimplified skills and perks system, complete removal of the Karma system forcing you to be a goodie two shoes. And most importantly, a completely unengaging main quest (This game's nicknamed "Garbage Scrounging 4 " in China, or alternatively, "Young boy kidnapped, parent copes by developing hoarding disorder").
Then I stopped to take a look at my Steam, and realized that I sank 213 hours into this game.
Why is that, I wonder? Maybe because despite all these flaws, at its core, it's still a fun game to play. It's not a perfect game, not even close, but it's nowhere near as bad as you're making it to be. And in the end, I'm optimistic, Fallout 4 was a huge commercial success, shipping 12 million units within 24 hours (which is more than the sales of Fallout: New Vegas for five years), so it is almost certain that there will be another Fallout game. And I'm confident that it will be better.
