Fallout 76 General Thread - Bethesda does it again!

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A lot of states get really pissed if you break their alcohol laws, especially the ones intended to keep alcohol from kids. As in revoking your license permanently and jail time pissed.
Well, yeah. The obvious issue of false signatures being a huge deal in any legislature, if there's the element of alcohol involved, you're in some really big shit. I'm just saying that it's ironic that even the things that Bethesda has no direct control over turns out this fucked.
At this point, I almost expect the booze to contain diethylene glycol or something.
 
Kind of how Return of the Jedi is a warm-up for Phantom Menace.
Like in the making of documentary when George Lucas is wandering around looking at the props and concept art and is saying "I gotta write the story now!" So he banged out a shitty first draft and they decided to go with it, because no one back in 1997 was gonna tell Lucas he was doing Star Wars wrong. I imagine the creative process behind Fallout 4 was similar. I can see Todd tapping on the story board, saying "Father is the key, if we can get Father working, because he's the funniest character we've ever had.

FO4 as dumb as it was was also an success.
It was a commercial success, yes, but critically it was a flop. Only %70 positive reviews on Steam vs. %93 for Skyrim. Plus it was their first game in 12 years that didn't win Game of the year. That should've been their come to Jesus moment. But they decided to rush out F76 to get on the loot box gravy train before governments start taxing and regulating them. The siren song of free money is just too irresistible.

But you're right about the fanboys. I bet Starfield will be mediocre to okay. Any opportunity to do something creative or interesting will be completely ignored, it will be packed to the brim with mindless fetch / kill quests, and the main story will be lifted straight out of a 5th grade creative writing assignment. But they'll try %5 harder and everyone will squee and be like "Wow! Bugthesda's back and better than ever!"

I learned yesterday that if you're 15 years old and have no taste, you would love this game.
When I was 15 I played the shit out of Duke Nukem 3D, and DN3D has a more intelligent story than Fallout 4 or F76, and it had functional security cameras. You didn't have to go thru the cremation club to get them like in F4.

Hell, I'm going as far to say even Duke Nukem Forever is better in every conceivable way than F76.

A lot of states get really pissed if you break their alcohol laws, especially the ones intended to keep alcohol from kids. As in revoking your license permanently and jail time pissed.
They get even more pissed when they don't get their liquor tax revenue. And if they're scummy enough to forge signatures, you know the state isn't getting their pound of flesh.
 
No sympathy for the guy making a big deal about his signature. First it was obvious cheap trash from the start. Second, it's super childish that he assumes the delivery guy acted in malice on behalf of Todd. Meanwhile the delivery guy probably works on the assumption that people want the packages they order and if they aren't home to sign it's not an elaborate temper tantrum to get back at the sender. It's a busy season for shipping and they don't want to return to the same house 50 times.

If the person whining now still wanted his gay fallout bullshit but was out of town and couldn't sign, he'd be psyched to see it was delivered instead of sent back. Now he's going to get some underpaid guy hauling boxes disciplined. Wow he really showed Todd.
 
It's not wrong though, using a mod to improve the atrocious graphics is an unfair in-game advantage over other players who are ramshackled to the mess that is the stock Gamebryo engine.

I just have to tip my christmashat at whoever came up with this. Mods are, what have been keeping TES and FO games relevant and in many cases made them playable - oftentimes fixing gamebreaking bugs that don't get fixed by official patches. Now, their anti-cheating software is so bad, it can't distinguish between a purely cosmetic mod and something that allows you to fart out nuclear bombs . . . so they ban all mods.
This is just brilliant.

And then they treat you like a little schoolboy that got caught passing on notes during class, just to add insult to injury.

Here's the thing tho. I see this argument come up a lot; Their games are nothing without mods and the modding has been keeping these games relevant but here's the thing thought:
THERE'S NO MODS ON CONSOLES.

These games move more copies on fucking consoles, with the mass of console peasants playing these games VANILLA and still sucking Bethesda's cock. Fuck, actually, I think the console peasants are even more rabid fans of Bethesda. And that's after playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim and Fallout 4 Vanilla. (The shitty offering on console don't count, those aren't mods they're insults.)

No fucking wonders Bethesda doesn't give a shit, they deliver these broken ass buggy mess, barely patch them, and the fucking peasants just eat it up, "Please, may I have some more, Todd?"
 
Now he's going to get some underpaid guy hauling boxes disciplined.
You're neatly overlooking the fact that the "underpaid guy" in question actively forged a signature and is thus acting against the law.

Here's the thing tho. I see this argument come up a lot; Their games are nothing without mods and the modding has been keeping these games relevant but here's the thing thought:
THERE'S NO MODS ON CONSOLES.

These games move more copies on fucking consoles, with the mass of console peasants playing these games VANILLA and still sucking Bethesda's cock. Fuck, actually, I think the console peasants are even more rabid fans of Bethesda. And that's after playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim and Fallout 4 Vanilla. (The shitty offering on console don't count, those aren't mods they're insults.)

No fucking wonders Bethesda doesn't give a shit, they deliver these broken ass buggy mess, barely patch them, and the fucking peasants just eat it up, "Please, may I have some more, Todd?"
Well, console fanboys are used to being shat on by big corporations.
 
You're neatly overlooking the fact that the "underpaid guy" in question actively forged a signature and is thus acting against the law.
I'm not, it's just not a big deal to me to bend rules in super trivial circumstances. It's a toy with a small amount of liquor for a guy who's being childish.

Also I'm very pleased at a nu-Fallout fan desperately trying to escape ownership of merch he already paid for and failing at that too. It's his failure trophy now.
 
I'm not, it's just not a big deal to me to bend rules in super trivial circumstances
Well, a lawyer might see that differently.

It's a toy with a small amount of liquor for a guy who's being childish.
This is a hundred percent and absolutely irrelevant to the wrongdoing committed by the dude who delivered it, since he has nothing to do with the content of the package whatsoever.
 
I'm not, it's just not a big deal to me to bend rules in super trivial circumstances. It's a toy with a small amount of liquor for a guy who's being childish.

It's a fifth of liquor. Sure 70 proof is some weaksauce liquor, but there's a reason you have to get a signature for that and now it's out there where kids can get to it. Throw in that the whole thing was a scam from the start. He should chargeback and report the company to the state's Attorney General and whatever liquor control board there is because it's a scummy operation.
 
Well, this really isn't the fault of Bethesda, it's the wrongdoing of the delivery service... however it is quite amazing how the delivery service and Bethesda seem to be a match made in heaven.
Do we know whether Todd Howard has a brother that owns said delivery service?

Contracting a responsible delivery company is their duty so I can't say I can leave them blameless on this.
 
Why wouldn't they want to chumps to throw money at them for for garbage tier fermented grains?

Any of those 70 proof spiced rums is trash. Spiced rums should be stronger than 80 proof, like Kraken or Sailor Jerry, so it's still strong when mixed with ginger beer or some other worthwhile mixer.

I still can't believe the pure gall of actually putting a bottle of shitty rum in a plastic case that you can't even pour, but who the fuck pays nearly $100 for what is guaranteed to be shitty rum anyway?

They basically just took a huge steaming shit right in the mouth of their superfans because nobody but a superfan would buy this shit. If these people put up with this shit, they're huge cucks who should just suck a tailpipe because they have no spines or balls.
 
I'm pretty sure Bethesda fans would pay for Fallout-themed cereal that's actually poisonous and still defend it.

Well there was that one Fallout fansperg who almost died from eating 20 year old canned goods and Coke.

Couldn't be too expensive to get hold of long-expired foods and ship it to true and honest fans.
 
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