Fallout series

[Secret Asshole]

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>be Todd Howard
>tell us Fallout 76 won't rely solely on always-online gameplay
>Fallout 76 is always online
>do not release on Steam because fuck day one sales amirite
>use their patented lag launcher that does not allow refunding

HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING HILARIOUS

They actually think that they will make a good enough game to gate-keep it behind paid mods! Every single game they've released had to be fucking fixed through mods and now you expect me to believe that they're competent enough to make a game...no, they aren't making a game.

'You make the content! You are the NPCs! You get to see the story through text messages!'

They want you to make the game and for them to be paid for the privilege of it. All mods will have to go through their launcher and their paid store. You will have to be the NPCs to make it interesting. Holy shit, this is just the epitome of it. They actually think that people basically made their games popular and are trying to milk free work out of people and get paid for it. Anyone who buys this is a fucking idiot.

Also, how many launchers do gaming companies think we're going to fucking install? Steam, Battle Net, Origin, U-Play, Windows Store, Epic Games Launcher....I can go on and on. And now Bethesda? Give me a fucking break. People are tired of this shit. You are not going to be able to compete with Steam. They've now got Discord integration and re-worked their interface massively. People are sick of buying a game that requires a launcher, especially from a company that has very few titles. Most of them are fucking terrible. It took Steam like 10 years to be decent, and that was an entire company dedicated to a launcher.

Todd Howard has lost the plot. He's still bitter about New Vegas and not getting money from mods. But gamers are stupid enough to fall for this idiocy and buy it anyway. Enjoy a game that cannot be fixed at all or made better through modding without paying out the ass for it, I guess.

Hahahahahaha.

Oh man.

To me, it looks/feels like a mod for FO4 with a multiplayer feature.

FO Miami looks 100x better than 76 and Miami is free.

It is 100% a Fallout 4 mod. Including the lack of content and having the text for story. Except that it isn't at all impressive because its a triple A studio. They want you to make all the content for them for free and pay a premium to them for it.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Yeah, I'm thinking that it's probably going to be best to hope they release this, it craters, they mea culpa and maybe 6mo-1yr after release it becomes something worth playing. Here's hoping Bethesdafags are willing to let one of Bethesda's games fail on release for once to send a message.

 

[CWCissey]

Yeah, I'm thinking the it's probably going to be best to hope they release this, it craters, they mea culpa and maybe 6mo-1yr after release it becomes something worth playing. Here's hoping Bethesdafags are willing to let one of Bethesda's games fail on release for once to send a message.

If Star Wars fans can do it, Bethesdafags can too.

 

[Slap47]

Bethesda will wisely decide that the people don't want Fallout after this fails.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Bethesda will wisely decide that the people don't want Fallout after this fails.

Or they'll make Fallout 5 and hamfist its story to the same level of Hitman: Absolution.

 

[CWCissey]

Or they'll make Fallout 5 and hamfist its story to the same level of Hitman: Absolution.

Or they'll announce that The Elder Scrolls is actually set on Earth in the distant future after Fallout and re-release Skyrim again.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Bethesda will wisely decide that the people don't want Fallout after this fails.

I don't.

 

[Ruin]

I seriously don't get this every single design decision here is almost impossibly bad and incompetent. Are their marketing people deaf, dumb, and blind or is this Ubisoft/Konami style "we don't have to make good games we can just serve our stupid customers shit and they'll eat it anyway" style hubris?

 

[Y2K Baby]

"we don't have to make good games we can just serve our stupid customers shit and they'll eat it anyway" style hubris?

Lol, half of Bethsoft's history is made up of this by now.

 

[Burned Man]

Since this is Bethesda and multiplayer I wonder how long before people find a way to exploit themselves to the highest power and wreck people's shit or even better just find ways to crash other people's games without even having to use game play mechanics.

 

[Ruin]

So what's the most likely talking point going to be when this thing goes the way of Metal Gear Survive and flops?

1- "One of our developers was trans/gay/female/black and it didn't sell because of bigots!"
2- "Gamers are too entitled and didn't buy our game because of it."
3- "the alt right did it!"
4- "It was too revolutionary and dumb consumers couldn't like get it man."

 

[millais]

So what's the most likely talking point going to be when this thing goes the way of Metal Gear Survive and flops?

1- "One of our developers was trans/gay/female/black and it didn't sell because of bigots!"
2- "Gamers are too entitled and didn't buy our game because of it."
3- "the alt right did it!"
4- "It was too revolutionary and dumb consumers couldn't like get it man."

76 is obviously such a low effort product that I doubt they even care if it flops because so little in the way of resources, time, and money were sunk into this failure of a game. And enough gullible mouthbreathers probably preordered so that they made their money back.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Fallout 76 is an anthropomorphism of a vault experiment, a little bit of Vault 11's "Self Forfeit" thrown in there.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Fallout 76 is an anthropomorphism of a vault experiment, a little bit of Vault 11's "Self Forfeit" thrown in there.

Fallout 76 is the anthropomorphism of one of Todd Howard's manlet cumfarts.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Fallout 76 is the anthropomorphism of one of Todd Howard's manlet cumfarts.

No really, this scam is as blatant as an experimentation involving suicide and hallucinogenic compounds.

The people buying this game are the unwitting dwellers who are being told they are required to participate.

When most self aware individuals (read: not humans in Fallout series) see right through the bullshit.

 

[Y2K Baby]

No really, this scam is as blatant as an experimentation involving suicide and hallucinogenic compounds.

The people buying this game are the unwitting dwellers who are being told they are required to participate.

When most self aware individuals (read: not humans in Fallout series) see right through the bullshit.

But also, manlet cumfarts.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

So what's the most likely talking point going to be when this thing goes the way of Metal Gear Survive and flops?

1- "One of our developers was trans/gay/female/black and it didn't sell because of bigots!"
2- "Gamers are too entitled and didn't buy our game because of it."
3- "the alt right did it!"
4- "It was too revolutionary and dumb consumers couldn't like get it man."

The answer is they'll shrug and move onto the next release. F76 is just a new worldspace in the F4 version of the Gamebryo engine. It's probably been surprisingly cheap for them to develop.

But let's also remember that Zenimax, the parent company, had another multiplayer disaster on its hands called The Elder Scrolls Online, which now nets the group as a whole a staggering half a billion a year in revenues.

 

[Overcast]

It's just amazing how much Bethesda is doing everything it can to piss people off.

"You want another game like 1,2, and New Vegas? We're not letting Obsidian or anyone else touch our IP again."

"You want another game like 3 and 4? Right now, PUBG and Fortnite are the big moneymakers right now, so online multiplayer!"

"You want to play this on a launcher that's been established and trustworthy? Nah. You have to buy our launcher now if you want to play our games!"

And soon it will be "Our game is broken? Don't worry, we'll let you mod it and fix it for us! Oh but first, you have to pay a monthly fee for our tools and services!"

 

[Derp Potato]

But let's also remember that Zenimax, the parent company, had another multiplayer disaster on its hands called The Elder Scrolls Online, which now nets the group as a whole a staggering half a billion a year in revenues.

I assumed after TESO flopped, they'd quit it with the shitty online games.

Now seeing how much TESO actually makes them a year, this is the exact reason why 76 is even happening to begin with.

 

[Ruin]

I assumed after TESO flopped, they'd quit it with the shitty online games.

Now seeing how much TESO actually makes them a year, this is the exact reason why 76 is even happening to begin with.

Rockstar is kind of doing the same thing. Shifting from single player games that people actually like to multiplayer pseudo MMOs that no one actually likes but make tons of money off kids and people with no impulse control.