Fallout series

[Y2K Baby]

I'm guessing it has something to do with all those snowing weather effects they were so eager to show off in the trailers. The snow so far north being like a barrier to further human habitation or something. It looks kind of silly at any rate, with all those Fallout Tactics tanks rolling around with janky pathfinding.

That's a bit of a dumb reason. Why would you try to expand into Canada before the east?

The frontier is going to be a fucking technical disaster, do you know why cars don't explode in New Vegas like they do in 3? It was disabled after testing revealed NV's janky engine couldn't handle them without crashing and that's vanilla unmodded NV. There's no way even a third of the visual effects portrayed in the Frontier trailers make it into the release.

What the HELL is even the difference between 3 and New Vegas' engines? Is it because of the slightly different way damage is calculated?

And I mean, there is still an explosion. Just not as big. I'd think the more plausible reason is that a fuel source exploding like that- being that stupidly unstable as to take out an entire street- is retarded (much less, it somehow surviving 100+ years and a nuclear blast despite the metal and virtually everything else being degraded to shit). They still do explode so I doubt that's the real reason. I wish it was though.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

They can afford it because they have pretty much no competition.
Who else is there that makes big open world rpgs like they do?
The only hope for that atm is cdprojektred.

I'd argue Ubisoft and Rockstar are competition, the only difference between their open world sandboxes and Bethesda's anymore is that Bethesda gives you a conversation tree that doesn't do anything. I'd also include Bioware but I doubt they'll make one again after their Destiny clone fails and they are sold for scrap.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Good fucking lord, the more I hear about this game the more I hate it. Turns out the reason everyone in Virginia is dead is because of a bunch of semi-intelligent ghouls called "The Scorched" that have formed a sort of hive mind either killed or infected them all.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Scorched
How fucking lame.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Good fucking lord, the more I hear about this game the more I hate it. Turns out the reason everyone in Virginia is dead is because of a bunch of semi-intelligent ghouls called "The Scorched" that have formed a sort of hive mind either killed or infected them all.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Scorched
How fucking lame.

Fungus zombies are woke, dude.

 

[Ruin]

Good fucking lord, the more I hear about this game the more I hate it. Turns out the reason everyone in Virginia is dead is because of a bunch of semi-intelligent ghouls called "The Scorched" that have formed a sort of hive mind either killed or infected them all.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Scorched
How fucking lame.

They made a huge mistake treating Obsidian so shabbily. No one at Bethesda can write their way out of a paper bag.

 

[Nobunaga]

That's a bit of a dumb reason. Why would you try to expand into Canada before the east?

What the HELL is even the difference between 3 and New Vegas' engines? Is it because of the slightly different way damage is calculated?

And I mean, there is still an explosion. Just not as big. I'd think the more plausible reason is that a fuel source exploding like that- being that stupidly unstable as to take out an entire street- is exceptional (much less, it somehow surviving 100+ years and a nuclear blast despite the metal and virtually everything else being degraded to shit). They still do explode so I doubt that's the real reason. I wish it was though.

Iirc thats due to obsidian having only 1 year to deal with bethesdas shitty engine and not knowing how to deal with it
Just so you get an idea the engine is so shit not even bethesda was able to make reloading animations, it took obsidian a miracle to make them work and even then bethesda doesnt seem competent enought to use obsidians code for reloading

 

[Y2K Baby]

Iirc thats due to obsidian having only 1 year to deal with bethesdas shitty engine and not knowing how to deal with it
Just so you get an idea the engine is so shit not even bethesda was able to make reloading animations, it took obsidian a miracle to make them work and even then bethesda doesnt seem competent enought to use obsidians code for reloading

How does this relate to car explosions, exactly.

 

[byuu]

They made a huge mistake treating Obsidian so shabbily.

Obsidian was still willing to work with Bethesda again.

"We would love to work on Fallout again," Urquhart said. "Hell, we would love to work in the Elder Scrolls universe. Nothing is going on at this point in time, but we talk about it all the time... I'd love to do a Fallout: New Vegas 2. I think a Fallout: New Vegas 2 would kick ass.+

http://archive.is/vsKXe

 

[Nazi vegeta]

I'd argue Ubisoft and Rockstar are competition, the only difference between their open world sandboxes and Bethesda's anymore is that Bethesda gives you a conversation tree that doesn't do anything. I'd also include Bioware but I doubt they'll make one again after their Destiny clone fails and they are sold for scrap.

In the open world sense yeah but not really in the rpg side.
People who want that kind of experience and are on console only, can only rely either on bethesda or witcher3 atm. ( even though the recent ass creed started to parrot witcher3, so maybe they can become a serious contender in the future, but I doubt.)
Bioware is pretty much done at this point, at least as an rpg studio.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Obsidian was still willing to work with Bethesda again.


http://archive.is/vsKXe

Because they have Fallout, dingdong.

 

[Sable]

I think everyone would love Obsidian to work on Fallout again.

I'm hoping that when 76 inevitably fucks up that it means Bethesda will be pushed to have someone make an actual Fallout game, but I don't think my computer can render a large enough optimistic rating.

 

[Alfons Schmitler]

I think everyone would love Obsidian to work on Fallout again.

Nu-Obsidian isn't the same guys that made Fallout: New Vegas. Pretty sure Nu-Obsidian had some SJW shit in their latest games.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Obsidian was still willing to work with Bethesda again.


http://archive.is/vsKXe

It’s not that they want to work with Bethesda it’s that they want to work on the games they’re better at making than Bethesda.

 

[SiccDicc]

They made a huge mistake treating Obsidian so shabbily. No one at Bethesda can write their way out of a paper bag.

Neither can Obsidian now that Avellone left.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Neither can Obsidian now that Avellone left.

That's reductive.

 

[vertexwindi]

It’s not that they want to work with Bethesda it’s that they want to work on the games they’re better at making than Bethesda.

Josh Sawyer is still there and he pretty much said that if Obsidian did another FO he'd direct it in the exact same way he did NV.

 

[Ruin]

Bethesda is creatively bankrupt to an absurd degree. I think the Fallout series only hope for survival is to outsource the writing/worldbuilding to different studios.

 

[MeerkatMarauder41]

NV was the only good Fallout game to be released by Bethesda. Have played both 3 and 4 to near completion, but that's just because there aren't many AAA RPG games that are amazing these days (besides Witcher 3, obviously). So if I want my fix of modern RPG/Fallout, I only have a limited number of choices.

 

[Sparklepants]

Woo the Fallout 76 PC beta got fucked up.

 

[GethN7]

Woo the Fallout 76 PC beta got fucked up.

They sent an email recently with a pathetic bribe of a free copy of FO1/FO2/Fallout Tactics (via Betheseda.net) for anyone who pre-orders F76.

If they were expecting people to buy what they easily get on Steam a lot easier without an overpriced piece of shit attached, they are fools.