Fallout series

[Secret Asshole]

Yeah, I don't get this blind loyalty towards companies. And I know they don't care, it just baffles me to think that they can stretch this 4% around enough to make millions. My guess is why Blizzard ported its talent to mobile is to pump out as many mobiles as possible and see which one sticks. I guess it goes with all publicly traded companies: short-term gains in exchange for long term losses. Companies seem all too happy to burn themselves to the ground in bad, risky short-term strategies over the long money. You saw this with Blizzard, its stock tanking immediately after the Diablo Immortal Announcement where they got booed on their stage that people paid to go to.

And publicly traded companies HAVE killed people for profit before. Bayer shipped AIDs tainted products to Africa because it was cheaper than just sanitizing them, because the profit margins to Africa were too small for them to be bothered with.

Entertainment companies also metaphorically kill their audience as well, to try and capture some mysterious audience that doesn't exist instead of growing their brand. This happens all the time. The thing is they're rewarded for this self-destruction and if it doesn't work out, the CEO has a golden parachute. Being in charge of a major company is the only job where you can destroy your product, be completely inept, make your company go bankrupt, lay-off all of your employees and get a multi-million dollar payday out of it. So that's why we see all of this. As long as it makes their stock price go up.

 

[BeanBidan]

Wonder if we'll ever get Fallout 76: Do you people not own phones?? edition

 

[Orkeosaurus]

in an alternate universe we got a remaster of fallout 1 for the interim between 4 and 5. I just don't know what to make of 76 anymore. It doesn't even feel like an actual survival game like Rust, and doesnt support the same number of players either while the map is way too big for that gameplay.

 

[Zaryiu]

Yeah, I don't get this blind loyalty towards companies

It's because people are dumb

 

[vertexwindi]

So FO76 on PC has a 56 Metacritic score. Wew lad. If this doesn't wake Bethesda up, nothing will.

Of course I fully expect TES6 to sell gazillions of copies anyway only for it to turn out to be their buggiest game yet.

 

[Zaragoza]

 

[Y2K Baby]

Bethsoft was going on about how they'd use West Virginia's rich folk lore but I've yet to see footage of a single Chris Chan mutant or even a mere electric hedgehog. Smh.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Well UK papers and their gaming columns are all shitting on f76. Nearly every time it's about how fucking boring the game is.

Can't help but feel a mod undeading the NPCs and tweaking the game will come about.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Well UK papers and their gaming columns are all shitting on f76.

I get issues of Gameinformer and it said something along the lines of "well, there's absolutely nothing to do and they removed the main appeal of the series BUT DON'T GET ME WRONG, IT'S FUN", lol

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

This game is basically malware lol.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

I get issues of Gameinformer and it said something along the lines of "well, there's absolutely nothing to do and they removed the main appeal of the series BUT DON'T GET ME WRONG, IT'S FUN", lol

I remember during GG in the UK people said the best games reviewer was fucking Metro, a free UK newspaper you pick up from the bus where you store shopping bags.

Still stands too.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I remember during GG in the UK people said the best games reviewer was fucking Metro, a free UK newspaper you pick up from the bus where you store shopping bags.

Still stands too.

Stop mentioning the U.K. I threw up in my mouth a little.

 

[JuanLee]

I remember during GG in the UK people said the best games reviewer was fucking Metro, a free UK newspaper you pick up from the bus where you store shopping bags.

Still stands too.

Metro's games journalist is a guy called David Jenkins who's been consistently good for years. Wrote for Edge way back when, has been writing about games sensibly for ever. I'd agree he's probably one of the best in the UK.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

I hope for Todd’s sake whatever the next fallout project is doesn’t even look like this hot mess.

Hell, if Skyrim Boi had even half a brain he’d just pick up all the old boys from Black Isle/Obsidian and beg them to craft another New Vegas-tier masterpiece from their god awful engine. Unfortunately that’ll never happen.

 

[vertexwindi]

Hell, if Skyrim Boi had even half a brain he’d just pick up all the old boys from Black Isle/Obsidian and beg them to craft another New Vegas-tier masterpiece from their god awful engine. Unfortunately that’ll never happen.

Isn't that everyone's wish for the franchise at this point? Even if quite a few people who worked on NV have already left Obsidian, like Chris Avellone, Josh Sawyer's still there and I trust that guy to make a decent Fallout after Van Buren and NV. Only problem is Microsoft now owns Obsidian for God knows what reason.

 

[MightyBiteySnake]

Only problem is Microsoft now owns Obsidian for God knows what reason

The only reason Microsoft buys companies: to run them into the ground making quick fad-based cash grab games the cost $0 for them to produce; only to then turn around and say “why can’t we make good games for our consoles?”

 

[vertexwindi]

The only reason Microsoft buys companies: to run them into the ground making quick fad-based cash grab games the cost $0 for them to produce; only to then turn around and say “why can’t we make good games for our consoles?”

I just don't understand for what good reason would Microsoft try to buy Obsidian. Over the last couple of years they've only made CRPGs. Their best received titles are all games based on licensed properties (KOTOR2, New Vegas, South Park) and their current output of (from what I hear mostly mediocre) CRPGs barely sell. Obsidian is not gonna sell any Xboxes or Windows 10 licenses.

It's like when they bought Rare, a company known for doing their own thing and making dozens of family-friendly games on family-friendly platforms where those titles are guaranteed to sell well, only to shift their titles to the hardcore platform and micro-manage everything Rare does and makes. It's so baffling.

 

[1940thefuckback]

Soo how much money do you guys think he got for this video?
Does Tod howard sponsor youtubers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEjSGNv4ZYg

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Oxhorn has basically stopped doing lore vids on f76 and doesn't seem to team up much on his livestreams. Playing it seemingly like everyone else.

Honestly, I think I'd like a Fallout MMO now done by zenimax online. It's obvious the hybrid has failed.

East Coast it. Make the BoS a main joinable faction expanding their orderstaat and how they work.

Have a nansecent nationstate based from vault 76 which has the BoS freaked because they did this dance before and lost so they're not as interested in fucking about as last time.

Smattering of backwoods or even city tribals to make a nice twist and flavour.

New state faction would be tolerant of ghouls, seeing pre war ghouls as a valuable resource to finding shit and teaching how to get stuff running.

Pre war ghouls as a race would have bonuses against old machine repair but far lower damage threshold outside of irradiated areas. Or would aggro creatures due to their smell.

Then have two competing plotlines with pvp quest areas along with more general questing to get things running or recovered from places. Heck the Pvp areas could be lifted from The Division gameplay wise. Where you enter a contested zone where it's dog eat dog salvage ops for caps and better kit.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

I hope for Todd’s sake whatever the next fallout project is doesn’t even look like this hot mess.

Hell, if Skyrim Boi had even half a brain he’d just pick up all the old boys from Black Isle/Obsidian and beg them to craft another New Vegas-tier masterpiece from their god awful engine. Unfortunately that’ll never happen.

That won't happen because Obsidian is in Microsoft's pocket now.