This is what people who never held a gun in their hands unironically think
That same guy made a video on Starfield's guns, which is just the natural evolution of the abominable Mengele tier creations Todd and his no-gunz studio brought us in Fallout 3 and 4
Don't care. FO3 shotgun design is cool.
I refuse to believe these are your screenshots, I can smell a tourist a mile away and you fit the bill perfectly. Either way, your opinions are shit and you know nothing about firearms, so your input is worthless.
Nobody has trouble designing guns other than Bethesda in Fallout, whose designs are not only impossible but also retarded looking. They are, objectively, awful guns, and if they weren't then the most common type of mod for Fallout 3/4 wouldn't be ones that replace them. Nobody is arguing about Plasma or Pulse weapons, which are likely decades or more away, since they don't look retarded and the pew-pews are satisfying. Everyone knows how a shotgun is supposed to behave, unless they're retards who don't know anything about firearms.
Anyone who makes their entire personality about how much they "know" about something are always the most insufferable speds imaginable.
I say it's real.
Bethesda are no-gunz retards and don't know how they work, it's as simple as that. Funnily enough, their energy weapons are largely fine, if only because the way they work is entirely fictional and people who know how firearms work don't have to scratch their heads. Guns they ripped straight from real models, like the Assault Rifle in Fallout 3, are also fine. Then you have the .32 "Hunting Rifle" with no ironsights, something that New Vegas fixed, thank god. Nobody makes mistakes like this unless they have zero knowledge of how firearms work.
Translation: After Adam Adamowicz(RIP) died, Bethesda's art direction went to shit. There, mystery solved. Anyone who defends the disgusting, cartoony, washed out garbage art direction of Fallout 4 is getting a yellow Nuka Cola bottle from me, since they clearly lack any sort of taste.
That's news to me. Explains so much.
very true.
the combat shotgun is such a bizarre choice because the fallout 1/2 combat shotgun was also a fictional gun, a mag fed bullpup, which is fine its future-y.
I dunno, I think the FO3-NV era has the best art design in the series and it was mostly because of Adam Adamowicz who still to this day has I'd say the most perfect 1:1 ratio of concept art to ingame model I've ever seen. Compare to this FO4 which has pretty poor conversion of concept art and somehow looks worse than fallout 3 and NV graphically (outside of Far Harbor) which might be some of the best looking games I've ever played. Losing Adam might be the biggest tragedy at Beth.
Yeah, and it sucks because I really like FO3 for a lot of the reasons that aren't really present in FO4. Beth lost too much of their restraint, and while I wish they learned their lesson Starfield showed they haven't. I really, really hope SF failing scares the crap out of them, TES 6 might sell well regardless of quality but if they screw that up they are done. They need to know that doing what they've been doing for 20+ years and somehow going backward is not going to work.
I'd say FO4 sometimes goes too futuristic. I understand CIT is pretty much next door to Boston, but while DC looked plausible, Boston goes straight to the Jetsons.
I agree. I think the issues stem from FO4's insistence on the weapon modding system and It also doesn't help that even though FO4's arsenal is as big as or larger than FO3s it somehow doesn't feel like it. in FO3 I'd even go so far as to say they were a part of the story. NV did even better with this. FO4 drops all of this and weapons are nothing more than gameplay objects. They are lore afterthoughts.
Winchester City Killer is a functional design and in-line with how early Fallout portrayed fictional firearms. "Combat Shotgun" from Fallout 3 is a result of someone not knowing how firearms work, taking a look at a PPSh, and proclaiming "Yup, that's a shotgun!" At least the G3 and AK Chinese Assault Rifle make sense, even if the latter seems to be bastardized as well, but to your average normalfag at least it looks like an AK.
FO4 tried with the Next-Gen update but as per usual its not even integrated in the leveled lists. It also uses vanilla animations because of course it does. Would it be so hard to backport the M79 from FO76?
this is what irks me most. Nothing feels integrated, everything feels slapped on with zero introduction or explanation.
I think it's telling that most new weapons in Fallout 76 are just real life firearms, those that were modded into Fallout 4 years ago and look better there mind you. It's an admission of defeat, in my eyes.
There is a few instances of weapons being connected to the in-game lore. For example, Gamma Guns are implied to be designed by Children of Atom, same with the Far Harbor DLC Radium Rifles. Laser Muskets are made with salvaged AER/AEP Laser parts attached to a fake musket from the Museum of American History in Concord, fitting weapon for Minutemen, and Handmade Rifles would have been a nod to AKs in Fallout Tactics(favorite among Raiders there too), if anyone at Bethesda even knew that game existed. Other than that, I am drawing a blank, but to be fair, worldbuilding in Fallout 4 was dogshit in general. You can't expect much from the game that thought "Kid in the Fridge" was a good idea.
