After Fallout 76 and Starfield, I have little faith remaining in Bethesda
I still never understood how people rated vanilla f3 or skyrim above ‘meh’. Their last genuinely good game made in house was oblivion.
RIP Fallout got MCUed, can’t enjoy it unless you spend all your waking hours consooming
Huh?
It’s a few games and one season of a show (yes I know the second one started, but we’re only one episode in). It’s nowhere near the amount of bullshittery that is the MCU or Disney Star Wars.
That’s fair. I just don’t really like my media to be based off TV shows I don’t watch. Probably not as bad as the MCU situation though to be fair.
I mean the Fallout show is honestly giving great. Imo you should at least give it a chance. Especially if you’re even a tiny bit of a fan of the games.
It’s all still based on a video game though. Fallout was never a show first so it’s not “based off a TV show”
TV show isn’t on any different trajectory than Fallout has been since Fallout 2. Ya it’s still a big jump in goofiness from 2 to Bethesda 3. But fallout 4 to TV show, that’s not huge leap into over reliance on 50s commercial aesthetic and goofiness and snark. I’d be more worried about elder scrolls 6. Skyrim didn’t dump out weird lore like oblivion which also had less weird lore than morrowind. Still solid though. Post Fallout 4, 76, Starfield, Fallout TV - I can see the next elder scrolls being a big up in goofiness for entertainment over weird lore that’s entertaining. Like lots of “until I took an arrow to the knee” attempts at meme-able characters
All they really need to do for ES6 is bring Michael Kirkbride back and let him run wild with the lore.
“Alright Michael, we’re going to leave you alone to write in peace. There’s food and drinks in the fridge, and a small mountain of psychedelics in the cupboard.”
Man…talk about a dream job…sigh
Unless Bethesda manages to speed up production massively, I am not even fully convinced Fallout 5 will see the light of day while Todd has anything to do with it still.
Do folks enjoy Starfield these days?
Or 76?
I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and my experience was:
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76 was boring, even with coop. That’s saying something. The world was interesting, but the main and side (fetch) quests were the dullest, buggiest things that kept trying to sell us some anti grind stuff; and this was well after launch.
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Starfield was… well, even more boring. It felt like Fallout 3 with all the jank, 10X the production budget, 100X the graphics requirements (as smooth as a cactus on my 3090), yet somehow, none of the charm. I only played for a bit, but I don’t remember a single character name. Whereas I can still recall little side quests from Oblivion and FO3. Quirks persisted all the way from Oblivion, yet all the fun bugs were patched out. Basically, ME: Andromeda was better in every way.
But, you know, whatever floats peoples boats. I’m curious if these games have grown a following over whatever I was missing.
76 seems to be pretty popular nowadays. Starfield not so much.
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shut up todd.
Fallout died a long time ago.
The show is so much better written than the Bethesda games that this can only be a positive for them.
I found New Vegas, F3 and F4 to be perfectly fine writing. In fact I have enjoyed all the references to the previous games, F1 and 2 included.
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Setting criticism of BGS aside, Fallout isn’t as “hard” with its lore as some. There are little inconsistencies between the games and other media that are basically written off as “gameplay mechanics things” or simple oversights.
…Hence there will probably be conflicts with the TV show. But that’s fine. It’s nothing earth shattering for the IP.
I won’t care if the game is bad: Don’t fuck this up Todd!
