Fallout 76 confirmed!?
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As for Elder Scrolls, I don't care. It's not my problem nor it ever be mine.
Morrowind is a pretty good RPG though. Maybe you should stop following my posts.
And ya, the writing in 4 was pretty weak. The game play tweaks did make the combat a lot more fun, though. I would love to have Obsidian do more with the IP. I never got into the originals, but New Vegas was one of the greatest games ever. Every time I've tried to play the originals, I feel like I'm fighting the interface more than the enemies in the game, and decide it's not worth it.
In the beginning you were dead meat. The game had a brief balance in the middle, and then in the end you're impervious to anything except the very hardest of fights and are DROWNING in guns and ammo.
Plus you could skip 99.9% of the game as evidenced by speed runs that take like 10 minutes to win the game.
https://steamdb.info/app/22300/dlc/
https://steamdb.info/app/22380/dlc/
Combat in Fallout 1 was brutal, but I like it that way, so long as there's a suitable way to mitigate the risk. "You've just stepped out into a world that you never knew before, and you're suddenly a professional soldier!" doesn't make much sense to me (though in fairness, neither does "the future of everyone in here is relying on you, so I'm going to send you out into the world with no help, no supplies, and not even a clue where to go!" doens't either). But also, "okay, so you walk 100 metres and meet a Deathclaw! Good luck!" isn't much fun either.
Regarding what was said about first two Fallout games, here. Yes, I agree the UI was designed poorly - but if I can learn it and get used to it pretty quickly, so can everyone else. And yes, I agree that those Fallout games were brutal, especially at beginning. And I love them for it, that really created a atmosphere of hostile and brutal post-apocaliptic world. Come to think about it, atmosphere, or the mood, whatever you call it, is my very favourite things about 2 first Fallouts. BAthesda will never come with anything closer to that.
There's food in Fallout, sure, but you rarely EAT it. I more often use it for barter balancing or even quests than eat it myself.
The Vault Dweller coming out of V13 would be terrified to eat.
Also, I make sure to keep Dogmeat happy with it by at least weekly feedings.
I think Zenimax and Bethesda never had a soul for Fallout to begin with, in my opinion.
They looked at Fallout and saw a dying franchise from a dying company (Interplay) with a small but dedicated fan base that served as an excellent opportunity for making them money (A bit like how Zenimax assimilated Bethesda because of TES). I'm sure their parent company Zenimax pushed them to buy because their investors are greedy and want to turn gaming into the next Hollywood, so they bagged it and shared much of Oblivion's ideas in a new theme.
Turns out people really like Oblivion (despite being a bit watered down from Morrowind) and the hype among the original Fallout fan base was real, so they had plenty of sales. By 2010, Skyrim was nearing completion and probably cost them a shit ton of money they weren't going to have, but they weren't about to give up on their own baby, TES. So, they found the people who worked on the old Fallout games and paid them to develop a spin-off that would be non-committal, netting them enough to finish off TES:V and hype up the original Fallout fans again, who were frustrated by the lore and roleplaying inconsistencies of Fallout 3, with New Vegas.
But, Skyrim itself had been watered down from Oblivion for mass market appeal and its only saving grace was its modability and now-maturing fan base from Oblivion. Something they would milk as long as they could. By the time Fallout 4 came out (which had a revival in hype thanks to New Vegas' appeal to the older fans while maintaining the familiarity of Fallout 3's formula) the folks who joined in from New Vegas were as aged as the Oblivion crowd when Skyrim came out. It was the peak of interest in their games and they sought to meld what sold Skyrim with a further-casualized Fallout 3. Of course we know how that went.
Sorry, wrong game.
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