Recent content by TheSnake

My girlfriend bought me Fallout 4 for my birthday and made sure to buy it secondhand so as to not give Bethesda any of our money. I will not be purchasing DLC. I should probably marry her someday.

DLC will probably make it worse, honestly. Can't wait to see DLC where we get to go to space or another country or whatever other garbage Bethesda's likely planning.

So I actually collect vinyl and when you order through mail, getting a damaged product is pretty common, unfortunately. And in my experience, companies always just send a free replacement since even limited editions have overrun. This is silly as hell.

I was lucky enough to have played (and loved) the original games before Fallout 3, but to this day I have literally never met another human being who has played them. As far as I know, anyway. EDIT: That is, people who have played them at length. I have a handful of friends I convinced to start...

Some very smart person at Bethesda saw the potential in the burgeoning open world genre and rising popularity of the first person shooter. An established franchise meant less lore writing, and the probability of securing established Fallout fans (which worked), while gaining new fans with the...

Very interested in purchasing this. Do you have pricing details? With or without paint (I would be able to paint it myself, I love doing that stuff)? EDIT: Nevermind, I see this is an ancient thread. Boo!

They'll never satisfy everyone. And while I would actually completely embrace the idea of Bethesda releasing their own Post-Apoc shooters with the Fallout name while allowing Obsidian (or people from Obsidian) to release their own New Vegases, I would also settle for a Bethesda Fallout that at...

I'm probably in the minority here, but Bethesda games have not actually changed how I pictured the pre-war world of Fallout at all, even back when I was playing Fallout 1 for the first time. I always thought of the Fallout world, pre-War, to be that "World of Tomorrow!" that was such a big hit...

This is the painful part. Bethesda is good at building a physical world but absolutely terrible at putting any depth or flavor into it. I would actually have 0 issue with Bethesda making the next Fallout but hiring competent people to flesh it out and make it a "smart" franchise again. Also I'm...

The sad thing is that you're probably right.

What's even more confounding to me is that this mindset seems to be leveled at games in particular: as I mentioned before with my writer friend who "just wants to shoot stuff," I also have a very intelligent friend who writes, loves grand stories and even plays D&D, yet complained to no end when...

I really wanted to like Cait but her story pretty much starts and ends within an hour of meeting her.

Your hard-earned money will likely buy this as DLC in the near future.

Very good posts, guys. I'm glad this topic attracted legitimate discussion and not shitposting. :razz: I agree that it's broadening the demographic that's making it seem like idiots are clinging to the series. And I understand: they're a business and it makes the most sense to get their product...

So we've had some discussions (or rather, you have--I've been a lurker for a number of years) about Bethesda's dumbing-down of the series, the focus on shooting, the removal of RPG elements. And it's undoubtedly clear that the series is actually enjoying huge success at the same time--why? The...