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It's hard for me to really invest myself in how the SMs of F4 ought to look when I can't get over the far more basic problem that they shouldn't have been in F4 at all. I can't stand how Bethesda keeps rehashing elements of prior games in the series like this. SMs were a thing that happened...

I like the idea of being frozen as part of a vault experiment, but I'd cut out the pre-war section. You could be defrosted by some explorers who ask you questions about how you ended up as an ice cube, and you'd have to chance to define both your character and the world you came from on your...

Bethesda is far too small and insular as a dev to be putting out annual releases. They'd have to hire dozens of new employees, some of whom would be in supervisory, big-decision-making roles. Which wouldn't be all that bad of a thing, come to think of it.

Hey, it worked for Ian back in F1.

tbh I kinda do, at least on the subject of Fallout. This is the future of the franchise. There has been a decent amount of backlash to F4, and for a while I had hoped that it might be enough to remind Bethesda that the series had fans before they came along, but the months have ticked by and...

He's talking about the fact that while you ostensibly have to wait a little while in between rounds of lockpicking/hacking/doing whatever minutia your companion approves of to get more "likes" from them (obviously to prevent players from gaming the system by constantly repeating those actions)...

It's interesting, because I think a lore-accurate portrayal of Hammerfell would have the potential to be truly bold and progressive in its depiction of race relations and black people in a genre that so often neglects them - but perhaps not in the way that most liberal reviewers would expect...

Maybe that was because exploring a ruined metropolis was a new experience in F3. In F4, the Commonwealth felt far too familiar to me to really enjoy exploration. Almost all of it was just a rehash of what we had already seen in F3. Honestly, I don't think any parent in the world would just...

Feminism isn't a monolith or a cult. The term itself refers to subject matter, meaning that it's about women, the empowerment of women, and so on. That's what it's about. There's no endgame or universally-agreed upon goal. As such, feminists are free to make good suggestions, bad ones, and...

You know, F4 actually fails miserably if you try to analyze it through an SJW lens. Bethesda clearly meant for the protagonist to be a straight white male. You can't roleplay a gay character, because the protagonist is happily married to someone of the opposite gender (and they took out the...

"not interested in discussing how realistic things are in an alternate universe post-apoc game w/ talking mutants and ghouls" - that's why.

I thought the new dialogue system and voiced protagonist were in place because the dialogue would be more in-depth - that is to say, less people talking at you for a while and then you pick a response, and more Mass Effect/Witcher-style dialogue where the protagonist doesn't always need a prompt...

I think the synths had potential, although the game didn't come even close to delivering on that potential. What didn't have potential was building it all around a sappy story about missing family members once again. I really don't understand why Todd or Emil or whoever thinks that Fallout is...

I don't mind the inclusion of the cats. It's entirely possible that they were only hunted to extinction on the west coast, while continuing to thrive on the east coast. Besides, cats are great.

And it'll still take them several years to get it developed, and it'll still be riddled with dozens of bugs and glitches.

I seem to recall him saying in an interview after Skyrim's release that they went too far with the radiant quests and that players prefer them being properly scripted. And yet F4 doubled down on the radiant quests and replaced even more of the bulk of the game with them. So nobody assume that...

I could actually buy that some businesses might have stockpiling as much oil as they could during the Resource Wars because they expected its price to continue rising. If there had been a terminal entry or something confirming this, I'd go so far as to call it a nice little nod to continuity...

Even just judging it on these terms, I felt that F4's world was largely a disappointing rehash of F3. I suppose it's neat to see some of Boston's landmarks, but for the most part, one ruined metropolis looks an awful lot like another. There were the same types of buildings to explore -...

I don't think Bethesda is exactly ignorant of the shittiness of the pre-war world. They've expanded on the wacky vault experiments quite a bit, and there are still traces of pre-war propaganda left in the world, as well as accounts of dubious behavior recorded in terminals. It's also heavily...

The only companions who care which faction you side with are Danse, Deacon, and X6-88, who turn hostile if you attack their faction. Apparently none of the others care enough to comment on it or offer an opinion.