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It's a minor point, but I like how the setup for this add-on manages to reduce the sappiness and sentimental factor of searching for a missing family member by having you be a private detective who's formally hired to search for her. You're not doing this because feeeeeeeeeelings (at least not...

They didn't, actually. Bethesda doesn't hire professional writers to do their writing. They just have their developers, artists, etc. write it as they go along, which really tells you a lot about how much they value having good writing and stories in their games. Which isn't to say that there...

This would be pretty cool for a multiplayer game. But for a single-player game, it makes no sense. Who are you going to be using these traps on? Companions? Settlers? All the more reason why they should have just had the veteran be whichever spouse you chose to play as, and let Ron Perlman...

Not exactly. What Todd said was "Fantasy, for us, is a knight on horseback running around and killing things." It was from an issue of Game Informer, but I can't find the article online, and I'm reluctant to go slinging that quote around as an indictment of his creativity and imagination...

This is the kind of argument that led the TES lore community to adopt C0DA. We need someone who worked on one of the older Fallout games to write a long, rambling story that concludes with the idea that canon is nothing more than what we individually choose.

There isn't a city in the entire Fallout universe that could realistically protect itself from the hordes and hordes of Super Mutants, ghouls, and raiders present in the Commonwealth. If the enemy population was a bit more reasonable, I'd say these settlements would have adequate defenses. The...

#robotlivesmatter

Uh, maybe. I definitely won't be pre-ordering another Bethesda game, but I'll give it fair consideration once it's released. If all signs point to it being dumbed-down and streamlined even further, then I won't get it, but I'm not sure if that's even possible at this stage. The dialogue...

Bethesda can't even release a finished game when given multiple years for its development. I don't think we need to worry about them somehow being able to pump them out yearly.

I wouldn't mind them existing if not for the fact that they really do seem to be immune to radiation. That's just...not right. Let them have their ridiculous beliefs, but bending the biological "rules" of the setting around to accommodate them is all wrong.

If anyone doubts this, just consider the fact that Bethesda doesn't bother hiring writers. All their writing is done by people whose main job is to do something else. Either they think that their moonlighting writers are as good as or better than any professionals they could hire, or they...

Judging a product based on how a third party reacts to it is ridiculous, yes. But I don't think there's anything wrong with including political or social criticism as part of a critique of a game. If the Amazing Atheist really thought that the game included insightful commentary about...uh...

*tips fedora*

I'm sure I've said this before about the voiced protagonist and the dialogue wheel, but once again - if Bethesda wanted to imitate the RPGs that give you a predefined protagonist, like The Witcher or Mass Effect, then what they needed to do was really expand the dialogue, give the player lots of...

All right, now this is going a bit too far. Fallout has always been a very fanciful setting that's taken its cues from some of the silliest sci-fi themes out there. There's nothing realistic about atompunk technology, Super Mutants, ghouls, or giant molerats trying to take over the world. The...

Wait, wait, I'm confused. You guys are talking about the vaults being a series of crazy experiments as if Bethesda invented the idea. I could have sworn that that was a thing in F2. You find out about it from a computer in Vault 13, IIRC.

Eh, this kind of argument is basically just the flipped version of "If you hate F4 so much, why are you still talking about it!?" F4 fans take the time to defend the game for the same reason that we take the time to criticize it - because they care about the subject and they want to make their...

We might get some interesting locations to explore in Far Harbor. That's really the only positive thing we can realistically expect from it.

This is the same reason why Takahashi is one of the best characters in the game.

Just so you know, Crni Vuk, hate speech is legal in the U.S. It's nasty, but courts have ruled that it's free speech.