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[Teneb]

Fallout 3 was ok, actually. Pretty memorable too. Only thing that bugs me about it is that the capital wasteland is still, well, a wasteland after 200 years. Radiation doesn't work that way.

[NullForceOmega]

Fallout 3 is a good game engine with a completely garbage plot and no sense of self-identity.  If they (Bethesda) had taken the time to re-imagine Fallout, I'd be less upset, but instead they smashed together a vast amount of inconsistent crap, threw some Fallout canon names onto it, then pushed it out the door.  It is a sterling example of horribly lazy game design, with vast holes in its internal lore and characterization.  I've put unknown hundreds of hours into it, and I have NEVER once felt like I was playing a Fallout game, just a post apocalyptic game with the trappings of Fallout.

[Nick K]

Bethesda seem to set the release days for their big games about a year in advance, so I doubt they'll put out the next FO/ES game in 2015, unless maybe they aim for a Christmas release. I suspect that the longer than usual delay between Skyrim and their next open-world singleplayer RPG is because they pulled staff off it to work on ESO.

[WillowLuman]

ESO was all Zenimax.

[Putnam]

1. The majority of people don't like that stuff, or at least they don't really care about it very much. Yes, those type of mods are popular... but only a small fraction of the total people who play use them. For example skyrim sold just fine on consoles and they don't get mods at all.

2. Why should they bother when the community always does that stuff for them for free anyway?

Probably fallout 4, wasn't there some sort of teaser or ARG or something a while back? or did that turn out to be a hoax?

...No, not at all. Not even remotely. New Vegas incorporated mod stuff (weapon mods, hardcore mode) and it was received very well.

Also, the ARG was horribly fake, as was obvious to anyone who wasn't blinded by hype. Which was a lot of people. It was sad, seeing a bunch of people have hopes about it.

[Rolan7]

Fallout 3 was a good game.
Fallout: New Vegas turned out to be more lore-friendly and morally interesting, and was perhaps great, but it didn't have the soul-crushing atmosphere I used to associate with Fallout.

[NullForceOmega]

...Um, what soul crushing atmosphere?  All of the Black Isle Fallout games are about humanity rising from the ashes to build anew, and overcoming nearly impossible odds to do so.  Not what I's call soul-crushing, more 'amazingly hopeful' than anything.  Both 1 & 2 are about an individual, who is chosen to help their small community, going out into the wasteland, encountering the bad and the good that humanity has to offer, and ultimately helping improve the world (or arbitrarily slaughtering everyone, because bored players decide to go on a killing spree).  The music choices are typically haunting, reflecting the emptiness of the post-apocalypse world, the inhabitants are very tight-knit and wary of newcomers, the tone of the game is nearly identical to any of a number of fantasy games I can think of (tho' less ostentatious than most)  My experience with the originals was definitely positive, not depressing at all.

[Putnam]

Fallout 3 was a good game.
Fallout: New Vegas turned out to be more lore-friendly and morally interesting, and was perhaps great, but it didn't have the soul-crushing atmosphere I used to associate with Fallout.

Neither did Fallout 2...

[Reudh]

Just dropping in to say, this isn't a Fallout thread.

[Xantalos]

Fallout 3 was ok, actually. Pretty memorable too. Only thing that bugs me about it is that the capital wasteland is still, well, a wasteland after 200 years. Radiation doesn't work that way.

There was just that many nukes fired that there's still substantial radiation left on the surface after that long?
Oh right Skyrim thread.
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[KingofstarrySkies]

I say we should rename it to Bethesda Discussion Thread.

[Reudh]

I say we should rename it to Bethesda Discussion Thread.

I say it's OP's choice.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Wasn't serious, but honestly it'd be for the best.

[Teneb]

This is pretty much the generic Elder Scrolls thread though, even if the title says Skyrim. It's mostly because any attempts at generic threads devolved into flames because people kept getting angry over differences in taste when it comes to the various games of the series.

[Putnam]

Casuel Skyrem?