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Its a great show. Binged it, and while they lean way more into Bethesda's own games, they absolutely do not leave out the first game through New Vegas and pay homage quite a bit.
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People complain that it leans towards bathesda fallout. Well Bethesda fallout games have sold like 50 million copies while the first two only sold like 750k, so it's no surprise they're leaning on the more popular version.
That's such a stupid take. That's almost like saying if they're going to make a movie about a COD game they should take inspiration from Ghosts and not the OG modern warfare, because Ghosts sold better than OG Modern Warfare. Doesn't matter that the story of Ghosts is one of the worst in the series and MW story is arguably the best in the series.
If you're going to make an adaptation you want what is the best quality, not what is the most popular. Popularity doesn't necessarily mean quality. That said, I don't care where the show leans, my expectations were already so low that simply getting it in the right ballpark was a win. But could've it been more true to the source material considering where it takes place? Absolutely.
No, they are going to lean into what is most popular.
Imagine if the show suddenly had the Fallout 1 pipboy and started going on about psykers, most people watching would be extremely confused.
And they had a fair amount of fallout one content too, the brotherhood were using the Fallout 1 10mm pistol, they even had a pretty dang accurate water chip prop.
Fallout 1 pipboy
I don't mind using the Bethesda pipboy design. I don't think FO1 or FO2 even had actual pipboy models, just the pipboy 2000 screen. It would've had to been redesigned anyway.
started going on about psykers
? I don't think even you know what you're talking about. I had to look up the wiki and I doubt you actually meant the 4 guys in the cathedral that barely even played a role in FO1.
There are a few more psykers in fallout, they are a bunch of people with magical powers that never were brought up again besides Mama Murphy.
The FO1 pipboy looks pretty much like a tablet, they didn't become wrist-mounted until Fallout 3.
My point is that what people know as Fallout at this point is what the modern games show, it makes sense they'd lean on that.
Lorewise the show has more to do with Fallout 1 and 2 than the Bethesda games.
Let this be a lesson to game companies making tv shows.
If it's GOOD, it will boost the popularity of the franchise.
Cyberpunk. Last of us. Even Arcane boosted the Riot games.
Is this why Epic announced that they would be giving them away for free, then on the day of, swapped them out for different games without a word? Lol
Well the huge discounts also helped a bit
76 is currently free to try. It made me want to go back and finish Fallout 4.
It really shows the relative incompetence of MS/Bethesda how we didn’t get a new game or at least a remake next to the show (like Sony did with TLOU). They have a great universe, and now it’s more popular than ever, millions would be happy to pay for a modern Fallout game, me included.
Edit: or maybe they are just focusing on milking F76, which is still a bad choice, but at least has some (corporate) logic.
They're doing a next gen update for FO4. I imagine that most of their resources are going into Skyrim's successor
You would hope so,that can help explain ~~starcitizen~~ Star field
Made so little impact on my life I always forget it haha
Something to note. This doesn't explicitly mention sales, just concurrent players. That isn't to say there weren't sales, but this just indicates people going back to play the games more than it does explicitly mean there was a bunch of new sales.
76 is having a free to play week, which will definitely boost the number of players. It was interesting at first, but the more I play it the more the MMO aspects make me want to go back to Fallout 4 and NV.
I definitely got the urge to play Fallout 3 again.
My roommate just bought the 3, 4, and New Vegas and asked me for the best play order to play the series in.
I just gave her the starter order of 3 then New Vegas and then to ask me if she wants to really dive into the vault afterwards.
Just 1 episode with me slightly complaining about lore during it and she bought the games. Looked beautiful, but too much 76.
I'm watching through it at the moment and yeah, it definitely makes me wanna do another playthrough.
I want to play 4 but i also want to play with proper VATS....
Is there an option or a mod for this?
If i wanted to play a shooting game, i would play FPS.
When you say “proper VATS” are you referring to Fallout 1 & 2?
Even FO:3 and FO:NV vats is fine
Anything that doesnt force me to play like an FPS. Anything that pauses combat fully.. Or better yet make it fully turn based
I don’t remember Fallout 4 VATS being any different from 3 or NV
Last time i looked it was just slowed time, not paused
Also, whats up with the downvotes for preferring to play an RPG with turn based combat, or at least something close to it??
It is slow enough that it is effectively paused. It's more of a visual effect than a significantly different mechanic.
Thanks! I'll check it out
Fallout 76 has been getting free dlc every three months since release. It's packed with content 😍
I played that once and didn't like it. I was trying to play on my own single player, and kept seeing players running around in stupid outfits and it took me out of it
Fallout 76 has a lot of good content in it, the Wastelanders DLC was pretty awesome overall.
Been replaying heavily modded Tale of Two Wastelabds and have been having a blast. Fallout 3 is a lot better with NV's mechanics.