I did not play TLOU2 mainly because I didn't like TLOU, but also because of the marketing that made the game seem very depressing, and not in a strange melancholic but ultimately fun fallout way or a survival horror scary way, just depressing and unfun and with very simple mechanics. I can stand...
I like Fallout 4 as an action game, even if it isn't a good RPG. It's flawed, but it's fun. I can't say I love it.
The Institute might be stupid (it is) but it's miles better than every other faction in 3 and 4, because at least it has some originality to it, instead of coming straight from 1...
I agree. Maybe they are trying to reach the status of full fledged "artists" that filmmakers reached in the first half of the last century. They take themselves too seriously because they desperately want to be respected more.
Or it's only for marketing reasons
So it will probably be a shallow power fantasy Bethesda game.
I liked this part though:
"So we have one story that we're telling, and then we have a lot of other ones, like we love to do. And our hope is that each player feels like they could say, here's who I want to be in this universe -...
Bethesda won't go under in the next 10-15 years at least, even if they get everything wrong going forward. ES6 will definitely sell well in 3-4 years from now and if it will be bad it will perform like Cyberpunk in sales. No more Fallout for a lot of time if the next Fallout won't work. I always...
It's a mixed bag for me. I think the 3D was a good(ish) change. The shooting has got better from 3 to NV to 4 and I like that the SPAV in 4 doesn't stop time completely. Weapon customization in 4 was actually a neat idea but very badly implemented. The dialogue wheel is a horrible change in 4...
I think the jump to 3D was not a bad idea per se. In NV the 3D just works and in FO3 it's not the problem. The isometric games had a different atmosphere to them that you can't really do with 3D because you can't give the idea of big distances in a smaller 3D world, but the new games have more...
Oblivion was my first Bethesda game and FO3 was my first Fallout. I used to like both and I somewhat still like both, especially Oblivion. I never liked the main story of FO3 and I never had much fun with it past Little Lamplight. As a RPG I think FO3 has always been a complete failure, but as a...
Bethesda is very much afraid most of the time. IMO most of the problems that plagued FO3 that weren't due to (very) bad writing were due to a fear that the game wouldn't be seen as a true Fallout, so they put in a lot of stuff from the previous games and steered clear of anything really new.