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The real issue is that compared to when they did New Vegas Obsidian now is: - Smaller - Busier - Less beholden to money from AAA publishers to keep afloat (they didn't own KotOR, NWN, Alpha Protocol, Fallout, Dungeon Siege, or South Park so money made by those games goes mostly to the rights...

The "hardcore/casual" distinction in games is pretty meaningless. Given any game, you can pretty much play it casually or you can get really into it and play it hardcore. Like I've known people who played Dark Souls extremely casually, and folks who set an alarm to get up in the middle of the...

I'm not personally a fan of saying one game is better than another, since people usually just use that as shorthand for "I liked that one more." So in light of that I think there are a lot of dimensions in which Fallout 4 is improved over its numerical predecessor. Combat, visuals, coherency...

No matter how much game developers value quality control, it's always going to get the short end of the development stick because it's necessarily the thing that comes at the end. Game development is basically a triage between "stuff we absolutely need to do in order to actually ship", "things...

I think a lot of the divide here just comes down to experience and perspective. I mean, anybody who played Fallout 1 or 2 when they were new falls easily into the "grognard" (literally "grumbler" a term for Napoleon's "Old Guard" who were allowed to complain openly in a way that less...

Really the primary determining factor in how the games interested public seems to perceive whether you're evil or not is not simply "did you do the thing we don't like" but "did you do the thing we don't like often enough that enough people started noticing." Like people didn't seem to notice...

I think it's better off to end up on the right side of the toxic/curmudgeonly line though. You certainly don't want to drive away people who might have something constructive or interesting to contribute simply because they're afraid they'll just be abused if they pop their head up. But, as...

We're bumping up on territory where the line between "entitled behavior" and "totally reasonable behavior" is pretty thin, so I understand the confusion. But as an example here is an opinion that does not smack of entitlement: "I didn't think the ending to Mass Effect 3 was very good" Here is a...

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But here's the thing though, there are two ways that someone else's opinion on a work of fiction (or a sandwich, or anything else subjective) can matter to me: First when it is something I don't have experience with, they can explain why they like or dislike whatever it is, and if the reasons...

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't understand why "they get good review scores and positive reaction on the short term" is in any shape, way, or form a defense of Bethesda that should be meaningful to me. Like if I say "Fallout 4 is really disappointing" and someone says in response "yes...

Here's something that I will never understand about video game fans- Why would anybody, unless they work for Bethesda or are a stockholder in Zenimax, be invested in any way in Fallout 4's sales or review scores? There is precisely one potential sale that is meaningful to me (i.e. whether or...

Probably just the inevitable realization that the AAA video game industry as it exists now and has existed for about a decade, is unsustainable in the long run. I mean, AAA's major selling point is being on the cutting edge in terms of technology, so that means that games cost more and more to...

I think the best solution for the Mojave would be an independent victory that remains as amicable with the NCR as possible. Ideally Kimball and Oliver are shamed, but I think the ending where you don't turn in Hanlon and he goes back home to be the senator for Redding is probably what's best...

I think the thing about Bethesda games is to simply know what you're getting into. TESVI (or whatever's next) is going to be a large open world game primarily about empowering the player by telling them how special they are and letting them do what they want and will mostly consists of...

I think it's fair to look at it from the perspective of "this is what I am looking for in a roleplaying game" so game X is either going to fit your criteria or it's not. That it fails to fit your criteria doesn't mean it's bad necessarily, it just means that it's not what you happen to be...

The ending of Fallout 3 is more or less adequate for the story Fallout 3 tries to tell. I mean, the central tension in the game is "The people of the Capital Wasteland need water, despite the fact that nobody except the three water beggars seem thirsty and everybody has sufficient food...

I mean, of the options Star Trek (either original or TNG era) is by far the most utopian, and given the choice I would prefer to live in a utopia and not have to worry about scarcity, war, disease, etc. As much as I love the Fallout universe, I really wouldn't want to live there.

Roleplaying games have a long and proud history of adapting whatever other bits of fiction that the people who are writing it find neat. I mean, D&D is the way it is because Gary Gygax and his Lake Geneva wargaming buddies really liked Tolkien and Vance. Shadowrun is the way it is because the...

I played through Skyrim and the DLC, more or less exhausting the game, for the first time in late 2013. It was all right, though when you run out of non-radiant quests the radiant recurring quests just seem like the most banal of padding (I have already killed these vampires three times now!)...