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I think the only quests that really are tedious are Bleed Me Dry and Return to Sender. The payoff for Return to Sender is so great though and "send the player to every corner of the map" is a reasonable design goal that I forgive it, but on playthroughs where I never fast travel it's a whole...

I can see why some people would find things in New Vegas tedious, but I tend to look at it a bit differently. As opposed to a game that funnels you from action sequence to action sequence, New Vegas builds in a lot of negative space where you're supposed to consider both what you want to do and...

Well, a single acre of corn produced by modern agricultural techniques can produce roughly 400 gallons of ethanol. Since the farming techniques in post-apocalyptic California are much less efficient (they don't have great big combine harvesters, and water is scarce), but we can look at that as...

I think Bear Force One running on ethanol is plausible. By the time of New Vegas the NCR is very invested in agriculture, and "wasting valuable crops on powering his vanity helicopter" is totally in character for Kimball. It's not super-complicated to make ethanol, you just need a fair bit of...

How defensible settlements are depends largely on how effective walls and barred doors are against well-equipped attackers. I mean, if the game isn't designed to let the PC get through an obstacle they're not going to be able to knock down that door or wall no matter how many missiles they...

People who make games read a lot of stuff, good and bad. But if Todd Howard is doing an interview, it is to market his game or his company, so of course he's not going to mention anything that portrays either in a negative light. The "we listened to criticism and responded to it" part will...

I think the idea should be that the music available in the game should be similar to the type of music you would see played on local radio (not the super-popular stations that were centrally located in whatever city, since those were probably wiped out by the bombs, but the ones on the outskirts...

Assuming a Legion victory is canon, the most likely ideas for a follow up are: - The Core region, as the NCR looks to stop the Legion before it's too late. - Legion territory, having collapsed into chaos and violence following the power vacuum in the wake of the death of Caesar.

I think that Bethesda can't help but notice things like "Fallout 4 is not the Fallout fans fell in love with", or "Fallout 4's factions all suck", or "Let's rank the Fallout games, Best to Worst" (an article in which Fallout 4 finishes last) on major video game blogs and realize that there are...

I like what I like, and I don't apologize for it insofar as it doesn't involve doing anything illegal, unethical, or destructive. My nostalgia for older games might be something that other people invoke when considering whether my opinion of a game should inform theirs, but pointing out that I...

I'm just saying that it's equally faulty to conclude "they will not fix the problems I have had with their recent games" as to conclude that they will. We simply don't know, since they haven't even started on the game yet.

It is not inconceivable that I can be persuaded to buy Fallout 5. It is most likely that I can be persuaded to buy the complete edition when it's on sale several years after release, though. I'm more interested in playing Fallout 5 than any more Fallout 4 simply because there's a lot of...

I do sort of wonder if Fallout 4 will be a positive since it shows there is a bare minimum level of "roleplaying" that people would like out of their western-developed RPGs. That is to say, that you can simplify character building and dialogue only so much before people start to grumble. There...

I mean, Fallout 4 is what it is. They're never going to turn it into a good roleplaying game with either interesting character building or dialogue. It's always going to be a combat-focused loot-fest, and that's not really something I want in an RPG. It's certainly possible to convince me to...

I think the brand is largely invincible at this point, so if I owned it I would license it out to make a ton of spinoffs. I see no reason we can't have roleplaying games, action games, city-building games, tactics games, stealth games, linear narrative games, grand strategy games, or whatever...

I mean, if you're paying for the sandwich, and you don't like the sandwich, you don't exactly have to be grateful that someone put it together for you.

I mostly want to reject the notion of "an enjoyable game" in any sort of objective sense. Can people justifiably enjoy Fallout 4? Absolutely. Is there something in Fallout 4 for everyone to enjoy? I disagree. If you're the sort of person who, in games, dislikes shooters, quickly gets bored...

The action point system is a good idea when you want some people to be able to do many more things in combat than others, or if you want people to be able to grow to do more things over time. If you're not interested in doing any of that (and specifically balancing around it) it's probably...

It's fairly simple though. A lot of people out there don't really like reading, so if your film requires reading subtitles you're going to lose a lot of your potential audience. So it's understandable that AAA publishers aren't going to throw $50m+ at a game with as much reading as Planescape...

I think the Bethesda logic is something like "starvation/asphyxiation/dehydration does HP damage, and ghouls are healed by radiation."