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I've played enough of Fallout 4 on a friend's PS4 while petsitting for her that I know my limit is like "Complete edition for $5 on Steam." At the very least, it's conceivable that DLC will make it better. Not that it will save the game completely, but that it will improve it.

I still hate the "Replicated Man" quest because "plausibly human androids" really have no place in Fallout what with the whole "reel-to-reel tapes on giant mainframes" technology aesthetic. We can do implausible things with vacuum tubes and the like, because this is science fiction, but "don't...

Perhaps had they not included them people replaying Fallout 3 would have thought "What the hell was the point of the Blade Runner Ripoff Quest"? But yeah, the Institute was just a missed opportunity. It was like a less coherent and organized version of the Think Tank, except one is made up of...

I think a better approach still would be to drop separate perk choices and just emphasize skills. Maybe don't have a 100 point scale, but maybe a 5 or 10 point scale, and then give perks corresponding to levels of skills. For example, instead of the Demolition Expert perk, you could just have...

Lack of skills isn't really a that much of an issue, as there are plenty of pen & paper RPGs that eschew a skill system. The issue is that the removal of skills reduces both granularity (so it keeps you from hanging out +2-5 mods to skills as minor bonuses) and it eliminates an avenue through...

I would actually really like to play more games that take a look at motherdom in various video game contexts. Like don't tell me "The Last of Us" wouldn't have been even more fascinating if you replaced Joel with a grandmother-type, just because that's not something we've seen before.

" I'd like to point out that an RPG doesn't involve making choices," How the hell do you roleplay if you don't actually make any choices? Hell, what game doesn't involve making choices (even Pac-Man has choices: turn left, right, or go straight)? Roleplaying games are defined by being about...

I think trying to work in a way for console users to get mods makes a lot of sense. One of the things you will hear time and time again about Bethesda games is that the PC experience with them is vastly superior, and one of the biggest reasons for that is "mods." So Bethesda might potentially...

All the comments there that say "there are no lessons to be learned from Fallout 4" are missing something critical- One of the most important lessons you can learn is "what not to do."

"You are a mother who loves her son" is a lot less weird of a thing for a game to assume than "you are a lawyer who isn't bothered by murdering like 50 people within hours of waking from cryogenic sleep". I mean, if for games the latter is a lot more plausible to assume then that points to a...

It's just weird because in most RPGs where you can design your own protagonist, the game doesn't alter anything about your backstory save the pronouns or lock out any backgrounds you might like simply because of your choice of gender. That FemShep's narrative in Mass Effect is essentially the...

The worst is when games explicitly stress the importance of advancing the plot as a critical world-ending thing is going to happen if you don't, but then there's no actual consequence for rifling through every container or going to do something unrelated for 25 hours. If it's really not that...

I think there are a whole lot of games about daddy issues (either issues of being a father or issues with your father) simply because of the age (and gender) of the average person making creative decisions in AAA video games. I mean, not just Fallouts 3 and 4, but there's also Bioshocks 2 and...

And Legion's loyalty mission involves one of the most intriguing philosophical dilemmas I have ever seen in a video game.

It's funny, I prefer isometric turn-based over first person shooters largely because I have so much trouble with manual aiming in shooters. It's just a skill that falls at the intersection of "doesn't come naturally" and "don't care enough to get better." So when games with real time combat...

I've played New Vegas on the Xbox 360 a lot. The advice I'd give if you're going to give it a go is: - Remember to unequip your companions from any non-concealable weapons before you go in casinos (the game eats them) - Late game be cautious about using VATS in Fiend Territory since that seems...

Without being in the room, or hearing from someone who was in the room, it's impossible to tell. Game development jobs aren't all that secure, so the only time you really hear people (even anonymously) dish on their bosses is when they're your ex-bosses (like the sheer number of people happy to...

Here's some songs that were actually released after New Vegas that I think would fit in well with that game's sountrack (both in terms of requisite twang and in terms of the themes of the song) Nikki Lane- "Right Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzS3vU6wZa4 The Cactus Blossoms - "Change...

I think Bethesda has to understand that the audience for Fallout games is extremely segregated horizontally. So just like there's no perfect pasta sauce that appeals to everyone who likes pasta sauce, there can be no perfect Fallout game that appeals to everyone who likes Fallout. I mean the...

2 > NV > 1 > The Tabletop Game > Tactics > 3 > 4 > Actual Nuclear Fallout > BoS I can't rank Shelter because I have no experience, it probably fits somewhere between 3 and the kind that actually kills you.