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I suspect they might have sold fewer copies of Fallout 4 though, since New Vegas convinced a lot of people that a 3D first person Fallout with real-time combat isn't necessarily going to be a creative dead end. I mean, I was about ready to give up on Fallout after Fo3, but New Vegas gave me a...

Well, the thing is that there's not just one GotY award, there are many, and the big ones don't happen until the spring (the DICE and the GDC awards). But if we're assuming that the reaction to Fo4 in those award shows is consistent with the overall reaction to the game, the lessons Bethesda...

I think the experiment behind Vault 34 is reasonable - "If we're to colonize space, we're going to need to bring weapons with us in case there is hostile alien life where we land, how do we keep these guns out of the hands of people and what happens when that fails." The takeaway from the...

I get that this has to be weird for the folks who work at Bethesda, since they're all human beings who want to put out the best games they can subject to the constraints they're working under, but I think they have to also sort of realize that Fallout is a thing they own because they bought it...

Here's an idea for a Fallout 4 mod- Preston Garvey is a horror/thriller evil mastermind. He holds some sort of leverage over you personally that he uses to blackmail you into murdering scores of innocent people. All you'd really need to do is change some dialogue and change the appearance of...

"Canon" as a notion is pretty irrelevant. It only really applies to works with multiple authors, and the nature of works with multiple authors is that "the next person can just retcon whatever they want to change from anything done before." Don't worry about what's "canon" with fiction, worry...

Really, I think commenting on the health, gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, etc. of complete strangers is distasteful and improper period, end of sentence. Like if it's none of your business, don't make it your business. If you actually know a person then you can talk to them about this...

The first one is really more of a science fiction horror/thriller piece; it's more about the dread of an unstoppable monster pursuing you than what happens when it gets here. It didn't turn into an action franchise until the 2nd one, but T2 is actually pretty good because it's smart and...

I think you can make a voiced protagonist work in a roleplaying game. You need to focus on two things though: 1) A really fantastic vocal performance (Jennifer Hale's work as Shepard actually makes Mass Effect better) 2) Make sure there are enough options for expressing distinct viewpoints, so...

Watch Terminator, Terminator 2 and the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Those are worth your time. It's best to avoid the rest really.

Regarding the Star Wars analogy, I was thinking the other day about how Fallout kind of lines up with the Terminator here. 1&2 are fantastic and influential with 2 making a significant tonal shift that works, but 1 all-in-all is tighter. Tactics is, I dunno, the Dark Horse tie-in Comics (e.g...

It's in the ruined building overlooking Little Yangtze. It's the weapon that Christine was using to try to assassinate Elijah, when he was in the watch tower working out how to get the bomb collars to work.

OWB has what might be the best weapon in the game: Christine's Silencer COS Rifle, FWIW. Best damage on a weapon using .308 ammo, higher DPS and a better crit multiplier than a normal sniper rifle, and it doesn't break stealth.

I think there are a lot of ways to do an RPG that are equally valid, and this makes ranking these things on a line difficult. Like restricting to tabletop for a minute here (where nobody questions whether the RPGs are, in fact, RPGs), you can have your standard "got to get to the bottom of the...

Couple of things- First, I dislike the phrasing that Fallout is "our" franchise, since we don't own it. No matter how much I love Fallout, it doesn't belong to me and I don't get to have a say in how it goes. The events of my playthroughs of various Fallout games and the custom tabletop...

There's nothing bad or unusual about intelligent people liking things that are (or are perceived to be) kinda stupid. There are lots of really smart people who love sports or pro-wrestling, or slapstick comedy, or superhero comics, or cartoons aimed at children, or whatever. Just because you...

It's somewhat ambiguous though since it's not confirmed that everybody who could be constituted a "Bright Follower" went in the rocket. You find their corpses scattered around the Mojave, so it's entirely conceivable that a "pilgrimage" need not involve a rocket ship. Only the Legion ending...

I think you mostly hear "I want to play after the end" for people who are in this for the whole "power fantasy" angle, and maybe even though the story is finished they haven't gotten enough of being able to express their mastery over the setting and feeling powerful. So starting a new game...

I think part of the point of Lonesome Road though was to take a player who goes into the divide with a specific idea about who should rule Vegas and then challenge them on the sincerity of their beliefs. The execution was hit and miss, but something like that is a good idea and you can only do...

You're missing something kind of important about how large businesses operate. It's not how many total units you sell, or how big the pile of money you made is, it's "how many did you sell/how much did you make relative to what you were expecting." If you match the number you were projecting...