This is the problem. You’re comparing the series to itself. In comparison to the rest of the triple A line-up, (The Witcher for example or even Bethesda’s own DOOM) the Fallout series is nothing short of a bug riddled mess that seems to be supported by a engine ready to break at any moment. Seriously, they’ve made enough money at this point (off re-releasing Skyrim so many times alone) they can afford to upgrade their shit.
Holding a company to sub-par standards is nothing short of burying your head in the ground.
Bethesda has joined the ranks of Ubisoft and EA in terms of quality and I choose to vote with my dollar. No way am I buying Fallout 76 if they continue at their current pace.
I play with ~80 mods on Fallout 4… other than some visual glitches in settlements where I deconstructed an object(s) I wasn’t supposed to be able to and like 2-3 quest bugs I had to fix manually… I have NO idea what you’re talking about with Fallout 4 being a bug-riddled mess.
Fallout 3 was an unplayable bug-ridden mess without a religious use of F5… it would crash to desktop every 15min-2 hours without warning… even on PS3, it would crash often… but I didn’t care cause I was so stoked to be in a first-person 3D world I had been waiting on for 10+ years. New Reno was much more stable but still had similar issues. Fallout 4 was solid, though. The fact you said that makes me think you already voted with your dollar and haven’t played it.
The Witchers were all good games… I played all the Witchers… once… I’m currently in my 6th reroll on Fallout 4… it would be getting up towards the 15 rerolls I had in Fallout 2 but doing everything takes much longer in Fallout 4 (and it’s possible to make one character basically able to do everything without the level cap, AND I haven’t had to wait 10+ years)… Fallout 4 is a much better game than Witcher 3… I SAID IT
Would it be awesome if Interplay still existed, had the franchise, and put the love into it that Fallout 2 had? Sure… could have been better… but I feel like I played that one… it’s called Wasteland 2, and it’s great… but it’s not a crossover FPS with heavy RPG elements, it’s just… updated Fallout 2 without the vault tech thumbs up guy…
Fallout 2 was legendarily buggy, huge game-breaking bugs in the critical path, bugs with the car trunk following you around, crazy stuff. Great game, but stable it was not.
I don’t remember Fallout 3 as being too bad, and Fallout 4 was perfectly fine in terms of code quality.
I only started on FO3, and it was really good, and FO:NV seemed better in most of the ways that tick the boxes I was after.
Story wise I still like FO3 with it’s clean water thing, although it seemed shorter (from memory).
Gameplay wise, my fave was FO:NV, as it really seemed to get the survival / necessities about right, and the weapon/armour conditioning added an edge to crafting, along with the custom ammo, which was novel, but worked for me.
FO4 however is the one I spent more time on, mostly as I got bogged down making settlements, where as the other two I just used modded player homes (thanks to DanTheGeek)
That documentary was actually what was shown during the livestream. Some normal brown-nosing by the talking heads and then a stream of the documentary followed by some small talk about Starfield.
Sooo 2014… I thought that was trendy back then… My guess is, E3 2021 - Bethesda releases their new Battle Royal game. Couple years after the trend have passed.
They mentioned a team deathmatch mode in the “documentary”, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a battle royale mode sitting in the wings to be released as an update.
I mean it would be easy to fit into “game lore” too since they could use a rad storm to make the map shrink and have some BS about only being able to fit one person in a bunker or something.
