He’s right. If they’d rushed to get a game out in time for the show it would have been a piece of shit and eroded the brand.
Bethesda, a company with an otherwise unbesmirched reputation for polish.
It wouldn’t just be unpolished if they rushed it that much. Thier development cycles are still about the same length as other companies, even despite the lack of polish.
This is such a circle jerk. You don’t like Bethesda games? Who cares. Move on. Lots of people love em
I hate Elden Ring. But I don’t go on Elden Ring communities just to shit on it
You’re saying that like there’s one Bethesda game. I hate how banal Starfield is. I really don’t like how FO4 isn’t an RPG, though it’s a good platform for content. Skyrim is pretty good with boring quests, especially the main quest. Oblivion is fairly good, though it started the trend of dumbing things down. Morrowind is spectacular. It gives players tools to play with and freedom to figure them out. The writing is generally fantastic. The world feels like it was a world and not a theme park.
I love Bethesda games. I hate the direction they’ve been heading for a long time. I doubt that’s going to change, but it certainly won’t if people keep quite about it.
Damn if only they could have somehow knew the show was being made in advance…
Fallout 4 took 7 years to develop and still felt rushed. Exactly how far in advance do you think they knew about the show?
Options:
- high quality remaster of older game (FO4, FONV, etc)
- reuse FO76 engine to make a new game, with a few graphical upgrades
- story DLC releases for older games
Any of those could’ve been done in the time they’d know about the FO show release target.
much of a game’s development time is spent creating assets, using a new engine doesn’t mean your existing low fidelity assets suddenly look better, just better lit
Eh, a lot of it also has to do with designing things, not the producing assets. If you’re just doing a remaster and upgrading assets that already exist, it should take a lot less time than building something from scratch.
Plus they made a fuckton on new fo4 purchases when show released for zero additional cost. Steam had a killer sale for all the fallout games when the show released. Seems like no brainer especially because you never know if a show will be a hit. Look at Witcher, it never really caught on to the larger market outside of its already existing fans.
I have a feeling the Fallout show is quite similar in terms of not being popular outside of people who already like that particular universe.
Idk. I’m the only nerd out of my family and friends and a bunch of them watched and loved the fallout show. Including my parents who are 60 years old and haven’t played an “idiot games,” what my mom calls video games, since Robotron lol.
I would have loved if they let another studio do something with the IP, since obviously there wasn’t enough time for Bethesda to make a game for it. Let the Wasteland devs make a top-down classic style RPG with it or something, or maybe let someone make a Fallout Tactics style strategy game, or anything else. Maybe let Paradox make an official version of the HoI4 Old World Blues mod. The IP is big enough that it can be more than just Bethesda games.
Or somehow get Obsidian Entertainment to do another one.
Fallout: London is pretty decent. It may be a mod, but it plays like a proper Fallout title. Enjoy that in the meantime. It won’t completely fill the void but it’s better than nothing.
What CEO would publicly acknowledge they did a shoddy job and missed a huge profit opportunity, putting their job on the line.
They still totally dropped the ball on this one. Especially since the big thing they did do is fuck mods by updating the engine and fucked Fallout London in the process. Muppets.
Not as if Bethesda can be coerced into releasing games in a timely manner.
They could have made a studio work on a fallout 1 and 2 remake though…
Would absolutely love to see mod makers turn either 3 or NV into a fo1/2 experience because we’re clearly never gonna see remasters of the original at this point.
Meh, the switch to FPS wasn’t an improvement to me, I want to see the games remade but with a modern turn by turn CRPG engine. Hell, even if it was the Wasteland 3 engine I would be satisfied.
