When TV tie-ins work TOO well rule
When TV tie-ins work TOO well rule
Turns out I was far from the only one who watched that show and felt like firing up Fallout 4 again, with mods of course š
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Iām still conflicted if itās a good or a bad thing that the show is a hit. On the one hand, itās nice that people are discovering the great storytelling and adventure that Fallout has to offer.
On the other hand, newcomers tend toā¦ totally ruin the thing youāve loved for decades. Especially if companies start chasing that group. So letās all hope this doesnāt lead to watered down cash grabs, but instead lights a fire under development of good new proper Fallout titles. Weāre looooong overdue.
On the other hand, newcomers tend toā¦ totally ruin the thing youāve loved for decades.
This is one of the most gatekeeping thing I've heard in a while. You don't want new people to discover something you like because they might like it differently.
So letās all hope this doesnāt lead to watered down cash grabs
You mean more than the mobile game and Fallout 76?
But it's entirely true, popularity gives a creator way more leeway to get worse because the LCD doesn't give a shit. Not to mention the suits that are attracted to popularity, they take pleasure in ruining things. Then there is the fact that too many normies will ruin whatever culture exists besides the direct product.
Not that it matters for Bethesda, pretty sure they literally couldn't get worse at this point without falling through completely. They are the suits that ruined lefey's work!
I honestly donāt mind people discovering Fallout. Heck, Iāve bought and lent copies to people to get them interested in it.
But Iāve also been in gaming since the late ā80ās, and Iāve seen franchises ruined because developers chased the mass market instead of sticking to what made their games popular in the first place.
People came to Call of Duty for tight, sweet multiplayer matches with a military aesthetic.
Nowadays itās got silly battle royale modes which let you play as Snoop-Dogg, The Terminator or a Warhammer 40K character. It looks nothing like what the original games were. And as a result, the playerbase has declined and shifted towards casual.
Battlefield is a shell of its former self after they moved away from what made it good. Need for Speed games also suck because they chased the Fast and the Furious trend. Flight Simulator has become too mainstream leading to quality decline because developers chase casual players. And thereās numerous other examples of games moving towards a more casual, wider base. Usually because newcomers think the old gameplay is āboringā or ātoo difficultā. Go talk to some Diablo veterans about their thoughts on IVā¦
And yes, as someone whoās been with Fallout since 1: 76 should never have been made. Fallout is a single player, story driven experience. And it should stay that way. The mobile gameā¦ Iād rather they put that effort into making a proper game.
Fallouts always been one of those games thatās broken into the mainstream tho, Iād put it up there with COD and FIFA tbhā¦
This isnāt some sort of niche game thatās suddenly getting mainstream attention, if anything itās always been a game for ācasualsā (no offence intended, just canāt think of a better way to say it).
Iād say that the market being brought in is the one that Bethesda was aiming for since at least Fallout 4.
Eh, I'm just glad they didn't butcher it. We should be happy that other people have found something nice
Eh, I'm just glad they didn't butcher it
Me too. I honestly expected them to give it the full Uwe Boll treatment (as in butcher it beyond recognition) and even my "pie i n the sky never gonna happen" hopes I'd dialed all the way down to it just being "pretty good".
Turns out that it's fucking magnificent! Probably the best sci-fi show since 3 Body Problem if not Westworld IMO!
So it's not ONLY with ulterior motives that I recommend that anyone currently trying to use Nexus Mods take a break to watch or rewatch the show, whether on Prime or through the High Seas šš
I hope talk westworld season one and not season three.
Of course lol
I couldn't agree more if I tried! Other than MAYBE slightly exaggerating the very real issue of newcomers ruining established stuff, you're pretty much spot on about all of it IMO.
I'm just crossing everything but The Streams that, after Nexus hopefully get sorted soon, we'll see all the positive possible effects you mention and little to none of the negative ones šš¤š¤š¤