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Prime Video shooting a limited series Blade Runner 2099. The showrunner did Halo in 2022.

This is exactly it. Bethesda can't say "we tried something different" because they have been embracing these design criteria steadily for the past few games- replacing actual written quest lines with radiant quests, using procedurally generated content, simplifying things to the nth degree, using mindless filler combat in place of branching story. It's more that the game is too Bethesda.

Even the stuff they added was pretty meager and lacking in textures etc. Contrast to CDPR’s excellent and substantial free updates.

BTW my BF who is a geek but not a gamer thought the TV series was dumb and only watched one episode. I was curious how it would come across to someone not familiar to the games.

I called it too, not that it was hard. Fallout 4 Next-Gen Update Riddled With Issues - IGN

You'll be happy to know, after nine years, Bethesda is fixing some Fallout 4 bugs today. And introducing hundreds of others, no doubt.

Five thousand people are inflicting that game on themselves per day?

I recently was re-watching some of GoT, because apparently I like to torture myself, and was struck by how vapid the dialogue was. I went to see who wrote the episode and sure enough. Then I looked at the episodes that were submitted by the showrunners for writing Emmys. They all were written by you guessed who. Those pompous asses didn't even let GRRM win an Emmy for, say, Battle of the Blackwater, while they collected awards for adapting his work. I wonder if that sort of thing is why GRRM distanced himself from the production in latter years.

The show creators Weak, tbh. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fallout-season-2-creators-interview

I even liked Operation Anchorage, and Point Lookout had great atmosphere and spy stuff. We're not talking FNV quality stories but a lot of fun. But I gotta disagree with you on the supermutants. One of the best memories I have of FO3 is throwing a nuka grenade into a bunch of supermutants in a hospital and seeing one of them shoot up to the ceiling.

Pretty sure that's a callout to every person's first encounter with a yao guai/ deathclaw/ mirelurk. I remember the first time seeing a mirelurk in my scope and thinking what the FUCK is that. Fallout 3 was so much more menacing than 4. All these candyass new players in Fallout 4 are getting the comic book version of everything. Although one of them on reddit was whining about the raider with a Fat Man in Lexington.

Here's another gem from this dimwit but I can't find anywhere where it says that she worked on the production. Edit- or he. This person just has a creepy fixation on Anya Taylor Joy.

After Starfield, there was slim chance I'd ever play another Bethesda game again anyway.

I don't care that much tbh. I guess I mostly wrote off Fallout with 4 and 76. Makes sense that "the fall" would mean fall of the government and relocation somewhere else.

I always figured Moldaver was leading a splinter group since she obviously just woke up from cryo (or whatever kept her alive) not long before events of the show and immediately started agitating against Vault Tec and using NCR survivors as followers/ cannon fodder. Since Shady Sands was destroyed that takes out the government and it's plausible that the rest of the society would fracture if there's not a clear successor that wasn't nuked. Like I said up above somewhere, I'm not surprised that they did a "reset." It was probably inevitable with the decision to set the show in California.