Celan

29 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Cynically, this feels like the modding equivalent of planned obsolescence, except it’s the devs who planned to make mods obsolete instead of the creators.

-Wait almost a decade for most modders to move on and stop supporting their mods

-Release a super-late patch that breaks most modded saves

-Advertise shiny new "paid mods" that were added by your patch

-Keep profiting off a game whose sells dried up years ago.

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

1 hour ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

Fallout 3 has a very solid foundation. Me and Doc have talked to no ends about how it could be fixed. No brotherhood, no Enclave, much much sooner in the timeline, maybe a decade after the bombs, no super mutants.

Fuck, Pitt is strongly on New Vegas levels of quality. Stick everyone involved with that as project leads and you'd have a damn good Fallout 3 that fits perfectly with the old ones.

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.  

1 hour ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

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.  

24 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

Witcher got renewed for two final seasons, and some of the staff are mounting there attacks against Henry. I don't think this is going to go like she thinks 

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.

56 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I can only ever say "fair" to someone who doesn’t care. Guess I still do, despite all the crap we’ve gotten over the years.  

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

19 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

IWhich sucks, doesn’t it? Three games of worldbuilding out the window. And even if it must be destroyed, New Vegas set up several compelling ways to do it, and instead Bethesda went with the only one that had a good explanation for why it wouldn’t work.

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.

1 hour ago, The Good Doctor said:

That sounds like an halfway interesting story. I wish they’d told it.

Although I don’t see how things could’ve gotten so bad in so little time. It feels like the place got nuked a century ago and that the NCR is all but forgotten (except by those weird NCR cultists in the vault… which only enhances the point), not a recent event that we’re watching survivors pick up the pieces from.

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.

6 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Someone on Reddit found proof that the airship in the TV show is actually the Prydwen. Meaning the promo where they gave it a different name was either a mistake or intentional misdirection.

I honestly prefer this, because the BoS building a second one-of-a-kind airship out of a limited supply of scavenged Enclave parts was one of the things that bothered me.

Also means that either the BoS or Minutemen ending is canon and the Institute is destroyed. Was a fair bet anyway, considering the current power of the BoS, but this pretty well confirms it. Maxson’s most likely still alive, then.

The pinkos on reddit aren't happy that the Maxson BoS apparently survived.  

3 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

I saw that. Rare time I disagree with a Drinker take, though not the only. He’s definitely a "fun > quality" guy, which I can relate to when it’s not a setting I particularly care about and want better from.

And more concerned with character development and production values than lore fidelity.

The Drinker is a fan

2 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Why are good shows getting cancelled and this got another season?!

Report to your Diversity Officer for retraining.

I’m prepared to be outraged if they fuck with New Vegas too much. But…

They were going to reset the games. This is well established pattern.

We don’t know that the whole NCR is gone, just Shady Sands. All those other people wouldn’t just disappear, though with no government it would be in fragmented form. Personally I am fine with that.

About the end reveal…

5 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Honestly, I could forgive a lot of shit if not for what was done to the NCR. Three games of worldbuilding just undone off-screen for the sake of the show’s shitty random Vault-Tec plot. 

I'm not going to defend the show, especially with how passionate you all are about it.

However, I do think you were at least meant to feel something when Lucy looks at the NCR flag, hence Inon Zur music.

I do think that I'm not as upset about the developments because I have zero emotional connection to the NCR to begin with.

8 hours ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

I heard the new fallout show was actually good xD

I'm probably the one here that enjoyed it the most. I'm really not bothered by the dumbass stuff. It was entertaining and had some cool nostalgia.

This explains a lot.  

1 minute ago, The Good Doctor said:

Nah, it works fine as far as I know. But it would’ve felt real gimmicky and key-jangly. 

The bigger problem for me would’ve been that making Nate not just a soldier, but a confirmed war criminal would’ve been a frustrating choice in an RPG where you’re supposed to build your own character.

Granted, Fallout 4 has that problem anyway. But it would’ve just been one more log on the burn pile.

Yeah people on social media are upset about golden boy Nate being a war criminal.  

Does the timeline not support that Nate could be in that cinematic? 

edit- He is apparently walking it back on X, saying that they discussed that being Nate during the design phase but your idea of Nate is still canon.

Whatever. I'm still pissed they made Nora a lawyer. I started writing a fanfiction story about Nate and Nora, with Nora as CIA agent and robotics patent lawyer was her cover. I didn't get very far, was just trying to not hate the character.

16 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said:

They want that and the tip 

If they want that, they can set up a Patreon like every other "creator." Good luck with that.

I do support 2 Patreons myself, Mentour Pilot and History Hustle.

2 hours ago, BigBossBalrog said:

It never ends. It never fucking ends.

I tip by buying DLC full price if the game is worth it.