BigBossBalrog

13 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Nearly everything in 4 is the low point. Tone, art design, writing quality (until the show). The one thing it’s got going for it is Maxson and the BoS, and amusingly most modern fans hate the BoS in Fallout 4.  

If were comparing I think Fallout 3 is elevated by really strong art direction, quest design, and the Fallout 1-esque horror elements. Yeah it's writing aint good, but it's better then 4 in that regard  

Like these fuckers. Yuck 

4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

I crap on Bethesda Fallout a lot, but I wont fault them for their monster design. They invented lots of cool mutants.

I'd say they've been slipping since 4 was a pretty big step down, but Far Harbour and Fallout 76 has some really awesome ones, so I think we can chalk 4 up as an irregularity. But I still say artistically 3 was there high point. So filthy. 

14 minutes ago, Celan said:

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.  

Ironically, the Fallout 3 design Queen is more pulpy; It's a homage to the Gillman from Universal Monsters  And yeah, it's a million times more soulful then 4 version's. 

You're just repeating me and Doc's live pm when we watched 

3 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said:

Ok how did the turret not hit them on episide two  

Every important character in the show has the essential npc tag 

Here's a good example of a company making a light-hearted jab at their predecessors earlier work; I think this is supposed to be a dig at our favorite edge-lord Spartan 

3 minutes ago, Celan said:

Here's another gem from this dimwit but I can't find anywhere where it says that she worked on the production.

 

I saw it being paraded around X and people were saying they were part of the production. If that isn't the case, I guess it's some dummy 

Alot of petty drama happening in the industry in April for some reason 

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 

2 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

Yeah, I don’t believe it. "Death threats" and "Racist/Sexist DMs" have become every media corporation’s shield from criticism in the 2020s. It’s a way to paint critical fans as "toxic" evil bastards.

Now that the Fallout series has been eaten up by the masses, they seem to be treating that "validation" as a Casus Belli to finally go all out on demonizing classic Fallout fans 

https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-reveal-death-threats-security-guard-bethesda-1851423466

*Roll my eyes* I think death threats are terrible, but it seems really coincidental that Beth is opening up on them right now. 

10 minutes ago, TheCzarsHussar said:

Watched this since it was in my recommended. One of the most memorable episodes and only had Jack in it for like a minute lmao

Never killed a person my ASS

That's another Lone Wolf and Cub reference 

For a cringe comedy Gag Manga, Road to the Erdtree goes hard sometimes 

9 hours ago, The Good Doctor said:

Watched A Haunting in Venice last night. It was a really good mystery/detective movie. Had great characters, a tight script, a compelling mystery, and even a little horror. Sets in Italy were beautiful too.

Most impressive part was how well it kept you guessing at whether or not there was anything supernatural going on without ever feeling like it was cheating or lying to the audience.

I’d recommend it to anyone here. Especially @BigBossBalrog and @Celan. Seems like your kind of thing.

I remember liking the trailer and then being cheesed a movie called a Haunting in Venice wasn't a true horror movie, but i'll check it out 

Well there it is. Amazon's probably slobbering on the mouth. 

Just now, The Good Doctor said:

Gaming fandoms are the most oppressive force of the 21st century. 

"For the first time Bethesda had to hire a security guard...because of Fallout fans* 

Oh and the historical revisionism is starting again

58 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

There are people on the Fallout subreddit theorizing that the Elder in the TV series is secretly Caesar in disguise, pretending to be BoS so he can use their resources to take over the wasteland. Also that the Prydwen we see is not actually sent by Maxson, but is instead a second, identical, airship that "the Elder" built in secret to fool his followers into thinking he had support from the Commonwealth.  

That's stupid enough I could see Bethesda going with it 

You know another thing I like? Rather then some dumb wussy thing; the highest intelligence weapon in the games, and the peak magic build, is a giant, fucking blade 

Bioshock's I think - shockingly - is going to be pretty easy to adapt as long as you have strong writers. They just have to follow the blue print of the backstory that's already been laid out for them. 

7 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said:

We’ve been talking aboht this for two years. With superheroes going out, video game movies/shows are gonna be the next big "thing". 

That happened in the early 2000s too but nobody took them seriously and the creators seemed embarrassed to be adapting video games. Times have changed and now there’s a lot more effort being put into them.

Mario made like a billion dollars.  

And Sonic's also made a billion bucks now  But I think it's a little bit different with the animated front. We had them, Castlevania, and Arcane already; which were all very successful.  But with Fallout (outwardly ) and Last of Us showing the gritty (and super expensive) live action offering can be just as profitable, I think it's going to explode. 

I would imagine with this and Last of Us being so successful and causing a massive spike in sales for their catalogue, everyone's going to be rushing to  get big budget, live-action adaptions now.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/fallout-4-jumps-to-no1-across-europe-following-tv-show-launch

Now Bethesda is going to re-release THIS game twenty five times 

*Pictured below: the Enclave hiring a group of no good mercs to fire a nuke at Shady Sands*