I would hardly call making an online survival style game just like literally everyone else in the industry is but with a Fallout skin some kind of subversive business descision.

Oh this is the perfect storm. Imagine Bethesda level bugs combined with an online survival RPG. This will make ARK look like an incredibly polished game.

I get things change, genres age, etc. But this just feels like a cash grab. What’s next?

Fallout Anchorage Battlegrounds Simulator?
Fallout Vaul-Tec Card Game?

Can you at least use the proceeds to give us a Fallout game with more than two dialogue options? Maybe hire some old Black Isle employees?

There is a lot you can say about Fallout 76, but there’s one thing you definitely can’t call it.

I blame Dan Abnett and his Gaunt’s Ghost series. Granted I haven’t actually read the series, being a Gotrek and Felix fan myself, but those books started just before all the crazy fun started getting leached out. That, and they were the first Imperial Guard (that I knew of) to use human snipers instead of Ratlings.

There’s a bit of “chicken-and-egg” thing. Did the fans slowly start taking it too seriously first, or did GW?

The “short version” is five paragraphs. I love 40k. :D

When WH40K first began it was basically Star Wars meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

“And 95% of the time, most non-40k fans are always introduced to THE SPACE MARINES! Who just so happen to be the most boring characters in the entire universe.”

The length of time between F3 and NV was short. I want a New, New Vegas. Not.... This.

“no resources wasted or lost on developing another title in that universe.”

Yeah, but I really would rather Bethesda go back to making less RPG-lite action games. I know companies change and markets shift; but damn if I wouldn’t cut off a toe for a game as crunchy and wild as Morrowind. And I’d even let them choose which toe.

Doom and Wolfenstein were strong and successful single player games. Also don’t think Dishonored is DoA quite yet. If they give the reigns for Rage 2 to ID then I’m pretty comfortable w/ that. So right now I have them at about 50/50

Bethesda has previously claimed to be the last bastion of single-player games, but I’m growing fervently suspicious.

Everyone thought the future ES:6 would be elven lands - well, now it’s in the MMO.

I would love to play a new RPG-based Fallout, but since Fallout 4 was a great shooter with a terrible, terrible set of RPG mechanics, I can’t say I trust Bethesda to produce one. And I loved FO3 and FNV.

The fallout news is a flaming garbage fire. I want my single player only rpgs. Fight me.

I’m sorry, have you played The Witcher?

I think the Witcher III is a pretty definitive test-case for this scenario. There’s definitely an anti-anime stigma attached here.

Folks over at LupieSoft made a interesting point (I read in a techraptor article), that they believe if they made the exact same game with 3D realistic art style, no one would mind.

Can’t say I disagree personally.