Honestly, there are a thousandy Rust clones on Steam right now as well. I really hope it pushes the envelope a bit, rather than just copying an existing genre and theming it with Fallout stuff.

As long as it’s not the forced-risk/Thunderdome style game, it could be really cool. If it’s a more focused, macro-narrative-driven dynamic co-operative “restart civilization” idea, it could be amazing. The vault could the hub for grouping up and accessing certain baseline resources, then you go out with your small…

Also they said something about not having the tech to significantly advance the Elder Scrolls series yet. So, I think they’re in some hardcore R&D and working on other games until they get that advanced a bit.

Crap. You’re absolutely right. I misread the “23" for a “27" when I looked it up. Like a dummy. :P. Thanks for the correction. :)

As long as it actually has focus and purpose, I’m all for this. If it’s just a cheap cash grab at the genre that dozens of other studios have already tackled, then not only do I think it’s a late-to-the-game terrible business idea, but it’s also going to be a nothing-but-gameplay-loop-for-its-own-sake piddly shell of…

Because, if it’s TOO similar, it’s like someone telling you “I have made a whole new cake for you, and I know you love cake!”, and it turns out it’s the same cake with different-colored sprinkles. So, you’re like “someone spent all this time and effort to produce what could’ve been a delicious, new cake, but instead,…

What does “it’s an online game of some sort” even mean? That’s SO vague. “we hear” that? How do you hear that, Kotaku? What specific info leads you to believe that? If it was that Bethesda literally said “it’s an online game of some sort,” then why didn’t someone say “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!”

For what it’s worth, the date on the Pipboy at the beginning of the trailer is exactly 25 years after the date of the initial bombs falling (October 27th, 2077).

Great... so they’re turning on loot boxes. Can’t wait to see the next huge mistake they all flock to to piss everyone off.

Also, the soundtrack is PHENOMENAL! It’s like art, for your tiny fluid-submerged ear-bones! 8D

But they didn’t spend millions on advertising and put famous voice-actors into the game! How on earth did you hear about it, much less DESIRE it, if someone didn’t tell you how much you should be desiring it?! o_O

Given the context (we’re talking about a $6 that’s only a few hours long), the comment was obviously directed at the extreme end of the spectrum. It’s not like the article just said “Pssshhh... people who decide a game’s price based on the length of the game are idiots.” It set up the comment beforehand. Also, there…

Fahrenheit (/Indigo Prophecy) was pretty great, BUT, it was more fantastical, too. It starts REALLY mundane, then just keeps getting more fictional. So, I can see how a future in which everything’s almost exactly the same BUT there are super-cheap-yet-super-advanced androids everywhere might not be necessarily the…

4 wasn’t really that bad, gameplay-wise. I freakin’ loved it. The story and writing (or at least English translation and voice-acting?) were pretty un-good, though. 5 just tried to go crazy with the whole “17 characters in simplistic action combat AT ONCE! 8D!” thing. If you wanna up the characters in combat, you’ve…

Effing mobile games... *fist clench of anger*. Heh, there’s nothing wrong with their existence, but I hate when something with established, solid gameplay gets “mobilized,” and just becomes something to pass the time with that also happens to technically be themed after a game series. It is sad.

This! My friend is one of those people who’s already played every game I ever discover, but right when they came out, etc. So I get the remasters and stuff of them way later, and go “Hey, check it this cool game!” And he’s like “Yeah, that was a good one. Already knew about it.” But then, there are patched in changes…

I have to give this game mad props for not rolling with the “your magical potency is equally proportionate to the amount of time you stand around like a frail old man, charging up your glow-circles and trying to avoid butterfly farts that could kill you” caster template.

So, wait...! How do you get the money and healths out of the barrels?! THEY’RE SUFFOCATING IN THERE! T_T

As much as this sucks that it occurs, it’s not really a plague you can vaccinate against. It’s just peeps who happen to behave like this. It’s not even a “group.”

As interesting of a thought as the whole “what about the NPCs?” thing is, you can’t really test it by making another game. For one thing, now John is just a prop for your sociological “point.” For another, what the hell are we supposed to do in games... control ALL the characters in the entire game? “I’ll flirt with…