At the risk of instigating, I’ll assume that everyone who’s up in arms about heavy bobbypins is also up in arms about the breach in realism of having a magical device you can deploy anywhere that materializes 400+ pounds of shit you’ve collected in exchange for a little bit of money. And that they’re against the…

New vegas was made by another studio though. This is basically the same type of game NV was but online. Ive been having fun playing solo. 

I feel like the only people who are disappointed are the people who expected Fallout5... which it was never advertised as.

For me, who plays a bunch of survival games and Bethesda games, and see this as a marriage of the two, I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. I often log off with more quests than I logged in…

It is grossly exaggerated and the people that are upset at the game are the ones that thought this was going to be fallout 5. Bethesda never releases a game from the big two (fallout and ES) so close to each other and they always alternate them.

I think it’s somewhat of an exaggeration. The game has a long way to go before I’d call it a solid experience, for sure. It’s not a typical single-player fallout in many ways, and a lot of people are (totally fairly) not happy with it. that’s cool! It’s okay to not like it, and I get why people aren’t happy with the…

Just a friendly reminder as to what it used to look like:

Well, playing on a console is not the way I went.

Been playing it for 4 days and had exactly 1 crash and 1 bug that caused an issue that made me grumble. Other than that it is simply smooth sailing with no performance loss, and an interesting story that is even more so when with friends.

Felt pretty ready to me compared to other games like DayZ, Ark, Early minecraft, Rust, etc....

I played for a few hours last. Mechanically it plays exactly the same as FO4 except, it being a multiplayer game, VATS doesn’t slow time. It highlights enemies and makes it more likely to hit them. So you’re very reliant on FPS style shooting. 

Two things:

I mean, he doesn’t write about anything other than games when he isn’t writing about stuff other than games. His byline says “I write about video games, television, movies and the internet.” He appears to write as frequently about the Walking Dead as he does games, and the games he covers are exclusively the topics du…

And you’re more than welcome to criticize that! (Personally, I loved Skyrim to death but was realllly disappointed by Fallout 4.) I’m just hoping to explain to people what an engine actually is and why there’s no reason to panic when you see headlines like “Bethesda won’t change its engine for TESVI.”

And speaking as a programmer myself, it’s extremely industry-standard to reuse code. It’s practically a sin not to. The problems that code solves rarely change; sometimes you have to rebuild something from scratch because it’s gotten messy, but that’s usually on the scale of decades, not yearly release cycles.

Great article! I learned a few things.

Thank you. I’m so tired of a particular segment of gamers assuming that every fault in their games comes down to laziness on the part of game developers, a field of workers who are famously over-worked.

How is this person going to reasonably govern any differently from a Republican aside from not being overtly racist?

Hell, I tooted my horn for this lady and still think she’s capable of being a good governor. We can still criticize her choice here.

Yes, she is literally the same as the guy who poisoned Flint, because of a *checks notes* person on her transition team.

Still better than a republican.