• mult@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        The first Fallout game was made by Interplay and second one by Black Isle, Interplay’s in-house dev studio.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          They also looked a wee bit different from Bethesda’s entries.

          The fact that ‘Fallout’ 3/4 are in any way good after having been acquired by a different company and made in a different paradigm is a damn unicorn in the gaming world.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Have you played many of their original settings? I thought they’d be different. They’re all passingly interesting but haven’t really stuck in my head quite the same way

        • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          8 months ago

          It’s kind of a ship of Theseus situation, the writing from early TES games (and the writers too I’m assuming) isn’t the same as later ones. Making a more approachable game comes with sacrifices too.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      8 months ago

      And when they let yet another company do a game in the series as a one-off, it became widely regarded as the best title in the series post Bethesda acquisition.

  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Let’s rely on the modding community to fix our broken mess that’s riddled with game breaking bugs then release a patch 10 years later that breaks all mods.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      Well not too much for Starfield. Back when they announced it they were comments about how their engine isn’t good enough to pull off the things they were promising. It’s why I didn’t pre-order it.

      • U7826391786239@piefed.zipEnglish
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        8 months ago

        i expected bethesda graphics and gameplay, which were always meh after skyrim

        what i didn’t expect was the pointless boring in fact fucking tedious everything else involved in playing a video game-- wtf is this fetch quest about talking trees? go talk to this guy, and then go talk to that guy, and then and then and then-- what a fucking let-down.

        don’t worry i learned my lesson. i’ll never buy another bethesda title unless a year has passed and it still has a minimum ‘very positive’ rating. maybe not even then. fuck bethesda