Fallout Announcement Confirmed!

[WonkyWarmaiden]

Did you actually play Fallout 3 or did you immediately hate it because Bethesda made it?

Sinked more time in it than I'm comfortable to admit. Oh, I also find the entire TES series (sans TESO, because fuck TESO) to be the absolute masterpiece of exploration based adventure.
But then they chose to inbreed it with Fallout setting and refused to throw the resulting freak of a baby off a cliff.

Dude, if you hate the new Fallout games so much then why do you even care about this series anymore?

Because I just can't just stop caring about something parts of which I still really-really love. Obsidian occasionally storming in and being awesome all over my face does not help.
Well, that, and Todd Howard drinks all the water from my tap. And pisses into my cereal. And makes washing machine chew blankets and lightbulbs go out.

Bethesda makes open-world games with tons of quests, that's what they do

That's what they do NOW. Before they hired an entirely new development department - they could do that AND also good writing. See Morrowind. And if you expect them to remain like they are now forever in our age of discarded dev teams - you will be disappointed.

For me, that's what I want

My chaotic set of subjective preferences in electronic entertainment > Your chaotic set of subjective preferences in electronic entertainment

Whatever man. Have fun glaring hatefully at Bethesda or whatever. I'll be over here waiting for Fallout 4.

 

[Nieroshai]

Did you actually play Fallout 3 or did you immediately hate it because Bethesda made it?

Sinked more time in it than I'm comfortable to admit. Oh, I also find the entire TES series (sans TESO, because fuck TESO) to be the absolute masterpiece of exploration based adventure.
But then they chose to inbreed it with Fallout setting and refused to throw the resulting freak of a baby off a cliff.

Dude, if you hate the new Fallout games so much then why do you even care about this series anymore?

Because I just can't just stop caring about something parts of which I still really-really love. Obsidian occasionally storming in and being awesome all over my face does not help.
Well, that, and Todd Howard drinks all the water from my tap. And pisses into my cereal. And makes washing machine chew blankets and lightbulbs go out.

Bethesda makes open-world games with tons of quests, that's what they do

That's what they do NOW. Before they hired an entirely new development department - they could do that AND also good writing. See Morrowind. And if you expect them to remain like they are now forever in our age of discarded dev teams - you will be disappointed.

For me, that's what I want

My chaotic set of subjective preferences in electronic entertainment > Your chaotic set of subjective preferences in electronic entertainment

I have to admit: having just played Fallout 1 because it was on sale, I can't see your points. Its gameplay is different, clearly, but that's moot. Let's go to the story. You have to go find a component to keep your vault from running out of fresh water. You run into side quests along the way. You make a lot of utterly inconsequential decisions, as well as some big ones (WAY too many of which result in immediate game-overs, RIP roleplay?), then you have to stop a mutant invasion, all within a time limit that inhibits exploration unless you're highly proficient in all mechanics and already know where everything you need is. I haven't played the second game yet, but based on #1, FO3 not being a decent successor (being an action shooter instead of a TBS notwithstanding) sounds to me like nostalgia goggles. Having played 3 and NV, FO1 felt like FO3: the Board Game. Not more complex, not less complex, not better, not worse, but an ultimately similar roleplay game experience.