Editorial Why Boston Doesn't Belong in Fallout 4 @ California Literary Review

[Black]

Sure it does belong in Fallout, 4 or any other. If you make stuff like mothershit shita (im clever) then one of it's pros is that once your audience has swallowed and gargled on it, they'll accept anything.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

lol Bethesda's Fallout.

No matter what the location it will still be shit.

I'll consider Fallout 4 the collection of raw ingredients of which Obsidian can make a proper game from.

 

[Micmu]

Yeah, so you wish for obsidian to work for betshitsda for food stamps and then get Hollywood accounted once again.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Yeah, so you wish for obsidian to work for betshitsda for food stamps and then get Hollywood accounted once again.

They're an independent studio who make RPGs, they're living hand to mouth as a rule.

At least working for Bethesda, they get to make another Fallout before they inevitably go under.

 

[Melcar]

They should set it in Mexico, along the border or close to it.

 

[Sabriana]

It wasn't so much the setting in FO3, as it was the idiotic story and even dumber gameplay. A lot made little to no sense, such as how the hell did the supermutants/mutants/enclave/brotherhood get there all the way from out west? Why is the captial of the US still recognizable as a former city? The White House and a huge area around it should be completely gone, etc. What, the Chinese that attacked D.C. had a particularly bad aim, with extraordinary weak/nonfunctional bombs and missiles?

Put it wherever you want, but for star's sakes, make it at least a bit logical. For example, put it into Florida, if you absolutely want, but make it a good main quest with new enemies that have a logical reason to be there. The same goes of course for any location. Don't just copy/paste the factions and enemies from out west, make them location-specific, because there were no more planes or high speed intercontinental trains, you know that Bethesda, right?

 

[Spectacle]

Yeah, so you wish for obsidian to work for betshitsda for food stamps and then get Hollywood accounted once again.

As long as we get another halfway proper Fallout, yes. It's not like Obsidian didn't get paid for New Vegas, they just didn't get a share of the massive profits. Hopefully the huge success of NV will give Obsidian a better negotiating position for a hypothetical Fallout 4 spinoff.

 

[sser]

They should do a prequel and set it in Detroit.

 

[sea]

How about New York City? We haven't had enough games set there lately.

 

[Infinitron]

Fallout: Vice City

"First you get the bottlecaps, then you get the power, THEN you get the woman!"

 

[Black]

They should set it in Mexico, along the border or close to it.

Yeah, then they wouldn't even have to change the scenery to make it post-apocalyptic.

 

[Luzur]

Fallout: Vice City

"First you get the bottlecaps, then you get the power, THEN you get the tranny supermutant!"

fix'd

It wasn't so much the setting in FO3, as it was the idiotic story and even dumber gameplay. A lot made little to no sense, such as how the hell did the supermutants/mutants/enclave/brotherhood get there all the way from out west? Why is the captial of the US still recognizable as a former city? The White House and a huge area around it should be completely gone, etc. What, the Chinese that attacked D.C. had a particularly bad aim, with extraordinary weak/nonfunctional bombs and missiles?

Put it wherever you want, but for star's sakes, make it at least a bit logical. For example, put it into Florida, if you absolutely want, but make it a good main quest with new enemies that have a logical reason to be there. The same goes of course for any location. Don't just copy/paste the factions and enemies from out west, make them location-specific, because there were no more planes or high speed intercontinental trains, you know that Bethesda, right?

try posting that on the TES forums.

 

[Melcar]

They should set it in Mexico, along the border or close to it.

Yeah, then they wouldn't even have to change the scenery to make it post-apocalyptic.

Drug cartels, mariachis, and whores. That would make a great PA game.

 

[Wise Emperor]

Fallout Tactics 2 was planned to take a place in Florida. STALKER proved that you can create nice postapoc feeling in Eastern Europe.




TBH, life actually proves that Ukraine is postapoc.

 

[Jaesun]

We have Wasteland 2 coming

This fucking shitty Fallout action game should just fie in a fire.

 

[Outlander]

Fallout: Vice City

"First you get the bottlecaps, then you get the power, THEN you get the woman!"

Fallout 4: The Wasteland Is Yours.

 

[Manjuice Nutella]

It wasn't so much the setting in FO3, as it was the idiotic story and even dumber gameplay. A lot made little to no sense, such as how the hell did the supermutants/mutants/enclave/brotherhood get there all the way from out west? Why is the captial of the US still recognizable as a former city? The White House and a huge area around it should be completely gone, etc. What, the Chinese that attacked D.C. had a particularly bad aim, with extraordinary weak/nonfunctional bombs and missiles?

Put it wherever you want, but for star's sakes, make it at least a bit logical. For example, put it into Florida, if you absolutely want, but make it a good main quest with new enemies that have a logical reason to be there. The same goes of course for any location. Don't just copy/paste the factions and enemies from out west, make them location-specific, because there were no more planes or high speed intercontinental trains, you know that Bethesda, right?

try posting that on the TES forums.

i would love to see Fallout in other places in the world. what about China/Europe/Russia?

Fallout 3 was much funnier, better game. It had many memorable characters like Moira, Dad, Three Dog...

ign rated fallout 3 #10, yeah sure you want to question professional journalists? lol

the story was much better, i felt emotionally attached to that tolkien-esque story of naive child going against all odds, it was really great and much more memorable.

NV was bland and boring, not post apocalyptic enough, it lacked that Fallout feel

 

[Orchestra of Wolves]

i would love to see Fallout in other places in the world. what about China/Europe/Russia?

Fallout 3 was much funnier, better game. It had many memorable characters like Moira, Dad, Three Dog...

ign rated fallout 3 #10, yeah sure you want to question professional journalists? lol

the story was much better, i felt emotionally attached to that tolkien-esque story of naive child going against all odds, it was really great and much more memorable.

NV was bland and boring, not post apocalyptic enough, it lacked that Fallout feel

Not sure if trolling... too hung over...

Anyway, as stated, the location itself isn't quite so relevant as not being retarded about it, and *GASP* coming up with something new and not rehashing already-defeated enemies that have inexplicably fled across the ruined shell of an expansive nation from one coast to another to try to garner old school cred while you butcher the lore, setting and anything resembling a good game. Set it in Somalia for all I care, but come up with something location-appropriate for wherever you put it, hire someone who can fucking write their way out of a wet bag and is capable of producing at least one original idea per game.

As to Fallout 4 in general, I'm cautiously optimistic that I won't pirate it/buy it out of a bargain bin way down the line just to experience the soul-crushing atrocity directly.

 

[Modron]

Not sure if trolling... too hung over...

Not trolling hes just providing hypothetical ESVtard responses to Luzur's proposition.

With the onset of a lot of potentially good rpgs in 2013, we might get nostalgic for the shittier days of 2003-2012 and play fallout 4 just to give us something to rage against when the other sites start dissing our street cred.