lol guess who just binged watched Fallout?

ik that bathesda is the deadest horse around but at this point but i feel like the absurdity of the fo4 update situation needs to be expressed. like someone at bathesda was like "hm a lot of people are buying and revisiting the games bc of the show. you know what we can do to make them like the game more? release an update that brings back the enclave in the worst written, most contrived way possible where they act so ooc that you may as well have made up a new faction all together! also make sure that it makes the game significantly buggier and breaks almost every mod. you know, since the modding community isnt one of the biggest reasons people play bathesda games. Hell, it's not like mods have been doing a better job at everything this update set out to do for years now without entirely breaking every fo4 mod made ever.

.When should we release it? two days before the launch of one of the most hyped fallout modding projects ever that's been in development for 5 years, making that project cancelled into the void forver. also add Halloween decorations that are admittedly kinda sick,"

skyrim has been my go-to game for about a year now, but i've recently started playing morrowwind, and, well... it's not as simple as "morrowwind good; skyrim bad", there's a reason i've played so much skyrim and loved it! but there's a lot of places where morrowind excels while skyrim utterly flounders. they almost don't feel like games from the same series. they are both amazing, but the venn-diagram of what they're good at has surprisingly little overlap. and then there's oblivion, which in some ways is a bridge between the two and in other ways a total outlier

idk man, i just want a game with the stupendous vibes of skyrim, the story writing of oblivion, the quest design and world building of morrowind, and the batshit insane freedom and depth of daggerfall. is that too much to ask?

Honestly evil within 2 really should have centered around Stefano only , he was the perfect villain , like how can you top his artistic way later in the game ? Others were pale to his madness

Anyways this is my Starfield oc, Jack Renfield the space scoundrel

Ghostwire: Tokyo

Shinji Mikami’s Tango Gameworks studio has been an oddity so far. After Mikami’s directed game, The Evil Within, failed to impress, its sequel where he stayed in a background role completely turned everything around. The Evil Within 2 was a surprise hit that knew how to use old design styles and modern sensibilities alongside a wildly creative art team to make one of the most impressive horror games in the past decade. Then, the studio moved onto a mysterious project known as Ghostwire: Tokyo, and that game came out five years after their last game.

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Game Bytes: Starfield

Starfield is an action role-playing video game from Bethesda. Starfield is set in an area that extends outward from the Solar System for approximately 50 light-years called the Settled Systems. Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in a conflict called the Colony War. The game takes place 20 years after the war, with the…

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I was going to write a long post about Starfield and my experience with it so far, but it's really not worth it.

I'm mostly disapointed wih how underwhelmed I am. 12 years of experience post Skyrim and they could have put some lessons learned into place, but... no.

It's laggy Skyrim in space. The oddest things cause the game to freeze for seconds because it hadn't loaded yet (like jumping sounds). The whole experience just feels slow and most everything the game tries to do has already been done better elsewhere.

Mods will save this game, but for me it's just a solid "meh". Which is almost worse than having something I hate; at least a bad game sticks with me.

If bethesda ever does remake new vegas I really hope they do a vr port that would be so fuckin fun

If you care at all about trans people, don’t fucking get Starfield. The company literally abused a trans worker for years, then tried to manipulate and force her to quit and not sue them for their insane and brutal discrimination. Don’t fucking buy it. Don’t fucking encourage bathesda.

hegelian dilectics like i will download so many mods for this fallout game because it will crash and glitch all the time anyway so i may as well just do what i want

Hi-Fi RUSH is a 10/10 and the fact that it’s $30 and I had more fun playing this than some games that have released at a $70 price tag says something.

Say what you will about George Lucas' rereleases of the original Star Wars Trilogy with silly edits, at least he did it years after the movies came out and there were still copies of the original releases. I'm looking at you Lord and Miller.

Deathloop

After Prey (2017) underperformed, Arkane mainly focused on an expansion for Dishonered 2 and helping MachineGames with some Wolfenstein projects. As for the next big project, that turned out to be Deathloop, a game subtly set in the Dishonored universe in an alternate history style Cold War era, and it turned out to be very, very different from any other project they’ve done tonally. Not necessarily in the design, mind you. 

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The success of the Fallout TV show makes me really hopeful we'll someday get to see Fallout 4's Nick Valentine in something. There is SO MUCH POTENTIAL in that character's design, premise, and presentation, none of which could be truly realized within the boundaries of Fo4.

Just... LOOK at this grizzled synthetic-detective! The character design alone is too good to be limited to a companion in a Bathesda game. I need this fellow to STAR in something!