#i can't play fallout 4 or oblivion for an ENTIRE DAY

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ok i just saw this one ab cyberpunk and ur fallout ask so im gna reply in one! sry for the long fallout reply bethesda games are a special interest of mine.

i hated everything to do w arasaka. i feel like you just can’t trust them not to turn you into an engram to use you in some way. i wanted to destroy them the entire time so siding with them would have been ass backwards. it feels like an easy way out, if you just don’t want to fight them but don’t want to take the pills.

portal 1 and 2 will always be some of my all time favorite games. top five probably. i haven’t played all of half life, but i’ve played enough to understand the comparison and it makes me want to play PL more than anything else i’ve seen

you don’t have to play the fallout games in a specific order and they can be played as stand alone games, so you don’t have to play all of them! 3 and NV can be played together if you have a PC. you can download a mod called the tale of two wastelands that combines the two so you can play them seamlessly, and it upgrades 3 to NV’s mechanics so its just.. so much better all around. 1 & 2 are really old and have 2d graphics, 3 and 76 came out after bethesda purchased the rights and they started developing it in 3d w the gamebryo engine that they used on oblivion. 4 and 76 are on bethesda’s own creation engine

the spin offs: the games above and dlc for them are the only ones i have played/know about enough to talk about. the rest are not important/not big games. die hard fans play them for the lore, and i watch the youtube videos they make about said lore.

i haven’t played fallout 1 or 2, but i’ve been playing 3 and new vegas since they came out! i played on ps3 growing up but im currently replaying new vegas for the millionth time on pc and im going to play 4 and 76 after. wasn’t a big fan of 4 when it first came out but i want to give it another shot. 3 and NV have aged a bit graphically but are incredibly enjoyable despite any issues. there’s more good than bad. there is so much lore. lots fun mechanics and goofy things. incredible stories. lots of side quests. companions with side quests. exploration is a big thing, they have big maps and you aren’t sent everywhere with the main story, so you have to just wander sometimes. they have their issues, but if you play them on pc you can use mods to fix most of them. tale of two wastelands fixes most if you play that, so you don’t have to search for bug fixes.

the show is incredible, i didn’t have high hopes but i binged it in a day and it made me replay the games. also, the show lowkey spoils the games because the entire mystery is revealed in the show, like The Big Theory that has never been officially confirmed was confirmed at the end of the show. which is really cool and great. but sad i did not get to play it in game, and now if i do, then it won’t hit as hard because the reveal is already done.

omg don't apologise this is great!!

RIGHT totally agree about arasaka, it just feels so weird...which is kinda what makes me think maybe you get a completely different ending but somehow i can't imagine it would be any kind of positive one. i could def see them turning V in to an engram and imprisoning them in their own cyberspace ngl. maybe i'll play corpo lifepath at some point and do the arasaka ending out of curiosity but it'll def be the last one i choose.

the fallout advice is sooo helpful ty! sadly i don't have a PC and from my researching it looks like the only way to play it on PS currently is to play the stream from the PS+ premium tier which ehhhh doesn't sound like a great solution. so that's a bummer 😔 i actually reinstalled steam onto my macbook this morning to see if i could still play half-life on it but macs no longer support 32bit games so that's most of my steam library obselete lol.

anywayyyy that narrows down my options to 4 and 76!! would you say the dlc for 4 is worth it? there's a bundle for 4 +the 6 add-ons for like £36 on the store.

SIDE NOTE but on the subject of portal... i only found out yesterday that portal 1 & 2 are on the switch now!! i bought them both immediately and i'm having SO much fun replaying the first one omg. it works so so well on switch too, it feels like the perffect game for the device. i forgot how fucking funny and perfect the dialogue is. and it looks SO good on the switch screen (i have the oled so it's super juicy looking).

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Weird long rant incoming, but this is only to be expected by you following my account.

I remember when I bought a PS5 with my stim check I had a friend that was absolutely flabberghasted that I was getting a playstation console. I tried to explain to him that I hadn't had a playstation system (with the exception of a PS3 I bought in 2011 that broke nearly immediately after the warranty ended) since the PS2, and there were a ton of exclusives I'd missed out on for years I wanted.

When I mentioned these exclusives, he looked at me like I was stupid and asked 'what games?' This flabberghasted me as I'd just explained the games I wanted to play.

The core of his argument was that Game Pass offered such a wide array of games that he couldn't imagine a few solo adventures that admittedly had similar game design could pry me away from it. To some extent he was right, Game Pass is a really fantastic service, but I've never felt that it offered me such fantastic exclusives that it would keep me with an X-Box console. I never would've gotten the X-Box One if it wasn't gifted to me second hand at a time where I hadn't really been gaming for a few years. I always wanted the PS4, because the game library looked far more interesting to me. Game Pass didn't really factor into my decision.

We debated a bit about exclusives, and the argument lead to him saying he couldn't imagine going to another console when Bethesda had settled down with Microsoft. I, very honestly, said 'I really don't give a shit about Bethesda anymore', and that ended the argument.

I liked the Elder Scrolls as a kid, and I still like the lore of it. I bought Morrowind and Oblivion on the same day, and Oblivion is very special to me. I bought Skyrim at launch at midnight, and while I didn't love it like I did Oblivion, I liked it a lot. Hell, for a very short period of time I tried to write for Beyond Skyrim because I believed/believe in that project, but real life got in the way of me ever doing much. But I never bought and rebought Skyrim like others did. I had my 360 copy, and then I played the remaster on Game Pass and never beat it. I've tried to beat Morrowind for the first time a bunch of times, so that's the game I go back to more, and inevitably put down because I'm bad at it. I love Oblivion but it's the only game I've ever 100% beat so I don't have a reason to go back.

Combine that with Fallout, a series I never really had an attachment to. I liked Fallout 3, I never got into New Vegas, I tried the originals and found they weren't for me, and I've never played more than a handful of hours of Fallout 4. The reason honestly is that I'm not hooked by the worldbuilding, I find it odd and clunky and it's just not for me. My Dad actually plays the games a lot, I gave him my copies because he enjoyed them more, but even he admits that he's extremely frustrated with these games he plays over and over again because of how riddled with bugs they are.

I haven't played Starfield. I have no interest in it. Any interest I might've had in it died on the vine with a combination of Bethesda's tanking approval, the knowledge that they were STILL using that fucking engine, and them not being interested in any of the things that would excite me about a sci-fi game.

The aforementioned conversation, by the by, happened before the release of Starfield. He was shocked I didn't really care about it. He still seems kind of shocked.

I think I just don't believe in the myth of Bethesda anymore. I don't think their games are these magical properties where you can do things no other games can offer, I never did, and that whole argument has been used to hold up a company so against any sense of change and self-reflection that it actively makes every entry they put out suffer more and more. I just can't fathom caring about a studio that seems entirely uninterested in moving on from what makes them comfortable in order to save the weight of their games from it's ever-snapping support structures. Worse, I can't understand repeatedly giving your faith to a company that lies to you about it, over and over again.

Bethesda is an anomaly to me. Everything I just said has been said a thousand times, and even the companies starkest defenders agree with these points... and yet they still are one of the most successful companies in the world. I find that fact deeply difficult to accept, and find it even more frustrating to watch the Bethesda release cycle clog along like a rollercoaster that needs to be decomissioned, yet has hundreds of fans seemingly ignoring the rotting wooden foundation excitedly climbing on to experience something that could so easily be duplicated by someone else who cares just a little more about their experience.