AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Wow it's so nice to know that we can look forward to fifteen more years of shallow looty shooty games that do disservice to their source material because new fans and the devs themselves are complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

I mean ideally we'd have both depth of narrative AND excellent combat, exploration, crafting, etc, but I'll take shallow but entertaining over deep but just kind of fun when it comes to my video games. S'why I find myself playing Starcraft 2 so much.

Well, if mediocrity can bring in the $$big bucks$$, why wouldn't they?

Although... it seems like Fallout 4 hasn't inspired the same level of devotion that Skyrim did, though it may be still too early to tell from sales numbers. Yeah it sold a lot, mainly due to hype and marketing, but will it stand the test of time? I think that a lot of complaints have been common enough to have been heard by now, especially the big ones like people not liking the voiced protagonist or dialog options.

On the other hand, we will probably see more of the features that people did like, such as the crafting system, perks, and the gunplay. Story and writing... it's hard to say, because the average consumer or even the average review writer usually doesn't articulate on what exactly made the writing so bad or why choice and consequence matter so much. They'd be more likely to say something vague like "I just kinda lost interest in it". So it's kind of a toss up as far as writing goes.

Plus, it'd be hard to market "Hey guys we gave the story and characters more depth and nuance!" in an E3 trailer, you know? They're more likely to focus on things that are more... tangible? Able to be shown off quickly so that more people will buy it, even people who aren't devoted fans.

u wot

an improvement over New Vegas and Fallout 3, but excellent? I think not.


Also if Bethesda would just let Obsidian take the reins again, then we'd get our nuance and depth back. AND they'd be able to work with the mechanics that Fallout 4 established. That's what they did with New Vegas after Fallout 3, after all.

Q4 2017 - Fallout: Newer Vegas.

It was rumored that a patent had been filed for the name 'Fallout: New Orleans' and that Obsidian was going to work on it but I'm p sure it was debunked like immediately

which is absurdly disappointing

I want a midwest Fallout. Chicago could be fun. Detroit would be a little too on the nose.

I'd like one based in China, since the Chinese are a pretty big thing in the Fallout history.

Having one in Alaska would be fun too since an important part of the pre-bomb wars happened there

but it's so empty and barren, the devs would HAVE to use their imaginations to envision what 'future alaska' looked like before the bombs
and that might be too hard for them

Also, Russia could be a potential location as they were one of the big superpowers in the world.

But we already got Metro 2033 so there's no need for apocalyptic game based in Russia.

It would be nice to see China though, Dick Richardson said it was blasted back into the stone age. It probably took nukes from both US and the Soviet, so the radiation could be significantly higher in China. There hasn't been any mention of Russian attacks on the US during the war, so I imagine the Soviet Union and the US allied together against China, hence the nukes from two nations.

It'd be cool if in China, due to the extra radiation, Ghouls are the biggest race so smooth skins are looked down upon.

Yeah, it'd be cool to have cities like the Necropolis fairly widespread. So long as they use named such as Necropolis, Crypt and so on. Gotta have some sense of humour about it.

Personally I'm rooting for a Fallout: Canada, because Canada was annexed by the states.

Polar yao guai pls

Mooseclaw