The month of March is going to have some different contests, and so I wanted to give you a rough outline of what to expect in the coming weeks (it’s all good)!
We’re celebrating our inaugural GOTY poll by giving away all the winners*. YES, including a PS4, winner of our Best Next Gen Console category.
Actually…
We’re giving away TWO PS4s!
So here’s some of the prizes you can look for in March, each of the contests and entry rules will be posted in a separate blog post:
MEGA N4G GOTY BUNDLE
1 PS4
$200 Amazon Gift Card - enough to buy each of the winning games!
A PS4 code for Outlast
Plus something I'll announce soon, from the folks at Naughty Dog
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A second PS4
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4 PS4 codes for winning game Outlast
5 Steam codes for winning game Outlast
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Plus we’ll be giving away all the winning games!
A copy of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon $15 Amazon Gift Card
A copy of Battlefield 4 $40 Amazon gift card
A copy of TLOU $50 Amazon Gift Card (already have code)
A copy of GTA V $40 Amazon Gift Card
A copy of Tearaway $37 Amazon Gift Card
...and some Amazon gift cards for our regular Contributors!
Keep your eye on my blog for contest announcements and how to enter.
If you missed the GOTY results: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
*We like you enough to skip Ghosts, though the idea of having a Loser Prize *was* bandied about ;)
**PS4 and winning games may be substituted for their value, USD, in Amazon Gift Card(s)
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland
Obsidian should take over the FO IP. They're do far better with it than Bethesda who hasn't made a great game for almost 15 years
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
"We like you enough to skip Ghosts, though the idea of having a Loser Prize *was* bandied about"
LMFAO!!!! Too good.
"MEGA N4G GOTY BUNDLE"
http://s2.11x2.com/media/12...
"Plus something I'll announce soon, from the folks at Naughty Dog"
Guess I won't have to use my Joel impression if this is what I think it is.
Great selection of prizes and happy hunting to everyone this March. Question: Did you mention BF4 twice to say you'd be giving away two copies (or their price value) or was that just a slip-up? (Hopefully the latter [-_-]~)
I got a PS4 before it was cool in N4G contests! *Wears glasses that were cool before everyone uses it*
Seriously though, that is a great contest for someone who doesn't have a PS4. Good luck everyone! :D
Hmmm... (ಠ_ಠ)
I guess you can say (ಠ_ಠ)ノ-■-■
It's March Madness (-■_■)
Seriously though, insane prizes for this month!
I wouldn't wish Ghosts on my worst enemies...you guys have no souls.