"Summer: When girls unashamedly don their bikinis, guys unashamedly don their cameras and gamers shamefully load up Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. It's not fun and frolics for everyone, however because around summer's mid-point, members of the mainstream press brace themselves for what they call the "silly season"-–a period of weeks when the news simply dries up because everyone is doing entirely nothing. Ridiculous articles are cooked up to try to retain a readership that just doesn't care about who's doing who (or what) in the Big Brother house. Whether it's which actor's face has been found in a constellation or which politician is wearing a wig, the summer stories are always full of frivolity. For tabloid writers and those who have to suffer their work, the silly season is a time of pain and regret.
Conversely, the videogame industry's silly season is the absolute opposite. When Winter knocked on Autumn's door this year, it had brought along a rowdy horde of beautifully nubile big-name titles all looking to tempt us into spending the night with them. October alone offered such alluring vixens as LittleBigPlanet, Fallout 3, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rock Band II, Fable II, Dead Space, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Far Cry 2, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Quantum of Solace and, er, Wii Music. Six of those games came out in the space of five days. It doesn't exactly get quieter in the next two months, either, with a colossal number of big-hitters just waiting to come out and play. If 2008's Q4 is an Endless Ocean (sorry) then don't bother calling the lifeguard, I'm long gone with the fishes."
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If you are looking for an awesome RPG, look no further. Steam is offering a significant discount on its Fallout Franchise Bundle.
"You can get all Fallout games in a bundle at a significant 20% discount on Steam. Individually, all these games add up to $244.91. With the discount, you can get them all for $195.91. That is $49 less than the original price. Quite a significant discount for such a popular franchise."
😊 😂 🤣 😐 - But why?
Just wait for a sale and get most if not all of it for a fraction of that price.
20% off...lol
The original games have been given out for free by Amazon for GOG and Epic, 76 is free now on Amazon if you have prime, Epic has also given out new Vegas for free and 4 has gone down to pretty cheap prices. 194 bucks is a total ripoff when you can get these games individually for less. Don't forget cd keys might sell em for a dollar less at times too. Come on man, us cheapskates won't touch anything near or above 100 lolz
The artist behind Fallout 4’s Deathclaw reveals just how bad things got back when Bethesda took over the series
People are stupid I get it. No one should feel unsafe,
But I think they need to talk about why they cut so many corners during the development process and why none of their games ever look current. And why they think all of this is okay while they charge full price.
Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG remains an unabashed classic, more than a decade and a half on from its launch.
For me its the fact that I could put hundreds of hours into it and still find areas I missed in my earlier runs. It was also my first FO and despite what I had to put up with at times such as overall crashs and killing my orginal PS3 with the YLOD it's still my favorite entry to this day.
Tons of reasons
But my silly little one…hunting for unique weapons and armour
Something Fallout 4 just didn’t really have as much because they replaced most of it with randomly generated customised weapons. Even Elder Scrolla doesn't do it as well.
Sense of exploration. That was why older Bethesda games were so good. They might have had glitches, broken mechanics, meh visuals, etc., but they were some of the best around when it came down to the sense of exploration. You could go wherever you wanted and you would find something cool; it might have been a faction, a weapon, an enemy and much more. And that is what they are lacking now. Skyrim still had a lot of that, but Fallout 4 dropped it by focusing on an interconnected world and more randomly generated rewards. Fallout 76 just kept that trend and added multiplayer, and Starfield went even further in killing it by creating a whole universe with parts completely isolated from each other.
I think the retrospective of Fallout: New Vegas' existence has somewhat diminished the view of Fallout 3 in the eyes of many, but it getting out of the vault in Fallout 3 was, for me, the most remarkable experience I've had in a videogame.
I was 12 when it came out, and I remember I just saw the score it got in Gamemaster magazine (remember those!? 😅), and I just went to the shop and bought it with my pocket money.
Not knowing anything about the game, I thought the whole thing was going to be about growing up in a vault, especially given that I'd spent about 2 hours in it....I literally could.not.believe it when you got out and it was just this wasteland on every direction. Amazing.
Probably because these Bethesda games were hand crafted so that exploration meant something. Unlike Starfield where this sense of exploration is replaced with the illusion of scope and procedurally generated worlds. A player can always appreciate when they wonder into an unforgettable new encounter by accident or stumble across a new questline that becomes their favourite. Just like a player can always tell when they're ploughing through filler on auto pilot, that they'll forget the moment some resource numbers go up and nothing worth remembering occurred.
I mean, in Fallout 3 you could nuke an entire town as a SIDE QUEST. In The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, the Dark Brotherhood questlines were my favourite in any RPGs and you could completely avoid them if you didn't care for them. In The Witcher 3 side quests take you on ridiculously dark and mysterious storylines that are some of the best I've played in RPG history. There's a reason why people still talk about KOTOR to this day. Difference between a developer creating something or just padding a game world with stuff.
Ugh, I feel your pain!!!! My backforest is like the Boreal... :-(
It's great that we're given such good games to play but, well, I'd like them less stuffed into one season. Have pity on my bank account. -_-
Interesting piece.
I'd rather have too many games I want to play than not enough...
good article, great job