General

I'm mostly tired of Bethesda's quest system. Close-up head with tree of dialogue options. It just feels tedious to me. One of the reasons FO3 is my favorite is that it's possible to just wander and avoid quests. In NV you couldn't do that either. I like the RPG elements and the open world otherwise.

Some interesting stats about Fallout, and Bethesda games on xbox. Taken from here: https://www.trueachievements.com/news/most-complet....

All based on global stats for people who played and unlocked the final main story achievement.

Only 10% of players completed Starfields main story.
Only 13% of players completed the Fallout 4 main story.
Only 17% of players completed Oblivion's main story.
Only 30% of players completed Skyrim's main story (360). (its gets worse with each iteration as you would expect, 9% for the special edition)
Only 35% of players completed the Fallout 3 main story.

Stats for New Vegas were not provided as it has multiple endings, but no definitive "you've finished the story" achievement like 4 does. And Morrowind didn't have them.

And I just pull the stats from PSN for the same "completed" the game trophies.
21% for Fallout 4.
27% for Fallout 3.
29% for Skyrim (ps3) (8% for special edition)
And Oblivion didn't have trophies. And Starfield is an exclusive.

Its always interesting to me that so many people buy games and just don't end up playing them. And not just to story completion. Like the shear amount of games people just don't unlock the the ones at the very start of the game. Like the ones that are basically "congratulations you just left the tutorial area". Which get you like 20 minutes to the game. So many games have such low % on those things. And pretty much every game has low % (under 50%) of story completions.

Playing games and collecting games are two very different things.

Only Fallout game I played and beat was 4. I don't know if there are multiple endings, but I remember HATING the ending I got (I don't really recall what it was). Hated it so much that I didn't want to revisit the games. I did however enjoy the environment and the lore, so I was excited for the show. About to complete it and I think this may edge out Sonic as the best videogame adaptation.

beavis wrote:

FO4 does have multiple endings. I think it has four endings if I remember correctly. But they are also all very similar too I think. Like just minor things changes based on the factions and who you sided with. Been while, I don't fully remember. But yeah, the best part about Fallout games is the open world stuff. Not the main story. Exploring, fighting and finding all the stuff on the map.

I started a new FO4 game on my PS5 and was just getting bashed up no matter what, so I opted to just track all my XBox One stuff down and continue my original play through haha. I think my issue on PS5 was that I was essentially just trying to speed run it to get to where I left off and we all know that sorta thing doesn’t really work out well if you eliminate all the exploration put in.

Should be interesting to see how well I fare without much memory of what was going on when I stopped the first time.

I'm waiting for the new FO4 update to drop... it'll also get Steam Deck verified so that'll be nice!

sinnie wrote:

Week from today. Its weird being impatient to play a game again, that I've already put over 200 hours into.

I tried playing the PS4 version on PS5 after finishing the show. Crash city. Couldn't get past the load up into screen. Apparently a week or so before the show came out they put out a new patch in preparation for the big update. And it broke all the DLC. You can only play it without the 4 workshop and automatron/robot DLC. And some how me downloading it like that and loading the game up, deletes my old save file. Its still in the cloud. But every time I download it and boot the game up, the game deletes it from the console. I think due to miss match info from the missing DLC. Such a mess. So I'm just waiting for the PS5 native app since I'll have to start over in that anyways.

If it comes with new trophies I’ll probably do it again. Just so much stuff out there and so little time.

It's got some new quest and other stuff. Of course I've got about 200hrs into it too and it's been so long I can't remember a lot of it. Except the beginning and end I got anyway. Though there were several possible endings I thought.

The show was just officially renewed for a second season.

Thank G

I like the show, but I wish they'd made it more serious and less of a comedy.

bill wrote:

The first episode was kind of rough. Definitely felt like a parody almost. Loved the second. I’m on 7 now and honestly it’s pretty boring. So much content to be explored- lots of feet dragging. I expected more from the reception it got.

bill wrote:

It got more serious as it went on. But the goofy/silly humor has always been apart of Fallout. I think if they removed too much of it they would have gotten more criticism for that. My favorite line from the show was a bit of the silliness, and a shout out to the games as well. When The Ghoul says "Yeah, well, the wasteland's got its own golden rule. Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullcrap every gosh darn time".

The finale episode was good.

I had some confusion about the father character.

@bill

It was a little confusing, I had to watch the episode twice. But it was neat stuff for sure.

Ah OK, that makes sense. Thanks.

2 episodes to go for me. I just don't want it to end. I feel it's a perfect balance of comedy (Fallout IS comedy while things are obviously very serious.)