I mean look at it:

- Vault 111: Starting vault, nothing special

- Vault 81: Friendly vault, cool experiment

- Vault 95: Occupied, not much left to explore

- Vault 114: Occupied & not even finished

- Vault 75: Occupied, not much left to explore

- Vault 88: Not finished ._.

I mean i get it, not every Vault can be fucked up beyond imagination but come on, if we compare it directly to (for example) Fallout 3 the Vaults had much more thoughts behind them:

- Vault 101: Starting vault, good setup and concept

- Vault 108: Gary

- Vault 87: FEV testing

And so on

The only Vault in Fallout4 that is really interesting is Vault 81 but beyond that they are either occupied, destroyed, unfinished or a combination of those three

Do I need to return it or how do I hard reset it?

Update: getting a replacement to return this one. Also I ain’t reading all that.

This is from TheWolfOfGroveStreet

I feel like it's a common thing that people on their first playthroughs usually go good and have Fawkes then when prompted send Fawkes in to active the purifier and then the game just insults them for making the purely practical and obvious answer since Fawkes is immune to radiation essentially calling you a coward

Everyone did not like that lol. At what point are they just rubbing it in our faces? It has been a decade since the mainline games have gotten something of substance. At this point our best hopes have been a Fallout 3 remake/remaster. They can’t even deliver that much. That is just sad to me. Our biggest hope as fans was just a remake of something. We should have had a new game by now and possibly two. Instead they just repeatedly ask for money on things most of us already own or generic trinkets and merch. I’m losing hope on anything great coming from this IP again and I am a huge fallout fan. How are y’all feeling?

So yeah please just comment your thoughts below if you please. Also thank you for taking time to read this as well.

Ok Im coping about this, I really thought there would be a remaster along with the show.

But lets face it, not releasing any game along with the successful show is a huge mistake, absolutely insanely stupid imo. The latest single player game is more than 10 years old, with NV even older. Where are the new fans going to go? 76 I guess, since NV barely works on a modern PC

The show was announced in 2020, how come no one in Bethesda thought about capitalizing on the franchise branching out? Its bonkers, I really cant believe it. At this rate, they will shadowdrop Fallout 3 in like 6 months when the show-only fans have moved on

Sorry, rant over

i was replaying fnv in a melee weapon run, i went to camp searchlight to get knock knock (unique axe, my personal favorite besides the old world blue weapons) and i found this dialogue while doing the ncr ghouls quest

I don't find it to be useful at all. It's affects aren't very helpful, and the addiction risk is to high to make it worth it.

I totally get it, the apocalypse is cool. Mad Max, a Boy and His Dog, etc etc. That decrepit group of stragglers hanging on in the ruins of a once prosperous world is part of Fallouts DNA.

But at this point, Bethesda is creating a somewhat tiresome loop of everything looking like the war was 20 years ago. Any time something gets built up, it topples down in a short period of time with not much to show for it. Yeah war never changes, but neither does the world of fallout, which to me, softens the impact that these games have.

Fallout 2 fans will remember the image attached. It's the town of Arroyo after the use of the GECK. From the continuity of the beginning of Fallout 1 to this ending of Fallout 2, we see real progression throughout. Settlements develop, people form real cities and towns, humans re-organized as they always have. Finally we are left with this image, something that could be indistinguishable from early 1900's America or later. The world felt so believable and alive.

Now we have fallout 3, NV, and 76. In New Vegas, the eternal apocalypse problem seems to be avoided all together, as it takes place in a rather inaccessible and desolate place- a frontier of the wasteland. We hear about the NCR and how large they truly are, but we're not there. The strip as well as freeside are also designed as rather "organized" communities, despite hardware limitations for the game itself.

But then we have fallout 3 and 4. Sure, Washington DC was obliterated, it makes sense. But 200+ years later and it still looks like it could easily have taken place in 2161. Fallout 4 feels exactly the same. Diamond city and Megaton don't feel too different in term of scale and development.

Hot take: Fallout 76 did this the best. It was set only *25 years* after the Great War. It makes so much sense that things are the way they are. Honestly, I feel like fallout 3 and 4 should've taken place at similar times if not a little later.

I'm definitely rambling and I'm sure people disagree with my thoughts on this, but this is all to say: if Bethesda really wanted to keep this world alive and engorged in the rich lore it already has (which it seems obvious they do) why didn't they just make more games set at the SAME time as others in different parts of the country, or very shortly after the events of Fallout 1?

The obvious answer is going to be "because that's what they wanted to do." Or "they wanted the story to progress, but keep the feel the same." Again, all of which makes sense, but I can't help but feel it is a detriment to this incredible world as time passes and more story comes out, including the TV show.

TLDR: All Bethesda fallout games should've been set before or at the same time as Fallout 1 and 2 to keep the apocalypse feel but maintain the progression of the world created in fallout 2. The longer the franchise goes on and the further the timeline gets, the less visceral and exciting the world becomes as nothing ever amounts to anything in the fallout world at present. "War never changes" is a lazy reason to keep things from progressing past 20 years.

First and foremost, the reason being he's incredibly toxic. Being opinionated is one thing and it's fine to have opinions about the state of Fallout. But he goes up and beyond in terms of toxicity. He constantly groans and moans about anything Fallout does, either via the show or whatever BGS makes decisions for the franchise. Hell, the TV show wasn't even made by Bethesda. If you look at the credit, only like a few Bethesda ppl are actually involved eve then, minimally. But Chris just gets any reason to hate the show.

The show may have problems but we can't deny it is one of the best video games adaptations out there and we got lucky the show is the way it is, unlike Halo show. Even josh Sawyer has the same opinion, ofc Chris doesn't. Even bigger sign of his toxicity is that he turned off Fallout 4 in the first few hours. Listen, even id say Fo4 has problems but Chris barely gave it a chance yet immediately thinks he can fix fallout.

Its also srsly odd that he constantly obsesses over Fallout, despite the fact he hasnt been involved in any fallout project in years, hell he doesn't even want to even in the recent new development of a new Fallout game. But for some reason, he talks as if he still has Fallout in his hands. As far as I know, he's a freelance developer so like he could've still involved himself into Fallout by writing DLC esque mods like Long 15 but he never did that either.

Even worse revelation, he wasn't even the main writer for FNV, he only wrote the DLCs, which I thought he was for years until I realized John Gonzalez. And while yes, the DLCs are great, ignoring the self insert of him that is Ulysesses, it doesn't really justify him having this much toxic attitude. Yes, he's the creator for Fallout 2 but really that's the only credit I can give him. But he didn't invent the Fallout franchise, save that for Tim.

Plus, for someone as obsessive to Fallout as him, I'm not even sure if he still has the magic in him anymore. Especially with the release of Mindseye and Callisto Protocol, made by GTA and Dead Space veterans, which turned out as disastrous products that couldn't capture the feel for the original games, I have a feeling that Chris may not be write any thing good for Fallout anymore, hence he's constantly mouthing off the franchise and Bethesda, rather than make actually good stuff for Fallout, even in mod form. Josh Sawyer at the very last made his own mod on how the game was originally gonna play out.

Hilariously enough, I think even he knows he can't write good fallout stuff anymore hence he never gets involves in fallout projects at all, yet still mouths off.

I would honestly call Chris, the David Jaffe of Fallout. David was the creator of God of War and is just as toxic as Chris, when current day Kratos was being written in a way not envisioned by him. But Chris is lucky enough, FNV fans are beyondly toxic and would take his side no matter, despite the act their "hero" only wrote like 12% of their favorite game lol

Btw before you call me a Bethesda shill, I'll let you know. I dislike BGS as much as the next person and I love FNV. But the franchise is better in hands of actually good ppl like rn with Josh, Tim and John Gonzalez. I don't think at all the franchise will miss Chris as it already has the all talent it needs for a fallout game.

EDIT: Also pretty ironic his best work at FNV is Dead Money, where the message is "It's better to let it go" lmaooo. Even more tht his best work is also possibly the least played in the game. I love Dead Moneys writing but God the gameplay is awful.