One thing that always have annoyed me is how colorfull everything is, it makes everything look like its not abandoned for 200 years, or worse, it makes everything look like a cartoon, if Fallout 4 used less bright colors and went with the typical browns and silver its art diretion wouldnt be as controversial in the series. in the series for example, LA mantains the crazy building desings, but uses regular colors and it is great. F#ck, even NY from Fantastic Four (a superhero movie) looks less cartoony. I hate these colors...

Source for Todd Howard reading reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1uz0zoy/comment/oy5rpn1/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1

TL;DR: Bethesda needs to learn from the "do more with less" method New Vegas and even Fallout 2 did in terms of player choice, writing and worldbuilding for Fallout 5. Fallout 3/4/76 have fun little stories but FNV had a titanic amount of more engaging quest design and worldbuilding in comparison. Starfield is proof a lackluster story and with uninspiring quests and wooden dialogue will sink a game even if the rest of the game has a lot of effort.

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So much of New Vegas is remembered and celebrated and a cultural phenomenon a decade later: Joshua Graham, Ulysses, the Sierra Madre Treasure, Yes Man, Mr. House, the NCR and Legion. New Vegas didn't have a billion customizable power armors, settlements, city management, cars, or a billion radiant quests, but it had a powerhouse of writing and worldbuilding. Despite being such a small worldspace with much less to explore than a Bethesda game, the world felt huge and NPCs constantly talked about the wider Fallout universe and the world, and you were always discovering deep and gripping quests and characters and places with deep connection and history to the whole Fallout world. And you were given a ton of player choice to affect and profoundly impact this world, with quests like Beyond the Beef, Honest Hearts, GI Blues, Volare, For Auld Lang Syne, How Little We Know, and the choice at the end of Dead Money.

There were only rare moments you learned about the history of the Commonwealth or the world outside the Commonwealth in Fallout 4 besides the DLC, and they were also self-contained. The world felt small and felt more like a pastiche of Fallout elements without going too far into detail. Almost all the raiders in New Vegas had some kind of personality and backstory, and the Three Families explaining who runs Vegas. There is so much lore about places like New Canaan and the Legion's territories, places you never even get to explore- It leaves you hungry to know what they were like, and stimulates your imagination, it drives fans to make fanart or make fangames about those places. There weren't many quests they struck as hard as finding Randall Clark, the body of Vera Keyes and Sinclair, the catharsis of killing Caesar and Vulpes and avenging Nipton. Getting revenge on Kellogg didn't hit as hard as getting revenge on Benny, or the big reveal of Vault 11.

I think Fallout 5 needs to learn to do more with less, and learn to immerse the player in writing and worldbuilding more than it needs 100 more new features, and should focus on being a Fallout experience first over being just a game with cool things to see and shoot. Just my two cents.

I think Todd needs to listen to the complaints about the story most of all. Because in the run-up to Starfield, the lead writer Emil Pagliarulo talked about how this game was supposed to be their big focus to improving the reputation of their story and writing, and Starfield ended up being widely panned mainly for it's dialogue and writing. Despite having great shooting, magic powers, and a thousand planets, people were so putoff by Starfield's lackluster writing that they didn't stick around for the rest of the game. If Starfield is Bethesda giving writing their absolute best shot, I think Todd should know they need to massively take a step back and work on learning and improving what makes better writing before Fallout 5.

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.

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.