this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
28 points (88.9% liked)
Games
16681 readers
887 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's really hard to get excited for new story content on this game when the writing for it has so far been sub par even by Bethesda's standards.
I said it when Fallout 3 came out:
Only Bethesda could make post apocalyptic hookers boring.
The stories of sex work in Fallout 1 & 2 were dark and complex and Fallout 3's were just fucking corny.
Getting a radioactive STD filming porn or being a gimp to a super mutant if you don't beat them at arm wrestling is complex? lol
I don't know about complex, but pimping out your spouse is pretty dark (though it's mostly played for sex jokes so I doubt it's intentionally so).
There was nothing complex about sex workers in Fallout 1 and 2, they were either in the background or used for sex jokes.
Killing hookers in New Reno also gave you positive karma for some reason.
I played through the main quest, all the factions, and a lot of the side quests. I don’t remember anything about the story. The ship builder was very cool but felt completely separate from the rest of the game, and flying ships was boring. Gunplay was pretty fun but the brain dead AI ruined it. I’ll try this DLC anyhow, but more out of some morbid curiosity than actually being excited for it.
Starfield did a good job at taming my anticipation for TES6.