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For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you've already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still haven't completed Skyrim. or New Vegas. or FO4.... I'll be back once those are finished!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New Vegas is a blast. I went in blind after playing Fallout 4 and was blown away by how good the story was compared to Fallout 4.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New Vegas is the only post-Interplay Fallout game that actually feels like Fallout. It would be nice to get a remaster, though... it's not aging well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you liked Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, have you tried the Wasteland series? It's what Fallout 1 was modeled on, and that series kept going.

It's not Fallout, but it's the closest I have found to "more Fallout 1 and Fallout 2".

That being said, I thought that the Fallout jump to 3D would not work well, and I think I was very much wrong there -- the series did a pretty good job jumping the gap.

feels like Fallout

If you like the desert American Southwest "New Old West" theme in Fallout 1 and 2 and New Vegas, the Wasteland series does that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah! I was all-in on the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter and bagged the CE of Wasteland 3. Those do scratch the itch a bit, but Fallout's universe is so much more interesting and weird. Wasteland is a lot more straight-laced, comparatively.

I'm fine with the visual presentation of Bethesda's Fallout games, but I hate the gameplay. Fallout was the ultimate exercise in player agency and consequences... so many different ways to approach situations with so many possible outcomes. It's not just shooting things. While New Vegas flirts with those principles, BG3 is the first game in 20 years to REALLY recapture that magic for me. That's the kind of game I want more of, and that's the kind of game I want Fallout to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, I gotcha, yeah, I guess I can see that.

Yeah, from that standpoint, I imagine that Fallout 76 must have been a complete disappointment, because that element is almost nonexistent there.

You ever play Jagged Alliance 2? It's pretty old now, got more of a combat focus, but has a lot of the "multiple ways to pull things off".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I played it on the steam deck this year and it was great! I completed 1, 2 and Tactics all on the deck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The New Vegas dialog system is much better.

However, the graphics are getting kinda long in the tooth.

And it is significantly less-stable. I've definitely fallen out of the map a number of times, too.

And without hitting a wiki, you can lock yourself out of a lot of things that aren't obvious. Choices matter, but often in not-immediately-apparent ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to play it on release, but it was so buggy I couldn't continue. I'm looking forward to seeing what I missed out on