Yes but there's a difference between making a profit and making as much money as possible by wringing every last drop out of your customers and fans at every opportunity.

Are you for real? Horse Armour mate. These are the horse armour cunts.

They are putting out a full rrp online multiplayer 3rd person action shooter with additional f2p model cosmetic extras on top.

They have moved to give Fallout broader mass appeal with each iteration of the gane they produced. That is purely to chase maximum sales and to do it they dropped back on the storytelling and worked on making the graphics more shiny and the game play more like an fps.

They have pushed the IP beyond any logical constraint with 4 and Vault 76. As long as it says fallout and has power armour and super mutants and deathclaws then it's job done as far I can tell for Bethesda.

If they could do it with Elder Scrolls they would, I guess Elder Scrolls Online was an attempt to move into the mmo market, another very lucrative market at the time I might add. But they dont have the balls because TES is their golden egg and is too much of a financial risk to upset the fans over. With fallout, they had a small core of fans that they swapped for a much larger fanbase of people new to the franchise who liked them because it was an open world fps rpg. They can't do that to TES because there is no alternative player group they can target.

RIP YUNG ROUJ'S DREAMS FROM THE PAST.

Get a lot of sloths in Virginia?

Wow. Such logic.

Vladimir Putin is hardly Hitler Rouj, what u getting so bent out of shape for?

Bob wrote:

All companies are in it for the profits.. especially Nintendo.

FTFY (see Animal Crossing Pocket Camp)

Lots of gameplay vids now doing the rounds due to some press junkets and I have to say I'm not impressed.  Todd promised "sixteen times the graphical fidelity!" but I'm just not seeing it.  The textures look damn ugly, the engine is a mess (as usual) and the framerate is chugging all over the place.  Apologists are saying that these are 4K vids squeezed down youtube so of course they are going to loose some quality and remember, this is still an alpha build but it looks rank - there's no disguising it.

I was prepared for the re-use of arts assets from the last game, but they have really re-cycled a lot - much more than what I anticipated.   There have been comments about the world space being devoid of enemies and level restrictions placed on gear - found a minigun?, tough shit can't use it till you hit the required level!

All I wanted from this was Fallout 4+ , a remix that focused on combat and exploration sans npc interaction.  But it seems we're not even getting that (save a world devoid of npc's).  

Oh, and the download for this is a whopping 47GB on Xbox.  But not a HD texture pack in sight.

This really really does not sound like it's going to be any good.

After the mess that Obsidian made of it, I am not surprised they didn't go down that route again. Despite my reservations, I really hope this still somehow remains enjoyable in solo play.  But the gimmick that the 'only humans you'll meet in this game will be real humans!' sounds like it was drafted up in the boardroom by a bunch of exec's who've never played a Fallout game.  It's not so much the npc interactions I'll miss (Bethesda's 'characters' have never been all that good anyway), more the incidental dialogue "the Jet will make you jittery!" that made FO4 seem so alive.  I'm not sure scattered tape recordings and robot vendors will compensate for this loss.

they should make it a battle royale

I liked new Vegas

You could still play those games out of the box though. As buggy as they were, there were no game halting bugs. Vegas was so broken upon release, it was virtually unplayable. All Obsidian had to do was essentially create a giant mod using that engine, but they couldn't even manage that.  There was a lot of snobbery attached to the fact because some of those guys were around during the original PC days of the franchise, they were the custodians of the series and the only ones who could tell a decent Fallout story. Bullshit. New Vegas' s main quest was nothing special, but is lionised as the best ever.  Nonsense. Que Roujin telling me it's still better than Brotherhood Zeppelins and technologically impossible human facsimiles.

The main story in Fallout 76 appears to revolve around why there are no humans left and why post-apocalyptic dragons are now emerging from the core of the earth. Ho-hum.

However talking about bugs...

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-23-bethesda-warns-fallout-76-may-have-some-spectacular-issues

Not sure this bodes well..

I think I'm probably out at launch and then it wont be worth trying to pick it up later as there'll probably just be really hardcore players.. ? I'm probably just out.

I hope it fails spectacularly.

So they've just announced another round of beta testing, this time over the weekend at a more favourable European time too. Hooray!  But it amounts to 2 hours each day. Two on a Saturday. Two on a Sunday.  Unfuckingbelievable.

Fuck me. The beach boys. A sound of music visual reference and wild gunplay. Yes. Yes. This is the aesthetic of Fallout, well done Bethesda 10/10 you totally understand this IP.

I stopped watching after 10 seconds so I presume the rest of the trailer is either really great and undoes the last 5 years or just continues to plumb new depths of utter trash in the hope that a high budget ad is all they need to make people buy the game.