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But that doesn't mean 250 million players bought something? I think it's more that Skyrim is still selling even today and people keep rebuying it.

The engine is incredibly easy to use and very powerful. Just because Bethsoft can't make good games, doesn't mean the engine is garbage. If the next Fallout game runs on Unreal Engine, it will be forgotten a few months after release. A new Fallout in the style of BG3 also crossed my mind, but IMO this is extremely unlikely. I also doubt they are given 5 years to develop the game. If it's going to be anything like in the past, we're probably seeing something in 2 years, max.

FNV is extremely popular. I'd say Obsidian just have to copy that, but in new, and it can't really go wrong. Real question is, will they build the whole game from scratch, or will they use the Fo4 engine and assets in a similar way as they used Fo3 for FNV. Personally I would prefer if they use Bethsofts engine at least. I swear, the moddability is the reason why their games are still popular, and it's why neither Avowed, nor Outer Worlds had any big long–term buzz going. Allow people to do big changes to your game in a more or less easy way and they will look past certain flaws in it. If the game is fun to play / will capture the audience AND is easy to make mods for, you win.

Don't know if I would have loved a Fallout game by Larian, but it sure as hell would have had nice turn based combat, so there's that at least...

Releasing a new Fallout every 2 years would be terrible too, though.

Just a few hours ago I've read someone claimed "Avowed 2 is too far ahead to be canceled" and now there's news that it is canceled. lol. https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-obsidian-new-fallout-game-cancelled-avowed-sequel/ Also, they are probably trying to pacify the people with claiming a new Fallout game by Obsidian has been green-lit. At this point, who knows what's true.

So not closing just yet, but getting f'd anyways. Great.

Watched season 1 last year or so, didn't really vibe with it too much. Guess I will dive into it again, because everything is better than yet another isekai that turns into all the same garbage after the first episode.

Trying to find a new anime to watch but literally everything is just isekai or isekai adjacenced bullcrap. God damned, do they make anything else nowadays.

I haven't played Outer Worlds 2, but I can tell you why I stopped playing Avowed. It's not that I didn't like the game or something - I thought the world looked nice, and I like the Pillars setting. Using sword and pistol was cool too. But something in the game didn't feel "organic" to me. It felt more like I was running through a checklist. Groups of monsters in expected places, with expected behavior, with expected paths for how I solve things. Then the expected loot chests with expected loot. At the end of the day, it felt formulaic to me, like so many other new Obsidian games. Sure it makes them less buggy, but also somewhat more boring to play. Can't really tell you what they would need to do to make it feel less like that to me, though. Maybe I would have liked it more if it were similar in style to PoE1 and 2, though Deadfire already started with the formulaic approach. It just somehow got worse after that? No idea. Maybe not every quest needs to have the same different 4 approaches to solve them. It's ok if there's stories that can't be solved by everyone or only a certain way - as long as it feels like it makes sense.

Still crazy to me that after everything, Grounded is what Obsidian has real success with. Unbelievable.

For now at least.

tbh I don't think I've ever seen the end. The last one or two seasons were pretty bad as well (where they moved into the town?).

I loved the original show, because it was so simple and somewhat easy. This trailer feels weirdly over dramatic.

Being a grifter can make so much easy money, however the negative side of it is that you have bury all of your morals to do it. I just can't.

If one thing is obvious now then that Iran doesn't need nukes to get america to its knees. The strait of hormuz is a way better tool than any nuke could ever be.

Oliver Tree died in a helicopter crash. 😭 It's weird, this is probably the first time ever that a celeb death really hurt me. He was very relatable, charismatic and just an all around good guy.

They are school yard bullies grown old. The only way of solving conflicts they know is violence. Of course they want to strengthen the military. Probably already planning how to oppress everyone they don't like with force.

I really hate that babyface. Not sure exactly what it is - maybe the lips? Something about it just looks so weird to me. It's probably supposed to look cute, but it just seems creepy to me.

I am completely out of the loop. Haven't watched news about any of this in weeks now. Is the straight still closed? Is that war still going on?

Bro, the whole thing is political by nature.

Well, technically it is released for years already. I don't think it will ever get a "full" release. They are making money the way things are going right now - why stop that?

New Witcher 3 DLC announced: https://www.thewitcher.com/us/en/songs-of-the-past

Started watching Rooster. I'm in ep5 now, really liking it so far.