Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has spoken about RPGs putting limits on their protagonists, as he reportedly starts work on a new Fallout game.
3 and 4 are genuinely the low point of the series and misinterpreted a lot from the original games. New Vegas was a lot closer to the original games. Yes, you can do heroic or terrible things, but I saw the franchise as very much an exploration of human nature during a time where people needed to scrounge and rebuild to survive.
In the old games, resources are scarce and you have to make ethically gray choices. There’s not enough to go around, genuinely.
And yet, New Vegas is widely considered the best of the 3D Fallout games. A more complex experience that makes you make tough decisions, that makes for a better RPG and a better story.
I don’t think that’s really the case. New Vegas is constantly praised online, even on something like metacritic, which I take w/ a grain of salt generally, the user scores for NV are notably higher than 3 or 4.
3 and 4 are genuinely the low point of the series and misinterpreted a lot from the original games. New Vegas was a lot closer to the original games. Yes, you can do heroic or terrible things, but I saw the franchise as very much an exploration of human nature during a time where people needed to scrounge and rebuild to survive. In the old games, resources are scarce and you have to make ethically gray choices. There’s not enough to go around, genuinely.
That’s 2/3 of what has been released this millennium. At this point it’s what the series is.
And yet, New Vegas is widely considered the best of the 3D Fallout games. A more complex experience that makes you make tough decisions, that makes for a better RPG and a better story.
It’s considered the best by those that like it, New Vegas is very much a cult classic.
I don’t think that’s really the case. New Vegas is constantly praised online, even on something like metacritic, which I take w/ a grain of salt generally, the user scores for NV are notably higher than 3 or 4.
That’s generally how cult classics work. You see praise for The Big Lebowski because those that don’t like it mostly ignore it.