• pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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    The article never addresses the elephant in the room, which is that Fallout 4 doesn’t have the cultural staying power that 3 and New Vegas did, because it just isn’t a very good game, so there is never going to be as robust of a modding scene.

      • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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        I don’t think that’s really the best metric. Call of Duty from 2022 has 30k current players and 39k peak 24 hours. https://steamcharts.com/app/1938090

        I think a whole lot of people would agree that CoD games are not great and are generally mass produced, mass appeal crap. But they sure do rack up the sales and players. Just having a large player base does not necessarily mean a game is genuinely good with the cultural staying power needed to attract a large modding scene.

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          2022 CoD vs 2015 FO4, 70k mods on Nexusmods

          I’m not saying the base game is amazing, but it clearly has staying power and a healthy mod community built up around it.

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      I can’t let this misinformation slide; fallout 3 is the worst game in the franchise bar none.

      • BadlyDrawnRhino @aussie.zone
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        I’m not sure if this is poking fun at Starfield, or the way Bethesda constantly rehashes their games as “Anniversary Editions” with the fanfare of a brand new release.

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      Yeah Fallout4 was kind of bad. I played it a lot anyway (sim settlements 2 is pretty good) but the core of it is rotten.