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.
A quick look at steamcharts alone with dismiss your claim.
https://steamcharts.com/app/377160 21k active users now, 33k 24hr peak
https://steamcharts.com/app/489830 22k active users now, 32k 24hr peak
Fallout NV has 7k
Fallout 3 has 500
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.
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.
Sure, and I didn’t mean that FO4 is terrible or has no staying power. I haven’t played it, so I can’t judge. I just meant that player count isn’t necessarily a good metric for whether it will develop a thriving modding community.
I can’t let this misinformation slide; fallout 3 is the worst game in the franchise bar none.
That would be Brotherhood of Steel and it’s not even close
The only thing 4 got right was power armor. Thats it.
Is being the last game Bethesda made not staying power?
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.
There have also been surges of players because of the show
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.
I’d love to play it, but it’s been pain enough getting fo4 running on Linux and no one had a serious guide on doing London when I tried.
FYI I had a pretty easy time getting it going with FO4 from GOG via Heroic Launcher. The main sticking point is that Fallout London and Fallout 4 need to be configured to use the same Wine prefix folder since they need to share a bunch of files for Fallout London to work.
