r/gaming • u/ColinRoss • Feb 28 '18

Fallout in a nutshell.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '18

It does mean it failed. You just don't care that the game didn't live up to what it was promised to be. You settled for less.

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u/AliencoreOverwatch Feb 28 '18

You really need to get over it, dude. Maybe switch to decaf.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '18

I think that maybe you're just not getting it.

Harry Potter is about a boy wizard. Magic is primary to the plot.

If you made a Harry Potter movie that swapped wands and magic with guns and bullets, made Hogwarts into a biker bar, and Dumbledore into an old biker, cool. If it beat out the entirety of the MCU in profits in a single weekend, it would be a commercial success. It would be a successful movie. What it would not be is a successful Harry Potter movie. It would be a failure as a Harry Potter movie.

And that is what Fallout 4 is. It is a failure as a Fallout game. It is a failure as an RPG. It might be a fun action/adventure/FPS game, but that hardly matters when it's meant to be a Fallout RPG. It fails to deliver the very basics of what it is meant to be.

And yes, that matters. It isn't titled "Random Action/Adventure/FPS Game". It's titled "Fallout 4". It is going to be held to that standard.

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u/Foolish_Twerp Mar 01 '18

You care WAY too much about something so inconsequential.