*S*T*A*R*F*I*E*L*D* / Starfield

I downloaded Skyrim to the PS5, to see how it looks on my first 4K Shiny TV, and it does look pretty great, actually. Hopefully they’ll do a similar upgrade patch to Fallout 4, which looks terrible.

Pretty weird when a PS3 game looks better, has better textures than a PS4 game.

Is it likely to get a current gen upgrade? The Skyrim remaster happened yonks ago and is presumably where most of the visual improvement comes from. Didn't think Fallout 4 was that popular. Fallout 3/New Vegas never got any attention from Bethesda beyond the FPS bump on Series X

Who knows? Maybe they put the team doing Skyrim Anniversary onto Fallout 4 as soon as that was out, and will bump it up to make up for the fact that they won’t have a new Fallout game out until 2077. They also have a chance to sell the game again with the fan-made bits and bobs.

I could see them doing it if revenue from FO76 crumbles completely and they have literally nothing else to push out the door, but I wouldn't be surprised if FO76 has made them more money over time than FO4 despite the horrid reception it had on launch. They may not have a new one in the pipes for a long while, but they still have an actively supported Fallout product on the market.

What’s the state of play with FO76 these days?

Haven’t played since it launched, where I quite enjoyed it to a point, but content was sparse.

Sadly it doesn't have normal V.A.T.S so no go

It’s still there but it’s pretty lightweight.

Take it offline and I'll buy it

Fallout 76 is fucking garbage.

Tried Fallout 76 with a couple of friends during some free week it did. It really is garbage. Some environments are nicely made, but it is filled with absolutely bugger all. If you thought the previous Fallouts were barren, wait until you see these communities with literally 2 or 3 people inhabiting them. Then the quests you do are the most bog standard "go over there, kill some thing/press some button/collect some items". There is very little context and any that is there is the most perfunctory it could be.

I can only imagine that they thought other people would create the fun, because they some how managed to make the most boring Bethesda game they have ever made. In some ways, it is quite an achievement.

What I found with their previous Elder Scrolls and Fallout games was that, after a certain amount of play, whatever keys they jangled in front of you was just a thin veneer over extremely shallow writing, gameplay systems, and balancing. An attempt at a second play through always just highlighted how hollow the experience was, but it was quite something else that you could get a hundred hours out of it before succumbing to that.

With 76, though, they didn’t even bother with the veneer, it’s only the hollowness. The combat is all dead easy and uninteresting, even compared to their past efforts. At least when Fallout 4 launched there were tons of enemies, and I found it a lot of fun as a shooter / challenge, but they ultimately patched 80% of the enemies out of the game or had them spawn already dead. (I suspect this was all because someone complained about the frame rate in Corvega, so their solution was to remove the best part of the gameplay).

I’ve never really been invested in Elder Scrolls, but I played the original Fallout RPGs, and just the fact that Bethesda dumbed it down to some nothingburger circle of hell… at least we got New Vegas. It’s such a waste of a perfect IP though, stuff like The Outer Worlds just doesn’t have the same perfect mix of tone that Fallout has within it.

It's probably quite a safe claim as that footage is likely to be a year old by the time the game releases.

Maybe get some people to write some quests instead of generating them all with an AI.

I feel this is a content farm website that just pastes stuff from press releases for SEO purposes.