Skyrim vs Fallout 4: Who is playing?

[DirtyOldShoe]

So I remember last month or so I checked how many people were playing Fallout 4 and Skyrim on Steam. Skyrim was around 40k and Fallout 4 was around 130k. so for every Skyrim player there was 3.25 people playing Fallout 4 on PC. This month the numbers have been consistently around 30k in Skyrim and 40k in Fallout 4, so for every 1 person playing Skyrim there is 1.3 people playing Fallout 4.
That number is obviously a big drop for Fallout 4 and I suspect it will only decrease over time.
There is no way to find out how many people are playing the games on console as far as I am aware, but I would suspect that the ratio would be around the same as Skyrim and Fallout 4 are not the only games one can play. Witcher 3 has had around 10k consistently.
To me, these numbers suggest a couple things.
As Skyrim has been out for a few years and still has 30k players online everyday, that number will more than likely stay that way for a long time. Almost the same amount of people would prefer to play Skyrim over a new Fallout title by Bethesda and that Skyrim is probably Bethesda's most successful video game. Also this just confirms that Fallout 4 is not being played much and is not a very good game.

 

[Spacemunkey]

I think it's a more than FO4 is a bad game, if we look at the amount of quests in Skyrim compared to FO4, the mod support, and more freedom, it's pretty clear why.

 

[DirtyOldShoe]

I think it's a more than FO4 is a bad game, if we look at the amount of quests in Skyrim compared to FO4, the mod support, and more freedom, it's pretty clear why.

I saw that a while ago, I agree that it is more then just that it is a bad game, but thought it would be good to share some numbers in a feel good way.

 

[Spacemunkey]

I don't disagree, it seems that even their fans are jumping ship at this point.

 

[Latomus]

I think part of what makes Skyrim still so playable even five years after its release is the amount of mods for it (#1 on Nexus) and the fact that there is simply much more to Skyrim. Fallout 4 feels half-assed at best.

 

[Irwin John Finster]

skyrim doesnt have a cringeworthy voiced protagonist and cheesy, cringeworthy dialogue. Fallout 4 is for those of us that felt Bethesda did not go far enough in their dumbing down of Skyrim.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Not playing either. Both are bad, both are boring. Even the shitfest called Oblivion was more attractive to me, at least it had some great side quests.

 

[Earth]

I don't understand how anyone can play either of those games, even if they are modded.

They're just so...boring. Did someone completely rewrite the whole of Skyrim's plot and side quests to make it playable?

 

[Irwin John Finster]

I don't understand how anyone can play either of those games, even if they are modded.

They're just so...boring. Did someone completely rewrite the whole of Skyrim's plot and side quests to make it playable?

Now that I've seen Fallout 4, Skyrim looks better by comparison. It's still dumbed down and not really an RPG though. I predicted Fallout 4 would be dumbed down even more than Skyrim and was sadly correct.

Fallout 4 is the perfect game if you thought Skyrim was "too hardcore of an RPG."

Also, the lack of an annoying, cringe-worthy voiced protagonist with a lame story helps Skyrim feel more immersive.

 

[RangerBoo]

I don't understand how anyone can play either of those games, even if they are modded.

They're just so...boring. Did someone completely rewrite the whole of Skyrim's plot and side quests to make it playable?

Well yes, kinda. Hear of the Interesting NPC mod? It adds a ton of new stuff, NPC and quest into Skyrim that is 10X better then the vanilla game. Hell I don't think I would play Skyrim for as long as I have if it wasn't for that mod.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Mods cannot save Skyrim, unless the entire game is redone.

 

[Classy Lizard]

Mods cannot save Skyrim, unless the entire game is redone.

I call bullshit to that.

 

[Dr Fallout]

I call bullshit to that.

You think otherwise? Please list the mods that you think save the game.

 

[ZigzagPX4]

You think otherwise? Please list the mods that you think save the game.

Well, I know the mod that saves Fallout 4 is the one that turns it off when you try to launch it and launches New Vegas instead.

 

[Spacemunkey]

You think otherwise? Please list the mods that you think save the game.

Start with this,http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/? add an alternate start mod that disables the MQ, bunch of new lands, and it's a fun action game. The way I had it modded it felt like the old arcade version of Golden Axe in an open world.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Start with this,http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/? add an alternate start mod that disables the MQ, bunch of new lands, and it's a fun action game. The way I had it modded it felt like the old arcade version of Golden Axe in an open world.

Hmm, I prefer to mod it as a survival experience, but that means ignoring the quest part of the game.

 

[cratchety ol joe]

Honestly I like Skyrim, I know there are people here that poo-poo the game, but fro me as a hack'n'slash free-roam it hits the mark.

The world is big, and interesting. The mechanics aren't awful. Mods make the game 'fit me' - while there is room for improvement I rate the game highly.

FO4 was so bland I would liken it to staring at a beige painting, set in a grey room with white-noise as a playing as a soundtrack, even after mods FO4 still feels dull.

 

[ZigzagPX4]

My guess is that either all or all except one of the Fallout 4 DLCs will be pretty bad. From what I've seen of Fallout 3 and Skyrim's approach, the expansions change up the scenery a bit but never goes beyond that to improve the experience.

But, I'm 100% confident Bethesda will realise they stumbled with Fallout 4's approach. Yes, their next, superior effort will still be a poorly-written crap RPG, but it may actually be a functional and entertaining game.

After all, Bethesda's siblings within Zenimax are all top-of-the-line in creative first-person games. I don't think Bethesda were suited for RPGs from the get-go, no matter what Morrowind makes people think.

 

[Lanfear]

Skyrim was okay. The dialog wasn't horrific and the biggest wtf moments I had usually involved finding fresh cabbages in thousand year old crypts. Fallout 4 I couldn't play for more than five minutes without a headdesk moment.

 

[Earth]

Start with this,http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/? add an alternate start mod that disables the MQ, bunch of new lands, and it's a fun action game. The way I had it modded it felt like the old arcade version of Golden Axe in an open world.

Hmm, good to see they fixed the levelling system. I dunno though. Can I be bothered with buying Skyrim just to fill it with thousands of mods to "fix" it? I think I'd rather just play a good game.

EDIT: Good God I just typed in "overhaul" on the Skyrim nexus.