Yatzee on Fallout 4

http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthre...ion-Review-Fallout-4-(Hilarious-and-On-Point)

He was spot on with this as usual. During his Let's Drown Out videos with Gabriel they were playing ARK: Survival Evolved and discussing the recent E3 conference and Gabriel said "I really like where Fallout 4 is going" and Yahtzee stopped what he was about to say and just said "Oh...well...you're dumb then." Was quite amusing.
 
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Irwin John Finster said:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthre...ion-Review-Fallout-4-(Hilarious-and-On-Point)

He was spot on with this as usual. During his Let's Drown Out videos with Gabriel they were playing ARK: Survival Evolved and discussing the recent E3 conference and Gabriel said "I really like where Fallout 4 is going" and Yahtzee stopped what he was about to say and just said "Oh...well...you're dumb then." Was quite amusing.
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I think he also talked a little bit about Fallout 4 in one of the more recent drown outs, and was just as critical of it as before.
 
Well...at least someone's caught on Bethesda's shtick.

It's a pity most of Yahtzee's fans either have or will ignore him anyway.
 
Actually, New Vegas was the closest thing to a real Fallout 3 that we ever got. Where NuFallout 3 is a spiritual Sequel to Brotherhood of Steel. Or post-apocalyptic Oblivion. What ever you prefer more.
 
I didn't like New Vegas as much as Fallout 3. I mostly say that because i felt New Vegas' good bits were spread to thin and FO3 had a good formula ripped from Oblivion (Badly in my opinion). New Vegas just felt like an expansion to 3, but a good one, and for me that's saying a lot.
 
Yahtzee isn't exactly someone to go to for the deepest, grittiest on point opinions. New Vegas, is it an expansion for 3? Basically... yes. Narrative wise it's different, better made story, factions, more weapons. Everything better. Overall if we ignore the debate on it as a Fallout game and as just a game, it's nothing really new, just bigger and better. However he often does have a good opinion on the general scheme of games. That's why people like him, he's great at picking something apart, which is always a nice perspective to have. At least in my opinion, but I'm a pessimist that loves to hate stuff.
 
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Well...at least someone's caught on Bethesda's shtick.

It's a pity most of Yahtzee's fans either have or will ignore him anyway.
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A vast majority of Yahtzee's fans don't really take him too seriously, since he did admit that his Zero Punctuation persona is not his real life self, and unfortunately to some people that makes some of his criticism have less weight than it should, since almost everything he says is correct. However, in his Fallout 4 review he's just saying what everyone has and is still saying anyway - poor RPG mechanics, bent over backwards to appeal to people with gimmicks. Which is fine.

Mind you, a lot of his views still won't match too much with the people on this site. He doesn't particularly like RPGs too much, citing The Witcher 1 as being too unintuitive, and he did mention that Pillars of Eternity was too boring for him. Old school as he is, he lean towards games with a more linear, shorter but more balanced approach (his favourite games are the original Portal and Silent Hill 2).

No one really agrees with Yahtzee word for word, but he's the best at giving proper criticism I've seen. He doesn't hold any back and he disapproves of the "companies take old games and turn them into shooters" approach. He practically went nuts on that point with Thief 4 and Syndicate, so I'm surprised he never mentioned that with Fallout 3, for that I'm guessing he just doesn't really know about the original two games. From his words on Pillars of Eternity, cRPGs were never really his thing anyways.
 
I just forget that Fallout 3 exists and play Fallout New Vegas as its own thing. Problem solved, New Vegas is no longer an "expansion".
 
As a nice touch, all of Yahtzee's gripes are none of Obsidian's faults, and all of Bethesda's. It's the same engine, same bugs, same inane shit happening because outdated tech was being used. Since he based most of the review around a roleplaying walkthrough, that implies the game had good enough writing and worldbuilding for him to be able to do that in. Which makes Fallout: New Vegas, basically, the same thing as Fallout 3 but with much better writing, which is correct.

By the end of the review, his primary criticism was directed at the bugs and crashes. Which, again, are the byproduct of Bethesda's work. All in all, he said everything right, plus this was back then when people still had the starry-eyed optimism that Fallout 4 would be good.

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Just to reiterate...

In my opinion, for all the good points Yahtzee makes, NMA would probably be in a negative light in his eyes. He would consider this place trash for being full of babbling fanboy elitists, plus he never really liked cRPGs anyways, making a point to bash Ultima and Pillars of Eternity.

If he ever did a retro review of Fallout 2, he would probably go on about its crappy interface, boring unbalanced gameplay, bugs, and would give it a couple of compliments on freedom of choice and meaningful consequences before going back to bashing it again.

It's actually why he's fairly unpopular on RPGCodex, but then again, what isn't?
 
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