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Fallout London is amazing and it makes me kinda of sad that Bethesda's best days are decades behind them (hexbear.net)

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Like seriously, this is the best successor to Fallout New Vegas I've seen in a long time. There's a lot of originality here, a lot of humorous writing, and a well-crafted world that is deep as well as broad and has a lot of opportunities for roleplaying.

It does all the things that Bethesda decided not to do so that you could experience the joys of building the same settlement 40 times and choose dialogue options such as HATE NEWSPAPER so you can find your 60 year old son who made Terminator people because reasons(?) and knows the surface world is doomed and not worth saving after having spent literally less than five minutes there in his entire life and talking to zero people

Like sure your choices of factions so far are liberal ren faire nerds, straight-up fascists or an autocratic deep state but supposedly there's a Yes Man style ending coming up in a future update and it's a damn sight better than the bland as fuck factions in Fallout 4 and the writing is nowhere near as stupid as anything Bethesda has produced in 20 years.

Just bums me out knowing that Starfield and Fallout 76 are what they are now. Uninspired garbage and shameless microtransaction maximization.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anything "mostly positive" or below is garbage

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

I'll buy a "mostly positive" game if it's a niche genre that I'm into and it's on sale. Otherwise, yeah, there's way too many "overwhelmingly positive" games out there to waste time on something with a 75% rating.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I think sometimes "mostly positive" can be okay if it's something really specific. Like "I know I love these types of games and this is a sequel to something I enjoyed." But I'll never randomly buy a "mostly positive" game. It's the mark of "pass unless you already know you'll love it."

On the flip side if I see something "overwhelmingly positive" and that looks at all interesting to me I add it to my wishlist and get it on sale. This has never once gone wrong for me.

Basically what I'm saying is Steam's review metrics are top tier. At least for me.

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Some mostly positives (and even a couple mixed/negatives I can't recall right now) are actually good.

Usually they're more niche that attracted a wider audience (COD bro isn't going to like Workers and Resources; and thats ok) or something more artsy. Or it attracted freeze-gamer rage.

On the other hand, there's a few very/overwhelming positives that should be negative. Hogfarts was/is. Factorio's devs went on a weirdo screed and it stayed positive (me, a cishet, got called anti-trans slurs during that one lol). And lots of the porn slop is rated high.

Backloggd seems to reflect reality a bit better for gaming scores. Probably won't if it ever hits mainstream and people stop using the "3 is actually a fine score to give, not everything needs a 5 or a 1 star" method.