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It's almost here, Gaming companies across the globe will experience low quarterly earnings
Cleffy
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In just over a week Fallout 4 will be released, and many gaming companies will have reduced revenues for several months. When will Bethesda learn about the impact they cause when they release a Ben Howard video game?
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I think I'll wait on a few reviews before I buy it. There's not really all that much info about it for all the hype it has.
Kidding aside I see your point. But it's a bit different when comes down to gaming. When a game becomes a hit many people buy it anyway and that's a loss for companies trying to hype their products. Because most people don't "love" any style or genre of gaming exclusively like music.
1. I am hoping Valve doesn't try to turn it into MT again. IMO that could hurt the dynamic that made Skyrim the most modded game ever. That was based on the pooling and sharing of knowledge. Throw money into the mix and you chip away at modder's willingness to share their work to anyone who wants to use it. Just look at the Chesko / Fore fiasco.
2. The advances in FO4 are going to make it even harder to mod. For example. Voiced player character. This means that any mod that introduces any NPC interactive dialog will require both voiced response from the NPC and now the player. Introducing a new NPC means getting a new voice actor. But for the player characer's voice,....that's not going to be possible.
I have to wonder if we will ever see another "Vilja" or "Inigo" for Bethesda games again.
And we all know it is going to be buggy. This is Bugthesda....
That said, I am totally buying it.
Mise well just go throw your money on the ground at walmart, and yell free 70 bucks, it would be more entertaining
Think about it.
In Skyrim, Interesting NPCs introduces a voiced character. You click Talk and they respond with a voiced reply.....Great!, The player's response is text on the screen and can say anything you want.
That's not going to happen in F04. Because now you have a voiced NPC, and the player's responses are voiced. So that means that unless there is some collaborative effort to re voice the player, then every person's voiced mod will have a different voice for the player. So, as I said, there would have to be a collaborative effort to have a unified re voiced player dialog and if you want to mod, you would have find the same voice actor or maybe send your lines off to the modder(s) to have them voice it for you....I dunno. But it's going to be a hell of a lot more involved now to create custom voiced mods.
I suppose there is also the option to leave it out altogether. There are some really good Skyrim mods that change the dialog for characters like Aela. And where the modder adds dialog that isn't in vanilla, it goes to silence with the subtitled text on the screen. It works, but it's very noticeable.