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Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine (www.trueachievements.com)
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[–] buran@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is Fallout 5 the same game or a different game to the one allegedly being developed by Obsidian?

[–] master94ga@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Different games, Fallout 5 is developed by Bethesda after TES 6, Obsidian is working on another new Fallout

[–] lath@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago

Assuming this was decided after microslop decided to mass produce the Fallout IP faster and faster, I'd say they're different games.

[–] buran@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Mmm... I hoped the IP was transferred from one studio to another. Seems more like a borrowing.

Don't know what Xbox would do if Obsidian ends making a better game and the Bethesda game is overshadowed by it.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 17 hours ago

Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff

The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda's product ownership has been revoked. They didn't even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked

Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What, like how Obsidian made a better Fallout 3 than Fallout 3 with New Vegas?

[–] buran@lemmy.today 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the difference being Fallout 3 was well received and the studio had some pedigree. While Fallout 76 and Starfield were actively disliked.

[–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I’m not sure what happened with 76 since I lost interest upon finding out it was multiplayer, but it’s really well received now when looking at Steam reviews

[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

It got a lot better. Then they changed the seasons and it started getting worse. Around the time they added becoming a ghoul for player characters it was more or less necessary to have their subscription service if you didn't want to deal with a lot of arbitrary bullshit that was designed to force you to buy the subscription. You basically couldn't get all the season rewards without it. All that aside it was surprisingly fun and adds a lot of good lore. You can play it more or less like a single player game and when I still played old timer high level characters would often drop gear and resources for new players, it was the most genuinely pleasant online community I've ever experienced.

[–] buran@lemmy.today 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, the game is in a better place now. The problem being they shouldn't have released as it was.

[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 15 hours ago

The steam reviews aren't accurate. The review timeline of steam shows suspiciously low negative reviews during release, a disastrous release with game breaking bugs and a strong backlash against the horrible monetization systems, to say nothing of the shitstorm that bethesda caused outside of the game itself. Iirc that was also a point in time that steam made a big deal out of hiding negative reviews for corpos under the guise of fighting review bombing.

Also it's still at 50 on metacritic.