An hypothetical question for recent Fallout fans

[Nulmas]

I've just realized that nowadays there are plenty of new Fallout fans that may have not been exposed to a certain game in the franchise. Back when it originally came out (hell, even when it was announced) the game caused a bit of an "interesting" reaction.

So, here's the scenario:

Imagine that Bethesda announces that they would be postponing the development of Fallout 4. In that time, they would be developing a spin-off of the series that was an action dungeon crawler.

And then they hit you with these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4i_iXNP-E (trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifnMjqdm4QE (video)

For the sake of the argument, ignore the old graphics. Just pretend they're current gen.

So, what would your response to this be like?

 

[Iklwa]

I don't know if you're one of these recent Fallout fans, but if you are, I'll fill you in on a little something:

WE DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT MENTION THIS "GAME"

 

[Richardplex]

clip 1: Okay, I get it, girls have breasts, you can stop reminding us already.
clip 2: uuurgh, super mutants, again? Can I have a morally debatable enemy like the Legion/NCR were?
gmaeplay: Not my cup of tea.
Overall: I'd be rather disappointed.

 

[Laser Priest]

My response to each video, respectively.

I have to say that I truly have no idea what the fuck was supposed to be happening in those.

 

[Internet Kraken]

For those wondering why the Fallout franchise fell of the face of the earth for quite some time, that game is partly responsible.

 

[Vault Girl]

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

 

[t3h br0th3r]

it seems the writing staff has been lobotomized in mass.


I thought Fallout games were supposed to be smart, not just mindless violence and tig ol bitties everywhere.

 

[Smooth Operator]

OMG that shit is horrid, I'm glad Fallout wasn't taken down that route.
Was that some sort of "just hit puberty" development team?

 

[Cerem]

I've just joined this forum today to let you know that for the crime of spreading knowledge of that shame, I am going to hunt you down and kill you.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

But Breasts are awesome...or so i have been told.

They are simply the breast.

OT: I'm with a few other people here: Kill it with fire.

 

[AlternatePFG]

KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Pretty much this. Seriously, that game was awful why would anyone want something like that? Are you out of your mind?

 

[Nulmas]

I don't know if you're one of these recent Fallout fans, but if you are, I'll fill you in on a little something:

WE DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT MENTION THIS "GAME"

Nah,I've been a fan since 97. And, yeah, I knew I'd break the rules But I figured I would rather spread a bit of the insanity that merely watching stuff related to POS (for those of you who don't know, that wasn't a typo) causes.

 

[Nulmas]

I've just joined this forum today to let you know that for the crime of spreading knowledge of that shame, I am going to hunt you down and kill you.

I've never been one to keep the skeletons in the closet

Besides, sometimes I think that people nowadays should know what "betraying a fanbase" is really like. This "thing" is the perfect example, IMO.

 

[Richardplex]

clip 1: Okay, I get it, girls have breasts, you can stop reminding us already.
clip 2: uuurgh, super mutants, again? Can I have a morally debatable enemy like the Legion/NCR were?
gmaeplay: Not my cup of tea.
Overall: I'd be rather disappointed.

But Breasts are awesome...or so i have been told.

I have also heard this word on the street, but my contacts have told me of this thing, called porn. Apparently they go the full way, instead of half-arsing it. Or so they say.

 

[MetroidNut]

As a new Fallout fan who's relatively well-acquainted with the old Fallout games (New Vegas piqued my interest, so I dedicated a few days to perusing the Fallout wiki), I can say that this abomination must be shown to people like me, as a warning - to ensure history does not repeat itself.

And if I saw that today, as a trailer for a new Fallout game? Kill it with fire.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Hmmm...nope, just some broken links. Apparently the game you're referring to doesn't exist.

...

I said it DOESN'T EXIST. Shut up.

...

I SAID SHUT UP, DAMMIT! THE GAME DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST!

Spoiler

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanonDiscontinuity

 

[Cheesus333]

For those wondering why the Fallout franchise fell of the face of the earth for quite some time, that game is partly responsible.

I guess Van Buren's banishment to Development Hell didn't help much either.

If Bethesda hit us with something like that now, I really don't think the franchise would survive it. Fallout 3 was a brilliant revival, but...
Well, if you shot Jesus with a Gatling Laser he wouldn't get back up again.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

That game was absolute crap. I bought it on release, after having absolutely loved Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel to a degree that's probably unhealthy.

I played through the entire thing, start to finish, in one sitting. In silence caused by both shock and dismay. I'd been duped. That wasn't a Fallout game that I'd just played. It was some other game, (poorly) modded to have Fallout-esque models and textures.

I haven't played it since, and have zero desire to. They took everything that made Fallout awesome, threw it all away, then took a massive diarrhea shit of bad writing, bad graphics, bad gameplay, bad characters, bad story, and a whole fuckton of continuity errors on a disk and called it a day.

That game is the reason why, despite my fanboyism for the series, I refused to buy Fallout 3 until a week or so after release once the reviews started coming out.