My favourite part was Brad in one breath saying he never played League and in the next saying anyone who disagreed with his opinion on it were not worth engaging with. The Internet™ ladies and gentlemen.
I said I don't play it regularly, not that I've never played it, but of course it sounds shitty when you put words in my mouth. Quick Look Comments™ ladies and gentlemen.
I hate to be that guy Brad, but at the 2:14 mark you do say "I don't play League, so I can't say for sure." While you are correct that League is simpler in some ways that DOTA2, I would say that there are other complexities that it has that DOTA doesn't. I have played both and enjoyed both until the communities just made me never really want to play public matches ever again.
Is anyone else having issues with this video? I can't seem to get it to play in HD streaming, progressive or HTML5. YouTube works though. Seems to be the only format that works for me with this video.
Isn't this pretty close to what Magic does for it's official play formats? I really like the idea, but I don't know if it will really stop people from resting on proven decks and just making swaps as necessary.
I think this is the first time I think Dan is the voice of reason... Fallout 4 is exactly what I expected.
But why? Why shouldn't we expect and demand more from Bethesda? There are a lot of great things about Fallout 4, but it is disappointing as well. It just feels like Bethesda has been coasting since FO3. I did not like Oblivion very much and Skyrim was better but it still failed to capture what so grabbed me about Morrowind. I loved Fallout 3, I put over 100 hours into it. FO4 feels a lot like New Vegas for me. By all accounts I should love the game, it's better than 3 in almost every way and yet it can't hold my attention long enough. I thought I wanted just another Fallout 3, but I guess I don't. FO4 really put the final nail in the coffin for me on the Bethesda style RPG. If they actually fix the major issues and get a new engine I'll feel super excited for it again, but as for now I put FO4 down before I even hit hour 10. Valentine is an amazing character though.
Now, when full mod support comes for FO4 I'll probably pick it up again and mess with the crazy radically game changing mods that come out.
I wouldn't say we shouldn't, but it kinda the thing everyone knows will happen. I would be greatly surprised and happy should they change that for the better, but it's still a known quantity that people have grown accustom to knowing will happen. Is it disappointing? Kinda, but not as much as Toy Soldiers was after having a pretty decent game to build off of.
Also to note a new engine would likely mean that there would be even more jank then staying with and upgrading the current engine. The mere thought of "it's just the engine, make a new one and it's fixed" is like saying "we polluted the earth, so we'll just find a new one and not fuck it up." Game engines are a monumental thing that after working with them I'm more than willing to listen to the "that isn't something you fix easily without losing a bunch of stuff or it taking 10 years" than "just fix it." You have to keep in mind that they give NPCs a lot of autonomy to do what they are in the world to do, so that's more than likely to fuck something up along the way in a some way that no one could have foreseen until you had millions of hours played to find that one moment.
As for it feeling a lot like older games I can point you at 10 people that say that was exactly what they wanted, most of which have over 100 hours in FO4 already. I sunk 4 hours in and got the same fatigue I got at the 4 hour mark of Skyrim. Like Call of Duty there are people out there that love that style of game, and it's not for everyone.
So yes it is kinda disappointing that the game is what it is, but I don't believe that my disappointment is a direct relation to the engine and it's jankiness, but rather my irritation with the way they seem content rerolling the same stuff and expected it to carry it a bit further. Good game, but not as good as it should have been.
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