Do you know that feeling, when you're a dedicated hunter, obsessed with getting the best trophies? Where you will accept nothing but the best prizes to mount on your wall and you will accept nothing less than the most majestic and largest of all trophies for your collection. And you have this wonderful head of a stag, a magnificient beast with huge antlers, that you're so proud of.

Then six months later, someone else at the hunting lodge brings in a kill that dwarves your trophy and shames it into insignificance.

If you are exactly like that, you've got issues and terrible taste in wall decorations. But if you substitute animals with sale discounts, well then, that's me and what I'm feeling about New Vegas right now.

But; aha! I still didn't have Fallout 3. Oh, I'm so getting that one wooo-hooo!

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Incidentally, considering all the, *ahem*, fallout from Bethesda's latest endeavours, this sale is a great idea to get as much good will as possible.

Not that it'll work, we know what you've done Bethesda, and yes, we still remember. Go back to your corner, you're still on timeout.

I'm pretty sure Beth would push the more expensive version, not Oldrim. I assume Newrim could be played DRM-free
(no log-in required to play the base game), but optionally log in to buy Creation Club stuff. (setting aside any opinions on the Creation Club itself, I assume many people would still like to at least have Newrim here)

FallOut 1+2+Tactics thats it.... i stopped buying AAA games when ythey turned FPP

Many good old AAA games turned 3d ( 3d shooters) and i draw the line at FPP games...
Jagged Alliance games also messed up by using the horrible looking 3d engine the funny part in games that changed to a sort of 3d engine is the fact the player can rotate the surroundings 360 degrees.

People cannot stand still and turn a surrounding 360 degrees around their axis, thats impossible...
same goes for walking ... as the main character walks the houses scroll along with him, once again impossible and does not look realistic, buildings stand still and stay where they are, the character is moving so the buildings should get smaller and not scroll along :D


Thats when i stopped buying them , imho 3d FPP works a charm for real 3d shooters like counter strike, those games were made to use a 3d game, but Fallout games and every game like it ( red alert, baldurs gate, Desperados, Commandos and many other games where meant to stay 2d.... :D
Anyway every bad side has a good side , because they did change and keep doing it ... i save lots of cash so i can finally get a new PC soon...:D

Or, if the Nehrim guys would just release the newest version on the moddb.com, like they used to, everything would be dandy.

Hmm. Well, while I find the gameplay loop to be rather boring, it's not as though I hate it. I more hate stuff like the "stolen" mechanic and the brokenness of the a.i./game itself. I don't really know much about the plot, but it is intriguing from what I do know.

Another problem is mods; there's so many, I'm not sure what to use. Obviously I'd need the community bugfixes, but I'm not sure what sort of general/quality of life/rebalancing improvements I'd want. My system is a toaster, graphically speaking, so most of the texture/graphic mods would be out. I don't think I'd mind the standard ones anyway, as I really like the graphic styles from that era of gaming.

Still, I guess 5 shekels is worth a gamble. Thanks for the advice.

It looks like F3 and NV are currently bringing in more money than CybPunk2077 preorders according to the front page? (if that's still how the items are shifted on the front, based on money received during a certain amount of time or something like that)

edit: oh well not now. I hope it shifts up and down organically, and not somebody messing with it to keep CP2077 on top ;)

heh, thanks for the laugh. The only thing Bethesda is known for is releasing games that have development finished by the customers.

I guess that is based on the number of copies sold and not the total amount of money received. It's probably much simpler to just keep track of the sold copies number.

I concur. Come one Bethesda. But I think it may never happen.Bethesda implements DRM on DOOM from 1993 for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4. At the same time Bethesda removed the Xbox live arcade version which didn't have this stupid DRM.

What the ..

This crap is appalling!!

How is it possible that a publisher will enforce DRM on a 25 years old game???

I don't have specific data on the subject and I may eventually be wrong, but from what I've gathered from what I see and hear I'd say that piracy of videogames is now at least 70% less than it was at 1993. Who needs piracy when you can buy most games with a 85 or 90% discount on a digital store nowadays? With official patches and cloud-saves and without the risk of catchig viruses or malware?

This is just a proof that consumers need to enforce the need for more DRM-free policies. Else publishers will try and remove more rights from customers.

With the streaming services looming on the horizon we're not far from the times when a bloke needed to put a quarter into an arcade machine in order to earn a life (every extra life needed an extra quarter).
In fact, if the streaming services turn out to be success, I can perfectly see the "monthly subscription fee" being turned into a service where the player must play $ in order to gain an extra life or pay $$ in order to save the game.

Sory for the bluntness, but f#ck Bethesda and f#ck anyone who supports these publishers and their DRM.

Haha Bethesda, they have gone to shit so hard lately and now this DRM fiasco. I hate to say this but please go fuck yourselves Zenimax/Bethesda !

Luckily i already have Doom here but the love publishers have for DRM is insane, down with drm.

To be fair they're saying the Doom console mandatory sign-in thing was an accident. Even if they're lying all the console downloads have Steam style account based DRM, so not some massive difference sadly. Thankfully we have the better PC releases with source ports completely DRM free.

I'd guess you're right, especially since their recent PC games on Steam pester you about a Bethesda account constantly, lock DLC and other such things behind said account and Steam signs you in somehow automatically anyway, without even saying anything. They're obviously trying to push the accounts as hard as they can.

They say it was an accident but now the people that had already purchased the games already created an account on bethesda...A lot of "accidents" for bethesda recently such as selling on steam a game with denuvo and on their bethesda launcher the game was drm free (cant remember which game it was but it was a recent one)...I just wish they could at least release their games on gog that are more than 5 years old such as skyrim, dishonored, fallout 4 etc.