Why does Fallout being main stream now piss me off?

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Patty_Fleur
04/23/2024
05:38 AM
#1
I can't explain it but it upsets me.
Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
05:40 AM
#2
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.
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Patty_Fleur
04/23/2024
05:40 AM
#3
Baron_Ox posted...
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.

But do they care about the games?
ssjevot
04/23/2024
05:46 AM
#4
Fallout has been a pretty casual mainstream series since 3. Definitely since 4. Do you mean because it also has a TV show now?
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pinky0926
04/23/2024
05:47 AM
#5
It's a natural feeling. Not an entirely rational one, but one that everyone feels from time to time.

It's like when you follow a sport and watch all the league matches, and then the superbowl or world cup rolls around and suddenly every layperson you know is an expert despite having never watched a game in the last 4 years. It's annoying.
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
05:47 AM
#6
Patty_Fleur posted...
But do they care about the games?

not all of them. at least, I don't think so.

but I don't see why that matters.
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SpiritSephiroth
04/23/2024
05:47 AM
#7
Because its going to be casualized.
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Patty_Fleur
04/23/2024
05:49 AM
#8
ssjevot posted...
Fallout has been a pretty casual mainstream series since 3. Definitely since 4. Do you mean because it also has a TV show now?

Yes. I'm a middle school teacher. A middle age woman at my school has a son that dressed in a fallout themed outfit for prom. What the fuck? It's too popular now.

This must be how comic book fans felt with the MCU.
Mew
04/23/2024
05:49 AM
#9
Its been mainstream since 3 or 4 lol
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Patty_Fleur
04/23/2024
05:52 AM
#10
Mew posted...
Its been mainstream since 3 or 4 lol

Amongst gamers only. I fine with that. The Persona series is popular now and that's cool but it's still only really popular with certain people,not everyone.
Hyena_Of_Ice
04/23/2024
05:54 AM
#11
It upsets you because from now on, you're going to encounter people whose Fallout knowledge is limited to the TV series while knowing jack shit about the videogames, the latter of which are probably the only version that you consider to be canonical.
Even if it sticks to the canon for now (I have no idea if it does, because I have never played Fallout nor been interested in the TV series), these types of TV series inevitably deviate more and more from the source material.
So have fun dealing with that.
trivialbeing
04/23/2024
05:57 AM
#12
Baron_Ox posted...
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.
gatekeeping is good
UnfairRepresent
04/23/2024
05:58 AM
#13
I guess the least douchey answer is that it will take over the old lore and small communities you had.

Most douchey answer is that you're a gatekeeping meanie who doesn't like girls coming into their treehouse.

Just look at how many NV fans are screaming and tearing their clothes because of how the TV show handled the NCR
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
06:00 AM
#14
trivialbeing posted...
gatekeeping is good
why?
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GBH713
04/23/2024
06:00 AM
#15
Baron_Ox posted...
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.

This
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Glob
04/23/2024
06:03 AM
#16
It annoys me slightly, but thats mostly because it gained a lot of mainstream appeal after becoming (in my view) a worse product, which means that we probably wont get the kinds of games I like out of the series ever again.
Trelve
04/23/2024
06:05 AM
#17
Baron_Ox posted...
why?
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
06:09 AM
#18
has that happened, or is it one of those hypothetical things?
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Hyena_Of_Ice
04/23/2024
06:13 AM
#19
Glob posted...
It annoys me slightly, but thats mostly because it gained a lot of mainstream appeal after becoming (in my view) a worse product, which means that we probably wont get the kinds of games I like out of the series ever again.

Oh, yeah, now that you mention that. Here, allow me to add an important detail to my previous post:

It upsets you because from now on, you're going to encounter people whose Fallout knowledge is limited to the TV series while knowing jack shit about the videogames, the latter of which are probably the only version that you consider to be canonical.
Even if it sticks to the canon for now (I have no idea if it does, because I have never played Fallout nor been interested in the TV series), these types of TV series inevitably deviate more and more from the source material . On top of that, you can expect TV series-exclusive lore to be retconned into some or all future Fallout games.
So have fun with that.
pegusus123456
04/23/2024
06:13 AM
#20
Baron_Ox posted...
has that happened, or is it one of those hypothetical things?
Have you been on CE the past week >_>
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
06:21 AM
#21
pegusus123456 posted...
Have you been on CE the past week >_>
yea...is this about all of the changes?

if so, I don't see the connection.

all of that happened while CE (and the rest of GFAQs) has been on a steady decline, and they look to limit board use rather than add to it.
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DuuuDe14
04/23/2024
06:27 AM
#22
This is what happened with Devil May Cry.
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JuanCarlos1
04/23/2024
06:28 AM
#23
Didnt Fallout 4 sell like 12 million?
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Evening_Dragon
04/23/2024
06:28 AM
#24
Baron_Ox posted...
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.

It may not be true in this case, but overall, gatekeepers are a great preservative for quality.
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projectpat72988
04/23/2024
06:29 AM
#25
Trelve posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4a0f1195.jpg

So true.

Fallout was dead for m e ever since they turned it into some shit multiplayer game instead of giving the games actual fans what they wanted. They still refuse to. They simply wanna do just what this pic shows.

Even though TES proves they didn't need to. Whatever.

They will do it with TES too.
Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
06:30 AM
#26
Evening_Dragon posted...
It may not be true in this case, but overall, gatekeepers are a great preservative for quality.
how?
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Evening_Dragon
04/23/2024
06:33 AM
#27
Baron_Ox posted...
has that happened, or is it one of those hypothetical things?
Have you never loved a thing that kept getting diluted to appeal to a wider crowd, or to be cheaper?

Modern Street Fighter and Guilty Gear still make me sad.
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lolife67
04/23/2024
06:34 AM
#28
Evening_Dragon posted...
It may not be true in this case, but overall, gatekeepers are a great preservative for quality.
When has this been true?
Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
06:43 AM
#29
Evening_Dragon posted...
Have you never loved a thing that kept getting diluted to appeal to a wider crowd, or to be cheaper?

Modern Street Fighter and Guilty Gear still make me sad.
I think it depends.

like, with long running franchises, you can have multiple creative forces, and because of that, we can't tell if the more "accommodating" approach is one some of them might have wanted to take anyway.

with single creative forces, maybe it could have been an "evolution".

it could be like you say, though.
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SHRlKE
04/23/2024
06:45 AM
#30
Meh. The FO community has always gate kept. You had people bitching fallout 2 was a disgrace and selling out at the time and thats before social media took off. It was even worse when fo3 came out.

No Mutants Allowed is despised by many FO fans for a good reason.
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LearntoRead
04/23/2024
06:51 AM
#31
I admit, I do worry about the next Fallout. Fallout 4 was good, but made some mistakes. In the long run combining the perk system and skill point system into one thing was a bad idea. The great thing about perks was how they changed your gameplay even if they were useless. With everything in one system you cant have that. I assume they did this to simplify the game, and I hope they go back in a sequel.

At least, I hope my assumption is wrong. I dont think Fallout 3 was too complicated for anyone.
Vyrulisse
04/23/2024
07:03 AM
#32
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
07:04 AM
#33
fwiw, I feel like developers, if they're going to listen to fans, are a lot likelier to try to appease those on the gaming side rather than the TV side.

like, if people are already liking the show, at most, I expect to see some references but nothing major (like with Cyberpunk Edgerunners).
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divot1338
04/23/2024
07:06 AM
#34
Filthy casuals.
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Jagr_68
04/23/2024
07:06 AM
#35
Terrible shame TC has to share an always high quality IP with other people who haven't put more than a single minute into multi-award winning GOTY Fallout 76.
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Justin2Krelian
04/23/2024
07:10 AM
#36
There's probably a bigger gap between the popularity when Fallout 2 came out vs. when 4 came out than the hap between 4 coming out and now.
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Bat178
04/23/2024
07:12 AM
#37
That's me with Zelda, due to me heavily disliking the BotW/TotK formula compared to the old one.
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Rosstin316
04/23/2024
07:16 AM
#38
Its because you used to feel cool and superior having this unique and niche favorite franchise compared to your normie buddies, but now they all like your thing which means your thing is now basic so you aint that interesting.
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ScazarMeltex
04/23/2024
07:37 AM
#39
Rosstin316 posted...
Its because you used to feel cool and superior having this unique and niche favorite franchise compared to your normie buddies, but now they all like your thing which means your thing is now basic so you aint that interesting.
It's always this.
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ssjevot
04/23/2024
07:39 AM
#40
Jagr_68 posted...
always high quality IP

Bruh. I hope this is sarcasm because I think everyone agrees Brotherhood of Steel was garbage. It's not even considered canon anymore.
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ssjevot
04/23/2024
07:49 AM
#41
DuuuDe14 posted...
This is what happened with Devil May Cry.

Really? I love the series from the start (excluding DMC 2 and DmC) and 5 was awesome.
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ssjevot
04/23/2024
07:50 AM
#42
lolife67 posted...
When has this been true?

You could maybe argue that for From Software. There is a vocal minority that wants the games to be easier and they keep ignoring them. Whether you think that's a good thing or not is up to you, but it's possibly an example of that kind of gatekeeping.
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rexcrk
04/23/2024
07:53 AM
#43
Rosstin316 posted...
Its because you used to feel cool and superior having this unique and niche favorite franchise compared to your normie buddies, but now they all like your thing which means your thing is now basic so you aint that interesting.

Bingo
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DuuuDe14
04/23/2024
07:55 AM
#44
ssjevot posted...
Really? I love the series from the start (excluding DMC 2 and DmC) and 5 was awesome.

Capcom wasn't happy with the core audience numbers of DMC so they decided to reboot the franchise to make it more appealing to a general audience. Which we know now failed and why they decided to go back to the original franchise with DMC5.
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ssjevot
04/23/2024
07:57 AM
#45
DuuuDe14 posted...
Capcom wasn't happy with the core audience numbers of DMC so they decided to reboot the franchise to make it more appealing to a general audience. Which we know now failed and why they decided to go back to the original franchise with DMC5.

Oh. I think this was just from that black era of Capcom where they gave all there series to random Western devs to make shit games. Konami did the same thing (and still does). Capcom renaissance has been in full swing for a while now.
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nekrodev
04/23/2024
08:16 AM
#46
Baron_Ox posted...
gatekeeping doesn't make things better for you, it just deprives others of something they might like.

gatekeeping CAN be good, but in an instance like this, i don't think it's helpful and i don't really get it. I would love for more people to like a lot of the stuff I'm into - but what you don't want is people bringing in completely different things and diluting / taking over the space.

as an example, music genres. I'm all for more people getting into metal - but if you were to just let people continue to call every new rock band metal and spam up the message boards / channels w/ it would be a bad thing.
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R_Jackal
04/23/2024
08:18 AM
#47
It's a single player game, so just remember nothing anyone else does impacts your experience. Only you can do that for yourself.
ssjevot
04/23/2024
08:20 AM
#48
Actually metal is a good example of gate keeping. It used to have a Nazi problem and then people started gate keeping them out of the community and that was a good thing.
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Baron_Ox
04/23/2024
08:21 AM
#49
nekrodev posted...
as an example, music genres. I'm all for more people getting into metal - but if you were to just let people continue to call every new rock band metal and spam up the message boards / channels w/ it would be a bad thing.
I dunno, I feel like this is different.

like, I guess I can understand how it might affect the image of metal - marketing things that might not be metal as metal, but idk if it would hurt the actual music.
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SpawnShadow
04/23/2024
08:22 AM
#50
Patty_Fleur posted...
But do they care about the games?
They could , if you let them try them.
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