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6/25/2025, 9:53:42 PM
>>3781564
When people debate writing quality they often put their argument in terms of logic and story complexity when what they really mean is tone and aesthetics. Amateur writers--like the ones who write video games--tend to leak their own affects into their characterizations which is what audiences are picking up on, e.g. "millennial writing" (think DA:Veilguard) versus "edgelord writing" (think Cyberpunk).
Moreover, I'm willing to bet a significant amount of the writing complaints have more to do with the graphics than anything. Isometric pixel sprites and low resolution claymation on a CRT display has an inherently gritty quality to it that fits with the post-apocalyptic themes. Fallout 4 was built on a Creation Engine build with a texture rendering pipeline that was only half-finished and it gives a lot of materials a sort of toy-like, plasticky sheen to them that doesn't jive with the setting.
>>3790565
>>3790625
>>3790808
Bethesda, Obsidian, and Troika all wanted the IP because, believe it or not, business suits have some amount of taste and they could all see that the setting/iconography/title had serious legs if they could just port it into a more popular genre and get some real funding/marketing behind it.
When people debate writing quality they often put their argument in terms of logic and story complexity when what they really mean is tone and aesthetics. Amateur writers--like the ones who write video games--tend to leak their own affects into their characterizations which is what audiences are picking up on, e.g. "millennial writing" (think DA:Veilguard) versus "edgelord writing" (think Cyberpunk).
Moreover, I'm willing to bet a significant amount of the writing complaints have more to do with the graphics than anything. Isometric pixel sprites and low resolution claymation on a CRT display has an inherently gritty quality to it that fits with the post-apocalyptic themes. Fallout 4 was built on a Creation Engine build with a texture rendering pipeline that was only half-finished and it gives a lot of materials a sort of toy-like, plasticky sheen to them that doesn't jive with the setting.
>>3790565
>>3790625
>>3790808
Bethesda, Obsidian, and Troika all wanted the IP because, believe it or not, business suits have some amount of taste and they could all see that the setting/iconography/title had serious legs if they could just port it into a more popular genre and get some real funding/marketing behind it.
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