Re: Fallout London - coming soonish?

On 25/07/2024 03:39, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:49:44 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
 

Well it looks like it. So for those that didn't know this is a free
mod/total conversion based on, you guessed it London, using FO:4. It was
due to be released a few months ago but then we had Fallout TV so we got
the FO:4 Next Gen (NG) update just before the FO:L(ondon) official
release. Obviously panic stations as NG wasn't just a few minor bug
fixes but instead a rather major overhaul meaning FO:L just wouldn't
work. To make it even worse the NG update was a bit buggy so there's
work ongoing meaning it can't be considered a stable platform (fixed).
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The good news though, the FO:L dev's took the decision not to go with NG
but instead the release they had used and have now finished the work for
a degrade tool for GOG and the one for Steam is almost complete. If
you're on Epic sounds like you're out of luck.
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Me, I really looking forward to it obviously and hope all the hard work
of the dev's has paid off.

 Yeah, it looks interesting. I'm not sure I'll play it immediately but
it's definitely on my list of games I /want/ to play. It certainly
looks more interesting to me than anything BETHESDA has come up with
over the past few years.
 That said... I've gotten really burned out on large open-world RPGs
recently. And I never entirely engaged with the weird retro-vibe of
the Fallout universe, and I'm not entirely sure I'll like the almost
1950-London-meets-Fallout-games take either (I'm getting a little bit
of the "We Happy Few" vibe from the trailers I've seen). I'm not
saying any of it makes for a bad game... but while I want to play
"Fallout: London", I'm not really in a RUSH to do so either.
 Still, it doesn't hurt that it's free. I'll download it day one from
GOG, stick it on an external drive with a GOG copy of "Fallout 4", and
let it wait there until I'm ready. That way even if Bethesda 'Foxes'*
the game, I'll still be able to play it. ;-)
 

FO:3/NV and Skyrim are cases where I think openworld is done well as it gets the balance right between how long you spend just wandering and how much time actually 'playing' the game. I always liked that feeling of seeing something in the distance and thinking let's go and have a look at that.
The setting of FO is one of my favourites and that FO:L is going to be set in places I've been to quite a few times should make it interesting.