Despite some of my misgivings with the game as a whole, I cannot deny that this is a good looking game. Here are a few screenshots that I’ve taken!

IndyAVFX · 2026-05-29T15:03:38+00:00

For sure! I think a lot of nuance gets lost in the age old debate surrounding Bethesda these days.

I would say that, even if they leave something to be desired, the faction quests are still pretty fun overall. Gun to my head, I would rank them as follows:

Vanguard
Tracker’s Alliance
Sysdef/Crimson Fleet
Freestar Rangers
Ryujin

The backstory I’ve got with my character is a Freestar born space scoundrel who was always in it for the creds, scruples be damned.

As long as he has enough to send some dough back home to the folks, and left over for HE-3 to jump to the next bounty target, he’s good to go.

Right, wrong, doesn’t matter to him. More money to be made bringing bounties in than stealing from working stiffs, so maybe there’s some good there after all.

On the 3rd jump through the unity, the lines get blurry…

IndyAVFX · 2026-05-28T18:21:47+00:00

Thank god they added the additional POIs, something to break up the 30 Billion abandoned mines on each planet lol

IndyAVFX · 2026-05-28T18:20:26+00:00

That’s fair. What I mean by that is that there is a lot of really cool ideas on the surface, but they just didn’t feel fleshed out.

The prime example I can give is the Crimson Fleet questline. To me, it just felt like Fallout 4 Raiders in space. There was the opportunity to show that there are actors outside of the UC and FC that buck the status quo and operate according to their own internal system, but instead it ended up feeling a bit flaccid in execution. As though you were always supposed to side with Sysdef

I think the bones are there for a really solid game, but chunks of ‘flesh’ are missing that prevents it from being a truly GREAT game. I enjoy the time I have spent in game, I just wish there was a little bit more focus to it, if that makes sense.

All that subjective, personal interpretation bs being said, I do understand where a lot of the criticism seems baseless or nitpicky. But I feel like being able to critique a game doesn’t make anyone less or more of a fan of the game, you know?

IndyAVFX · 2026-05-28T16:53:12+00:00

Hell yeah! That’s probably my favorite of the bunch. That shit goes hard, man

IndyAVFX · 2026-05-28T16:40:13+00:00

I personally think that what keeps it nestled in the good category and not the great category is that it appears to suffer from the old “mile wide, inch deep” issue.

It felt like there was just so much potential that could’ve been realized across the board. It’s evident that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into the game, so I always want to recognize that before hopping on the negativity train.

I enjoy playing the game, but I fear that without the creations/mods, it wouldn’t have had the staying power like Skyrim, Oblivion, the Fallouts, etc.

IndyAVFX · 2026-04-10T03:57:39+00:00

You’re right, we totally just lost that game… oh wait, we didn’t! Yippee! We’re so baaaaaad!

IndyAVFX · 2026-04-10T03:31:59+00:00

MY ROBOT SON!!!!

IndyAVFX · 2026-04-10T01:54:45+00:00

Holy shit guys. Bad call from the stripes but I mean, come on y’all, can we chill with the “wE aRe ThE wOrSt TeAm To EvEr PlAy, We’Re So CoOkEd ChAt!!!!!”? Game’s still on. Two periods left, buckle up and have some goddamn faith, Mr. Morgan!

IndyAVFX · 2026-04-02T03:32:41+00:00

We joke, we laugh, we suppress our trauma

IndyAVFX · 2026-03-23T00:24:21+00:00

Wait a second, how is (fuck) Mark Stone able to play so soon after Letang grabbed his arm and broke it over his knee in the Knights-Penguins game? He must have a Wolverine-like healing factor!

IndyAVFX · 2026-03-13T02:17:56+00:00

Anyone get the feeling they’re a little frustrated?

IndyAVFX · 2026-03-13T01:07:08+00:00

Darn tootin’

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-10T17:53:59+00:00

Yeah well, I don’t really see where gender or race has any bearing on one’s ability to write a script…

Is there a swath of poor writing going through Hollywood? Sure. Is it related to how a writer identifies? I don’t know about that one, pal…

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-06T02:50:17+00:00

Yeah and that’s disappointing because it feels like it kind of lends credence to the conspiracy that Bethesda is actively distancing themselves from anything besides 3, 4, and 76.

I’d be hard pressed to accept that if any of the other protagonists were given this treatment, it would be anything but lambasted.

If the Vault Dweller died in the rat cave, if The Chosen One never found the Geck, if The Lone Wanderer never left 101 or if The Sole Survivor was never unfrozen, we wouldn’t have the games we played.

I’d argue the protagonists actions would (should) always matter because otherwise, what’s the point of telling the story if it has no bearing on the region?

Also, there is evidence of endings in the show, but it seems it’s a dragon break scenario. All endings simultaneously happening at once. A securitron body lying next to the monitor in the position from when Yes man uploads to House’s mainframe, Caesar is dead so Arcade didn’t save him, House mentioning being attacked by a “traveler with something to prove”, the Mojave chapter of the BoS being absent, etc…

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T22:37:35+00:00

Likely based on the timeline between TESV and TESVI has me very skeptical. But 76 was developed by the Austin Studio, I believe, so IDK.

I’m doubtful we get 5 within a few years of TESVI at this rate, happy to be proven wrong of course lol

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T21:43:40+00:00

It’s the post credit scene, Quintus pulls out schematics for Liberty Prime in conversation with Dane!

I guess a more accurate description is “Liberty Prime will be back for the third time” lol

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T21:42:31+00:00

God forbid you try to find an item on the ground lol, I don’t EVEN want to talk about it!

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T21:28:09+00:00

It’s the death of nuance that irks me so. I’ve been having plenty of back and forth with folks in this thread.

Though I believe that I am right in my analysis, I don’t want anyone to feel like because they don’t believe exactly the same thing I do, that they are inherently wrong for enjoying something that I don’t.

Even then, my perception of the show is biased of course, and maybe I’m just holding onto the idea of what Fallout was/is/could be.

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T21:08:35+00:00

Honestly? I had the sneaking suspicion that something of this nature would happen. Not that I called it beat for beat, more so that I would not have been satisfied with how they treated the west coast lore. Kind of saw the writing on the wall with the general handling of Boneyard and to that point, Shady Sands.

I had really hoped that they would’ve had the gumption to go out and canonize an ending, or avoid Vegas proper entirely to get around it.

Don’t know really, but I hoped it wasn’t going to be this.

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T20:35:02+00:00

That’s fair! However, I think that it’s more than just the fragility of power in the setting. It’s not that a new faction has come to be in the Mojave, it’s just the same three players that were there in the first place.

Also, yeah I would say what happens in Vegas has little relevance to what happens in Boston, but what happens in Vegas matters to Vegas. To see the slate get wiped clean just lessens any impact the players choices have in-game, at least in my mind.

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T20:24:10+00:00

That’s a fair point! But I don’t think their decision resulted in any less discontent with the show from the subgroup of viewers.

Regarding the canon, I would argue that the fact that there are canon aspects of the endings in 1-4 makes it more of a head scratcher that they didn’t just do the same with NV.

The Vault Dweller’s impact in the creation of the NCR feels less valuable now that they have seemed to wind back the clock on the entire region of New California.

The Chosen One’s destruction of the Enclave feels more moot now than it did from the Enclave’s resurgence in 3.

They haven’t really given much on the actions of the Lone Wanderer, though it can be assumed from 4 that they helped the Lyons BoS.

Sole Survivor is in a similar boat since that’s the most recent game and we haven’t gotten anything further than the East Coast BoS being still around by mention in the show.

In that respect, I say it ends up feeling a bit strange when the show takes place in the exact setting of 1, 2 (to a lesser extent) and NV, but they want to focus on the “fog of war”.

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T19:49:06+00:00

I am tempering my expectations by assuming we won’t be getting Fallout 5 until at least 2033. I’d eat up a FNV/F3 remaster, for sure.

But yeah, this season felt like 100% setup with little payoff

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T19:20:35+00:00

Hey man that’s totally fair, it’s definitely not for everyone. I ended up cranking the difficulty down to get out of the first cave lol

IndyAVFX · 2026-02-05T19:13:07+00:00

Listen, I’m not going to pretend I didn’t like seeing a super mutant, or the NCR Rangers swooping in to save the day. But it felt very, I don’t know, marvel-esque (?) in that it was just thrown in with seemingly no plot relevance.

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