The declaration "Fallout sucks" is not worthy of a post on its own, but I'm more curious about the state of media in general due to my generally ascetic lifestyle. I don't stream, I don't watch new movies, and other than a few games on Steam and my PS2 I don't game anymore either. I gave the new Fallout a shot through rather Frobisherian means and could only last two and a half episodes before Shift-Deleting the files from my computer.
My main complaint? The acting. The stiff, uninspired, stilted acting. The show up to the point that I quit felt like a comedy sketch done very poorly. I understand that they were trying to capture the lampooned 50s feel of Fallout as a whole yet they failed in that execution, mainly due to the acting.
I honestly can't think of one good acting performance. Maybe Titus, and only because Rapaport just played him like he plays everybody?
The thing is, I'm seeing praise for the show and I don't understand it so I'm wondering if those giving praise are used to wading through outhouse troughs and view this as a breath of fresh air? Are my expectations too high? Is this a me problem?
Yeah, you're somebody like a bunch of us who grew up with quality shows and movies to watch. The current normie bump with Fallout is real, we're not only seeing that people are suddenly spamming about Fallout now on the trending pages but Fallout 4 reached the top sellers list as well. Which is pretty funny because it forced Bethesda to release a patch in order to address various lingering bugs and optimisation issues that had been there for ages but all of a sudden they care now they're getting fresh sales again.
Mind you, it's not just with this new Fallout show that I'm completely ignoring. All the normies praise shit like Breaking Bad for example and I tried watching that properly a bit and holy shit it was boring for me. Some parts were good but you can just go on youtube for that. The fallout show itself looks like generic corporate shit with a Fallout skin on top, much like the new Dune movie and I wasn't impressed by any of what I saw with that either, thought the original was better. The same goes for stuff like Shogun, the original was better.
Bethesda updated FO4 in order to deliberately break mods, many of which are problematic and “unapproved”.
It's like a bunch of these shit companies are trying to bring back piracy's popularity.
It's getting harder and harder to justifying spending money to "own" a digital product when these fuckers get more and more brazen in telling us, "no, you don't own that...we own that. And we'll tell you what you can do with your singleplayer games, to boot!"
If purchasing isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft.
There is a reason why they are all pushing for legislation to make emulation more illegal, DRM to the point where you don't get to have "options" around it, and numerous other anti-consumer things.
They refuse to become good enough to prevent piracy, so instead they will use the government and fear to keep you from even considering it.
They were good enough to prevent or at least mitigate piracy. They've backslid to such an extent that piracy starts looking tasty again. Fucking incompetents.