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Fallout 4 Wins Best Game At Bafta Awards (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Fallout 4 has won the best game of the year at 2016's British Academy Games Awards. It marks the first time its US-based developer Bethesda has won the prize. It did not win in any other category. Fallout 4 is an action-focused role-playing game set in Boston following a nuclear war. It contains hundreds of hours of storyline to explore. Like last year's winner -- Destiny -- it had not won a prize in any of the other categories before taking the top award. The studio's European managing director said he had not expected the result, and recalled that although Fallout is now one of gaming's biggest franchises, it too started out small. "You don't have to have the multi-million dollar budgets to make great games -- I've seen a huge amount of evidence for that tonight," said Sean Brennan.
I have all the previous Fallout-games, including Fallout Tactics, and.. well, I was bored with Fallout 4 already before I was half-way through with the mainline story. The game is surprisingly dumb, things just keep repeating over and over and over and nothing you do really seems to have any effect on the gameworld, like e.g. you go and help a settlement, then 30 minutes later the same settlement has the exact same trouble again, and again, and again, and again... Similarly, you go and kill enemies off one area, go barely 500 meters in some direction and come back and POOF -- new ones have spawned. Also, the enemies were either god damn enormous bulletsponges that could take several nukes in the face or they were made of paper and sugar and died as soon as you looked in their general direction, never being balanced in any way or form. That dogmeat? Oh, geesh, that fucking piece of shit is in your way all the god damn time, not letting you go through doorways or getting out from behind a desk or running on top of a corpse you're trying to loot and so on.
The game is a boring mess and instead of progressing and improving from previous ones it took several steps back.
Compare to Fallout 3. More to explore (the major point of the game). More songs, and yes a few repeat from Fallout 3). More interesting combat options. Things respawn fast at times, but that happened in FO3 also. And dogmeat is actually useful unlike the one in FO3. Can't think of any way it's not improving on FO3, though the different level/stats/perks is more of a side move than improvement. The things that don't feel so great feel that way in FO3 also. Not finished with the main quest and I'm an embarrassing number of hours into it.
What do films have to do with games?
/sips cup of proper tea, not that Lipton nonsense.
Well you see the British are a progressive lot, except when it comes to naming. The BAFTA is the academy for modern art forms such as film and television and so it was natural to extend this to video games. The problem is BAFTA is a recognised name and therefore, cannot be easily changed as their role evolves. This is why the MOT is still called the Ministry of Transport instead of the Department of Vehicle Bastardry.
The introduction of video games into the BAFTAs has been a big thing in recent years and I think, better off for it.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I have played every PC Fallout game when it came out. I have finished and enjoyed every single one of them until Fallout 4. Fallout was a wonderful surprise, Fallout 2 was more of a great thing, Fallout Tactics was a interesting diversion that scratched my Jagged Alliance itch reasonably well, Fallout 3 was a mediocre transition to a new engine which grew, with the DLCs to a enjoyable game, and New Vegas was once again, pretty damn great.
I have not finished Fallout 4, I have no interest in doing so, and about every single thing about it annoyed me. By the way, I'm an MIT student, and I loved Boston (It helped that I went there from a colder climate)
That Fallout 4 can receive a game of the year award in a year that saw The Witcher 3 and Life is Strange come out? To me this simply underlines the utter irrelevance of the reviewers who awarded it.
No good deed goes unpunished...