>you wake up as Todd in 2015 and are fully in charge of developing

>>383880507
Make it take place on the west coast where the Fallout series belongs.

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Add more DLC and VR!

Plan two more story dlcs

Mission directive: We are targeting this at hardcore gamers and not the mainstream casuals.

Thats all it would take really. We know Bethesda can make good games when they try.

>>383880507
give it to someone to give to obsidian

IMMIDIATELY give it to Obsidian and forbid any other dev team from touching it.

>>383880507
Reminder that Todd is the original "Dream Boy" who got his dreams and ideas crushed by Pete Hines and Zenimax kikes.

PRAY4TODD

Also Fallout 4 was in development before 2015

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>>383880507
I give it to Randy Pitchford

If its already 2015 most of the game is pretty much complete already, I would add more and better quests, if modders can make dlc sized mods by themselves then bethesda should be able to output way more content.

>>383880507
Kill myself in case he's going to take back over again.

>>383880507
>Quick give me more mountains
>Done sir what's next?
>Can you climb it?
>No.
>Good :)

My job is done.

>>383880507
I drink and cry myself to sleep as the faceless suits tell me what to do and what not to do with my game.

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Are we ever going to get past the "Obsidian is amazing!!1!" meme or no

>>383880507
>What do you differently?

more meme's

make every character, including the player character, trans*

preemptively create the thinly-veiled DRAUMBVE parody character that will change the outcome of the 2016 election

>>383880661
>We know Bethesda can make good games when they try.

do we though?

do


we?

>>383880901
>Obsidian is much better because only thing they had to do was the writing, all assets have been done by Bethesda already :DD OBSIDIAN! OBISIDIAN!
video mary

>>383880978
Morrowind, Daggerfall, and Arena were pretty good. I personally liked Oblivion but I wouldn't put it as high up as those three.

>>383880708
>Falloutlands

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>>383880507
Absolutely nothing. Fallout 4 shipping the way that it did gave Bethesda the funds to carry on with publishing Dishonored 2 and Prey. A worthy trade off, if you ask me.

>>383881064
none of the people who made those games work there anymore

>>383881142
Here we get some BADASS power armor in the first BADASS settlement! And now there's this BADASS deathclaw-3000-tron emerging from sewers.

Grab that motherfucking BADASS minigun and kill him like the BADASS you are! Rip and tear!

>>383880598
Only if they outsource writing to Obsidian and give them full creative control.

Keeping their fanfiction-tier lolpostapocxD shit at a respectful distance from the real story setting is the only thing Bethesda did right in their handling of the Fallout IP.

>>383880901
Obsidian has amazing writing and it helps them make great titles but if we wanted to really get into just gameplay then New Vegas was pretty much Fallout 3.3. Because Fallout at its core lives and dies by its writing (see Fallout 4) this has kind of given people an idea that New Vegas just blew the lid off the nuFallout games

t, New Vegas Wild Card

>>383881271
>Obsidian has amazing writing
>PoE
>Tyranny

Come up with a story that isn't "Like Fallout 3, but this time the dad/mom is looking for their son!"

>>383881351
>KOTOR 2
>New Vegas
>Obsidian had good writing

I stand corrected

>>383881381
Can't even be a truly bad person, just a rude asshole.

>>383881271
>Obsidian has amazing writting

Both Sawyer and Avellone left Obsidian retard, nu-Obsidian is stuck with some game-development graduate females who know jack shit about writing.

Also it would be really sad if writing in New Vegas when it was the only thing the had to put effort into.

>>383880901
As an Obsidian proponent I'd say that they're objectively upper-mediocrity and definitely overrated (which, ironically, stems from the same kind of "clinging to past accomplishments" sentiment that keeps Bethesda floating), but that still makes them better than most current devs and A LOT better than Bethesda.

>>383880507
Give it to GSC worlds

>>383880507
Change absolutely nothing and wait for the Obsidian Fallout

It's a Bethesda fallout, even Todd understands that there always must be a bad to make the good look better.

>>383881479
See >>383881423

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>>383880507
spend some of the billions I have tucked away to develop an actual new engine instead of new art assets for my decade old engine. that or do the entire thing on UE4. fire the entire team from the janitor to the lead writers that were responsible for skyrim and fallout 3. create a quality assurance team for the first time

I hate all bethesda titles, but I'm going to try and take this seriously.

Immediately get rid of the creation engine or whatever they call it now.
Switch to either Unreal or Unity and build a fresh new engine based around making an FPS that's about exploration. The focus would be on making a quick and uncomplicated story, a few characters with limited dialogue options, the same shallow story-per-town formula for the side quests and then most of the budget spent on making the maps play well, ensure that VATS is completely unnecessary and that the gameplay is fun, the animations are not trash-tier, enemy archetypes that require different approaches other than shoot-at-until-dead and make character weaknesses to different weapons.

I'd make the world far more interactive so that there's crysis-esque situations where you can activate physics-based traps and giving the player some abilities that are actually interesting instead of just stat bumps.

There needs to be a focus on gameplay over story, which Fallout 4 kinda felt like it tried to do, but then got stuck between story-driven nonsense and fun gun play.

The creation engine is a blight on the industry.

>>383881895
>Cleaning house like that
Wow anon, sounds pretty good desu mayne

>Fix the dialogue
>Make choices have more consequences
>Have a "Town rating" system for settlement building that causes npcs in the world to actually react to your settlements
>Traders show up if it has enough "Trader points" for example
>Dont show these points to the player its a secret stat
>Let the player point out the institutes hypocrisy if they actually go out of the way to find it
>Let the player inform other factions they have stake to rule the institute (Railroad and minutemen will be okay with it and let you use it to their advantage, brotherhood isnt okay with you having that power)
>Bring back skills and change the uninteresting perks
>Your town can become a raider group if you put the right people in it
>Your town can rebel against you if you treat them poorly
>Take the fortune telling bullshit out and just have preston suggest you go to diamond city because its a big place
>Get rid of radiant quests and instead make the minuteman route about finding a source of weapons and soldiers for your army
>Can decide what to do with the minutmen as leader, focus more on recruiting, taking territory, or training and discipline, with possible attempts at overthrowing you if you fuck up or the minutemen becoming corrupt under your influence.
>Get rid of the voiced protagonist and making your character backstory already decided, perhaps switching the baby plot with something different

>>383880507
make an offer obsidian cant refuse and make them a subsidiary with complete autonomy and have them make fallout from now on

>>383880783
this.

Bitchy little shits have no idea how games are built these days.

Protip: Think of your absolute favorite game series.. Now you need to come to grips with the fact that every sequal is going to be dumbed down and "sell" to the majority of today's gaming demographic.. which is 8 year olds.

Give Obsidian bonus if they get 85 on Metacritic

>>383882238
why call it fallout then?

they should just sell the franchise and make crytek games clones set in a dystopian future

Hire everyone from Obsidian, but not the company itself.

>>383882295
When Bethesda sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing a decade old engine. They're bringing bad dialogue. They're hackfrauds. And some, I assume, are good people.

>>383882369
I kinda hoped I'd clarified by "I hate bethesda games" so getting fallout to be as far away from fallout as possible would be high on my agenda.

It'd essentially be open-world crysis with shit graphics.

Oh and I'd make it Nintendo exclusive.

>>383880507
Kill myself

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>>383880507
>give it toTelltale

who would realistically do a fallout game right this day? who could bethesda sell this franchise to?

and don't say obsidian because that company had one of the worst brain drains in gaming history in the past few years. also they never finish games and don't have any money

>>383880507
Get rid of Emil Bagagoolio and hire a competent writer to salvage the story and sidequests

>>383880507
let ID handle all the gameplay features and outsource the writing to any other studio besides Bethesda's in house one.

>>383882646
No one
Bethesda expects to sell Skyrim-like numbers with all their mainline games now, which means whatever dev they give it to will be pressured to include the exact same fucking boring samey open world that the industry is plagued with post-Skyrim
For it to be a good videogame, it would have to be a spinoff with smaller (marketing) budget and therefore lower sales expectations

>>383882906
I mean sell it to, not outsource it to.

>>383882976
Sorry about that. I dunno man, all of the big devs are either shit now or dead
The only ones I can think of whose writing I still like are Larian

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>>383880702
This.
I sometimes think we give Todd too much shit, because I believe he wants to actually create all the content he naively promises, but gets cucked by Hines and all the other fags because they don't take his manlet-ass serious and are only in it for the big bucks.

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>make an even shittier fallout 4 with call of duty mechanics and even less of a budget than before. Probably a quarter million dollars. name it fallout the fourth.
>shit it out and market it like call of duty. 85$ a copy. special edition 10+, fat boy edition +10 comes with a toy, death claw edition comes with a toy death claw , lone wanderer edition comes with all that shit plus the artbook and a free dlc. sell also a season pass for 130$
>use the rest of the money and acquire all the ad revenue money and put all of that budget into a new IP that isnt fallout.
>actually spend time on this game and make it a really good game.
>release only few physical copies and distribute it through gog or directly. advertise on all the videogame board communities on the internet instead of having tv adverts.
>gets spread as a good game and people actually like it.
> remake fallout into the old top down diablo rpg with all of the mechanics and shit but make it look prettier and run on a better engine.
>slow development for this one, but were not rushing it.
>release this game way later. less hype.
>E3 Comes
>announce fallout the fourth and lie about everything in the game.
>barely mention the new IP just a teaser. Completely forget about the fallout remake.
>relase fallout the fourth first then new IP only a couple months later, and the fallout remake near the end of the year.
hype ruins videogames.

>>383883135
Todd is good guy kept down by the man.
A jewish man banned from banking for unethical behavior.

>>383880702
>>383883135
>tfw Todd said "it just works" because he actually has no idea how it works because he can't code and is just an ideas guy

>>383880507
Make the protagonist transgendered and all main characters some sort of retarded special snow flake tumblr bait.
Rake in the money as all the SJWs buy it for being priased as the best game ever that retrospectively puts it above all of the classic top rated games.
Watch as youtubers and click bait media does all my advertisement for me.

Rake in the money and then move to a Caribbean island and cut myself off from the internet so that I don't have to listen to all the social media shit and terrible retarded porn that I have wrought on humanity.
Spend the rest of my day on some good drugs, tasty food and drinks with my wife, trying to bury the guilt of what I lowered myself to to get there.

>>383883135
>I believe he wants to actually create all the content he naively promises
That could maybe excuse it once, but not this many times. Peter Molyneux is the same, but that doesn't make me sympathize with his overpromising bullshit

>>383883360
>All the sjws buy it
You are aware SJWs dont actually play video games right?
Get out pol

>>383882646
How do you guys get all your news about employee movement in vidya companies?

It seems like everyone knows about this, like how people say that Retro Studios is essentially completely different people.

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>>383883360

I find Dream Boy and promote him to Lead Game Designer.

>>383883442
just follow the people on twitter and linkedin senpai. obsidian is as obsidian now as bioware is bioware. everyone of note left

>>383881147
>Dishonored 2 and Prey
they're both shit tho

>>383883435
they do buy them and talk about them.

>>383880507
Move the setting to China.

>>383883565
yeah im noticing this trend in the vidya industry. I feel bad becasue they still get screwed by the big guys but I like supporting the smaller ones that form because they make great games.

>>383883565
Thanks anon, good advice

>>383883435
They buy them, play the intro.
Then they say it's their favourite gmae they played (Even though I never completed it) and go into full fandom mode with art, stories, OCs and sexual stuff.
Not /pol/, just not an idiot.
Right wing people on there are just as stupid and ignorant.

>>383882298
>Take the fortune telling bullshit out and just have preston suggest you go to diamond city because its a big place
There's a mod which changes the story like this: you hear the rumors of a vault, go down there, find default F4 protagonist dead with a holotape on his body which has a recording of Shawn being kidnapped.
Then you simply get a quest which says something like "get this tape to someone who might be interested in it", with no marker.
It's actually pretty well done, has a shitload of dialogue edits and everything.

Guys, I have a confession.
I have put the picture of Todd Howard as desktop wallpaper and after staring at Todd for a long time, I fell in love with him. He is very sexy and I want to fuck him. I am serious! When I see him I get aroused. Sometimes my dick gets hard. I always dream myself kissing him. He has beautiful hair and a charming face.

>>383883376
I never claimed to defend all of Todd's bullshit, yet i think he is in no way the only one responsible for this.

>>383884020
Send him a message over social media letting him know you'll buy Fallout 4 and Skyrim remastered deluxe editions if he consents to a quick fuck.

>>383883878
>His face always arouses me.
Is this really how arousal works for some people?
I like staring at qt grills like the creep I am, but it's pretty much impossible to get aroused just by looking at a face

>>383880702
Fuck off. Todd was a nerd in school who dreamed of being popular and he sold us all out to try and achieve that. Look at that little launch party he held. Tippy Toes Todd can fuck off.

>>383884107
same, I love Todd

>>383880507
I'll give it to obsidian

>>383880694
>actually wanting fan-fiction tier writing
Glad you weren't in charge

>>383884107
he's six foot a hunk if you will

>>383880507
Turn it into a horror rpg instead of a fps/tps

>>383880507
Use CryEngine

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>>383880507
Give the license to Troika

Work on a new engine and delay it for a ps4 release

Set it on a different continent, add pre-bombing base/vault construction and add a time skip that is affected by how you built your base and gameplay thereafter

>>383882584
>nintendo exclusive
you monster

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>>383880507
Bring in obsidian

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>>383884502

how about a console only release

imagine the pc-tards outcry, when they can't even play the new fallout and tes and tell you how shit they are.

>>383880507
Fire Emil, and the entire animation dept.

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make a sequel to fallout 2, same gameplay and everything. not a 3d fps, but a 2d isometric turn based strat just like the original two. completely different story from the fallout 4 we got, maybe take place in texas idk that might be interesting. make 3 and nv non-canon.

oh, and i definitely wanna see how this loser would react https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91KUUbtgZU

>>383884664
by ps4 release I mean that time period and not just the ps4 exclusively

>>383884224
It was the demon overlords at Zenimax that organised it.

>>383884685
>cinematic trailer
>Those graphics
I love this guy

>>383884661
anime is dumb shit for retards

>>383880507
I make it for the Virtual Boy.

>>383884778
this kid would definitely shoot up his special ed school if the new fallout wasnt a simple-minded and hand hold-y fps. not a doubt in my mind that that would happen.

Has there ever been a fps with cover mechanics before? Aside from FEAR3 and the Riddick games?

>>383885098
do you mean a button you can press to snap to cover? Because every FPS you can take cover by crouching down

>>383885098
theres definitely been a few tom clancy games with that mechanic. the rainbow six vegas games for sure, not sure about the others.

>>383880507
make ammo universal, 1 type for all guns
ability to skip hard areas if you keep dying
smaller map as to not confuse players
more than 2 genders
streamline factions so there is only 1
construction kit is now $4.99

>>383885098
A lot of them actually. Most notable example would be Red Orchestra 2.

>>383882298
Don't forget to add interesting missions with the robot race and fight club

>>383885238
I like your ideas but paying for the construction kit is fucking retarded

>>383884609
Yeah agreed, it's unfair that Nintendo gets ALL the good games.

>>383880507
Make Fallout 4 an actual RPG, that or make the Season Pass triple the price from the get go, then quadruple it every month until the first DLC is released. Add a big head mode DLC as a means to justify the price hike.

>>383881195
But Todd Howard still works there?

>>383885098
Deus Ex: Human Resources had something kinda like that, though you go into third person when you use it.
Rainbow Six Vegas did the same damn thing.

>>383880507
>What do you differently?

I make it not garbage

>>383885410
>Deus Ex: Human Resources
Kek

>>383881479
Sawyer's still there you fucking idiot. He worked on pillars 1 and is working on 2 now. Tyranny was made by the team he made that south park game.

Avellone hates obsidian these days though after pillars of eternity. He wrote a ton of shit for two party members, grieving mother and Durance and a lot of it had to be cut.

>>383885713
Grieving mother was still considered one of the best characters though, surely that would assuage his ego

Get rid of Emil immediately. Tell Pete to kill himself if he complains, set it on the put it on the west coast, hire Avellone and try to keep him in check so he doesn't write something like fucking Ulysses again, make house ending canon.

>Hire a team of people who know what they're doing
It's not even that hard; just good writers, animators and play testers

Just write better everything and you'll have a decent game

>>383885831
Was she? I honestly could give less of a shit about her. I thought Durance was great though.

I doubt it helped at all anyway to be honest, he's pissed with obsidian these days.

>>383885713
>Durance "Plot Dump"

>>383880507
>wake up in 2015
>in charge of developing the upcoming Fallout 4
>when the game in the beta stage and almost finished
The fuck?

>>383886507
no way they spent more than a couple of months on that game from start to finish

>>383886616
They had to play Skyrim all day to figure out what to put in the special edition, they could only work on Fallout 4 on lunch breaks.

>>383881351
Poor Tyranny. Sure its not a classic, but at least they tried something a little different.

And PoE is passable. The biggest problem is that the whole game is really trying to be aD&D Faerun and failing.

Still compared to the abomination of Fallout 4, both games are better written.

>>383884685
you mean just release van buren?

>>383886839
Steam accidentally leaked a DLC. Might be related to that one Archon bitch sent after you. Or the capital.

>>383887024
Its cool there is more stuff planned, but I hope its properly integrated with the base game.

I think thats the biggest problem Tyranny has. Its just fucking short and just as you get to the interesting shit, the game ends.

>can't give it to obsidian
Foolish todd! NuObsidian is trash anyway so your limiter was pointless! I'll rehire the old team that worked on Vegas and split my paycheck with all of them on top of their pay. Also I'll change the name, don't want people thinking this has anything to do with 3.

Hire everyone from Obsidian

>>383880507
Stop development and let fallout series die in peace

>>383885098
Far cry 3-4