Stefan.De.Machtige said:
It's not that they're terrible. The Genre has changed that's all. |
They're not terrible games, they're just pretty terrible Fallout games - well, at least FO4 is terrible, FO3 is about what Alien 3 is to Alien and Aliens, not terrible, but not really good. Bethesda just never quite figured out what Fallout in its core is about, or if they did, they didn't really care much.
As for genre - not sure if you meant Bethesda changed the genre of original IP, or genre as a whole has changed - if latter, not really, there are still cRPGs made quite similar to FO1/2, just like there are still action-WRPGs made similar to what they've been like 10+ years ago (Witcher 3 being prime example of it) - it's just that some devs have chosen to water-down their games in order to attract mainstream.
But, even with a change of genre from turned-based party cRPG to action-based solo (+companion) WRPG there was no particular reason for Bethesda to strip it out of so many things that made Fallout what it was...but you know, from business perspective who can blame them, it's much easier to make Oblivion with guns than to actually put proper effort in changing your design philosophy to keep IP you acquired true to its roots.
