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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Fallout London - coming soonish?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:24:41 +0100
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On 25/07/2024 03:39, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:49:44 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well it looks like it. So for those that didn't know this is a free
>> mod/total conversion based on, you guessed it London, using FO:4. It was
>> due to be released a few months ago but then we had Fallout TV so we got
>> the FO:4 Next Gen (NG) update just before the FO:L(ondon) official
>> release. Obviously panic stations as NG wasn't just a few minor bug
>> fixes but instead a rather major overhaul meaning FO:L just wouldn't
>> work. To make it even worse the NG update was a bit buggy so there's
>> work ongoing meaning it can't be considered a stable platform (fixed).
>>
>> The good news though, the FO:L dev's took the decision not to go with NG
>> but instead the release they had used and have now finished the work for
>> a degrade tool for GOG and the one for Steam is almost complete. If
>> you're on Epic sounds like you're out of luck.
>>
>> Me, I really looking forward to it obviously and hope all the hard work
>> of the dev's has paid off.
> 
> Yeah, it looks interesting. I'm not sure I'll play it immediately but
> it's definitely on my list of games I /want/ to play. It certainly
> looks more interesting to me than anything BETHESDA has come up with
> over the past few years.
> 
> That said... I've gotten really burned out on large open-world RPGs
> recently. And I never entirely engaged with the weird retro-vibe of
> the Fallout universe, and I'm not entirely sure I'll like the almost
> 1950-London-meets-Fallout-games take either (I'm getting a little bit
> of the "We Happy Few" vibe from the trailers I've seen). I'm not
> saying any of it makes for a bad game... but while I want to play
> "Fallout: London", I'm not really in a RUSH to do so either.
> 
> Still, it doesn't hurt that it's free. I'll download it day one from
> GOG, stick it on an external drive with a GOG copy of "Fallout 4", and
> let it wait there until I'm ready. That way even if Bethesda 'Foxes'*
> the game, I'll still be able to play it. ;-)
> 

FO:3/NV and Skyrim are cases where I think openworld is done well as it 
gets the balance right between how long you spend just wandering and how 
much time actually 'playing' the game. I always liked that feeling of 
seeing something in the distance and thinking let's go and have a look 
at that.

The setting of FO is one of my favourites and that FO:L is going to be 
set in places I've been to quite a few times should make it interesting.