You know nitpicking has gotten too far when fans start attacking Bethesda for glitches in their works. Bethesda - the studio that literally made their name on massive, unpolished, content-based titles - for allowing some facial textures to bug out in Fallout 4. Somehow forgetting the widespread acclaim the studio's main last-gen titles received - namely Fallout 3 and Skyrim - despite possessing countless bugs, glitches and texture pop-ins, both these games managed to endear thousands, win numerous GOTY awards and in-turn enshrine themselves as pop-culture mainstays of the medium. Not that you'd know this, considering the community's domineering expectation was that somehow the company would push out a title devoid of some of the flaws that contributed to its predecessors' successes in the first place. So, when Fallout 4 did release back in November, some very vocal gamers found themselves incensed by the apparent abundance of glitches and animated anomalies that had wormed their way into release - despite having no reassurances from Bethesda that somehow Fallout's fourth entry would buck the trends of its past releases. Not that there aren't problems with the sequel of course, but there are plenty of more legitimate criticisms that don't revolve around the presence of inconsequential glitches.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
