8 Popular Video Games That Need To Go Back To Their Roots
6. Fallout
If you told me five years ago that Fallout would someday be a controversial franchise I would've thought you were mad.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas were absolute gaming treasures when they hit shelves and remain two of the best RPG's in the history of the genre. So, where did Fallout 4 and 76 go so wrong?
In truth, they were games that tried to streamline and open up the franchise to as wide of a player base as possible. It's not a bad goal, but one that doesn't work with a franchise so centred around its deep RPG mechanics.
When the newer iterations of Fallout stripped the series' of significant moral choices, character builds or role-playing within quests, it effectively pulled the heart directly from the franchise's chest.
Sure, the gunplay was solid and the radiant quests (although unsuccessful) were a neat idea, but Fallout's always been about more than just gameplay. It was about adventuring an endless wasteland where you could be whoever you wanted.
When Bethesda inevitably get back on their feet and start work on a Fallout 5, they should return to the solid formula they established when working on the third game. Bring back the solid role-playing, the character-filled world and the tense, challenging combat, and lets resurrect Fallout's status as one of the RPG genre's finest.