{"id":34046,"date":"2016-08-31T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=34046"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:21:07","slug":"fallout-4-ep34-draggin-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=34046","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 EP34: Draggin&#8217; Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6R2PBdvvaZE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6R2PBdvvaZE'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Mumbles pointed out that she&#8217;s logged more hours in Fallout 4 than New Vegas. Same with me. It&#8217;s interesting because we&#8217;ve both spent the last 33 episodes crapping on Fallout 4 and comparing it unfavorably to New Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>I knew I&#8217;d played more Fallout 4 than News Vegas, but I was still shocked when I looked up the numbers. (174 for New Vegas vs. 600+ for Fallout 4.) There are a few reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I never got into the New Vegas modding scene, which is small compared to the massive flood of Fallout 4 mods out there. A lot of my time with the game was spent mod-browsing.\n<li>For me, New Vegas was far more unstable than Fallout 4. I know some people have reported the opposite, but that&#8217;s my experience. Fallout 4 is still buggy as hell, but most of the bugs manifest as hilarious physics, animation, or AI freak-outs rather than frustrating crashes to desktop. The instability of New Vegas probably drove me away from the game before I&#8217;d really seen everything I wanted.\n<li><a href=\"?p=18607\">Back in 2013 I got an upgraded computer with 16GB of memory<\/a>. This means I can now alt-tab in and out of games for free, which wasn&#8217;t possible back in 2010 when I was playing New Vegas. So these days my &#8220;hours played&#8221; numbers on Steam tend to be inflated by the time I spend writing columns and reading comments while the game is idle in the background.\n<\/ol>\n<p>But I think the biggest reason I&#8217;ve clocked so many more hours in FO4 than NV is that I play the two games very differently. When I&#8217;m playing New Vegas, I&#8217;m usually interacting with the structured content like having dialog or doing quests. In Fallout 4, I spend my time doing everything I can to avoid the structured content, because it&#8217;s awful. So I do free-form stuff like building bases, exploring aimlessly, and obsessively searching for &#8220;treasure&#8221;. And judged on those merits, Fallout 4 really does have better unstructured content. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, I&#8217;ve got 1,100 hours in Skyrim. (Again, greatly inflated by Alt-Tab time and also by the ridiculous amount of time I put into playing mods.) I bought Fallout 3 on disk instead of Steam, so I don&#8217;t have numbers for hours played for that one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course my dream game would have New Vegas quality structured content and Fallout 4 quality unstructured content, but I&#8217;d rather have some decent QA testing more than either of those things.<\/p>\n<p>Care to share your hours played for Bethesda games? I&#8217;m curious to see the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Mumbles pointed out that she&#8217;s logged more hours in Fallout 4 than New Vegas. Same with me. It&#8217;s interesting because we&#8217;ve both spent the last 33 episodes crapping on Fallout 4 and comparing it unfavorably to New Vegas. I knew I&#8217;d played more Fallout 4 than News Vegas, but I was still shocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}