For all sorts of things in life - books, movies, sports, religion, politics, fashion...games... - there are things people enjoy so much, they embrace as key experiences or even part of their identity.
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I've long abandoned such uselessness, maybe not soon after I saw Fellowship of the Ring. I started to see it as a separate product from the books. Sure you have hopes and dreams for the transition to the silver screen, but it's a different medium and you can't control the outcome. People should stop trying to control every outcome.
I was pissed when Metallica started to abandon their roots and make crap music. Now, who cares? They drove their own creativity in the ground. Wait, now I sound bitter, don't I?
Point is, I see what you mean, but in the end, it doesn't really matter. You shouldn't pin your identity down on the product of someone else.
The Fallout series has a lineage that a lot of people want to see respected, but that doesn't mean it has to. At least not in the way they perceive it. Bethesda may have a vision of their own, as Fallout fans of their own, that doesn't jibe with those old-school hardcore fans. They should just accept it instead of cursing the devs to Hell.
The way I see it, Bethesda really ought to be trying to please the hardcore Fallout fans more than anyone else. I mean, why not? It's their game the way a baseball team is their fans' team or a rock & roll band is their fans' band. It's their job to keep their fans happy.
That's a very naive way of looking at things. You know how those rock 'n roll bands tell the crowd they are "the best audience they've ever had" in every town they play in?
The fans might've put them there, but the time that they're allowed to play by the grace of them has long past if they're raking in the millions. You may be grateful for the rest of your life, but you don't have to let it control your bread-and-butter forever.
Live life for yourself. Bethesda's vision of it will be Bethesda's vision and they will probably be extremely proud of their work once it's finished. If they'd have made it for some other audience, not very much so. In turn, those fans have the freedom to hate the result, but be true to yourself and don't just hate it because it deviates from the original formula.
If this game doesn't please Fallout's base of hardcore fans, then those fans ought to moan as loudly and as often as they want.
Yeah, sure. It won't be very useful to do, though, as it will drain their energy and in the end it may or may not make any difference. It's just not a worthwhile life as a rabid fanboy, in my opinion.
Products come and go, the market is flooded. Don't drown in it.