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Fallout 3 Ending Backlash Changed How Bethesda Approached DLC

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Oct 4, 2024

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Fallout 3's controversial ending influenced Bethesda's approach to DLC.
Bethesda now ensures its games allow players to continue playing after the final quest.
This mindset is still in place as Bethesda works on expansions for Starfield.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield's first story expansion, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shattered Space, is out now. While it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:isn't going down great on Steam, it gives Starfield players a new area to explo﷽re, as well as a new story to dive into.

To mark its launch, Starfield's lead writer, Emil Pagliarulo, is reflecting on how Bethesda approaches DLC in its games. In an interview with Pagliarulo says that Bethesda thinks about DLC "more than any other studio", and it all goes back to the backlash against 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 3's ending.

Bethesda's Approach To DLC Was Influenced By The Reaction To Fallout 3's Original Ending - Which Killed Players

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For those of you who need a r꧟efresher, Fallout 3 launched in 2008. At launch, anyone who got to thಌe end of the game was presented with a choice: either you or an NPC, Sarah Lyons, had to go into a heavily irradiated chamber and activate a water purifier. Whoever did it would die, so if you sent Sarah in there, the ending slides pretty much called you a coward. Thus, many players were killed off.

Sounds fair enough, right? Well, it would be, if it wasn't for the fact that three of the companions you can bring into the final mission are either partially or completely immune to radiation. You could ask them to go in there and do it for you, but they'd all say no, with Fawkes the super mutant infamously t🌠elling us it was our "destiny" to die for no reason.

"Let me tell you, players did not like that," says Pagliarulo. "And ꦚthat was really the moment we realized that our fans don’t want to play our games - they want to live in the worlds we create. That means their experiences never end, and the content, whatever it is, works together as seamlessly as we can make it."

True enough, Bethesda later launched the expansion Broken Steel, 💟which continued the story regardless of the decision you made. If you made the sacrifice, you actually made a full recovery. But more importantly, you could now ask your radiation-resistant companions to pop into the chamber real quick and get the job done themselves.

It's interesting to see what Bethesda took away f▨rom this backlash. Ever since Fallout 3, every Bethesda game has let you keep playing after the main quest. Whether or not the quality of these endings has improved is often a topic of debate.

In any case, we can expect plenty of more adventures with Starfield. It has been repeatedly said that Bethesda and Xbox 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:want it to b🔯e a 12-year game like Skyrim, so Shattered Space is only the beginning.