In a single player game? No, it doesn't. In a multiplayer game with an item economy? Yes, it very much does.
They sell jackets like that at anime/comic/scifi cons. They normally cost 100 to 200 dollars depending on which actual jacket they are trying to mimic.
This is true. But those jackets tend to look cool, hence why people replicate them. And they're usually made from decent material too. The Fallout jacket looks terrible and tacky, while also looking like it's cut from an all weather tarp.
I could see using it as cosplay piece, but not for $200+. That's just ridiculous, especially for something that will probably end up being made from cheap materials too. EDIT: I fully expect it to come out in a few weeks that the Fallout Jacket is made from fake Chinese leather, with a Nylon inner (Because Bathesda can't seem to stay the fuck away from Nylon, for whatever reason).
It's their choice in colors that offend my sensibilities. I would have gone for more subtle shades. It's just way too gaudy. Like Cyclops from the 90's X-men gaudy. *IF* the jacket is made of "real premium lambskin leather" as they claim in the store, the price is not unreasonable. But like you said... we've been here before.
We'll find out soon enough. The only reason anyone would drop money on that eyesore is to tear it apart and find out what it's made from.
They should have gone with a darker tone of blue and yellow that looks faded from years of being used, not bright blue and gold. Premium Chinese lambskin leather made from the finest dogs and cats that are skinned alive for the freshest leather possible.
At this point I really want it to be fake leather with a Nylon interior, and not just to say I called it. But because the resulting train wreck would be hilarious. The joke practically writes itself.
My god.... what is going on over there? Has Bathesda always been this incompetent and we just never really noticed? Like, is making single player games so easy and forgiving, that we just never realized how utterly brain dead they are? Have we, as customers, maybe been letting their incompetence slide because it's easily glossed over in a single player game, and now that they've gone multiplayer it can longer be ignored? Like, WTF is going on here?! Usually there's a noticeable decline before a game studio falls from grace, but Bathesda just fell off a seemingly bottomless cliff over night. It's actually stopped being funny for me. It's like watching The Special Olympics, at first it's hilarious but after a little bit it just becomes sadly pathetic and you start to hate yourself for laughing. Fallout 76 is The Special Olympics of game development.
I think it's a contributing factor. Consider this: if the bugs that exist in '76 happened in a traditional single player version with NPC's, proper story, etc. would people have been as upset? I think not. I think creating a competitive multiplayer experience in itself exposes you to cans of worms that could make things go south very quickly. Clearly, Bethesda was not prepared to make that step. And perhaps Bethesda was somewhat aware of this by downplaying the "competitive" nature of Fallout 76. Unfortunately, they apparently tried to make a compromise between PvP and PvE that has proven to not really work in practice.
I'm actually gonna just from now on assume that the real game is laughing at their hamfisted... idk, what even are they trying to do at this point? I wanna make fun of it but can't figure out what "it" actually is.
