Utterly Mad

The thing is...this is what's happened with virtually every single Bethesda game.  The core game is lackluster in so many ways, banking on it's breadth of content rather than the actual quality of it, and I essentially have to fix it myself or wait for someone else to do it.  And even all that isn't going to fix uninteresting characters and questing.  New Vegas actually had writing that made me want to look past the inherent 'meh' of several parts of the core experience, but it also benefitted from being able to significantly improve upon what Fallout 3 established mechanically. 

And after playing Witcher 3, my bar for these kinds of games are even higher. 

Means I just get to wait for GotY/Ultimate edition again before buying it.  I'm still interested just based on what the modding community could potentially do with it.  It's just not going to be a first week purchase for me. 

I really need to finish that game...

Yeah pretty much, I'm getting kinda tired of Bethesda's shit to be honest. It seems that they just let the community fix fucking everything wrong with their game, while they sit back and make millions, I mean they're not a bad company by any means; its just that they're in such a comfort zone with such a devoted fanbase that they don't need to revolutionize or expand core gameplay further. They just strip it back and let the modding community do its thing.

And the problem this time around, is the same thing that happened to Skyrim at the beginning. The mod tools aren't out yet, and they aren't being shipped with the game. So you'll probably have plenty to bitch about and fix by the time Bethesda gets the latest and greatest version of GECK out.


Also I'm going the Hobocop/Ross Scott route. It might be tempting to just buy into the game, ride the hype along with the rest of the community. But I'd rather wait for the expected GOTY release so I get all the DLC, all the good mods, and all the better patched stuff for $60.