A strange thing about playing Fallout: New Vegas again, was that it's a game from 2010, and I literally spent two days trying to get a set of mods installed to fix bugs and improve its performance as if it were ancient.
There's something very strange about Bethesda's relationship to its fans, in particular that there's effectively a secondary industry devoted to fixing Bethesda games. I've gotten used to looking for omnibus bug fixes for prior Bethesda games, which was more than bad enough. Viva New Vegas involved more than 140 mods, many of them very complex with long detailed changelogs, all intended to just get the game to work the way it was intended to to begin with.
I'm awed that Bethesda games get so much devotion, but also disgusted that Bethesda can just count on so much free labor to complete its commercially successful games.
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