Terminally Online Leftist

It's why Fallout 3 didn't really do anything all that interesting on its own; it's a wadded up ball of Fallout 1 and 2 shoehorned into Oblivion With Guns. This was the safest move they could've made on their investment short of returning to isometric gaming.

Fallout 4 was also as safe as possible, a technical refinement of the gameplay and graphics of 3 where the setting has been kept as static as possible. Further removed from the original games, it had even less to say than 3 and filled the void with more nonsense. Centuries after the bombs dropped, people raised in a stagnant wasteland need you, a civilian from modern society, to tell them how to grow tomatoes.

Fallout 76 was the apotheosis of Bethesda's Horse Armor DLC. Every developer that sucks wants to launch a Live Service model game that keeps players coming back and spending money constantly via microtransactions (and some not-so-micro) in exchange for nothing, and Fallout 76 was determined to, if anything, receive maximum money in exchange for less than nothing. It launched with a fraudulent preorder scam, something that I still believe Todd Howard should've seen the inside of a jail cell over. The game itself was utterly broken slop. Still, though, Bethesda slowly fixed it to a somewhat playable state, because they knew in the end, it would be worth it. And they would be right; Fallout 76 is still active with thousands of morons dutifully paying them money for santa hats and other garbage while they play the exact same, phoned-in "just after the bombs dropped" crap.

Beatrix

how does a senator earning $174,000 salary for thirty years remain so poor?

The senator, who never married and had no children, also owned a townhouse near the Capitol that was estimated at $890,000 in value, as well as a home in Seneca, South Carolina.