That's a good thing. The only time I anticipated a game all the way up to launch was Fable 1 and Kingdoms Of Amalur (two failures). You are anticipating it because their is still some doubt in your mind about whether or not it will be good. Once they released the perk chart and explained how Commando works all my worry about the game just went out the window and I pretty much stopped following it.

I've been trying to avoid leaks and such to avoid this burnout as well as ruin surprises when I get to play. I'm glad they haven't been releasing a lot of info on the story, etc. Read a lot about New Vegas before it came out and I kinda wish I left some things for surprise.

Oh man, I made the mistake of visiting those forums. So many armchair critics, developers, artists, storytellers, etc. spouting off walls of text about how Bethesda ruined their lives, etc. This is some good advice right here my friend.

We should invade NMA and start spewing positivity.

they would just ban everyone and go back being super old very angry crusty fans that want fallout 2 "madden" edition games.

I'd take a break from articles, videos and this forum

I don't 'burned out' is the right way to describe my loss of enthusiasm. Bethesda released info in possibly the worst manner possible. Since E3, pretty much every insignificant piece of information except for the SPECIAL videos has come from a pointless interview with Todd Howard. There's just no point in speculating anymore. I'd rather just wait it out than read another stinkin' Todd Howard interview containing only half of a relevant sentence.

I've seen more people banned from these forums than I've seen from NMA. But do go on and "invade" NMA forums. I suggest you do it on release day of Fallout 4 or shortly thereafter.

Ill never understand how there can be hate sites for videogames. NMA proves that for everything good in this world, there are people who will latch onto something and hate it. Im just glad that it's obsessive hate towards a video game and not something important that could actually hurt people.

3 [censored] weeks to go and i still havent burn out, i just cant make it time pass faster =P

What about DAC? I joined that lovely forum shortly after F3 dropped. What a treat that place is.

Still not burned out, on my end.
Still have playthrough of NV and Wasteland 2 to keep me occupied.

Ive been playing more strategy games and some of the other open-worldy-roleplayingy games that come close to rivaling Bethesda, actually. The restart disease has been pretty soundly defeated on all fronts for Bethesda, although I really messed up Alexander's savegame in New Vegas and as a result the new NV character isn't getting a lot of love.

Just finished a campaign of Medieval 2 Total War, and am now trying to pick a good mod to play in Mount and Blade Warband.

I still think we live in the golden age of videogames where the combination of adequate technology and the internet has made pretty much every game possible. I can't imagine a game like Mount and Blade existing in the games industry of the 80s and 90s. The technology wouldnt be there to make everything fully realized, and without massive internet penetration you wouldn't be able to have the infrastructure to do the purchasing model and word of mouth that made Mount and Blade reach from the bare bones beta's they had in the mid to late 2000s to the massive cult following it has now.

We're pretty much overflowing with games coming out of everywhere. Its a shame that Bethesda's work is something that can only be successfully replicated in AAA development. Ive yet to see a game that hits me in the same way Fallout and TES does, but these past years we've come pretty close.

I'm hyped, especially for all the events where you can meet other fans (the bake off, GAME's Fallout 4 club) - these are keeping me tied over! But it's the same as going on holiday. I won't get really hyper until midnight launch

Perisno is a mod for warband that is surprisingly developed. I'm not a fan of it but it's got multiple factions they are all finished and lengthy quest lines with nice rewards at the end. It's a little fantasy inspired, so if you're after something like vanilla warband it might not be what you're after.

There's always floris if you want to stay in calradia. It's pretty much the base game with a ton of added features.

I'm getting married in 2 1/2 weeks so my mind is on that and moving in with my wife to be. My only issue is fallout 4 comes out a day before i am due back in work which is a bummer.

'Liberty lies in the rights of those whose views you find most odious' - John Stuart Mill

I actually try to watch as little as possible. I hate spoilers and want EVERYTHING to be new to me when I first start up F4. I ruined FNV because i got it way after release and watched soooo many videos of it before ever playing it that I practically knew everything that was going to happen before I ever opened the game. Since then ive forced myself to never make the same mistake again.

What? You think banning any and all discussion of that game which must not be named is a bit much? Nonsense!

But seriously, NMA is great. As soon as you find out someone posts there you know you've struck a comedy gold mine.

Just focus on something else, another game series perhaps, or another hobby entirely. That'll make the time go by faster and avoid pre-release burnout.

...Or you could freeze yourself like Cartman did in that one South Park episode, where he got sick of waiting for the Nintendo Wii, but I don't really recommend it.

This is good advice

Yes, I know what you mean. The same happend to me when I was waiting for Skyrim. My advice is to not watch or see too much gameplay footage before the release and try not to gain too much details/info on the game too. If you know too much of the game before it's release it won't be such a big surprise in my experience, and it could make your first experience less exciting. Trust me, you don't want that disappointment, after almost a year longing for an epic game

Well, that is bound to happen when the Bethesda forums have more then the same 5 people visiting it.

And before anyone, not you specifically, gets their pants in a twist, that was a joke.

the lack of information about the game is the main reason

when this game was first anounced i was as very excited just as so many thousands other grown up men

as time progressed and bethesda policy of only showung only to a exclusive group of stupif game journalist my excitement quickly faded away and turned into sceptism and now even bitterness toward bethesda

even so far thar i am convinced this is not going to be the fallout game we all hoping it will be , just anoyjer linear story driven hack and slash/ shooter game where you as a player only need to point your gun in the right direction ,

it

is almost like game developers do not want us to use our own imagination and creativity any more

a game not worth my time or money

Some say patience is a virtue, others don't know what to do with the time.

Waited many years for this, was never fully confident it would ever appear. Fallout 4 is real, and looks to be a fascinating is somewhat familiar place for the imagination to play in. I will go dark for the first few weeks, but do look forward to reading about everyone's take on the game afterwards and joining in on the discussion. Unlike Skyrim, there really hasn't been much to talk about, pre- release.....

That's unfair that you're jumping to such conclusions because they didn't show the 20 min quake con footage. In the beginning, they had a 33 minute E3 conference, with a post-conference interview segment. Now, they're sprinkling information out slowly without spoiling too much. I'm bitter that they haven't released the quake con footage, but I'll live, and the game is around the corner.

A little skepticism is fine, but don't be so vitriolic because you couldn't eat the cake as well.

I really don't know how I managed to sit through Medieval 2 back when it came out. The diplomacy in that game, even with the text-file fix, still bothers me immensely. Playing as the French is just painful sometimes, and don't get me started on the Mongolian/Timurids. Jesus [censored] those armies. I had some good memories though, like when I basically had 3 assassins camped outside of Rome, and anytime the Pope excommunicated me I would murder his ass in a heart beat.

That whole excommunication [censored] was bizarrely bad because it seemed like a mechanic intended to pacify the player more so the AI. The pope never excommunicated the AI in my games, but the moment I lay siege to one of the Catholic Ai's forts/towns, bam, I got slapped with a mission to cease hostility THE very next turn. Unreal. I literally could not prolong sieges and had to blitz turn one of the siege.

I played the Crusades Campaign as Jerusalem this time. The things you described didn't bother me as much, but what I did find annoying was castle siege battles. The enemy would always knock out my rams and retreat past multiple sets of gates that I then couldn't get through. As I was snowballing and the world conquest was coming to a close I just starved them out most of the time.

Never actually finished a Warband campaign after all these years, and im still shopping around. Might go with Pendor, which was the hot mod to have back in the pre-warband days. Good memories with that mod, and it's had a final-ish version for a very long time now.