Bethesda Is Handing Out Fallout Classic Collection to All Fallout 76 Players

ON P.C so even though it says to PS4 and XB1 players as well chances are THEY DON'T HAVE A GAMING P.C TO PLAY THEM ON THAT'S WHY THEY BROUGHT IT ON CONSOLE IDIOTS

That's nice but they're completely different games, I wouldn't mind playing a remastered 3 or New Vegas.

@FullbringIchigo I mean, it’s not like you need a ‘gaming PC’ to play the first 3 Fallout games. You could run them on a potato. I understand what you’re saying though, it’s a bit ridiculous that they’re giving away PC games for buying a broken PS4 game.

@Quintumply it's not about how powerful the P.C is, it's the fact that most people play on console because they either don't like P.C gaming or perhaps don't even own one so giving console gamers a free P.C game is like giving and XBOX ONE owner a free PS4 game, it's useless

I think the vast majority of console users have a PC powerful enough (lol) to play these games. The bigger issue is that these games are vastly different in style and gameplay from the modern Fallout games, and the people who liked or are interested in the older games most likely already have them. So it's a "safe" giveaway for them.

This is just getting more and more desperate isn't it

@FullbringIchigo I think they went with the smallest expense for the biggest reach, as there are more console gamers with a decent PC/Mac than there are PC gamers with a PS4/XBoxOne.

I agree. A more appropriate gift would have been some free DLC or mini-expansion for Fallout 4 or '76, i.e. something that would work on all platforms.

It is a lower sacrifice for them to give away a bunch of games that so few people play these days, or would want to play even, rather than something like like Fallout 3 or Doom. I think these early Fallout games have all been available for free at some point on both GOG and Steam.

@Bonbonetti probably

off topic is that Third Remata'Klan in your profile pic?

@FullbringIchigo Sure is I've been having a Deep Space Nine marathon. I always get in a nostalgic Star Trek mood around Christmas. Last year it was Voyager, this year DS9.

Leave to internet people to complain about actually free games.

Jesus.

@Bonbonetti Star Trek 6 is a Christmas mainstay at my house, it stems back from when BBC 2 would have Star Trek movies on over xmas and 6 would always be on xmas eve

Hmm I actually already got them free from GOG, wonder if you need to install their platform to get them though.

@Tasuki Can't be much worse than McDonald's, right?

@Bonbonetti I'd just like to compliment your choice in television shows.

Buy the worst in the series and receive the best of the series free. Thanks Bethesda!

This is laughable. After scamming people on both the canvas bags and Fallout 76 in -game store, they think this will cover it. I hope people aren't silly enough to give them any positive rep. It's cheap tactics and they have shown no signs that they actually think of the consumer first. Every good action they've done has come after people were threatening legal action. It's pathetic

I'll gladly take a PC code from anyone that gets one and can't or won't use it.

@FullbringIchigo I made an account just to say this but I don't think you realise that these games were made in the late 90's and thus don't require a £1000 gaming pc to run, you can play them on any PC from 2010 onwards.

@roe what are you talking about? It clearly can't run properly on anything

@Tasuki Yes, I do actually. What exactly are they supposed to do? Buy you a PC while they're at it? It's not like there is ps4 version they're not willing to offer.

Also, bad analogy is bad. Most people have a PC or laptop that can run them. The vocal, as usual, minority that may or may not have a PC, will have to play it if/when they get a PC/laptop or give the code to a friend.

You'd have a point if this were a Kickstarter game and you helped fund the game to get a code on Switch, but they cancelled that version and you were offered a ps4 code as an option instead.

just cut and run bethseda, seriously

@Bonbonetti
Merry Christmas and all that. Just wondered if you knew the ps4 to computer ratio as fact or guessing as it comes across like a fact which would be pretty hard to get the info for.
Anyway I'm 42 and don't own a computer as I have no Interest in owning one. Also I bet I'mnot the only one. Not trying to be argumentative just want to know if you trying to pass off assumptions as fact

The reason for the games they are giving away will be most people will have started with fallout 3 so to give you a chance to see how the games started with story line the will make sense. Just think about it when does any company just give away something for free.

@lukemullan789 well first off, welcome to Push Square you will find that for the most part it's a pretty friendly community here

second, sorry it took so long to respond but i was at work last night

and now last thing, you make a good point about the power needed to play these games but that wasn't what i was saying my point is now a days with SO many things able to connect and use the internet that a lot of people don't even have P.C's anymore and chances are IF you game on a console then you might not even have one to play these free games, plus you might not even like playing on P.C (perhaps you don't like the Keyboard and Mouse set up or maybe you work at a P.C all day and don't want to game on one in your time off) so you play on a console where a free P.C game is useless, you can't play a P.C game on your PS4 after all

point is IF they are giving away something for free it should be on the platform you brought Fallout 76 on and as i said in an earlier comment

"giving console gamers a free P.C game is like giving and XBOX ONE owner a free PS4 game, it's useless"

@gingerfrog I was just going by personal experience: every console gamer I have ever known and met (until now at least, evidently ), has had some form of computer at home, whether PC or Mac, desktop or laptop.

Looking at some numbers, just for fun: in the US at least 78% of households have a desktop or laptop at home (http://overflow.solutions/demographic-data/what-percentage-of-american-homes-have-a-computer/,, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/25/device-ownership/,, https://www.reference.com/technology/many-americans-own-computer-9e3d9b40e537638), while 26% have a gaming console of sorts (https://www.statista.com/statistics/320315/number-users-game-consoles-usa/,). Some research place the latter figure at 48%, which is still a big difference from 78 and over (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/percentage-of-us-homes-with-game-console-drops-for/1100-6439360/,). So the odds of a console gamer also having a computer in his or her home, is much higher than a computer owner having a console in their home.

In Europe I think the number of households with a computer is most likely higher, again going by experience.

@Bonbonetti
Wow thanks for putting the effort in, maybe I'm just blinded by my own views, I know lots of friends with kids that wouldnt be allowed to game on the family computer. And loads of middle age gamers that the PlayStation is their only link to technology.
And for this reason I thought that any give away should match the system it was bought on.
Anyway that's not important as the base game will still be awful regardless
Have a happy new year mate. Hope its your best ever

I hate to say I told you so about pre ordering games (especially from Bethesda) but I told you so