“There is no community quite like the Bethesda games community and I mean that in the best way,” Kenneth Vigue, founder of the charity initiative Fallout For Hope and creator of CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast tells me.
“Since the early days of modding, while so many companies really don’t want you playing around under the hood, Bethesda Game Studios has really encouraged and embraced modding. [It creates] worldspaces and tell a story of their own… and then they do the remarkable thing and say, ‘here! Go make it your own!’”
In Vigue’s estimation, the community that this has spawned “acts more like a family – [exhibiting] all the complex dynamics that come with that – than any gaming community I’ve ever seen.” While having members of a gaming community come together to support each other in specific instances, isn’t unique to the Bethesda community, what Vigue and the rest of the team behind Fallout For Hope have been able to do with the initiative over its relatievly short life so far has been particularly impressive.
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