3717

Hehehe, funny!

3718

Ick. Just ick.

Serial killer weighs in on Fallout 4.

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From Bethesda’s Facebook.

We know you’re ready to learn what’s coming for Fallout 4 DLC. We’re not far off, and we think you’ll be excited.
We’re also doing a complete overhaul of Fallout 4 Survival mode. Food, sleep, diseases, danger and more. Stay tuned.

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I’ve held off buying this game thanks to the ample warnings of many people here. Does that sound like it’s going to move things in a better direction?

3721

I would certainly make things more interesting, but it doubt it would change a lot of the issues people have.

3722

Wow, you’ve been listening to the wrong people. This game is great.

3723

I wonder if for the DLC they hired some better writers and it will actually have interesting quests and well written dialogue now ?

I might get it if it does. Cool new map (Point Lookout or Shivering Isleseque) would help too.

3724

If you have other games in your queue, I would say wait for a sale. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The plot and the settlement systems bugged me a lot.

3725

I received an email from GMG for 23% off the season pass, so I finally bought it.

3726

This is a game that is very polarizing. I’ve got over 200 hours in it, though I haven’t played in a few weeks, and I’d whole-heartedly recommend it. One of the best gaming values I’ve had in a long long time. Others, generally those for whom the game fails dismally to live up to their ideas of what a Fallout game should be, are quite turned off by it. If you are very particular about the Fallout-ness of your Fallout games, or value plot, story, characters, and meaningful plot choices as the core of your RPG gaming, this may not be the game for you.

But if you like first-person, shooter-esque open-world RPGs with tons of guns and tons of content, with a lot of replayability, this is a great title.

3727

I played this in November and then didn’t touch another game until I started playing The Witcher 3 over the last month.

Both have very little in common in setting, but both are ‘epic’ open world RPGs.

The difference is night and day, TW3 has a lovingly crafted map, storyline, characters, quests. Fallout 3 is a bunch of disparate elements thrown together. TW3 was utterly compelling (though too many samey quests by the end), Fallout 4 was the opposite.

3728

But The Witcher 3 has terrible first-person shooting. Fallout 4’s shooting is much better.

3729

Interesting takes. I’ve been figuring that I’ll pick it up on sale when the price gets low enough to justify the leap of faith, as if there’s one thing I have it is a backlog of titles to play (my Steam library alone is enough to make me blush when I discuss numbers with someone who isn’t as hooked on games as I am, and then there’s GOG, Origin, etc.). However, if the game is shifting to something better than I might be tempted to jump sooner than later.

I prefer meaningful decisions, although pure shooters in an interesting environment are also enjoyable in their own right if less engaging than what I would consider “true RPG’s.” I also like the base-building idea, as well. Heck, even something as simplistic as NWN’s castle is preferred to the no-base-building of Fallout 3 (I loved Fallout 3 on it’s own - that just would have made it better). It’s that whole concept of leaving a mark on the world, and also why I want to feel my choices are meaningful - no need for them to save the world, but at least make me feel like I am slightly more than an everyday adventurer showing up in his proverbial cubicle.

3730

They have far more in common with each other than they do to most other games. Both are huge sprawling worlds begging you to go out, discover, create your own narratives, and form vignettes that you will remember long after the game has been finished.

That you use melee in one, and a mixture of melee/ranged in the other doesn’t really separate them.

Dan, none of your choices in FO4 matter. Even base building has no noticeable effect in the world.

3731

But you can shoot the head off a mutant with a weaponized railroad spike gun in Fallout 4. You can’t do that in The Witcher 3.

3732

Fallout 4 is the first in the series I did not finish. The presence of a predetermined character with lack of dialogue choices turned me off. I did not like witcher 3 much either, maybe I am getting old.

3733

You can’t do it in any other game.

I guess Fallout 4 really is incomparable, and should never be critiqued in reference to other games.

3734

Plus, in Fallout 4 you can join any of the factions and be treated to pretty much the same base tour, dynamic quests, and finale. In The Witcher 3, you have to make a bunch of hard decisions and the ending can be sad if you don’t do things right. In Fallout 4, you never have to worry about getting the sads.

3735

Or, constant background sad, depending.

3736

If you loved Fallout 3, then the odds are you’ll love Fallout 4. It’s superior in almost every way, IMO:

  1. The FPS elements are better
  2. The weapon/armor modding is cool (not in Fallout 3)
  3. The base building is fun, even if the interface is clunky (not in Fallout 3)
  4. This is a matter of taste but I prefer the perk every level rather than small, seemingly meaningless stat increases every level
  5. The story is superior to that of Fallout 3 - there’s actual choice with multiple factions
  6. The NPC companions are superior to those of Fallout 3
  7. The environment seems much denser than Fallout 3 in terms of content and things happening

So I’m not getting the hesitation on your part.