Sn1p3r187
Carolinian Shaolin Monk
After all this time and the reviews blowing by and me being gone and out of the Fallout 4 loop. Can we honestly say Fallout 4 is better than 3 or not better than 3?
It's like when they made XCOM: Enemy Unknown and people generally loved it and said that THAT was the XCOM game they had hoped for, and then developers started pushing some cheesy first person shooter XCOM game that had nothing to do with being an XCOM game aside from the setting.
After all this time and the reviews blowing by and me being gone and out of the Fallout 4 loop. Can we honestly say Fallout 4 is better than 3 or not better than 3?
I honestly don't know where some reviews get off saying Fallout 4 is better than Fallout 3. It is improved only in terms of gun-play. The first person shooting aspects of Fallout 4 are a tremendous improvement on Fallout 3, and everything else - the story, writing, RPG characteristics, characters, dialogue, atmosphere - is worse than Fallout 3.
It's like when they made XCOM: Enemy Unknown and people generally loved it and said that THAT was the XCOM game they had hoped for, and then developers started pushing some cheesy first person shooter XCOM game that had nothing to do with being an XCOM game aside from the setting.
Rest assured, if it can be turned into an FPS, they will find a way.I honestly don't know where some reviews get off saying Fallout 4 is better than Fallout 3. It is improved only in terms of gun-play. The first person shooting aspects of Fallout 4 are a tremendous improvement on Fallout 3, and everything else - the story, writing, RPG characteristics, characters, dialogue, atmosphere - is worse than Fallout 3.
It's like when they made XCOM: Enemy Unknown and people generally loved it and said that THAT was the XCOM game they had hoped for, and then developers started pushing some cheesy first person shooter XCOM game that had nothing to do with being an XCOM game aside from the setting.
As I remember it was kinda the other way around. They announced the FPS, people got mad, then they delayed it and in the meantime started advertising Enemy Unknown. In the end, EU was a hit, the FPS was a flop because in that case there was justice.
Fallout 4 is disappointing because there is clearly the potential for an amazing game with some of these additions. Settlement crafting, for example - wonderful idea. Who doesn't love more content in a game? More stuff to do is always good.They added farms this time around, which I appreciated. I would make a joke here about how Bethesda finally realized that food actually needs to come from somewhere, but there were always farms in their TES games, so I really have no idea why they didn't bother including them in F3.
They added farms this time around, which I appreciated. I would make a joke here about how Bethesda finally realized that food actually needs to come from somewhere, but there were always farms in their TES games, so I really have no idea why they didn't bother including them in F3.
As a Fallout game I suppose Fallout 3 is better but even then Fallout 3 is quite shitty but when it comes to a game on its own merits simply being enjoyable with what it sets out to do I'd say Fallout 4 blows Fallout 3 out of the water. Fallout 3 at the very least 'tried' to be an RPG but because of its poorly implemented compromises it just isn't a particularly fun game whereas Fallout 4 abandons being an RPG completely but is a really enjoyable loot and shoot hiking sim.
Falout 4 is even worse in numerous aspects, only place it's better is the gunplay but nothing else.
Falout 4 is even worse in numerous aspects, only place it's better is the gunplay but nothing else.
Eh. The crafting system, along with weapon modification, was fine. The settlement building, while clunky and bothersome, is a nice little touch. Thing is, it feels like the kind of thing that should be added on top of a good game and not as part of the game to try and make it better. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
Honestly, I wish they would have just ripped off the good parts of New Vegas. Copying good things isn't look down upon, if it adds to the final product. Fallout 4, however, does not attempt to be unique. It copies all the worst parts of an open world game.
I really think just slapping New Vegas onto the Creation Engine, adding the new crafting, combat and settlement system, patching things up and improving the graphics, and keeping the old skill system, along with using the remaining free time to create a post-ending world for all possibilities following the Battle, then calling the final product an enhanced edition or a remake, would've turned out a better game.