Played 6 hours so far and I'm not really enjoying it.:S I followed the development closely and much like the other real Fallout fans, was extremely against some (if not most) of the things Bethesda were doing with this game. But now that I got it, I really, really want to like it, but it's just not happening.:/
It doesn't feel like a Fallout to be honest. [spoiler:53e62ffe2b]The first couple of hours feel really, really rushed and you're fighting fucking super mutants within a couple hours.:S Too much combat everywhere, I made a 'talker' character and so far I haven't been able to really talk my way out of anything.
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Only thing I used speech for was gaining more info on certain things, but not as a means of avoiding combat. Then again I mostly met 'shoot first... don't ask anything' enemies thus far, but I did have a brief run in with some sort of bounty hunters hellbent on killing me, there was a dialogue option in the vein of 'can't we talk about this?' but it had no speech check and it was the last thing I said before I had to kill them all. And you've got the already mentioned bad dialogue & overall quite bad voice-acting, NPCs talking total nonsense to each other, the game constantly forcing you into various underground tunels and the 'enchanted' clothes, man! W T F is that all about? You put a particular coat on and boom, suddenly you're better @ small arms.:S I hate the fact that I cannot get out of VATS once I set it off. Really annoying when you start wasting heaps of ammo whenever an enemy ducks behind cover and your character just keeps unloading like crazy.
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Got my house and the whole decorating thing seems absolutely ridiculous (Vault-theme? Seriously?), stupid and meaningless karma system (since you can always change your alignment by either doing a couple good deeds or bad IMO), my character knowning what ghouls were despite not even talking to one ever before and when I did talk to one, my character was again clueless as to what it was... list goes on. It's all been mentioned before, but it's true.
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Point is I keep running into shit that almost immediately takes me out of the game and breaks the immersion. The first two Fallout would completely suck me in and I could barely tear myself away to go pee.
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This on the other hand... no way.:/ I actually want to enjoy it but the game won't let me. Same shit as with Oblivion, wanted to like it, just couldn't. Started playing that thing like 3 times, always lost interest. I feel the same thing will happen here as well.