Those moments when you wish you were in a Black Isle (or Obsidian) game... [Spoilers]

I thought of this as well. In fact it was so blatantly obvious to me that this should have been the way it worked that I thought I did something wrong, so I kept reloading and going about things a different way. Even dressed as a Raider every single bastard in the Combat Zone tries to kill you. Stopping the synth hating guy from shooting his brother could have been handled so many ways. I tried to talk to them but there was no opportunity to intervene with any of the members involved. It felt like something that happens in a scripted FPS event where you can't do a damn thing.

 

Robot racing is another obvious one. Bet 10, 50, 100 caps, each race lasts a minute or so, to prevent over exploitation of the mechanic. Little money generator, plus a bit of gambling, for those who like that. Robots would move at "fixed randomized" speeds, making it impossible to guess simply from their design.

 

Also the option of being able to enter your Robot companions into the Race and maybe modify them to make them better and such.... Hack the terminals controlling the robots to cheat. So many stuff could be done with that.... instead we got Enemy Infested Ruin number 100021.

 

Kinda makes you think, if they had more plans for that place, but runing out of time and just decided to make it another target practise for the player.

 

They didn't make a new engine, they had between 4 and 7 years and a giant AAA studio and budget. I don't think running out of time is a legitimate excuse at that point for how shallow the game turned out.

 

Depends on what their priority was in development I guess. Anyway, they probably havn't worked 7 years on it, except for some of the concept art probably. But I guess full production kicked only in after the release of Skyrim and its DLCs.

 

They care about those wacky skeletons littering the world, watching little ants crawling on a tree, finding notes on dead people, and environmental story telling in general. Can't forget being able to wiggle and spaz your arm out while the pipboy is open because we love useless features.

 

All games have cut content, but Fallout 4 seems to have most of it's content cut out. It definetly feels like they got inspired by Destiny too much...

 

Hehe, can I add some dialogue lines to that?

-[CHARISMA] This is a play! Both of them are synths!
- Why don't we call the mayor to find out who's a synth and who's not?
- Codsworth, make sure he doesn't pull the trigger. Cut off his legs. (Karma loss)

 

Your forgetting that they got rid of the dialogue box.

 

Unless you're using the dialogue mod for Fallout 4.

 

Someone add some fucking skill/perk checks to this piece of shit. Let Obsidian show you how it is done again you mass market catering sham artists.

 

I'm not sure that would even be possible at this point, I mean sure they have "GIMME MONEYZ" checks but I'm not even sure how that would work. It might be possible with the creation kit but I wouldn't count on it. I wouldn't be surprised if Bethesda made all of this crap irreversible.

 

Even with that mod we still don't know if you'll be able to add more then 4 dialogue choices when modding.

 

They have one INT check I think so it is possible. Science check is a no brainer. Repair is fucking gone so that is out for now. There are ways to improve aspects of the game, expanding on what little is there. It can be done but it is not optimal nor is it right for Bethesda to leave it to modders/another developer to do that.

 

Repair isnt the biggest lost, most repair checks also had a Science alternative in previous games. Its still limiting, but its not totally unsalvageable.

 

It can be modded in easily with the kit.

 

Toront, I don't think there is any point in trying to fix Fallout 4. You can put cherries and whip cream on a turd but that does not change the fact that it is a turd.