Thelordofthenightkin said:
1:a more saddening mood
2:epic battles
3:a larger map with loads more vaults
4:choices which actually effect the ending
5:some psychotic quest lines
why?
1:a mood that would depress you would add to the fact that civilization is over and obliterated.
2:something more like the end of FO3 but more frequent
3:because the vaults were sometimes quite spooky.
4:because if the choices you made had an effect then you would want to replay it.
5:i think it would be cool, i mean imagine a quest where you help an escaped murderer without knowing it and at the end you get a choice to help him or turn him over
1. Sure, that's fine, just not everywhere and at all times. The game should be fun, and those with the resources too will find their pleasure.
2. Sure that's fine, but don't reinvent Fallout around large scale encounters.
4. Yes, I agree.
5. Sure, quests of this sort can work.
But with #3 - NO NO and NOOOO! "A larger map with loads more vaults." "because Vaults were sometimes quite spooky."
The map was easily big enough. There is no need to make us spend 30 minutes jogging to distant locations. It isn't fun, and we all have better things to do with our lives than go on nature walks in a digital representation of a destroyed Vegas region. Unless they were to go back the the Fallout 1, 2, & tactics travel map, with localized zones there is no need to expand the actual area covered.
And there were only 122 Vaults created (well plus a few secret ones), they were spread across the whole nation. So a dozen Vaults near Vegas would make no sense. And it isn't needed for good a good story. Sure a Vault can be spooky, but so can an abandoned bank, a mine shaft, a sewage treatment facility, a graveyard, etc... Instead of spamming destroyed spooky Vaults all over, the devs can just immagine what became of many real places after nuclear war and 200 years of fallout.
