Wasted Potential

Plzstandbuy said:
Ever wonder why the NPC on the first floor literally has no point of existing in the entire game?

Either the memory den is whats left of cut content or is put in place for future DLC.

The whole game is wasted potential. They copied mods and despite having the source code and way more funding and manpower they couldn't do better the Project Nevada/Wanderer edition

They kept settlement building way too similar to Real Time Settler mod.

When building the camera should go to an RTS like angle and have special management screen for assigning jobs and trade routes. But Bethesda just copied the mod community and added nothing to it because they're amateurs.

Probably expect the modders to grovel and kiss their feet as they cash in on other peoples ideas. They wont even patch their own games anymore they let the modding community do it.
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Yeah lots of content Fallout 4 has a rushed feel to it. The whole game feels like it needed another year in development, honestly. It'd still been flawed had it gotten that extra time due to bad design choices but way too many things in the game feel unfinished or half-assed.

Can't comment on the RTS mod, I'd no luck getting that to work properly in New Vegas. Damned Settlers would just stand there and not do their job.
 
I don't get how can Todd Howard claim they spent 7 years working on the game when they also list Destiny as an influence? That game came out last year... I doubt this game has more than 3 years of actual Dev time.
 
Walpknut said:
I don't get how can Todd Howard claim they spent 7 years working on the game when they also list Destiny as an influence? That game came out last year... I doubt this game has more than 3 years of actual Dev time.
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Destiny influenced this game? that explains a lot actually.
 
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The idea of post war music was something that we have been missing for a while.... the songs that they made for the game tho.... pretty crappy and they didn't even try to break from the mold and have other genres.... and the lyrics, what were they even about? Lynda Carter giving handjobs to people in Goodneighbour? Gotta have that granny porn in there, huh Todd?
 
Gizmojunk said:
Am I correct in thinking that the player can magically deposit a natural water supply into a settlement at anywhere they wish?
[... and that Bethedsa did not place naturally occurring water to be found on the map, and have it cost pipes to reach, and redirect the water to a local pump at the settlement?]
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Water pumps can be built on dirt, anywhere. They provide little water however.

Water purifiers must be placed in water, and powered. The big one gives you far more water than your settlement will ever need, too.
 
I still wonder why Fallout 4 uses bottle caps instead of actual currency alongside bartering. Fallout 2 had an actual currency and bottle caps were worthless in the area.
 
@MercenarySnake: Well NCR had about 60 years in between their formation and Fallout 2 happening to print all of that currency. They also had: The Hub, Dayglow, Shady Sands, Maxson, San Francisco, L.A all honoring that currency as well. Before the formation in Fallout 1 bottle caps were what was traded.

The Commonwealth on the other hand though hasn't had their "unification of settlements" yet; it's still a very much divided territory. And supposedly the Institute has helped keep it that way, too.

The only known settlements in the Fallout universe that didn't default to using caps as a currency post-war were those in the Chicago area. There they use Ring Pulls.
 
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One would expect the Commonwealth to get their act together and rebuild considering Fallout 2 takes place in 2241 and Fallout 4 in 2287 46 years afterwards and yet they still sit in rubble with a couple settlements while places like Vault City exist. The Commonwealth doesn't seem to look like it was hit by nukes(still looks like shit) and yet it seems like nobody knows how to clean up. I'm sorry if I sound hostile but there's no excuse for that, of course Bethesda wants everyone in the Fallout universe to sit there in their own shit because...apocalypse.
 
MercenarySnake said:
One would expect the Commonwealth to get their act together and rebuild considering Fallout 2 takes place in 2241 and Fallout 4 in 2287 46 years afterwards and yet they still sit in rubble with a couple settlements while places like Vault City exist. The Commonwealth doesn't seem to look like it was hit by nukes(still looks like shit) and yet it seems like nobody knows how to clean up. I'm sorry if I sound hostile but there's no excuse for that, of course Bethesda wants everyone in the Fallout universe to sit there in their own shit because...apocalypse.
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Its explained they did try to do just that.

Every settlement in The Commonwealth that was worth anything got together and tired to form a new government.

The Institute sent synths and murdered everyone at the meeting, preventing it from ever getting off the ground.
 
The same reason they replaced Mcdonough of Diamond City with a synth, and had to run to become mayor with an anti-ghoul campaign.

The Institute fear the people of The Commonwealth uniting against them and destroying them, since they know its the only thing that could possibly stop them, as occurs in the Minutemen main quest line.
 
SO instead of helping to rebuild the Commonwealth which they think is fucked up they fuck it up even more because super villain son is evil.
 
@MercenarySnake: I get what you're saying but like Someguy37 said they've been prevented from doing that by the Institute. Washington D.C and Vegas areas still used caps too for what it's worth. Yes, they still honored NCR & Legion currency to an extent as well but that wasn't their own because Nevada and some of the surrounding areas were independent during the events of New Vegas.
 
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TorontRayne said:
SO instead of helping to rebuild the Commonwealth which they think is fucked up they fuck it up even more because super villain son is evil.
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The evil son thinks the Commonwealth is fucked up then fucks up the Commonwealth with synths.
Yup seems legit. /sarcasm
 
So people in the commonwealth only had one meeting to agree to organize themselves and then never tried it again? It didn't happen through growing trading relationships and cooperation?

Would've been more interesting if the Commonwealth was actually an NCR type of power until just recently but they ended up having a Civil war due to increased disagreements on policies, becoming a failed state like what might happen to the NCR. They could even have the Institute as the instigator of some of the hostilities if they wanted it but still have it be the result of human nature (war never changes and all that Jazz) I actually thought it was going that way with some of Gravyman's remarks.... but no, it was just the IBOL institute that did it.
 
TorontRayne said:
SO instead of helping to rebuild the Commonwealth which they think is fucked up they fuck it up even more because super villain son is evil.
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Uhh, the massacre of the CPG happened when Shaun was like 2. He didn't order anything.

And how is that super villain evil? That us the obvious solution, no different then Caesar destroying all sense of tribal identity among all the tribes he conquers in order to form a new nation with a singular identity not separated by all the individuality that destroyed previous nations.

You want people to stay together? remove all individuality. You want people to stay apart, play their individuality against them.
 
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