Tell me honestly, if Fallout 3 were made by Interplay—exactly the same game, just by Interplay—would you be so harsh on it? Think long and hard; because we both know what your kneejerk reaction is going to be, but I think the truth is different.
I like how these people believe they own the truth and know exactly what the rest of the people think. How can you even argue with people who claim to know your opinion on a game that wasn't even made?*
The original Fallout game was a clunky mess. Its gameplay was utter shit.
Having played FO1 AFTER FO3 and FNV... I actually like FO1's gameplay better. It just looks aged because it is an almost 20-year old game, but it could receive a facial lift, keep the same mechanics, and I would love it no doubt.
FNV's gameplay is a bore, thanks to Bethesda's amazing decision to make a 1st person shooter that plays like crap. Wasteland 2 was much more fun by comparison, and the combat in this game was
really clunky compared to Fallout's.
Bethesda makes worlds. You can spend hundreds of hours on a good story; but you can spend thousands in a good world.
"Worlds" = skeletons in funny positions
Also, if you spend a thousand hours in a world, you are autistic. No game: Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 1 or 2, have that many hours worth of fun in a world.
It's literally exploring and shooting. Once you've seen one dungeon, you've seen them all. FNV is a big exception, alongside the original Fallouts, because you are actually encouraged to replay through the quests achieving different results and endings. Skyrim? It's the same quest, done exactly the same way, for the 20th time if you are playing for 1000 hours. I don't care about playing a Fire mage if my quest possibilities are exactly the same as playing as a Barbarian.
I couldn't give a rat's ass if you do or don't. The point was that thousands of people do, and the fact that you are not among that number doesn't make a game you personally don't like objectively bad.
This moronic "a lot of people like it so it must be good" point of view has to stop. Fallout 4 has glaring flaws everywhere. There's not a single mechanic in FO4 that isn't flawed. But we cannot say the game is objectively bad, even if:
- The dialogue system is ridiculous and completely unfit for a Fallout game.
- The voiced protagonist is ridiculous, half-assed, and completely unfit for a Fallout game.
- The settlement system is ridiculous (you literally build machines with no previous knowledge), half-assed (left the world building to the player), and completely unfit for a Fallout game.
- The Vault building is ridiculous and completely unfit for a Fallout game.
And so on and so on. Definitely 10/10 Game of the Year.
You literally have to be a fanboy to even be annoyed by people criticizing Fallout 4.
Ps: should I continue writing with a guy like this? I think I might have lost a couple of my brain cells reading this.
I'm assuming this was on Reddit, and you were either arguing with someone on Gamingcirclejerk, or a regular from Gamingcirclejerk.
Don't bother. These people literally work on a "must defend critcized games that are very popular" motivation. And if you argue on their sub, you get downvoted to death and have to reply every 20 minutes thanks to your negative karma.
Reddit truly is the worst site on the Internet. At least in 4chan you can reply with no one tracking your posting history, and without having to wait unnecessarily wrong to voice your opinion.
*Worth mentioning is that if Obsidian suddenly made a shit Fallout game, with all the key people working on it (Sawyer, Urquhart, Tim Cain, Avellone, etc), we would be doomed. There would be no whining, because there would be nothing to ask for. If a racing car driver loses his legs, we can't just whine for him to grow them back. But if a different driver takes the spot of a succesful driver and crashes the car, you bet I will be whining about having the other driver back.
EDIT: I'm sorry, it's just that these kind of comments really piss me off. It's like people can't understand some fans wanting the series going back to what made it different in the first place. Fallout 4 is Skyrim with guns now. You could literally shift the setting and would find no vestige of the original Fallout at all, whereas I see a lot of Fallout in a game like Arcanum. That's because Bethesda's Fallout is really The Elder Scrolls, but in a Fallout setting, and nothing more.