I think this guy gives the Settlement system too much blame for what's wrong with Fallout 4. I doubt Settlement building costed Bethesda too much to make or even required much of their time to implement. So blaming it is really silly.
What really made Fallout 4 suck was its story, story telling, player interaction with the storytelling (lack of speech/SPECIAL checks), lack of fact checking on established lore on Bethesda's behalf, etc. We knew it was awful two years before its release though:
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When that leak happened people commented how horrible the writing was. How linear the dialog progression seemed. And Bethesda gave no fucks. They kept trekking on, making the game the same way it was written in that leak despite having user feedback that it was awful nearly two years prior to release.
If Fallout 4 had a good story & dialog system I believe people would have a higher opinion of the Settlement system because it does have the potential of adding a bit of replay value to the game and is even good for immersion. But because it doesn't it somehow gets the blame.
Wow, I remember this. Didn't people called it a bad fake and such?
