I still think Fallout 4 is just a more polished, better Fallout 3 and for the life of me can't understand why people deride it as much as they do.
I mean...yeah, it's no New Vegas, but it's still a fine game.
Over-reliance on radiant questing, lack of roleplaying (even Fallout 3 had better roleplaying mechanics integrated into it lol). The mechanics they introduced were half-assed, like gear crafting was almost always pointless. Repetitive environments. Nothing like walking into a room full of zombies on the floor and pulling out your silenced pistol and just shooting them all in the head so you don't even get attacked.
-the radiant quests can be ignored, none of them are required for main quest progression -I for one couldn't give a rat's ass about "roleplaying," I never understood why some people go so crazy over e.g. melee builds, and 4 gives you plenty of leeway to finish quests as you like, just like every other Fallout has -lmao the crafting in 4 is OP as shit, the fuck are you talking about -all FOs (even the Obsidian ones people go on and on about) had fairly repetitive environments. 4's world was generally better than 3's and infinitely superior to NV's -that issue with silenced weapons applies to every 3D Fallout. The Ghoul AI is different (they normally don't start standing up like they used to), but they also do a much better job hiding themselves than before. Anyway don't pretend we didn't sit around sniping Deathclaws with a silenced Anti-Materiel Rifle in NV.
I think a lot of Internet people only check if Obsidian appears in the credits when they play a FO. Don't get me wrong, 4 does have some serious flaws (removing the skill system for instance), but so did 3 and NV, and I find 4's world much more immersive than NV's is, which is why I play Fallout games in the first place.
- You can ignore any content you want to in the game, but it's pretty shitty to skip a lot of the content just because it's meaningless repetitive shit, wouldn't you agree?
- Crafting in FO4 is OP with specific pieces of equipment, but in general it's a useless mechanic because there's no reason to use 90% of it. Again, just like radiant questing. It's filler. ---