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fandomsecrets2015-11-12 07:08 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-11-12 07:08 pm
[ SECRET POST #3235 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3235 ⌋
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Re: What on Earth is happening with Fallout 4?
Save file corruption is pretty serious too, but hopefully that will be fixed soon. (When it comes to this sort of thing I feel that sometimes games release too early, but that's the way of things.)
is that quests other than "kill the specified targets" have mostly been phased out
Huh? That sounds...impossible and unlikely. Is that actually the case? One of my favorite things about Fallout is having several different ways to complete a quest; if you have to kill everyone that's going to be massively unsatisfying.
Re: What on Earth is happening with Fallout 4?
"This isn’t an RPG anymore, it’s a straight up shooter now. Except for the settlement building stuff, every single quest so far involved going somewhere and murdering everything. There are no alternative paths, there is no use of skills or speech to do thing differently. You go to the location, you kill everything that moves, grab the thing you need (if even) and that’s it."
Since I don't have a computer that can run the game, I can't confirm or deny this.
Re: What on Earth is happening with Fallout 4?
If that's true I don't even want to play it, so here's to hoping it isn't.
Maybe there are quite a few quests where you aren't given alternate routes, but maybe there are others that they haven't got to yet?
Guess I'm going to need to keep an eye out; I want to know where this goes.
Re: What on Earth is happening with Fallout 4?
"Fallout 4 ultimately always defaults to being a shooting game. And not a great one at that. The conclusions I’ve seen both mandated climactic mass slaughter with almost no options to talk your way out of things, and thus no way to argue that you are not a murderous arsehole no matter how good or bad a person you’d tried to be up until that point, and I’m willing to bet that most of the other endings play out similarly.
"I’d made Charisma my main discipline in order that I’d have the best chance of chatting my way to peace, but persuasion and intimidation options are largely restricted to wringing a little more information or booty out of quest-givers and, less frequently, -enders. However, as I say – I feel as though I’ve barely scratched the surface of the game’s contents even though I’ve seen all its features many times over. There are, for instance, at least two plot-critical factions whose questlines I barely began – perhaps they might have led to more civil outcomes. But given the vast majority of minor quests have the same structural reliance on routine shooty-bang, I doubt it."
Re: What on Earth is happening with Fallout 4?
So maybe the game itself isn't bad, but it's starting to sound less and less like a Fallout game. It might be a decent game, but a bad Fallout game.
It sounds like maybe Bethesda wanted to try something different, give the fanbase a more fleshed out character that fits into the story more closely, but by doing that they took a lot of the players free will away.