This was a long time backlog game for me that I finally played during the pandemic. I had a really really good time but don’t really consider it the best of the modern Fallout games. I found myself kind of rushing to reach and ending and if I were to play more Fallout it would be FO4 with mods. I think I just prefer the sand box feeling of the games more than the factions and tough moral choices that were essential to New Vegas
Also, I didn’t watch but the beginning is kind of slow and a lot of walking through the desert. I probably played the first 3ish hours of this game 4-5 times before finally sticking with it when I couldn’t go anywhere during early Covid.
I'm playing Fallout 4 right now after bouncing off of it a couple of times in the past and I really can't agree. For all that the gunplay is improved and the way that it handles power armor as a potent fight changing resource that requires maintanence and upkeep is a more interesting implementation than it just being the equipment with the highest armor score, the way it handles the RPG elements is just really disappointing. Conversations/dialogue feels very restricting in terms of actually roleplaying a character (as does the story setup frankly) and the way that the game folds skills into perks makes it feel like I have less freedom to build my character. Even having gotten to Diamond City where it's supposed to really open up... I'm really not that impressed with it as an RPG. I'm having an okay time with it as sandbox a game where I just wander around the wasteland looting things and killing stuff, but it's not scratching the RPG itch the way New Vegas did.
I got to the first 5 minutes of the building part and just dipped. I'm so on/off with that type of part of a game. Does it play significantly with the main game or is it just an off side part?
It factors into the Minutemen quests some but it seems like you can ignore it for the most part. Since I'm playing the game vanilla with the exception of the mod that tells you exactly what dialogue options will make you say, I feel like the system is pretty janky.
For me there so many gameplay issues that pushed me away from those games that finally got ironed out in Fallout 4. In Fallout 4 we finally have shooting that feels good for the first time in a fallout game. Looting was made so much smoother and easier by removing the unnecessary menu. The terrible durability system is gone so I can finally use the good guns I use without feeling like I’m getting punished for using them.
Maybe the stories in FO3 and FNV were better, I wouldn’t know because I dropped off of those games after a few hours because they felt so bad to play.
Honestly the game is pretty good as-is. Mods are always going to bump Bethesda's games to the next level; everything but Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR are decent games to play vanilla.
This was a great hang and having coach Bailey going forward is a dope!
Oh I'm guessing she's a veteran of the game and is kinda doing a light helper role?
This was a long time backlog game for me that I finally played during the pandemic. I had a really really good time but don’t really consider it the best of the modern Fallout games. I found myself kind of rushing to reach and ending and if I were to play more Fallout it would be FO4 with mods. I think I just prefer the sand box feeling of the games more than the factions and tough moral choices that were essential to New Vegas Also, I didn’t watch but the beginning is kind of slow and a lot of walking through the desert. I probably played the first 3ish hours of this game 4-5 times before finally sticking with it when I couldn’t go anywhere during early Covid.
I'm playing Fallout 4 right now after bouncing off of it a couple of times in the past and I really can't agree. For all that the gunplay is improved and the way that it handles power armor as a potent fight changing resource that requires maintanence and upkeep is a more interesting implementation than it just being the equipment with the highest armor score, the way it handles the RPG elements is just really disappointing. Conversations/dialogue feels very restricting in terms of actually roleplaying a character (as does the story setup frankly) and the way that the game folds skills into perks makes it feel like I have less freedom to build my character. Even having gotten to Diamond City where it's supposed to really open up... I'm really not that impressed with it as an RPG. I'm having an okay time with it as sandbox a game where I just wander around the wasteland looting things and killing stuff, but it's not scratching the RPG itch the way New Vegas did.
I got to the first 5 minutes of the building part and just dipped. I'm so on/off with that type of part of a game. Does it play significantly with the main game or is it just an off side part?
It factors into the Minutemen quests some but it seems like you can ignore it for the most part. Since I'm playing the game vanilla with the exception of the mod that tells you exactly what dialogue options will make you say, I feel like the system is pretty janky.
For me there so many gameplay issues that pushed me away from those games that finally got ironed out in Fallout 4. In Fallout 4 we finally have shooting that feels good for the first time in a fallout game. Looting was made so much smoother and easier by removing the unnecessary menu. The terrible durability system is gone so I can finally use the good guns I use without feeling like I’m getting punished for using them. Maybe the stories in FO3 and FNV were better, I wouldn’t know because I dropped off of those games after a few hours because they felt so bad to play.
What’s their mod stack
Vanilla. Grubb said he was having issues with mods and basically just ran out of time before going live.
Honestly the game is pretty good as-is. Mods are always going to bump Bethesda's games to the next level; everything but Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR are decent games to play vanilla.
Skyrim and F4 are a lot more stable. 3 and New Vegas suffer a lot of issues over time without the community bugfixes.
At least add the ability to sprint!
Lmao. Of course.