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pokoko on 31 July 2019
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
pokoko said:
Going to wait for some reviews on this. Fallout: New Vegas was kind of a mess with a lot of badly thought-out "RPG systems" that took away player freedom. It was like they shoehorned in everything they could think of without regard to how well it worked. Hopefully, this will be more refined and intelligent.

I would consider New Vegas as the only playable Fallout game under Bethesda. 3,4,76 just ain't Fallout. Or much of an RPG, for that matter.

I don't know if you played the previous Fallout titles (1+2, most notably), but if you did, then you would know that New Vegas was more like a return to sources, literally so even: The Devs were also the people who made Fallout 1+2 in the first place. They mostly just put things from those games back in that Bethesda cut out in 3.

I don't care if they're like the first two games in the slightest, I only care if I like playing them.  Doesn't matter to me if they mimic old RPGs, either.  I don't go into a game thinking, "if this isn't like earlier games then I refuse to enjoy it."  I have no idea why you are unable to play Fallout 3 or Fallout 4 because I had a blast with both, just as I did with New Vegas.

I have 800+ hours in New Vegas but I'm not going to deny that it was a flawed game, especially with regards to "RPG" elements like karma and the terrible faction system.  Thankfully, there were a multitude of mods to make them less annoying and nonsensical.  I went back and played New Vegas after I beat Fallout 4, which did a lot to remove my nostalgia glasses.

Hopefully Obsidian has learned some lessons or I'm going to wait and see if mods come to the rescue again.