Well, I'm quite a bit further in the game now.
This game is EASY. I'm playing it on a controller on hard difficulty and I think it's easy. VATS is way too easy to manipulate to your advantage. I find myself waiting for the perfect range, pulling up VATS, killing one or two targets, switching to an alternate weapon, and then free-shooting the rest. If there are two or less enemies, I rarely get hit. If there are three or more, I use cover to regen my AP and repeat the process. I can only imagine how ridiculously easy this is on a PC.
A few problems with VATS:
- It appears you can't get hit while in it. Lame. That gives you far too much time to turn the battle to your favor.
- Switching weapons doesn't take any AP. That means you never have to reload if you're smart about things.
- AP regens FAST.
- The percentage meter makes things too easy. Don't like your percentages? Pull down VATS for a moment, get closer, and do it again. There are no penalties for playing this way and it reduces the difficulty WAY down.
I love the idea of VATS. Bethesda, like they usually do, just chickened out on how they implemented it and now the game is accessible to an epileptic Down's child.
I'll post more about the rest of the game in a bit. Bitching about VATS is only about 1/4 of my problems with the game.
It's way better than Oblivion, I'll give it that.
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