| ZenfoldorVGI said:
There is so much to explore and find in the game, and I just had an absolute blast putting myself in the shoes of a waste dweller, Liam Neeson and his fantastic acting be damned.
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Actually, that - or a part of that - is one of my biggest gripes with it.
While there is a lot of stuff to do, most of that equates to pointless busywork. You can only see a generic blasted-out office building so many times before you get sick of them, and just about always the only thing you can do in them is either a) hoarding loot you'll never either use or sell, or b) abusing the broken battle system beating either the generic human enemies, the neutered Enclave, or the orc mar- er, "super" mutant hordes. The game has its share of bright spots, like the Harold quest or the pseudo-superheroes, but beyond those few it's - well - flat out BORING. Really, it's the same issue Oblivion suffers from, only not as bad.
And I stopped using VATS a few hours into the game since it wrecked the already abusable battle system even further. And I sunk a good 40 hours into it on my only runthrough, so saying that it "gets good" n hours in is kind of pointless - if it has gotten good at that point, it's not worth my time.
The game has a crapload of other issues as well, like the atrocious plot with roughly the most disappointing ending ever, being audiovisually bland with the stilted animations being absolute immersion-killers, being way too combat heavy for my liking since the combat's bad etc.
The only thing that can save this game for me is modding it up the arse, since the base game falls short on quite many ways.
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