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| JMD said:
EDIT: Just reading the OP again. While that user metacritic score is obviously absurdly low, I suspect its a lot of people who feel like Bethesda sold out a little bit with Fallout 4. Skyrim was their most successful game to date and they may have had dollar signs in their eyes when they began production on Fallout 4 because I can't understand why they dumbed down so many of the game's beloved system. Fallout 4 doesn't feel like a game that was made for me. It feels like it was made for people who don't post on Vgchartz and play 1 or 2 games a year and are "curious about this Fallout game everyones talking about". Meanwhile I have not met a person yet who isn't annoyed that the Karma and repair system are gone for eg. |
In that case, meet one right here. I'm glad the repair system is gone. It only adds extra busy work, no immersion for me. The mod system is much better.
Karma system never works for me as I go on a case by case basis. It always hovers around the middle unless I force myself to go against what I want to do to see what the extras are on either end of the spectrum.
I also like all the non combat perks, yet I'm heavily invested in the settlement building. Turning the whole world into a giant recycling yard is kinda genious. All that junk loot finally has a purpose other than extra money that you can't spend on anything.
There are still long quests next to the short ones. I'm currently on the Cabbot family quest line. Cool story, if you bother to read the terminals with their personal logs dating back to 1968. Most of the good writing is hidden in terminals which is not a bad place for it. Better than the conversations that never seem to flow very well. The dialogue trees need some work.
The power armor is also not for me though. I haven't touched it since the first time it makes you use it. It's too slow, ignores the deep pocketed bonusses
on your armor (I'm still wearing clothes inside the thing...) and does not fit my character either. It's also a step back to NV without the factions. It's kinda weird I can help the synths and destroy them for the Brotherhood of steel at the same time. At least I think you can, my character declined the Brotherhood of Steels invitation. Freedom trail fits him better. (Btw awesome the game anticipated you finding it by accident and guessing the password)
Btw I disagree it was dumbed down to make it more user friendly. Settlement building and mechanics are anything but user friendly :p
