RespectDecena said:
I enjoyed the game buts it's a game that the more I look back on I feel more disappointed by as time passes. My main reason is most of the map specifically thet top half is fill in by settlements, so it made discovering locations on the map feel useless a lot of the time, to be fair I enjoyed building 2 towns but after that I never wanted to do it again. A lot of the quests I feel weren't as fun as in new Vegas or in 3. A lot of the locations were also just buildings that were filled with enemies that respawn so I don't know it just felt useless to go and try to clear out locations if they were just going to respawn after a day. Leveling up and perks didn't feel as good either, normally I play these games stealthy but do to the huge hoards of enemies they would bring at you stealth never felt like it was as good an option to use. Radioactivity also only effected your maximum health rather than doing other stuff to you as well like in the previous games. The dlc also felt very lack luster with most of it just being about more settlement building. And lastly I really didn't care for most of the party members aside from Currie, hancock, and Nick. Again I enjoyed the game and could still play it but a lot of things just disappointed me. It's probably the only game I bought this gen that made me feel like this, since I've pretty much enjoyed every game I purchased with out any problems. (though for some reason I didn't enjoy Dishonored 2 and much as I did the first for some unknown reason)
Though I might be one of the few people out there that actually enjoyed the main story and main quest missions including the ones where you have to join a specific faction. I thought it was really good, even if people complain it's just a rehash of fallout 3's story on some aspects. |
The game isn't filled in by settlements. Even without settlements, the game had far more locations and content than the previous two games. It's not even close. With New Vegas, you could see everything the game had to offer by level 50. With Fallout 4, you probably couldn't see everything by level 100.
Stealth in Fallout 4 is so good and so effective that a lot of people complain about it or only take lower ranks. I use a mod that makes it less overpowered. Stealth is every bit as viable as it was in previous games.
Liking companions or not if a personal thing but I thought it was just as good as New Vegas. Curie, Nick, Deacon, and Hancock were all good and Ada was awesome. Veronica from New Vegas would be the only one I liked more. In Fallout 3, I spent most of my time with new companions added by mods.
Fallout 4 had three very good story DLC and two DLC related to settlements. I don't see much room to complain.
Really, I don't understand complaining about settlements in general. It makes no sense to me. You only have to build up one settlement, two if you do the Minutemen quest all the way through, and you can do that as barebones as you like. After that, you can just ignore it. Meanwhile, many other people absolutely love building settlements.
