| ZenfoldorVGI said: , That said, I vaguely noted those issues while I was having the time of my life. It's such a huge game, that you can point out many individual flaws, but any game is greater(or worse) than the sum of its parts. In these examples I like to point to Resistance 2, which used a notorious bullet points list as a sales tactic. The game did indeed live up to all of those bullet points, it just wasn't as good as one would assume, despite that. |
I had kinda the same issue with Final Fantasy XII, actually - seemed to have all the right components, but the end result was underwhelming compared to what it could've been.
Of course, there are a lot of games that do just the opposite.
Again, there might be a list of negatives about any great game a mile long, but one positive can completely overcome that, if it's big enough.
True. In those case it has to be a really damn big positive, though.
Our base disagreement, it seems, is that you found the exploration of the waste to be busywork and repetitive, I found it to be vastly exciting, like I was really exploring, and there was SO MUCH stuff to find out there, hidden in those ruins, so many people and stories, and quests, and references, that it just blew my mind. On my first run, for instance SPOILER, I completely missed the forest section of the game, or the alternative radio station....I haven't had as much fun exploring a game since the original Zelda. I never, ever, got bored playing Fallout 3, so in that, our opinions diverge.
The combat was really something that bugged me, as well - especially since IMO combat was never good in the Fallout games to begin with.
Ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess. Hell, it's not like it's the end of the world if someone dares to like a game I don't.
Then again, this IS the internet (which includes sites like NMA), so that might actually be the case for some people.
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