Come to the dark side, we have Gothic.

You know who the real monster is? Whoever decided it would be a good idea to make those kids immortal. Have you any idea what havoc they could cause with those powers?

The Witcher 3s gameplay was great so I dont what overarching problem you're talking about.

Wouldn't people preferred a oblivion remaster, i would.

I'd kill everyone who'd I deem fit to die.

Why is killing a few kids nastier than commiting global genocide on Argonians?

I wonder if they are simplifying things for the masses. Choice in games seems to be getting more limited, yet still there. New Vegas was the right path, allow everyone to die but keep a unkillable character in (Yes Man) just in case. Missions should have multiple solutions, not just this or that (like you say, morally right or wrong, things aren't that simple).

Bioware games annoy me on that front (well Dragon Age). Remember in Dragon Age Origins, you could do a numerous amount of things, characters could at some point all leave, you could tell them to or not recruit most of them (Morrigan right at the end Alistair near too). Yet in Dragon Age Inquisition, once you recruited them, if you chose to, only about 2 would actually leave (during the main story), only 1 could be told to leave (Sera). Story wise, there were only 2 options in certain parts, do this or that. In DA:O there were many options, which sometimes disgusted party members and they'd attack you or leave. In DA:I, I think there might have been only like 2 instances when the option to ignore the conversation and attack instead was there and it wasn't even just attack, they still went to a scene of some kind.

Illusion of choice.


Basically, if I could have got rid of Solas, I would have. Selfish liar.

Not really. Not when something like Little Lamplight exists and you're forced to entertain all those fuckers, instead of ripping them apart and eating their corpses.

Ive said this before. Until anyone else makes a game like Bethesda does and does it better, I just have to support them.

Having just re-played Fallout: New Vegas a couple of months ago, I've got to say that the idea of it being a lot better than Fallout 4 puzzles the hell out of me. Steam says I have over 700 hours into the game and I know it pretty well.

Mechanically speaking, Fallout 4 is vastly superior. I think we can all agree on that. The combat, the amount of content, the companions, enemy AI, the looting system--really, the improvements are significant.

There are areas where I give New Vegas the advantage. Random quests at unique locations, like the Vault with the plant life and the power plant/weapon complex. Fallout 4 needed more of those. I loved the way Fallout 4 told stories through terminals and letters but it needed more active quests no related to the main story.

New Vegas also lets you go evil almost immediately without needing to play the good guy for awhile first. I can understand why that's really hard to do with a much longer game, though. If they let you go evil right away in Fallout 4, you'd be missing most of the content.

The main quest-line, though? Uh, it's pretty much the same. Pick a faction. It's not much better or worse. After the revenge sequence is out of the way, the story falls apart. There is really nothing driving it at that point except that, apparently, nothing and no one can stop you from doing anything you want. The Legion, especially, is freaking stupid. I hated even looking at them because it took me right out of the game.

New Vegas is definitely not an example of a game with a strong main quest-line.

All things considered, there is no question in my mind that Fallout 4 is the better game. It's flawed, certainly, but so was everything else that came before, including New Vegas, which probably had more flaws.

I don't know about choices, but I fully expect TES VI not to be RPG anymore, just like FO4. When it comes to quality of RPG elements, Bethesda is on downward slope ever since Morrowind...not that Morrowind was without flaws, mind you.

But generally speaking, whole action-RPG genre has been pretty much on downward slope, with more and more games becoming action-adventures (or FPS) with some RPG elements.