Fallout Franchise

I actually quite liked 4, which seems to go against a lot of people... maybe i just really enjoyed the gameplay improvements and that was enough. New Vegas is still my favorite, easily the best written, with the most interesting quests and an actually good main quest. Why is it that Bethesda seem to put most of there effort and money into the main quests... yet they always seem to be lackluster compared to the rest of the game?

Oosh, I am not a fan of the way Bethesda makes Fallout. Think I'll keep it at that lest the thread becomes flooded with my autism.

Agreed, that would have been much better. Still liked the building stuff and lots of small things like the missile turret fireworks in the dark quite a bit  .    

I played FO1, FO2, FO3 and FO4. Of all these, I find 4 to be the worst. Yeah, 4 still has the worldbuilding of titles like Skyrim or FO3. But unlike these two, It´s almost exclusively filled with enemies, enemies and more enemies.

The dialogue is an atrocity. You have 3 different forms of yes and if you are lucky, 1 no. And if it isn´t offering that, ME3s autodialogue would have been better suited. Yes, FO3s dialogue wasn´t always better than FO4s in that regard, but you have to remember that FO3s wasn´t restricted to only 4 options. And it showed when you met the requirements for SPECIAL/SKILL/PERK options. All of which have been reduced to Charisma. Yuck.

But its not just lacking in the dialogue department. Quests are a major concern too. The vast majority are radiant quests. And those that are not, could easily be substituted with those. Moral choices are almost completely absent. There is the odd one, which only influences your companions approval rating, if they are present. The rest of the world just doesn´t give a fuck. Unlike FO1 or FO2, where such choices easily meant that you were forbidden from entering a hub. Yes, FO3 suffered in that department too.

Karma. I don´t miss it. Let´s be honest here, Beths implementation of it was questionable at best. Because in the end, all it influenced was who you could recruit as a follower and which faction came after you. I just friggin blew up Megaton, but nobody in Rivet City gives a fuck.

Companions. The best ones to date in a Beth title.

Settlement building. The only thing that saved FO4 from being uninstalled. Yes, it has its issues. And I´ve mentioned them over on Bethesda.net, so I won´t repeat them here. Let´s just say, I like the creative aspect of it.

SPECIAL/SKILLS/PERKS (FO3/4). I like both systems tbh. Because if you look at it objectively, ultimately both systems achieved the same end. You did twice as much damage, you gained the ability to hack/lockpick at certain milestones, your bartering was better.

But to describe my feelings towards FO4 best, I hit you with a little anecdote. When I started playing FO4, it only took two hours before I got bored. FO3, Oblivion and Skyrim I played for days, weeks even before I got bored.

Like some other folks have said, 3 > 4 > New Vegas.

Though I like 4's intro the best.

I haven't played the older ones, but enjoyed 3, 4 and NV. Overall setting-wise, FO4 is my favourite, even if the main story isn't particularly appealing to me. I actually never even finished it. I got to the point where it wanted to railroad (pardon the pun) me into picking a side, and I was pretty disillusioned with all of the factions at that point so just never bothered. That said, I loved exploring the Boston wasteland, and it's rife with so many great pieces of visual storytelling. I also enjoyed the settlement building stuff, though the actual mechanics of it were...questionable.

I also liked the companions a bit more, even if they're still pretty useless.

Played Fallout, FO2, Tactics, FO3, and NV. New Vegas has been my favourite so far, but I really enjoyed them all.

I loved the desert wasteland feel of the first games and NV, which substantially supported the feeling of being in a late '70s to '80s post-apocalyptic B movie (that has a certain charm to me; they weren't all B movies, of course).

No mention of Brotherhood of Steel? Poor game gets no love.






(I skipped it, too).

Did not have an XBOX (or PS2) at the time or I'd probably would have played it. 

Once again, it is bethesda's mission to strip out rpg elements and reactivity. Didn't like 4

I am a bit disappointed with the DLC selection for FO4. Granted, I haven't played any of them yet--wanted to wait until they were all out to start a fresh game with all content--but I hoped there'd be more story content. After seeing some of the weird stuff on the ocean floor I actually expected a fully underwater one or something, but nope. I can't be too upset because I did get the Season Pass before they jacked up the price, which made it cheaper than it would have been to buy even Far Harbour on its own here. But still... *tears of entitlement*