Fallout 4 |OT| Atom Bomb Baby
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A few hours in and I love how free you are to build the character you want. I dumped points into luck and immediately took four leaf clover+grim reaper's sprint as perks and I'm only at level 5. Just satisfying that you can even do that. I think having played the hell out of the series has made it pretty easy to succeed though even with 1 strength/conditioning. We'll see how that goes later though.
Oh yeah, the music is simply fucking fantastic. I will easily dump a hundred+ hours into this sucker.
Oh yeah, the music is simply fucking fantastic. I will easily dump a hundred+ hours into this sucker.
Better than FO 2? Haven't started FO 4 yet but I'm skeptical. Would love to be wrong tho.
Edit: to be fair, there's prolly some major issues in my comparing fo 2 to fo 4 given the timeline of the games
Dark-Cloudz
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Thanks. I played a bit of Fallout 3, but I'm basically going into this blind.
The installing... 83% is getting a bit tiresome now.
hobblygobbly
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Ah yeah true, I get what you saying now. I guess with their idea of settlements it maybe made more sense for things to be more readily available since you couldn't run one of them and barely be able to equip yourself decently. Maybe they could've reduced settlements to more mid or late game, not sure.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Also happy to confirm it still is a Bethesda game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_J_h-ku1w&feature=youtu.be
I'm convinced Bethesda has like 500 people to make sure each of their games has a bunch of hilarious bugs so people will overlook the real ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_J_h-ku1w&feature=youtu.be
I'm convinced Bethesda has like 500 people to make sure each of their games has a bunch of hilarious bugs so people will overlook the real ones.
Pestilence11
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lol you're joking right? You think all those 0's and 1's people put on Metacritic are indicative of the quality? Metacritic is quite a bit more well known now 7 years later and it's really easy for people to shit up review scores because they're morons. I'm not saying people putting in 10's less than a day after release is right either but come on.
Both 0/10.
lastplayed
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Best thing about this clip is that after watching it I realised there's a bullet being sucked back into my gun around 0.15.
https://youtu.be/tOwC5m57RDQ
https://youtu.be/tOwC5m57RDQ
Walk up to the generator, press Y or triangle and then string the wire to the signal.
matrixman92
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That was the problem. THanks
wanderingprostheyltite
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Yeah I feel pretty bummed about it, forcing myself to slog through it but most of the world is quite bland, doesn't help that a lot of the cities are overrun with low poly/texture assets everywhere. Bethesda went pretty damn cheap on the tech end for this one, probably the most underwhelming game of theirs I've played from a visual standpoint (at release).
matrixman92
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It happened to me in that exact place. Someone told me that its the game loading far away textures over the normal ones. If you fall through there, you can see all the normal ground.
Well, Fallout 4 is the best in my opinion. I tried to play the original Fallouts, but could never really get into that type of game since my first Fallout was Fallout 3. An old-time Fallout fan might very well think that Fallout 2 is better than Fallout 4. I just think that Fallout 4 is such a massive improvement over Fallout 3 and NV that I consider it the best FO game ever.
Of course, a New Vegas 2 with the same improvements might blow FO4 out of the water. Obsidian Fallout > Bethesda Fallout.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Just delivered.
Installing now. Forgot about these Xbox One install times.
Yeah, why are they so bad?
SparksterMeta0
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If all else fails, you can always even your stats to all 4's and work from there.
TheSlySoul
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Laser rifle is OP, makes short work of the Raiders.
damn I really screwed up. I thought the perks beneath your special unlocked an entire horizontal row at a time, and I've been putting all of my points into the SPECIAL slots on the top row.
Already 14 hours in, is there no way to respec? Kind of bummed. Any advice? Love the game though.
Already 14 hours in, is there no way to respec? Kind of bummed. Any advice? Love the game though.
if you on pc maybe console commands can fix that
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
You see your one of the "new" fans of the series so of course it's a given than your going to like the newer entries instead of liking the CRPG games on PC because it's so easy to dismiss the dialogue,the dated graphics and overall style of the games if you aren't used to playing CRPGs.
So, going to do a Pro & Con as daily as possible going forward. Only going to do one item for each.
Pro - Character Creator.
Holy Crap, I was not expecting it to be as incredible as it is. The only real absence felt is custom colors, but aside I was very impressed with how easy it was to play with the different features and felt I had good options to choose from. But even more surprising was when I saw the face layers and being able to apply transparency to them. Shades of RaceMenu from Skyrim, and its great to see here.
Con - Graphics.
Yeah, they're serviceable. But so is a hoopty ride that kicks out black smoke when you fire it up for the morning commute. From an art direction standpoint, it looks great to me, and the effects serve the graphics well, and I would be happy with them if it weren't for the texture detail which is downright brutal at times. I came across instances where it did feel worse than Skyrim. In a way, I wonder if they relied too much on the blur from TXAA to cut a corner or five.
Overall I'm eating the game up right now for its stellar atmosphere, downright mean enemies (when did this happen?), and the base building. Though Bethesda, PLEASE allow more clipping on this junk wall sections? Makes neat building impossible.
Pro - Character Creator.
Holy Crap, I was not expecting it to be as incredible as it is. The only real absence felt is custom colors, but aside I was very impressed with how easy it was to play with the different features and felt I had good options to choose from. But even more surprising was when I saw the face layers and being able to apply transparency to them. Shades of RaceMenu from Skyrim, and its great to see here.
Con - Graphics.
Yeah, they're serviceable. But so is a hoopty ride that kicks out black smoke when you fire it up for the morning commute. From an art direction standpoint, it looks great to me, and the effects serve the graphics well, and I would be happy with them if it weren't for the texture detail which is downright brutal at times. I came across instances where it did feel worse than Skyrim. In a way, I wonder if they relied too much on the blur from TXAA to cut a corner or five.
Overall I'm eating the game up right now for its stellar atmosphere, downright mean enemies (when did this happen?), and the base building. Though Bethesda, PLEASE allow more clipping on this junk wall sections? Makes neat building impossible.
Solid Samus
Banned
also RIP any pretense of FO3/NV-esque hoarding
MandrakeUK
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Whats everyone going for as a starting special build?
Red Blaster
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it most certainly is not
Opinions, how do they work?
Aha! So I wasn't the only one! YES!
.. Uhm, sorry. Anyway, I realized this when I reached level 10 and just decided to continue on.
Those questions have been asked a plethora of times for weeks. I bet even google can answer that at this point.
No
Yes
Solid Samus
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no and yes
however in order to max your SPECIAL and perks you'd need to reach level... 318 or so
zer0blivion
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There's no cap and it is possible to get every single perk and max out your SPECIAL attributes.
No level cap.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
There's technically no Level Cap in the game and you can keep leveling as much as you want but do know that after Lv.50 the EXP Curve is going to start rocketing and you will need alot of XP to keep leveling up so if you want to have an easier time leveling past Lv.50 you either get High Intelligence or have the Idiot Savet Perk but otherwise YES you can max out every SEPCIAL if you want.
As I said before, wasn't a fan of the originals and it's entirely possible that those can be considered better games than Fallout 4 for people who enjoy CRPGs. But I do think that Fallout 4 is certainly better than FO3 and FONV simply because the gameplay and VA is so vastly superior. Story might be better too, but I haven't gotten very far (but it's hard for me to believe that FO4 can be worse than FO3's horrendous main story).
TheSlySoul
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I am such an idiot, I was fighting the Death Claw with no power suit. No wonder it was so hard
paperspace
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Best graphics 2015? The atmosphere is insane.
Deaf Spacker
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Are feral ghouls meant to be stupidly fast?
wanderingprostheyltite
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Oh good lord me too lol, glad I saw this now at lvl 8. Don't really wanna start over either. No lvl cap anyway, eh I'll live.
All I know is an HTC One M8 definitely DOES NOT FIT.
I salvaged my wife's old 4S to throw in there instead. Felt thematically appropriate.
yes.
This makes me sad, I was hoping to use mine for that same purpose.
Waldo Lydecker
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Question for all you players: is this a game you buy more for the gameplay or also the story, plot and narrative?
I am more of a story-driven gamer. I like games like The Last of Us, MGS 3 etc. etc.
I don't mind linear gameplay when it has a strong narrative.
But with Fallout 4, I don't know if it's excellent gameplay with poor narrative and plot. That's the reason I don't buy MGS V. I've played Skyrim and Oblivion and I loved the atmosphere but after a while the very weak main quests (those boring gates in Oblivion) made me stop playing these games.
I am more of a story-driven gamer. I like games like The Last of Us, MGS 3 etc. etc.
I don't mind linear gameplay when it has a strong narrative.
But with Fallout 4, I don't know if it's excellent gameplay with poor narrative and plot. That's the reason I don't buy MGS V. I've played Skyrim and Oblivion and I loved the atmosphere but after a while the very weak main quests (those boring gates in Oblivion) made me stop playing these games.
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