The worst is that I can't even say "I regret buying Fallout 4" because the obvious remark would be "But you bought it". Damn peer pressure.
As is typical with Bestheda games I'm not going to touch this thing until a few months in when it's actually a finished game and good mods start popping up for it, but have looked at a couple let's plays. And it does seem seriously "streamlined", aka simplified or just straight up removed entire sections of the game. It's getting more and more like an FPS and less like an RPG, which some people must like.
By the way you all remember the controversy on paying mods with Skyrim, right? Guessing this debate will be back soon. They will be a lot more sneaky about it if they learned anything from their previous try.
lol, tbf I had already gotten fooled by Bethesda marketing before, maybe it's your first time.
As for the game itself, I think they did it. They finally managed to make a game so completely broken and bland from the ground up that not even mods can save it. Some of the most dumbing down I've ever seen in a game series from one title to it's sequel. The vaunted base building is nothing but a pointless time-waster. There are zero consequences for your choices, in the few instances you have an actual choice at all. The dialogue wheel is just a bizarre design decision. It's like admitting they have no idea how to write a narrative with actual humans in mind and have to robotically break down every conversation path into manageable bits. It's mediocre as a shooter and just awful as an rpg. I think I managed maybe 7 hours in total, not sure cause I pirated it to try it out and uninstalled it after being thorougly dissapointed.
Also, anyone want to bet Bethesda is going to try monetizing mods again somehow?
