Maybe time has shaped peoples thoughts on the past 2 fallouts and fallout 4 reminds us of what they were. We know what we are getting, Fallout and HIGH expectations. At its core this game is fallout and delivers but its not the story or missions or world that is bothersome its the details.
To start with we now have voices, which is a bad thing if playing as a male. This guy is a terrible voice actor, every single line is uninspired and monotone. Your angry?making a joke?happy? I cant tell cause you deliver every line in the same exact tone. I can tell when the dog is mad or happy better than I can my character. All other voice acting Ive come across so far in game is very well done.
Its easy to look at this game and think its too colorful and washed out but it grows on you, the graphics are good for what it is and the depth this game has. We have to have realistic expectations with graphics and open world games and this game does a good job of that. It has nice details and variety and no matter the game our eyes adjust to it.
There's new additions with the deeper crafting ala Skyrim, which Im happy to see but not when I feel its at the expense of weapons. While you can mod all weapons there is a severe lack in variety of weapons. Its my single biggest gripe with this game so far. Most guns are just some homemade pipe variant, to go from the arsenal that new vegas had to these ragtag pipe guns is a downer,mods or not they just look dumb. When there's more bed types than their are sniper rifles we have a problem. I'm not playing the sims here.
Which leads us to crafting for settlements, this is a tacked on feature that they want us to use. Games love to do this, add a pretty interesting on paper feature than really play it up to get us to take part in it. After the tutorial of it I want no part of it. Its not interesting to me, and I don't want to go pick up endless junk to make a certain item to keep people happy for what? a different caravan to come thru or start your own?? Of course I guess if I dont take part than Ill have to go defend those areas from attacks. So Im being punished for not playing??
The games good but its not great, there's to many subtle changes that are messing with my muscle memory of fallout and there are lots of alterations to normal systems that take some getting used to, like the builds and the pipboy that is a total disaster for some reason. Why are tapes no longer in the radio section, and I cant listen to them unless Im looking at my pipboy or putting it in a terminal??
This is another game that fails to live up to what people want by focusing on doing too much and just having the main parts exist. There are seriously more decorations for my house than there are weapons which just baffles my mind, If i want to play minecraft I will play minecraft. I will still enjoy combat and the story but wonder the whole time when am I going to get a cooler weapon, than realize its when I have enough adhesive to make one.