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Fallout series
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Definitely love 4. It has a lot of environmental variety, and the implementation of weather was an excellent idea. The companions are, easily, the best in the series since the Fallout 1. Absolutely in love with the graphical style. Sure, the textures inside buildings look fuzzy and up close, even the outdoor textures are eh; but the lighting, the shadows and the color all add style. And, for me, style is the most important part of a game's graphics anyway.
While I don't necessarily agree with the perk chart and lack of a leveling cap, the game is too fun for me to care.
While I don't necessarily agree with the perk chart and lack of a leveling cap, the game is too fun for me to care.
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Generally the people slating it are people who haven't played the originals (or if they have only recently and not to the extent people like me did back when they were new) who just want to gain a little hipster credit by saying that the series has "lost its way" or some shit. It's not Fallout 3, which wasn't Fallout 2 which was different from Fallout 1, get over it.
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3, NV and 4 are very different games. It's not fair to compare them to the first 2. If you look at the Bethesda games on their own, sure, they have problems, but they provide so many options to the player. It's incredible. The games are fun as hell. People just need to calm down and enjoy the experiences.
Organic Fapcup
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Considering that Van Buren was going to have a real time shooter mode anyways, that's just wrong.
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Kršćanin Čendlervic
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I got all excited when I found this in my kitchen yesterday. I need to take a break.
GeorgeDaMoose
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This is 100% true, Fallout 4 is an excellent game with no flaws. Bullies, please go back to No Mutants Allowed or the reddit.
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Morrigan, while a cool character, was so hard to have around if you weren't a roleplaying a douchebag.
caffeinated_wench
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Seriously, but it helped that once you befriended/romanced her or had her approval high enough she would let some things slide.
That and all of the shiny things you could give her.
I have to say, I'm really disappointed in Preston Garvey's character out of all of the companions. He's one of the ones I really wanted to like because I could really get behind the whole "making the Commonwealth a better place" thing, but the voice acting is just so wooden and while I appreciate having a character who doesn't have any major issues there just isn't a lot to him.
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That gift DLC is truly a godsend. I love how you hit on that subtle point of her letting things slide. I really respect Bioware for having that eye for detail.
And yeah, Preston was my least favorite. He's kind of boring. He's a nice guy and all, but there's no real personality trait that makes him pop.
Piper, for example, is quick and witty. She also has major balls. Codsworth is really, really funny. Curie is tremendously sweet. Strong, to a certain extent, is very sweet as well. Danse is a tight-ass who sounds like Buzz Lightyear and it's awesome.
They all have something really off-beat or quirky. Preston, as far as I've seen, doesn't have that. His story is interesting, but he isn't.
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Yeah I'd really like to get behind the Minutemen because they're solid folks but their quests are all radiant "go to x place and kill y in order to have z settlement join you" and that's boring as all hell. Reminds me of those horrible thieves guild missions that you had to do to become guildmaster in Skyrim.
caffeinated_wench
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Honestly, I think just getting a friendship with Morrigan is perhaps my favorite part of the game. If you're playing as a female character, she even states how you're not just her only friend but also someone she considers a sister. She's still a bitch to everyone else, of course, but once you've earned her friendship/romanced her it becomes easier to avoid the infamous disaprovals because she's grown to trust you. It doesn't avoid ALL disapprovals, but you've become the exception to her bitchiness.
I almost hate to admit it, but despite my bitching about MacCready he's grown on me in a similar manner that Morrigan had. Thought I wouldn't like him, but now he's become a personal favorite. Helps he has some personality to him, and while playing as a goody-goody does make him disapprove it's still a hell of a lot better than traveling with Preston. The only way Preston stands out is by being the blandest of the cast, and that's not a good way to stand out. He hardly ever emotes, and dear god whatever you do don't get into a romance. (His perk is useful, but unless you want to hear an awkwardly forced "babe" all the time I wouldn't recommend it.) Maybe it could be interpreted as him just being super depressed and in shock or something like the Sole Survivor, but it's all just so... bland and awkward. You're traveling with robots and they show more emotion than he does.
I don't know if, like I mentioned about Morrigan, affinity affects how your companion reacts to approval loss. Does anyone know? I don't mean that they won't lose approval. I meant more like the comments they make at times depending on the situation.
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Hows it wrong precisely? Pointing out that all four main series Fallout games are distinctive from one another and people just need to stop bitching?
GeorgeDaMoose
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Absolutely right. People expressing that they don't like things I like is really triggering and they need to stop now.
Organic Fapcup
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I really just meant that you're bitching about a pretty small group of people for no real reason. Besides, the games being distinct from eachother doesn't excuse shitty writing, which is probably a bigger complaint than the genre change between 2 and 3.
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Preston is basically the Kaidan/Jacob of this game. Everything about him is as generic as a sheet of paper. It really doesn't help that he gives you an endless amount of recycled Minutemen quests.
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That's exactly who he reminded me of. I mean, him being nice isn't a reason for him to be so bland. Nick's one of the nicest companions you can have but he has something else going for him, as pointed out by @Cave. All of the others have something to make them stand out, even the asshole ones. Preston? He's... nice. And that's about it.
It definitely doesn't help, especially since as soon as you finish one and turn it in he has five or six more waiting for you, and some of those are even timed. Um, Preston? I have a son to find? ...and other, more interesting things to sidetrack me in my search, but that's not the point.
Right now I'm mostly doing the Minutemen quests, as much as it annoys me, to get the good-aligned party members' affinity up because they approve of helping people. At the moment, it's Piper I'm trying to max out.
While on the subject of companions, I have to say I do like how each of them does something for you. As bland as Preston is, at least you get a few things thanks to those random NPCs running up and being all "OMG IT'S THE MINUTEMEN TAKE MY MONEY."
Organic Fapcup
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Preston's the smartest guy in the wasteland. He gets some random wastelander who claims to have come out of a vault into becoming the general of a dead faction, gets the "general" to build a cozy home for him and some other wastelanders, then becomes the faction's figurehead while doing essentially fuck all, unless you bring him as a companion.
caffeinated_wench
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A random self-proclaimed vault dweller that claims to be over 200 years old, to boot.
Seems legit.