The biggest problem with fallout 4's perk system is how fucking boring the perks are. 97% of them are flat 2% damage increases like its fucking Destiny or Anthem or something. There's no cool shit or goofy shit like terrifying presence or meltdown or whatever that one perk is called that makes every grenade into a nuke.
Okay zoomie pleb who needs every game to be dumbed down to enjoy
Bethesda Fallout games benefited in no way from the skill system. Clicking a button to add arbitrary points to improve a "skill" does the exact same thing as clicking a button to select a perk to increase the skill, the only difference being that the perks made it more clear exactly how you were benefiting.
I'm not going to act like the gameplay in Fallout 4 isn't vastly superior to 3 and New Vegas, but the cutting of skills is at best a cynical business move designed to attract more players with a dumbed down system. Was the old skill system perfect? No, of course not, but its issues could easily be fixed if Bethesda just did some tweaking. And they are capable of making a satisfying skill system (or at least they used to be), just take Morrowind for example. I know it's probably unavoidable anyway, but I still never feel comfortable with acting like the blatant dumbing down of beloved series is a good thing. Personally speaking, I don't play Fallout because it's just some cool shooter game, I could just play Halo or Doom if I wanted that. I play it because I like becoming immersed in the world, and having a unique skillset for unique characters significantly enhances that immersion, rather than how 4 (and on a further note, Skyrim) allows you to become a jack of all trades, who despite being able to speak, somehow has the least personality of any protagonist so far. Why gut an entire aspect of role playing rather than just fix and improve upon it?
This is why I stick to Gmod, there is a lot of tools/gamemodes/NPC changes/weapons that are very different. Of course there is the usual playermodel crap but there is more effort on the weapon/gamemode mods than the Playermodel mods there.
So how is every character build being the exact same a good thing?
A. Choice and adaptivity are always good things. You could choose not to make every build into the same by simply not doing that. That's what I do. I pick a role, and stick with it. And I'm apparently some zoomer pleb so it shouldn't be that hard to do.
Then this shouldn't even be an argument. You can not like it all you want, but it feels like you don't like it simply because it's different and not because it's "bad" if you admit that the gameplay in Fallout 4 was better than the rest.
Do you mean in dialogue and choice? Because in that I will agree. But that was going to be a problem with the voice protagonist which I already believed was the wrong move.
And how do you do that? What build can you make in FO4 that presents a significant choice?
You literally complained about the game having skills.
You do it by making a god damn build and sticking with it. You literally can't do any of the shit you are saying you can do until you're so far into the game it doesn't matter. And even if you could do it earlier, why are you choosing those perks instead of maximizing your specific build?
No I didn't. I said the perk system and the skill system do the exact same shit, but the perk system is more clear in what it does.
2K5 gets the edge because of its price point, ESPN presentation, depth and sim like gameplay.
Never played Deus Ex Human Revolution pre-Director's Cut?
Are you braindead? Do you think Tetris makes a great RPG because I can choose not to spin bricks?
They don't even call them RPG's anymore, I thought. I thought they were typically called Action RPG's now.
