Victimlas wrote:Finished Far Cry 4 and freaking loved that game. Also, finally picked up the Witcher 3, the graphics are insane!! It's been slow going for me but I am very early in. Also picked up Battlefront of course. So many games and so much stuff to do this time of the year
enjoy The Witcher 3....suuuuuch a great game!
And it indeed looks insanely good!
Played Plenty of Fallout 4. I really, really, really like it but have to say it takes a while for things to get going. Building settlements is a lot of fun, the crafting system works really well but it certainly eats up a LOT of time!
So building new settlements is fun but at the same time I can't say the same thing about the missions that are related to the settlements. They're quite tedious, just waste ammo and are quite repetitive too. All other missions aside from the settlement missions were REALLY fun though. The map is pretty big again BUT I have to admit I kind of expected it to be bigger.
And the reason for that may be...yes....The Witcher 3. That game was just so incredibly huge without a single boring side quest so Fallout 4 obviously has to live with the fact that it has to compete with The Witcher 3. And so far I have to say The Witcher 3 easily wins. Don't get me wrong, I love Fallout as much as any other gamer. But Bethesda really didn't do their homework in a lot of ways. The graphics are good...yes...but you just hardly ever feel like playing a next-gen game.
Graphics of course aren't everything so I can look past that. But the game just also very much 'feels' like a last-gen game. The AI of NPC's and enemies is as stupid as ever, NPC's just walk towards walls and just keep walking, enemies are just moving targets that behave as stupid as ever. There's glitches and bugs too of course. I mean a lot of people may say 'well, it's a Bethesda game so what did you expect?' But I mean, come on. People pay a lot of money for this stuff. I also gotta say, however, that the game itself only crashed on me once so far and it fortunately did not freeze on me and only redirected me to the dashboard. So that is certainly an improvement. Fallout 3 would have already crashed about 6 million times on me at this point, hehe.
The presentation overall was improved over Fallout 3's presentation, meaning that camera angles change now during conversations and everything definitely looks a little more modern. Voice acting is also better, although not nearly as good as The Witcher 3's voice acting. But I don't know...it kind of feels like a typical "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" case and sometimes that just ain't enough. I think Fallout 4 just offers too much of the same old same old and feels more like a graphically updated bastard child of F3 and New Vegas with a bit of Skyrim DNA mixed in.
Now all that may sound super negative but despite all my criticism I really do enjoy the game greatly. I guess I'm just trying to say that I'm not enjoying it as much as I would have liked to. Kinda thought it would blow me away and it really didn't. Well, so far at least...