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Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing the game but it is just genuinely very good game.

I’ve played fallout three I tried to get into new Vegas. I played fallout four up to like level 40 just today actually and I’ve tried fallout 76. I know the gameplay is almost the same as the Skyrim game but I just can’t get into fallout and I don’t know what it is about that series . Maybe you can help me figure it out because I just don’t think this game is captivating.

It seems like there’s just less to do in the world enemies are Raiders or mutants and maybe some creatures and I guess sky rooms really the same it’s just different factions of humans but it just seems less copy and pasted than fallout does and of course Skyrim has the same dungeons, but so does fallout.

Is it just the genre of playing in a wasteland instead of a fantasy world the only real difference between the elder scrolls games in the fallout games?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be perfectly honest, fallout 4 is probably the peak of Bethesda game design. For the most part it's incredibly shallow, like all of their games, but everything having some kind of actual use as scrap instead of a gold/weight ratio makes exploration far more rewarding.

That said, Bethesda sucks and there could be a few reasons why it shines through. they didn't have the actual TES creators' work to capitalize on and ruin, they just seem to take fallout less seriously than they do TES, and the bad gameplay becomes more apparent when you focus on ranged weapons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Strange, I've not met many people that would rank FO4 over FO3 or new vegas. Atleast, not in terms of story or gameplay design. What are your opinions on 3 and new vegas?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Oh don't get it mixed up, new Vegas is better than anything Bethesda has ever put out, it's just not a Bethesda game. 3, meanwhile, is just straight up bad. It's as unrewarding as oblivion to explore, the gameplay sucked, and the setting was stupid.