You see, that's where you're all going wrong. You're using it as a regular handheld firearm. A knife is used to it's best effectiveness when it's deployed as artillery, and when it comes to artillery you want as much knife as you can get.
I was honestly disappointed with in that it felt short and lacked he hardcore mode of NV. It has amazing lighting and detail if you can max the graphics out. Story is mediocre when you get near the end, but sidequests shine out with both narrative and challenge other than the ever annoying minutemen settlements . All in all you should get it if you enjoyed the other two fall out games because it just feels good to play when you get into it. I never wanted to stop playing it until I reached level 35 where I felt I'd done everything worth doing and just went back to playing the Witcher 3 which frankly I enjoyed more out of personal taste. Also if you really haven't gotten it by now may as well wait for a sale.
Wait till the DLC's come out, the game gets cheaper, or they release an "Ultimate edition/GOTY/The game with all of the DLC's.
Than it'll be easier to decide.
If you do get it, i recommend modding it. PC mustard race.
I suggest you either watch some gameplay or get your hands on it yourself somehow, perhaps through a friend or something. That's the only way to tell if you'll truly like a game or not.
I played about 75hours in a week when it first came out but the second I stopped playing it for a day or two I just never got back into it... It's addictive while you're in it but once you leave it loses it's shine
If your're looking for a big, open world with lots of **** to explore, some customization and pretty fun combat, then go for it.
If you want a deep, interesting RPG with memorable characters, difficult choices, complex dialogue and branching quests, then nah.
You mean like buy it when it's cheaper so it doesn't matter if I like it or not?
Money isn't really the issue. I'm not a fan of post-apocalyptic games or zombie killers in general. Especially zombie killing. That's the vibe I get from the game but I haven't really looked into it and I never played Fallout 3 or New Vegas.
I want someone to prove me wrong or right so I can stop wondering if I should buy it or not.
The closest thing to zombies you will get in fallout 4 are the ghouls, weird ugly irradiated humans. They don't take up the spot of being the most common enemy in the game so not a zombie game. It is post apocalyptic but not like DayZ where you run around looking for beans. It's very similar to skyrim in its style of play but is a completely different setting so it may not appeal.
i noticed you mentioned skyrim. My story starts off like this.
it was like 2011, and i started noticing people raving about skyrim all the time. i knew nothing of the elder scrolls series. i decided to give it a shot and get it when it came out. I ended up loving it. i think i put somewhere around 300 hours into it before getting bored. Now around this time i started running out of games to play, and my mom suggested i rent a game. I knew i'd heard people raving about how great fallout 3 was.
I looked into countless gameplay videos and trailers, and nothing could convince me that i was going to like. just nothing about it seemed like it was worth my time. However i rented fallout 3 on a whim and gave it a shot. I ended up falling madly in love with it. i spent countless hours on it, and i would've spent more had my 360 not stopped working. So when i got my ps3 i ended up buying fallout 3 goty edition AND fallout new vegas ultimate edition. I never checked but between the two games i'm pretty certain i put a good thousand hours in or so. and of course i played through multiple times of each. STILL finding new stuff each playthrough.
so what is my point? while a game may not look all that great through videos and such, and while you may not THINK it's your thing. it damn sure could be.
So my suggestion, if you have any option to rent the game cheap (like redbox) just give it a shot. it won't hurt. If you don't mind some outdated graphics and gunplay, and don't feel like spending 60 bucks. give FO3 goty edition a shot, its like 15 bucks in most stores, and during steam sales it can drop to around 5 bucks give or take.
I'm sorry i talked about games other than FO4. I personally love the game, other people will agree or disagree. I've got over 120 hours into it so far.
tl;dr: rent it if you can. if not, try FO3, maybe FONV. you never know if you'll like it or not until you try it.
This is the kind of account that raises my hopes. Thanks for sharing man, even if it wasn't all about FO4, it still made a big difference.
Maybe I will try renting for the 360 since I actually have that console. If I decide to buy FO4, it will be for the PC though. Just dropped a load to build a high end PC and I'm excited for that (not that those details have anything to do with this inquiry).
in that case, definitely give FO3 a shot on 360, you might like it.
and with a high end PC like that, even if you don't love the base game of FO4, you'll definitely find a mod you'll love, the way the modding community goes.
well, if its the zombies that bother you than you should know that they are not the only enemy you will face, you have a great verity and the most common enemy you will face will be other people, mostly raiders.
of course if it's the post-apocalyptic part that bothers you then this is definitely not your game.
It was mostly zombies that bothered me. I just think zombies are boring and there isn't much more to do with them in a gaming context. Post-apocalyptic isn't my favorite but I have played post-apocalyptic games and enjoyed them thoroughly.
Collect the things
Build a house
Mod ur gunz
Make the same fence post for 2 hours to gain levels
Sell ur l00t
Eh, I honestly spend half the game bored, at a minimum. I go discover a place, then the process starts.
Clear the place
Gather the l00t near the door
Grab all l00t
Travel to settlements
Gather more materials
Sell useless l00t and Aid items by visiting 900 shops before you run out
Buy all shopkeepers garbage and materials, maybe bullets if ur desperate
Store all good l00t and materials
Mod gunz and armor
Make same fence post/table while watching YouTube video until you're low on materials
Sell all excess Aid items, grenades and drugs
now go find a place to clear out
This is a giant transmutation process designed to turn things into experience points so you can level up and make it easier to get more things. The game is dumb but somehow addictive. Now **** off I gotta go get more tin cans from a traveling merchant.
Cook, make drugs and grenades
Already bought Witcher 3 and couldn't play because my 4 year old entertainment laptop couldn't handle it. But I am building a high end gaming PC and will soon play it through as well as a handful of other games.
My first impression could be very wrong. The same thing happened when I saw Xenoblade Chronicles. Then my brother played it and said it was one of the best game he ever played. Then I tried it and it was glorious.
If you are looking for an RPG look away, there are basically no rpg elements in the game other than some skill point allocation and character creation. There are not even half as many quests as skyrim, and the factions all have quest-lines which are for the main story and you can only do 1 factions complete questline per play-through.
If you want a shooter in a post-apocalyptic setting and don't care that much about story you might enjoy it. It has a lot of locations to visit if you are looking for some mindless shooting fun, but the world itself feels barren. I have 90 hours in it and am not gonna play again until something happens that makes it a better rpg. I'm super disappointed in it and physically feel bad thinking about how much of a let down it was.
I have about the same number of hours in Skyrim, which was also a let down from Oblivion which i have hundreds of hours in. Skyrim's 'dumbing down' wasn't as bad as fallout 4 thankfully. I don't mean to be insulting but if you are a 'casual' when it comes to rpg's and like good shooting mechanics go for it. If you want a good RPG experience STAY AWAY, IT ONLY HURTS TO THINK ABOUT.
I'd like to think I'm a little higher up than casual for RPG genres, since it's one of my favorites. That being said, if FO4 is that disappointing as an RPG, then it makes me a little hesitant to buying it.
Mind you, when he says the main story can be completed in 6 hours - he isn't wrong, but I'm well over ten times that number of hours into the game and I haven't finished the main story yet. It's all in the way you play.
That being said, I'd recommend waiting to see if it goes on sale during the Winter Sale. If it does, pick it up. The game's got lackluster RPG elements in comparison to the other games, but it's still fun.
At first it was pretty good, learning the mechanics of crafting and base building. Working towards my first perk/skill goals, but then it just falls flat on its face. I focused on the main story after setting up a bunch of different settlements and getting as far as I could with the 4 major factions before I had to make some choices that I'm not gonna spoil. The main story only takes like 6 hrs if you do it at a steady pace, and there are very few options for side quests. Almost all quests just involve going to a cave/building/bunker/etc and killing a bunch of raiders or other types of enemies. Skyrim atleast had some sensible quests with the thieves guild and the short but still decent companions/dark brother hood questlines.
The main attributes only affect the perks you can get and don't have any skill checks in the actually world expect for some % chance on speech options with charisma. Speaking of speech options, do you want 3 ways of saying yes and 1 way of saying not right now but not never? Because thats what the 4 chat wheel amounts to. There is no karma or bounty system so you can't be evil. The evilest you can be is just killing everyone in the game, thats it. There are no evil quests you can, everything is just help out quest giving by getting something or killing some bad guy.
Even the major factions are faulty because of (minor spoilers) having to pick one of the major 3 and cutting off or destroying the other 2. You can't progress in the main story with one of the major 3 without ******* atleast 1 of them over.
I'm a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series. I've personally put 800 hours in my own copy of Skyrim. And generally speaking I usually like open world/adventure/exploring games. Fallout just doesn't appeal right off the bat though because it has a kind of zombie vibe and I'm not a fan of zombie games.
Example: I loved Halo. One of the best game series I've ever played, thanks partially to nostalgia. However, I hate the flood because they are essentially zombies and they're my least favorite aspect of the series.
It still remains, I haven't played the games before, only seen gameplay videos, but I know it has no zombies. Also, it's a post-apocolyptic vibe, not zombies.
I get what you mean mate, I'm not a fan of the zombie vibe either. When I played DayZ for example I just holed up in a house and became paranoid of everything, but maybe that was just because of all the bugs and glitches... Anyway.
Fallout 4 is a great game in my opinion and it really isn't anything like a zombie game, nor does it have a similar vibe. It can feel desolate at times and the only times you get scared is when you **** up throwing a grenade and it lands in your face or a super mutant suicider pops up a meter from you, as it should be. The radio is a godsend for helping the game get the "Fallout vibe", as in there being a post-apocalyptic wasteland but never making you feel alone nor without things to do. The ghouls are somewhat spooky in Fallout 4 compared to earlier games, but they are few and far between(and usually just end up getting mowed down in a matter of seconds by some guy in power armour, thanks BoS).
Test it out, download it for free or something and see how you feel. The vibe of the game is great and is one of the things that make the Fallout series special. There's really not anything scary in it, it's made to be a adventuring post-apocalyptic action game with its fair share of comedy and seriousness. With a bit more of the prior.
**** story
Roleplaying sucks
Voice acting for some of the main story quests sucks
melee is fun but simple
Gun play is OK, better than previous games
Gun variety is limited
Game is replete with gun mods but half of them are just lesser versions of eachother (ADVANCED receiver >HARDENED receiver, because advanced receiver does what the hardened receiver does but better)
Settlement building is annoying, even with mods
Settlements are annoying and are usually just a waste of time
Main quest sucks
Very little room to do quests how YOU want (Yes in every speech option)
Speech options are limited, probably due to voice acting
Disappointment of the year for me, managed to get 60 hours out of it but I can't play the game for more than ~15 minutes at a time now. If I were you I'd wait a month after the creation kit to come out to play it.
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i love the mod that makes weapon mods able to be on any other weapon. makes for some great looking guns. i have a couple other pictures of my weapons too.
k then i named this one lazer ocelot because of revolver ocelot but it has later parts in it i also made a sawed off minigun that i'm taking picture of right now.
God the customization in that game was so ******* stupid. I loved it so much though if i want to have 5 compensators a couple silencers a drum mag with a clip and a few holographic sights placed strategically on my pistol then by god i will have it.
You will love it. 3 films called
Naked Gun: Files from the police squad
Naked Gun 2 1/2: The smell of fear
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The final Insult.
All amazing.