Figured i might as well give my 2p worth on the game.
First things that hit me were:
Game looks good, runs okay on my system (guess i am one of the lucky ones). (i turned off godrays, turned distant object detail and object detail fade to medium and seems to run a lot better and i cant really notice the difference)
I don't like the overexposed everything is super bright style, be glad when someone tweaks it to be more natural looking.
UI is awful as usual with Bethesda, the pip boy is so tiny and hard to read and i am sitting 3ft from a 42inch lcd
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Gunplay is pretty good, although on the harder difficulty they just become a bullet sponge which i think is a little cheap for harder difficulty setting and would have liked to see something more than just increased HP's.
Loss of the skill system and karma, just seems to strip out more of the RPG element and make your choices less important, i guess for the mainstream I want to have it all with no consequences crowd it will appeal.
As they have combined it all into the perks system kinda makes that less fun also.
Loved the power armour the way it is a serious piece of kit rather than slightly better armour, but to have it from day one seems a little too easy.
Getting the medic armour in FO3 was a real challenge for a low level player.
Weapons seem a lot more like real life weapons and i like the way they work in the game, the Minigun is finally a formidable weapon similar to the real thing.
Done a little crafting and found it a little clunky but nice to be able to make turrets and lights for your settlement, making houses freehand seems very awkward, same with fences they should have just had you put posts down and then the game would fill the distances rather than the way they have done it.
Would have been nice to reshape the land to build a nice flat piece also.
Map does seem pretty small compared to FO3 and NV, although I have only been playing for about 10hours or so.
I feel like its not as good as NV and FO3 to me, just something i feel but maybe it will grow on me.
I feel like they should do a PC RPG version and a console version, considering they have made $750mil so far on sales they could afford to spend the money on a decent UI etc and tailoring to PC users, I guess though it will be the modding community that will fix those problems for free, god bless the modders
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