Morvak
01-07-09, 03:27 PM
First off I'm not trolling or trying to bait. This has nothing to do with the Game of the year thread and the fact Left 4 Dead is not winning (dammit!) LOL
But seriously...
I was eagerly anticipating FO3 before it came out. I loved it for like a month! Honest. But then... sigh. Just like Bioshock, I had a hard time finding the desire to finish it. Left 4 Dead coming out didn't help matters. I still took breaks from Left 4 Dead to play FO3, but that gradually stopped.
Now Fallout 3 sits in a corner on my desktop next to Bioshock.
(potential spoilers ahead)
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First off, the world is small. I don't like going 2 feet to enter a new location. I know it would suck to actually walk miles and miles, but still something is lacking. I don't get the sense of breadth and expanse. It seems like I'm in a neighborhood, not D.C. and definitely not a wasteland.
Enemies are not much of a challenge. All you gotta do is use the combat shotgun, run up to them and shoot them in the face. I mean, yeah, I can excercise self control andnot use it, but really... And the problem with this is that it totally ruins my gameplay style. And I LOVE my stealthy sneaky characters. Why do I need to sneak then? Why sneak, when I just rush - shottie to face = kill. So that just took all the fun out of the game for me. Something's just not right there. I should not be able to rush a super mutie for practically a one shot kill!!! (after vats and a couple more shots from the shottie) I should be planted on my ass before I even get there.
And now with Dogmeat, hell, I don't have to worry about a dam thing! He auto heals to full health after every encounter (unless that's part of the Normal difficulty). And me? hell, send dogmeat in, then I rush and 1-shot with the shotgun. Again, too easy.
And you only ever seem to encounter 3 to 4 enemies tops indoors or out. Not much of a challenge either. maybe because I am playing on Normal? Does increasing the difficulty increase the number of enemies? I doubt it.
I go to save some kids from Super Muties for Big Town and there's like 3 super muties in the place, easily taken down.
The A.I. sucks. I can kill someone and its partner just stands there. Like in Super Duper Mart - It's all quiet in the mart, and here I come, shooting up the place, taking people down 1 by 1 and the others that are still alive just go about as if nothing is going on. I expect to be mobbed, but no.
I think the quest are interesting. I love the graphics, the effects, yadda yadda. I would love to replay as a bad guy but now I dunno. I just lost complete desire and interest and that blows. I totally wanted to relive FO of yesteryear and it just ain't happening. And the fact i wasted another $50 or whatever ta boot.
But seriously...
I was eagerly anticipating FO3 before it came out. I loved it for like a month! Honest. But then... sigh. Just like Bioshock, I had a hard time finding the desire to finish it. Left 4 Dead coming out didn't help matters. I still took breaks from Left 4 Dead to play FO3, but that gradually stopped.
Now Fallout 3 sits in a corner on my desktop next to Bioshock.
(potential spoilers ahead)
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First off, the world is small. I don't like going 2 feet to enter a new location. I know it would suck to actually walk miles and miles, but still something is lacking. I don't get the sense of breadth and expanse. It seems like I'm in a neighborhood, not D.C. and definitely not a wasteland.
Enemies are not much of a challenge. All you gotta do is use the combat shotgun, run up to them and shoot them in the face. I mean, yeah, I can excercise self control andnot use it, but really... And the problem with this is that it totally ruins my gameplay style. And I LOVE my stealthy sneaky characters. Why do I need to sneak then? Why sneak, when I just rush - shottie to face = kill. So that just took all the fun out of the game for me. Something's just not right there. I should not be able to rush a super mutie for practically a one shot kill!!! (after vats and a couple more shots from the shottie) I should be planted on my ass before I even get there.
And now with Dogmeat, hell, I don't have to worry about a dam thing! He auto heals to full health after every encounter (unless that's part of the Normal difficulty). And me? hell, send dogmeat in, then I rush and 1-shot with the shotgun. Again, too easy.
And you only ever seem to encounter 3 to 4 enemies tops indoors or out. Not much of a challenge either. maybe because I am playing on Normal? Does increasing the difficulty increase the number of enemies? I doubt it.
I go to save some kids from Super Muties for Big Town and there's like 3 super muties in the place, easily taken down.
The A.I. sucks. I can kill someone and its partner just stands there. Like in Super Duper Mart - It's all quiet in the mart, and here I come, shooting up the place, taking people down 1 by 1 and the others that are still alive just go about as if nothing is going on. I expect to be mobbed, but no.
I think the quest are interesting. I love the graphics, the effects, yadda yadda. I would love to replay as a bad guy but now I dunno. I just lost complete desire and interest and that blows. I totally wanted to relive FO of yesteryear and it just ain't happening. And the fact i wasted another $50 or whatever ta boot.