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Anonymous10/19/25, 05:12No.723612373
What went wrong?
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Anon10/19/25, 05:14No.723612445
big emphasis on crafting
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Anon10/19/25, 05:16No.723612529
>you now remember that time when bethesda first tried to introduce paid mods and the backlash was so strong that they broke the emergency glass and announced fallout 4
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Anon10/19/25, 05:16No.723612554
mass effect dialogue
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Anon10/19/25, 05:19No.723612668
>voiced protagonist, so only 4 options per dialogue
>blade runner story but made by retards
>every single NPC is ugly and stupid
>settlement building needs mods to be not-shit because even if you put 300 turrets and solid walls all around the place raiders will just autospawn inside the settlement anyways because fuck you
>need a mod to kill Preston Garvey and end the infinite procedural quest spam
>the Railroad sucks
>the BoS are retarded
>the Institute is somehow even more retarded than the BoS, why even try to conquer the surface when they were a literal fucking utopia that could thrive forever?
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Anon10/19/25, 05:20No.723612681
dumb plot elements>Cryo pods/time skip
>Synths
>"I GOT TO FIND MY BABY"
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Anon10/19/25, 05:22No.723612780
fuck you. the paragon & renegade system is kino
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Anon10/19/25, 05:23No.723612820
>lack of unique NPCs
>lack of towns with bethesda made unique NPCs and quests
people dont like most things being procedural, they want some unique NPCs with deliberate design. especially in a game that is a theme park it
>voiced protag
People want to RP and imagine their characters personality and beliefs not have the game tell them it, this is bethesdas game philosophy of wanting to tell a story vs players wanting to roleplay and "play" around in the game with their imagination.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:26No.723612937
>writing is distractingly bad
>only 2 towns, 3 if you count the vault that only has 1 fucking quest
>settlements have literally no purpose
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Anon10/19/25, 05:27No.723612995
The biggest problem i have with Bethesda games is that they are advertised as being open world and letting you play however you want while experience a fantasy story which sounds like the perfect semi sandbox game, but in reality they are very rigid theme park games where the game is designed to give you the illusion of choice and put you on an on rails experience to go through a specific story. I feel like there is a middle ground between sandbox and having a story you want to tell and Bethesda doesnt even try to go for the middle ground. Fallout 4 was probably one of their best games yet at feeling like more of a sandbox and having multiple endings with faction alliances though.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:40No.723613570
brutally casualised
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Anon10/19/25, 05:40No.723613572
Fallout 3 was pretty solid. Fallout NV took F3 base game and introduced more weapons and RPG elements, which made the game entertaining.
Then F4 appeared with Bethesda throwing most of the RPG elements out of the window, they changed the gritty art direction of F3 for something goofy, some New Vegas mechanics were replaced by a more generic equivalent, for example the weapon modding, the story was a rehash of F3 but worse.
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Anon10/19/25, 05:45No.723613823
you can beat the game in less than 4 hours
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Anon10/19/25, 06:24No.723615557
Huge wasted potential. It could have been something great if Bethesda wasn't so retarded and incompetent.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:33No.723616001
I just finished the game after about 31 hours, for whatever reason the game takes a nose dive in quality after you meet Shaun in the institute for the first time. It’s like all wind is taken out of the games sails. I ended up just sprinting to the end via Brotherhood of Steel ending, which was kino imo. 7/10 game, the anon likening it to a theme park is accurate. It never really feels like a lived in world, just a sloppish albeit very addictive first 25 hrs where you’re running around from one npc to the next.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:38No.723616243
>generic mmo tier fetch quests galore
>makes pip boy fucked up, after it being perfect in fo3
>crafting is too much, it needs to be reined in
>bad balancing of enemies and weapons
>base building and anything related to it
>combat feel outdated, at least not as Bad as in fo3, but still
>taking out RPG elements in an RPG
>weird lore choices
>wanking to BoS again
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Anon10/19/25, 06:39No.723616251
Pretty much everything. The story is bad, the art direction is bad, the music is bad, the characters (except for Nick) are bad, the guns are bad. The game is Borderlands in the Fallout universe and the only thing I really like about is how they did power armor
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Anon10/19/25, 06:40No.723616306
lack of harmonicas
harmonicas are the backbone of modern fallout
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Anon10/19/25, 06:40No.723616312
played a bunch recently and came away with 3 central complaints>not enough good quests
>not enough good dungeons
>the character progression is super rushed and you end up way OP with infinite supplies when youve barely scratched the surface of the gamethe over world of the game is insanely good though, in my opinion, quite dense with detail and very vertical. it feels like they spent all of development on the over world then ran out of time/resources for the dungeons/interior spacesI actually liked crafting and settlement building. I liked that all the junk in the world was actually useful and not just for show, and this aspect at least kept me motivated as the aforementioned issue of progression set in and loot became less and less rewardingbasically, theres a lot about the game i really enjoyed and there's actually a lot of this game i still haven't even seen yet, because progression shits the bed so badly even on the hardest difficulty, and theres no good quests that take you through the world with a good narrative, so i lose motivation to keep going.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:40No.723616316
people have listed all the other issues already but at the end of the day i can't even get immersed in the setting
>npc lives in sheetmetal shacks full of holes
>in boston
just think of that for a second. even if they fixed the other broken systems the entire setting is devoid of any thought and any care or any respect for the player. i hate it.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:43No.723616442
Enemies are all bullet sponges. And they level up with you so no matter how powerful your gun is they can still tank 10 headshots before dying
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Anon10/19/25, 06:45No.723616564
a game with the first signs of downfall that lead to 76 and starfield.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:53No.723616895
It started the downfall of Bethesda.>F4: DUDE YOU CAN BUILD SETTLEMENTS AFTER GRINDING FOR ITEMS
>F76: DUDE YOU CAN BUILD SETTLEMENTS AFTER GRINDING FOR ITEMS
>Starfield: DUDE YOU CAN BUILD SETTLEMENTS AFTER GRINDING FOR ITEMS
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Anon10/19/25, 06:55No.723616980
Making all the romancable girls shit
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Anon10/19/25, 06:57No.723617069
the legendary system made no sense
>kill a legendary deathclaw
>get a ghoul slayers rolling pin
>kill a legendary radroach
>get a two shot plasma rifle
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Anon10/19/25, 07:10No.723617676
it tries too hard to be discount mass effect and other games popular during its development mechanics wise, instead of building up from where fo3 left off.
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Anon10/19/25, 07:54No.723619363
>widely popular and fiscally successful game hated only by low IQ autists and template thread writers
Not a damn thing went wrong.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:10No.723620053
Bethesda doesn't care about the Fallout ip and just sees it as another cash cow. Unfortunately the fallout show doing "well" means fallout 4 is the only kind of fallout we will ever see.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:30No.723620756
It's just a boring nothing game. Boring nothing story, boring nothing characters, boring nothing open world. The only redeeming feature is having pretty good dungeons but the bare bones proto looter shooter mechanics are so vacuous it doesn't matter because it's not like there's anything interesting to find.
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Anon10/19/25, 08:38No.723621043
It's pretty fundamentally flawed to have a pretty good chance at finding a weapon that'll outclass every weapon in the game, within the first 30 minutes of gameplay.
Seriously why does a wounding/explosive pipe pistol or 10mm pistol do more DPS than the fucking minigun, gatling laser or assault rifle?
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Anon10/19/25, 08:49No.723621409
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Anon10/19/25, 08:53No.723621571
saars...
