just finished playing pic related and for some - /vrpg/

Anonymous01/21/26, 00:34No.3912966

Just finished playing pic related and for some reason I felt nothing. Just nothing. Don't get me wrong it's a fun shooter and plus for the effort on replicating FO1 aesthetic, but the RPG element and the story are just lackluster. It's a great example of style over substance, where Bethesda just focused on one thing that they forgot to properly fleshed out the world building/narrative. Say what you want about Fallout 2's writing, but you gotta admit that setting feels like a living breathing world. Where characters explain how each settlements operate and trade. I would have give the benefit of the doubt if Todd and his team learned their mistake when developing Fallout 4, but sadly they didn't. Also, I'm not sure if this motive me to play Elder Scrolls games.

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Anon01/21/26, 02:23No.3913012

F3 only serves as optional training wheels for NV. If you expected anything more you weren't paying attention.

Anon01/21/26, 02:33No.3913021

>Say what you want about Fallout 2's writing, but you gotta admit that setting feels like a living breathing world. Where characters explain how each settlements operate and trade. False flag thread as a flimsy pretext for someone to post the dialogue from Megaton about how they brought the plane wings overland from the airport Its fucking stupid, they should have just built at the airport

Anon01/21/26, 15:12No.3913271

>Way more accessible than TES because of guns 8/10 bait, tasty

Anon01/21/26, 15:15No.3913275

Yes, Bethesda is dogshit at story and dialogue. The only thing they do well and the only reason their games are fun is exploration.

Anon01/22/26, 00:09No.3913541

I feel like F3 frustrates me on replays because the character writing is the weakest out of all the games I've played in the series (1,2,3, and NV). I don't ever feel like there is anything interesting going on in any location save maybe Oasis.

Anon01/22/26, 12:25No.3913769

The one positive about Fallout 3 is that putting on power armor and gunning down super mutants with a minigun/gatling laser is pretty fun. Everything else about the game is bad. Bad gunplay, terrible writing and characters, nonsensical worldbuilding, repetitive and boring world design.

Anon01/23/26, 23:34No.3914614

I like fallout 3. I like the metro tunnels. The wasteland is cool to explore. Its way more fun to actually play than new vegas as just a pure wasteland/dungeon crawler game. Popping ghouls and super mutants is satisfying and that makes up a lot of the enemies. DC ruins is fun to explore. I hate all the story. The perks suck. The quests suck. All that stuff. But if I'm going to play a game like this I choose Fallout 3 over others. Or Morrowind. I get why people shit on it completely. I was on that train in 2009. But I don't get why people absolutely despise EVERYTHING about it and treat it like it was a commercial and creative utter failure.

Anon01/24/26, 00:01No.3914625

>it's a fun shooter ask me how i know you have autism.

Anon01/24/26, 01:47No.3914675

Don't think anyone ever denied it was bland. Bethesda is trying to make popular games right, they want to play it safe. Somehow they can have a god of rape in TES and it's still bland.

Anon01/24/26, 15:38No.3914915

does new vegas have much special dialog if you stay in the vault suit?

Anon01/24/26, 15:48No.3914917

I've always wanted to mod fallout 3 to remove the main quest and some other dumb side quests and locations. Change the BOS. Make the F1 power armor the only power armor. Cut the intro. Kill voice acting. Set the year count way earlier in the timeline.

Anon01/25/26, 01:56No.3915175

I've been playing Fallout 3 with a bunch of difficulty mods lately, and what I've noticed is that you never really use up your supplies. If you get into a fight or decide to explore any given location, you would have to play bad on purpose to not come away with a profit. The pile of stimpaks never goes below 100 after a certain point. My mods can't fix this because the game is designed to not provide risks, which feels disconnected from the gritty post apocalyptic world. Only tangentially related to OP I guess but I haven't seen other people bitching about this aspect of Fallout 3.