What went wrong?

What went wrong?

dumbed down gameplay

Size of an ocean, depth of a puddle.

There's a lot wrong with it.

Want a list or something?

2 years and NOW your asking what went wrong, kys OP

todd

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everything that doesn't have to do with power armor customization, and even then that isn't perfect. All that UI shit makes the screen so claustrophobic, and it makes the movement even worse, bumping into any little thing stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to slowly navigate around all this debris and haphazard geometry

There are more bugs than any Bethesda game before. The number of times I've gotten stuck in a quest because characters just stop responding is fucking abominable. They need to step backwards because they can't handle previous gen hardware.

Writing.

>Doing the quest where you rescue Strong and the old man from the tower

>Old man's pathfinding gets broken and he refuses to move from one lift down to the next one

>forced to pistol whip the guy like 30 times because each hit nudges him forwards a little bit

same thing happened to me.

>few side quests, reliance on randomly generated
>weird legendary enemy system, took away from exploration when discovering location specific unique gear
>half-baked settlement building with far too much emphasis on the system
>skills replaced by perks, dumbed down dialogue system, tying the protagonist to a specific plot with an odd balance of urgency and lack of role-playing
>main plot felt generic and done to death, Boston was boring to explore and felt like it was chosen solely for the crappy MIT narrative
>bland companions with little development, horrible implementation of romance
>lack of interesting locations with any depth: raider bar, racing track

The list just goes on and on. It's crazy to think this game was in development for 7 or so years.

>Go to Covenant
>Talk with the shop lady
>"Would you like to see my wares?"
>"sure"
>Trade window opens
>Both windows are empty
>Think for a second my game has crashed
>Hit exit
>Exits shop window
>"Enjoy your stay!"
>Try to enter trade again
>"Enjoy your stay!"
>Hit the button again
>"Enjoy your stay!"
>"Enjoy your stay!"
>"Enjoy your stay!"
>"Enjoy your stay!"

Either Covenant was already infiltrated by Synths or it was just shitty Bioware coding at its finest.
I couldn't tell.

What are they even thinking when they made the creation club/mod store? If it was 50-100 credits for the simple mods people might buy them, but who's going to pay £5 for a chinese stealth armour mod?

Voiced protag did not go well.
Other than that nothing.

You know what went wrong...

Nothing

Removed all the rpg elements.
There are like two quests you can solve in alternative ways, and every dialogue is three yeses and a no (yes).

It was developed by Bethesda

Too similar to 3.
Settlement building is pointless filler
All of the factions are pretty shit
New Special system is pretty lacking. Too many "+% to this" type perks, or things that were just obtained by increasing your skills in 3 and New Vegas.
Too many fetch quests. Interesting quests are few and far between
Probably a bunch of other stuff I can't think of

Fallout 4 frustrates me, because I like some of the newer ideas, like the new power armor, but none of the new additions make up for what was lost in an effort to dumb down a game that didn't need to be dumbed down.

God that's a depressing image.

Covenant is one of the buggiest pieces of shit in the game. I had that same thing happen to me, but I also had the misfortune of the game once locking me in that doctor/trade building, with the lock being master difficulty, if I'm remembering correctly. If I hadn't been on PC I would have been fucked.

Todd went wrong

Shit story
Removed RPG elements
Terrible speech system

Yeah and it's also funny how when you go inside a building you aren't supposed to be inside while the doors are wide open, folks pull out guns and when you walk out and talk to them it's all "How do you do?", "Have a great day!" and shit all over again with them holstering their shitty pipe guns.

Yes
Sarcastic yes
Maybe (yes)
No (yes later)

I fucking despise the pipe weaponry, it looks so bad.

Hate newspapers

the text u choose in the gmae isnt as fun as fallout 3s text

It's Bethesda.

Most of the FO4 weapons are pretty bad. Why do the rifle and shotgun look almost exactly the same?

Only improvement was the general gunplay. Rest was just horrendous. The story, character writing, lore adherence. Yuck.

Too lazy to make a new weapon model, probably.

All Fallout Games are shit expect New Vegas which is a solid 7.5/10

That's a pretty rare opinion on Sup Forums

I have to admit while I disagree with most every single design decision in this game, I put 80 fucking hours into it. Granted, I spent over 200 in both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas respectively...but if Fallout 4 were a truly bad game I wouldn't feel inclined to play it still.

Same with FFXV.