Gaming Fallout 4

Finished it once, losing motivation during a second playthrough. The world feels sparser than in 3, closer to new vegas. Just a bit too empty without enough things to do (besides radiant quests, feck them to hell). It's massive but too many empty rooms/buildings with a couple of enemies, maybe something to look at and nothing else of any note. Missing the prevalence of skillbooks/magazines/unique weapons which made places feel like they were worth exploring. Annoyed too that quests send me to places I'd already explored too often - like Skyrim, learned not to bother with smaller caves etc as I'd be sent there eventually anyway. A lot of stats seem to be pretty pointless (intelligence for example, can't remember a time where that actually made any impact on either playthrough). Bit disappointed overall.
 
Just started playing this after loving fallout 3. trying to get to grips with it at the moment and was wondering if i need to upgrade my settlement and constantly upgrade my weapons or can i just go ahead and enjoy the story or will i lose out by not doing these things?
 
nooshka said:
Just started playing this after loving fallout 3. trying to get to grips with it at the moment and was wondering if i need to upgrade my settlement and constantly upgrade my weapons or can i just go ahead and enjoy the story or will i lose out by not doing these things?
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Wouldn't waste my time with the settlement stuff to be honest. As for upgrading guns. Not really necessary. Kinda cool later on just for the sake of doing it, but I wouldn't consider it vital
 
nooshka said:
Just started playing this after loving fallout 3. trying to get to grips with it at the moment and was wondering if i need to upgrade my settlement and constantly upgrade my weapons or can i just go ahead and enjoy the story or will i lose out by not doing these things?
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Settlements are completely pointless. Focus on one and make it your home/base, that's all you'll need.

Upgrading guns is cool. Finding certain materials to upgrade them isn't.
 
I never bothered with my settlements, my mate came round the other day and started having a hissy fit that the settlers weren't happy with sanctuary, i find it totally pointless but he is obsessed. I've nicknamed him Titchmarsh.
 
Glad I'm not the only one who found the whole settlement thing completely pointless. Tried to play around with it in sanctuary, found the interface too clumsy so I just gave it up. Doesn't really seem to have any real effect in the game too.

Find it baffling how people have spent 20+ hours trying to build the perfect settlement which not only no one else will see (it being a single player game), but also that it serves no purpose whatsoever. But each to their own I guess.
 
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
 
Guess I should mention my previous console was a 360 and games I've enjoyed playing are Halo series, GTA IV and V, Mass Effect 1 & 2, Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, KOTOR, Fallout 3, etc.
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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Witcher 3
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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Note, if you buy Witcher 3 all the above games will pale in comparison and every game you play thereafter.
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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I preferred Dragon Age over Fallout 4. But like it says above Witcher is better than them all considerably
 
I've previously posted in this thread that I've never really played an RPG before and wondered whether I would enjoy Fallout 4. I've put around 50 hours into Fallout now though and I've mostly loved it. I have only had two bugs/crashes and the missions have been fun, in the most part. I keep hearing good things about The Witcher 3. What is it that makes The Witcher so much better than Fallout?
 
JmRssll555 said:
I've previously posted in this thread that I've never really played an RPG before and wondered whether I would enjoy Fallout 4. I've put around 50 hours into Fallout now though and I've mostly loved it. I have only had two bugs/crashes and the missions have been fun, in the most part. I keep hearing good things about The Witcher 3. What is it that makes The Witcher so much better than Fallout?
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Better story, characters, quests and the world just feels a lot more alive. Pretty much everything is a level above
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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Fallout 4 is a 360 game masquerading as an XB1 game, it's barely changed at all. So if you were happy enough with Fallout 3 then 4 is more of the same. 4 is ok but not brilliant, I wouldn't pay full price.

Dragon Age Inquisition is vapid shite. It's writing is pathetic, combat repetitive and characters are awful. If you can get hold of an XB1 it's on EA Access so you can get it for £4 basically. I had very little fun with it.

The Witcher 3 pisses all over both games from a massive height, although the open world doesn't really add anything. It's just a great game.
 
JmRssll555 said:
I've previously posted in this thread that I've never really played an RPG before and wondered whether I would enjoy Fallout 4. I've put around 50 hours into Fallout now though and I've mostly loved it. I have only had two bugs/crashes and the missions have been fun, in the most part. I keep hearing good things about The Witcher 3. What is it that makes The Witcher so much better than Fallout?
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List of things better in the Witcher:
Everything

List of things better in Fallout:
Nothing
 
Art Vandelay said:
Fallout 4 is a 360 game masquerading as an XB1 game, it's barely changed at all. So if you were happy enough with Fallout 3 then 4 is more of the same. 4 is ok but not brilliant, I wouldn't pay full price.

Dragon Age Inquisition is vapid shite. It's writing is pathetic, combat repetitive and characters are awful. If you can get hold of an XB1 it's on EA Access so you can get it for £4 basically. I had very little fun with it.

The Witcher 3 pisses all over both games from a massive height, although the open world doesn't really add anything. It's just a great game.
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Bollocks. DA:I is a very good game.
 
Kaos said:
Glad I'm not the only one who found the whole settlement thing completely pointless. Tried to play around with it in sanctuary, found the interface too clumsy so I just gave it up. Doesn't really seem to have any real effect in the game too.

Find it baffling how people have spent 20+ hours trying to build the perfect settlement which not only no one else will see (it being a single player game), but also that it serves no purpose whatsoever. But each to their own I guess.
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Yep. Tbh I struggled to stay interested in the building shit you have to do for the main quest, never mind doing it without an objective. It's highly tedious.
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but...Witcher 3.
 
Cina said:
Bollocks. DA:I is a very good game.
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It's pants. It's a game that relies on story and character to keep it going and they are both crap. Most of the character interactions boil down to doing weird things so people will do stuff or hearing about their sexual preferences. It's also basically the same game as KotoR but nowhere near as good. In fact to save you the trouble of playing DA:I you can just watch this video and imagine it with KotoR like gameplay:

 
I'm 40 hours into it and I've done some settlement stuff. My plan was to make them all happy and self-sufficient, with the ability to defend themselves. I was on a mission somewhere else when I got a message saying one of the settlements was under attack. I saved the game shortly after, then when I loaded up the next day I'd forgotten about the attack. I then got another message saying that I was too late to defend the settlement. I was gutted. I fast travelled there expecting to see decimation... a burning husk with bodies everywhere. However, everything was completely fine, nobody was dead, and I thought "screw you guys, I'm going home!"


I just want a mission with 3000 bottles of glue and duct tape lying around. Scraping together enough adhesive is just about the most challenging aspect of the game.
 
Only a few hours in but thought after reading all of the comments on here it wouldn't be that great but I like it. It's a bit glitchy in conversations which is annoying but the "dumbed down" interaction isn't as bad as I'd thought and neither are the graphics - apart from when people are speaking.
 
It's an enjoyable game. I just can't believe they've added so few new features of any substance. The building can be reasonably fun for a while but it's just a waste of time so what's the point? The game has so much potential so it is annoying that they have seemingly become lazy and just made the same game as before with some half arsed updates.
 
Keenst said:
It's an enjoyable game. I just can't believe they've added so few new features of any substance. The building can be reasonably fun for a while but it's just a waste of time so what's the point? The game has so much potential so it is annoying that they have seemingly become lazy and just made the same game as before with some half arsed updates.
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I got it, despite some people's reservations, mainly because I know the modding community will come up with some interesting stuff to make it more enjoyable.

Bethesda would do well to employ some of them, tbh.
 
Yeah i got this last week for ps4 and was expecting a far far sketchier product. Having a blast so far. Only note on performance is the occasional subway framerate dip when next to fires for some reason, but the framerate is good enough to play without relying on vats which was a surprise to me, i thought it would be a nightmare to aim, but it works incredibly well as a shooter this time around.
 
Badunk said:
I just want a mission with 3000 bottles of glue and duct tape lying around. Scraping together enough adhesive is just about the most challenging aspect of the game.
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Vato said:
Just fork out for a shipment of adhesive from one of the vendors, it's expensive but well worth it.
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There is a method of essentially "growing" adhesive in your settlements. You need to plant a crop which produces starch, but I can't remember exactly which crop it is. You also need filtered water, then you combine the water with the starchy crop at a cooking station and you'll have adhesive. It's seemingly the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to obtain adhesive. Google or YouTube will give you the specific details.
 
JmRssll555 said:
There is a method of essentially "growing" adhesive in your settlements. You need to plant a crop which produces starch, but I can't remember exactly which crop it is. You also need filtered water, then you combine the water with the starchy crop at a cooking station and you'll have adhesive. It's seemingly the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to obtain adhesive. Google or YouTube will give you the specific details.
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Nice one, didn't know this.
 
I stopped playing it for about 2 weeks. Went back to it this weekend. Still having a lot of fun, invested about 60 hours into it now (just reached Level 50) and still haven't finished the main quest. Then again, I've been building quite a few settlements, which I know a lot of people hate.
 
Man of Leisure said:
Getting a PS4 soon and trying to decide if I should get this or not. I absolutely loved Fallout 3, and while it wasn't anywhere near as good as 3 for me still enjoyed Fallout Vegas. Reading some of these posts are making me hesitant to pick this up. A friend recommended for me to try Dragon Age: Inquisition. Can someone who's played both give me some advice on which is more fun?
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Why not both? Should be able to get them reasonably cheap secondhand. Fallout 4 is good, especially the first time round, I just found there was less to keep me starting new games than in their previous titles (fallout 3/skyrim etc) once I'd been through it all once. Maybe it's the way I play but I saw and did practicatally everything on my first play-through (which was nearly 100hrs so still good value).

Liked inquisition a lot but it's annoying for completist types, did lots of fairly boring stuff that had no real impact like pointless war room resourcing (similar to resources in Mass Effect 2). Oh, make sure you get out of the Hinterlands asap, seriously, spent 12 hrs or so in there for nothing). Didn't like continuously returning to the same environments, story was wonky and combat took awhile to get used to as well. But I'm being picky, it was great to play.
 
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I'm struggling to find side quests but I feel like I'm exploring loads...

I don't really want to enter a place either and clear it out realising that there is a quest for it and I've already cleared the place out.
 
SilentWitness said:
I'm struggling to find side quests but I feel like I'm exploring loads...

I don't really want to enter a place either and clear it out realising that there is a quest for it and I've already cleared the place out.
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Following on from this will it mess my game up if I decide to just clear places out? What annoyed me about Skyrim is that I sometimes did this and it glitched quests which is why I've been avoiding it but reached a part in the game where the mobs are clearly a level above and I need to grind a little.
 
Do enemies get stronger as you do? I was feeling pretty strong, having wiped out the Brotherhood in the main quest, only to randomly run into some super mutants who caused me huge hassle. I usually deal with them with ease.
 
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Shark said:
Do enemies get stronger as you do? Was feeling pretty strong, having wiped out the Brotherhood in the main quest, only to randomly run into some super mutants who caused me huge hassle. I usually deal with them with ease.
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This is what happened with me, I could have avoided the super mutants but wanted to beat them before moving on.
 
Starting to see why some don't rate this much. It's enjoyable but the lack of quests (maybe I'm just awful at finding them) is irritating. Like I said previously, I'm exploring lots, but there seems to be barely any quests popping up, and the world isn't really exciting or full of enough enemies to make the exploring worthwhile or fun. Plus you get feck all experience for killing mobs too, the only way to get lots is by doing quests, as with all fallouts.
 
After i got the radio signal for the Brotherhood of Steel mission at the Police Station quests are coming in thick and fast which is nice to see. Actually puts substance to the places i visit which is nice. Barely touched the main quest, not sure if i will go to Diamond City until/unless i am forced to do so.
 
SilentWitness said:
After i got the radio signal for the Brotherhood of Steel mission at the Police Station quests are coming in thick and fast which is nice to see. Actually puts substance to the places i visit which is nice. Barely touched the main quest, not sure if i will go to Diamond City until/unless i am forced to do so.
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Are you talking about the quests you get from scribe Haylen and the other grumpy guy in the police building? They are just repeatable 'radiant' quests with no purpose or story to them. Go to X and kill Ghoul/Mutant/raider and return. They even repeat the same locations at times... Awful
 
Attila said:
Are you talking about the quests you get from scribe Haylen and the other grumpy guy in the police building? They are just repeatable 'radiant' quests with no purpose or story to them. Go to X and kill Ghoul/Mutant/raider and return. They even repeat the same locations at times... Awful
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I only did 2 of them, but i've started the other one with the Paladin which is actually taking me to places where there are quests rather than me finding lots of locations with just 3 ghouls and nothing else there.
 
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