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What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year ) (lemmy.world)

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[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

I wish that I could get it to run in ultra wide in some convenient way. I remember liking the game straight up, and was always a little perplexed by the fan base beef. Mods seem like it could really kick it up a notch though.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Strangely, I am one of those people with a beef.

Modded out, the game is a great open world sandbox.

But judging the vanilla game as an RPG and as a Fallout game, I have many problems with it.

The main plot is essentially garbled nonsense being the biggest one. The reduced dialog, the railroading of motivation and backstory, the dilution of the setting by both leaning too far into Fallout’s setting being so 1950s kitsch (Fallout’s original premise was the future as imagined by the 1950s, not just the 1950s with higher tech, there is a difference) but also at the same time making Terminator style highly dexterous endoskeleton robots part of the setting, and making the Blade Runner style replicants front and center (yes I know the idea of Replicants was introduced in Fallout 3, but there is a gap between a single one off side quest and a whole game when it comes to tone). There were numerous questionable elements of the background events in Boston, and with game pacing.

So, uh. Yeah. I loved modded Fallout 4, but really because it builds away from following what’s going on in the base game.