The bad man shot my wife in the head and took my baby!!

Feels so good to say that without reprieve. Hmm my insides are all wrong.

Cryogenic suspension has no place here, so fuck off Bethesda you don't have the chops for the IP anymore. This is fucking cop out city. 

That introduction was fucking shit and served no purpose, the game could have started with you waking up, I feel nothing for my wife and child or the neighbours or even that my lovely american dream life was bombed to fuck because I only lived it for 5 minutes and in that time the vault tec salesman came and did terrible fucking obvious foreshadowing of the nuclear attack that you know has to happen anyway because its the key fucking world event of the whole 'franchise'.

Yeah I think it's time for that RPG trope - where you have an urgent task to take care of, but there's an unspoken rule that you can pot around with side quests before you get around to it - to go.  Well it was time to go by Baldur's Gate 2 at the very least, and that was 15 years ago now!

Can look past it, since it's been a thing in so many RPG's over the years, but it really shouldn't be happening any more.

I do like Fallout 1's "We're going to run out of fresh water!  In 6 months.  Please look into that." - it's a pretty high stakes scenario and gives you plenty of time to do your own thing if you wish to.

That first Deathclaw meeting, is it supposed to be scary/hard? I'm on Normal but I just stood next to it in my power suit firing my minigun and watched its health go in about ten seconds.

What a difference a day makes, I guess. Mayber. 

All I did tonight was finish talking to fucking Codsworth who is a complete cretin, and then wandered through the gas station found my doge and then went to Concord and did their little storyline. It was for the most part a very Fallout feeling few hours. With a few gripes.

So I'll do the good stuff  first. I quite like the little rag tag minutemen group they have going there, the dialogue between all the members was about a billion times better than the stupid fucking inane banter between you, your spouse and randoms during the intro sequence. I especially like crackhead mystic old lady in the pink slippers. I actually followed the group back to Sanctuary and their incidental bits of dialogue on the way was a nice addition. 

I also have to say that the power armour bit was really well done - as a set piece by Fallout standards I think the only time anything in the series has come close to it was the Liberty Prime battle against the Enclave in Fallout 3. The deathclaw picking you up and tossing you round like a rag doll looked fantastic in first person and I really hope that they weren't just scripted attacks for this fight or I will be sad. The entire power armour iron man style approach is just fucking tops and it felt really good to smack raiders up with my giant armoured fists, popping heads and tearing limbs off and then emptying the minigun into the face of the deathclaw who actually was moving around and trying to evade the bullets instead of traditional Fallout running in a straight line at me and then clipping melee attacks through me until I died. I like the way the armour plating gets ripped off and I like the way you have to keep the thing fueled and presumably have to find replacement parts for the armour that gets torn off. All of that was brilliant but read on for the beginning of the niggly gripes that the game continues to throw up. 

Oh one last thing, the new way you can mix and match under and over layers of armour is really good if you are a fashion souls kind of a guy, and let me tell you, when it comes to Fallout I love fashion souls faggotry. 

No sorry one extra thing, I mentioned it in the other thread but just to reiterate, THE CRITICAL HIT UNARMED COMBAT STUFF IS FUCKING SWEET BROS.

My first gripe is that the logic of some of the mission structure in Concord was dumb. When the guys ask you to retrieve a fusion core, they say they can't get the one downstairs because they aren't hackers or lock pickers, well neither am I, those were novice locks guys you could have opened them, pretty sure there are bobby pins and at least one screwdriver in the building as I was walking through it. Or they could have hacked the terminal, just a novice level terminal, and the one the tech guy is using when you meet them is also a novice terminal, and he's typing away pages of text on there just fine. But that's kind of a minor thing. It would have been better overall if the core wasnt in the basement and you had to use the one you can scavenge out of the cave under the red rocket garage on the way in. Putting the fusion core downstairs in the same building as the minutemen was a bit of a cop out imho. 

My second problem is that I feel like that deathclaw and power armour fight was the game shooting it's wad waaaaay too early. I now have a semi functional suit of power armour with a repair bay conveniently just down the road in Sanctuary. I am going to be annoyed if I find that I can repair the armour with low tech stuff. Like I said before, if you arent bothered about the lore and the Fallout world it's probably not a big deal. But having the equipment to repair some of the most advanced technology available pre-war in someone's garage in your starting town is just fucking stupid. About as stupid as the notion that the vertibird and the armour have sat up there on top of the building for 200 years and have managed to evade the clutches of the Brotherhood of Steel or the Enclave in that period of time. The only two factions in Fallout really who have the capability to maintain any of the pre-war high tech stuff like the power armour, the vertibirds and even the energy weapons, although as the games have gone on the energy weapons have become more and more common because lazer and plasma pewpewpew is kewl, I guess. Anyway, yeah, the fuck will that stuff have stayed up there unmolested for 200 years, even if the Enclave or the Brotherhood didn't find it, most people know what power armour is, what vertibirds are and know they're worth a ton of money even if they don't work. It was a cool fight, but I felt the situation was pretty contrived. 

Final gripe is that crafting villages and shit can do one. It feels like it's been stuck in for the sake of sticking it in, I'm supposed to be on a quest to find my son, I'm not here to do a series of This Old House with Steve and 'Nahm.

Oh and if you havent tried it yet, check out the female protag, she fucking wrecks the dude at the voice acting, I can't can't go back to him, he seems like a beta douche in comparison to what I can only describe as femshep 2.0.

Aye, keep on it Rouj. Kinda feel sad I missed being tossed around by the Deathclaw now, although I did meet and kill it in a tunnel it didn't really fit in.

Mikemsp wrote:

Wasn't aware of a basement under the garage, was worth reading the rant just for that! Will take a look.

I was aware of it because the protag mentions something about it, Couldn't find a way in though.

Machette V.A.T.S kills are great.

Had an encounter with a mireluk queen, couldn't even scratch it.