🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 1:57:53 PM UTC-7, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:41:22 +0300, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote:
> 
> >Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Surprised nobody has brought this up before now.  Looks like some of
> >> you old farts are getting rusty :)
> >
> >I suppose. I was a big fan of both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I was quite
> >surprised I grew to like FO3 so much despite all the warts in it. Mostly
> >the crappy inaccurate guns outside VATS but things got more interesting
> >after I hunted down some of the guns that have zero drift.
> >
> >Fallout 4, I never would've guessed it's coming so soon. Hoping for the
> >best and fearing the worst but at least the gameplay video looked cool.
> 
> From the link that DMP posted, it looks like they have heard
> complaints about the franchise when judged as a shooter.
> 
> "With the new, built-from-scratch shooting system, Howard says Fallout
> 4 plays much more like a modern shooter. You can aim down the sights,
> use V.A.T.S., and play in first or third person. "
> 
> In a way I can see where they were coming from with the VATS system
> and less of an emphasis on real time gun mechanics.  If FO3 had
> emerged as a game that felt too much like a first person shooter, fans
> of the first two games would have cried blasphemy and gone on about
> how the entire Fallout franchise has been betrayed, etc.
> 
> I thought the color palette changes also seem to be a response to
> widespread criticism.  A lot of folks just felt FO3 and FO:NV were too
> dreary looking -- never bothered me but I could see where they were
> coming from simultaneously.

I hope they don't ruin it just because of the whiners, and turn it into just another shooter.  I thought the colors were appropriate, and prefer using VATS when I can.  There was some mod that made it so you could use VATS all the time, and removed most of the advantages - the multiplier on damage and damage resistance.

- Justisaur