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Article #721201Re: Is Fallout 4 even an RPG?
From: Peter Huebner
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:03
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:03
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In article <b5e00c86-7b13-4b2b...@googlegroups.com>, just...@gmail.com says... > > There don't seem to be any real role-playing choices in the game so far. > Maybe I'm just not far enough in, but i think I've got about 1/3 of the > map explored in the upper left. Even FO3 had some pretty important > choices in the first settlement. The only choices seem to be non > dialog based. Ignore people, help people, or kill people. The dialog > seems to always lead to the same conclusion of help whoever you're talking > to. Most of the quests are pretty boring standard MMO fare of fetch or > kill so far. > > I am enjoying the game, but it seems to have lost quite a bit on the RP > side from even FO3. > > On the combat side, I'm not caring much for the way crits work, and I'm > not sure about power armor. It was a major endeavor to get and learn to > use power armor all the previous Fallouts, but it's there right off the bat > in FO4, though I'm finding it difficult to get enough power for to use. > > - Justisaur In my perception FO3 was more FPS style gaming than anything else. I gave up on it after a few hours - just not at all my flavour - and I have no intention of picking up where I left off.
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