Is Fallout 4 even an RPG?

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3 total messages Started by Justisaur Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:12

#721190

Author: Justisaur
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:12

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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

Re: Is Fallout 4 even an RPG?

#721196

Author: T987654321
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:09

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Fallout 1 & 2 can be thought of as rpgs, but F3 and F:NV were not, and F4 isn't either.  What it is is a very very good action/adventure game is a very flexible character generation system.

Re: Is Fallout 4 even an RPG?

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Author: Peter Huebner
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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