» Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:04 am My character is level 27 , melee, sneak,speech,lockpick are mastered. Explosion is near mastered and many others too. I got Almost every perk for melee and for sneaking, like silent running and ninja perks. I play the game at very hard and hardcoe mode. My principal weapon is a gladius machete, fully repaired bumper sword and super sledge. My armor is sheriff duster and a full t-51 power armor ( the one you buy at the brotherhood of steel after being idolized. I am always well fed , no thirst etc.
First ill get to the thing that irritated me (**spoiler**)
- The hardcoe mode reward : thats the reason i subscribed, to rant on that. At first you see the window, talking about a "SPECIAL" reward if you keep it up. You play the game , unlock a [censored]load of perk and you finish the game, eager to see youre reward.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. AN ACHIVEMENT HURRAAAAY!!! omg i am so pissed just by writing it. I always found that achivement are worthless ( for a single player like me ), i play the game and this mode to get my special reward ... perhaps a katana? a gun? a suit of armor? a companion? a perk? unlimited stimpak? unlimited sassperilla? a house? skills all start at 30 ? at 40? NO A ******** ACHIEVEMENT!!! OMAGAWD!! In all that [censored] wasteland, in everything there is out there, in how easy is to use the tool to create all that they werent able to take a minute or 2 to rename a ********* weapon or armor or even put one already in the game in the doc house to give a candy...... THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLY UNDERSTANDABLE!!!! .... i was in bed and had to get up to write about it, i am sooooo mad .... sooooooooooooooooo mad.
- The ending : Fallout 3 had alot of comment on the forum about , you finish the main quest and it stop there. We love our characters and we want to continu playing after. Even with the huge hassle it was, you still did a ending where you stop playing knowing that every sandbox game now let you continu even when finished. You should get a patch out to fix that. And whats the problem with that big ****** tease at the end with the Sword of the East. I finally get a unique bumper sword to get it taken away like 30 sec later... you should put it in the game instead of teasing us with it. I mean it.
- The sneak skill : perhaps its me but ive tried naked , with a sheriff duster and with my powerarmor and it dont change the result ... well , not often. I cant seem to go behind people and sneak kill them often in a battle situation. How could i put this up. Sneak is for stealing or doing ranged kill in this fallout. I remember in fallout 3 i was going around with my electrified sword and could wipe up a place full of super mutant without being seen. Here i go down in an old factory where super mutant are, i pop stealth , got everyperk , no light on , i see in the dark , i move slowly , get behind a super mutant and he turn around and begin to fight. Sometime i can get one or if im lucky , two. But after the first kill they all turn around and jump on me. If i do that from afar with my All-American gun, from max distance , i can kill them one after the other without em reacting. There is alot of scenario where the enemies know you are there and dont give a damn about you being a master infiltrator. Exemple , i order my companion to stay in the dam , i stealth out of there , i get shot at the door by legion member far away. Even being a master at stealth , having no armor and no light, when its sunset outside people always see me.
- Crippled limbs and armor : Ok i played hardcoe and it wasnt that hard, cleaved my way with a nice bumper sword on very hard and the game was kinda easy. One thing that pissed me off is the crippled limbs. I did not select the perk for frail limbs at the start. Lets take an exemple, my last battle at hoover dam, a painful one. I get out of the door ( refering to the sneak skill part ) , alone , get shot and put on my power armor and my sledge. Before that even my limbs were full, after the shots they were just a little bit damaged and now i got my full plated suit on. I dash toward them , hitting left and right to dodge some of the bullets , i got 50 DT. After killing the 3 legionnaire, i am at one third of my health , i got 4 broken limbs. I basically one shot them so the damage happened while i was getting to them. First my limb break as easy in a power armor as if i was naked. It make no sense, when you wear a damn huge tank of armor on you, slowing you down, having a helm, you should not have youre limb break that much. Even with the adamantium skeleton perk that give me more resistance, they break as easy, they are ALWAYS broken godamnit. In hardcoe mode you have 3 choice to fix those limb. Doctor , doctor bag or hydra (its what i found so far). Doctor on the damn is nowhere to be seen and my bone break so often, i would permanently need one with me. Doctor bag give almost nothing to my broken limb , almost like it was putting them at 1%. The next shot i receive , i break again. Hydra, you take one , good stuff. You take another one youre addicted. Being addicted is really bad, stat loss and sometime visual ( sooo painful to bear ) effect. Armor should really improve the way youre limb take damage because the plate just gave me some damage resistance to the bullet thats all, i finished the dam with 5 limbs broken having the head effect each 10 seconds for 5 seconds almost all the fight .... it was pretty painful.
- Vendor and money : I made a second character with alot of Barter. What - a - waste. Vendor never get there money back! I go to guns runner and sell for 4000 caps. I get back there like 30 days later and still 139 caps. Barter only let me sell for higher and buy cheaper ( or sometime claim 100 caps more on a 500caps reward ). So what i am saying is. I got 3 companions waiting for me at lucky 38 full of stuff that worth around 5000 caps a piece (stole the power armor at the brotherhood and found the armory in the vault :3) and i have to find every vendor in the entire game to have enough cap to buy the implant. So youre telling me that even in a full month in game, vendor never do business? they never sell stuff to others? i can understand that the 4000 caps dont pop up back after a week but some random amount could be on it , lets say like 900. Barter is totally a waste right now.
- Phoenix implant : Ok , neat idea. Bad finish. I was really hype to get it for my melee character since i was taking some hits here and there. The health regeneration is soooo slow ... I get from the stip to hoover dam in fast travel and not even 7% of my health is regenerated. Taking a bottle of sass give you more hp then waiting 7 hours with the implant. Seriously there is no scenario that happened to me where i said " im glad i bought that implant , that saved my life! ". I understand that i could be something overpowerful but its value is way to low to be helpful. I prefer buying the protection implant, that really show or the stats implant that let you get some perk and give better bonuses to youre skills.
- Character models : They were better in fallout 3. My char look weird now
- Outside texture : Often when i get to vast and empty area ... well there is alot of that heh? Mostly south, at the town where the people are on a cross. You can see the patch of grass and square tile of texture really easy, like if i took the warcraft 3 maps editor and just took a dirt tool and put it some here and took the grass tool and gave it a shot here and there. It really broke my immersion.
- Faction Bonus : Except having more quest to do, is there really a bonus? I was good with mostly everyone except ceasar and powder gangers. The only rewards i receive is a King each time i run in the town that give me 2 stimpaks. Its nice that people are happy about you but there is no cool bonus
- No love story : heh , im a roleplayer, i would like to see more roleplay
- Not a compeling story : there is a good twist , there is some oh [censored] moment but the end goal is not really compeling. Taking back a dam for electricity... its not something really heroic or bad... its ... special? You know , in fallout 3 where i first saw my dad die .. i was really caught up in the story , i was like , NO OPEN UP!! IM GONNA KILL YOU BASTARD!! DONT TOUCH MY DAD!!. but in this one , the end goal is pretty meh. But i love the twist
- New vegas not that hot? : I remember every video i saw about how they wanted it to be the main attraction of the game, playing games , feeling like being in vegas!! . Is Vegas being 3 square separated by a gate with only 2 things per square? Lemme explain. You enter and there is lucky 38 and Gamoora. Nothing to do except main quest in lucky 38. You go in the second square. You got two casino. You go in the third square and you got the NCR ambassy and another thing that i didnt quite look at. Thats mostly what i saw about the new vegas. Yes its pretty but its nothing to drool over, its not that " YOU MUST SEE THIS, WE PUT SO MUCH TIME IN IT ". First it take too much time to get involve with it and second, most of the quest take you out of there to do them. I spent more time in freeside then in New Vegas itself.
- Killing faction with faction armor : mostly a bug perhaps but i can go and empty the whole powder ganger camp without being attacked while wearing there armor. I stealth kill them , lose reputation but they all stay "friendly", not attacking.
-Some useless perk? : i got the lady killer and male killer for my speech/barter/charisma character. So far until level 20, i got only 3 lady killer speech and 1 male speech. Only use for damage and take the male one seriously. Enemies are 80% male.
-Broken head : You know , they damage youre head and it break. Now until you find a doc, each 10 seconds you hear that ******** noise and get blurry for 5 seconds. It doesnt keep me from attacking , looting or anything. Just put the debuff on perception and stop that noise, its really make me mad. its really NOT ENJOYABLE.
-Radiation dungeon : at some places the room or the entire dungeon is irradiated... how do you deal with that? I found a space suit and a yellow radiation suit. Since im melee , the ghoul take 3 hit to break it and lose the bonus. So .. what is the solution here? Each time i fight i change armor? There is like 50 ghouls in there... Took me like 50 med-x(is it this one that make you immune for 38 point? cant remember.. ) and 30 radaway. I even unlocked a perk about radaway while doing it. I dont really see the point except need to go out buy new stuff and go back in. Perhaps i missed something i could have done to make it less painful. but it was still fun in its own right.
- Weapon diversity : Normal gun, there is a bazzzzilion of em. I would like to see more energy , heavy , melee and fist weapon. There is wide variety already out there. Claw , katar , katana , broadsword, fireaxe etc.
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Good part
- I like the twist in the main story , but dont like the ending
-Crafting there is a lot to do, but you dont really find the part while going around so i never really crafter or cooked since i needed too much crap to do it but therei s plenty of stuff to make. Lemme make it clearer. You find so much pure water/dirty water/rad free toilet and so much food in the fridge that you dont really need to cook you up something. As a melee fighter, i took alot of hit but i still managed to get to 27 and have 79 stimpak and 16 super stimpak without crafting. I got plenty of ammo ( sincei dont really shoot) and every weapons i got are unique. I got through the game at very hard and hardcoe mode without crafting. But still there is plenty of option to look at.
-Quest are fun! I like the quest and the back story in there, i felt compeled to do alot of them, some not at all.
-New weapon are cool! Bumper Sword is way too sick, i love it! The strange thing is some weapon look really modern while other look old 9mm vs 10 mm . The 9mm got like green orb and look like something we have today in stores.
-Voice acting is nice but often repeat for npc. Its like if there was only 4 male voice for 100 male
-hardcoe mode : at the start its a nice idea to make scavenging more needed but dont start me on the reward... please.. dont
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In the end its a nice game. It dont have the first "OMG WOW" that i had with fallout 3 but its still fun to play. At first i was not sure, my first 5 hours in it felt akward. But the more i moved on, the more i liked it. It has its flaw, most of them arent really important but the reward on hardcoe mode infuriated me sooo bad that i had to come talk about it. I would recommend this game to any who have loved fallout 3. If Obsidian could correct some things ive listed above, it could be really nice out there. I feel there is some missing content too, after 50 hours of play, i feel ive seen most of it, the only left is to do different endings. Perhaps less different endings and more place/quests to do?
