» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:37 pm
I agree. This game blows FO3 out of the water. I hope that Bethesda takes note, as it's their writing department that really sunk the quality level of the previous game. I love the skill checks, the ammo and weapon mods, the crafting; it gives the game more flavor, and it feels less like pandering. I'm also impressed by the fact that, although I haven't done so yet, you can actually join the "bad guys" in this game. Nothing pissed me off more in FO3 than the fact that even if you were bad, you still joined the BoS and didn't work for the Enclave, even if you sided with them and FEV'd the water. Even the expansion was [censored] in that aspect. You poisoned the water and it was still geting distributed, you still joined the BoS despite the fact you clearly had undermined them, then helped them eliminate the Enclave, only to destroy their base at the last minute. It was as if Beth had said, yea, people will want to be bad, but we don't want to bother with pathing an entire story for people who want to be evil. Even blowing up Megaton, it seemed to have such potential, I thought I'd get to Tenpenny Towers and it'd be a whole new quest hub, instead it had one, and then was just an extremely out-of-the-way storage house. They definately could have fleshed that out, and made it a comparable starting position to Megaton, a bunch of little exp building quest right at the beginning of the game to establish yourself as evil. On the other hand, New Vegas took about 10 minutes to introduce an evil faction you could side with right off the bat, with further quest paths to follow (again, I havent tried it but I assume Primm and NCR Prison have "evil" plotlines). Just the fact you can make enemies with the NCR is a huge step up, as my evil Character in FO3 I literally killed every non-essential BoS person in the Citadel, and the Lyons' were just as welcoming to me, even with their comrades corpse strewing the hallway around me while we conversed, sometimes with their bodies still burning from my shishkebob.
Long Story short, New Vegas is everything I hoped FO3 would be, and I hope that Bethesda gives Obsidian another chance, hopefully with FO4, if not the same deal as now, another FO after number 4. I really think FO4 would be awesome if Beth developed the engine for a new elder scrolls, then just gave Obsidian said engine and had them create FO4, not only would it shorten production time, but it would make the game better, as Obsidian and it's team of Fallout Vets are clearly more in touch with the FO universe than Beth is.