07-10-2009, 09:42 PM
Sage Wrote:=/
It was supposed to be totally turn-based. Fallout 1 and 2 were, that's why VATS exists at all. Pandering to the fans of the previous games. The... zealous ones. I'm not saying I support the decision of trying to mix the two styles together but it's there and as far as I'm concerned it works fine. This game isn't a masterpiece but Bethesda made it so what were you expecting?
Oblivion was well-nigh a video game masterpiece, I daresay. Morrowind was insane as well.
Fallout 3 is just junk (imo). It's fun, don't get me wrong, but I don't at all understand the GotY awards and hype. I like collecting trophies, but I just can't force myself to go back through Fallout. The combat is dumb and there isn't any depth to the items (remember Oblivion and all the enchantments you could put on weaponry?).
The atmosphere is really cool though. They got that right.
Quote:Er, back to VATS, if you don't like it, nobody's making you use it. And I don't believe the FPS combat is as clunky as you and others make it out to be. I haven't ever had issue with it. I've had far more trouble with other games. That said (again), it's no CoD4/HL2/etc when it comes to gunplay.
No, it really is shit. Trust me. It plays like Goldeneye (which, for some reason, people still bother to play these days).
Games that do a lot of things need to do those things at least passably right, and going back to N64/PS1-esque gunplay just doesn't cut it. I refuse to believe that the FPS system in place minus VATS is the best they could have done.