Preface: I am not at all that Oldfag, who yells that the old one better and in every way rejects innovations in the series. I love Fallout 3, and the classic parts passed only one time. All of the following applies to all the games from Bethesda Sofworks in general.
Almost losing the remnants of the mind after playing MgSv, I decided to get distracted by something else in time, the game. Tax-taks, what’s here with us? Fallout 4! Ahaha, let’s see! I did not expect this game at all, because I have long lost all faith in Bethesd`. And given the first trailer with a plasticine dog and demonstrations of gameplay with dialogs on four cardinal points … Moreover. But, on Braybie and Cancer, fish. And glory to you, Almsivi, unlike MGSV, I, in principle, did not expect anything from this game, and therefore absolutely all its shortcomings, without difficulty I saw in the first ten gameplay, did not plunge me into the abyss of hopelessness. And I write this material because I am very touched by the topic of Fallout`a, Betzds and Falluts from Betzda, as well as numerous disputes and rampant fans on this score. I am also embarrassed by all those people who speak high about Fallout 4. The idea of this article was not quite in the assessment of the game, but since I will call it shit, many will ask why. Therefore, I have to go through all my claims to the game.
Prove my gamrio
And the first thing you want to say about is the technical component. No matter how Betzda swore the freshness of her technology, she has no faith and never will be. So the tales of the “new engine” turned out to be nonsense, for “Nekst-Gen” game of 2015, like all its predecessors, uses the ancient Dviglo, taking its roots in 1991. This is why it is worth starting when it comes to graphics, its quality, optimization and stability of the game as a whole.
Because all these things are made here badly. The ears of old games and other jambs stick out from everywhere. Someone will say that in F4, on the contrary, good graphics. How personally launched this game in maximum settings, I will say that yes. The graphics are beautiful, but exactly until the player considers it closer, in detail. All the good that happened with the graphics from the time of Skyrim was more realistic lighting and finally the clumsy shadows disappeared (although in places they still jump as if frantic). Day or evening outdoes landscapes of wasteland look good, but nothing more. But I was the wildest surprised, finding that not a single mirror in the game reflects. And the puddles I found on the surface of the earth were just a shiny texture! Although water is in rivals and looks good. What prevented the same in the case of a puddle – a riddle.
But the horror begins when we find various outdoles and rooms, which clearly shows that Betzda still does not know how to dynamic lighting, in 2015. But having entered Indor, the lighting is already much better, it is understandable – it is not difficult to arrange shadows under static light sources. However, this is “not difficult” for FPS more powerful than Outdor, without drawing cells and loading the Land Distant, as it is incomprehensible. About textures, I think, it’s worth silent at all. Of course, the game leads a gloss with modern shaders. And all this business manages to eat a huge amount of resources. With unreasonably long loading, you think you are familiar.
Conclusions about the feasibility of using ancient technologies in the Neksten Games do yourself. It is worth recalling the promises of the corrected shooting. She certainly became better. But, alas, bullets still do not fly where they should fly. Ay-ah-ah.
Of course, there are positive aspects, if they can be called. At least within the framework of games from Betzda, progress is observed. We are talking about the details of the models of characters and their textures, which, well, are good. Although they are still far from the models from the Nexus. Also finally, a tolerable animation appeared.
Story
The first thing the player faces: with the tie and the main characters. There are no many words here, the plot sucks. I have always been a supporter of the assertion that “the plot is not the main thing in RPG from Bethtesda”, however, this does not mean that it needs to be ignored over and over again. Given your PR company, you must hook your history this time! Damn with two. We lower numerous failures in the script, I’m not going to roll out a whole canvas again. The only funny thing here is the moral choice between the implementation of our own beliefs and the support of the work of our child-giant-growing child. Although, in truth, there should not be any choice at all, especially given the rage with which our protagonist is looking for his child, he must definitely take the side of the institute. Imagine you are a beginner in this world. You have a choice: your dear son and life in high-tech bunkers of the institute, or life in post-nuclear self-building in the middle of unknown people.
By the way about fractions. I did not like one. But if the institute or brotherhood still has the right to exist (although, in my opinion, the sterile and high -tech institution is already too much for the Follout universe. Biobots? Teleportation? Stop mocking this universe like that!), then subway – just a cesspool. By the way, at the time of writing these lines, I never finished passing the plot, because the choice between shit, shit and shit puts me in a stupor.
Rolpley
Thousands of words about dialogues have already been said, but I will still say my hundred. What was done with dialogs is a nightmare. The voice of the protagonist is still an ambiguous thing, someone liked it, someone-no. Together with the voice acting, a certain production of dialogs appeared, akin to the one that was in Mass Effect. As for me, this is a good venture, and it is removed by modes. In the same way, the moron console wheel is removed with mods and the display of full replicas is restored. But what to never fix – the structure of the dialogs itself. 4 replicas to the stage, epic "sarcasm", as well as "uncertainly" and "more", lack of replicas by skills, characteristics or perks, almost complete independence of the outcome from the said words and low variability. But the worst thing for me personally is that it is not known which of the replicas will irrevocably advance the dialogue forward without the ability to ask another question, and which will leave it at the current stage. Take care of making convenient dialogs in 2015 – this is necessary to try.
Role system. Well, congratulations, Todd, you killed her finally. You can forgive the changed rules in F3, where the role system was forced to be sharpened under the Tes`a mechanics, but why was it so idiotic to do everything? The skills are gone, the parameters of Special are pumped and now the initial choice does not affect anything, and the good two -thirds of the perks – useless garbage. At a certain moment of the game, I found that I just have nowhere to put glasses from the levels, because I have already pumped the necessary and useful and useful to me. There were many useless perks in the third part, but here is still worse.
Quests? Eh. Now I recall https://paradise8casino.co.uk/ only units of more or less good quests, most of which are associated with partners. Everything else is a boring gray one-ubi and a ton of radiant quests (shame).
Game process
He is very dull. I, a man who completely cleaned Skyrim and Fallout 3, dropped this game somewhere in the second third of all the content. Seriously, many scolded F3 for endless metro lines and ruins of the city, but Boston … In it you can wander forever without hope for salvation. This city is the most dull part of the game. Absolutely the same templates, doors, walls, corridors and so on. And everything is clogged by enemies: super humans, raiders and other scam. And since now it is a shooter, the number of enemies of past games of Betzda can be safely multiplied by three. This game turns into routine very quickly. For on the way you will definitely clean all the locations found, clean every corner, each box, every safe or container. And all this must be hacked. Hack. Seriously why there are so many castles? Please tell me who locks a first -aid kit and other things that do not provide? And most importantly-the usual consumable nonsense is almost always hidden behind all castles, which after some time simply does not need the player. Imagine, if at Borderlands, almost the entire loot was locked.
In general, it turns out that there is too much content in the game. Is it bad? But the content is the same and boring, and all this is too tightly concentrated in Boston. Clean the next dungeon to scoop up a bunch of consumables and all kinds of garbage that you are unlikely to use – a typical lesson in F4.
Endless enemies, endless and useless loot, endless radiant of the quest. Behind all this, that small good part of the game simply fades.
Crafts, building, equipment
I will immediately express about the construction of bases, settlements, cities. I will not say that this is definitely bad, it does not interfere with the game as a whole, there are lovers of this thing – and good, hell with it. But, after all, man-hours that could go into a more important channel were spent on this thing so doubtful in RPG. Just think.
Kraft (and modifications) first seemed to me crooked, stupid, awkward. But over time, I got used to it and understood how it works (the local interface is in many ways), I even liked it. And the search for the desired garbage adds complexity and task, especially at first, when we still have little raw materials, especially rare and very necessary. But there is a couple of linings. Namely: the developers who make us a shooter do not know how the weapon works. For example, how the muffler increases the return, if he must do the opposite? How is the alteration of semi -automatic weapons automatically reduces its damage if the caliber remains the same? How the hero manages to make collimator and holographic sights (electronics), and indeed sights, from garbage? How he generally makes the details of factory quality from garbage using a conventional workbench? As for me: crafting modules only for home -made weapons, everyone else should either be or buy from professional masters in cities equipped with the necessary equipment.
Now about the equipment. I was very pleased with the multi -layer system of worn things (as in Mordovond, wooh!). But here not everything is so smooth. Why, for example, on a shirt and pants, I can put on elements of armor, and I can’t be on any other costumes, like a classic? Why are the dimensions of the dressed elements of armor depend on the models of clothes dressed under the bottom of clothes, and not on the dimensions of our character? Why, damn it, a blue-three-throat suit can be stitched with armored vehicles, but there is no black? Religion does not allow, or what, Todd?
And most importantly – arsenal. He is damn small! And I mean firearms! Thank God, cold, explosive and energy here,. Remember the arsenal of the firearm in F2, there is no half of that variety. And half of what is – modified variations of the other half. I can’t forgive this in a role shooter, a bold minus.
Interface
One worst things of this game is an interface that is more an enemy to a player than an ally. In F3, we had a good find in the form of a peip-boy for all needs: statistics, equipment, magazine and maps. Here, Pip-Boy navigation managed to make worse. The interface, that is, all kinds of windows and their management for me, as for a PC-Gimera, is disgusting. Problems with scrolling lists, excessive number of navigation buttons, small windows, which are forced to euthanize the long names of objects and the most wretched: a holographic translucent image of objects in the inventory. That’s what, the interface and inventory the gazebo has been spending regularly since 2006. And remember divinely simple, convenient and most importantly-an adjustable interface in Mordovond!
The combat system
Many note improved shooting. And it’s really difficult to refuse this game. That’s just. As for me, the core of the F3 and New Vegas combat system was not in real time, but the VATS system.
And he was spoiled, turning into an absolute useless crap. Previously, Vats was a full-fledged way to fight, a kind of semi-analogue of step-by-step battles from the classic units of the series, in which success depended on the swarm indicators of the character. Now the devil knows that the features affects successful hits, and critical hits are triggers personally to fill out the scale. Why did I download good luck then? Well, like a cherry on the cake – instead of stopping time, now only slowdown. Ta-Daam! In F3, with proper pumping, I could critical hit from a sniper rifle through VATS to demolish the head of the death of death from the maximum possible distance. Here you can only dream of this.
The game world
Well, the most delicious – a typical study of the world from Betzda. I now do not mean its physical study, locations, architecture, arrangement of various objects and objects – this all the belus can and does well. But they still can’t get mind and logic. And immediately I will say the most important squat in the puddle of this game: a huge nuclear bomb, which left a huge radioactive scorched crater with huge monsters … A couple of kilometers from the untouched Boston, in which there is not a trace of radioactive infection or the consequences of the impact of the explosive wave. There were small destruction on the outskirts, but no more.
The city itself looks almost whole and carries traces of its natural desolation. In the houses of which skeletons are sitting at the dining table, whose owners died not clear from what. Samopals and covers are in the boxes and safe (despite the fact that dollars have long been like in use), and in local stores you can still find a suitable food and even fresh watermelons (. ). Betzda does not want to correct the mistakes made in F3, so the whole world looks like the war passed a couple of years ago and now you can profit from the remnants of civilization. Why still so much good lies in the vastness of the Wasteland? Why are the huge buildings that are huge for the settlement of the building? Why in the presentation of the crushes of the “City” these are with a dozen houses, in which a dozen homeless people live? And I’m talking about the largest local cities, about small settlements and there is nothing to say. But we have fiery bases of raiders with darkness of people under execution.
And not that Betzda did not know how to make normal cities. I can remind me of cities in Mordovond? Huge, with a large number of NPC and populated environs. One is worthwhile (yes, I know that he is just huge, but boring and empty, however, creates the right illusion). And if we technically cannot demonstrate a big city – showing it part by creating the illusion of scale, as it was with the capital of Mordovond or limited affordable space on huge bases and cities in Mass Effect. In the yard 2015, and the situation has become worse. Let me remind you that 200 years have passed since the atomic war, and we have already seen such large settlements as New Rino and NKR. But for some reason, the metropolitan wasteland and the Commonwealth deliberately bypass natural social and technological processes.
Atmosphere
The latter on the list, but not the last most important. My opinion is that the atmosphere Fallout is spoiled. It is worth saying that Follaut, in fact, has never been about retro -futurism and music of those years that ooles here from everywhere. Even Boston’s architecture loses to Washington in terms of atmosphere. And there was no Fallut about cheerful cheerful minimetmen in idiotic hats. Tell me, it is necessary for them to use the characteristic elements of the wardrobe of those very minutes of the time of the war for independence? I thought, minutes is what a person does, and not how he dresses. What I want to say by this: I have never been Fallut about the history of the United States. Although there were good quests in F3, affecting the historical theme, but they were not put at the forefront! Excessive passion for this only harm the atmosphere. This gives us a direct connection with our real world, and the old Fallout was something else. He was a gloomy world about the survival of the remnants of civilization. Strongly in the atmosphere, the institute with the subway also beats. Think what you want, but these things are beyond the scope of the universe. Another most important thing is generally a positive mood of the game that I noticed from the first trailer. Music in major notes, home and dog wagging a tail. How is it … not in Follautian.
A significant part of the atmosphere of the classical parts was an industrial embibia, which is here … it is generally? Someone noticed? In any case, the local OST loses to old melodies in everything. It generally seems to me that Gamdev has forgotten how to make a good memorable musical accompaniment.
Anything Good?
Now I need to say something positive. And we have only two such things. And the first of them are partners, who, however, are not perfect, but they at least somehow brighten up all this game. Even more, for the sake of them, it is worth playing this division. And I mean not at all artificial intelligence, which has not been cured here since the mid-2000s. I mean the characters themselves with whom you can conduct a dialogue and explore the game world. The second is the mechanics of power armor, which is now not just worn on the clothes, but a really heavy, powerful mechanism that needs to be worn like a spacesuit.
Hypothesis of Mordovond
Time to summarize. And it can be fitted exactly in one word: hack. Holtura is everywhere, hacks always, simplification, deterioration, bad ideas and missed opportunities. It is hard to believe what this is done in Carrent Gene. Betzda games already have a certain tactic that they adhere to: one step forward, two steps ago. Although there are already three.
Where are all these wonderful and just positive reviews about Fallout 4, dozens of game publications, no matter what? These games never caught up with their competitors by almost any parameters, but in the aggregate of their characteristics they managed to give pleasure. And this is the main paradox and my hypothesis.
Named after the third part of The Elder Scrolls, which finally deduced the very formula for the success of RPG from Betezda. The thing is that TES, which rolled up, starting with Oblivion, and new followers, all this is a sandbox. We have a huge open world with caves, metro, forests and wastelands, enemies, characters, pumping and other. Each Betzda game is getting worse and worse, but each will definitely receive good reviews. And the secret is simple: no matter what shit the next game is, it still remains a good sandbox in which you can gladly spend time, it has the same thing that we liked Morrowind so much. Even those who did not play in the old parts of the TES series will be imbued with this magical gaming mechanic. For the operation of the watches and the pleasure received from the game is limited only to your own imagination or perversion. After some couple of years, Betzda will release another role-playing game, which will be even worse than the previous one, but which will still like the numerically growing audience.
09.06.2024 And here is an insert from the future, because the released Fallout 76 confirms my hypothesis.
And in this, a huge community of modmakers, whom the developer company shamelessly exploits it in this. Why produce a product licked to a shine, when fans themselves finish everything, and even better? You think Betzda releases the game? No matter how, it releases the next platform for modifications, hundreds of modifications, the lion’s share of which only corrects the numerous jambs of developers. I believe that fashion is good, but this does not mean that your product needs to be done obviously ill -conceived. An old successful idea, aggressive advertising and a loud brand – that’s the whole secret of large sales and success Fallout 4. I said everything.
The best comments
Must agree with all points. But personally, I doubt that modifications will be able to correct something, because the game is broken in its very basis. And the dialogs even in the parody of The Bard’s Tale seem better than in F4. And this must be tried to surpass a parody of serious droves, this indicates a real wretchedness.
