Editorializing Fallout 3

Combat is boring at lv 20? I found combat boring at lv 4.

 

Nice euphemism.

In other words, not being a role-playing game.

 

In other words, not being a good role-playing game.

 

Isn't this in itself... a shortcoming?

 

The Grim Reaper Sprint is a cheat, as if VATS wasn't a cheat itself. But it's just soooo much a cheat I actually enabled god mode so I hadn't to worry about combat anymore. "tgm" in the console.

 

I'm telling ya guys! Fallout 4 will be even less a RPG, and more FPS but still people will be calling it a Role Playing Game!


The End is NEAR!!

*and he runs away like a little biatch*

 

Yeah, now I realize it sounds too offensive. It's just that I don't have an exact English counterpart for conveying the feeling 'Un boludo' inspires in Spanish.

 

So I don´t have to think about the SPECIAL system, but I am drawn into the game by the SPECIAL system?? This confuses me.

 

What in the hell is wrong with people? A role playing game without stats, gear, or robust dialog isn't a damn role playing game! My god this is getting maddening. It's like everyone that writes about video games now is just a lemming. Look over these reviews and count the times the word immersion is used by them. They heard that Bethesda PR so much they now just parrot it.

An RPG without the RPG elements is damn action game!

FFS it's hopeless.

 

An action RPG without stats? Then what part of it is RPG at all anyway??

Assuming this is true, I wonder how come one of FO3's or Oblivion's selling points is "over 100 hors of gameplay"??

 

Maybe they lack the time it takes to learn and understand the system that the game is based upon. It took me awhile to learn what in the hell was going on with 1d8 long swords in BG when I was 9.

Edit

In Oblivion, you can get right into the action, and you don't even have to really understand that much, because there isn't that much going on. It's like the combat system from Morrowind --> Oblivion. In Morrowind, your hits were calculated by dice rolls. In Oblivion, all attacks hit, no matter your skill level.

 

I myself have gotten to the level cap of 20. However, I noticed during a load screen that there was a bar that went from 20 to 21

Example:

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20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 21

Of course my exp stopped at 20 just like everyone else, but I wonder if this is an indication of their possibly being an expansion or DLC that will raise the level..

Regards.

 

Hee hee hee.

 

That covers 80% of Bethesda's target audience. It explains so much.

 

Well, apparently the equations that are in the character screen that calculate hit points, carry weight, Action points, and all that shit are too complicated for most people. It's grade 4 math, but that's too much for people to handle.

Remember when gaming (especially RPGs) was reserved the "nerdy, smart people?" Now it's just for whomever has enough hand-eye cordination to pick up a controller off a coffee table.

 

Even Diablo requires players to choose what stats to up, granted there are only like four stats but they're still there. They also talked about not having to worry about gear and that, along with leveling, is one thing that most ARPGs use to keep interesting so that's another that can be scratched off.

 

For the record, I have ADHD and I love all the number crunching in RPGs and cRPGs. I'm probably in the minority though...