If only they worked. Imagine thinking that Fallout 4 players have an actual right to be here, let alone form or air opinions.
Inconvenient fact: FO4 has more RPG mechanics than many ""RPGs"" regularly praised on this forum.
I've wasted enough time on FO4 to pick it apart and write binders full of
wymyn rants. But I can assure you:
nothing about FO4 was done well "as an RPG".
Perks are a mess, you cannot specialize ahead, because everything is level locked. Weapon perks give you an extra 20% base dmg, while enemies gain 50%+ hps. Crafting mods are available at vendors
before you could craft them.
At some early point they abandoned VATS thinking the game is about power armor now. Most of the guns just have random values slapped on past lvl20, because they didn't care anymore.
Half of the quest encounters are "blahblahblah and now you die", and die you will unless you wear PA, since are surrounded. Why would anyone NOT wear PA amirite?
Weapons (especially pistols) are comically extra large so "can see it while wearing PA".
The 3D artist even fucked up half of the designs having no clue how guns work or had basic reasoning. 10mm pistol barrel comes out in the middle of the gun, pipe weapons' action must be invisibly floating outside the gun, and leather armor gets a diagonal padding instead of a chest armor? He could not even do what the picture told him to.
They even forgot to make a proper assault rifle, so they quickly slapped a blurry pipe as barrel on the combat
shotgun, added the hunting rifle's mag without even removing the circular mag plate it has and called it a day. Took probably 15mins during lunch all together. To add extra insult, they renamed a yuge water cooled machine gun, with a fucking mount for cars, "assault rifle". Finished!
Automatic weapons are beyond useless because nobody knew how armor works. They did not learn on bit from the F:NV!
CHA checks are only for extra lore they apparently didn't
want players to read.
MC was written to be male only with his fixed background, so playing as housewife Nora is beyond hillarious when everyone constantly praises her mad skillzzzz.
The Institute writing is a clusterfuck and the Railroad's is a massive black hole of stupidity. Not even going into the rest, apparently done by people Todd owed money, so he put them on the payroll.
I could go on for pages, but I don't want to waste anyone's time even more.
All they had to do was "Skyrim with guns" and they fucked it up on all fronts, because their hubris told them to do everything different now.
Great, now I am angry again thinking about this turd.
Sad.
