sliderider wrote:

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

I am on the brink of finishing it. To me F4 is a mediocre, shallow game with little traces of RPG. And the UI/inventory management is the worst thing to happen on pc ever. I am steering clear of Bethesda from now on.

Which ending are you finishing? There are multiple possibilities. I played through the Institute ending and am trying to follow through the Minutemen storyline now. I'll go back and do Brotherhood of Steel later and I'm not sure if the Railroad gets it's own ending or not. There may even be other factions in the game that I haven't discovered yet. I'm still discovering new locations on the map that I missed the first time through, so there may be more.

As far as I know there is little difference no matter which faction you choose. The ending short slideshow is also lacking indeed.

I tried to go with the minutemen first, but for some odd reason, I had not the option. I had to go with the Institute. In my humble opinion, all factions suck big time in F4.

snorg wrote:

One thing that's disappointing me so far is areas that seem like they could be really cool additions are stupidly broken, like […]
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One thing that's disappointing me so far is areas that seem like they could
be really cool additions are stupidly broken, like The Combat Zone.
I walk in thinking I will get a chance to have a cage fight or place some bets, sort
of like Fallout 2 where you can hop in the boxing ring...instead, everyone
immediately goes aggro and I have to slay the entire area. I reloaded just
to make sure I didn't do something dumb...nope, it's just designed that way.
I don't want to drop additional spoilers (that one is pretty early on if you're
following the main quest) but there are other spots where they could
have showcased a cleverly thought out area and had some mini games,
but no, you set one foot in and you have to kill everyone (raiders) in the
place.

And is it just me or does it seem a little odd that every raider hideout
looks like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre with cut up bodies on hooks everywhere?
Seems to me like 1 or 2 groups that were cannibals would be enough,
but to have everyone be like that in a world where there is clearly trade
and agriculture, even though rudimentary?

I'm still enjoying the game, but the RPG elements are thin on the ground.
I'm looking forward to the mod community maybe fixing some of this after the
fact. I also think it would be interesting to see a mod with a level 30 cap,
since with the no level cap clearly everyone ends up eventually being a wasteland god.

If you think the Combat Zone is a hard fight, try getting on the wrong side of the Brotherhood of Steel and invade their main base.