JohnCoffey wrote:
I guess it all depends on what you are looking for really. I wouldn't mind just a sandbox to play in with my chums, making silly buildings (batman lava spunk comes to mind). I don't remember if I said it here or elsewhere, but to me a Fallout game is 60% doing all of the quests and getting the DLC done, then 40% is just me scavving and bumming around discovering new locations. I love the exploration aspect, and it gets as many hours as the rest.
Fair enough JC, by all accounts the fun with this game is to be had where you make your own, especially with friends - and if that's something you're happy to do and enjoy then more power to you, it's not like anyone can dictate to you what you do and don't enjoy. (One of the videos I watched said the exploration could be fun and rewarding, for example.)
The game does seem to be objectively bad from both a gameplay and a technical perspective in many regards, but if they're things you can live with to carve out your own enjoyment from it, that's cool
My irritation is more with Bethesda than anything else, they're still acting like the underdog, getting a pass for their massively shonky and buggy productions because the scale and scope they work to is far beyond what anyone else is attempting. Whereas now they're a huge publisher still trying to wing it with that excuse, and other developers are doing far more compelling open worlds, in a far more competent manner.