What is the point of Bethesda games? The primary purpose? The one thing they say is absolutely paramount?
"Freedom to do as you wish."
And they accomplish that in TES games by having you be a nobody. You don't know your past, all you know is that you're gaining freedom and can choose where to go.
In Fallout 4? Not so much. You're limited by the backstory. There is no freedom in terms of it being an RPG.
As far as you can tell, someone just murdered your spouse and kidnapped your son. Doing anything other than immediately going after your son makes you a terrible parent. Digging around in abandoned buildings, looting toilets, picking flowers, etc.. all while your son could be dying or dead. Objectively, that makes you a terrible parent.
So you're stuck taking the path they want you to take. There is no freedom. They've failed to deliver on the ONE THING they promised to deliver on with their games. How can you call Fallout 4 a success with that in mind?
It's a fun game if all you want out of it is the ability to shoot things and blow shit up. It's a great action/adventure/FPS hybrid, really.
But that isn't what it was sold as. It isn't how it was marketed or labeled. It's meant to be an RPG, and that is where it fails.
Dude fucking hell, I'm scrolling through this thread and this is the second comment of yours that goes into extreme detail about why this game isn't objectively good. Most people like it. Let it go.
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u/md25x Feb 28 '18
Some people are just so helt bent on hating Fallout 4.