Considering the narrative flops of Fallout 4 and Mass Effect: Andromeda, is it possible to make a compelling story in an open world RPG? Let's take a look!
A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.
How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.
I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.
Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."
It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder
That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game
The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.
It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.
They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.
I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.
I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.
It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Horizon's way.
Give Mass Effect Andromeda a break already, it really isn't a bad game - even narratively. The main problem with story telling in open world RPG's is that, you have side quests that take you off the beaten path, and which can then remove focus from the main story. A great story driven RPG's is one where the side quests are just as meaningful and impactful as the main story quest. The Witcher 3 is the best example of this, and to a lesser extent Horizon Zero Dawn. MAss Effect Andromeda's side quests where a bit hit and miss, but overall they added to the life and volume to the main story.
Sorry. Andromeda is NOT a narrative flop! Ya just have to actually play it past the first 2 planets. Fallout 4 is a Bethesda game and their focus has never been narrative. TW3 is an anomaly as their entire focus was narrative.
You can tell a good story, when you played the first 10 min of the game and say... OMG THIS GAME IS AMAZING WTF....
To name a few from this gen:
Horizon
Skyrim
Bloodbourne
The ME:A excuse arricles are pouring in now. The game has flopped. Let it go already and move on!