Reviving this thread since I’ve now had a chance to play it and I wanted to post up my first impressions.
I’ve only played for maybe a few hours so far (from the start up to rescuing Nick Valentine and starting the investigation quest), and what’s stood out to me most is how much they need to seriously re-evaluate the gameplay UI. The Pipboy, the crafting, the basebuilding, it all feels clunky to use. As one of the rare people who really liked Skyrim’s UI, F4’s interfaces feel like a major step back, and it gets in the way a lot of the gameplay.
Besides that I’ve no real major complaints. The world feels like an interesting place to explore which is helped by the characters actually looking like people now and having some stronger personalities, the new armor and weapon crafting adds a really nice level of depth and gives me something to tinker with and invest my caps in. The basebuilding stuff is probably something I won’t spend a lot of time with but it feels like there’s enough depth there to have some fun with.
I’m not sure how I feel about the voice-acted player character. It’s a good vocal performance and it makes them feel like a proper character in the plot rather than a faceless voiceless shell, but I can’t help but feel like being a total blank was part of the charm. I don’t know, it feels somehow like I have less freedom in defining who my character is.
My list of minor issues include: please give me more than 4 dialogue options, please add back in the various nice additions from New Vegas which got ditched (perks, hardcore mode etc)
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