Anyone else disappointed with Fallout 4?

[IceForce]

Spoiler

-Some walk by overheard conversations imply that the Gen 1 and Gen 2 construction lines have been completely shut down. We also see one of the Gen 3 assembly lines, and it's remarkably small and fast (One medium size room and about 40 seconds per Synth). Since the place in underground, perhaps its a size issue?

Spoiler

One of the quests in the Institute questline involves you chairing a heads-of-departments meeting, and during the meeting you're asked if you want to either increase synth production, or focus on weapons research (because apparently they can't do both).
I dunno what, if anything, the outcome of this choice has, however, all I know is that when they asked me if I wanted to increase synth production I was like "FUCK no!". It takes like 40 seconds to make a new synth, and that's still not fast enough? What do they DO with them all?

So... yah. I think the Institute was supposed to be the Enclave of Fallout 4 - An organization you could maybe somewhat sorta empathize with, but which you would gladly destroy because they're balls to the wall evil. I would not be surprised if the majority of the last portion of the game was from an extremely late re-write.

I think you're right. I think part-way through development, Bethesda suddenly remembered that a significant number of Fallout 3 players complained that they couldn't do a 100% evil playthrough and couldn't side with the Enclave. (Or more specifically, you couldn't tell the BoS to fuck off. You had to side with them whether you wanted to or not.)

Not wanting those same complaints to pop up again, Beth decided to make the Institute a playable faction, ... and this is the result.

 

[IceForce]

Speaking of the Institute, have any of you used X6-88 much as a follower? If you have him hanging around a while, and you do things that please him, he'll start to open up with some of his opinions. One of the random lines of dialogue he says is "The sooner the surface-dwellers all die out, the better." or something like that.

I mean, Jesus, it's like listening to John Henry Eden all over again (only without the option to convince him that the wastelanders are good people). It kinda puts the kibosh on the Institute claiming that they're not bigots or sociopaths and that they're not here to 'interfere'.

 

[The_Lost_King]

I'm not disappointed. All I expected was for the gameplay to more fun than 3 and Vegas, and for power armor to be awesome. I expected the main story to be ass, and the other quests to be eh. I got exactly what I expected from gameplay, power armor, and the quests. The main quest was much better than I expected. So, overall I am very happy with my purchase. $60 for 70 hours, plus once mods come out is a great deal.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

$60 for 70 hours

Gah damn.

My play through took 130 hours.

WTF was I doing all that time?

 

[Zenn3k]

I've beat the game once and I'm playing through it again with another character style (1st run was rifles mostly, run 2 is pure melee). Easily 100+ hours of play, still haven't seen but maybe 1/3rd of what the game has to offer me, having a great time.

I have nitpicks and things I don't LOVE, but otherwise, its a solid video game that I'm not ashamed to have purchased day 1.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I've beat the game once and I'm playing through it again with another character style (1st run was rifles mostly, run 2 is pure melee). Easily 100+ hours of play, still haven't seen but maybe 1/3rd of what the game has to offer me, having a great time.

I have nitpicks and things I don't LOVE, but otherwise, its a solid video game that I'm not ashamed to have purchased day 1.

Why not have a rifle and melee character? I got bored, and had 14 points sitting around that I couldn't decide what to do with, so I said screw it and dumped into melee. Now I'm running around, chopping people to bits with an Axe.

Lvl 69 and I can do anything! Whee!

 

[Pete Oddly]

Update: 113 hours in, level 48, STILL haven't been to Diamond City.

Also; jetpacks are fucking AWESOME.