Todd thought that players would be bored from 2 minute trek without killing shit apart.
He does know bethshit audience. They say that even FNV's world was "empty and boring".
And it is true but not because of too many or not enough random encounters. Compared to Fo1 and Fo2 all later Fallouts are empty and boring.
I don't understand how people are able to play FNV on that shitty engine. Or praise MotB when it is also on a shitty engine. I guess storyfags are fags.
It's what the developers can do with a shitty engine that matters.
Not enough in my book so it receives so much praise.
I'll be the first to admit New Vegas looked and played like ass. I'm not one of those guys who's against a first-person Fallout game, even a sequel, but it has to be done correctly. I felt New Vegas hit a lot of points right -- story, quests, setting, atmosphere. I also liked that there were areas that were particularly high-level.
The biggest problem with New Vegas was the engine, and especially the combat. It certainly felt like an Oblivion mod at times, but I think Obsidian did a wonderful job with what they had to use, which is something I can't say for Bethesda. The combat is the shittiest part of the new Fallout experience, in 3, NV, and Fallout 4. VATS is a pointless addition. It simply tells me the game doesn't know what it wants to be, an FPS or a real-time with pause. I wish they had just picked one and went with it. In that way, it would have shown some level of confidence in their design, but instead we have two mediocre combat systems. I certainly can't blame Obsidian for this though. I think they showed more ownership of the franchise than Bethesda ever did.
I spent 12 hours playing FNV, I don't remember anything fun about it. First village is super small and has like one shitty defend the Inn from raiders quest that you have to do in that shitty engine (and some Fedex bullshit quests). FPS fighting is bad, F3 VATS irritated me as well. Then you find powder gangers, nothing interesting there. Murdered everyone there, found some NRC outpost with like 4-5 guys, and a village with a shitty casino and some hotel, had to fight in hotel in the same shitty engine. Still nothing interesting. Then I run a lot, find some DLC content that all tells me I am too low a level or I cannot bring my robot companion (why?!). Let me enter and die if needed, also it is shitty DLC content is gated behind artificial doors and shit.
I run some more, find a NRC base or something, nothing interesting there, I dont' even remember I got a quest there, some girl that might be a companion is there but you cannot take her. Then I go to that shitty little town that Legion has murdered, find some Legion idiots around and exact some payback. Except for that, there is nothing in that town but some shitty looting. After that everywhere I go Legion assassins spawn and try to kill me and any moving around becomes more tiresome than it is worth you cannot even run away from these encounters in few seconds like in Fo1/2.
Then I find a town with some sniper lookout and some fair or something (rockets?!). Again nothing going on except they give me a quest to go deal with some local ghouls. I was already getting real tired from the game so I give it this one last chance to give me something interesting.
I fight irradiated ghouls and such to get there,then fight some more and some more (raiders?!) and finally enter. Find irradiated ghouls and a human, get a Fedex quest from them to go to basement. I go there and fight an army of invisible ghouls or whatever. Get lost due to shitty first person camera, the engine is terrible, fighting is boring. The area is too big and irritating and when I finally exit they tell me "tnx, but can you now do these other FedEx quests for us?" .
Uninstall.exe
