After three characters who have seriously discouraging quest bugs and have only gotten to level 30 or so I can not think of any other logical reason for the way this game is being presented.

In the very beginning you are given a quest by the infamous Preston to take the Castle. Why in the world would this be given at low level and in Sanctuary? Then; to be constantly "reminded" that it is a quest for almost ever other interaction with said NPC?

And hello? It is on the far side of the map through many raider, mutant and animal infested areas. And the boss... absolutely out of range for any low level character. This quest should not even be available until after level 25, if that early, and more suitable; only if the player has cleared areas near it.

Diamond City is just as bad; to expect the player to sludge through 3/4 of the map to reach some city touted as the gem of the commonwealth; is not only impractical but an incredible let down once you reach it and find the merchants worthless and the main story hardly intriguing.

And, speaking of distance; how in the heavens can you justify radiant settlement quests, again, completely on the other side of the map?

It is bad enough that every version of Fallout has shrunk in map size. No fan of this game should be reminded how small it has gotten; regardless of how many encounters are between you and the goal.

The map should be sectioned into four quadrants and the radiant quests should only be given in the relative area to the settlement giving the quest. How would someone in Greentop Nursery even know about Somerville? I got a quest bug from putting it off to long. The log tells me talk to Preston on how they will not support the minutemen yet I already have max settlers and a full base there. The quest is not able to finish or complete in any form and the console commands are confusing to me other wise I would reset or complete it manually. Also they should not be so frequent. Players have enough to deal with without Preston and settlements spamming quests that are completely irrelevant to the progress of the game. It should be an ask for; not "I heard of this..."

Another point of frustration. Paths of provisioners. If you send someone from Nordhagen beach to the nearest settlement (Finch Farm) they path through the race track. Which is a respawn for raiders. That is not the only bad path they take as other settlements/provisioners suffer the same.

The quests Preston gives you should have the same opt out as The Castle. I get swamped with quests that I do not want to do and for what? More buggy headaches with settlers and settlements?

To whip a long dead horse; settler management is the sloppiest execution of any game I have ever seen. I feel it is content stretching. I have spent more time chasing non existent settlers who are listed but not in or near the settlement than organizing the ones I can find. And, who is doing what? Highlighting does not work well enough. They don't stay where told and why in the world do I have to assign beds? Tedious? No; downright asinine.

Beds should just be filled if available or listed as owned; not green or red as that never seems to matter nor work correctly. I go to settlements and find groups of settlers just standing around. Not guarding, not farming, not scrapping; heck the shop guys can't even stay on station.

I realize PCs are a dying market. I understand we as consumers are no longer viable as a marketable commodity. The content stretching, downsizing and limited interaction options prove that by themselves. But must you take the last great title from the last great gaming company and drill that point home?

Put the crack pipe down.......

LOL it's an open world game if your current objective is to hard go exploring to build yourself up nothing says you have to run the main quest as fast as you can I finished the main quest after level 50 lol

Fallout 3 - you have to face a behemoth right at the very early stage in main quest and it is likely it will smash you up real bad
Skyrim - you have to face a dragon right before you learn your first shout and it is literally burn you alive real quick if you are low level

Bethesda have history that the game it like to bring some challenge in early game. If you want a game that hold your hand all the time I suggest you stay away from it

Jesus christ you can't be serious.

Of all the complaining threads on this forum this is by far the worst.

P.S. Considering how much sales they've been getting anyone to sabotage them is doing a really bad job.

For your own peace of mind, this is actually a fallacy -

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-global-pc-game-revenue-surpasses-consoles-how-long-should-console-makers-keep-fighting/

I think Diamond city is supposed to be kind of underwhelming.

"My favorite ballpark turned into a shanty town."

We are in the shoes on the SS, hearing about this great utopia of the waste, only to find out its an old baseball field, was probably a let down for them too. But to everyone else in the wasteland it is such a big deal, it has fortifications, electricity, a source of water. It *is* paradise to the people that come to it.

But being the Prewar people we are... we simply are not impressed.

Excellent article.

The problem PC gamers will have is, Microsoft doesn't want anyone to have a PC anymore and unfortunately, just as Adobe won out with their CC (Cloud Crap) against everyone's wishes, I fear Microsoft will as well.

The other problem is, cost. Who has the money to build a stable gaming PC these days. Key word there is stable because in reality it takes a lot of know how and money and time.

The PS4 is the first generation of console I have seen that actually compares performance and graphics wise to a decent gaming PC. And judging by what I'm reading here on the forum and all over the internet, performance and stability wise it's blowing PC's out of the water right now, especially with Fallout 4.

When they unlock the PS4 for modding, which has happened with Fallout 4, then things will start to change. The next step is to have upgradeable graphics in a console. The standard PS5 will look awesome, but if you want 16k-Next Gen Graphics (4 times the resolution of that old 4k technology), you'll need to buy this handy little module for a small fee of another $399. Once that happens, then PC's are dead. It would end up being less even at $800. Then wait for a Black Friday sale (if we haven't all actually been nuked in to oblivian by then for real) and you'll have a console for $699 that has better graphics than a high end gaming PC.

I was heavily in to PC gaming and it was an endless money pit. There are so many things that can go wrong and if you don't really know what you are doing when building it yourself then you are in for a world of headache.

The PS3 was released in 2006, PS4 2014 (iirc). That's 8 years. I'm not saying I'm happy about it or want it to happen, but after seeing what the PS4 is capable of now and how close it is to PC graphics, the PS5 will more than likely slingshot past PC graphics and that will be the death blow. I've seen a lot of graphics comparisons and there is very little difference on high end PC's, and none on mid range that I could tell.

All speculation of course based off what I have observed over the last 15 or so years. Time will tell. One thing is for sure though, the gap between console and PC graphics is closing. Take Fallout 4 for example, I wouldn't want the graphics to get much better than this. When things get too real they lose something. For example, mines and trip wires. Can't see them to save my life now, but I could disarm then in one beep in Fallout 3 with no perks.

I'm tired and I ramble when I'm tired. Better go ... LOL