Well combat in FO/NV was very clumsy and slow and not actiony. I'll take more actiony anyday over reverting back to those combat mechanics

I like that VATS time now ISNT a complete standstill. Time moves, just very very very slowly.

Yea I thinks its a good improvement. Perhaps some of those bugs that happened freezing the game to a standstill in the old VATS system where caused by stopping the game completely. I dunno. Is that a thing? I admittedly know very little about computers.

Very true. I tend to agree with you. I know there will be more to the prologue but we did see most of I think

Alright I keep seeing comments like this and I need to ask, is clunky [censored] combat a requirement to be an RPG now?

heh, Ive just reinstalled FO3 as part of my journey to FO4 and noticed that VATS does intend tend to freeze up my game then crash me. Then I learned it was because Im running an I7 pc. For a while I was convinced it was VATS.

Agreed! You get past the bad mechanics because of the setting,lore, and characters but making the game a better shooter isn't going to hurt it at all. When 3 was revealed they said they added vats so any rpg player could still be a good FPS player and that's in the game. So this is only an improvement.

Word

Also Dragon Age Inqustion has diffrent voices to.

Yeah, never really understood this idea that some people have that rpg and action is like the opposit ends of a spectrum.

There was a cut between the Vault Tec guy and Codsworth telling about the news. We don't know how large the cut is.

Aw yup, that was actually what I was mentioning earlier when I said we didn't see the whole prologue.

How is that different from Oblivion? Oh, right, Oblivion had skills


What they believe (or atleast say) is a bit like North Korean news, where evil american air pirates threaten their peaceful nation


Actually, no. The different voices had different lines and personalities. In three and four, at least.

Maybe it does open up in 2075, and there's a few flash forwards until the bombs drop. Similar to Fallout 3.

The Fallout Pipboy boot up screen in the E3 presentation said "Copyright Robco 2075"

*Spooky noises*

True. who's to say the game doesn't start with the characters buying their first house, 2 years prior to the bombs. It's most likely a typo in the article, but anything's possible

Eh, maybe. Feels like the game starts in 2077 with respect to the 'fade from white into the bathroom character creation screen.' The CC would need to occur earlier if we were to see our character's interactions in the two years that followed up to 2077.

Oblivion had skills and milestones. The milestones took the lion's share of character progression, granting the player new melee moves, the ability to cast higher level spells etc. In comparison, the role of skills was reduced to slightly increase damage and slightly increase the number of times you could cast a spell. Coincidentally, both of those things could be achieved by increasing your attributes as well.

Character progression has been mostly perk-based since Oblivion.

Yea those milestones were essentially perks that auto unlock when your skill was high enough. Skyrim adopted pick 'n' mix perks from Fallout.

As others have said, Oblivion had perks too. The only difference between Oblivion perks and Skyrim perks is that in Oblivion we had only four perks per skill and those four perks were forced on every character, whether it made any roleplaying sense or not.

It was a wretched, anti-roleplaying way to implement perks and I'm glad they realized their mistake and abandoned it.

Kind of good in a way, people are already hyped. No need to spoil too much

I think you are reading too much into it

Agreed, its just the usual sloppy journalism for dates, facts, places, people......you know they unimportant stuff in a story.

So does the game actually start in 2075? maybe its like Fallout 3's beginning. They said they want you to actually care about what you have lost so maybe there is more to the beginning of the game.

Not unless there's a two-year timeskip in the middle of the Pre-War segment.