An Open Letter to Bethesda - End of Game Review

Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:02 am

Dear Bethesda, I have finished your game. I would like to say first above all else that I love what you have done, and I am happy to have purchased your game as it satisfies the wasteland wanderlust that has plagued me from the beginning.
With that said, I would like to address a few things both good and bad that I noticed while playing. Read for your own pleasure -

GREAT:
-Companions are unique and entertaining and don't get lost!
-Enemies Respawn to keep the wasteland feeling alive
-Legendary creatures and Legendary loot
-Settlements are amazing, best feature of the game Imo
-Map icon diversity
-Hud and Pip Boy color change
-All crafting is fun and full of diversity
-The difficulty gradient with map distance from sanctuary
-Voice acting is never better
-Graphics update looks sharp
-Historic Landmark use was integrated smoothly
-Loading times are shorter
-Quest animations were very well done
-Weather feels real
-Npcs point you to new areas through passing talk
-Loot is plentiful and so are enemies

DISAPOINTING:
-Dialog complexity and lack of diversity in conversational outcome
-Optional quest endings and quest branches
- Settlements feel a bit light as far as the objects you can build with
-Hacking and lock picking seem to be redundant because you provide two ways in to every door.
-Lack of secret map treasures that reward you for exploring, such as underwater crashed planes and mountain caves
-Radio music was recycled and bland, newly added songs are bad and you can tell they are recently made
-Diamond city radio guy was more interesting when he was timid.
-PLEASE FIX THE SINKING OBJECT SYNDROME FOR SETTLEMENTS!! I have spent hours carefully placing objects on shelves and tables and floors only to find they sink into the ground or worse disappear...
- The central Boston area is a mess and I often find myself going in circles. Was mazelike what you were going for?
- PLEASE ALLOW PC USERS TO DISABLE SNAP FEATURE AND ITEM COLLISION
- Companion dialog loop ever time I see them
- Lack of random encounters
-Lack of oddities and strange characters. There are a lot of vanilla characters called settlers.
-Where did wild wild wasteland go? :(

With all that, thank you for your tremendous effort on this title, we all appreciate your continuous efforts to bring us great games like this. I look forward to all the DLC

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And if you could please patch the sinking item syndrome... My settlements can live again.
Cheers!
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All the rest of your gamers let me know what you think about my list of good and bad ;)
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