Haven't played the game yet since I haven't had access to my PC. Usually don't mind Todd slop - the writing's never great but there's some good nuggets in there and I find the gameplay loop to be absorbing enough - but all the footage I've seen of this game makes it seem lifeless. Somehow improving the graphics has pushed it further into the uncanny valley than the fallout 3/Skyrim days. So until I get back to my PC to make a burner Xbox account to get a month of game pass
1) Does the game always looks like shit or if it's just during dialogue and standing around NPCs?
2) What is the main plot about?
3) As someone who actually kind of enjoyed the gunplay in Fallout 4, is it about the same or did they polish it up some more?
Also is there a modding site that's not pozzed like Nexus where I can download shit? Feel like someone is already making a mod to remove pronouns because of the controversy over the fat English guy
1. Yes. Blame the piss filter.
2. You get space magic powers to be a Spaceborn and can multiverse jump to redo the game again while keeping your levels. You gain starborn powers by taking more artifacts.
3: It... it is very mediocre. It lacks VATS and doesn't have Skyrim's melee moves.
The combat so far is the most uninspiring thing I saw in Bethesday game. It feels like ME1 but without the companions and story.
Closest thing I can find to good is actually the space combat, and that is less good than Tie Fighter Win95.
The whole feel I got is that they wanted to add a lot of systems, so they added the barest minimum of each aspect to the game.
It could have been so much more, but I do rate it a 5 to 7 depending on your tastes, a solid servicable 6. The big sad is that if they just kept all the parts from F4 for guns, and added a techno wubba lubba magic system from Skyrim, and didn't make 90% of npcs the ugliest abbo-blacks you can find in Detroit, the game would have been worth the hype. And add Skyrim/F4's map and inventory system. They could have had techies instead of magic, like "Self Buff, Nitro Jetpack fuel" or "Overload circuits spell" or have a summoner class with drones. Like summon Machine Gun drone, flamethrower drone, missile launcher drone etc...