This is a game. Not a book and not a movie, you can have the best story and characters ever but if your gameplay is terrible then it's a terrible game. Simples.
First off is user interface, which is absolutely horrible. Your view of the environment and NPCs/creatures/items is obstructed by the game world, so even though your character can see what is in front of them, you can't. InsteadThis is a game. Not a book and not a movie, you can have the best story and characters ever but if your gameplay is terrible then it's a terrible game. Simples.
First off is user interface, which is absolutely horrible. Your view of the environment and NPCs/creatures/items is obstructed by the game world, so even though your character can see what is in front of them, you can't. Instead you are forced to run right up to things to get a small viewing area on what is blocked by the game world. This viewing area also happens to remove the ability to interact with things like doors.
You are unable to give orders to your companions. For a game that is hailed as having amazing dialogue interaction with NPCs, apparently the act of asking your companion to go look around the corner for enemies is just too complicated. This combined with the turn based combat makes for an extremely clunky and frustrating experience akin to pulling teeth.
Another example would be an incredibly weak, rotting door that's falling off its hinges but happens to be locked. Your character lacks the strength to smash it down, but you have a companion with high strength wielding a sledge hammer. Any rational individual might ask them to smash it down for them, but no not in this game.
The stealth is a complete crap shoot with enemies wondering back and forth randomly for all eternity like some mental patient, this combined with the lack of visibility due to the game world blocking what your character would be able to see again makes for horrible gameplay experience.
Combat is horrible, you can't move and shoot, can't take cover, flanking doesn't seem to do anything for melee, to-hit chances are abysmally low. Not to mention that many of the enemies are bullet sponges. You can shoot an enemy in the head with no reaction from the enemy. It's also turn based so you have to just stand there with your thumb up your arse while 5 enemies all queue up to punch you in the face.
Movement is hex based so you often can't run in a straight line. I don't understand this obsession with the hex based systems. Why!?
Companions will routinely block pathways.
Simple things like being able to see how much health your companions have - can't do that unless you enter dialogue and then go into combat control. Terrible
I can't use my first aid or doctor abilities more than 5-6 times per 24 hours... really? Are high speech characters arbitrarily limited to how many conversations they can have or a high guns character by how many enemies they can shoot? No? Then why the hell is mine then!?
This "game" could have been so much better if the developers kept in mind that people actually have to play the damn thing, we're not reading a book here or watching a film so it would be nice if your user interface wasn't so horribly clunky and useless.… Expand
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