Recent reviews by Sarge198

The bots are gone! Long live TF2!

I love Team Fortress 2, It is one of my favorite games of all time. I've been playing it on and off since 2007. I like to play during the Halloween event, usually almost every night for a month straight. However to get the most out of events like the Halloween event you pretty much have to use matchmaking, ugh. Matchmaking, the absolute worst update TF2 ever got, the ramifications of which can still be felt to this day. TF2's casual system is completely overrun with cheating bots that kill you instantly. They spam the voice and text chats with the most vile hateful language, and terrible music. The game is in an almost completely unplayable state. That is If you are a normie that only plays casual and can't figure out how to use the server browser. But.. But... muh progression, muh prestige, muh levels, muh XP. The game is completely fun and most importantly PLAYABLE on community servers! Still that being said, Valve's neglect and negligence regarding cheaters and bots is slowly killing this game. This has been an ongoing issue for a little over 5 years now, Valve even acknowledged the bot issues 2 years ago and has done nothing since.

I cannot recommend TF2 in its current state.

#FixTF2

As someone who is Solely interested in the single player campaign, I was very disappointed to find out this game is unplayable offline. No Microsoft I will not sign in to play a single player game.

HUGE WALL OF TEXT, YOU'LL GET NO TL:DR AND LIKE IT!

One tiny step forward from Fallout 3, one GIANT leap back from Fallout New Vegas. The hype has completely worn off, I can clearly see Fallout 4 for what it is. Dull.

Fallout 3 made the world fun to explore.
Fallout New Vegas made the world fun to be part of.
Fallout 4 made the world shallow, repetitive, generic, and boring.


+The Colors and the general atmosphere look so much better than Fallout 3 and NV.
+Huge vastly detailed and dense game world.
+Gunplay is better.
+No Level cap.
+Physical Based Rendering.
+Looting now allows you to pick up items from containers on the fly.
+Junk is now somewhat useful.
+2 or 3 of the companions are somewhat memorable. The rest are just boring.
+Dynamic Weather!
+Beautiful animations, not the best there is but still the best for any Fallout game.
+Shadows and lighting are for the most part good.
+Most bug free and stable Bethesda release thus far.


-Ron Perlman does not say: War. War Never Changes.
-No FOV controls in game.
-Everyone is named Settler.
-No way to disable Head Bobbing (I feel dizzy)
-No Way to disable Depth of Field without ini tweaks (and it breaks the water)
-No visible holstered weapons like in previous games. (WHY?!?)
-A majority of tweaks require ini edits to get the game running smoothly or to disable features that you may or may not like.

-Launcher's advanced graphics options have been completely gutted. Compared to the amount of options F3 and NV had.

-Quests are pretty much this: Go here, kill everything, take loot, return. What is this an MMO?!?

-Radio stations are pretty much meh. I miss Three Dog.
-You have to be the good guy, not the bad guy or the neutral/independent guy like in Fallout New Vegas.

-Over-simplified dialog system, you now have 4 options to choose from. With no indication of exactly what you’re going to say.

-Over-simplified RPG mechanics. Violence was often avoidable depending on your skills.
-Survival difficulty. Console is disabled, saving is disabled. UGH.
-Almost all the NPCs are essential. In Fallout NV you had that fear of losing a companion during a battle.

-Companion AI. Lulz has it ever really been that great in any Fallout game? They always seem to block doors on purpose.

-Loading screens…
-What happened to Karma?
-Settlement building is meh. It’s clunky and hard to place objects.
-Lots of boarded up non-explorable buildings.
-Only one or two memorable fun quests that don’t feel like a grind.
-Gunners
-Why does everything want me dead?


-Complete lack of interesting locations with quests and unique named NPCs that have a story to tell.

-Fallout 4: Diamond City, Covenant, Vault 81, and Goodneighbor. Everywhere else just feels empty and lifeless.

+Fallout 3: Megaton, Rivet City, Arefu, Little Lamplight, Bigtown, Paradise Falls, Andale, Oasis, The Republic of Dave, Temple of the Union, Girdershade, The Citadel, Hell even downtown DC: The Washington Monument, Underworld, Lincoln Memorial. *Takes deep breath* Did I miss any? Yup, Ranger Compound, Grayditch, Dokov's Place, Tenpenny Tower, Meresti Metro, Canterbury Commons, Regulator HQ, Minefield, Vault 108, GARY!

+All of these locations have at least a population of 1, a quest, a story, a NAMED NPC, an NPC that doesn’t want you dead on sight, and most important of all depth. OK, ok yes GARY and Arkansas both want you to be very dead. The important thing to remember here is both those locations are memorable in some way shape or form.

+Fallout 3 has all these great locations with NAMED NPCs that have a backstory or a quest to give you. It feels like BGS left out a lot of content because they intended for you to use the settlement system.

-Raiders! Raiders everywhere.

-Fallout 3 had some really beautiful water reflections and refractions. The water in Fallout 4 is flat and dull.

-Interior lighting is completely meh…. I see lots of round low poly shadow caster lights. Lights that don’t match up the fixture emitting the light. Also there is a lot of ugly directional lighting issues(The walls in the Vault 111 entrance are a good example of this). Lights bleeding through walls. Phantom lights with no light source.

-The Season Pass (don't even get me start...) crap, triggered, RANT incoming. Yep I'm going to be the jerk that says this. Fallout 3 had 5 story based DLC, 4 of those 5 were good unless you like Zeta? Fallout New Vegas had 4 Large DLCs ALL of which were very good. Fallout 4 has what? 2 story based DLCs. Far Harbor: good. Nuka World: Raiders? Great I guess everyone there will probably want me dead too. Settlement DLC? Nope, just noooope. DO NOT WANT.

-Okay I build a settlement, now what? Look at it, take screenshots, post on reddit? There is nothing to do, no one interesting to meet. ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP! UGH, what is it this time? Raiders on the other side of the map stole your socks?!? K thx bye.


+-Voiced Protagonist. You either like it or you don’t.
+-In Fallout New Vegas you could have a pet (ED-E or the robot dog) AND a human companion follow you around. It makes sense that you could have let's say Piper and Dogmeat follow you around. But NOOOOO you only get one.

+-Tone Mapping. Adds an overexposed look and washes out some colors. There are SweetFX presets available on Nexus that can fix this.

+-Weapon mods could be better IMO. I am confused as to why I can’t add or remove a silencer on the fly. I should not have to find a weapons workbench to change that.

+-Perk system overhaul and removal of skills. Once again you either like it or you don’t.
+-Graphically, Fallout 4 is basically an Elder Scrolls 5 reskin with a crappy ENB thrown in. YUCK! The anti-aliasing on trees look god awful. Fortunately this can be easily remedied with Nvidia Inspector.

+-Fallout is supposed to be a desolate and barren wasteland, so far I haven’t really felt any sense of vulnerability. The Map feels smaller than Fallout 3's, but more densely populated. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, I just wish it kept the same density of stuff but with a bigger region to explore.

+-Obsidian’s writing is better than Bethesda’s. Obsidian could do it better in half the time it took Bethesda. Just like with Fallout New Vegas, they made it in what 18 months? Imagine for a minute if Obsidian had 4 years to work on Fallout New Vegas… OMG. Let’s hope they get another chance at making a Fallout game, because more Fallout is never a bad thing.

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Overall it comes down to two options:

1. Do you want a shallow, shoot 'em up, generic, dull (but vibrant game world), game lacking any depth where everyone wants you dead? *sigh* Fallout 4 is for you!

2. Do you want a clunky but memorable experience? Fallout 3 GOTY and Fallout New Vegas UE are for you! Install Tale of Two Wastelands, profit. Play a game of caravan, stop by Agatha's house and say hi, that crazy lady in Girdershade wants all the Quantums? Moira wants you to do what in Minefield? FULLY-ERECT HAND PENISES! "You got lives in you, hard to kill. Storm, bullets, sand and wind, yet still you walk. For now." GARY!

Find moments like these in Fallout 4... I dare you. I can think of only one. The Silver Shroud questline.

THAT IS ALL. STRONG DISAPPOINTED.

Haters: Please send all your hate mail and death threats to: Gary 42 in Vault 108 Ahhhh, Gary.

One of the most memorable games I've played, very powerful storytelling.

just... amazingness