This game would have been so much better if they let you try different loadouts BEFORE having to purchase the equipment. My favorite part of Mechwarrior is the Mechlab so having to only buy things I knew other people used took out all the experimentation and fun for me.
Granted I stopped playing a while ago but I think this is still true.
Late to the party, but there's nothing Fallout 4 does with it's "clockwork world" that's in any way interesting, engaging, or remotely necessary to the game. If the argument is that all that bs makes it a buggy game, take all that bs out and design something better.
Heck, the old STALKER games had random encounters, every character has inventory, etc and it gets entirely overlooked.
Far Cry 2 had an amazing loop of getting a mission and gearing up that I miss in the sequels. In Far Cry 2, the weapon degradation plus the ability to upgrade your weapons makes it always worth it to grab a new weapon from your armory and maybe put a backup in the weapon case. So the loop goes: receive mission > gear up > map out route > traverse to objective > accomplish mission > repeat.
It's part of why I think it's one of my favorite games of all time. Just the simple mechanic of guns wearing out and having to gear up beforehand and think ahead made you actually feel like a mercenary. It lets you be the action hero hero arming themselves in a cool montage instead of just picking a gun from a menu and using it for the rest of the game (like I did with Far Cry 3). That plus having to traverse made it feel like you were actually visiting different regions as opposed to just putting a checkpoint on the map and traveling as the crow flies.
I recognize Far Cry 3 is a better polished product, but they took out so much of the character and ambition that I find it oddly cold. If it didn't have the skill tree progression/crafting progression, I don't think it would actually be any fun to play. Whereas I can fire up Far Cry 2 and enjoy hours and hours of gameplay with everything unlocked or right near the start of the game.
@minalear: STALKER games did this. If you were well under your limit you could sprint extremely far but if you were close to or at the limit, you couldn't sprint for more than a second or less. Seems like a good compromise in that hoarders can still hoard and people who never pick anything up get a nice bonus.
Oh and commenting as someone who doesn't like eating that Jeff was talking about, I can count the foods I would eat for pleasure on one hand and I would totally love a pill to just bypass the whole process. Eating and preparing food wastes so much time for something that I don't enjoy 95% of the time.
It's really obnoxious around big holidays like Thanksgiving where everyone makes a big deal about the food and it's actually less enjoyable than a regular meal to me but I have to be polite and pretend I enjoyed the experience.
It always weirds me out when the duders talk about how open world content is shallow or repetitive but somehow it's ok if it's a game like Destiny (for the Destiny supporters on staff). If you like the core gameplay, you like doing it for a long time even if the excuses to use it aren't that great.
Dark Forces games were always more fun BEFORE you got a lightsaber/force powers. The melee combat just was so tedious and boring when you had to do the duels that I would just stop playing. Give me a progression of better weapons and cool locations and I'm set.
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