What are you playing?

[ban]

(like Nitroplus Blasterz made all past and future fighting games futile).

[Kugelfisch]

there's something very Oblivionish in the combat system (in a bad way)

It IS Oblivion. As far as the code is concerned all guns are wands you cast.

[rabidtictac]

Yeah, it is literally Oblivion. When you fire a gun, you're casting a magic spell that creates a fireball in front of you. That's one reason why it's possible to miss an enemy who runs right up in your face. Your gun can phase into his head and the bullet will spawn past his hitbox.

Oblivion had some nuances that Fallout doesn't have. Enemies have better melee AI (because there are more melee enemies) and, even on console, you can equip magic at the same time as you have a weapon out. So you can essentially have 2 weapons drawn at a time.

Unlike Oblivion, you can't build into magic schools and most/many quests do NOT have a non-combat route. Building non-combat skills in fallout 3 is kind of pointless. Speech is implemented poorly in FO3 and repair can be ignored entirely if you visit shops now and then. With so few worthwhile stats, you'll be hitting 100 in your major ones while still in early game.

FO3 has no content beyond killing enemies, looting corpses and spamming stimpacks. FO3 and FO4 are very similar in that regard. NV fixed a lot of the non-combat options and improved the perk list beyond belief. If you want to crawl around, look things and kill shit, FO4 has a better follower system than 3 and made looting faster, so it's strictly superior. FO3 has better atmosphere and (ironically) voice acting, but still can't touch NV in those areas.

[Kugelfisch]

I never wanted followers. A complete waste of development time.

[Guest]

(like Nitroplus Blasterz made all past and future fighting games futile).

Can Japs not draw noses?

[rabidtictac]

I never wanted followers. A complete waste of development time.

Then play Oblivion.

[Kugelfisch]

I never wanted followers. A complete waste of development time.

Then play Oblivion.

Why? There's Daggerfall.

[rabidtictac]

I'm just curious, how many mods do you have to install before daggerfall becomes stable?

[Kugelfisch]

I'm just curious, how many mods do you have to install before daggerfall becomes stable?

None. You need a source port instead. Play the Unity project for it.
This is not a joke.

[Guest]

(like Tekken 3 made all past and future fighting games futile).

T2 and Tag has better soundtracks.