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If you played Fallout New Vegas before you played Fallout 4, odds are you found Fallout 4 to be disappointing in some way. Despite that, there are some things that Fallout 4 did better than New Vegas. Here are 7 Things Fallout 4 Did Better Than Fallout New Vegas.
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10 Weirdest References in Fallout: youtube.com/watch?v=uXoJxLSK2Uo
6 Oldest Fallout Characters: youtube.com/watch?v=RRqLRVH2liw
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Fallout, Again: youtube.com/watch?v=XmDgepLf5qo
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7 Things Fallout 4 Did Better Than Fallout New Vegas (in text form)
7. The loot interface. When I first played New Vegas, I never had a problem with the way you looted containers and corpses, it’s just the way it was, and it worked just fine. Fallout 4 changed that. Now you don’t have to wait for the game to open a menu so you can look at what items something contains. You just look at the object and there’s it’s contents. Best of all, you can still use the old system by pressing a button, depending on what platform you’re on, if you want to loot the object using the previous game’s method.
6. Power Armor actually feels like Power Armor. In New Vegas, Power Armor wasn’t really anything special. Aside from requiring training to wear it, it was pretty much just another set of armor. In Fallout 4, it couldn’t be any more different. Power Armor almost feels more like a small mech suit (to me) than just another set of armor. It requires power, can take an absurd amount of punishment, protects you from fall damage, and overall just makes you feel like a badass. I never felt like a badass wearing Power Armor in New Vegas, I just felt slow.
5. Character Creation. One of the most frustrating parts of Fallout New Vegas, and even 3, is the character creation system not being very good. It’s flunky and, in my opinion, frustrating to use if you want to make a character that looks like yourself. I usually use a preset then randomize it until I find something that looks decent. In Fallout 4, that is no longer the case. Creating a character that actually looks like a real person is not only faster, but far easier. Things like hair color, facial hair, and scars are still limited to the number of options available, but face structure can be used to create almost anyone thanks to you being able to resize and reshape different parts of your face, directly, instead of relying on sliders like previous games.
4. Combat, specifically, gunplay. I mentioned in my “The Future of Fallout” video that I prefer New Vegas’s firearm gameplay to Fallout 4’s, and that is still true today. But I will admit that as far as first person shooter mechanics go, 4’s is better. The guns actually feel like guns, like they have weight and real power behind them.
3. Survival Mode. New Vegas’s Hardcore Mode can be fun if you’ve only played the game on a lower difficulty, since it does make the game more difficult, but it doesn’t really make the game more difficult. It just adds more things that you have to pay attention too, like needing water and sleep. All things considered, it didn’t affect gameplay all that much. Fallout 4’s Survival Mode changes things significantly. In addition to needing food, water, and sleep, you also can’t fast travel at all, and can only save when you sleep. That makes settlements go from being things you’d go to if you needed to do a quest to gain some XP, to a safe haven you are always on the lookout for.
2. Ghouls, specifically the feral ghouls. The Feral Ghouls in Fallout 4 might seem more like zombies than the ghouls found in Fallout 3 or New Vegas, but to me, that’s what they’re supposed to be. They’ve lost their minds and attack anything that isn’t a Feral Ghoul. And they look a lot scarier than their previous-game counterparts. They move more haphazardly, not just sprinting right towards you.
1. Weapon modifications. Despite the Legendary weapons and armor found in the game being kind of lackluster, in my opinion, the weapon mod system more than makes up for it. In New Vegas, the best you could get would be something similar to a Varmint Rifle with a silencer, extended magazine, and a scope, and once they’re on, they’re on, you don’t get them back.
If you played Fallout New Vegas before you played Fallout 4, odds are you found Fallout 4 to be disappointing in some way. Despite that, there are some things that Fallout 4 did better than New Vegas. Here are 7 Things Fallout 4 Did Better Than Fallout New Vegas.
If you enjoyed this Fallout video, check out some of my other Fallout videos:
Can Synths Become Ghouls? (Fallout Theory): youtube.com/watch?v=XkbWtJkxrik
6 Saddest Fallout Stories: youtube.com/watch?v=1eJIe9GEGGo
10 Weirdest References in Fallout: youtube.com/watch?v=uXoJxLSK2Uo
6 Oldest Fallout Characters: youtube.com/watch?v=RRqLRVH2liw
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Fallout, Again: youtube.com/watch?v=XmDgepLf5qo
Fallout - What About Michigan? (Michigan & The Great War): youtube.com/watch?v=Du96SLYC8ew
6 Most F*cked-Up Fallout Vaults (Most Disturbing Fallout Vaults: youtube.com/watch?v=KZXEXLyTD2w
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Fallout: youtube.com/watch?v=zEtqXOoSm98
6 Saddest Fallout Creatures: youtube.com/watch?v=dDfS2kqEjhg
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7 Things Fallout 4 Did Better Than Fallout New Vegas (in text form)
7. The loot interface. When I first played New Vegas, I never had a problem with the way you looted containers and corpses, it’s just the way it was, and it worked just fine. Fallout 4 changed that. Now you don’t have to wait for the game to open a menu so you can look at what items something contains. You just look at the object and there’s it’s contents. Best of all, you can still use the old system by pressing a button, depending on what platform you’re on, if you want to loot the object using the previous game’s method.
6. Power Armor actually feels like Power Armor. In New Vegas, Power Armor wasn’t really anything special. Aside from requiring training to wear it, it was pretty much just another set of armor. In Fallout 4, it couldn’t be any more different. Power Armor almost feels more like a small mech suit (to me) than just another set of armor. It requires power, can take an absurd amount of punishment, protects you from fall damage, and overall just makes you feel like a badass. I never felt like a badass wearing Power Armor in New Vegas, I just felt slow.
5. Character Creation. One of the most frustrating parts of Fallout New Vegas, and even 3, is the character creation system not being very good. It’s flunky and, in my opinion, frustrating to use if you want to make a character that looks like yourself. I usually use a preset then randomize it until I find something that looks decent. In Fallout 4, that is no longer the case. Creating a character that actually looks like a real person is not only faster, but far easier. Things like hair color, facial hair, and scars are still limited to the number of options available, but face structure can be used to create almost anyone thanks to you being able to resize and reshape different parts of your face, directly, instead of relying on sliders like previous games.
4. Combat, specifically, gunplay. I mentioned in my “The Future of Fallout” video that I prefer New Vegas’s firearm gameplay to Fallout 4’s, and that is still true today. But I will admit that as far as first person shooter mechanics go, 4’s is better. The guns actually feel like guns, like they have weight and real power behind them.
3. Survival Mode. New Vegas’s Hardcore Mode can be fun if you’ve only played the game on a lower difficulty, since it does make the game more difficult, but it doesn’t really make the game more difficult. It just adds more things that you have to pay attention too, like needing water and sleep. All things considered, it didn’t affect gameplay all that much. Fallout 4’s Survival Mode changes things significantly. In addition to needing food, water, and sleep, you also can’t fast travel at all, and can only save when you sleep. That makes settlements go from being things you’d go to if you needed to do a quest to gain some XP, to a safe haven you are always on the lookout for.
2. Ghouls, specifically the feral ghouls. The Feral Ghouls in Fallout 4 might seem more like zombies than the ghouls found in Fallout 3 or New Vegas, but to me, that’s what they’re supposed to be. They’ve lost their minds and attack anything that isn’t a Feral Ghoul. And they look a lot scarier than their previous-game counterparts. They move more haphazardly, not just sprinting right towards you.
1. Weapon modifications. Despite the Legendary weapons and armor found in the game being kind of lackluster, in my opinion, the weapon mod system more than makes up for it. In New Vegas, the best you could get would be something similar to a Varmint Rifle with a silencer, extended magazine, and a scope, and once they’re on, they’re on, you don’t get them back.
