Making the game a better shooter is making a better shooter, not better RPG. The inherent mechanic of a "shooter" is contrary to that of a proper RPG where the character should be the one doing the heavy lifting and the player making the decisions (all of them). Making it a better "RPG-shooter" would consider improving the shooting mechanics (and combat flow) with RPG and the related systems in mind, not by injecting an alien gameplay format to it in order to produce some kind of halfbreed whose genre is the big unknown due to competing genre design intents.
Sooo, In order to be a good Fallout game it needs to be a game with poor controls and governed entirely by stats which are placed on the forefront of your gaming experience?
Because the game handling your damage, health and DR output based on your perk skills, I am assuming some sort of levelling up improving their weapon handling/defence, along with your SPECIAL in the background is WRONG, and all we want is to stare at stats all day otherwise there can be no Roleplaying?
Well, guess that throws the old Fallout games out of the mix too, comparatively with many other older RPG's Fallout's statistics were always pretty streamlined and easy to understand and this was 1997, but maybe that is just me, I assume you really like spending time looking at stuff like this, myself I prefer actually experiencing the game itself rather than it's menus.
I am not a devout Bethesda defender, I am just advocating for the people who don't base RPG's on stats and more about how well you can be immersed into the world you are presented with, but I am just trying to understand what exactly it is about having decent gameplay that detracts from the game, from what I have seen it just looks like a better designed version of the FO3/NV combat system, the only thing I know they've got rid of is pages of stats where there are only a few useful ones anyway and most get entirely ignored, makes them a little redundant don't you think?
