Way too short, what to do after completing main story?

[FAKEOUTHILL666]

The Main Story is way to short, what should you do after it? Only side quests are available - What are these sidequests? The same sh*t everythime. Always killing Ghules and other Monsters, after sometime it even is the same place, same quest over and over again. I paid full price and then I get this!?

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by Anenymous:

The Main Story is way to short, what should you do after it? Only side quests are available - What are these sidequests? The same sh*t everythime. Always killing Ghules and other Monsters, after sometime it even is the same place, same quest over and over again. I paid full price and then I get this!?

Same as the other Fallout games really. The main quests are only ever really like 10 actual quests split up, to be honest, if it was longer, I'd get restless.

As for the sidequests, I don't like how Radiant sends you to places you've already visited before new locations, I think all the side areas should be in a pool that the random quest generates from, but if you've seen the place, it's taken out of the pool until the pool is empty, then completely random.

As for whether it is priceworthy, I could easily spend more than $80 USD doing any number of leisure activities that would have less time than this. For example, I could go to the pub and spend $200 getting hammered for 6 hours or so. I'd say it's worth it objectively, but subjectively it matters whether it keeps your interest and towards the end of the game, finishing it feels like a chore more than a desire.

[garravesh]

I remember back when the NES was the game console of choice and we went to egghead software to pick up the newest game Final Fantasy........it was 65 dollars......while you cannot compare FF 1 to FO 4 in any rational conversation we enjoyed the hell out of the game...funny thing is this game is cheaper then FF1...aint that odd?

[mbpoblet]

I've spent hundreds of hours on every Bethesda game since Morrowind, and I've never finished any of them... I can't even understand how anyone can even manage to finish them... "OK, enough lollygagging, I have to go to Balmora / Kvatch / Megaton / Vegas / Whiterun / Diamond City... let's see, the compass / map says it's over there... wait, what's that..? Oohh, looks interesting... I'll just explore it for five minutes and get back on track...", repeat ad infinitum...

And then there are the mods, of course...

So many mods...

I might have spent more time ironing out mod conflicts than actually playing Skyrim... :S

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by mbpoblet:

I've spent hundreds of hours on every Bethesda game since Morrowind, and I've never finished any of them... I can't even understand how anyone can even manage to finish them... "OK, enough lollygagging, I have to go to Balmora / Kvatch / Megaton / Vegas / Whiterun / Diamond City... let's see, the compass / map says it's over there... wait, what's that..? Oohh, looks interesting... I'll just explore it for five minutes and get back on track...", repeat ad infinitum...

I think I've FINISHED finished Fallout NV, Fallout 3 and Skyrim, but to be honest, you never can be truly sure, always something that's slightly different every playthrough.

[Herr Mainyu]

best way to play bethesda games: ignore the main quest, as long as possible and explore the world. Do Sidequests and Fraction Questlines first, get some unique items and find interesting dungeons....an return to the main story when you getting bored of the game...^^

[mitchincredible]

Originally posted by Herr Mainyu:

best way to play bethesda games: ignore the main quest, as long as possible and explore the world. Do Sidequests and Fraction Questlines first, get some unique items and find interesting dungeons....an return to the main story when you getting bored of the game...^^

Yeah, but the mainquest isn't as interesting when you can just steamroll everyone.

[zeiut]

Originally posted by Anenymous:

The Main Story is way to short, what should you do after it? Only side quests are available - What are these sidequests? The same sh*t everythime. Always killing Ghules and other Monsters, after sometime it even is the same place, same quest over and over again. I paid full price and then I get this!?

LOL

[Xyzzy]

"I've spent hundreds of hours on every Bethesda game ", ... me too. [e.g. some ppl play fo4 other ppl think its a trolley dash.].

[mbpoblet]

Originally posted by xyzzymip:

other ppl think its a trolley dash.

But... how does one even manage to do that..?

Do they cover the screen with a cardboard piece with holes in it for the compass and the dialogue so they can't see any distractions, or what..? o_O

[Master0fBlunt]

I've managed to complete Skyrim, all the fallouts in their entirety, side quests, crafting, etc, and feel empty afterwards, wish there was more, expecially FO4, disappoint...

[Charllize]

Stop playing bethesda games like Call of Duty and everything are fine:)

[HEREWARD1066]

After completing the main story I went round and filled the gaps in my magazine and bobblehead collection in the process making sure I visited every primary location and most of the secondary ones. Then I built a few mega settlements, got bored and started gathering all the unique items at which point I got really bored and restarted the game on very hard. Ten hours into the restart and I've already found a couple of things I missed first time round such as SPOILER ALERT that Arcjet rocket engine just waiting to explode. My point would be that there isn't enough plot or acting for the sheer geographical size of the game. I'd have preferred a smaller world with more in it.

[mbpoblet]

Originally posted by HEREWARD:

My point would be that there isn't enough plot or acting for the sheer geographical size of the game. I'd have preferred a smaller world with more in it.

That's the way Bethesda's games work, though. You have the main quest, sure, and the main side quests, and the smaller side quests, and even some side quests that don't show up in the quest log or possibly even the map and that you have to stumble upon and notice to realise they are there... but then they have that whole vast world to explore, littered with small easy to miss details like that Arcjet rocket, or that small camp in the middle of nowhere in Skyrim with the two dead lovers, or the staggering amount of books in the Elder Scrolls games that add so much more depth to the lore, or the small glimpses you can get in Fallout of what some victims of the war were doing when the bombs fell... you have to literally go out of your way to find many of those, though, just ignore the plot, ignore the quest markers, and explore, just to see what you'll find...

Of course, though, not everyone has to like that, there'll be people who'll prefer a more explicitly story driven game, and that's perfectly fine (me, I got hooked back on Morrowind when I realised that I could pick up anything that wasn't nailed down... and then promptly get thrown in jail or stealing; after years of games where you could only interact with things that mattered for the plot, that was a real breath of fresh air).

[jeffy]

their are several Secret super duper sidequests to do if you look and explore enough

goodneihbour has several hidden quests