Skyrim Towns vs Fallout 4 Towns

[glupschipup]

Skyrim has like 5 Big towns ( with shops, a "mayor", residents & stuff )

where Fallout only has 1 ? ( diamond city )

i know those are completly different games and fallout 4 has ALOT more "ruins"
yet, there is only 1 real city in fallout?


thanks for any shared thoughts on that

EDIT: didnt know "goodneighbour" before, gonna explore that & the other mentioned places :)

EDIT 2: Settlments are potential towns too, but they dont have "unique" buildings characters, you kinda do it yourself

[Yekko]

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[Sleepy Umbreon]

i know about... 2 or 3 real towns in fo4 ^^ maybe there are more

[Veya]

I would say more than one, at least two proper towns, Diamond City and Goodneighbor, and each settlement being potentially a big town on their own.

[=CrimsoN=]

Goodneighbor is another and Vault 81, but yeah Fallout 4 has significantly less actual settlements than any previous Fallout game (or Bethesda game). Mostly because the player is charged with creating a settlement so many plots where there should be settlements are blank to make use for the player.

[Sempophai]

there are 2, but yeah, skyrim seemed bigger in a bunch of ways, (i couldn't jog across skyrim in a few minutes) and the towns seemed bigger and more diverse... i guess modders will fix this, eventually

[cdarklock]

Skyrim: you have nine major towns and can build four houses of your own, each of which can be configured in a couple hundred different ways.

Fallout 4: You have one major town and can build thirty towns of your own, each of which can be configured in an effectively infinite number of ways.

Guess which one I consider the winner

[Sempophai]

Originally posted by ♥Nibbles♥:

Goodneighbor is another and Vault 81, but yeah Fallout 4 has significantly less actual settlements than any previous Fallout game (or Bethesda game). Mostly because the player is charged with creating a settlement so many plots where there should be settlements are blank to make use for the player.

I didn't really include vault 81... 1 actual store... not much going on after one main mission and some tiny side missions... and a couple of minor task missions that keep glitching out... i never go back after the main quest for the location is done... and i only bother with that if i want curie, or to impress piper

diamond city is ok... good neighbour ultimately seems the most interesting... wish it was bigger

[Yekko]

Originally posted by Sempophai:

there are 2, but yeah, skyrim seemed bigger in a bunch of ways, (i couldn't jog across skyrim in a few minutes) and the towns seemed bigger and more diverse... i guess modders will fix this, eventually

They compressed the map in FO4, just to make it more intense without the need of walking sometimes over locations for quite a long period without any action. but this is just my 2 cent of opinion about the map size :)

[Sempophai]

Originally posted by cdarklock:

Skyrim: you have nine major towns and can build four houses of your own, each of which can be configured in a couple hundred different ways.

Fallout 4: You have one major town and can build thirty towns of your own, each of which can be configured in an effectively infinite number of ways.

Guess which one I consider the winner

limited building, you can make different building shapes, but they're all more or less the same and a pain in the ass to maintain... and glitchy, very glitchy

[Pancakes]

There is two cities, two settlments and one vault. So five. Maybe there is more.

[Vaemer-Riit]

There are at least 5

Diamond City

Goodneighbor

Vault 81

Boston Airport + Prydwen

The Institute

6 if you count the railroad's base of operations as a town or not.

[Sempophai]

Originally posted by Valaka:

Originally posted by Sempophai:

there are 2, but yeah, skyrim seemed bigger in a bunch of ways, (i couldn't jog across skyrim in a few minutes) and the towns seemed bigger and more diverse... i guess modders will fix this, eventually

They compressed the map in FO4, just to make it more intense without the need of walking sometimes over locations for quite a long period without any action. but this is just my 2 cent of opinion about the map size :)

I liked a vaster landscape, the sense of space just feels more immersive and extra open area, makes for more potential random encounter locations, more roaming packs of critters etc

I liked feeling like I had to camp down on longer trips and find bolt holes to wait out the night, things like that... the boston map is so small, i can cross it, kill crap and walk home in time for dinner

[Darth Cannabis]

Diamond City, Goodneigbor, Vault 81 can be considered its own city, and Bunker Hill I feel is too large to count amongst the settlements, thou it is a potential one.
Then in addition to the settlements that can be built up, you also have to figure in the few places that synths and others have destroyed. University point, was apparently a full town at one point, as was Quincy. One was recently wiped out by synths, the other was recently taken by Gunners.
Then there is the question as to count or not, the 2 places that are not really cities, but still have the size and organization to be just as good as one. The BoS airship, when it comes down to it, is a mobile military city, and the Institute is an underground research one.

4 proper cities 2 wiped out ones, about 2 dozen settlements, and 2 major faction based facilities, that are frankly larger than Megaton or Tenpenny Tower was in 3.

[Sempophai]

Originally posted by Vaemer-Riit:

There are at least 5

Diamond City

Goodneighbor

Vault 81

Boston Airport + Prydwen

The Institute

6 if you count the railroad's base of operations as a town or not.

anything with only one real store, feels more like a base than a town

[VeganNinjaZombie]

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<<<POSSIBLE SPOILERS>>>

1.Diamond City
2.Good Neighbor
3.Vault 81
4.Brotherhood Airship (AKA The Prydwen)
5.The Institute
6.The Covenant
7.Bunker Hill

<<<POSSIBLE SPOILERS>>>