I like sandbox games that have a little direction to them, something like Minecraft just didn't grab me but Empyrion - Galactic Survival did even though the later game is just a more sophisticated version of Minecraft, (while Empyrion has creatures that will attack you much the same as Minecraft does, it also has the need for finding/making food otherwise your character starves to death so there's a constant pressure pushing you on).
Story-driven games that take place in a sandbox world (or even partial sandbox) are the kind of games I like best.
I've kinda been holding off on this thread because I wasn't that fussed on F:NV (stopped playing it before I even finished it) and while I have F4, I haven't installed it yet because absolutely nothing about the game convinces me that it's worth playing any time yet - I'll wait 'till there's more mods made for it. I really disliked all the damned "invisible walls" in F:NV but I wouldn't say it's a bad game, it just didn't have the sandbox elements I would have liked in a Fallout game.
Fallout 4 is... well, uninspired, at best. I've done a lot of checking to try and find the reason why I'm not fired up to play it and talked to friends who do play it. The worst aspect of F4 to me is that it seems the story is secondary to the base building and while a lot of fanboys crapped on about how fantastic the inclusion of base building was, it was just a copy of someone's mod for F3 and I'd already played it in F3, (pretty much the same thing happened with Hearthfire for Skyrim, it was a copy of someone's mod but at least it was improved a little, the base building in F4 seems like they just copied the basics of the F3 mod, shoved it in, called it "major content" and hoped the fans would not notice the lack of story.) And I really hate F4's dialogue system and voiced protagonist - they'll be the first things modded out whenever I do decide to play it.
I'm still playing a heavily modded version of F3 and also a heavily modded version of Skyrim. I'm also still playing STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl 10 years since it was released - albeit in modded form as well (the OGSE 2 mod and a second game with the Lost Alpha mod) - as well as STALKER: Call Of Pripyat with the SGM 2.2 mod.
Sad to say, nobody seems to be interested in making a post-apoc type game for the computer that doesn't have mutants, alien space bats or zombies 'cos I'd really love to have something that was closer to the T2k scenario. One of the few that is somewhere close is the MMO The Division. It's limited in scope as it takes place exclusively in Manhattan, NYC and is pretty much Diablo style play but set in the modern world and isn't as sandbox as I'd like but it's still a lot of fun.
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