Crafting systems can be divisive things. Some people love pottering around in games like Minecraft for hours on end, building makeshift homes and gathering materials for new equipment, but it's certainly not for everybody. Fortunately, if you're the type who lets out a deep sigh when you discover that your new role-playing game has got a cumbersome crafting system, then you'll be happy to know that you won't be forced to use Fallout 4's.
One of the post-apocalyptic adventure's new points of interest, crafting seems to play a big part in Fallout 4, but Bethesda's Pete Hines told GamesRadar that you won't have to make use of it to finish the game. "If you don't care about [crafting] and you just want to play quests and play side quests, and finish the main quest and that sort of thing then you can just ignore all of this [crafting]. Or do as much or as little as you want," he explained.
However, Hines does go on to admit that "there is a benefit to it", but again insists that "it doesn't prevent you from playing through the game". Sounds fair enough to us.
In all honesty, we're not expecting Fallout 4's crafting to make up a gigantic portion of the release - the system seems to have been pushed into the limelight purely because it's something new. It's already been confirmed that you'll only be able to build bases and settlements in predetermined locations, so we can definitely imagine that unwilling players will be able to ignore it altogether.
But is it something that you're going to ignore, or do you like the sounds of gluing together bits of junk to make guns that shoot lasers? Enter VATS in the comments section below.
[source gamesradar.com, via destructoid.com]
Comments 11
Crafting is definitely not my thing, so this news does make me happy.
I love the idea of building a small settlement.
My favourite DLC for Skyrim was Hearthfire.
Good to know its not compulsory though.
i love the sounds of it!.
It just seems like a natural progression for the series to take really. I can't wait to mess around with all the options.
I build something and forget where it is. Crafting Is not for me.
I love crafting i'm not sure if this game is classed as an RPG but I like crafting kinda dissapointed about this but the chance's of me buying this game with so many other's coming out were/are pretty slim anyway.
I don't blame them for designing it that way at all but it's a bit disappointing because it means that the game is balanced around things you find rather than things you make. That means that either things you make will only marginally be better than the normal items OR the whole game will be a pushover if you craft stuff.
That said, it does sound like the crafting in this game is less about upping your damage output or survivability and more about just coming up with some crazy things, like Garry's Mod.
I don't even like Fallout but I'm so excited for this. The gunplay just looks so good, and the city building looks fun too
I like the gun in fallout 3 that let's you shoot all your junk so I may find a use for this. Otherwise I ignore crafting for the most part.
I will definitely give it a try.
Will dive into it a bit, but I am more interested in the re vamped fps gun play, I got a feeling the shooting is gonna be really nice on this one.
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