We need a free camera or an overview camera to really see what's going on. It is extremely hard to see the bigger picture when players have to create their entire settlements from first-person.
Players are essentially given the tools and told to build, without knowing much in the process. There are little to no tutorials on settlement crafting.Settlement Crafting Problems - a brief rundown However, there are too many bugs in the crafting system to make it enjoyable for an architectural noob like myself, and the entire mechanic seems like it was tacked on at the last second. It is a highly creative area of the game, and can be quite attractive to players of the previously mentioned stature. Lots of Minecraft-friendly players may disagree with my choice to completely disregard the settlement system. Being a well-rounded gamer with multiple interests, a journalist here on GameSkinny, and a YouTube content creator, I simply do not have the time for crafting and maintaining settlements. During my original playthrough roughly 80% of my time was spent on the creation or discovery of settlements. Settlements, though they might throw in their own flair of creativity to the Fallout franchise, suck the life out of Fallout 4.
