I like survival mode in this one, as it took the one thing I liked about hardcore mode and ran with it. The fact that you had to look in your pip-boy menu to actually see what your status was was the final nail in the coffin for me.
Not only did it not really add anything of value to the gameplay, it was super easy to abuse it by stocking up on stimpacks and going back to good springs to get fixed up by the good doctor while having a snack. I never understood the appeal of hardcore mode.
Obsidian, please bring back the original system in the new one you'll inevitably make. if they were dead set on using a voice actor for the main character, I feel a mass effect or dragon age 2 esque dialogue wheel would have did this game justice, in a small way, as opposed to the oversimplified generic ******* we got. WTF were they smoking when they made it like this? Did the casuals really have a problem with the previous system, because I never heard about it. In no way does it even compare to New Vegas, and the more I look at it, the more pissed off I get. The worst absolute thing about this game.
