Fallout 5 Wishlist: 10 Things Fans Need To See

5. No More Repetitive Side Quests

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It's no surprise that Fallout 4's Preston Garvey became an overnight meme. Supplying you with an endless barrage of menial and unrewarding random quests, there was no satisfying the Minuteman's thirst for taking out camps of Super Mutants or helping out nearby settlements.

Which, on paper, should have worked to provide players with a virtually endless amount of things to do over the course of the game. Instead, it became a never-ending chore for those who like to keep their quest-log nice and neat without any outstanding activities to accomplish.

Unfortunately, Preston's nagging is only a symptom of Fallout's increasingly problematic approach to side-quests, as Bethesda has stripped away the variety and importance from this extra content, instead placing the focus firmly on giving players a constant array of checkboxes to fill.

Fallout 5 needs to right the ship by offering gamers fewer, but more substantial and memorable, errands for them to engage with.

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