Imagine for a moment that you are critically wounded and need to use a healing item while being chased by a horde of angry ghouls. A touchscreen, however, is much less accurate than analog controls, and I frequently tapped the wrong item or button due to the app's small text.Īt times, using the IRL Pip-Boy may even get you killed in-game in some situations.
With the Pip-Boy on your arm, you can perform various actions with your in-game character, such as using healing items, changing weapons and more. Eventually, though, the excitement falls apart after a few hours, and you come to realize that the Pip-Boy is actually not helpful at all.
The idea of controlling several functions in-game with the real-life Pip-Boy just seems like a natural thing to want to do, and if done properly it should offer a more realistic gameplay experience (not to mention that it saves you from opening and closing the in-game Pip-Boy).
Starting Fallout 4 with the Pip-Boy ready to go was at first an exciting prospect.
