Fallout 4

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  1. fuwaneko
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    First 5-6 hours the game feels enjoyable. But when you want to dig deeper, there's nothing to dig. To that time you've already done and seen everything game has to offer. Building is atrocious. Props look horrible (will people REALLY live in those dirty shacks with holes in walls even after apocalypse? doubt it), snapping is horrible, controls are horrible and WASD stops working from timeFirst 5-6 hours the game feels enjoyable. But when you want to dig deeper, there's nothing to dig. To that time you've already done and seen everything game has to offer. Building is atrocious. Props look horrible (will people REALLY live in those dirty shacks with holes in walls even after apocalypse? doubt it), snapping is horrible, controls are horrible and WASD stops working from time to time, fences hang in sky, corner props stick to wrong walls, and there's really no point in building except for the defense turrets.

    I don't even want to start talking about quests, characters and story. Other people have already said it multiple times. This is an emotionless piece of concrete that feels way outdated. When you look at other games which came 2014-2015 you see castles, mansions and cute huts. When you look at F4, you see dirty shack with holes in walls and rain coming through the ceiling.

    Bethesda... Bethesda never changes.    … Expand
  2. Barny
    Nov 25, 2015
    4
    With all deep RPG elements finally eliminated from the game, it feels fairly bland. The main problem are the conversation choices: 4 possibilities, not one more. The side quests are, repeat over and over again of the same stuff. So apart from the neat appearance and music, this is a disappointment of great magnitude. The crafting however, kind of make sense, but with the rest of the gameWith all deep RPG elements finally eliminated from the game, it feels fairly bland. The main problem are the conversation choices: 4 possibilities, not one more. The side quests are, repeat over and over again of the same stuff. So apart from the neat appearance and music, this is a disappointment of great magnitude. The crafting however, kind of make sense, but with the rest of the game it does not so much. And why obtaining a power armor so early in the game ?… Expand
  3. kgersen
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    "text UI" is from the 90s, I guess it's mainly because of console support. PC gaming is dying because of games like this.

    In 2015 a RPG should have full mouse support, click &drag for inventory management and crafting, colorized items : the top weapon is just a green line of text like the lowest junk item...that's just silly. the Pip is just an annoying gimmick. The time wasted    "text UI" is from the 90s, I guess it's mainly because of console support. PC gaming is dying because of games like this.

    In 2015 a RPG should have full mouse support, click &drag for inventory management and crafting, colorized items : the top weapon is just a green line of text like the lowest junk item...that's just silly. the Pip is just an annoying gimmick.

    The time wasted dealing with that outdated UI is just phenomenal.

    Tip for Bethesda: at least provide a customizable UI system with addons (like WoW for instance) if you can't code a decent UI yourself.    … Expand
  4. Enshia
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    Summary: Not a fallout game by any stretch. If you can live with that, then it's a fine game. However, if you're looking for a game that will hit the levels of FO3, you're not going to see it. If you were hoping of something as good as FO:NV not a chance. You're better off spending the $10 to buy both, and install the Tales of Two Wastelands mod, which combines both places into theSummary: Not a fallout game by any stretch. If you can live with that, then it's a fine game. However, if you're looking for a game that will hit the levels of FO3, you're not going to see it. If you were hoping of something as good as FO:NV not a chance. You're better off spending the $10 to buy both, and install the Tales of Two Wastelands mod, which combines both places into the FO:NV engine. That will let you enjoy a lengthy game, with better game play, story, and graphics options.

    Other people have covered everything else in more detail, so there's no point in making this larger.

    Story/VO: There is no real story here. It's an abysmal piece of writing that would have had your grade 9 English teacher tell you to rewrite it. If you were expecting an option where your choices changed the outcome or gave you variable choices, it's not going to happen. Since your PC is now voiced, many actions also have a very wooden feeling to them.

    Controls/UI: Terrible, no other way to put it. Your dialog choices are determined by your cursor keys, the pipboy system is a mess. Perk tree is beyond simplistic, and in some cases doesn't clearly state what it does.

    Graphics/Textures are...washed out, no other way to put it. It looks like someone took the texture palette, smeared in some brown and yellow, photocopied it, re-imported into PS then made it into a 128x128 sized texture block.

    Game play elements/Dialog: There are no skills, which are replaced by a perk system. The perk system itself is a complete joke of any previous FO game. Dialog doesn't exist, it's a story on rails. Karma? No karma for you, that's too difficult for people to grasp apparently.

    Crafting: Probably the only redeeming part of the game. Takes the best options of previous games, adds them altogether and lets you do whatever you want with those 300 pencils you've been carrying around.    … Expand
  5. konjiki7
    Apr 8, 2017
    4
    Fallout 4 has great mod support and thanks to the modders this game can be alot of fun. On its own the game performed pretty bad and there was the weird Nvidia workshop shenanigans which crippled all amd gpu's until amd mad patch specifically for this game.

    The dialog and variety is what made past fallout games great because you could basically play the game again as a different    Fallout 4 has great mod support and thanks to the modders this game can be alot of fun. On its own the game performed pretty bad and there was the weird Nvidia workshop shenanigans which crippled all amd gpu's until amd mad patch specifically for this game.

    The dialog and variety is what made past fallout games great because you could basically play the game again as a different character and have completely different experience. After beating the game i've had little motivation to play again.....    … Expand
  6. CoreDave
    Dec 2, 2015
    4
    Okay well I'll try and be as fair as possible. Fallout 4 is a fun action adventure game with plenty going for it. But I'm not rating it as an action adventure game. I'm rating it as a Bethesda open world role playing game.

    So let's just start with a 10 (a fair assumption based on how much I've enjoyed past Bethesda games). -1 For the over simplified and restrictive perk system. It's    Okay well I'll try and be as fair as possible. Fallout 4 is a fun action adventure game with plenty going for it. But I'm not rating it as an action adventure game. I'm rating it as a Bethesda open world role playing game.

    So let's just start with a 10 (a fair assumption based on how much I've enjoyed past Bethesda games).

    -1 For the over simplified and restrictive perk system. It's not a massive issue for me but it's a step in the wrong direction and it's worth at least a point being knocked off.
    -3 For the voiced protagonist. This is a HUGE failure and the single biggest thing ruining the experience. It's simply not possible to define your own character and personality anymore, you have two choices, both defined by Bethesda. It's like roleplaying with a GM who keeps telling you what your character thinks says and does. I know other games the the "RPG" label do it but to me this is at odds with the fundamental principle of creating a character and playing a role. Voiced protagonist's work in games like tomb raider or even Mass Effect because those are not really role playing games, they are story's they you watch and take over for the action bits. Fun but not what I was looking for here as all.
    -2 for the dialogue wheel, 4 options, often the same with what you are actually choosing wreathed in mystery. It's just bad through and through and is another sing that Bethesda wanted to make a cinematic action story rather than a role playing game.

    That leaves me with a 4 which I'm going to stick with. I could add points here and there and I could detract points here and there but overall Fallout 4 is a game that could easily of been amazing but by trying to be a different genre and forcing a questionable story and personality on my undermines most of the "live another life" feeling that I look for in Bethesda games. That 4 reflects my overall disappointment well.    … Expand
  7. Cymrix
    Jul 18, 2016
    4
    Judging solely on this game alone, and not the ones that came before, it's just not a good game. For $25 AND heavily modded, it is playable.

    What makes it bad is the lack of incorporating what other FPS games have done that expand the genre. You still can't grab ledges. A staple in major FPSs for a few years now. Nope, stil can't get over that 4ft wall or climb through a window.    Judging solely on this game alone, and not the ones that came before, it's just not a good game. For $25 AND heavily modded, it is playable.

    What makes it bad is the lack of incorporating what other FPS games have done that expand the genre.

    You still can't grab ledges. A staple in major FPSs for a few years now. Nope, stil can't get over that 4ft wall or climb through a window.
    The thing here is, this is an RPG in first person, and "action" FPSs are more immersive.

    You can't hide in brush, and enemies have a 6th sense to detect you, even if they can't see you. Again, imersion.

    Intetactive kills are a joke. You have to be undetected AND have a melee weapon equipped AND do a power swing.

    Weapon switching doesn't pause the game. And the weapon menu is clunky. And you can't use your mouse wheel to cycle through favorite main weapons. The mouse wheel frickin changes 3rd person camera distance??? How often do you think I "need" to do that vs changing my weapon? Couldn't put that on a ctrl+mousewheel?

    They put Enter key as the select key, but your fingers aren't close to that key. Couldn't make it spacebar? Or give me a keybind?

    Tab OR Esc key will be "back" or "exit" depenfing on the menu or context... wtf? Couldn't just make them always the same?

    No way to build genetic structures for settlements. You have to place every single wall... and the snapping is horrid.... and the rotation has no snap! Why not do 45 degree snaps? So all my **** is lined up? Especially since you made the rotation so fast...

    Unarmoref NPCs can take multiple bullets to the head. Decomposing ghouls take multiple clips before dying, and their attacks kill you easily. I get this isn't an action game, but you are hiding ****ty game mechanics behind artificially inflayed hitpoints per hit zone.

    How is it my "automatic" weapons do less damage pet bullet? It's the same frickin bullet! And, for some reason, in VATS, my automatic weapons fire only one more bullet for the same AP? I'd understand a decrease in accuracy, especially with consecutive shots, but less bullets? Just **** game mechanics...

    Dialog options... how the hell did you skimp on giving us the actual dialog? Several times I chose an option that said something I didn't want, or wouldn't have chosen, if I'd have known the actual dialog. Was this because you didn't want to update text files?

    It's a **** design choice to say almost nothing has grown in 200 years since the nuclear fallout. That is just stupid, and we have several examples of that just not being true in the real world.

    Overall, I think it's a ****ty port of a condole game, and was never intended to do more than ride the coat tails of our fond memories with Fallout 3. Which, this game is more of a Fallout 3.5. There are a ton of mods that reduce or fix all most of these shortcomings, but you have to search them out and find the right combo of mods to get what you really want. I've spent more time finding the right mods than playingvthe game so far...    … Expand
  8. Magnethead
    Jan 24, 2016
    4
    I had so looked forward to finally playing this title, I had put it off until I had the time to really get immersed. And I started out with an abundance of enthusiasm that lasted through the character creation and prologue. After about five hours of game time, however, it started creeping up on me. Where was the Fallout feeling, where was the desire to play on?

    I tried messing with the    I had so looked forward to finally playing this title, I had put it off until I had the time to really get immersed. And I started out with an abundance of enthusiasm that lasted through the character creation and prologue. After about five hours of game time, however, it started creeping up on me. Where was the Fallout feeling, where was the desire to play on?

    I tried messing with the graphics (to solve the mysterious problem of the game being horribly overbright to look at), I considered a new character, starting over and taking it more slowly. I yanked the difficulty to Survival so I would feel that I was in danger at least. Everything. In the end I tried to push on, to go out and just explore, to feel the world itself. Then after a few hours more it struck me. the plain, horrible truth of it: Fallout 4 is a mediocre game. Plain and simple, I never thought I would say that out loud but it's the truth.

    The graphics are mediocre, the scenery is nice but skin textures stretch awkwardly across poorly animated actors. The voice acting is bad, the story offers no immersion and doesn't spark any desire to explore or interact. I tried to ignore all that and set out on one of the classic exploration tours that I loved in the former Fallout games. Just going into the wasteland, feeling that specific tingling that comes with exploring a dead world where anything (often times something terrible) is waiting around the corner. I went from house to house, explored, looted. Found dead people but they meant nothing. The town had no feeling, just random houses with a surprising abundance of loot. At that time it hit me for real, I shouldn't have bought this game. I had thrown money out the window. I was now at the mercy of the modding community, I pray they'll save this train wreck. I don't know how or why, but I hope they find a way.

    So be warned, if you liked Fallout 3 and/or New Vegas (Fallout 2 is extremely different so I won't include that as a comparison) , you'll very likely not like this game. It seems haphazardly put together, devoid of charm and personality. It's such a shame... really is.    … Expand
  9. kamgeforce
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    Disappointing. Like a casual mode for Fallout 3, pretty much everything was simplified, some mechanics are gone completely, like reputation system. Doge is nice, but wont save it. Plot is weak, dialogues are even weaker. I am really sorry I didnt wait and bought the game for full price, if Witcher 3 is worth 60 bucks with all the content, this game should cost 15 at max.
  10. KuriousJorj
    Jan 15, 2019
    4
    Poor, weak, lazy game. Just boring. Boring combat, boring world, boring story. Not at all fun. Soulless. Empty. I used to love the Fallout games, but I'm done with them. No more for me.
  11. Wraithman
    Jan 1, 2016
    4
    After 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this gameAfter 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this game is, definitely not Crpg, shooter more. And this scenario...guys...please. You all Killed this franchise without mercy and, ♥♥♥♥♥ all mature players with Super Sledge. Start is fun..after that everything is dying. So many wasted possibilities, so many booring quests, and in mine loong career as a Game Master in few rpg systems you really really need to send that guys to read some good books. Maybe it will help.
    Anyway mine scores for this game:1 to 10
    Quests - total score 4, main story line beginning 7 ending 2.It start good and ...thats all. Lovercraftian quests toons of wasted potential.
    World - 8 Nice locations few really fun to explore. Prydven is beautiful.
    NPC Characters - 4 Some ok,some flat and boring. Nothing to be excited. Please return to bg 1 bg2 to learn how to build deep funny characters. It is all about story and fun.
    Mechanic - 1. Its booring, and stupid in soo many examples...
    Total not to solid -4.
    And i know for Bethesda last years succes is measured in number of copies sold- but Witcher 3 can do both things. Quality and profit.
    Recommended for easy shooters fans, not recommended for fallout, and post-apo fans.    … Expand
  12. Asmodias
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Where do I begin? I really, really don't know.

    Let's 'try' to do this from the start.
    You play a guy with military training who goes into cryo, or a women with household chores training (completely ignoring the complete survival chance disparity in the husband/wife). You then have to go look for your infant son. You, like a complete idiot, still think your son is a newborn despite the fact that you quite obviously exit cyro-stasis at very different times.

    You then are then ham-fisted a dog from the get go (like, hey guys, dogs are cool right?) as well as having a bunch of other immortal god companions who spend the entire fight on their ass. You can only play one character - concerned daddy. I mean, concerned daddy can either be chill about finding his son and be polite, or be slightly abrupt and annoyed about finding his son. But at the end of the day, you're not choosing who you want to be; the game has already done that for you. You're roleplaying exactly what Bethesda wants.

    Fort building is a joke. The NPC's will literally steal your power armour and make it impossible for you to recover (exo-suits can't be taken off corpses, just the armour) straight from your fort. That's right, settlers know how to use power armour. Guess training ain't needed, huh? Placement is regularly buggy and fussy, and whilst you can scrap all sorts of **** and that's cool and all, you can't level out the ground you're building on which just leads to the realistic 'build space' being where the game sodding well lets you. 3-4 slots in the first one and a couple in one or two others. Oh, and the house you build for yourself? Gonna get invaded by settlers.

    You're once again ham-fisted the role of brotherhood knight, oh, and you're also the general of the minutemen! After about 3 minutes outta the vault.

    Sidequests are literally MMO tier - go here, kill raiders, come back, get reward.

    Optimisation is 'eh' at best, and your FPS will get annihilated in the city.

    Difficulty seems to vary to ridiculous degrees with some areas seemingly levelling with you and others being preset.

    The weapon customisation is cool, but the quantity of skills and components required just for say.. a shotgun stock is ridiculous and will take a huge amount of levels.

    The looting gets ridiculous too when you see names like "Tactical compensated heavy stocked automatic suppressed bayoneted laser rifle" and after a while, all these mods mean nothing, it just turns into another slog fest of putting round after round into some up-levelled raider's skull, desperately hoping the fight will end.

    Radiation actually matters now which is nice. But no radiation sickness. (wat)

    Power armour is a cool rethink. Shame it completely ****s all over the lore.

    Romance companions? What like say "I thunk we should be more than fronds" "oki, we are lol"

    Just generally being ham-fisted with companions. Stop it, stop.

    Seriously, am I not allowed my own house? I know I've said it, but when I build my own house I don't want it invaded by a brahmin caravan that blocks the doorway.

    No more skills, just a ****ty rethink of the perk system simply leads to a game where you don't get a stronger character, the game just keeps asking you to play it FPS style and occasionally pick up a new weapon.

    Honestly the most disappointing starting vault ever.
    10 people in cryo and some staff that died after a year. Absolutely tiny too.

    Simply put, this isn't an rpg anymore. This is like if they stole Mass Effect's dialogue wheel, made a huge mess out of it, and removed any last semblance of an RPG.

    Well, back to Fallout 1-3 + Vegas, guess that's where the franchise ended.    … Expand
  13. Crazyferret
    Jun 10, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. At first I was excited to play a new Fallout. I thought it looked amazing and the gunplay was good. As I kept playing though, I found that was about it. I saw that it was actually very shallow and became boring quickly.

    The voiced character is a mistake in my opinion, as it really restricts the dialogue. The dialogue choices rarely even mattered. For example, in the quest The whole yes, sarcastic (yes), No (yes), speech check (yes) is very true. Really makes the choices seem worthless, and they certainly are most of the time.

    The story wasn't really good. It came down to two things. They want you to care about this story by making you chase after a son you don't get to know. They make it seem like the story is urgent while wanting you to explore. Quest weren't that great either. some were interesting, but most fell flat. A lot ended with just killing everything in a certain area. Lots of unnecessary radiant quests that add nothing. Places you clear out will just spawn more raiders or super mutants for you to kill for your next quest.

    The roleplaying aspect is severely crippled. You don't get to build your own character but play their character. The voiced dialogue is part of the problem. You are always going to be the concerned parents. You aren't really able to be evil so much as just an **** sometimes. If you want to play like the exact character you are given, then you'll be okay. Anything else just doesn't fit. Really kills replayability. Fallout has always been about making your own character and acting like that character would. That shouldn't be taken away from a Fallout game or open world sandox RPGs.

    Fallout games should be a RPG first and a shooter second. This game is a FPS first with leveling and some perks on the side, and most of that seems meaningless anyway. It's closer to Farcry than previous Fallout games. The leveling doesn't have a cap, so you will get all the perks at some point. Skills were removed and SPECIAL is the only thing that affects stats, but you can max these out as well. Many of the perks are damage buffs, crafting, skills like lockpicking/hacking, and useless ones like less rads from food (which cooking removes from most things.) Weapons seem to be more important than anything else. I played on survival (the original with the bulletsponge enemies) without taking the damage buff perks for weapon, and I had no problems. the RPG elements are minimal and take a backseat to the gunplay.

    That's just a few things I found wrong. I've already rambled so I'll give my finale review.

    TL;DR Very dissapointing. Seems fun at first until you get into it. If you want Fallout, this isn't it. If you want an RPG, this isn't. If you want to go around shooting thing in an open-world FPS with some quests and a small story, then this is an okay game for that. There are games that do that better though. (Farcry, Borderlands, etc.)

    4/10 - No Ron Perlman intro/outro    … Expand
  14. thenthomwaslike
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Forced mouse acceleration, mouselook has higher sensitivity horizontally than it does vertically, uninteresting dialogue, overall conversation system with the exception of the good persuasion system is not very good, with awful cinematography and a penchant for pulling you out of the scene if you even touch your mouse. broken quests, and bloated and reused content. And this is just from 2Forced mouse acceleration, mouselook has higher sensitivity horizontally than it does vertically, uninteresting dialogue, overall conversation system with the exception of the good persuasion system is not very good, with awful cinematography and a penchant for pulling you out of the scene if you even touch your mouse. broken quests, and bloated and reused content. And this is just from 2 hours of play. I'll update the review after i rebuy it after seeing proof that its issues have been resolved. But dont pay 60 dollars to be a beta tester.… Expand
  15. JymmyQuidd
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    an old fallout fan here, for the first time i can't find the words to describe the calamity im playing atm, if fallout never existed and fallout 4 was fallout 1 im sure ill cut it some slack, but really... if u played the old fallouts, or at least just fallout 3 or NV u'll understand, im not goin to do a list, but just goin to point out the one thing that really made me sad, angry, andan old fallout fan here, for the first time i can't find the words to describe the calamity im playing atm, if fallout never existed and fallout 4 was fallout 1 im sure ill cut it some slack, but really... if u played the old fallouts, or at least just fallout 3 or NV u'll understand, im not goin to do a list, but just goin to point out the one thing that really made me sad, angry, and dissapointed and that is the skill/leveling system... its just outrageous, i dont recognize this game anymore.
    The only good thing i can say about fallout that never dissapointed me and im sure its not gonna do it now is the modding community, them, and only them are the ones able to make this thing right, to do the work bethesda didnt want to do. So believe it or not, im level 29, still didnt finish the main story and im already goin to stop and wait till something from modders comes around, what a disgrace...    … Expand
  16. Necroscope
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Now I know exactly what one of the leakers meant by saying that voice acting plays against this game: it feels utterly unnecessary and awkward more often than not. Plus the the dialogue wheel thing; I always thought that people exaggerate when criticizing ME in that respect, but in this game it's really badly executed and I feel like I have no control over what my character is going toNow I know exactly what one of the leakers meant by saying that voice acting plays against this game: it feels utterly unnecessary and awkward more often than not. Plus the the dialogue wheel thing; I always thought that people exaggerate when criticizing ME in that respect, but in this game it's really badly executed and I feel like I have no control over what my character is going to say. For example, I can never tell if "sarcastic" means that my milf is about to tell a joke or something mean to the speaker. It's a bit like playing that retarded mini-game from Oblivion, except without hints as to how the NPC is going to react. The facial animations are abysmal and somehow worse than before.

    The whole parenting emotional bull***t is a total failure, not only on it's own (the beginning is probably the most cringeworthy of all Bethesda games), but also because of how over the place the pacing is; "Oh no, they killed my husband" "Hell yeah let's kick some asses God bless America!"

    Graphics are f*****g ugly - not really because the quality, but that pastel and glary color palette that messes with your eyes. What I find the biggest annoyance, though, is that the environment is so viciously bright. Seriously, it feels like a flash bomb went off in the sky permanently. All in all, I have difficulties recognizing what I'm looking at.

    The only positive thing is the improved gunplay and that the game is more challenging than it's 2 predecessors. The enemies are smarter and I often find myself in a position where I have to escape.

    Overall, a very overrated game with tons of bad game design and only a few minor improvements over it's predecessors. Fallout: New Vegas outclasses this game on every level.    … Expand
  17. Nichtswisser
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    The writing is probably the worst in the whole series. It makes b-movies and fan fiction look like Shakespeare level material in comparisson. And it makes talking with people a real chore since it's never interesting. The stupid Mass Effect like dialoge wheel does not help either. And of course the characters are just as bland and uninteresting as the dialogues. Sadly this time around evenThe writing is probably the worst in the whole series. It makes b-movies and fan fiction look like Shakespeare level material in comparisson. And it makes talking with people a real chore since it's never interesting. The stupid Mass Effect like dialoge wheel does not help either. And of course the characters are just as bland and uninteresting as the dialogues. Sadly this time around even the world seems bland and uninspired. It just feels like something a single dude playing around with the Fallout 3 editor for around a year put together. It really does!

    The UI is the worst piece of crap I've seen in a long time. Organizing your inventory and comparing items is a nightmare! And the controls with K&M are a slap in the face. The whole building structures part might well be the most clunky thing I ever had to deal with in a video game!

    The Roleplaying aspects of Fallout 4... Oh my god they killed Kenny! I really don't even know where to start...

    - They dumbed down the character development
    - Killed dialog choices with the Mass Effect Wheel
    - Removed the ability to roleplay your character
    - Pretty much removed most choices from the game altogether

    This game can not even be called an RPG anymore in my opinion. Skyrim was at least still an RPG Light, this game is a true travesty. I read somewhere that this supposedly was in development for 6 years... I really don't know what to say to that. This game is an abomination.

    Without the Fallout name and sold as a survival FPS about running around in a Wasteland and shooting zombies, I guess this could be considered an OKish game (not good mind you!). Yet as both an RPG (cringe) as well as a Fallout game (cringe even more) it's an abomination! It really is terrible and this time around even mods might not be able to fix it. There is just too much wrong with this game.    … Expand
  18. Doombeldore
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    Very disappointing, genuinely feels like they have added nothing new to this game in terms of mechanics, AI and story. It will no doubt sell fantastically based on peoples previous experiences with Fallout but this is the last time I personally buy a Bethesda game so blindly.
  19. Cyper
    Feb 15, 2016
    4
    This is ’’Fallcry 4’’.

    The story itself is a good idea but unfortunately, poor design choices stands in the way for the story to develop. When I play the story I feel like i’m a dog on a leash with someone who hold my paw throughout the whole game. There is nothing unexpected that happens but it all feels very predetermined in advance. The game is extremely easy as well. There is no    This is ’’Fallcry 4’’.

    The story itself is a good idea but unfortunately, poor design choices stands in the way for the story to develop. When I play the story I feel like i’m a dog on a leash with someone who hold my paw throughout the whole game. There is nothing unexpected that happens but it all feels very predetermined in advance. The game is extremely easy as well. There is no sense off difficulty to it. In less than in an hour of playing you got your first power armor.

    In terms of gameplay Fallout 4 is a mix between Fallout and Far Cry. The main concern in the game is to shoot other people in the head. RPG element of the game has been weakened in many ways (even though it has been improved in others). The new dialog layout is stupid and unintuitive but after all the dialog does not offer much variety and regardless of what action you take it has more or less not impact on the world or the player. For example the whole Karma system is removed completely from the game and this is and this is a terrible great loss.

    I can forgive bugs and other small errors in the game given that these are fixed latter. I am not picky when it comes to graphics either. But textures look very poor and for some reason they get worse after i’ve been playing making the world look uggly. However, I can not forgive the developers to create a game that does not measure up in the story and gameplay.

    To me, it seems like ’new devs’ were let into the warm room to make the game more ’’accessible’’ and ’’streamlined’’ as its called… and it shows because the game suffers because of these stupid ideas and if it becomes more dumbed-down you may as well not call it fallout anymore.. but Fallcry.

    There is great potential for this game... the problem is that there obviously is CONFLICTING IDEAS of how the game should be because now it does not feel like a coherent experience.    … Expand
  20. 21-5-73
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    I sneaked into the bandits house, wielding my shotgun, moving in the dark and silently fighting my first enemy, the atrocious FOV, when a second adversary, the much maligned Mouse Acceleration, stabbed me in the back. While I was struggling with these menaces, a raider appeared in front of me, but luckily he couldn't hite me with his spiked bat, because he couldn't walk past the open doorI sneaked into the bandits house, wielding my shotgun, moving in the dark and silently fighting my first enemy, the atrocious FOV, when a second adversary, the much maligned Mouse Acceleration, stabbed me in the back. While I was struggling with these menaces, a raider appeared in front of me, but luckily he couldn't hite me with his spiked bat, because he couldn't walk past the open door between us. I pointed my gun to blow his dumb AI head, and a moment later I was looking at my desktop, defeated by the most dangerous nightmare of the wasteland: the Crash to Desktop.

    -a minute of play extract from my actual Fallout 4 experience, hence my vote, until a patch makes remedy of this shame.    … Expand
  21. Ostrypwns
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    Only played enough to get some first impressions, and I doubt I will have the resolve necessary to play it anymore. All the way form the very beginning the game is overly pompous/pathetic - combine this with 7-year-old writing and a bunch of logic holes and basically that's Fallout 4 for you.

    Want more? Overly simplified mechanics - traits and perks gone, the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system    Only played enough to get some first impressions, and I doubt I will have the resolve necessary to play it anymore. All the way form the very beginning the game is overly pompous/pathetic - combine this with 7-year-old writing and a bunch of logic holes and basically that's Fallout 4 for you.

    Want more?

    Overly simplified mechanics - traits and perks gone, the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system devoid of nearly all relevance compared to older titles of the franchise; no hardcore mode which I loved in New Vegas. Graphic engine about 10+ years old only rehashed slightly - for the second time now - and the developers have the audacity to tell us the engine is something brand new... Seriously, this game looks only slightly better than Skyrim. Almost nonexistent dialog options, and if you manage to find them they are almost irrelevant. The voice acting is so sloooow and bland it hurts my ears - combined with HILARIOUS facial expressions and poor childish writing the only feelings it brings up in me are that of embarrassment and amusement so more often than not i would just skip the dialog. But don't worry - should you ever want to skip entire conversation the extremely dumb dialog wheel has it easy for you as most often the only things you can say are 'yes', 'no', 'bad', 'good'.

    To sum up, In a new age of games like Witcher 3 and Pillars of Eternity Fallout 4 is not only laughable but also the worst of Bethesda's games to date. Fallout 3 fanboys should have plenty of fun though, so I imagine Todd Howards will keep lying to himself and everyone else around him as he always does.    … Expand
  22. kellan
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    FO4 is a game with good ideas, but one of the most horrible executions I've seen.

    The crafting system, and the open world are its strong sides. The storyline and side-quests are very much mediocre. Compared to Witcher 3 for example - very bland characters. Combat is one massive improvement from Fallout 3 - especially gunplay. Weapons, for the most part, feel like they have impact.    FO4 is a game with good ideas, but one of the most horrible executions I've seen.

    The crafting system, and the open world are its strong sides. The storyline and side-quests are very much mediocre. Compared to Witcher 3 for example - very bland characters.

    Combat is one massive improvement from Fallout 3 - especially gunplay. Weapons, for the most part, feel like they have impact. Shooting is fun. Cover system is a bit buggy, but serviceable.

    Technical execution is horrible. Textures are extremely bad. Lighting looks nice, until you notice its mostly static - almost everything in the game lacks dynamic shadows. Animations are horrible. On top of that - game forces V-Sync, because else the physics engine bugs out, and it doesn't even lets you select buffering method - absolutely pathetic in 2015. G-Sync users experiencing tons of bugs because G-Sync forces V-Sync off. Despite the game's outdated and, for the most part, ugly graphics - the game is a big resource hogs.

    A game that looks like it was made 3 years ago, should at least have the hardware requirements of a game made 3 years ago. There is no excuse why people with old rigs can't run this game. There is no excuse why consoles can barely reach 30fps.

    Overall, its a massive heap of bugs, deficiencies, false promises and horrible execution, that hides a decent game underneath. But to dig thorugh that pile is an effort no developer has the right to ask from a player.    … Expand
  23. Voukras
    Nov 29, 2015
    4
    To put it shortly, the game is extremely buggy with low performance. The engine is a mess. I think i would be no exaggeration to say that Metal Gear Solid V looks better and runs twice as fast.

    The gameplay has huge problems, inheriting everything from previous games with zero improvement. There are only two options: Either the game can be too easy or enemies become time wasting bullet    To put it shortly, the game is extremely buggy with low performance. The engine is a mess. I think i would be no exaggeration to say that Metal Gear Solid V looks better and runs twice as fast.

    The gameplay has huge problems, inheriting everything from previous games with zero improvement. There are only two options: Either the game can be too easy or enemies become time wasting bullet sponges, depending on the difficulty you choose.

    The storyline is uninspired. The motivations of the characters are simple and boring at best, paling in comparison to characters like John Henry Eden from the previous iteration. Even characters from New Vegas that I thought were boring such as Boone now seem like complex and well done characters when compared to the characters in Fallout 4.

    The only remotely good things about the game are the weapon modding and base building. But even the base building is incredibly rudimentary and clunky. It is inherently fun because of its concept but it's implemented in a very throw away way.

    The game is not an improvement on Fallout 3 or NV. It is merely different in a few regards. Worse in many, better in a few. Very disappointing.    … Expand
  24. Schwarzspuk
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Verstümmeltes Dialogsystem, Skillsystem runtergedummt, gestrichene Karmapunkte, Inventar aus Oblivion, veraltete Grafik, Gesichtsanimationen, Lippensynchronität usw.
    Trauerspiel !
    Meine Entäuschung des Jahres.
  25. misiaczek
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst Fallout Ever, even Fallout 3 was better. Story is weak, as usual for Bethesda. Hud and interface for PC are one giant misunderstanding. Getting a Power Armor after 15 minutes just kills the fun of finding it. I think that this is one giant failure, thought myabe they've learned something from Fallout 3 and Obsidian who did a nice job in FNV. Only feature I found nice was weapon/armor mods.… Expand
  26. ShadowWarfare
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    The creators didn't even attempt to create a coherent wasteland. Fallout is supposed to be a RPG about surviving a nuclear holocaust. In Fallout 4 however the game appears to be about nothing more than capping enemies in the head with an assortment of different weapons.

    The design of the game has gone from being a game which tells a story. To simply a game about playing a game. Fifteen    The creators didn't even attempt to create a coherent wasteland. Fallout is supposed to be a RPG about surviving a nuclear holocaust. In Fallout 4 however the game appears to be about nothing more than capping enemies in the head with an assortment of different weapons.

    The design of the game has gone from being a game which tells a story. To simply a game about playing a game. Fifteen minutes after leaving the Vault butt-naked with nothing but a blue jumper suit and a pistol to your name, you will acquire a suit of high tech Power armor along with a Minigun to go along with it. Twenty minutes into the game you will be destroying some of the most powerful enemies in Fallout lore, the dreaded Deathclaw government experimented super soldier.

    A few more hours into the game and you will have a mini nuclear rocket launch (The Fatman). An assortment of weapons from machine guns, pistols, sniper rifles, shotguns, auto pistols (list goes on).

    Another hour into the game and you will meet the Elite Brotherhood of Steel, the futuristic faction of super soldiers who guard their high technology secrets furiously. Don't worry though because they'll be happy to recruit you into their ranks almost instantly. Thus giving you access to laser weapons and other high tech weapons. The recon leader of the Brotherhood is even nice enough to give you his prized possession, his legendary laser rifle. Yes he will give his most prized weapon to some random wastelander he met just ten minutes ago.

    And that's Fallout 4 for you. It doesn't even attempt to make any sense. It has no character progression because your character will go from zero to hero before you even get ten percent into the game. And the games world is not a wasteland. It's just a game world which looks like a wasteland and has a bunch of loot thrown into it so that the console players can run around capping zombies and raiders without even trying.    … Expand
  27. MagnesiumDew
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    Yep, its **** Well not that **** but they've managed to de-rpg the **** out of this. No more karma, meaningful conversations, crap performance (once again) and low quality textures abound. I have a 980 TI and since the framerate is bound to the gameplay, indoors, the game plays at 2x speed. Its worse IMHO than Saints Row 2's port was. And this isn't even a port.
    For ****s Sake Bethesda.    Yep, its **** Well not that **** but they've managed to de-rpg the **** out of this. No more karma, meaningful conversations, crap performance (once again) and low quality textures abound. I have a 980 TI and since the framerate is bound to the gameplay, indoors, the game plays at 2x speed. Its worse IMHO than Saints Row 2's port was. And this isn't even a port.
    For ****s Sake Bethesda.
    For ****s Sake    … Expand
  28. Zeriel
    Feb 12, 2016
    4
    As a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to playAs a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to play League of Legends. **** you Bethesda for abandoning your fans :(… Expand
  29. diendjap
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    A very mediocre game by all standards. Gameplay is a straightforward FPS with some role-playing elements, RPG elements are dumbed down significantly even compared to Fallout 3, dialogue is really bad, graphics look fine if you look at something from far away, but once you get close, Creation Engine really 'shines' with its horrible textures, audio is pretty good, animations are terrible.A very mediocre game by all standards. Gameplay is a straightforward FPS with some role-playing elements, RPG elements are dumbed down significantly even compared to Fallout 3, dialogue is really bad, graphics look fine if you look at something from far away, but once you get close, Creation Engine really 'shines' with its horrible textures, audio is pretty good, animations are terrible. Story is really bad, especially the ending (which is binary, by the way). Some of the dialogue is B-movie tier, some of it is C-movie tier. That's about it. PC port also crashes a lot for me, so 4/10 for me.… Expand
  30. NicoNofx
    Nov 27, 2019
    4
    Don't get me wrong, the game is a classic but I have never experienced so many glitches and bugs in a game.

    Even playing at 1080 resolution with a Strix 1080, i7 700k and 16 ram at 3200mhz in 2019 the game has a lot of trouble keeping at 60 fps stable. I spent a lot of time downloading mods to try to solve the terrible Bethesda engine, and that's not what I want in a game, I want to    Don't get me wrong, the game is a classic but I have never experienced so many glitches and bugs in a game.

    Even playing at 1080 resolution with a Strix 1080, i7 700k and 16 ram at 3200mhz in 2019 the game has a lot of trouble keeping at 60 fps stable.

    I spent a lot of time downloading mods to try to solve the terrible Bethesda engine, and that's not what I want in a game, I want to install it and play it. (Not counting loading screens that can reach up to 3 minutes just by leaving and entering a building)

    I have to install Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, ENB, tons of textures, change some values with the text editor, watch some videos to solve crashing errors and even use the ingame console to complete some quest that were still bugged.

    It is not worth so much effort and money just so that when the fight starts, the game goes from 60fps (if you had luck) to 40 or even less.

    Bethesta has lost contact with fans delivering increasingly incomplete products, and boy don't let me talk about fallout 76, because otherwise this review would extend a few more characters.    … Expand
  31. Merari
    Dec 13, 2015
    4
    It's simply not a good Fallout game.

    It's a decent enough shooter but if this didn't have the Fallout name attached to it then it would have been gone and forgotten by 2016 and certainly would not have gotten such glowing reviews from the professional sites. Most all RPG elements have been removed. Choice and consequence, dialogue, removed. In its place are boring endlessly repeated    It's simply not a good Fallout game.

    It's a decent enough shooter but if this didn't have the Fallout name attached to it then it would have been gone and forgotten by 2016 and certainly would not have gotten such glowing reviews from the professional sites.

    Most all RPG elements have been removed. Choice and consequence, dialogue, removed. In its place are boring endlessly repeated quests and an incentive to collect every single bit of respawning trash on the map.

    I will never, ever pre-order another Bethesda game after this. They peaked with Morrowind and have been going steadily downhill ever since.    … Expand
  32. xX054Xx
    Dec 19, 2015
    4
    I personally don't know what Bethesda was thinking when they released this, but it couldn't be anything less then a "cash grab".

    I haven't played the previous Fallouts, nor do i plan too after playing this. So with that being said onto the Pros and Cons. Pros: -Some lighting effects (Some shadows, along with AO and rain effects look decent, if not better then the majority of the    I personally don't know what Bethesda was thinking when they released this, but it couldn't be anything less then a "cash grab".

    I haven't played the previous Fallouts, nor do i plan too after playing this. So with that being said onto the Pros and Cons.

    Pros:
    -Some lighting effects (Some shadows, along with AO and rain effects look decent, if not better then the majority of the game)
    -Minecrafting (can be abit of fun once you play around with it.)
    -Upgrading/ customizing weapons
    -Vats is also pretty good (Again, haven't played a fallout previous to this)
    -Soundtrack (Menu ost is amazing)

    Cons:
    -The Story
    It's bad, there is no real thing to explain here. Without including any spoilers, its quite possibly the most cliche script i've ever seen. (Apart from multiple factions, which is the only decent portion of it. Even then it still fails because some faction's storylines just F***ing suck compared to the rest. I'm looking at you whoever made the Minutemen Questline....) Endings are also pretty similar.

    -Gameplay
    Again, its the first fallout i've played so far. I've looked at videos of the previous fallout entries, and while fallout 4 has much better gameplay (from the videos that is) than the previous titles, its still extremely slow paced for my taste.

    Difficulty
    AI doesn't become smarter, they become giant bullet sponges while dealing more damage to you. Challenge is pretty much just off-set by better gear.

    Weapons
    While weapon customization is good, most options (And a good majority of weapons) are completely useless. After a while your down to extremely generic weapons that pretty much take up your entire inventory.

    (Some gun models don't even have triggers on them, though i won't really include that in the cons)

    Graphics
    It's bad. Really bad. This game is quite possibly the worst looking game i've played within the last 7 years.
    (Wtf is that foggy white light indoors?)

    Optimization
    My specs:
    Gtx 960 (2g)
    FX 6300
    8G ram

    Lowest AVG FPS :29 (Outside, Inside 35)
    Highest AVG FPS : 49 (Outside, Inside 57)
    Settings (High, Godrays off, Shadows are all at high, view distance maxed as well)
    I understand that i could tinker with my settings for more FPS, and i understand that i don't have a beast gaming PC, and i understand that I'm not using an intel processor (in the mist of upgrading in a week)
    But for a game that came out LATE 2015, and even if its rendering at a decent distance, this game runs and looks like horse S***. There is no reason why this game is optimized as it is. None. You can't defend this game at any level when it comes to optimization or graphical quality (Other than a few lighting effects of course). I get it, graphics aren't everything, but i shouldn't be playing a game that looks like it came out in 2007 in 2015.

    Voice Acting

    Some Voice actors sound much better than others, however alot of the voices sound as if there coming from B rated actors (Hell even C rated sometimes). Enemy voice acting is pretty decent however.

    Side Quests
    90% of them are generic fetch quests. (However some random encounters are much better than others).

    Mixed opinions on subjects are as followed:
    Exploration: While the world is decently sized, alot of it just feels empty. Locations are mostly closed off, and most locations are pretty much just for taking screanshots and have no real purpose. Which again, is pretty weird considering how hyped-up this game was. Teammates/Companions While some of the features of the AI are great (ie, dialog, background, customization). The biggest problem is that its pretty much pointless to have one. The story doesn't change, the AI depending on the situation just likes or hates you for your choice. Along with the fact that they don't die completely, takes the little realism that this game has, out the window. Perks: While the concept is pretty good, it's pretty much the same as any RPG. Put X stat in X skill and get X bonus. No real skill tree's or gameplay changes. Random encounters: While some do add abit of style to it (The fridge man lol) most are again pretty pointless, aside from getting legendary weapons. They don't add anything to the story the majority of the time, and the ones that do are just really small details. I don't know if i missed anything but, at this point im just going to call it a night. All in all, while the game is not a 1, its certainly not worthy of anything over a 5. This is one of the games that you play when your bored, and like to have mindless fun. I personally don't know what game the other reviewers (The ones getting 8-10s especially) are playing, but i guess i might be playing a completely different version. My final score is a 4.5/10.    … Expand
  33. Dudraug
    Dec 6, 2015
    4
    it is not good game, it is not fallout, it is not rpg. this game don't have good sotry, good quests or anything interesting. I don't want to explore this word like Morrowin. I can't to love any characters, places, sotries. I can't love this game, sorry. 4/10
  34. janki
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    I don't like that with each release they are going away from the RPG and turning the series more and more into an fps. That's not what it should be about. While the story so far is decent im not a fan of the game play. Graphics aren't all that great either.

    This game has also a lots of bugs. Some of which can break the game.
  35. Drakensangs
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Mediocre gameplay, insultingly bad story and characters, a horrible dialogue wheel and last gen graphics that make you wonder just why the game is running so bad.
  36. Azarack
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    It realy bad game, and it is done for 10-15 old boys with no brain att all. Where ismple were stupid with minimum main story. Don't buy , it not worth it
  37. jseph1234
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This a very clunky, poorly written disappointment after the 5 Year wait for Fallout4. The writing is so bad it makes the whole story asinine. Not enough adventure hooks, branching storyline availability to make this more a one time playthrough.
    Not even CLOSE to Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3 (My First) which were both 9/10 and 10/10 with Mods.

    Fallout 4 is a 4/10 at best...sad, dammit!
  38. DDVIL
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    This is truly one of the biggest disappointments of the year. I've heard it all, from the "the reason Skyrim has 60 companions and Fallout 4 has 12 is because Bethesda wanted to make them unique" to the "Bethesda using last gen assets from an 8 year old game is perfectly acceptable because it speed up development time". But none of these excuse bethesda's laziness. After all they are aThis is truly one of the biggest disappointments of the year. I've heard it all, from the "the reason Skyrim has 60 companions and Fallout 4 has 12 is because Bethesda wanted to make them unique" to the "Bethesda using last gen assets from an 8 year old game is perfectly acceptable because it speed up development time". But none of these excuse bethesda's laziness. After all they are a multi billion dollar company, with development teams bigger than most industry leading companies out there, it is a shame that a triple A company with 4 consecutive game of the year awards and a budget so large it would put most triple A games to bed releases yet another unfinished product to the market.

    Glitches:
    The game has countless problems, from AI path-finding glitches, falling through the ground, areas not loading properly, constant freezes (specially on consoles), re-used animations from skyrim and Fallout 3, the list goes on. Like many reviewers (who GAVE IT A 10/10) POINTED out, it is a Bethesda game, and they still haven't figured a way to release a properly working game. How can someone admit that the game is unplayable at times yet give it a 10/10 is beyond me *cash in sound plays in the background*.

    The player model often finds itself stuck around the world, from invisible walls (the countless videos about it on the internet) to not being able to pass through areas because there's a small rock on the ground obstructing it's path.

    Story:
    It's more of the same, Bethesda has this ability to make interesting stories, that are only good on concept. I enjoyed it at times, but when you have games like Witcher 3 in which most side quests affect the world around you and the main quest has a lot of diverging paths that will ultimately affect the outcome of the story, playing fallout, despite being an open world, feel like an scripted experience.

    Graphics: It's laughably ugly. From armors not being fully 3d rendered, with the majority (80%) of details being illusions caused by normals/bumpmaps generated from baking much much higher poly meshes. Even the shirt sleeve tears are not rendered this time, they are hand drawn (actual meshes) to avoid using high quality texture work with proper alpha channels. It's an ugly technique that makes things such as ripped cloth look like a lego set piece. Shadows stop being rendered 5 meters way from you. LOD is reduced to a minimum, even on max settings on PC so that the engine can keep itself from CTD.

    Gameplay: In short, It's better than fallout 3. Shooting mechanics actually have feel to them now, there is actual recoil to some weapons. Enemies drop like flies, disembodiment looks great... the hit detection has been improved. The vats system is as great as Fallout 3. The gameplay is definitely the highest point in the series, but it's not enough to justify everything else that's going on.

    Will you like this game? Depends, are you the type of person who blindly wastes your money on DLC, micro-transactions and browser games with bait pictures of hot females? Do you have nothing else better to play? Are you a Fallout die-hard who will threaten people with decapitation over observable facts? Then this is the game for you.

    For the rest of us. No, Wait for the game to be patched, DLCs to come out and it to drop in price. This game is not worth 70 bucks.    … Expand
  39. titan357
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Oh boy, where to begin? Having playing Every fallout so far, yes even tactics and BOS and having the collectors edition of New Vegas and Fallout 3 I feel I can safely say I am a fan of the series.

    So, lets start off where I started off.
    Launch the game, stuck to the left "wing" dispaly of my triple 23's. No matter what I tried I was unable to move it center screen, nor was I able to find a 5760X1080 option. I disable eyefinity start over.

    Character creation, done, FOV looks off and FPS isnt that great despite my I7 4770K, R9 390X and 16 gb ram wiht FO4 on a SSD, I got all the bases covered here.
    Ttalk to "vault guy" game CTD, restart, CTD again when swapping to female character.
    Start game, locks up and I have to force close with task manager several times.
    End up verifying game with steam and it fixes it.

    Get to pick special stats, only 21 points instead of normal 39 from Fallout 3 and NV 1 and 2. Really? So you can have a balanced start of all 4s? On the games own scale of 1-10 a 4 is below average.

    Try to change FOV with ini tweaks since the game doesn't have a FOV slider and Bethesda thought 75ish FOV would be swell but it doesn't stick and keeps reverting.

    Finally get to Vault 111, and here is where the story is already falling apart, your spouse is killed and your son is taken. Who cares about an NPC we have known for all of 15 minutes?
    Zero motivation to care about the story.

    Terrible FPS drops inside and outside.
    Power armor is now a limited use thing powered by fuel cells.
    Dialog wheel is complete trash. Mostly the four options are, yes, no, maybe and "sarcastic". Once you advance dialog you cant go back to ask other questions.
    PC UI is troublesome to navigate and the keybinds are horrendous. Especially for the base building and conversation selection.
    Voice acting is flat and lines are often repeated over and over.
    Graphics are sub par for a 2015 game.

    Its not all bad, the new weapon and armor customization are neat, power armor customization is pretty good and while flawed controls hinder the base building its still a nice adaptation from the modders work on earlier titles.
    Power armor hud is pretty slick, but mods for NV/3 do it better.

    Gun play is vastly better now, but the AI isnt much better than what we seen in Skyrim already, especially apparent in stealth despite making loads of noise kicking stuff around when moving.    … Expand
  40. Zewp
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    Bethesda: The Game 4. Boring, uninspired, tedious, shallow. Take your pick. You would honestly expect better from Bethesda in 2015, but you'd be expecting wrong. Meanwhile the gaming press is fawning over it and making Bethesda think they struck gold, so don't expect any significant improvements in the next Elder Scrolls either.
  41. TurtleBurger
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    Other than the game being broken on release, there are a lot of problems. The progression makes no sense. You're instantly given power armor, a minigun, and a Fat Man is near the start. The guns may seem like they're too powerful early on, but they're actually pretty bad. You can't craft ammo and vendors never carry enough ammo, so once you're done with all 300 5mm bullets, you willOther than the game being broken on release, there are a lot of problems. The progression makes no sense. You're instantly given power armor, a minigun, and a Fat Man is near the start. The guns may seem like they're too powerful early on, but they're actually pretty bad. You can't craft ammo and vendors never carry enough ammo, so once you're done with all 300 5mm bullets, you will probably never regain the loss, and the minigun becomes almost completely useless. The Fat Man's mini nukes seem more common than 5mm bullets...

    The companions are pretty boring and don't have quests like they do in Fallout: New Vegas. The way you get them to like you is also pretty boring; especially Codsworth, where all you have to do is upgrade your power armor. The amount of names Codsworth can say is pretty impressive, though. Other than that, the dog (as seen in the trailers) is even more boring. Unlike something like Rex in Fallout: New Vegas that would have quests and a story, the dog in this is just for the trailer it would seem. They don't do much.

    The quests are very bad. Most of them are fetch quests or quests to clear areas. It gets very, very boring very fast.

    The "legendary" creature system sucks, and makes areas either too easy or way too difficult; especially when you end up getting a high level legendary enemy that can kill you in one hit. I've even had two spawn at the same time.

    The dialogue is very vague. I'm sure everyone knows by now.

    The perk system sucks compared to Fallout 3 or New Vegas. There are no perk/skill/stat-based dialogue checks. So if you liked having a very perceptive or intelligent, maybe even a cannibalistic character with some cool dialogue, say goodbye to that, because now charisma is all that matters with any dialogue. Also, it makes the game way more linear. You can't make your character a good hacker early on because there's an unnecessary level requirement for things that seem like a fair trade for a perk point.

    Almost every NPC is essential, even if they don't serve a purpose.

    There's a lot more, but I can't be bothered.    … Expand
  42. asbestos
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Игра очень разочаровала. Очень странное начало, однотипные квесты. Личность главного героя - молчаливый болван с одной эмоцией. Управление на PC оставляет желать лучшего, но его нельзя поменять. Управление напарником заставляет дергаться глаз. Графика прошлой пятилетки: мутные текстуры, угловатые модели, одинаковые враги, смешная физика, отсутствие разрушаемости.
    Мир пуст и скучен.    Игра очень разочаровала. Очень странное начало, однотипные квесты. Личность главного героя - молчаливый болван с одной эмоцией. Управление на PC оставляет желать лучшего, но его нельзя поменять. Управление напарником заставляет дергаться глаз. Графика прошлой пятилетки: мутные текстуры, угловатые модели, одинаковые враги, смешная физика, отсутствие разрушаемости.
    Мир пуст и скучен. Понравится только тем, кому нравится бесконечно копаться в ящиках, столах, мусорных кучах или разрушенных домах, играть в однотипные мини-игры "взломай замок", "отгадай пароль".
    Постойка поселения не привносит в геймплей ощутимых изменений, также как и крафт оружия.
    Не покупайте, так как Это не стоит своих денег. Подождите распродажи или пропустите эту игру.    … Expand
  43. TwoEars
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    I'm sorry but this doesn't feel like a finished game, it feels more like a beta version and shouldn't have been released in its current state. There are bugs galore, no FOV slider, mouse interface is horrible with a laggy feeling to it, I can't remap keys, it runs like crap and there is no SLI support.

    Also - what I saw of the story and interface feels incredibly dumbed down, it doesn't    I'm sorry but this doesn't feel like a finished game, it feels more like a beta version and shouldn't have been released in its current state. There are bugs galore, no FOV slider, mouse interface is horrible with a laggy feeling to it, I can't remap keys, it runs like crap and there is no SLI support.

    Also - what I saw of the story and interface feels incredibly dumbed down, it doesn't feel like a game made for RPG enthusiasts. I'm going to have to refund this, it's simply not worth the money. I could make a longer review, but this short review better reflects the amount of effort that Bethesda put into making Fallout 4.

    Back to The Witcher 3 it is.    … Expand
  44. Wolverinemetacr
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    If this game was supposed to be a shooter I can understand 7,8,9,10 scores its not supposed to be a shooter guys and gals. Where are the branching paths to this story huh, where are the cool quests huh, where is the dialog with choices that impact the story?

    This is a generic first person shooter an average one at that, there is no replay ability because all you choices lead to the    If this game was supposed to be a shooter I can understand 7,8,9,10 scores its not supposed to be a shooter guys and gals. Where are the branching paths to this story huh, where are the cool quests huh, where is the dialog with choices that impact the story?

    This is a generic first person shooter an average one at that, there is no replay ability because all you choices lead to the same exact thing. I could go on and on I wont why bother. 7 as a shooter 1 as a Fallout game average is a generous 4.    … Expand
  45. JOGRS
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    The game simply doesn't deserve more than a 4.
    It's decent at best.
    The game play has been streamlined to the point of treating you like you're mentally slow.
    The specs listed are far higher than they even should be which only shows bad optimization.
    This will be yet another game from Bethesda, that modders have to fix.
    I plan to finish it then do all I can to get a refund steam.
  46. Megaparadox
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Like a witcher 3 just epic, but no epic worked , a epic crap.
    What can we draw from the construction of the house, especially after the fallout 3, the developers did not do the work on the bugs.
    The main quest is horrible (when compared to Witcher 3 it's just bad taste), questing out - "Kill, kill, kill" and only those. The main complication is essentially no different from the Fallout    Like a witcher 3 just epic, but no epic worked , a epic crap.
    What can we draw from the construction of the house, especially after the fallout 3, the developers did not do the work on the bugs.
    The main quest is horrible (when compared to Witcher 3 it's just bad taste), questing out - "Kill, kill, kill" and only those.
    The main complication is essentially no different from the Fallout 3, and again all the theme. Well, seriously, to press more on this aspect? That's funny.
    And also a lot of bugs of our favorite engine from Skyrim ...    … Expand
  47. gigeorge
    Jan 27, 2016
    4
    Not a patch on FO3. RPG, what rpg. FPS more like ! I was hoping for something a lot better than 3/vegas but Bethesda didn't deliver. Money for old rope !
  48. asfj
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is again a giant company created vast but empty world with bunch of repetitive stuff generated by some randomization, permutation and fractal algorithms which once set, can automatically create endless emptiness abyss in which you never feel enough playing yet can't feel sth with true significance. Killing and rooting are more than 90% of the whole experience while the actualFallout 4 is again a giant company created vast but empty world with bunch of repetitive stuff generated by some randomization, permutation and fractal algorithms which once set, can automatically create endless emptiness abyss in which you never feel enough playing yet can't feel sth with true significance. Killing and rooting are more than 90% of the whole experience while the actual meaningful story is no more than what a decent indie game can deliver, not mention to almost no innovation but just old ideas reused again. The game may deserve $15 like a indie game, but considering its potential high sales figure, its price should be even lower.

    Thats why I'd rather spend my time on indie games majority of which are still HAND-MADE and full of meaningful and innovative content that is even short but let me feel mentally rewarded after experiencing.
    A game shouldn't be qualified by its size and playing time but the actual content hand-made by human in heart. I don't very care how high level or score I can reach, how many shiny badges collected. These are all meaningless afterwards. What I really want is a truly amazing story that can move, inspire and even blow my mind away. After 7 years, still can't figure that out at all? Let me be clear, the term "open-world" is sucked by Bethesda again.

    By the way, if you really care about that customizable construction and weapon system, why don't buy/rent game dev kits which give you true access to large resources, free configuration and much more user-friendly UI to fully release your creativity to craft a really private world or even a game. Do yourself a favor not to waste time on that crappy and painful crafting system in the game. Its not meant for a even casual creator.    … Expand
  49. victorator
    Nov 24, 2015
    4
    Biggest disappointment of the year.

    My worst complaints:

    -boredom
    -quests offer nothing interesting to do
    -BAD shooting mechanic
    -absolutely worst AI ever in a game
    -terrible user interface
    -game looks like crap on my 4k screen with a 980Ti, loading times are completely unjustified
    -dont buy unless youre a hardcore fallout fan
  50. 21grams
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This game is one big disappointment. The game doesn't look good (event terrible at times) ant it literally feels very dated. I wouldn't care that much about graphics if it could compensate in other areas, but it simply doesn't.

    From technical standpoint, this game is not suitable for PC - no FOV slider (locked at consolish 80), weird mouse acceleration, different camera speeds for X and    This game is one big disappointment. The game doesn't look good (event terrible at times) ant it literally feels very dated. I wouldn't care that much about graphics if it could compensate in other areas, but it simply doesn't.

    From technical standpoint, this game is not suitable for PC - no FOV slider (locked at consolish 80), weird mouse acceleration, different camera speeds for X and Y axis - luckily you can fix that by messing with config files manually. But not including these options in UI is disrespect to PC platform. Game also looks pretty bad, textures are simply terrible, character detail is absent, I've seen tons of indie games that look better and are more polished.

    UI - well nothing had change, as bad as it was, very uncomfortable to use and browsing inventory (which is one big mess) is simply waste of time.

    Dialogues are lame, and with voice actor, the choices are absolutely ridiculous: yes, no, maybe, sarcastic, just wow... 20hours into the game I haven't met an interesting character yet - all feel very generic and all are like emotionless robots, not human beings at all. Quests make me fall asleep - they feel like a MMO quests just with some dialogues here ant there, but they don't have any interesting story background - we need you to clear that spot from riders - isn't that amazing? I'm falling asleep within 1-2hour of gaming session.

    Once again, Bethesda confirms it's one of the most overrated companies in triple A market. It's basically a Fallout 3 with dumped down dialogs and some new effects for graphics which event don't make the game look and feels any better. This game is huge let down, now I feel MGS 5 was way better game with its half content missing and being unfinished, which was considered biggest disappointment of 2015, well I think Fallout 4 is bigger fail than MGS5 was.

    I would not recommend buying this game at current price and until modders will fix all this crap which should be already made and polished by the developers. In short, this ain't a 60eur (triple A priced) game at all.    … Expand
  51. monroe076
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    This had the potential to be a really good game, but it lacks a good story, non repetitive quests and interesting characters. It just feels empty and boring. All the quests are basically the same, you get a location and you go there and shoot everybody. You just have to shoot everybody there is no other option. The dialogue system was lobotomized, the UI is for consoles and it feels dumbThis had the potential to be a really good game, but it lacks a good story, non repetitive quests and interesting characters. It just feels empty and boring. All the quests are basically the same, you get a location and you go there and shoot everybody. You just have to shoot everybody there is no other option. The dialogue system was lobotomized, the UI is for consoles and it feels dumb using it on a PC. There is some sort of crafting system for building communities and towns, but it has no real effect on the game so it's just a time-sink I guess.

    All in all, the game just lacks soul and imagination to the point it just saddens me because I see the potential in it.    … Expand
  52. Prismacat
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    The story is lackluster, the dialogue options are terrible, the writing itself is sub-par. Essentially if you've gotten more than 2 hours into the game you've played enough to know that's exactly how the rest of the game is. There's a significant lack of side-quests or well.. quests with any kind of merit other than "go kill these and/or retrieve the object they have".

    $60 for this game    The story is lackluster, the dialogue options are terrible, the writing itself is sub-par. Essentially if you've gotten more than 2 hours into the game you've played enough to know that's exactly how the rest of the game is. There's a significant lack of side-quests or well.. quests with any kind of merit other than "go kill these and/or retrieve the object they have".

    $60 for this game is nowhere near worth it. This is not a AAA quality title by any means. We're trying to get a refund, because honestly this game is not worth more than $20 in my personal opinion.    … Expand
  53. Atomicbulldozer
    Nov 18, 2015
    4
    The combat, the graphics, the music are all excellent. However, WTF is up with this retardedly short mainstory? 10 freaking quests... no depth whatsoever in either the characters or the story.

    Bioware did it - da:i, CD Projekt red did it - TW3 and now bethesda. They're milking people with their franchises: throw an open world with boring garbage to do, with no depth whatsoever in    The combat, the graphics, the music are all excellent. However, WTF is up with this retardedly short mainstory? 10 freaking quests... no depth whatsoever in either the characters or the story.

    Bioware did it - da:i, CD Projekt red did it - TW3 and now bethesda. They're milking people with their franchises: throw an open world with boring garbage to do, with no depth whatsoever in characters, and throw an incredibly short and boring mainstory. You people seriously disgust me.    … Expand
  54. telefoonboek
    Apr 10, 2016
    4
    The game starts with an intro thats comparable to fallout 3 and fallout New Vegas, I played both of these games. U start in a normal house husband and wife when the nukes start falling and u have to run to the vault shelter. The first 30 minutes are the best the game has to offer, the rest is a huge let down.

    After u wake up and leave the vault, the game feels shallow and I feel no    The game starts with an intro thats comparable to fallout 3 and fallout New Vegas, I played both of these games. U start in a normal house husband and wife when the nukes start falling and u have to run to the vault shelter. The first 30 minutes are the best the game has to offer, the rest is a huge let down.

    After u wake up and leave the vault, the game feels shallow and I feel no connection to the story like I did in the previous games. I simply didnt finish the game by the lack of interest.

    If u really wanna try this game, I suggest u wait untill the prices drop below 30 euros.    … Expand
  55. Redmaw69
    Nov 26, 2015
    4
    If I wanted to play a post apocalyptic shooter then I would have played something in the Borderlands franchise..
    If I wanted to play an RPG with shooter styled combat I would have played something in the Mass Effect franchise..
    If I wanted to play a game with resource gathering and base building I would have played a Minecraft mod.. I wanted to play Fallout, I should have gone back to    If I wanted to play a post apocalyptic shooter then I would have played something in the Borderlands franchise..
    If I wanted to play an RPG with shooter styled combat I would have played something in the Mass Effect franchise..
    If I wanted to play a game with resource gathering and base building I would have played a Minecraft mod..
    I wanted to play Fallout, I should have gone back to replay Fallout 1 or 2..
    I understand why Bethesda fan boys like this game, but in my opinion they ruined a good RPG franchise by making a buggy modding platform with hours of bare minimal gameplay at a premium price...
    Only reason I gave this a 4 and not a 0 is that it is playable and some people will get enjoyment out of this.. I'm not one of those people....    … Expand
  56. offline_n1
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    I really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not soI really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not so "survival", the enemy just getting tougher and you getting weaker that's all, no more "has to sleep" or anthing like the hardcore mode in Falout NV.
    IF you are new to fallout series, you will love this game, if you are a fan of this series? Wait until it's half price at least, and you will be disappointed    … Expand
  57. EnerTomasino
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    This game looks like they just took Fallout 3, added new lights and scenery. Maybe its great for players with low pc specs or a big FANS of Fallout, but this can't be sold for 60 BUCKS. I don't see any work. Just routine gameplay. Only plus is the beginning of the game, its interesting and intriguingly...
  58. LeftZer0
    Nov 30, 2015
    4
    TL;DR: Disappointing. Decent-to-bad Far Cry-like open-world shooter, horrible wRPG.

    The good: +The FPS mechanics have been greatly improved. It's not nearly as good as a true shooter like Counter-Strike, but it's passable - much better than the horrible FO3 mechanics. +Modding guns and armor is fun. +Graphics are good enough. Not the best ones around, but enough with decent textures,    TL;DR: Disappointing. Decent-to-bad Far Cry-like open-world shooter, horrible wRPG.

    The good:
    +The FPS mechanics have been greatly improved. It's not nearly as good as a true shooter like Counter-Strike, but it's passable - much better than the horrible FO3 mechanics.
    +Modding guns and armor is fun.
    +Graphics are good enough. Not the best ones around, but enough with decent textures, good lightning and some beautiful locations.
    +Animations have been greatly improved. They're still bad for today's standards, but better than the last ones and, again, enough to convince.
    +Less bugs than the standard Bethesda release.

    The bad:
    -Tiered perks. Those that give you +X every time you level them up. That's extremely lazy character building.
    -Gun variety is low. Yes, you can mod guns for hundreds of combinations, but ultimately there are very few "base guns".
    -Scavenging for rarer components is annoying and feels like grinding.
    -Enemy and companion AI is still terrible.
    -The game is easy even at the hardest setting.
    -Settlement building interface is horrible. You have to walk around to place stuff. You have to manually assign settlers. You can't check if a settler is already assigned unless you mark them somehow (usually giving assigned settlers specific clothing). Functionally there's almost nothing, it's shallower than Fallout Shelter.
    -The world is smaller than the last ones, which is made up by well-done locations, which is destroyed by every location being the same linear Raider/Super-mutant/Ghoul-invested area that you clean to get **** loot.
    -An absurd number of the quests involve going somewhere, killing everything in your way and either killing a specific enemy or taking something. They were added just to mark a location in your map and give you a reason to go there - to the same linear Raider/Super-mutant/Ghoul-invested area that you clean to get **** loot.
    -The wRPG elements are gone. Your options are almost none. Almost every dialog option is limited to Yes/No/Tell me more/Sarcastic Yes, with No being in almost every case "I'll take this quest later". I thought Bethesda would learn from FO: New Vegas on how to create a 3D wRPG, but instead they decided that the players are too stupid to have options and create their own path and restrained them to what they wanted. The result is a game that has nothing to do with the previous Fallout except for the setting, being closer to Far Cry 3 and 4 - while not being nearly as good.    … Expand
  59. 731
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Finally, it has happened. Bethesda has finally realized how bad they are at making RPG's so they go all-out with this post-apocalyptic Far Cry. Skyrim with guns? Ha, you wish. At least in Skyrim you had the desire to find out something interesting despite the **** design. In Fallout 4, your desire to vomit stops you even from laughing at the bland characters, HORRIBLE writing, crappyFinally, it has happened. Bethesda has finally realized how bad they are at making RPG's so they go all-out with this post-apocalyptic Far Cry. Skyrim with guns? Ha, you wish. At least in Skyrim you had the desire to find out something interesting despite the **** design. In Fallout 4, your desire to vomit stops you even from laughing at the bland characters, HORRIBLE writing, crappy voice-overs, dumbed down systems and retarded AI.

    Everything in this game is a step down from New Vegas and even Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Gone are the Fallout skills systems, reactivity and robust dialogue. They way Bethesda bastardized such an important core of Fallout is just baffling to me.

    Bethesda has never known how to properly write their games, and Fallout 4 is the ultimate testament to this. The new dialogue wheel is simply atrocious and I don't even want to guess how much ganja was consumed when the storyline was written. The opening is the ultimate cringe, even by Bethesda's standards. Main quest doesn't matter ? Guess neither do characters, side quests and dialogue. Because they are all garbage too.

    So, the legendary Bethesda performance? As expected, the game runs like **** and I've encountered more bugs than I care to list. Modders are going to have to work triple shifts to make this console port even semi-playable.
    I don't even care about the graphics that much, sure they are quite lame considering it's 2015 but art direction is actually alright at times. The lighting makes for some moody environments and gunplay actually feels improved but I am kinda past caring at this point.

    Bethesda, you sure never change. You won't even bother to improve the biggest shortcomings and bugs of your previous games. But hey, it's okay when Bethesda does it because their bugs are "heheheh so funny".

    GOTY 2015    … Expand
  60. UMPiCK
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    After FNV I expected Bethesda to step up their game. They didn't. It's nothing but a shooter with an open world. All we can do now is wait for Obsidian to make an actually good Fallout game. The voice acting was the worst thing ever brought into the Fallout franchise. Yes, worse than the switch to fps.
  61. MR67
    Jul 15, 2016
    4
    I've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro doesI've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro does nothing to build up your interest in the game at all. I've only spent a few hours playing the game but just cannot get into it while I wander around aimlessly just looking for things to shoot as I have absolutely zero motivation to care about anything in the game. Add to that the somewhat dated graphics, environments that seem to seem to belong in an LSD addict's colouring book, terrible facial animations, boring settlement building, retarded dialogue system and dumbed down RPG elements, and I really wonder how the so-called critics could rate this game so highly. Maybe I'll be able to force myself to sit down with this game for a bit longer sometime and revise my rating, but I doubt that. It really seems like this was a side project for Bethe$da just to keep the Fallout franchise going and cash in on the hype with minimal development effort while they focused on other projects like Elder Scrolls Online.

    Rather spend your money on Fallout New Vegas if you haven't already played it and spruce it up to your personal taste with a few choice free mods from the Fallout Nexus or someplace similar. It really is something of a travesty when a company like Bethe$da is raking in the money with these so-called "AAA" titles while the likes of Obsidian who seem to have a much better idea of what constitutes a great CRPG game have to use Kickstarter to fund their projects.    … Expand
  62. james2003
    Jan 12, 2016
    4
    I have played every Fallout game ever made and Fallout 4 is the worse. It started with mixed feelings from the get go and ended with numerous game looping bugs that left me with no option but to leave it. Or until a patch, but the last one was early December and still no major fixes to the game. I suggest leaving this game until it’s been resolved… You have been warned.
    The main    I have played every Fallout game ever made and Fallout 4 is the worse. It started with mixed feelings from the get go and ended with numerous game looping bugs that left me with no option but to leave it. Or until a patch, but the last one was early December and still no major fixes to the game. I suggest leaving this game until it’s been resolved… You have been warned.
    The main impression I have of the game is the tedious nature of the missions. From constantly being harassed by your settlers as they somehow manage to let themselves be captured again. The annoyance of try to figure out how the game mechanics and how missions work as explanations are incredibly vague at times.
    But the worse crime is the blatant standing on the shoulder of giants. You can see influences of Mass Effect with its character romances and dial spinning dialog options. Minecraft and is building of settlements and structures. As well as other new improvements that have been fully borrowed and half implemented.
    It’s a shame as there are some small glimmers over shadowed by major game coding flaws and underutilised concepts. Like for example you get to build your own bases with scrap found from the wasteland, nice concept… liking it. Yet there are some blindly obvious things Fallout missed, making this ultimately a huge fail.
    First and foremost is no mass way to arm settlers, you literally have to talk to everyone and trade with them independently. Also why not have a base test, throw some raider at the walls, and let me see my settlement defences working out?
    A huge mistake was to allow you to own more than one settlement to be built in the wasteland. It means three quarters of the game is wasted just picking up junk and transporting it back to feed your settlements. Ironically you do this in the hopes that your one of many settlements will leave you alone, defend themselves for a change, but it doesn’t happen. It’s a vicious circle that gobbles up your time and will eventually leave you with a bitter taste in your mouth.
    The story really highlights how bad it has become. I methodically play the game destroying evil and rise to become the leader of the faction I choose. But at some point, really close to the end, you lose all choice. You are pointed down a few roads, none you feel particularly happy about, but you have to take without deviation. Why... because fallout endings have always sucked just a little just like war and war never changes.    … Expand
  63. skystaff
    Jul 21, 2018
    4
    Map is incredibly small.Dialog sistem is an disaster.World is not interesting to explore like in previous games.Game runs extremely bad and needs a ton of optimization.Side quests are boring as hell and after 70 hours in i see that there is no other storyline except the main storyline.Only one setlement called Diamond city in the game while in Skyrim you had a bunch of them.Rpg elementsMap is incredibly small.Dialog sistem is an disaster.World is not interesting to explore like in previous games.Game runs extremely bad and needs a ton of optimization.Side quests are boring as hell and after 70 hours in i see that there is no other storyline except the main storyline.Only one setlement called Diamond city in the game while in Skyrim you had a bunch of them.Rpg elements are gone and although i am having some fun with the game i think it is the worse game bethesda game studios have ever made,It feels like they did not put almost any effort in making of this game.I am not meeting anyone while i am exploring this world,all in all they took a lot of steps back with this game… Expand
  64. Whadafug
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    All I will say is: Bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

    I'm not really sure how or why they think this is an acceptable release in today's world? It is utterly and totally outclassed by games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3. Fallout New Vegas is a vastly superior game from a gameplay stand point. The game world lacks charm and often doesn't give you enough reasons to mesh    All I will say is: Bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

    I'm not really sure how or why they think this is an acceptable release in today's world?

    It is utterly and totally outclassed by games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Witcher 3. Fallout New Vegas is a vastly superior game from a gameplay stand point. The game world lacks charm and often doesn't give you enough reasons to mesh with it emotionally. Case in point: the start of the game is too short to have anything resembling a meaningful emotional impact, despite wife, baby and dog. The graphics aren't even true next gen (again, The Witcher 3 makes it look like a late XBox 360 title).

    I won't go any further; don't want to spoil the awful for you.

    Then again, we have to remember that this is a game from a company that thought it would be "cool" to profit off modifications that have traditionally been free, so expecting them to actually invest in and make a game that moves the franchise on in any meaningful way is a tall order.

    Bethesda won't be enjoying their lofty position for much longer if this is the best they can manage. Along with Blizzard, it seems all my favourite developers of yore have become greedy, self-congratulationist corporate gits. Frankly.    … Expand
  65. Uriel99
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Well, it's not fallout. The game design is great, visually it's ok. However this was supposed to be Fallout game and it's not. There is no roleplaying element to it. Dialogues are joke - Yes, No and Maybe 90% of the time. Quests are repetitive (Fedex and Go Kill variety most of the time), AI is rather retarded.

    It's nice to roam the wasteland and find nice little stories but beside    Well, it's not fallout. The game design is great, visually it's ok. However this was supposed to be Fallout game and it's not. There is no roleplaying element to it. Dialogues are joke - Yes, No and Maybe 90% of the time. Quests are repetitive (Fedex and Go Kill variety most of the time), AI is rather retarded.

    It's nice to roam the wasteland and find nice little stories but beside that? Not much to do.

    And don't even get me started on Sims mechanics. You are supposed to build beds for people now and set up trade roites between your towns. Why? What for? Probably to cover the fact that there is not much of a story in this game.

    I might return to adjust my score later on. The sad part is, if this was some generic game it might have been ok. It just won't do to take Fallout brand and make game without proper RPG element or story.

    Did I mention that UI is a consolized garbage? Sometimes you have to press enter to close window, sometimes ESC and sometimes TAB.    … Expand
  66. matt79
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    I can't find any pleasure in playing Fallout 4. Mediocre combat mechanics. Extremly simplified, almost non existent RPG elements - the most singnificant part of character creation is face sculpture, so go figure. UI is clunky and not really user friendly. But the worst thing are the dialogues. Damn! The dialogue wheel from Mass Effect got simplified even further. Plus, it just looks dated,I can't find any pleasure in playing Fallout 4. Mediocre combat mechanics. Extremly simplified, almost non existent RPG elements - the most singnificant part of character creation is face sculpture, so go figure. UI is clunky and not really user friendly. But the worst thing are the dialogues. Damn! The dialogue wheel from Mass Effect got simplified even further. Plus, it just looks dated, the world doesn't really give the sense of immersion.… Expand
  67. Sergi
    Nov 30, 2015
    4
    "Война никогда не меняется" - повторяется из части в часть игры. Да только игра сама меняется. Изменилась четвёртая часть не в лучшую сторону.
    Безусловно, оформление игры визуально улучшилось. Но это касается лишь общей картинки. А вот человечков нарисовали просто убого. Уж больно они пластмассовые все, синтетические. В Скайриме нарисованы лица получше будут. И раз уж в игре очень много    "Война никогда не меняется" - повторяется из части в часть игры. Да только игра сама меняется. Изменилась четвёртая часть не в лучшую сторону.
    Безусловно, оформление игры визуально улучшилось. Но это касается лишь общей картинки. А вот человечков нарисовали просто убого. Уж больно они пластмассовые все, синтетические. В Скайриме нарисованы лица получше будут. И раз уж в игре очень много синтов, которые якобы выступают угрозой всему населению сообщества, то представляются все человечки в игре как раз выходцами из института. Все как куклы. Смотреть страшно. А мимика вообще ужасная.
    Музыкальное сопровождение не изменилось практически со времен 3 части. Много песен мы слышали в ней. Поэтому лучше не стало.
    Диалоги нам обещали улучшить, вариативности в них добавить и персонаж говорящим сделать. Но лично я не вижу в этой части улучшений, а только хуже. Вариативность в диалогах условная. По сути всё сводится к 4 вариантам. Один из которых практически завершает диалог. Строчка сарказм в диалоге лично у меня смеха не вызывает. Уж больно всё примитивно.
    С учётом, что дублежа русского нет, а строки диалогов в субтитрах не все переведены или не всегда корректно, своевременно отображаются, то людям плохо владеющим английским многое будет не понятно. Я считаю, это вообще не уважение к русскоговорящим геймерам. Сделали перевод на "отвали", для галочки.
    Теперь о главном, о сюжете. Он как таковой глубокий отсутствует. Задумка может быть была. Да вот воплощение её подвело. А может быть и не было её вовсе. Так всё поверхностно. Хотя начало было интригующим. А вот дальше... Сюжет теряется в череде второстепенных заданий, в большинстве своём однообразных, однотипных.
    По сути, влияния игрока на сюжет нет. Нет в нём таких трогательных, волнующих, ключевых, стержневых моментов, в которых проявляется влияние игрока, в которых игрок участвует, которые заставляют задуматься, волноваться или испытывать иные эмоции. Всё как-то ровно.
    Системы отношений с спутниками или иными НПС нет.
    И еще, от сюжета сильно отвлекает боевая система. Она безусловно стала лучше. И это плюс и минус игры. Быть может, разработчики упор основной сделали именно на боевую составляющую, а про сюжет, ролевую составляющую забыли.
    Про разные баги, глюки не буду писать. Их поправят, думаю. И таких страшных, которые бы мешали играть, нет в игре.
    В итоге, кто ждал хорошую или даже высокого качества ролевую игру будет разочарован. Кому нравится просто стрелять будет доволен. Любителям РПГ не могу рекомендовать данную игру.    … Expand
  68. olejka
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    People developing Fallout:NV fired?

    Fallaut 4 is a series of degradation. This is what you need to be willing to release the game worse F3?
    Every year, the game makes everything easier for a larger number of persons. Soon you can play with just one button:
    PRESS Y TO WIN.
  69. sappyguppy
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    I am surprised and disappointed with this effort from Bethesda. As one of their two flagship games, with five years development time, I was expecting something at least up to the standards of Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3 and FONV - all excellent games in my opinion where I have at least 500hrs invested into each.

    I currently have 8 hours invested into the game, and I will hit 100 hours, but    I am surprised and disappointed with this effort from Bethesda. As one of their two flagship games, with five years development time, I was expecting something at least up to the standards of Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3 and FONV - all excellent games in my opinion where I have at least 500hrs invested into each.

    I currently have 8 hours invested into the game, and I will hit 100 hours, but only because I am praying that if I force myself to play longer, the game will somehow grow on me.

    Game video is laggy, and this is on a high end gamer PC. Movement, combat, scanning the horizons, all are relatively clumsy and unresponsive compared to the experience of Bethesda's other games, causing muscle memory to demand a return to precision and alacrity of an older games.

    The game is further slowed down by the main character voice overs, which require much longer cut scenes, causing frequent and overlong breaks in the game action, removing the player from the game action. I find that voiced characters do not belong to me, but to the game writers; I am merely along for the ride. I enjoy being the silent ventriloquist to my character, and I enjoy believing that my avatar is duplicating my emotional state - things that require my internal dialogue, and are not compatible with an external voice actor.

    With the main character losing my ability to define him, I did expect the story line to improve. But, at least for the first 8 hours I've invested into the game, story telling is nothing more than annoying missions and interactions with NPC I would rather turn my gun on than help out. Story telling has never been a strength of a open world games, player freedom does limit creators ability to author - I accept that, but if Bethesda is going to take my character away from me, I need to get something back!

    A very sorry development, which hopefully doesn't migrate to the Elder Scrolls, is dumbing down of leveling. I hated it in DA:2 and DA:I and never thought Bethesda would blindly mimic Bioware, but they did; just as DA:I only permitted you a special ability upgrade upon leveling, so now does FO4 - are skills are gone and all you get upon leveling is a single perk.

    The Commonwealth (the FO4 world) is small, by Bethesda standards and is well on its way of meeting half-way Bioware (which with DA:I is trending slowly up) in world size. Going from Vault 11, in the upper left corner of the map, to Diamond City, which is roughly the other side of the map, took about ten minutes. Furthermore, much of the world between those two points all looks the same, refusing to demand that I take pause and just look. This comes as a huge disappointment, especially since I just finished the DLC Lonesome Roads, where the artwork brought stunned horror to my soul, causing me to take long timeouts to enjoy panoramas that the artistic team dreamed up.

    I bought the game on DVD because I have a slow internet access. I was okay with some partial downloading - I have done this with other games and it doesn't bother me. But less than 30% of the game was on the DVD, which meant over 72 hours of download time. This is unacceptable. I don't mind an hour or two if it helps counter piracy, but 70% of the game? Let's be honest, this is simply a cost saving maneuver - Bethesda simply did not want to pay for the media necessary to deliver this game.    … Expand
  70. LifeHistory
    Jun 11, 2017
    4
    I wont compare it to FO3 because I only played that game few hours and did not like it. The same goes for this one though. The mechanics are boring, the graphics are very outdated and the shooting still sucks very bad. The story are boring as hell and the characters sucks. Its not even a true RPG neither its a good action game like a FarCry game for example. This game is nothing but aI wont compare it to FO3 because I only played that game few hours and did not like it. The same goes for this one though. The mechanics are boring, the graphics are very outdated and the shooting still sucks very bad. The story are boring as hell and the characters sucks. Its not even a true RPG neither its a good action game like a FarCry game for example. This game is nothing but a waste of time and burning money.

    One of the things I learn about Bethesda through out the years. They are the worst developers when it comes to making good combat. Their combat is pure **** in both The Elder Scrolls and the Fallout games.    … Expand
  71. GELU2703
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    No aporta nada nuevo a la saga, parece que estoy jugando en la anterior generación, las mecanicas son las mismas y el argumento es penoso. Lo he jugado 10 horas y lo he dejado por aburrido.
  72. SURYASHEKHAR
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Average at its best to be honest. The game looks a bit dated and a bit boring but overall, again, pretty average. I had high expectations from fallout 4 considering all that pre-release hype it had.… Expand
  73. Michu2
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Is this what we have been waiting for ?! No this is not a mere shadow what we were expecting. This is old generic cheap way of making games. Everything here is from last generation or even before.
  74. Hyaon13
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Somehow, Bethesda has taken a step back from what New Vegas achieved plotwise rather than learning and building upon what Obsidian did. I absolutely hate the dialogue which is dumbed down for the console crowd and you can tell consoles were considered first before the PC in graphics, gameplay and options. The skill system has been murdered and is unsatisfying with it all lobbed onto oneSomehow, Bethesda has taken a step back from what New Vegas achieved plotwise rather than learning and building upon what Obsidian did. I absolutely hate the dialogue which is dumbed down for the console crowd and you can tell consoles were considered first before the PC in graphics, gameplay and options. The skill system has been murdered and is unsatisfying with it all lobbed onto one screen and 'stream lined', I even enjoy Skyrim leveling up more than this. I dislike being unable to max a skill due to not having the level requirement which means until I hit that level, I am stuffed. The weather effects are cool and atmospheric. The Role Playing does not exist anymore, I cannot refuse/be an utter **** to NPCs such as those bloody NPCs hogging my base space. I enjoy building bases but I'd rather be a loner. Overall, I don't understand how Bethesda has got it SO wrong when F1 to F3 NV has all the ingredients required, they effectly set a bowl of cornflakes on fire.

    Love Fallout 1,2,3, NV and enjoy complexity/role playing? This is not the game for you.
    Enjoy action, not thinking and just blasting foes away? This is for you.

    4/10    … Expand
  75. anvirtu
    Nov 23, 2015
    4
    Positives:
    +char creator
    +shooting is less clumsy +good realisation of power armor Negatives: -casual gameplay [ where is my hardcore-mode from New Vegas? Survival difficulty, srsly? ] -sandbox gameplay [ empty locations, millions of enemies ] -it's not rpg, it's a shooter, very bad shooter -plot [ another family-story - srsly, Todd? ] -dialog wheel -graphics/animation -AI    Positives:
    +char creator
    +shooting is less clumsy
    +good realisation of power armor

    Negatives:
    -casual gameplay [ where is my hardcore-mode from New Vegas? Survival difficulty, srsly? ]
    -sandbox gameplay [ empty locations, millions of enemies ]
    -it's not rpg, it's a shooter, very bad shooter
    -plot [ another family-story - srsly, Todd? ]
    -dialog wheel
    -graphics/animation
    -AI
    -atmosphere

    4/10
    Total degradation. Empty, bad-made shooter, not even action-rpg.    … Expand
  76. shrket
    Nov 5, 2016
    4
    Settlements: It's very lack luster and not even worth the time to invest in. You just build the things that are necessary for your settlement to have such as a home, bed, turret, water, food and that's it. It never expands more than that when you first started it in the beginning of the game. You could spend hours of building and decorating your settlement but serve no function other thanSettlements: It's very lack luster and not even worth the time to invest in. You just build the things that are necessary for your settlement to have such as a home, bed, turret, water, food and that's it. It never expands more than that when you first started it in the beginning of the game. You could spend hours of building and decorating your settlement but serve no function other than wasting your time from playing the actual game (which was why they made it in the first place) to make it seem like there's "hours" of content. Bethesda could've added more dynamic features in the settlement system but didn't and expect the modding community to build from it's barebones they've given us.
    Exploration/Towns: Everywhere you go, everything you do is the same rinse and repeat. You find a location, kill enemies and loot (which is the core mechanic in the game yet it's the most boring thing to do?). It's an open world but there's nothing interesting to do other than walking around, killing **** and leveling up (I'm gonna talk more about this abomination of a system). None of the areas you visit aren't memorable (Even the towns) and more likely will never go back except for resources you need to build **** (and I'll talk about this as well). Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim had many locations that were memorable and had interesting backstories of how it came to be, hell even girdershade from fallout 3 was more interesting than most of the areas of Fallout 4. Bethesda concentrated of making the world of Fallout 4 as big as it could be and ignoring details that came with it. I would rather have a detail world than a large one (That's what she said).
    Leveling/perks: You can play a certain play style for a bit of time before you start to gain enough experience to "level" up and allocate the point into areas you're weak in. Over time, you'll become proficient (god tier) in every perk and the play style will now become a freedom of choice instead of dealing your characters' weaknesses in areas they don't excel greatly and try to overcome their cons with their pros. The perks are a joke and are stretched out to increase the level cap to satisfy peoples' level fetishes and again to make it seem like there's "hours" of content when you don't have all the perks filled up. Bethesda did this to appeal to wider range of audiences who don't like to be limited and have the ability to change to a new different playstyle at will, because making the game as a casual as it could be will make more money for us! **** YOU BETHESDA.
    Weapon Crafting: In my honest opinion, I feel that the damage modifications on the weapons don't even count towards the 50 base weapons with over 700 modified versions of the weapons, those are necessary when facing higher level enemies. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas had skills which increased the damage output as well as the accuaracy of a weapon when you put points into the combat skills such as "Small Guns" F3 or "Guns" FNV. There wasn't much variety of options to change how the gun behave (other than mods that let you put any weapon modification) in Fallout 4 other than basic ones such as increased clip sizes instead of shooting modes or weapon degradation (F3 and FNV). They had the base but didn't add the other extra features which was replaced by the borderland inspired legendary weapons, Woohoo...

    Quests(****ing Radiant)/Voice Dialogue: If they just didn't concentrated on the voice acting of the male and female protagonist we could've had a better well written story line instead of the flip roles from Fallout 3 (They really thought out the main quest line through with that >.>). The story was bland and predictable but not as worse as those radiant quests which serve no purpose other than (say it with me) wasting your time to make it seem like there's "hours" and "endless" content. They had an interesting concept of machines acting and thinking like humans and could've use that as twist for the main character being one of them the whole time but that's Bethesda for you.

    There is one thing that has bother so much ever since I started playing Fallout 4 and no it's not the radiant quests or the birth of the Preston Garvey meme, it's this mother****ing old ass creation engine they "updated" to use for Fallout 4 even though they CLEARLY had enough money (triple A company)in the budget to afford a brand new game engine but instead, wanted to beat a ****ing 7 year old rotten dead horse locked away inside Bethesdas' prison (fetish) dungeon. A ****ing GTX 1080 COLLECTORS EDITION VIDEO CARD couldn't run 60 FPS 1080p resolution in a ****ing city and I had to install performance mods and reduce shadow distance to make the game playable. THIS ISN'T FALLOUT 3, IT'S FALLOUT 4. WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS OF A GAME, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INNOVATION, WHEN DID YOU STARTED TO LOST THE CHARM OF FALLOUT, WHERE ARE THE ****ING IMPROVEMENTS, WHY WE THE FANS DIDN'T RECEIVE THE PRODUCT WE DESERVE. P.S. F.U    … Expand
  77. rich_pl
    Feb 19, 2016
    4
    Incredibly linear gameplay, very few real impactful player choices and after only a short while it becomes utterly repetitive.

    the graphics are quite nice, but not without a few notable glitches - combined with a physics engine that can be comedic at times, only further removing the player from any form of immersion. The dialogue options are awful, and more often than not leave the    Incredibly linear gameplay, very few real impactful player choices and after only a short while it becomes utterly repetitive.

    the graphics are quite nice, but not without a few notable glitches - combined with a physics engine that can be comedic at times, only further removing the player from any form of immersion.

    The dialogue options are awful, and more often than not leave the player with no option.

    I gained some enjoyment out of the 'settlement building' feature but even this feels like an empty reproduction of the Sims.

    The game offers zero challenge even at the highest difficulty.

    There is simply no reason why this game has gone so backwards in so many regards.    … Expand
  78. Kissameow
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This game runs like **** on my r9 380 and isn't even that good game. Chrachater customization is good but I feel like I need to buy ammo all the time and it's gone in 5min.
  79. Xmire
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    It looks like developer team really didn't enjoy the process of... well... developing this game. Its just too mediocre.
    - The main story drama.. looks ridiculous. Would be much better without it.
    - Core gameplay - fine, but the RPG elements are weak.
    - Dialogue system - gross, especially on the PC.
    - UI is too slow and disturbing. Especially when using mouse/keyboard.
  80. seanb1979
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    The GUI is horrible. Clicking on menus is unresponsive. You can tell they put the majority of effort into developing for consoles. This also shows on the graphics - they don't look any better than they did in fallout 3. Fallout 3 is actually a better game since the controls and GUI are much better designed. I guess we'll have to wait for the modding community to make a service pack to makeThe GUI is horrible. Clicking on menus is unresponsive. You can tell they put the majority of effort into developing for consoles. This also shows on the graphics - they don't look any better than they did in fallout 3. Fallout 3 is actually a better game since the controls and GUI are much better designed. I guess we'll have to wait for the modding community to make a service pack to make it better for PC.

    Also, it takes 10-15 minutes to get past the intro, and you can't skip it. I want to play a game, not watch a badly made CGI movie.    … Expand
  81. AlKappaccino
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    The game overall does not meet my expectations. Heck not even 21:9 support. Let's wait until our greatful mod community fixes things and smooth the game up
  82. Amocoru
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    If you've played Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, you've already played this game. There are virtually 0 improvements from the previous two titles in this game. Sure, they updated the graphics a bit and made the shooting feel a little better, but that's it. The story fall completely flat and is barely even engaging at all. These graphics would've been accepted 7-10 years ago, but byIf you've played Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, you've already played this game. There are virtually 0 improvements from the previous two titles in this game. Sure, they updated the graphics a bit and made the shooting feel a little better, but that's it. The story fall completely flat and is barely even engaging at all. These graphics would've been accepted 7-10 years ago, but by today's standards it barely passes for just beyond mediocre. This should've been named Fallout 4: The Sims because that's the only part of the game that is any fun at all.… Expand
  83. Gandoob
    Nov 16, 2015
    4
    Wow what a disappointment. I made this account just to tell fallout fans to avoid this game like the plague. (By this I mean fans of 1,2 and new vegas)
    Pros:
    Better gunplay Settlement building Large open world Cool and diverse crafting system Cons: Terrible and outdated graphics Bad performance even on high end rigs. Uninteresting and bland locations, simply designed to provide    Wow what a disappointment. I made this account just to tell fallout fans to avoid this game like the plague. (By this I mean fans of 1,2 and new vegas)
    Pros:
    Better gunplay
    Settlement building
    Large open world
    Cool and diverse crafting system

    Cons:
    Terrible and outdated graphics
    Bad performance even on high end rigs.
    Uninteresting and bland locations, simply designed to provide loot and targets
    Quests are uninspired Fetch quests
    Boring characters
    No role play or replayability- no skills, voiced protagonist.
    Game forces you to be the "good guy" in most situations.
    All in all 10 steps backward from obsidians excellent fnv, and 20 steps back from the original games. If you're here for an rpg skip this, you won't find any role playing here.    … Expand
  84. Lillo
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    No "Hardcore mode", no weapon/armor degradation, no reputation system, no "traits", and the plot and characters are flat.
    But you can build weapons, houses and interact with the "real" pip-boy, so who cares?

    If you enjoyed New Vegas, DON'T BUY IT.
    It's FarCry with Skirym features.

    Thanks Bethesda for ruining the Fallout series.
  85. Metahumanoid
    Jan 12, 2016
    4
    Second playthrough...desperately trying to inject some sort of meaning into the experience. Come on imagination, you can do it! Nope...nothing. I know! I'll add a cr*pload of mods. That's gotta help! Right? Hmmmm....still not feeling it(Even an 'A.P' mod couldn't save this game, me is thinking at this point). Maybe I need some modding? Pufffffffff. What?? Still no emotion? But that almostSecond playthrough...desperately trying to inject some sort of meaning into the experience. Come on imagination, you can do it! Nope...nothing. I know! I'll add a cr*pload of mods. That's gotta help! Right? Hmmmm....still not feeling it(Even an 'A.P' mod couldn't save this game, me is thinking at this point). Maybe I need some modding? Pufffffffff. What?? Still no emotion? But that almost ALWAYS works! What new form of devious chicanery is this?? Then I recall a latent, niggling theory of mine - this game, along with many others, is a deliberate diversionary, time wasting distraction FIRST, and a genuine attempt at entertainment SECOND, hence the RETARDED companion AI. You CAN'T make it THAT annoying by accident.(I'll leave it to the reader to discern exactly what they're being distracted from.)

    And Boston?? Sorry, but most people outside the U.S don't give a flying cr*p about Boston(sorry Bostonians, it is what it is). New York, L.A...maybe Miami. Heck, even...somewhere in Texas. But Boston + Baseball "Themed" Main City = TWO 'nobody outside the U.S gives a cr*p(s)'.(Yeah yeah, I get it. Go Sox! Ra-Ra-Sis-Boom-Ba! But again, nobody outside the U.S gives an actual cr*p!)

    I suspect you've all come down with a severe case of Cranium-in-anus-itis. Seek medical attention immediately!!

    I could never give you a 0/10...for balance, Fallout4, but I can only give you a 4/10...for old time's sake if nothing else.(You've really really let yourself go. Uggghhh!)    … Expand
  86. justhec
    Nov 16, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 é um jogo normal, ele é divertido até certo ponto aonde o jogo se torna repetitivo e as vezes frustrante. Possui longos tempos de carregamento ao se viajar rápido pelo mapa. O sistema de controle das suas colônias é mal feito e sem graça, parece inacabado e deve mais tarde ser arrumado por meio de mods ou dlcs.
    Acredito que os únicos ponto forte desse jogo seja o sistema de    Fallout 4 é um jogo normal, ele é divertido até certo ponto aonde o jogo se torna repetitivo e as vezes frustrante. Possui longos tempos de carregamento ao se viajar rápido pelo mapa. O sistema de controle das suas colônias é mal feito e sem graça, parece inacabado e deve mais tarde ser arrumado por meio de mods ou dlcs.
    Acredito que os únicos ponto forte desse jogo seja o sistema de abilidades que possui uma arvore mais customizável e ampla que Fallout 3 e a customização de certos equipamentos que apesar da maioria ser muito linear, alguns (como a sua power armor, que você possui um sistema de "gasolina" para poder usar, logo, você só usa em situações necessárias) são um pouco mais legais.
    Se você pensa em gastar R$260 nesse jogo, saiba que existem melhores opções de jogos mais divertidos que esse. Muito melhor esperar uma promoção que abaixe esse jogo em pelo menos 75% .    … Expand
  87. pessimist93
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    The game looks pretty and thats it. It seems they have dumbed down everything. No weapon duration and malfunctions, no options to change your key bindings, shallow characters and a boring main story. They cut out a lot of features from the last games. And thats not even the worst part. In FO New Vegas you had a reputation system and you could basically kill every NPC which gave you theThe game looks pretty and thats it. It seems they have dumbed down everything. No weapon duration and malfunctions, no options to change your key bindings, shallow characters and a boring main story. They cut out a lot of features from the last games. And thats not even the worst part. In FO New Vegas you had a reputation system and you could basically kill every NPC which gave you the freedom to approach tasks on your own ways. Here you are forced to pick one of the few already carved out ways to complete your task. There are alot of NPCs which cant be killed simply because they wanted to keep things easy and cheap for them. And on top of that the world isnt responding on your actions. You just shot someone in the head and that traveler standing next to him saw you doing that? Nope, no reaction whatsoever. There is almost no impact trough your decisions.

    Seriously, if you liked Fallout New Vegas then stay away from this game. Its a complete overhyped mess. At least wait several months until the modders made he game more enjoyable.    … Expand
  88. DMTesla666
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    What needs to be said that hasn't already? Fallout 4 was not the game we were promised.

    Thankfully it seems that I wasn't alone in my immense disappointment of this game, the 0/10 scores are definitely not justified but simple the reaction of incredibly angry fans. Had this game came out under another name, anything other than Fallout, it would have been met with a decent reception and    What needs to be said that hasn't already? Fallout 4 was not the game we were promised.

    Thankfully it seems that I wasn't alone in my immense disappointment of this game, the 0/10 scores are definitely not justified but simple the reaction of incredibly angry fans. Had this game came out under another name, anything other than Fallout, it would have been met with a decent reception and probably been a 7-8/10 game. But that is not the case here, Fallout is an old franchise with a hardcore, dedicated core fan base that froths RPG, so it's no wonder so many people have reacted so negatively to what was delivered.

    The mod community will surely come in and clean parts of this game up, provide alternative entertainment and quest but the real problem that no mod will ever solve is the ingrained linear story, the voiced dialogue, which leads to the offensively simple response options of Yes/No/Maybe/Info, the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system and tied perk chart and the basic idea that you cannot be your own character.

    You are Bethesdas character, going through Bethesdas world, making Bethesdas choices, being who Bethesda says you are.

    THE GREAT -
    - Weapon Modding
    - Armor Modding
    - General Gun Play

    THE OKAY -
    - Base Building/Settlements
    - Graphics/Performance (worked on my PC with XBOX controller really well)

    THE BAD -
    - Removal of Skills
    - Dialogue Options
    - Voice Acting
    - Removal of Karma/Reputation
    - Removal of Hardcore/Survival Mode (despite the world still being littered with water, food and cooking stations?!)
    - Small/Empty Map
    - Repetitive Enemies/Quests
    - Sooo many more, just read other negative reviews

    Fallout 4 was going to be my life for the next few months, hell, I had even pre-ordered the collectors edition I was THAT excited. That excitement has already gone, I will drop at least 100 hours into this game (60hrs already) but as for replay-ability? What's the point? Your character isn't unique to bother doing the game again, it only has 2 different endings so you might bother to do the game again, but seriously, after playing it once you'll be done.

    Go get New Vegas during a Steam sale, watch a youtube video on what mods to install, figure it out like a big boy and enjoy a vastly superior game to this embarrassment.    … Expand
  89. OHSB
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Doesn't live up to it's predecessor in a lot of significant ways. Despite being a step up from Fallout 3 and improved in a lot of ways, it really fails to match the game in between the two:Fallout: New Vegas. The companions and their quests aren't as interesting, the perk and skill system is inferior, despite having a fun modding system, the variety of weapons pales in comparison to Vegas,Doesn't live up to it's predecessor in a lot of significant ways. Despite being a step up from Fallout 3 and improved in a lot of ways, it really fails to match the game in between the two:Fallout: New Vegas. The companions and their quests aren't as interesting, the perk and skill system is inferior, despite having a fun modding system, the variety of weapons pales in comparison to Vegas, there is less meaningful choice, and the focus on a forced "emotional narrative" seems like a step back compared to the faction based quest line from the previous title.

    Overall, the game plays better, with improved gunplay and a superior crafting system, which is nice if this were an FPS or an Elder Scrolls title, but in almost every aspect relating to RPGs it fails, in some ways it manages to be inferior even to Fallout 3.(Worse leveling system, speech/skill/stat/perk checks, dialogue options, shoehorned in voice Protag, invulnerable npc, etc.)

    Despite what could have been learned and adapted, it seems Fallout 4 opts instead to take as little of the improvements as possible from it's predecessor.(It also leaves out any mention of any of the interesting lore from the west coast. Though I suppose that can be forgiven, given the distance)

    Overall a mediocre title that doesn't live up to the hype, out of all the things I've said, the real nail in the coffin is just how boring the game manages to be. Goes to show that big budget + hype =/= great game.    … Expand
  90. Alternative4
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    I pure disappointment by Bethesda making me wish Obsidian took the reigns on this one. I truly feel as though i wasted my hard earned money on rehashed story telling, a conversation wheel that is as far removed as can be from any fallout title and as many glitches as there were pure fun moments in the game. As of writing this I am 8 hours in and its like Bethesda completely ignoredI pure disappointment by Bethesda making me wish Obsidian took the reigns on this one. I truly feel as though i wasted my hard earned money on rehashed story telling, a conversation wheel that is as far removed as can be from any fallout title and as many glitches as there were pure fun moments in the game. As of writing this I am 8 hours in and its like Bethesda completely ignored everything a Fallout title is and everything New Vegas did right. Thus in turn I have to give it a low effort score for its many bugs low quality dialogue sequences, sub par story telling and some of the most obvious plot lines in video game history. I was really hoping for something great from this one but it seems its all hype from Bethesda once again.… Expand
  91. Harlot
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Registered just to write this review. Let's start with support for high-end PCs. It's non existant. There's literally zero support for SLI. You must play with only one GPU which combined with gameworks is just ridiculous.

    Creation engine's history of bad performance at resolutions higher than 1080p is visible here. I have a 980 in SLI and i7 4790k. Well over recommended specs. At 1440p    Registered just to write this review. Let's start with support for high-end PCs. It's non existant. There's literally zero support for SLI. You must play with only one GPU which combined with gameworks is just ridiculous.

    Creation engine's history of bad performance at resolutions higher than 1080p is visible here. I have a 980 in SLI and i7 4790k. Well over recommended specs. At 1440p after disabling all gameworks, dropping everything to high and shadows to medium I still struggle to keep solid 60fps.

    Bugs are aplenty. I've been playing for 1hour and 15 minutes. The game crashed twice and forced me to reload three times because of a persisting bug with terminals and character getting stuck.

    The UI is really, really bad. There's no keybinding consistency and loot menu is very counter intuitive. To navigate it you must do three things at the same time. Keep your mouse coursor on an object, scroll with your wheel and use a keyboard key to move items into your inventory.

    I'm constantly finding myself having to alternate between navigating with WSAD and a mouse to switching to directional arrows to navigate dialogue. In menus I'm confirming with e, then suddenly e cancels all my choices cause I was supposed to press space or enter. It's really, really bad.

    The visuals are decent but definitely not at a level that warrants that high system requirements and performance this poor.

    Overall I gotta say that I'm not impressed. This isn't a finished game and shouldn't be released in this state. Shame on you Bethesda. Was going to be a game of the year and it seems we're in for a dissapointment of the year.

    Recommendation: Don't buy. Wait for Bethesda to get their **** together or - more likely - for modders to clean up their mess. Again.    … Expand
  92. drone_fo
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    SPECIAL role system is so simplified that it is not nearly role-playing system anymore (no distinguishable skills/perks, everything is a set of base perks that you get to upgrade each level - including SPECIAL attributes themselves - one point per level), looks more like shooter with perks (see e.g. Wolfenstein: New Order).
    Shooting without VATS proves to be far worse than shooting in    SPECIAL role system is so simplified that it is not nearly role-playing system anymore (no distinguishable skills/perks, everything is a set of base perks that you get to upgrade each level - including SPECIAL attributes themselves - one point per level), looks more like shooter with perks (see e.g. Wolfenstein: New Order).
    Shooting without VATS proves to be far worse than shooting in real-time.
    4 dialogue options!! Only 4 in Fallout! Not only that, but also they do not reflect what are you going to say. Like "Yes"/"No"/"Maybe"/"Sarcastic" - completely out of context.
    The UI is terrible, lots of people noticed that. It is struggling to get used to all the different keys used to fly through different menus. Plus sometimes mouse over doesn't work properly. Stuff like you comparison to your current weapon is very informative (like ++/-- instead of showing real values), and this applies not only to the inventory but also for crafting.
    Dog steals kills from you.
    Quests are poorly written, very typical bravado/cliches.
    Graphics is outdated, however animations seem fixed at last, better facial animation and some modern stuff like Physically Based Shading seems present.
    However, guns updating looks quite interesting, village building/maintaining looks a bit interesting too, but in my opinion, completely out of place.    … Expand
  93. xnetxap3x
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    User rating of 6 or lower is exactly what I expected to see on Metacritic. It was obvious that the game would be slightly worse than average even before its release because specific developers’ behavior (they fell over backwards just to spread how awesome their game is, simultaneously concealing every aspect of the game they didn’t want to become clear) and user streams. But it turned outUser rating of 6 or lower is exactly what I expected to see on Metacritic. It was obvious that the game would be slightly worse than average even before its release because specific developers’ behavior (they fell over backwards just to spread how awesome their game is, simultaneously concealing every aspect of the game they didn’t want to become clear) and user streams. But it turned out that it’s even worse than that. So, what we have is:

    - Trite and boring plot (if you object that it is a typical feature of Bethesda’s sandbox games and that the side quests are more important, look at point 4). What we have is yet another detective story and father-son collision, but now inside out. Apparently, they couldn’t come up with anything more interesting. Plus multitude of irrational moments all around.
    - Incredibly stupid AI. NPC can head to specific point on the map completely ignoring various obstacles on their way, e.g. they can run towards the car or the fallen log, being unable to walk around it. Your companion are immortal for one and only reason - otherwise they would die every 5 minutes. Whether it is dogmeat or human ally, their movements are so chaotic that they often expose selves to danger unless you give them specific commands. e.g. human ally can walk right up to super mutant with a pistol. And that’s the most evident case. There are plenty of no less odd situations, e.g. when raiders try to shoot you up with all they have and then just randomly loose interest saying smth like «it’s just my imagination». That stupid AI behavior is inexcusable for an AAA title in 2015.
    - Cropped dialogues. They were too lazy even to write the complete answers, instead we have short phrases live «yes/no/maybe» and often they’re not what we think they mean.
    - Tiny world. There is a video where player cross the map diagonally in 11 minutes. In GTA V it takes you 2h10m to do the same. Wide open world with many places of interest and random encounters is the main feature of Bethesda’s games and they failed even here.
    - And last but non the least in the game engine - graphics/animations/physics. These are miserable. Textures are terribly blurry even on ultra, animations does’t seem to be different from 2008 and physical interaction with objects is big explosions at its best. It wouldn’t be a thing to care about if it didn’t take THAT much of system resources. Even with a GTX 980 you’ll often face 30fps on ultra. Not to mention PS4 version drops to 15fps when scoped in. The reason for that outdated graphics and inadequate system requirements is the fact that developers don’t give a **** about it. They didn’t bother about making a new engine because they knew that FO4 will sell great even if it’s peace of crap. That’s why they were so obsessed with banning every single stream and leak.

    Keeping all this in mind I want to ask Bethesda, maybe it was beyond your power to make a modern 3d action/rpg? At the same time you weren’t able to to make a decent story. So what are the strong sides of your game? To be honest, I grudge spending time to find them and I doubt I will. Stay away from this overhyped mess.    … Expand
  94. UNG-Kami
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    All I can say is, the hype completely crushed the game... I was skeptical when I heard they weren't going to release reviews until the game's release date which in my opinion is a very shady business practice. One little thing I noticed is that a lot of the character models look out of place.The environments look great but, the models look kinda of off like they are made of clay(maybe thisAll I can say is, the hype completely crushed the game... I was skeptical when I heard they weren't going to release reviews until the game's release date which in my opinion is a very shady business practice. One little thing I noticed is that a lot of the character models look out of place.The environments look great but, the models look kinda of off like they are made of clay(maybe this was a artist choice but it feels out of place in its environment) The main thing that got me was the writing, in fact I think the ending felt like a straight rip-off of a twilight episode(which I wont spoil here) When I play a RPG game a expect a immersive story with plenty of options of dialogue to role-play as said person. All I get is this cookie cutter one-size fits all voice, with no other voice variety then the two that you are given.I feel sorry again, for those doped into pre-ordering this lackluster game which seems to be a common theme with these AAA titles now. Don't buy into the hype! Wait awhile when the price drops to get this game, maybe even buy it used when someone else sells it back!… Expand
  95. dmarxs
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    After playing this game for many hours now I view the game as average at best. While it seems to start off well the issues this game has start to wear thin. It feels like a Fallout game, but not a very good one.

    This is not a pretty game. Graphics are certainly not the most important factor in a game being good or not but Fallout 4 graphics can be so bad at times it really distracts    After playing this game for many hours now I view the game as average at best. While it seems to start off well the issues this game has start to wear thin. It feels like a Fallout game, but not a very good one.

    This is not a pretty game. Graphics are certainly not the most important factor in a game being good or not but Fallout 4 graphics can be so bad at times it really distracts from the game. Some textures are so low that I was not even sure what it was meant to be, it just looked like a loads of messy muddy colours.

    The animations are very poor, running is stiff. Lip syncing and speech animations are just broken. Sometimes the mouth just moves up and down like some wooden dummy. That's if I can see their head at all as the cut animation scenes when speaking are terrible, walking out of view, back head to me, robot in the way.

    Boring quest, unlikable NPCs, vast areas of the map with nothing to do or anything of interest, it just goes on and on. The bad out weights the good here by a large margin.

    Conversation choices are sometimes boring, being just a bunch of variations on, 'yeh, ok, maybe, sure, whatever'. Might as well just put in 'Press (A) to grunt.

    The building options which I was most excited about are pretty shallow once you get into it. Story is just badly written leaving me to think "what the hell are you even talking about this is jibberish". At least once.

    This feels like a badly written game that came out 5 years ago. Beware any place giving this top marks, because while they could put an argument forward of how this is not a shallow game that does not have a lot to do than it pretends anyone saying this game is graphically great is in denial. Technically this game just feels like a bit of a mess made with a lack of ambition and a "sod it that will do" attitude.

    If you really like the idea of Fallout and want to try it I would advise waiting till Steam sale, you are not missing much as some of it feels cut & pasted from Fallout 3.    … Expand
  96. Capitol18
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    Three major points;

    1. Writing. This is the biggest issue for me, and it's something I've always disliked bethesda for. Their writing sucks and with the exception of one or two masterpiece quests always has. It's bland and dull, often doesn't make sense, morality is always black and white, character motivation is frequently unclear, and in this case a lot of what they've written doesn't    Three major points;

    1. Writing. This is the biggest issue for me, and it's something I've always disliked bethesda for. Their writing sucks and with the exception of one or two masterpiece quests always has. It's bland and dull, often doesn't make sense, morality is always black and white, character motivation is frequently unclear, and in this case a lot of what they've written doesn't mesh with established lore in the Fallout universe (which is a huge annoyance factor, especially as I assume this means they're just retconning a lot of the older games). They can't even get their own lore right sometimes. Bethesda's writing has been something I've had a minor issue with since Oblivion, but since playing New Vegas it's been accentuated.

    2. Choice. There is hardly any. There's an illusion of choice, but if you try and actually do anything but the obvious route it hamfists you back into it. From the very get-go with the salesman, if you try and decline your wife eventually steps in and you go through the same screen. You know what would have been fairly easy to do and enhanced that scene a ton? Allow the player to decline, then have the television announcement anyway and when you run up to the vault the soldiers won't let you in. Maybe add a speech check, or allow you to sneak past them somehow, or hell maybe even fight them to get through. If you can't, the bombs fall and you die (which they actually already added if you run too far up the street instead of going to the vault). You see what I'm getting at? Having multiple ways to solve something is intrinsic to Fallout. Most quests that I saw in my time playing were simply, "Go here, kill everything" or sometimes "Go here, kill everything, fetch something". Fallout 1, 2, NV, and to a lesser extent 3 allowed you to go through a whole hell of a lot of the game without escalating to violence, and they all had more interesting stories and better writing attached to each quest. It really seemed like most quests in Fallout 4 are just an excuse to give you more silhouettes in the shooting gallery. Don't like Preston Garvey? Want to do something other than get in the power armor and shoot stuff? Too bad, either do that or don't do the quest. There are options in most quest dialogues that suggest other routes, but actually choosing them either puts you on the same route with the same quest objective or just nets you a "come back later if you change your mind mane" response. Illusion of choice. And of course unkillable NPCs are back in full force. Add to all of this the fact that your character is now voiced, and it has removed almost all RP potential.

    3. I don't like the scrapping of the leveling system that has been with the game since the first. I don't consider this as major a point as the others since Fallout has undergone considerable change in it's gamesystems from 1-NV and still managed to hit the right notes, but the new system seems too 'casual' (for lack of a better word) for my tastes. It reminds me too much of Skyrim. Still, more personal preference than anything else. I know another fan of the series who primarily plays the originals who was praising the new system for fixing inherent issues in the previous SPECIAL system. Like high-INT builds being way overpowered, and that sort of thing.

    Other than that, the game does an okay job. The visuals are good enough and I love the art direction, though they could be better and things like not having parallax mapping on brick walls is baffling. The crafting and settlement building is great. The new Power Armor system is very cool, even if fusion cores run out in minutes instead of the lore-accurate years or lifetimes it's supposed to take. Gunplay feels fantastic. Animations are for the most part pretty good. Characters emote and move around instead of standing stock-still when talking to you, and I would have loved the new dynamic dialogue system had they removed the voiced player character and not **** up the choice aspect so much. And exploration is, as always, fantastic (that's the one thing Bethesda consistently gets right). If it weren't selling itself as Fallout I would have probably enjoyed it, but as it is I can't. It just feels wrong somehow. I'm just waiting for the announcement of the Obsidian 'spinoff' so I can enjoy all the things I like about Fallout with the work Bethesda has done on the engine, art, animations, crafting, etc.    … Expand
  97. gef21
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's better than 3 but worse than New Vegas, also I'll spoil the ending since the story in a Bethesda game never matters anyway, and you can judge the quality of writing from this

    Once you get to the final quest everything you've done up until that point becomes irrelevant, you then follow Liberty Prime while it shouts the same things it did in 3, then you get given the decision of whether you kill your dad who is also your son or nuke a large amount of people.    … Expand
  98. anon6076
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Awful, simply awful.
    Quests - idiocy, you've just got out of hibernation: 'hi man, we got fusion core down there, power armor and minigun, go grab it and kill some people, right. Go kill some raiders, kill them more. Plant some food, you did already? Doesn't matter go do it. Hey, we have a junkie with prophetic powers, really.
    Characters: absolutely boring
    Role playing: you can be worrying for Shawn parent, or worrying for Shawn parent, and of course - worrying for baby.
    Dialogues: Yes, no, joke, what=yes.
    Crafting: go collect some garbage and make more beds, more, we need more.
    Physics: cathedral with foundation of wooden stair
    Graphics: awful everything - **** textures, melted plastic faces, plastic hair, no mirror images, seriously, doom 1 had them, but no, it's 20 years of progress - no mirrors for you.
    Interface: throw garbage on the floor, enter workshop mode, point, press R), now press Enter. You cant recycle from inventory, everything is separated, unsorted inventory lists, HUGE pip boy and hand with tiny letters of 15 per line.

    What the hell was Bethesda doing for 7 years? It's looks like a product of one modder's work for year with F3 editor.    … Expand
  99. Rpgfan14041991
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This game is a scam, worse bethesda game in a long long time. ( FO3 is way better than this **** ).

    Horrible plot, especially the side quests ( go kill x,y,z hurr durr). Terrible pot issues on pc ( controls + fps). Disgusting dialogue, you can't even ask multiple things, you choose a,b,c,d, it changes nothing and you can't ask other things. Disgusting rpg system, where like    This game is a scam, worse bethesda game in a long long time. ( FO3 is way better than this **** ).

    Horrible plot, especially the side quests ( go kill x,y,z hurr durr).

    Terrible pot issues on pc ( controls + fps).

    Disgusting dialogue, you can't even ask multiple things, you choose a,b,c,d, it changes nothing and you can't ask other things.

    Disgusting rpg system, where like skyrim, you don't roleplay at all, you are the dragonborn of the wastes who can do everything ( max up every single stat ). Worse, it's voice-acted so you can't even have immersion.

    All in all, congrats bethesda you got my pre-order ( i'll try to refund thou ). Never again.    … Expand
  100. oversteer
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Alright. I love the series, I absolutely do. These are my impressions 4 hours in. The gun mechanics are fantastic. The gun mechanics just works. Fallout 3 had clunky mechanics, VATs felt at home in this world, FO4 fixes this and I am never clicking Q. The guys are enjoyable and seamless. The radio host is hilarious. The voice acting is good. The lighting looks great. I forgot how much I enjoyed doing the hacking mini-game. Alright, I can stop here. Onto the bad.

    The quests so far have hideous dialogue. Early in the game you meet up with the minuteman. They immediately lead with there being power armor on the roof; they have no reason to trust the main character, they are concerned about getting this power armor but also seem unconcerned with the armor falling into the wrong hands. Weirdness of this nature continues with almost every quest.

    The map is tiny and completely devoid of anything resembling historical new England. Seriously, there are no features of Concord MA that look anything like Concord. The geography isn't even remotely similar. Concord is built around a roundabout, this is missing. This isn't concord. Similarly unrecognizable Bedford, Lexington, and even Boston.

    The game doesn't look good. The textures--while they use 3GB+ video ram--do not look good.

    The AI is quite bad. You can get monsters to glitch into corners and trap themselves, as I did with the first death claw. Monsters will yell that they saw you before turning. Monsters will not see you when you are really close. It is bad.

    The dog is really glitchy and annoying. Sure he can open doors and heals instantly when you travel through load screens. Whatever, companions are just as bad as they were before. No points deducted.

    The game runs like absolute **** This will be fixed, i know. But it really runs worse than my old hardware did on fallout 3 and doesn't look much better/ Not marking down any points for this.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    80
    After terrible first couple of hours Fallout 4 pulled itself together and ultimately was almost as fun as The Witcher 3. There’s a huge chasm between these two games in terms of technology (F4 looks like a X360 game), but their open worlds are equally good and Bethesda did a better job with crafting. [01/2016, p.42]
  2. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    70
    This isn’t the step forward I expected, though. Here we are, the first Bethesda game on a new hardware generation, and I can’t help feeling like we’ve regressed—like Fallout 4 really is Oblivion-with-guns. A decade later, it certainly makes many of the same mistakes.
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  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 4, 2016
    92
    It’s easy to get carried away by Fallout 4’s massive open world. While the gunplay is much improved and the quests fun, I found the UI lacking on the PC. The inventory and build menus are really tedious to use. [Dec 2015]
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