Fallout 4

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  1. Hubbubble
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    The game was advertised as an RPG, but is actually an adventure shooter.

    Gameplay is alright but mislabeled. Please do not make the same mistake, if you intend to buy an RPG look somewhere else.
  2. lightbetsoin
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    first problem, the immersion.
    you play as a married father. the character you play is not "you". you are playing him, but its definitely not you. When he talks, he have this responsible dady voice, this remind you everytime how far this guy is from you.
    if it was not enought, his dialogue lines are dull, like almost every people in this game. the dialogue weel... in a game like mass    first problem, the immersion.
    you play as a married father. the character you play is not "you". you are playing him, but its definitely not you. When he talks, he have this responsible dady voice, this remind you everytime how far this guy is from you.
    if it was not enought, his dialogue lines are dull, like almost every people in this game.

    the dialogue weel... in a game like mass effect, very cinematic, close linear game, it makes sence. in fallout? nope, not even close baby.
    most of the time you have 4 choices. yes, no, sarcastic ( sometimes playfull, sometimes agressive, you cant know before trying ) and the what is '"this word" question. and basically, saying no will just refuse a quest, so most of the time, you'll be forced to say yes. this is so basic and at light years of the quality dialogues you get in fallout games.

    quests... i am 15 hours into the game, right now it just feels like fetch this, go kill this guys... nothing great really.

    there was improvements on the gunplay, but it was at the expense of the rpg side, so for me thats also a bad thing.

    in the end, we get a game that looks more like farcry than fallout. oh i am sure some people like it, but its really sad for the others, who were expecting a fallout game.

    and a big WTF to the professional critics, 70/100 beeing the worst they can give, really shows the lack of independance they have.    … Expand
  3. CirclesofJerk
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Terribly balanced and coded game. You can get the most powerful equipment in the game effortlessly within the first hour of play. The game engine is directly tied to framerate, so good luck running it at 120fps because everything will zip by at twice the intended speed. Storyline is a huge downgrade from Fallout :NV. Your choices all result in the same railroaded ending, so there is littleTerribly balanced and coded game. You can get the most powerful equipment in the game effortlessly within the first hour of play. The game engine is directly tied to framerate, so good luck running it at 120fps because everything will zip by at twice the intended speed. Storyline is a huge downgrade from Fallout :NV. Your choices all result in the same railroaded ending, so there is little replay value to be had.… Expand
  4. Kazimierz3000
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I just returned this game after less than two hours of gameplay, my reasons are as follows

    Story-Interesting early on, however not very gripping, engaging, or new conpared to previous games. Graphics-Awful, this game looks 10 years old with muddy/blurry textures with poor performance, no SLI enabled at launch, and requires modification of the .ini files in order to remove things like    I just returned this game after less than two hours of gameplay, my reasons are as follows

    Story-Interesting early on, however not very gripping, engaging, or new conpared to previous games.

    Graphics-Awful, this game looks 10 years old with muddy/blurry textures with poor performance, no SLI enabled at launch, and requires modification of the .ini files in order to remove things like vsync or change field of view to be higher than the console 60fov. The animation quality is really disappointing, it reminds me of Pinocchio. The fps cap of 60 is another letdown that isn't able to be adjusted in game and if left affects your mouse controls (as does vsync.)

    Sound-Solid for the most part

    Controls-The biggest complaint is the mouse control, it initially feels like mouse smoothing of some sort and not raw input, some have changed ini files to remove the fps cap to make it more responsive and if you don't disable vsync the mouse borders on a laggy unplayable mess. Terrible menu system makes navigating clunky, Console treatment here.

    Presentation-Mostly good, a nice, steaming, polished turd.

    Bethesda dropped the ball, hard. It's sad when Skyrim runs much smoother and is arguably just as good looking, if not better, even while highly modded it runs at double to triple the framerate.

    I would reconsider buying this game later if the problems are addressed, the modders will have their hands full with this for awhile before it's playable/enjoyable.    … Expand
  5. abortedfetusofj
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    By far my biggest disappointment.
    A few issues before my long rant:
    -The AI is too dumb; Enemies for some reason turn 360° before shooting you or they just run away then come back, for no reason at all, as if it is scripted "the enemy must come out of this door" so that's what the enemy does, he runs away from me, get past the doorway then turn back and run at me. -THE AI IS TOO DUMB;    By far my biggest disappointment.
    A few issues before my long rant:
    -The AI is too dumb; Enemies for some reason turn 360° before shooting you or they just run away then come back, for no reason at all, as if it is scripted "the enemy must come out of this door" so that's what the enemy does, he runs away from me, get past the doorway then turn back and run at me.
    -THE AI IS TOO DUMB;
    -The voice acting is bad even from Courtney Taylor (who I loved in Mass Effect), this is probably the dialogue's fault because the dialogue feels like it is written by someone who never talked to another person;
    -No variety in armours at all;
    -The game is too easy even in Survival Mode;
    -The animations are really bad;
    -The graphics are what you expect from an indie game;
    -It runs badly despite having an empty world and ugly graphics;
    -Uninteresting characters, shallow world and boring gameplay;

    When you create a railroaded role-playing game you should at least make the story great, the characters interesting, the world alive and with a good writing, but Fallout 4 lacks all these things.
    You are railroaded in an uninteresting world where 30% of the enemies are zombies (they're not feral ghouls anymore, they are just zombies), 30% of the enemies are raiders, 20% of the enemies are Super Mutants. 10% of the enemies are Mole-Rats with different skins, 5% are Deathclaws and the other 5% are Bloatflies with different skins.
    It is an open-world game where there is only one city.

    First thing I did after leaving the Vault was meeting Codsworth, who was immortal, and it sent me to the Concord.
    In the way I met Dogmeat who was also immortal and was forced upon me. I choose the option "You're a mutt" and all my character said was "You're just a flea-bag, huh? Let's go, boy". And then Dogmeat was forced on me, but I still could send it away. The thing is that even after being sent away I still couldn't kill it because Dogmeat is immortal.

    Then I met Preston, I killed all the raiders easily despite being in Survival Mode because the AI is very, very dumb. I said no to helping Preston but I still got the same quest as if I said yes. Then I tried killing them and guess what? Each one of them is immortal.
    So I got out and got the Power Armor. Then I killed every raider easily, then the Deathclaw came and got stuck in the sewer where it came from. Despite being in Survival mode, the Deathclaw died easily.

    That's when I decided to quit the game. But I got back to it after a while and went exploring instead of doing quests.
    The world was empty. There are tons of marked locations indeed, but these locations are empty. You loot some things here and there, but they're generic ruins with nothing to do in them.
    So now I uninstalled it.    … Expand
  6. Grisha99
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game is bad. My computer don't may run this game. Bad repack and game. Texture from the 20000000 years under H.X. Dialogue so casual. I very angry.

    0/10
  7. painor
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I have over 200 hours in fallout NV. so I am not new to the fallout series and this is by far the worst game so far . 'Dialogue wheel' ? 'immortal NPC?' 'Graphics from 2009 for an AAA game?' 'Good quests? nah' '11 min map ?' JUST remember This game took 7 YEARS to make . And even though it's **** the so called game journalist are giving it 90+ so be sure that something fishy is going onI have over 200 hours in fallout NV. so I am not new to the fallout series and this is by far the worst game so far . 'Dialogue wheel' ? 'immortal NPC?' 'Graphics from 2009 for an AAA game?' 'Good quests? nah' '11 min map ?' JUST remember This game took 7 YEARS to make . And even though it's **** the so called game journalist are giving it 90+ so be sure that something fishy is going on and this isn't the first time .… Expand
  8. vapko
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Low production quality across all boards, not only ps3 graphics and animation from ps2 era.
    Good gameplay with buggy AI running in circles? I wonder how you see it as good.
    And great god that writing is horrendous.
  9. scrinARN
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Fallout is my favourite game series of all time but this game just feels dumbed down. Alot of the cool rpg features have been removed and the classic dialouge system has been replaced with a mass effect style wheel. This limits replayability since you can only really play as one character that just able to say different things and even that is limited, you only have 4 options at a time.Fallout is my favourite game series of all time but this game just feels dumbed down. Alot of the cool rpg features have been removed and the classic dialouge system has been replaced with a mass effect style wheel. This limits replayability since you can only really play as one character that just able to say different things and even that is limited, you only have 4 options at a time. The perfomance is also shameful for 2015, I can mod Fallout 3 to have better graphics than this.… Expand
  10. Hagaloro
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bad graphics, atrocious story, horrible gunplay, boring gameplay and basicaly broken perfomance wise. What kinda of game is so garbage that crashes if your fps is above 60? This gotta be one of the greatest disapointments in the history of video games
  11. Inductionist
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Terrible letdown. Fallout 1 and 2 fans will hate this game. Random first person shooter fans might like it.
    - Ridiculously dumbed down character development system: Most attributes have NO consequence, you can have 1 in intelligence and still hack computers or have most dialogue options, Perks have been messed up
    - Skills are GONE (yes, you read right: GONE) - You can use all weapons    Terrible letdown. Fallout 1 and 2 fans will hate this game. Random first person shooter fans might like it.
    - Ridiculously dumbed down character development system: Most attributes have NO consequence, you can have 1 in intelligence and still hack computers or have most dialogue options, Perks have been messed up
    - Skills are GONE (yes, you read right: GONE)
    - You can use all weapons regardless of type right from when you find them (no more specialisation requirements)
    - No hardcore mode (basically all improvements Obsidian made on Fallout 3 in New Vegas are gone)
    - OK graphics, but terrible face animations
    - Pointless build and craft system
    - OK story    … Expand
  12. screamshield
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Character creation and the perk systems are ok.But after that the game is complete garbage.The dog...oh god don't get me started on this **** Unoptimised game like any other console port garbage out there.

    I give it 3/10 for the character creator. Do not buy unless you plan on going for nude mods cus everything else is Skyrim tier.I never thought i'd miss Fallout 3 and think of how    Character creation and the perk systems are ok.But after that the game is complete garbage.The dog...oh god don't get me started on this **** Unoptimised game like any other console port garbage out there.

    I give it 3/10 for the character creator.

    Do not buy unless you plan on going for nude mods cus everything else is Skyrim tier.I never thought i'd miss Fallout 3 and think of how much better it is than any game out there but thanks to bethesda now we have this piece o crap.    … Expand
  13. Kriss_A
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    They call this an RPG, really?

    I mean, literally: - Can't have your own backstory. - Stats barely matter - There are no skills - The world is bland as hell - Clunky Minecraft gimmick - Guns don't appear on your character model - Writing is ridiculous - PC is voice acted so you can't even roleplay as your own character at all - Can't play it non-lethal - Unarmed has no unique    They call this an RPG, really?

    I mean, literally:
    - Can't have your own backstory.
    - Stats barely matter
    - There are no skills
    - The world is bland as hell
    - Clunky Minecraft gimmick
    - Guns don't appear on your character model
    - Writing is ridiculous
    - PC is voice acted so you can't even roleplay as your own character at all
    - Can't play it non-lethal
    - Unarmed has no unique moves
    - Horrible graphics for a game of this budget
    I can go on for hours like this, it's one of the worst high-profile games I've played next to Dragon Age: Inquisition and that's really saying something.    … Expand
  14. 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
  15. GLACIERBOY
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Cringeworthy story and dialogue, bad art direction, complete removal of all RPG elements, gameplay oversimplified to the point of extreme blandness, graphics that would have just been okayish 10 years ago, etc.
  16. AlyssaX
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4 starts slow and takes its time to build up, but when it does... it's not impressive. It's a game like the previously titles FO3 and New vegas, it's a huge exploration game where you can join factions, have companions to be with you wherever you go, where you make some choices about who you want to be and it gives you enough freedom to choose your own play style.

    The main quest    Fallout 4 starts slow and takes its time to build up, but when it does... it's not impressive. It's a game like the previously titles FO3 and New vegas, it's a huge exploration game where you can join factions, have companions to be with you wherever you go, where you make some choices about who you want to be and it gives you enough freedom to choose your own play style.

    The main quest isn't very interesting (I won't spoil anything for you), for a fallout game I was expecting something epic that wasn't "predictable" and that kept me hooked the entire time, and that wasn't the case at all, I found myself a lot of the time pushing myself to complete certain objectives. It drags on waaaay too much without giving you any satisfaction in the end like it should. You'll feel like you've been grinding so much for nothing.

    On the other hand, the side quests are vast and lets you choose the path you want to take, however the choice system isn't very deep and it always ends up with positive, negative and neutral responses which many times leaves you unsatisfied for something that always were a big complex part of fallout, which made it great.
    To sum it up, it doesn't give you much to read, instead you hear it. Which is not necessarily bad but it makes it tedious at times when you don't know exactly how your character is going to express him/herself. Which for a fallout game isn't a very in depth system and breaks the immersion a lot.
    Still, the side quests end up being far more interesting than the main story itself.

    The down side with the quests is the bugs/glitches. Yup, you heard me, it's Fallout New vegas all over again (before the patches) where 1 in each 4/5 quests have very annoying and sometimes BREAKING bugs that will make you go insane for not being able to complete them. Not to talk about all the crashes where some of them can even corrupt the save files. So save often to avoid bitter situations.

    The graphics of the game are nothing S.P.E.C.I.A.L on ultra at 1080p. Don't get me wrong, I like FO graphics the way they are (on ultra) because I'm not very picky about it, but comparing to other titles out there already, it's very outdated...

    This is where things get complicated.. because the game is poorly optimized, even on consoles where you get 30 fps (not acceptable at this point) and in some areas 25... expect A LOT of random bugs on the map and CRASHES.
    The game looks WORSE than fallout 3 (a game that came out almost 8 years ago) on low and medium graphics. The thing is the graphics on low and medium are LITERALLY broken on the minimum specs, especially with the shadows and textures out of place. which is just unacceptable and it will need some patches to fix that. The lock fps being a problem too.

    Gameplay, it's similar to the other (3D) previously titles, nothing especial but it works, it has more animations and a fluid gameplay if you can run it on high with no problems, otherwise be prepared for stutters frequently.

    All that said, this game needs a lot of work. It wasn't properly tested and now it needs some serious patches to fix this mess.
    It's not impressive for a Fallout game and it drags a lot of the quests way too much, kinda like MGSV.
    Satisfying,neat gameplay, with more animations and an innovative vats system that slows time instead of just freezing it.
    Good, fun and solid crafting system where you'll spend hours on it. One of the best I've seen.
    About the lvl up system, it's different but not necessarily better. Just... different. And I personally preferred the old one, it was more closely-knit.
    It's still worth playing, but it will only be worth buying once it gets properly fixed. However old fallout fans will be disappointing with this one.

    This game would be a solid 7.5, but dull main quest, some broken secondary quests and crashes (even on consoles!) are just unacceptable at this point. No game is perfect, but this is way too much, and it's not the first time happening either.
    So for that it gets a 6 out of 10 for releasing an untested, poorly optimized and badly polished game to the public.

    Edit: I tried, I really did. But after playing some more time I can now say that this isn't a game, it's an abomination! I've never seen such a grinding game in my entire life, it's so bad and the BUGS/GLITCHES aren't helping at all. Let alone the CRASHES.
    I was generous with the 6 before, after some more hours in it and getting as far as the game to be truly unplayable, this alpha V0(zero) game gets a 0.    … Expand
  17. tillyho1
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    An absolute let-down. The whole experience is hollow and dull. Only worth buying if you enjoy games that are only intended to make money, and not to give you a good quality experience.
  18. HitIerDidNuffin
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game is a mess. Not only they made the dialogue a Mass Effect mixed with Life is Strange, but Lite, they also recycled Fallout 3 and added a few mod features that are useless.

    I don't care about the graphics, but the game got a bad action movie plot and a childish gameplay. It's like they didn't want to make it an RPG, but a CoD with an inventory. The dialogue is also more    This game is a mess. Not only they made the dialogue a Mass Effect mixed with Life is Strange, but Lite, they also recycled Fallout 3 and added a few mod features that are useless.

    I don't care about the graphics, but the game got a bad action movie plot and a childish gameplay. It's like they didn't want to make it an RPG, but a CoD with an inventory. The dialogue is also more disappointing when you noticed that from the "13k lines recorded for each sex your character have", they made sure those lines were very very short.

    Fallout 3 was a huge step back from New Vegas and even 3, and I hope Bethesda don't do it with the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout. Worst Fallout since the one that did not get released.    … Expand
  19. epeternally
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    A poor port of a barely there, phoned in effort from Bethesda that is blatantly unfinished, relying on the hype train to drive sales. In six months to a year, this could have been a great game, but as it stands it's small, bland, buggy, feels incomplete, has ridiculously major pacing issues, lacks adequate explanation for the base building mechanics, and is completely devoid of soul. I'mA poor port of a barely there, phoned in effort from Bethesda that is blatantly unfinished, relying on the hype train to drive sales. In six months to a year, this could have been a great game, but as it stands it's small, bland, buggy, feels incomplete, has ridiculously major pacing issues, lacks adequate explanation for the base building mechanics, and is completely devoid of soul. I'm not a Fallout diehard, I loved Fallout 3 with all its flaws, but this is just too bad to overlook.

    The port is a mess too - performance issues, defaults to a controller if you have one plugged in, FOV can only be changed in ini files and still doesn't work perfectly, mouse acceleration can only be disabled in ini files, most graphical options (save for draw distance) can only be changed within the launcher. About the only thing I can say for it is that the graphics are not bad. Out of the box they're decent and with some SweetFX thrown on they become quite nice indeed. It's just a shame that the actual game is an unmitigated disaster. This is the poster child for rushed development ruining a game (bizarre since Bethesda at least claims it's been in the works for years, but regardless it obviously wasn't going to meet their release date without cutting more corners than I'd have thought was realistically possible).    … Expand
  20. Biss
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Good graphics, but extremely poor and down goofed Game-Design: No Skills, No traits, No Hardcore, No Weapon-Armor-Durability and a very medium-sized game-world.

    Disappointing... just disappointing
  21. sodanexus
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Bad story line, poorly graphics, bad physics, boring.... If you want a fix, go to fallout new Vegas or fallout 3... they are much better. it's for casual gamer.
  22. SalesDonkey
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    I'm a big fan of fallout saga.
    But after some time i realized something went wrong with that title.
    First warning was there when salesman was talking about customized buttons in consoles and crafting. Its is related to RPG ? It is the essence of the playability ? Maybe for him but he is a wrong person in wrong place. For me that was obvious they have big problem with that title.    I'm a big fan of fallout saga.
    But after some time i realized something went wrong with that title.
    First warning was there when salesman was talking about customized buttons in consoles and crafting.
    Its is related to RPG ? It is the essence of the playability ?
    Maybe for him but he is a wrong person in wrong place.

    For me that was obvious they have big problem with that title.
    Big enough to say the only way to sell this is pray to good.

    Because of people like him today true successor of fallout 2 is "fallout shelter" not fallout 4.
    It is best game ever made by Bethesda studio , small enough to deal with bugs and enough funny to provide entertainment of monkeys from sales.

    Rest of the money from fallout 4 budget was used to "craft" of lives a few "chosen one " people.
    For me this is fail 4 not fallout 4.    … Expand
  23. likaq
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    1. Words cannot describe how buggy this game is.
    2. Totally abysmal dialogue system is totally abysmal .
    3. Writing is so bad even compared to fallout 3 that it makes writing in fallout 3 looks good
    4. $60 pricetag? Beth are you insane?
    5. this gfx in AAA game released in 2015? Is this a joke?
  24. bassmaster
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I am the one who grew up playing Fallout 1 and 2. After Fallout 3 I thought nothing could be better, the series is dead. But nevertheless, F New Vegas was a really good, atmospheric game. So I expected Fallout 4 to be kind of like this....but what was that? Building houses in fallout? Power armor and minigun at the very beginning? what??? Is it minecraft and sims in fallout game? This isI am the one who grew up playing Fallout 1 and 2. After Fallout 3 I thought nothing could be better, the series is dead. But nevertheless, F New Vegas was a really good, atmospheric game. So I expected Fallout 4 to be kind of like this....but what was that? Building houses in fallout? Power armor and minigun at the very beginning? what??? Is it minecraft and sims in fallout game? This is shame and a spit in the faces of old fans. The game is absolutely horrible. I am very very dissapointed.… Expand
  25. Bullets4all
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Graphics 2005, did not expect can be games such graphics .. shame gameplay . Note 2 given me , I think it is still high.
    Many bugs , Shame , Shame you can ask for money on something
  26. gibsmedat
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    it's clear bethesda doesn't care about its pc user base anymore. there's no excuse to have these physics tied to frame rate like this. it's lazy coding is what it is. i shouldn't have to lower my refresh rate on my monitor so the game doesn't bug out and i shouldn't need to cap my fps because it's running too high. that's ridiculous. my first five minutes of actual game play and i'mit's clear bethesda doesn't care about its pc user base anymore. there's no excuse to have these physics tied to frame rate like this. it's lazy coding is what it is. i shouldn't have to lower my refresh rate on my monitor so the game doesn't bug out and i shouldn't need to cap my fps because it's running too high. that's ridiculous. my first five minutes of actual game play and i'm getting stuck at the terminals and am unable to progress. so far what i have seen and heard is awful animations that were the same as skyrim.. and fo3 and oblivion. the voice acting is simply atrocious and i don't imagine that getting better at all. not only is it sub par quality, but voices seem to skip like they are being played from a poorly maintained record player. i'm also thoroughly disgusted with the new dialogue wheel. a lot of these response options are so ambiguous that you might not know exactly what you're selecting. the game just feels like a really shallow experience so far and the same bugs that plagued bethesda games are ever present that make me completely unable to play this game. i'm done with this company. go buy a console if you want to buy bethesda crap these days because they don't care about us. enjoy paid mods eventually.… Expand
  27. Tylaris
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    Apocalyptic amusement park of shallow mediocrity.

    + Excellent equipment customization and crafting system...best junk collection simulator out there + More vibrant "old world" art style that provides nice contrast to the wasteland, leaving stronger impression about the state of the world (in comparison to previous titles) + High quality soundtrack ( despite some recycling)...non    Apocalyptic amusement park of shallow mediocrity.

    + Excellent equipment customization and crafting system...best junk collection simulator out there
    + More vibrant "old world" art style that provides nice contrast to the wasteland, leaving stronger impression about the state of the world (in comparison to previous titles)
    + High quality soundtrack ( despite some recycling)...non intrusive on the experience, while strong enough to leave an impression
    + Good Atmosphere, loot and exploration
    / Solid first person shooting mechanics, nothing exceptional, but a definite step up from previous games
    / Decent visuals and sounds
    / Settlement crafting...nice idea, but feels in an alpha stage, "tacked on" and without any ties to main story or quests
    - Classical issues with Performance, bugs, glitches...very poor optimization which is completely inexcusable when done by a studio of this size, considering it's an engine they should be VERY familiar with
    ( Funny note: Their engine is probably older than those here, who give this game a high score)
    - Horrid UI design, floaty movement, lack of game customization options, keybinding problems, poor controls
    - Retarded companion and enemy AI
    - Clumsy Melee combat, little enemy variety, unbalanced difficulty ( bullet sponges, grenade spamming...)
    - Character progression ( through both story line and game mechanics), loss of distinctive Fallout rpg elements (karma, skill checks, traits, New Vegas hardcore mode...)
    - Lore inconsistency, lack of witty humor...game has none of that Fallout "charisma"
    - Main story( cross over between Star Wars and Terminator porn, but without sex ), pacing and presentation
    - Poor Side quest design, almost all in line with Skyrim/ MMO "quality"
    - Low quality Voice acting ( even with Courtney Taylor), dialogue, characters, lip sync and animations

    Personal rant:

    After finishing Last of Us and Wild Hunt recently, there is a jarring, absolutely non subjective drop in quality you'll notice immediately when jumping into Fallout IV ( and No, it goes far beyond just texture resolution or flow of animations)...almost like going from Oscar winner or a great HBO drama to low budget porn.

    Fallout IV is neither bad or good, but flat out feels unimpressive, uninspired, unpolished and outdated.

    If this was done by a small, emerging studio, fair rating would be somewhere between 4-6, but this kind of blatant laziness and incompetence should not be rewarded.
    This game was done by a company that relies on massively influential PR to sell, while it's left to the modding scene to add any real quality to their games ( on whose efforts they also tried to cash in, since they were going bankrupt at the time).

    Show some integrity and intelligence people... and instead support developers that are far more deserving of our time and money.    … Expand
  28. ItaJohnson
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    0 is just to cancel out the IDIOTIC 10's. really this game deserves about a 4. im going to put as much effort into this review as bethesda did into the game. sadly i cant recycle 70% of the assets like they have, fortunately i CAN half ass it. if you want details read all the other reviews that arent 10's.
  29. 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
  30. animefanboymc
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Game speed tied to FPS in 2015, riddled with bugs, and atrocious graphics are few of the many problems that plague this game that Bethesda expect moders to fix for them.
  31. Bloodandfury1
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Utterly wank. And i **** called it. As everyone was getting hyped around me screaming about how amazing this game was going to be i knew Bethesda was yet again going to do what they do best: make a buggy mess with uninteresting characters and a dull story and quests.

    Pros: Power armor actually feels like it should for once that's literally all i can think of Cons: Literally    Utterly wank. And i **** called it. As everyone was getting hyped around me screaming about how amazing this game was going to be i knew Bethesda was yet again going to do what they do best: make a buggy mess with uninteresting characters and a dull story and quests.

    Pros:
    Power armor actually feels like it should for once

    that's literally all i can think of

    Cons:
    Literally everything else.
    Graphics are awful
    Facial animations are some of the worst i have ever seen
    The settlement building is incredibly shallow janky and most of all utterly pointless.
    Gunplay is improved but a polished pile of **** is just a shiny pile of ****
    Every single character i have come across has not been memorable in the slightest. All i can remember is one guy says "outstanding" a ****load.
    Quests mostly boil down to "clear this load of raiders or other type of enemy"
    Voiced protagonist.
    VOICED
    PROTAGONIST
    I have never seen dialogue dumbed down this much, after such a massive step forward with new vegas' writing it's such a shame to see Bethesda being Bethesda.

    And by far, worst of all the utterly terrible PC port. I could of put most of that behind me and enjoyed the game for what it is but this is some of the worst **** i have ever seen. Fps tied to **** animations FOV that can't be changed without ini edits. Mouse acceleration built in that can't be turned off with yet again, ini edits along with countless other things.

    I can't be bothered to continue, i`ll be here all night if i do.

    In closing, i called it you're dumb if you bought into the hype thinking this was going to be better than new vegas next time bethesda ****s out another stinker onto your plate don't blow your chump change on it and don't ask for seconds.    … Expand
  32. Eddie_o
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Bethesda showed the game at E-3, yes.
    And it was exciting, just to know that a Fallout-4 was coming.
    They showed the voice-over feature of our character. Nice looking graphics... The curious start of the game, running to the vault....Showing us how everything started... All good stuff... Yet they did not tell us that all this, was going to be presented in a stupified game mechanic,    Bethesda showed the game at E-3, yes.
    And it was exciting, just to know that a Fallout-4 was coming.
    They showed the voice-over feature of our character.
    Nice looking graphics...
    The curious start of the game, running to the vault....Showing us how everything started...
    All good stuff...

    Yet they did not tell us that all this, was going to be presented in a stupified game mechanic, which is not Fallout, yet another scripted version of Call of Duty.
    I have no qualms with CoD, I actually love it. It plays out as if you are watching a nice action movie.
    But this is Fallout, not CoD.
    If I wanna play CoD, I will go buy CoD.
    Imagine your beloved CoD to become a hardcore strategy-rpg with immense and complicated skill system, side quests, open world etc... Imagine CoD to become a totally different game than the one you loved before...

    Imagine your disappointment...
    And now respect mine... Thank you    … Expand
  33. farrellj0814
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    No need to go into detail here. We were expecting an RPG game but instead we got a FPS with a few perks to unlock. Dialog sucks. Graphics suck (for 2015). Don't Buy it.
  34. affablebloke
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Even with mediocre expectations, this game is worse.

    First off, the controls feel really clunky and when walking around your character has no sense of weight. It just feels like you're floating. The controller mapping also seems weird. Graphically this game feels dated. It looks as good as Skyrim on my PS3, which isn't a good looking game at all. The only thing good about this    Even with mediocre expectations, this game is worse.

    First off, the controls feel really clunky and when walking around your character has no sense of weight. It just feels like you're floating. The controller mapping also seems weird.

    Graphically this game feels dated. It looks as good as Skyrim on my PS3, which isn't a good looking game at all.

    The only thing good about this game is the weapons crafting system, yet that isn't enough to make me want to keep playing.

    Bethesda should do us all a favor and sell the rights of Fallout to a company who truly wants to make a good game.    … Expand
  35. 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
  36. oumajgad
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Take Fallout game. Remove Fallout from it and put Borderlands in that place. This would be perfect description of what Fallout 4 is and what it isn't.
    As a shooter it's decent. But as next game from Fallout franchise which supposed to be RPG it's a joke. Many people already pointed out lack of skills, karma, items degradation, hardcore mode. Every great thing from Fallout 1,2 and NV was    Take Fallout game. Remove Fallout from it and put Borderlands in that place. This would be perfect description of what Fallout 4 is and what it isn't.
    As a shooter it's decent. But as next game from Fallout franchise which supposed to be RPG it's a joke. Many people already pointed out lack of skills, karma, items degradation, hardcore mode. Every great thing from Fallout 1,2 and NV was removed and replaced with mechanics taken from other games: we got Borderlands-ish perks, Sims - Wasteland and graphics from 2009 games.

    There are more flaws. Everything is needed. Good thing isn't it? Well, not exactly. Everything can be broken down which basically means there is no thrill that happens when You find something cool. Remember when You first picked Gauss Rifle in F2? Not gonna happen in F4 because here You already build yourself better gun with 100 coffee cups and 50 tin cans.

    Next terrible thing will be UI. It's one huge mess designed with consoles in mind. You are lefty and You want to rebind numkeys? Good luck. You are right handed and You want to use keyboard to choose dialogue options? Use arrows instead of WSAD. Basically everything about UI and controls is made in worst possible way.

    Graphics. Well, good RPG doesn't need good graphics. Problem is that F4 isn't good RPG. It also lacks good graphics. It's basically refreshed F3. Still, in my opinion it's simply wrong to release game in late 2015 with graphics on 2010 level.

    And my biggest issue. Game is simply boring. No arguments here. It's just personal feeling.    … Expand
  37. Kokeshi_Is_Life
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    No Karma
    No Faction Reputation
    No Weapon Condition
    No Skills
    No clarity in the dialogue wheel
    No option to kill a lot of NPCs
    No respect for the lore
    No Buys
  38. PhilGPT
    Nov 13, 2015
    1
    Terrible, terrible game. I have no idea what Bethesda thought to accomplish? Maybe to make me not buy games from them anymore?

    Cons: -Removal of armor & weapons degradation -Addition of the dialogue wheel. 4 choices? What? BGS go back to your old dialogue system. -Level scaling. It's 2015 remove this abomination, Witcher 3 did it right with no level scaling enemies. Beth take it    Terrible, terrible game. I have no idea what Bethesda thought to accomplish? Maybe to make me not buy games from them anymore?

    Cons:

    -Removal of armor & weapons degradation
    -Addition of the dialogue wheel. 4 choices? What? BGS go back to your old dialogue system.
    -Level scaling. It's 2015 remove this abomination, Witcher 3 did it right with no level scaling enemies. Beth take it one step further and remove it from both enemies and loot.

    Pros:

    -Mods: Yay, I can add what I want and remove the bad features like the dialogue wheel.
    -Graphics: Looks ok, no idea why so many are complaining about them.
    -Crafting: It's actually fun.
    -Combat: Feels improved thanks to iD with their help.

    All in all this game gets a 1 from me due to the 3 cons I described, I can't stand the dialogue wheel and armor & weapons not breaking is annoying I want to maintain them.    … Expand
  39. laicik
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    It's like Sims + Oblivion. Waste of time and money. Map is so small that it's hard to believe it took 5 years of making. Graphic - 2/10 for AAA game. It's just terrible...
  40. Violett
    Nov 14, 2015
    3
    Right, after first 10 hours of gameplay I finally want to state my opinion of the game.

    First of all – really it was not what I’ve expected after I saw all those advertisement trailers. We were promised none less but new Fallout 2 Starcraft Baldurs Gate Dark Souls, but from user reviews one can clearly see it was faaaar from truth. Far from truth in all directions: Graphics: We    Right, after first 10 hours of gameplay I finally want to state my opinion of the game.

    First of all – really it was not what I’ve expected after I saw all those advertisement trailers. We were promised none less but new Fallout 2 Starcraft Baldurs Gate Dark Souls, but from user reviews one can clearly see it was faaaar from truth.

    Far from truth in all directions:

    Graphics: We were promised graphics at least on par with The Witcher 3 level. Graphics is good, really, but comparing to Witcher? Nope, not even close. I can compare Fallout to Wolfenstein or Bioshock – 1-2 years old games – good graphics, but nothing more, although humongous system requirements trying to convince us otherwise. I even bought new videocard – and for what?

    Plot: This is the weakest point. After 10 hours of gameplay I completed only several dull quests. Protagonist is completely emotionless. He comes out on the surface with face like “ok, nuclear explosion, sh*t happends”. The game didn’t tell who are those people, how did they survive, where did they came from. You don’t live with your character, it is like you are playing Counter-Strike. But this is Fallout after all! Remember those quests lines from Fallout 2? I could feel the world is living there and my character lived in that world. Now I cannot understand why, what for, where …

    Gameplay: I don’t like the games when you need to create your own story. Take Bioshock Infinite for example – playing the game is like you are watching awesome action movie, every second something happens. In Fallout things are like this – you want to get fun? Ok, take hundred of house patterns, take walls, doors, bath tubes and flowes – and make your own home! Go and find some fun for yourself! Probably this is the core of sandbox – maybe I just don’t like sandbox games.

    Controls: This is just bad console port, controls are very bad, you can cancel some menus with ESC, but some only with TAB and this is really painful to remember HOW TO CLOSE EACH MENU – like wtf?! Why I cant cancel it all with ESC?

    Crafting system: For those who like The Sims probably it can be fun, although I have doubts Sims fans will play Fallout games. You can salvage everything – very “realistic” indeed.

    So what did we get? Another Skyrim in post-apocalyptic world with guns instead of magic. Skyrim was great (with better plot btw), but why make second one?

    You know, the best game of all Fallout series for me was Fallout Tactics, and you know why? Because the game had its story. You have had clear course of all missions, you knew that in the end of this map new gauss gun awaits you, while F4 presents with another rusted coffee cup in the end of the long cave.
    The only fun moment so far was in the beginning – the nuclear explosion is really well made – I could almost feel it on my skin, and share those people horror. Too bad that’s the only fun moment in the game. I really should spend those 60 bucks somewhere else. If you are Fallout fan – imagine F4 was never released. Probably it was just a mistake to bring Fallout in 3D after all.    … Expand
  41. SpaceNinja
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    No mouse acceleration option, the X and Y mouse sensitivity is different on default settings, no FOV setting in game. Garbage port. How should i enjoy a game in which not even the mouse basic stuff is working, like the mouse?
  42. DougM
    Nov 20, 2015
    3
    22 hours in and I don't think I have the strength to go on. There is just nothing to hook the player into continuing through this giant mess of an RPG. The main story is just not compelling, the side quests are not compelling, the visuals are awful and the controls are clunky. Even the main radio station stinks.

    The only thing I like so far is the build mode but that can only carry    22 hours in and I don't think I have the strength to go on. There is just nothing to hook the player into continuing through this giant mess of an RPG. The main story is just not compelling, the side quests are not compelling, the visuals are awful and the controls are clunky. Even the main radio station stinks.

    The only thing I like so far is the build mode but that can only carry you so far before getting bored.    … Expand
  43. fredhorrigan
    Dec 3, 2015
    3
    It's a Bethesda game

    The shooting (and only the shooting, enemies are still bullet sponges on normal and up and melee is worse than New Vegas) was improved and the graphics are certainly better but just about every flaw you expect from a bethesda game is here is one way or another, joined by a dumbed down conversation system that limits you to 4 choices that are almost completely    It's a Bethesda game

    The shooting (and only the shooting, enemies are still bullet sponges on normal and up and melee is worse than New Vegas) was improved and the graphics are certainly better but just about every flaw you expect from a bethesda game is here is one way or another, joined by a dumbed down conversation system that limits you to 4 choices that are almost completely identical most of the time and a building system that's acceptable for building a player house but extremely shallow when it comes to building settlements (settlers being invincible unless killed by the player doesn't help).

    Fallout 3.1/10    … Expand
  44. SArais
    Dec 14, 2015
    0
    Hah. I knew it was god-awful. Oh well, back to playing the waiting game for a GOOD game. Not like I haven't been waiting 15 years already. Another typical corporate dump.
  45. GLANBC
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Боль! Унизили всю серию Fallout этой частью. Что мы получили: Шутан с элементами рпг, Прямолинейные квесты, Пустой мир, Skyrim 2.0.
  46. AfterNov10
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Notice that critic reviews are before the game even released.

    This is the most down hill development I have ever seen from a popular business, next to Stronghold 3. I've played the game Fallout 4. I've played past the character creation. I've seen most that people are still trying to find out. But most importantly I'm not giving this a 10 out of 10 just because I'm delusional about it    Notice that critic reviews are before the game even released.

    This is the most down hill development I have ever seen from a popular business, next to Stronghold 3. I've played the game Fallout 4. I've played past the character creation. I've seen most that people are still trying to find out. But most importantly I'm not giving this a 10 out of 10 just because I'm delusional about it being a fallout game that can do nothing wrong, and if it had good graphics at the start.

    There's complaints about how the game doesn't support computer as much and the bugs. But that's not where I'm going with this. This game has even less content than its original series. Most of what you knew from the open world fallout series is completely gone: There's no fractions. People aren't piss about you shooting them (Nor do they die.)."Levels" are gone. Perks are turned into skill trees. Most things are scripted. And so on.

    Graphic-wise. It's decent but the lighting doesn't make sense at times. The application for map, ammo and so on looks completely lazy and abysmal. The ammo looks like someone took front from Microsoft word and colored it.

    As for over all feeling it feels anything but serious. Everything you do is met with happy dramatic orchestrated music. Everything looks bright and sunny even with unnatural lighting. Struggles of the war aftermath is only implied via story. Hardly anyone is dirty like they should be. For example: There's a skeleton of a dead man that's been dead for years in the vault you start in, but hot damn his lab coat is white and clean from his body decaying.

    You want to know what I think this game is? An open world Call of Duty with weapon mods.    … Expand
  47. rBose
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Disgusting consolized mess, the UI is a disaster for any PC user, it screams for a controller and as for the performance... just like any other poorly ported console game:

    Example : Batman Arkham Knight, AC Unity

    Performance is absolutely horrendous, from 60 fps outside to 12-25 fps inside buildings, from 60 fps in some areas to 25-35 fps when looking at a city.
  48. kaluk
    Nov 22, 2015
    0
    False advertising. They said this was going to be a new Fallout, a new RPG and it's not. This game is a FPS with minor elements of RPG. CoD players will like it tho.
  49. Ernestei
    Feb 6, 2016
    0
    Probably the worst game I've ever played.

    Simple as that.

    When you play it you have the feeling of playing an alpha, it doesn't feel finished. Pure rubbish.
  50. Roguer
    Dec 12, 2015
    0
    Rubbish. Piss poor console port with all the underlying GUI and controls issues. Shallow and one dimensional with a lot less choice, character freedom of choice and pathetic conversation choices. Killed off most of the RPG elements in favor of the usual consolified FPS experience, catering to the lowest common denominator, thus practically no replayability. Steer clear of this heapingRubbish. Piss poor console port with all the underlying GUI and controls issues. Shallow and one dimensional with a lot less choice, character freedom of choice and pathetic conversation choices. Killed off most of the RPG elements in favor of the usual consolified FPS experience, catering to the lowest common denominator, thus practically no replayability. Steer clear of this heaping pile until it hits the bargain bin.… Expand
  51. Belshazzar
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    pros: +Good world for exploration can take up many hours
    +Crafting system
    +Mod support cons: +Awful texture, crappy animation, poor optimization, locked fps, +Control also seem awkward: cant use middle mouse to scroll, mouse move like **** the only way to return from menu, quest, map etc is tab. Stupid interface: wasd to move but arrow to choose between items and mouse to place    pros: +Good world for exploration can take up many hours
    +Crafting system
    +Mod support

    cons: +Awful texture, crappy animation, poor optimization, locked fps,
    +Control also seem awkward: cant use middle mouse to scroll, mouse move like **** the only way to return from menu, quest, map etc is tab. Stupid interface: wasd to move but arrow to choose between items and mouse to place item...
    +Not support 4:3 and ultra wide: can only config through game files but it mess up with the UI
    +Story seem kinda lame plus facial animation don't show any emotion make it even more meh, also stupid dialogue...
    +Retarded AI
    +Bugs, glitches
    +I don't even feel like this is a RPG anymore    … Expand
  52. Dasbo1
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4 is to the fallout series what Zelda the faces of evil is to the Zelda games, an abomination that should've never existed.
    Vomiting trash.
    Bravo Bethesda.
  53. FatherofVillain
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    It's obvious these were paid reviewers. Gamespeed is limited to FPS, physics are still not fixed, this game runs on Gamebryo, an engine developed in 1997. Bugged everywhere and doesn't fit the lore at all. Companions don't die, neither do most named NPCs, you cannot dismiss Dogmeat (how did Dogmeat get all the way from The Capital Wasteland, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts?) Skills areIt's obvious these were paid reviewers. Gamespeed is limited to FPS, physics are still not fixed, this game runs on Gamebryo, an engine developed in 1997. Bugged everywhere and doesn't fit the lore at all. Companions don't die, neither do most named NPCs, you cannot dismiss Dogmeat (how did Dogmeat get all the way from The Capital Wasteland, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts?) Skills are removed and everything is tied to SPECIAL which is easy to level up, concerning that the level cap has been removed. The graphics are low quality, dated, and are non-configurable despite platform. FOV is locked at 60 instead of standard 90. Fans will say "mods" being able to fix things, but where's the logic in buying something broken? If I went to a car dealership I wouldn't want to purchase a car that later when received turned out to be broken only to be told when I get it that I can just have it repaired. Terrible game do not buy. 0/10.… Expand
  54. 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
  55. Trypsinogen
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    This is a joke. All the 9.5 and 10's this game is getting is also just a glaring example of why game critics and gaming journalism are a bunch paid scumbags. On a technical level: garbage. Bugs everywhere. Awful graphics. Terrible physics. AWFUL face animations. Awful character models. Ridiculously long load times. Load times every time you want to move more than 20 feet or into a newThis is a joke. All the 9.5 and 10's this game is getting is also just a glaring example of why game critics and gaming journalism are a bunch paid scumbags. On a technical level: garbage. Bugs everywhere. Awful graphics. Terrible physics. AWFUL face animations. Awful character models. Ridiculously long load times. Load times every time you want to move more than 20 feet or into a new building. You compare this side-to-side with The Witcher 3 and the game is an absolute joke.

    And on top of that - garbage story. It's like no one at Bethesda at all played The Last of Us - they know how to make you care about you losing your kid in the introduction. just godawful writing. Awful character development. Awful everything. Setting is just the same old. Nothing improved from previous games. Seriously, watch the intro to The Last of Us - then watch the intro this garbage. Then play The Witcher 3 then play this garbage.    … Expand
  56. DarthPadme
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    It looks like all that marketing and buying out of critic reviews actually paid off - they sold a ton of this game to suckers like me. Despite the utterly lackluster graphics, terrible lipsyncing, crippling glitches, and very little new content over previous titles in the series, I did buy this game, and lucky me, I spent 3 hours "playing" it trying to get it working right on myIt looks like all that marketing and buying out of critic reviews actually paid off - they sold a ton of this game to suckers like me. Despite the utterly lackluster graphics, terrible lipsyncing, crippling glitches, and very little new content over previous titles in the series, I did buy this game, and lucky me, I spent 3 hours "playing" it trying to get it working right on my top-of-the-line rig I just built and now am ineligible for a refund.

    Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves, for real. This game is antiquated, using assets from other games, animations from Skyrim, and its bugginess through and through is a testament of how much they need to scrap everything they're working with and start over from scratch. I'm reviewing the PC version, but the consoles are even worse - both locked at 30 FPS with frequent dips into the teens, or worse, seconds-long hang ups and load times that seem to go on forever. At least I'm getting 60+ FPS at all times on 1440p, maxed out, with "minimal" load times.

    Since I'm stuck with this game now, I did try to play it further, and holy crap, what a weird experience. The characters have zero, well, character! The voice acting is full of pizazz, and the NPCs just stand there, lifeless by comparison, as their game models barely try to approximate facial expressions, let alone matching the words with their mouths. This game makes L.A. Noire's face tech look like it's from the **** future. This game makes Witcher 3's dialogue cutscenes look better than real life. And speaking of dialogue, I hope you don't like knowing exactly what you're going to say, as Bethesda has dumbed down another critical RPG feature and replaced it with vague choices that DO NOT correspond to what your character will say.

    All in all, from the game's combat, to its busywork, to the graphics and mechanics, Fallout 4 is a COLOSSAL disappointment. If you feel you must play this game, pirate it, because Bethesda and its full staff of developers do not deserve to be rewarded for this **** The media is eating this up just like they did with Skyrim, and dare I say it, this game is even more overhyped. Don't be tricked. Forget about this game.    … Expand
  57. EE061003
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    It is evident that no effort was put in this so called RPG. Bethesda is a big name and such a mediocre title as "Fall out 4 " at this stage when legendary title like CDPROJEKT's RED WITCHER 3 has left a huge mark on gaming industry, is totally unacceptable. i have no idea why critics are giving it a perfect score. Shabby pc port, dated graphics , boring story, boring side quests , poorIt is evident that no effort was put in this so called RPG. Bethesda is a big name and such a mediocre title as "Fall out 4 " at this stage when legendary title like CDPROJEKT's RED WITCHER 3 has left a huge mark on gaming industry, is totally unacceptable. i have no idea why critics are giving it a perfect score. Shabby pc port, dated graphics , boring story, boring side quests , poor face animations, lip sync is missing in many segments and the list goes on. Hard to believe its a AAA title, i am sorry Bethesda but you're no longer a king of RPG open world anymore. Back to you Geralt..… Expand
  58. Muuvinki
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    This isn't even close being finished game. What on earth happened to you Bethesda? Did you lost every single remaining braincell you had before? First of all this game lags, glitches and bugs on very high end pc's meaning that the optimization is horrible. Secondly, npc's are like walking corpses among the game world and there seems to be no depth even in single one of them. Storyline isThis isn't even close being finished game. What on earth happened to you Bethesda? Did you lost every single remaining braincell you had before? First of all this game lags, glitches and bugs on very high end pc's meaning that the optimization is horrible. Secondly, npc's are like walking corpses among the game world and there seems to be no depth even in single one of them. Storyline is generic and very boring experience with no improvement at all.

    What is even more unbelievable is that your fanbase defends this horrible s***cake that has no quality to be seen anywhere. This game is not worth 60$, hell its not even worth 20$ because its a big buggy mess that crashes often and framerate sucks.

    Open your eyes people, DO NOT support this kind of failures.    … Expand
  59. Sakatox
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    A pure disappointment, more smoke than actual fire or content. The game was sold purely on hype.

    The game is a departure from the right direction New Vegas carved out of Bethesda bugs and base material. Has to be said that the game is basically Fallout 3 remix in a different region, with most story assets, ideas reused. It doesn't have a good dialog system, the radial wheel has been    A pure disappointment, more smoke than actual fire or content. The game was sold purely on hype.

    The game is a departure from the right direction New Vegas carved out of Bethesda bugs and base material. Has to be said that the game is basically Fallout 3 remix in a different region, with most story assets, ideas reused.

    It doesn't have a good dialog system, the radial wheel has been simplified further from Mass Effect's Investigate + options to just options.
    The voiced protagonists are cringe-inducingly overacted, while still feeling dead most of the time.
    You do not roleplay anymore, your choices are voiced by previously mentioned VAs. The paraphrasing does not contain even slight hints about what will actually be said, on par with [GLASS HIM] from Wolf Among us. Wasting money on voiceacting and recording popular names instead of fleshing out a good dialog system with multiple choices is a huge disappointment for any fan of the previous installments.
    Skills were completely removed in favor of simplified perks, which makes the dialog system suffer too.

    Without any spoilers, the story is reused from Fallout 3, with the roles being somewhat reversed. You are the father instead of the kid right now, we know this from the trailers too, no spoilers there.

    On PC, the game suffers from extreme FPS dips in certain moments or locations, it can't keep consistent performance and framerate on a decent computer build.

    Overall, the graphics are intolerable, worse than Fallout 3 at points. Turning on ultra high is almost invisible to low graphics. Everything looks like shiny plastic clay. Because of the horrid FPS dips, a framerate lock was put in place, as the case with F3 and Skyrim - mostly because of console limitations. However, looking further upon it seems to indicate that Bethesda is just overall not optimizing anything, and don't know how to decently program physics, or the like. The physics are tied to the framelock, increasing it to 60 fps can make physics behave more wonky and less sensible than it was before. The cars start magically floating sometimes.

    The face sculpting system sounds okay on paper, however, the new system without scales or bars is impossible to craft perfection with. You must rely on even more gametime to make a tolerable looking face, and since you have two different characters(again, no roleplaying just roles to assume ala Call of Duty, which is not an rpg in any strict sense, or otherwise), double that amount.

    The game overall suffers from the Skyrim streamlining syndrome, removing a lot of things that Bethesda couldn't make working on a 10-15 year old engine (no matter the renaming, it's the same old outdated engine, patching can only take you so far.). A popular phrase is, if you will, "Skyrim with guns."

    The oversimplification is hurting the franchise more than it helps it. Horrible.

    The only saving prospect/outlook is the very minor possibility Obsidian does a New Vegas-like separate game, reintroduces what the porting to Skyrim base assets has caused (removal and streamlining of a lot of things), and abandons everything bad 4 has brought to the series.

    Bethesda should sell the Fallout IP to some company who's competent enough to make good games again. 3 out of 10.    … Expand
  60. 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
  61. Brogam4r
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    The game is just terrible. I expected so much from it. I can't believe that bethesda did that to us.

    The graphics are bad, performance is atrocious, the story.. I don't even know where to start. Why did they have to do this to us. I feel really bad that I played it for more than 2 hours and now I can't get my refund for it.
  62. 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
  63. FNDeboer
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Wow..this game is dumb. Everything that made the original Fallout from 1997 a masterpiece is gone. Nothing in this game makes sense and it's not even a real RPG. It's a really bad FPS with stats and some Minecraft-style gameplay awkwardly thrown in.

    Full disclosure: I thought Fallout 3 was pretty bad compared to Fallout 1, but at least good for a fun romp. From this I expected decent    Wow..this game is dumb. Everything that made the original Fallout from 1997 a masterpiece is gone. Nothing in this game makes sense and it's not even a real RPG. It's a really bad FPS with stats and some Minecraft-style gameplay awkwardly thrown in.

    Full disclosure: I thought Fallout 3 was pretty bad compared to Fallout 1, but at least good for a fun romp. From this I expected decent production values at the very least, but everything is half-assed. The art direction is terribly incoherent, the voice acting is downright terrible, the writing is cringe-worthy and the plot is an abomination. Fortunately Steam has a return policy.    … Expand
  64. Elair
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Worst game ever made.

    Here is a sentence that make no sense but get closer to 150 characters long message limit. And another one. And once more... Aaaaand, finally, the last one.
  65. IAmAware
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    DISCLAIMER: I've played Fallout 2, 3 and NV extensively and love this series. However...

    No in-game FOV slider in 2015. Are you for real Bethesda? Built-in mouse acceleration - We have to edit an ini file to fix this and the above Horrible key bindings Clumsy, cluttered, poorly designed UI - clearly made with consoles in mind once again Graphics well behind what you would expect for    DISCLAIMER: I've played Fallout 2, 3 and NV extensively and love this series. However...

    No in-game FOV slider in 2015. Are you for real Bethesda?
    Built-in mouse acceleration - We have to edit an ini file to fix this and the above
    Horrible key bindings
    Clumsy, cluttered, poorly designed UI - clearly made with consoles in mind once again
    Graphics well behind what you would expect for a game in 2015
    Same old clunky animations for the same old engine (not to mention awful lip-syncing during dialogue)
    Dialogue wheel and voiced protagonist ruin the RP experience
    Holstered weapons now disappear
    Typically dull Skyrim-esque Bethesda story. In future please leave writing and storytelling to Obsidian.    … Expand
  66. Vertran187
    Nov 22, 2015
    2
    There is just no excuse for a game to look so bad and such poor animations i except that its a complex game but it looks so rough and lacks detail. The games has improved in many ways but no enough to a 5 year wait GTA V Witcher 3 AC Syndicate are what games in 2015 should look like not this mess.

    I`m still playing the hell out of it and will get a 100+ hours out of it i`m sure the    There is just no excuse for a game to look so bad and such poor animations i except that its a complex game but it looks so rough and lacks detail. The games has improved in many ways but no enough to a 5 year wait GTA V Witcher 3 AC Syndicate are what games in 2015 should look like not this mess.

    I`m still playing the hell out of it and will get a 100+ hours out of it i`m sure the whole time will be spent in a ugly ass world.    … Expand
  67. supergamingman
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    i bot this gam cuz i like fallput 3 and nv sucks so i saw bethesda maked this one i was excited. i stole my moms card to buy it and my **** laptop couldnt even open trhe game!!! hpw can bethesda make game for pc that dont work? fukin dum as ****
  68. Braduk
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    As a fan of the series as a whole, I can say with certainty that this game has no redeemable qualities.

    The dialogue wheel was one of the earliest mistakes we saw with this game. It dumbs down the dialogue to an intense degree. Less dialogue choices, and it is used many times to deceptively create an illusion of choice, when all choices are the same because you are forced into one type    As a fan of the series as a whole, I can say with certainty that this game has no redeemable qualities.

    The dialogue wheel was one of the earliest mistakes we saw with this game. It dumbs down the dialogue to an intense degree. Less dialogue choices, and it is used many times to deceptively create an illusion of choice, when all choices are the same because you are forced into one type of character, having no leeway on how you want to be. There are even sometimes where you get four choices that are all no, no other answer can be done. Combined with the very poor voice acting and heavily linear story that reuses some parts from Fallout 3, the narrative is atrocious. It is a step down from New Vegas, where you could actually make choices and have more than just two slightly different endings that do not depend on your actions in the game.

    But what about the gunplay? Don't think you'll be having any fun in that either. VATS is even more buggy than it was before, where you can see the laser or bullet hit the person's head but no damage occurs. Heck this happens outside of VATS. Enemy and Companion AI is also as smart as a potato battery, and will frequently get stuck or glitch out. Speaking of which, there are glitches everywhere. They did not even try.

    Graphically, the game is unappealing in every way. Textures are noticeably bad, and there are hardly any shadows to be seen. Everything looks like plastic. Plus they even reused assets from Skyrim and Fallout 3 (seven years ago!), including models and sounds.

    All RPG elements have been dumbed down or removed. The game no longer has any skills. It's only perks and SPECIAL. Despite this, New Vegas base had more perks than this game PLUS skills. All the perks in this game are just percentage increases of stats, mostly, with a few exceptions. Overall, no effort in the RPG elements of a RPG.

    No path will fix the horrible story, characters, and lack of things in this game. A huge disappointment.    … Expand
  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. VandalSilin
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    > 2015
    > Fallout 4
    > the main topic of discussion on forums - how and where to collect the different kind of garbage in the game and how to grow plants

    I was willing to forgive Bethesda for everything, but not the destruction of RPG system
  71. sovietpop
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Generic and soulless, this is how i can describe this game. I am sorry but Bethesda is incompetent about game design. Insignifiant dialog, shallow NPC, just bad design. Comparing Fallout 4 to the original Fallout is like Comparing the Movie Transformer to Solaris from Tarkovski.
    If you like FPS i guess you could like this game but if you are looking for an RPG put your money on :    Generic and soulless, this is how i can describe this game. I am sorry but Bethesda is incompetent about game design. Insignifiant dialog, shallow NPC, just bad design. Comparing Fallout 4 to the original Fallout is like Comparing the Movie Transformer to Solaris from Tarkovski.
    If you like FPS i guess you could like this game but if you are looking for an RPG put your money on : Wasteland 2 , Divinity Original Sin, Pillar of Eternity, The Witcher etc. I wish they just sell the Ip to some other developper.    … Expand
  72. sanicrivls
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Awful graphics that have no distinct art style awful story line that is as predictable as it is cringey the loot is unbalanced giving you the best weapons and armour within the first hour of the game and awful performance on pc I came into this game expecting it to be bad and was still disappointed I hope that Bethesda does fix there game this time rather than leaving the community to fixAwful graphics that have no distinct art style awful story line that is as predictable as it is cringey the loot is unbalanced giving you the best weapons and armour within the first hour of the game and awful performance on pc I came into this game expecting it to be bad and was still disappointed I hope that Bethesda does fix there game this time rather than leaving the community to fix there hot mess of a game… Expand
  73. Yedroel
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    FallOut is now a ruined franchise. So, you are thinking: - "Lets sell **** at $59,99 with a good title (FallOut 4), it will works, money rain!". So, I am thinking you will love this 0.
  74. Derbis_101
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    -Get to Diamond City
    -See the newspaper woman everyone is talking about
    -Her voice is really annoying -Be a total asshat to her -Completely agree with everything the Mayor says about how the newspaper sucks to spite her -The conversation ends with the Mayor calling me her "little sister" as if I had sided with her -She asks me to come by her office to help her with her newspaper that    -Get to Diamond City
    -See the newspaper woman everyone is talking about
    -Her voice is really annoying
    -Be a total asshat to her
    -Completely agree with everything the Mayor says about how the newspaper sucks to spite her
    -The conversation ends with the Mayor calling me her "little sister" as if I had sided with her
    -She asks me to come by her office to help her with her newspaper that I just said I didn't support

    And I thought ff13 was the hallway    … Expand
  75. Suplexer
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Sigh... once again Bethesda remioves a lot of features from their games and ruins franchises. I should of seen it coming a mile away with what we have heard about Fallout 4 and it should of been known since Skyrim.

    So Beth ruined their Elder Scrolls franchise and now ruined the Fallout franchise. Dialogue wheels? Seriously? Four choices? This is the worst ever in a Beth game. Don't get    Sigh... once again Bethesda remioves a lot of features from their games and ruins franchises. I should of seen it coming a mile away with what we have heard about Fallout 4 and it should of been known since Skyrim.

    So Beth ruined their Elder Scrolls franchise and now ruined the Fallout franchise. Dialogue wheels? Seriously? Four choices? This is the worst ever in a Beth game. Don't get me on level scaling of enemies. Should of done it like Witcher 3 with no level scaling at all.

    Total disappointment. I don't think I can give Beth money anymore.    … Expand
  76. KittenMitten
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    If a griefer spent a year modding Skyrim to release a fake Fallout 4 to make fans cry like girls, then Fallout 4 is what you would have. EA could have made this game. EA could have made it better, that's how bad it is.

    No more role-playing. The target audience is people who think role-playing is to select one choice in dialogue of four options to get exactly the same outcome regardless    If a griefer spent a year modding Skyrim to release a fake Fallout 4 to make fans cry like girls, then Fallout 4 is what you would have. EA could have made this game. EA could have made it better, that's how bad it is.

    No more role-playing. The target audience is people who think role-playing is to select one choice in dialogue of four options to get exactly the same outcome regardless of choice. The linear story is forced on you because Bethesda for some reason wanted to tell their own story even though they don't have any story worth telling. The writing is so horrid it would have been better to hire a random stranger off the street to write for them.
    I could write a better story right now and so could you. It requires anti-talent to write such cringeworthy tripe as the dialogue and main quest for Fallout 4. They removed player freedom so they could force their victims, a.k.a customers, to suffer through their abysmal lack of talent for writing.

    The map is the size of DLC content. They did not want players to have anything to do except to suffer their story. That is the whole point of Fallout 4. The only good thing is that the 10mm pistol looks better now. The modding community will not be able to save this disaster.    … Expand
  77. Oppip
    Nov 15, 2015
    1
    First and foremost, a little premise: I am a RPG player.
    Which means, i bought Fallout 4 to find an interesting story with some combat attached, and not Cod: Wasteland, as someone else pointed out.
    The basic of every RPG game (I spell it out for you Role Playing Game) is a story in which you play a character with all possibilities open for you (the classic    First and foremost, a little premise: I am a RPG player.
    Which means, i bought Fallout 4 to find an interesting story with some combat attached, and not Cod: Wasteland, as someone else pointed out.
    The basic of every RPG game (I spell it out for you Role Playing Game) is a story in which you play a character with all possibilities open for you (the classic Out-of-prison-you-can-be-anyone-you-like setting of TES), or someone with a little (Dragon age) or a very detailed backstory (Witcher).
    What Fallout 4 is Cod with sidequests.
    I'm not going down the road of Bad Graphics/Low Framerate/Etc, 'cause I simply don't care; even if those details were ironed out, F4 would remain a soulless game to me; EVERYTHING about fallout was the ENDING.
    You would play every subquest available, recruit every possible companion to see how that would affect the wasteland after the completion of you final mission (which would occur later on in the game, not only after 10 hours of gameplay); here everything is pointless, however you finish the game nothing changes (MassEffect 3 Ending anyone?).
    Bethesda, you sacrificed the soul of a Fallout game for the sake of "more than 400 hours of content"...of which 390 of them can be summarized as:
    - From here, go there, kill everyone
    -v2, kill everyone and bring back item X
    -Defend settlement Y of useless NPCs

    And the dialogues? Are you kidding me? The four option dialogue is clearly an help to all Xbox/PS players out there (which I think Bethesda judges as 4-years old with a pad in their hands, given the oversemplifications they've made): options are basically Yes-No-Sarcastic-Info. That's it. I expect this level of oversemplification for a FPS, not from an RPG. And the NPCs? There is no-one (except maybe for Hancock, which I found the less boring one) that really sticks with you...no-one that really makes you think about their story, no-one that really feels interesting (you had so much potential, just think of Fawkes, Sarah Lyons, Three Dog, Moira Brown of F3, and Tabitha, TheKing, Cesar, the Boomers, the entiry questlines for the WhiteGloves, Lonesome road and BigM. from FNW).
    I think this game is a major setback from NW, which exploited the weirdness of the mojave wasteland to create a unique story...here there is absolutely nothing of that atmosphere.
    And what about the perks? Guys, with NW you had a perfectly fine game that just need a tune-up with better graphics and maybe a new engine. That'is.
    Not a streamlined story with multiple pointless and identical subquests, that feel boring just after playing it for a couple of days.
    PLEASE, producers out there, stop creating abominable ports of games that should be masterpieces, and instead end up crappy for the sake of "having people on console enjoy them too".

    And also, "Professional" Reviewers, how in good conscience can you give a game like this a 80+ score?
    Have you ever played an RPG before? Do you know what its strong points are (or should be)?
    Or you just blurt out an "Amazing" "GOTY material" "Brilliant" to any game that a major publishes?
    It makes me think that you aren't really objective in your scores.    … Expand
  78. ImDavidFindley
    Nov 15, 2015
    1
    I created an account just to give this a bad review.
    They turned an excellent RPG into a FPS. After 10 hours I realized that all I had done was kill raiders and scavenge junk -- no involving RPG context to give it any meaning.
    what happened to the context that made Fallout 1 and 2 so special? -Or the diversity like Morrowind? Also I don't care about physical map size if it's just a    I created an account just to give this a bad review.
    They turned an excellent RPG into a FPS. After 10 hours I realized that all I had done was kill raiders and scavenge junk -- no involving RPG context to give it any meaning.
    what happened to the context that made Fallout 1 and 2 so special? -Or the diversity like Morrowind?

    Also I don't care about physical map size if it's just a big raider-filled wasteland. I want a WORLD with WRITING. WRITING. WRITING. WRITING.

    I am actually expecting conspiracy to suppress the RPG gaming environment. This, after what they did to Elder Scrolls with ESO? -They're destroying genuinely engrossing RPG worlds so that the GDP doesn't suffer...    … Expand
  79. Egocentricion
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    The game is absolutely horrifying.

    The characters have no feeling, the lines are bland, they are forgettable. The graphics aren't much of an upgrade but tax your hardware like no tomorrow. The RPG elements are mostly gone. The gunplay is awkward at times. There is no FOV slider and it's locked at 75 (headache inducing), unless you tinker with the .ini files. Pip-boy from smartphone    The game is absolutely horrifying.

    The characters have no feeling, the lines are bland, they are forgettable.
    The graphics aren't much of an upgrade but tax your hardware like no tomorrow.
    The RPG elements are mostly gone.
    The gunplay is awkward at times.
    There is no FOV slider and it's locked at 75 (headache inducing), unless you tinker with the .ini files.
    Pip-boy from smartphone to PC also requires you to learn the rocket science of opening ports instead of a more simple online synchronization approach.
    The building system is where the game shines but it ends right there.
    I would only recommend buying this game if you want Sims + Fallout and nothing more.
    The flaws list could be endless but most of the people here have repeated themselves.

    Bethesda will ignore their fans. Don't buy the game, don't pay for DLC, don't support a rotten company.    … Expand
  80. walktexranga
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Terrible PC port.. no excuse when PS4/XB1 are x86 architecture.. my powerful PC (2 x 780ti with SLI fix and latest drivers) even with game on lowest settings was dipping to 40-50fps with horrendous frame stutter..

    Also the various other issues: -Mouse lag -Mouse acceleration -Different x & Y Sensitivities -Game Crashes -Excessive Glitches -FPS cap with Engine tied to FPS (>60fps    Terrible PC port.. no excuse when PS4/XB1 are x86 architecture.. my powerful PC (2 x 780ti with SLI fix and latest drivers) even with game on lowest settings was dipping to 40-50fps with horrendous frame stutter..

    Also the various other issues:

    -Mouse lag
    -Mouse acceleration
    -Different x & Y Sensitivities
    -Game Crashes
    -Excessive Glitches
    -FPS cap with Engine tied to FPS (>60fps = glitches)
    + more..

    It doesnt even look very good and runs like a dog.. hopefully patches and new drivers will fix, but I dont hold high hopes.. Might need to grab console version where at least the experience is out of my control and TV's built in processors might help hide the terribly coded game..

    For a company that made over $1.3 billion revenue from Skyrim, there is just no excuse.. Todd Howard poor form mate.. Fallout originated on PC and now its dead on PC.    … Expand
  81. kingofpol
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    its a terrible game in general. Removed everything good about fallout then add **** AI and tie FPS with ENGINE SPEED and you have yourself fallout4.

    DO NOT BUY THIS
  82. nhaxor1336
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    poor optimization, bugs and casualized gameplay ... this not what I expected from Fallout 4
    graphics looks like cartoon sometime and there are problems with nvidia drivers
  83. RoyMustang
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    It was a great RPG, now it's just a shooter. No interesting dialogs, stupid quests, no memorable characters, dumbed down s.p.e.c.i.a.l. system, dumbed down all!
  84. konvice
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    Bethesda promise to player baked chicken and threw them only a bone!!!

    - graphic
    - really small wordl
    - generetic quest
    - short mainlines of story.
  85. agalloch
    Nov 19, 2015
    3
    Laughably bad. I just finished the game and truly didn't enjoy it compared to F:NV/FO3. Here are my reasons:

    1) The introduction was fantastic, but the rest of the game never captured the story in a similar way. 2) Side quests in FO3/F:NV were far more interesting. 3) The landscape was extremely repetitive. Every area seemed like a borderline copy/paste job. I thought there would    Laughably bad. I just finished the game and truly didn't enjoy it compared to F:NV/FO3. Here are my reasons:

    1) The introduction was fantastic, but the rest of the game never captured the story in a similar way.

    2) Side quests in FO3/F:NV were far more interesting.

    3) The landscape was extremely repetitive. Every area seemed like a borderline copy/paste job. I thought there would be more variation.

    4) The voice acting was stiff.

    5) The theme was not as interesting.

    6) The land, being as large as it was, seemed extremely empty.

    7) Base building is cumbersome and unnecessary.

    8) I thought colors should've been more vibrant. It was dull in a neutral way. Washed out without a theme.

    9) Weapons were extremely boring. You get a power armor WAY too soon in the game.    … Expand
  86. Alozar
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Бомбит, страшно бомбит. Такой шлак что мамочка родная. И не шутер и не рпг. Что же это. Это YOBA господа. В общем удачи всем в рефаунде денег, а я пойду пройду еще раз New Vegas.
  87. emrextreme
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This is nothing new than the Fallout 3. Actually with all the mods around Fallout 3 has more to offer than this avarage Joe. It really feels just an expansion, it's overhyped and couldnt meet the expectations.
  88. Prais1980
    Nov 14, 2015
    2
    A lot of people are saying this game is good, you know what? These Gamers are Call of Duty gamers!
    Why? Because Fallout 4 isn't a real RPG anymore.
    Let me explain: - There is no Karma-System - Weapons are immortal, they can not break - there are no skills anymore, repair? Why? You only have your 7 Main Attributes now, NOTHING ELESE! Except these Perks...so every level you can increase    A lot of people are saying this game is good, you know what? These Gamers are Call of Duty gamers!
    Why? Because Fallout 4 isn't a real RPG anymore.
    Let me explain:
    - There is no Karma-System
    - Weapons are immortal, they can not break
    - there are no skills anymore, repair? Why? You only have your 7 Main Attributes now, NOTHING ELESE! Except these Perks...so every level you can increase your 7 Main Attributes or select a perk, so you can have 10 Skillpoints with EVERY Attribute...over powered much?
    - the dialogue system has been caponized for the Shooter gamer, you ONLY have 4 answers, most of the time these answers contains just up to 2 words...sometimes you can just answer YES or NO...omg
    - the characters are in the game so mainstream and boring, no surprises, no freaky ones!
    - random legendary overpowered enemies...like in a MMORPG
    - random encounters are like always the same
    - Grinding (you are forced, for the main quest!), bethesda said, you don't need to craft, but for the Main Quest YOU HAVE TO!
    - the Basebuilding-system is a pain in the a....and feels like it does not match in the game
    - animations are terrible if mobs start a melee attack
    - crashes, i had like 3 total crashs within the first hours.
    - bugs, a lof of them
    - Quests are most time like: CLEAR THIS AREA, FIND THAT, KILL THAT ONE, there are no deep and long quests...boring!
    - the world itself is so tiny and boring, you always see the same 5 cars on and on, most of the cities are ruined ones, which means there are empty, besides Raiders.
    And the Cities where people live, are like 4 at all...and part of the mainquest, so you will not see any good stuff besides the mainquest.

    The whole game feels like a call of duty but with some "fake" open world elements, you can walk around the world, but there is not much to find, because everything is build around the main quest.
    I hope you get my point! Why the comparison with call of duty? Because in call of duty you run through tiny maps and shoot enemies on and on, thats exactly what you do in Bethesda Softworks Fallout 4, you clean areas. Yes you have RPG-Elements, but these are just in the game to allow Bethesda Softworks to say it is an rpg, but it does feel more like a call of duty.
    If you are a call of Duty lover, you will love Fallout 4, becaus you can shoot the whole game, you don't have to pick special answers, the right Answer for every quest is pressing the arrow key down...

    -    … Expand
  89. OldTexasStyle
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    This excuse for a game is gutter trash the graphics and animations look like toe nail clippings I have seen better graphics from Nintendo. I can think of 1500 better things to spend $60 on. A better use for this game is to blend it up and make a nutritious fallout smoothie. The voice acting in this game makes them look like puppets on crack. You couldn't pay me money to play this game. IfThis excuse for a game is gutter trash the graphics and animations look like toe nail clippings I have seen better graphics from Nintendo. I can think of 1500 better things to spend $60 on. A better use for this game is to blend it up and make a nutritious fallout smoothie. The voice acting in this game makes them look like puppets on crack. You couldn't pay me money to play this game. If you'd like to get creative you could mash up this game in your dogs food because I guarantee your dog is better than the one in this game. I am in utter disbelief at what Bethesda has released. 0/10 wouldn't bang.… Expand
  90. Valaridan
    May 7, 2016
    0
    worst game of the year,why?because everything about this game is a cheap copy of the old games like skyrim and fallout 3,the just copy paste those and added some new building that look just as bad as in fallout 3 and skyrim 2015 game with 2010 graphics thats show fallout 4 its just a money steal game for fanboys,the thing that blows my mind even more if this game doesn't even have aworst game of the year,why?because everything about this game is a cheap copy of the old games like skyrim and fallout 3,the just copy paste those and added some new building that look just as bad as in fallout 3 and skyrim 2015 game with 2010 graphics thats show fallout 4 its just a money steal game for fanboys,the thing that blows my mind even more if this game doesn't even have a multyplayer and that really makes me wonder what the hell people see at this game even if you are a fanboy??this could saved a bit of this mess of a game for me this is the worst game of the year competing with superman 64 shave on you bethseda for making this crap and stealing people money,you can have the same experience by just playing the cracked game instead of paying and insane amo0unt of money for this crap called a game since it does not have multyplayer.… Expand
  91. Soichy
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    0 only for the fact that the Fallout: New Vegas was rated 84, being a great game. At the same time, the Fallout 4 was rated 85 through corrupt critics. It is only harvesting game without a whole bunch of DLC is not a complete game. And because nuclear batteries for power armor is working 15 minutes instead of hundreds of years. That's all.
  92. smith
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    В целом за игру можно поставить 5 баллов. Но как за фаллоут даже балла не поставлю, игра уг, полное уг, нет ничего связанного с серией фаллоут. Бессмысленная система крафта и строительства, что это за бред. Квесты... сюжет... их здесь просто нет, как и системы диалогов. Можно часами перечислять недостатки, но смысл... бефезда все равно и дальше будет делать угВ целом за игру можно поставить 5 баллов. Но как за фаллоут даже балла не поставлю, игра уг, полное уг, нет ничего связанного с серией фаллоут. Бессмысленная система крафта и строительства, что это за бред. Квесты... сюжет... их здесь просто нет, как и системы диалогов. Можно часами перечислять недостатки, но смысл... бефезда все равно и дальше будет делать уг
  93. 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.
  94. 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
  95. 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
  96. Luck1N
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    After playing it for about 15 hours, I finally decided to delete it. After amazing New Vegas, this game is looong step back. I'm not talking about graphics (however, leaving all the work on graphics to moders is just lazy), but the gameplay is average at best (with all the simplifying of character progression system) and the story is just plain dumb.

    I was hyped to get this game, and    After playing it for about 15 hours, I finally decided to delete it. After amazing New Vegas, this game is looong step back. I'm not talking about graphics (however, leaving all the work on graphics to moders is just lazy), but the gameplay is average at best (with all the simplifying of character progression system) and the story is just plain dumb.

    I was hyped to get this game, and right now I really miss my 60€. Totally not worth it. And totally not worth being called a successor to New Vegas.    … Expand
  97. darksidemoon
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    Boring bland and dull. A disgrace to Fallout franchise.

    This game is so bad in so many levels it is a joke or I shall say better that Bethesda developers are a joke.
  98. TastesOfRegret
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Less content than any previous fallout game.
    When the last game we got was New Vegas, this is completely unacceptable. Every new Bethesda game is more dumbed down, stripped down, and hyped up to be better than ever when every single time it has less features.
    And what little content they DID add only served to make the game more unbearable and sever it's ties to the older games. The    Less content than any previous fallout game.
    When the last game we got was New Vegas, this is completely unacceptable. Every new Bethesda game is more dumbed down, stripped down, and hyped up to be better than ever when every single time it has less features.

    And what little content they DID add only served to make the game more unbearable and sever it's ties to the older games.

    The writing is abysmal, the pacing is all over the place and the gameplay is a bug-infested skeleton of it's former self.

    I refunded my purchase, and wouldn't even pirate this game now.    … Expand
  99. Cipher007
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Really horrible Console Port. Did not even try to hide that fact. The game released on PC so horribly buggy that its not playable for me and lost of others. Here I sit waiting for a patch to fix a game that is supposed to be release ready but by far is not.
  100. Burglar
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    Thank you, Bethesda, you ruined so epic atmosphere of Fallout. Fallout 3 was good, Fallout New Vegas was Epic, Fallout 4 - piece of **** for minecrafters and rusters. Give this game to Obsidian, they do it much better.
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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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