Fallout 4

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5.7

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  1. Days
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    I belive it is useless to repeat the facts offered in the previous reviews, but to be honest what got me off the most about this game is that it cannot be considered a game like any of the previous fallouts, some may like a shooter more then an rpg and dont' care about flaws becouse with time "mods" will fix them, but in the end fallout 4 is a very limited story driven shooter with fewI belive it is useless to repeat the facts offered in the previous reviews, but to be honest what got me off the most about this game is that it cannot be considered a game like any of the previous fallouts, some may like a shooter more then an rpg and dont' care about flaws becouse with time "mods" will fix them, but in the end fallout 4 is a very limited story driven shooter with few paths, missing components and some rpg elements. Comparing Fallout 3 or NV is impossible becouse they are totally different games at this point, in fact they get rid of some of their best mechanics that some might argue that they were not up to their taste (like karma, yeah we got no karma now, most of the story flagged npc cant' be killed and we got no mechanic to compensate) I'm a player that play the game for a sense of immersion, if i wanted a shooter or an hack and slash there are way better games, most of fallout players love the lore, and not a rushed beginning, of like 5 minutes, we were supposed to see a glimpse of world before the war, but the begin was just too rushed to make people grab pipe guns and pew pew from the start. Tradeskill conversation (becouse yeah, the new voiced dialogue with absolutely no understanding of what the dude or the chick will say is such a step forward) are removed, we got a perk style now similiar like skyrim, and we miss a lot of those small things that make a game worth it, most ignore them, but playing new vegas and hearing the comment of the old man about my start allocation was cute almost as the challange of building an high educated character with low combat skill just to have charisma and tradeskill options, "To see" where the game would react to the character. To conclude Fallout 4 is the son that came out wrong when you mix a shooter with minecraft elements and a bit of mass effect 3 magic, "pun intended."… Expand
  2. BPoole
    Nov 13, 2015
    1
    Where to begin? Beth has put a great many of us Fallout fans down with Fallout 4. The game is not living up to my expectations of a Fallout game. 6 hours and I just can seem to have fun. The radial dialogue wheel is a disaster. The story seems lacking and it just doesn't feel as good as Fallout: New Vegas. Immortal Dogmeat is stupid.

    Rate 1 and feels like I lost $60. DISAPPOINTED in Beth.
  3. RichardFeynman
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    Fallout 4 is rated at 5.0 by users! I couldn't believe it. Professional critics rate it above 8/10 all across the board. How can you explain this disparity? Are professional critics just a branch of PR arm for these game companies? Or is the game truly that good? If you check the scores of Fallout 3 and New Vegas ratings they are rated in the 8/10 by regular users – players like myself.Fallout 4 is rated at 5.0 by users! I couldn't believe it. Professional critics rate it above 8/10 all across the board. How can you explain this disparity? Are professional critics just a branch of PR arm for these game companies? Or is the game truly that good? If you check the scores of Fallout 3 and New Vegas ratings they are rated in the 8/10 by regular users – players like myself. That’s a great score. Both critics and gamers agree here. Perhaps Fallout 3 and NV are not as good as the old Fallout classics of 1 and 2, but they are very much enjoyable. And it reflects in the rating scores. Obviously I have bought Fallout 4 already, being a fan of the series, but this time I was eager to see for myself whether these bad ratings had any weight to them. Unfortunately after playing the game I have to agree with most of the heavy criticism I’ve seen so far.

    And I say unfortunately because this is Fallout, a game you really hope and want to enjoy. I am sorry to say that it's a disaster on so many levels. The worst part of the game has got to be the story, writing and dialogue. You have got to be kidding. Are people this brain dead in this day and age? The player gets to choose his dialog responses, just like in the old Fallout titles, expect that your responses are trivialized to simple “YES” and “NO” type of answers. Remember all the cool dialog options you could pick in the previous Fallout games with charisma or intelligence modifiers? Well, it's all gone. The whole RPG aspect is gone as well. Skills – removed. One has to admit that with such a degree of dumbing down this is nothing more than a brain dead shooter. This is not what Fallout is supposed to be about. I can only fit a few flaws here which, in my opinion, blows Fallout 4 apart.

    • Certain aspect ratios of monitors don‘t work. I had the option to use a widescreen monitor, but instead after a few hours of digging and modding I was able to play it on a 5:4 monitor.

    • Many un-killable NPC‘s. You don‘t have the option to kill these people, even if it‘s for the sake of having little bit of fun. Yes, you wouldn’t be able to complete certain quests or even the main story, but that’s what the LOAD save game is for if you change your mind about the massacre you unleashed.

    • Full of game breaking bugs. Getting stuck all over the place, crashing. Stealth bugs; lock picking bugs; terminals bugs. You name it.

    • Abysmal story, writing and dialogue. The things you say don't have any real impact at all. All you get to choose is “Yes”, “No”, “Sarcasm” type of responses. Hell, is it really necessary to point out that a certain response might be sarcastic? I've seen this trend lately in popular culture. Are people this stupid in this day and age? It's a simple concept. If you point out that something is sarcastic in advance, it kind of defeats the whole purpose of sarcasm! It’s not funny or witty anymore. On top of that the game doesn’t really tell you whether these “sarcastic” responses are painted in negative or positive colors. Not that it matters. The story is totally streamlined and makes no difference which response you pick.

    • No Karma system. The world doesn’t care whether you are good or evil. You can’t build your character around that either.

    • You get power armor and a minigun 5 minutes into the game. “I get this stuff already?" - asked myself. What the hell am I going to do later on? I don't deserve to get that, because I didn't actually do anything just yet. I didn’t feel like using those items afterwards. In the previous Fallout games you had to work for the cool and powerful stuff.

    • Fallout 4 lacks the RPG elements of previous Fallout games. The game ages quickly after what seems to be a cool intro and a good start. You mostly just shoot stuff.

    • The graphics aren't good for a game in the year 2015. I don’t really mind that too much, but they are still using the same old engine, which also comes with many of the same old problems. The real issue here is the performance, which is my point.

    • The performance in this game is horrendous. And it’s not just me. I'm running a great rig with a GTX970. I had and still have serious FPS problems, as many people do with even better machines. The only thing that helped was doing some heavy modding (getting old now). Maybe Bethesda is relying on the modders to make their game playable? Is it a way to save some money on developing costs? If there weren’t any modders, Fallout 4 would NOT even be playable.

    • Skills are removed from the game. People often say it’s an “illusion” and those stats or skill points have no real impact. That’s what they did in Diablo III. Well, so what? Is the solution to remove everything entirely? It’s a mistake to remove these mechanics from a game that previously worked just fine.

    • Isn’t the world a bit too small? They had many years to make this game. A few hours into the game and I had half the world covered.

    How could they make it this bad? No room for positive stuff.    … Expand
  4. Alvord12
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Lies, Lies, more Lies. Todd Howard never changes.

    Played this for about an hour. Textures are extremely horrible, performance is atrocious and the story... oh dear lord! The story is completely bland and boring. You have no emotional attachment to your family, 5 minutes later the wife/husband dies and the baby is stolen. You are then given power armor by people who you meet five minutes    Lies, Lies, more Lies. Todd Howard never changes.

    Played this for about an hour. Textures are extremely horrible, performance is atrocious and the story... oh dear lord! The story is completely bland and boring. You have no emotional attachment to your family, 5 minutes later the wife/husband dies and the baby is stolen. You are then given power armor by people who you meet five minutes ago. I just stopped playing at that point. This game is not worth it.

    Bethesda, if you're reading this ENOUGH WITH THE GAMEBRYO ENGINE. KILL IT WITH FIRE! Stop using this **** engine for games in 2015! And to the Bethesda fanboys, get a life. Fallout 4 is a soulless game with plastic looking character models, dumb AI, shallow fanfiction level story and side characters who you don't give a rats ass about.

    Those who have not yet bought the game, do yourself a favour and keep the money with you. Don't give this lazy, greedy company any more money. They don't deserve it.    … Expand
  5. Psychotrip
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Are there trolls out there posting zeroes for no reason? Of course! But there are also trolls posting 10's for no reason. This happens with EVERY popular game.

    There's a reason Fallout 4 has such a low user score: a lot of people just don't like it. Does that mean others can't like it? Of course not. But too many people are writing off our criticisms as trolling. PLEASE: stop    Are there trolls out there posting zeroes for no reason? Of course! But there are also trolls posting 10's for no reason. This happens with EVERY popular game.

    There's a reason Fallout 4 has such a low user score: a lot of people just don't like it.

    Does that mean others can't like it? Of course not.

    But too many people are writing off our criticisms as trolling.

    PLEASE: stop pretending the only people who don't like this game don't like Fallout or bethesda games. This is closed-minded thinking and doesn't lead to a substantive discussion. I've been a Bethesda fan my entire life, but I'm getting tired of these same problems popping up over and over. A lot of people are angry at SPECIFIC perfectly valid things,

    -like the game crashing on startup
    -like frame rate being tied to simulation speed (which is impossible to fix without working from the ground up)
    -things like the dialogue system
    -things like the terrible AI (which was in previous games sure, but don't you think games should improve?)
    -the cliche story
    -uninspired characters

    There's a lot of legitimate complaints here.

    We are just as devoted as fans as you. We just don't like something you like. That's it.    … Expand
  6. Carnakt
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    My guess is that they were overjoyed about how great scores Skyrim got and thought that pretty much the same simplification of core mechanics would work with fallout. Seems like it did not.
  7. JanGodwod
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    This game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than byThis game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than by gunning everyone to the ground. Crafting is boring after first 10 minutes, and then you just find endless piles of "Adv. Capt. Supr. Dupr. Gun". Vilage management is nonsense as I'm limited to exact number of things to craft and no more! I want to build huge fort, but I can't build anything else beyond limit. In this time of age? What is this? 1992 and my floppy just filled up to the edge?
    I'm 32 and I've played countless hours trough all previous Fallouts. This is not a Fallout game but something completely different dressed in Fallout clothes.
    I gave up on this game after about 16h and I'm never going back.    … Expand
  8. DRJMC
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    When you hype up a game this badly you're really gonna want to follow through with an actually good game. This sadly isn't the care for fallout 4. It's literally Fallout 3 with mods. The good news is that Fallout 3 doesn't play on most PC's so now you can waste over $50 to play fallout 3 without any plot and 'slightly better' graphics instead!

    There are a lot of fanboys who haven't even    When you hype up a game this badly you're really gonna want to follow through with an actually good game. This sadly isn't the care for fallout 4. It's literally Fallout 3 with mods. The good news is that Fallout 3 doesn't play on most PC's so now you can waste over $50 to play fallout 3 without any plot and 'slightly better' graphics instead!

    There are a lot of fanboys who haven't even played the game yet because their parents haven't got it for Christmas. Avoid this game and play The Witcher 3 if you want an RPG experience.. Hell even MGS:5 is better than this game since it has zero **** bugs and a 'slightly better' story.

    I'm giving this a 1/10 because I feel sorry for the people who worked to try and make this game great. I'm pretty sure any innovation for this game was killed as quickly as possible.

    All in all: This is a copy pasted fallout 3, avoid.    … Expand
  9. toshiohc
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4 é simplesmente a maior decepção do ano em termos gráficos, desempenho e enredo. Nada alcança o hype criado em cima da franquia.Tudo que envolve o jogo não tem polimento e a movimentação é extremamente robótica e surreal. Em fim, a maior decepção do ano, sem dúvida.
  10. Kvaron
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Terrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. NeverthelessTerrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. Nevertheless some arts are very good and impressive, cars with nuclear engine or panoramic views of bridges and post apocalypse landscapes are well drawn. Anyway it doesn't worst buying, save you money. Russian players also have awful localization… Expand
  11. Foneg
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Come on, ‎Bethesda‬, you took what all we've dreamed of so long, just scrunched it up and threw into your fans' face. This is a total ruination of my beliefs in you. How come that an fps-minecraft-sims game with mass-effect-imbecile dialogue system is now called "An RPG" and a continue for a great ‎Fallout‬ franchise? ‪‎Fallout4‬ is a so huge disappointment for me and I hope that manyCome on, ‎Bethesda‬, you took what all we've dreamed of so long, just scrunched it up and threw into your fans' face. This is a total ruination of my beliefs in you. How come that an fps-minecraft-sims game with mass-effect-imbecile dialogue system is now called "An RPG" and a continue for a great ‎Fallout‬ franchise? ‪‎Fallout4‬ is a so huge disappointment for me and I hope that many other fans will support me.
    Sell the rights on this to those, who really can make a better lore, gameplay and the spirit of good old Fallout.
    The only thing I really liked - the first 15 minutes of setting (yeah, a good old Vault, where something interesting happens), but that's all. Better cooperate with Activision and make a new Fall Of Duty, that surely will be a good game - a mindless shooter with stupid dialogues and setting.    … Expand
  12. quaid444
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    The map takes twelve minutes travel across which is pathetic to say the least, most likely they are going to rake money from your pockets for "dlc". The graphics are terrible, the frame rate is terrible and the glitches are terrible. my save was corrupted three times! This may be fixed but the amount of glitches for such a small scale game is unacceptable to say the least. They have spentThe map takes twelve minutes travel across which is pathetic to say the least, most likely they are going to rake money from your pockets for "dlc". The graphics are terrible, the frame rate is terrible and the glitches are terrible. my save was corrupted three times! This may be fixed but the amount of glitches for such a small scale game is unacceptable to say the least. They have spent more on marketing this game than development. Do not fall for the hype from the redditards and fallout 3+ fans! This game is an insult and the guys like me who have been playing fallout for twenty years know this deep down. A month from now no one will be talking about this garbage game that was a cheap cash grab by Ubisoft in training Bethesda.… Expand
  13. Vault121
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    If they left the dialogue system from previous games I might be able to give this a 10 out of 10. This is an insult to everyone who loved New Vegas, Fallout 3, and even 1 and 2. The dialogue wheel and voiced main character are so limiting that I cannot believe after 18 hours of playing this game I have yet to have a real in-depth conversation with someone in the game. There is no cleverIf they left the dialogue system from previous games I might be able to give this a 10 out of 10. This is an insult to everyone who loved New Vegas, Fallout 3, and even 1 and 2. The dialogue wheel and voiced main character are so limiting that I cannot believe after 18 hours of playing this game I have yet to have a real in-depth conversation with someone in the game. There is no clever conversation/dialog option in this game. It is not a role-playing game anymore, and this decision ruined the experience for me. I'm sorry, I really tried to like it as a long-time Fallout and Elder Scrolls fan, but this feels extremely insulting to RPG fans everywhere.… Expand
  14. DeLaHruza
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further". Now the cons: -Quests: The hell???? It feels like LIneage's "go and fetch a gazillion of dragons bollocks". Even the dialogues are the same!!    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further".

    Now the cons:
    -Quests: The hell???? It feels like LIneage's "go and fetch a gazillion of dragons bollocks". Even the dialogues are the same!! But maybe it will get better, though i doubt it.
    -Freedom: Most of the buildings are just sealed off for us, not many of them accessible. Basically just the locations that are marked on your map are explorable, all other houses are not...strange for a story that is actually taking place in a city.
    -Loading times: Damn, my HDD is not the fastest one, but 5 MINUTES loading??? When fast travelling, this is really annoying. Otherwise it's smooth.
    -Story: Spent 14 hours in-game so far and the story....it's not there. New Vegas is by FAR superior regarding story immersion and overall story telling.
    -Perks, SPECIAL: Gone is the classic Fallout system...hail the new simplified system! Not cool. We have a saying "don't touch the system if it's running" and Bethesda touched the system...in a way that completely destroyed it.
    -Survival: There's no survival struggle. The only thing of concern is kill or be killed. No weapon/armor deterioration. Feels more like 3rd person shooter only.

    Hey Bethesda, next time let guys at Obsidian do the work! I hope next Elder Scrolls title won't be screwed in similar manner because i like that franchise even more than Fallout.    … Expand
  15. gonorrheahd
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    This is the last time I will spend money on a Bethesda game, let me tell you.
    Where do I even start with this one?
    First, it took me till 1am to actually get the game, not a 12am release like was promised. They could have easily done all the patching and unpacking 30min to an hour before 12 and it would have been completely fine. But NOPE, I guess that's way to much to ask for.    This is the last time I will spend money on a Bethesda game, let me tell you.
    Where do I even start with this one?

    First, it took me till 1am to actually get the game, not a 12am release like was promised. They could have easily done all the patching and unpacking 30min to an hour before 12 and it would have been completely fine. But NOPE, I guess that's way to much to ask for.

    Second, you still can't see your body when you look down. My god, this is 2015, red faction had better immersion.

    Third, lip sync sucked. Sure it's not game breaking but I purchased what I thought was going to be a fully completed game not some half assed facial animations that are on par with sims 1. Immersion breaking.

    Fourth, Invisible holstered weapons. WHY THE **** WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY THE ABILITY TO HOLSTER YOUR WEAPON ON YOUR SIDE AND BACK LIKE IN FALLOUT 3 AND NEW VEGAS???? This is just wrong man. You wanna know what made me not fall asleep as I traveled the wastes? The ability to watch my character holster and unholster his weapon from time to time. WHAT SOLDIER THROWS HIS WEAPON IN TO THIN AIR IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE?

    FIve, You can't rotate the third person camera while moving... like really seriously why? This was another great feature so you could see your character 360 while he/she is moving. Another thing to do to pass time while walking miles across the wasteland. Which leads to number 6 -

    Six, 11minutes from end to end map distance. It's sad. Everything about this 11 minute walking distance map is sad.

    Seven, **** AI like I mean the ai is as good as new vegas(Unscripted AI my ass, and yes todd did say the ai in this game are unscripted the are far from that and if they truly are, they suck). The death claws are hardly scary, and it's the first bethesda game I've beat on normal like it was easy.

    Eight, Story sucks beyond belief. I won't leave any spoilers but lemme just say it's completely predictable from any sci fi movie you've ever seen.

    Nine, Gameplay consists of being a garbage collector and playing call of duty: AI. And you can't throw grenades on their own any more... like wtf.

    Ten, Skills and Tag perks removed, this new **** skyrim leveling system brought into fallout is disgusting. F U bethesda, that is literal heresy. You demons.

    Eleven, This game sucks never buying another bethesda game again, oh the sweet sweet soft lies of Todd.    … Expand
  16. Cluefulgamer
    Nov 22, 2015
    0
    I've spent around 60 hours attempting to play this game. 30 of those hours are probably scrapping through bugs and crashes.

    Cons: Weakest Fallout story. If they put in effort it was wasted but it doesn't feel like they even tried. Bugs. Obviously this is always gong to impact a game. Pointless activities. Settlements. Uninteresting companions. Ghouls everywhere. Feels like a    I've spent around 60 hours attempting to play this game. 30 of those hours are probably scrapping through bugs and crashes.

    Cons:
    Weakest Fallout story. If they put in effort it was wasted but it doesn't feel like they even tried.
    Bugs. Obviously this is always gong to impact a game.
    Pointless activities. Settlements. Uninteresting companions.
    Ghouls everywhere. Feels like a low quality zombie game often.
    Graphics. The graphics are "good enough." My gripe with them is they don't feel like a Fallout game. Looks like any other game.
    Power Armor. I don't like how it feels. I don't like how it works. I refuse to use it other than to walk it to my settlement to dump it off. I don't like fighting in it. I don't like looting it. It is just irritating.
    Gear. Their poor attempt at a loot system is just awful and irritating.
    Perks. The idea was right but the implementation was crap. Much of what you need to put points in is just so you can try and use the game. Perks use to mean something. Now it is just so I can craft stuff. Irritating and not fun. Seems like they didn't have enough ideas and just started ripping game elements out and putting them in perks to cover their lack of creativity.

    Pros:
    Looking at it before release the map appeared extremely tiny. There is a great deal of dots on the map. Most are rehashed and boring. Some places seem to run on forever with no point, but overall the game world does not appear to me to be as tiny as it first appeared. Still the points won here are not for bringing an impressive map but for not being as bad as it initially appeared.

    Overall it was a disappointing Fallout game. If you like gimmicks and hate substance you will appreciate this installment. I'd advise all others to stay away.    … Expand
  17. MikeBurke
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Never expected myself to rate this negatively, but wow, this game is HORRIBLE. Poor story, counter-intuitive controls, no sense of achievements, karma and all skills GONE -- yes that's right GONE -- worse graphics than Skyrim... Honestly, the list goes on and on and on and on and on... I'm totally flabbergasted this game was received well by reviewer, honestly totally aghast, it's a HUGENever expected myself to rate this negatively, but wow, this game is HORRIBLE. Poor story, counter-intuitive controls, no sense of achievements, karma and all skills GONE -- yes that's right GONE -- worse graphics than Skyrim... Honestly, the list goes on and on and on and on and on... I'm totally flabbergasted this game was received well by reviewer, honestly totally aghast, it's a HUGE step backwards from the last two in the series.… Expand
  18. magie666
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    Sadly I have to write this. Fallout 4 is utter GARBAGE. I find it a Major Chore to even start the game up again to play.
    The game has been Dumbed down no doubt for kiddy's thesedays which is a genuine shame. It comes as no surprise on the amount of negativity surrounding the game. Bethesda's had a lot to prove with this and they FAILED.
    Minecraft system is utter garbage and a complete    Sadly I have to write this. Fallout 4 is utter GARBAGE. I find it a Major Chore to even start the game up again to play.
    The game has been Dumbed down no doubt for kiddy's thesedays which is a genuine shame. It comes as no surprise on the amount of negativity surrounding the game. Bethesda's had a lot to prove with this and they FAILED.

    Minecraft system is utter garbage and a complete waste of time.
    Item management is just a mess.
    Killing for unique items is non existant, there is no longer any reason to go killing bosses or like because they seem to be FORCING you to use their crafting system which is a game killer for me.
    I could go on but I 'll just be repeating almost if not EVERYTHING thats been said in the other ''negative reviews''    … Expand
  19. joe_doe
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    Bethesda has just killed the fallout saga with this aberration.

    No RPG no Fallout. End. Welcome to the new apocalyptic CoD.

    R.I.P. Fallout. We miss you!
  20. le_souriceau
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    Not a true Fallout game, just clunky pretender, using love of fans and media hype. Boring *bla bla bla* story (no logic, poor writing), weak RPG elements (elements! its not realy in RPG genre now or even good Action-RPG), console controls (grrrr), senseless grind, bad AI, annoying, forced usage of American Revoulution theme. Generaly, this is just husk of Fallout stripped off all sweetNot a true Fallout game, just clunky pretender, using love of fans and media hype. Boring *bla bla bla* story (no logic, poor writing), weak RPG elements (elements! its not realy in RPG genre now or even good Action-RPG), console controls (grrrr), senseless grind, bad AI, annoying, forced usage of American Revoulution theme. Generaly, this is just husk of Fallout stripped off all sweet (smarty) things and remade for console generation of young players.… Expand
  21. FloralPetticoa
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    Unfinished, bug ridden mess that only managed to garner a 3/10 from me for moderate improvements to combat, a reconfigured SPECIAL system and Bethesda's usual environment building.
  22. OraTzo
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Just a shortish review talking about two things because I don't want to waste words on this game.

    Lets start off with my biggest complaint with the FO4, the dialog system. The move to one based on only four choices is stupid in that reduces the potential for roleplaying. For most conversations the only options are now Yes/No/Sarcastic. Because of only four possible choices you cannot    Just a shortish review talking about two things because I don't want to waste words on this game.

    Lets start off with my biggest complaint with the FO4, the dialog system.
    The move to one based on only four choices is stupid in that reduces the potential for roleplaying.
    For most conversations the only options are now Yes/No/Sarcastic.
    Because of only four possible choices you cannot explore alternatives (at most times) and find out more about the characters (which are boring as they aren't fleshed out), their situation and the world through talking to them. In addition to this, often these four button choices result in dialog thats not evident from what you click and making a morally grey or evil character is now not possible to roleplay due to the narrow writing.
    You'd think Bethesda wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot like this by mangling this core feature of the game, but they did.

    Next up, the UI.
    There has been seven years for Bethesda to create a functioning UI and what they turned in was worse than
    what was given in Fallout 3. Particularly horrid is the workshop as its cumbersome to navigate, as well as the settlement interface.
    The Pipboy now is a smaller screen that a bit more inconvenient to navigate with submenus not being instantly clickable and getting information from it is now fiddlier.

    These two glaring problems have made the game worse than Fallout 3 which is quite an achievement,
    and its very unlikely they'll be fixed by Bethesda.
    I would advise anyone to pass on this and play a heavily modded New Vegas or F3 as they are still a more rewarding experience.

    Oh and I don't expect mods to fix it.
    Fixing the dialog system is not likely to happen and even if it does it'll expose the lack of content in the game.    … Expand
  23. animalzivot
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game might entertain a 12 year old, 14 at best. I guess this is the demographic it was aimed for to maximize sales.
    The bogus PC optimization is the icing on the cake.
    RIP Bethesda.
  24. leugim696
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    dumbed down rpg mechanics, horrible voice acting, atrocious graphics, a story that seems like it was written by a grade-schooler, and that fps. wait for the GOTY version, at least then you'll get the full story with less bugs.
  25. edwardblack
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    I am not going to talk about the technical aspects at all since this is a bethesda game and the fact that it runs at all on release is a small miracle in itself (though to be fair the engine seems promising,i am sure it will be playable and enjoyable even in 4-6 months,give or take), i am going to focus on what i personally consider important, namely gameplay, atmosphere and other suchI am not going to talk about the technical aspects at all since this is a bethesda game and the fact that it runs at all on release is a small miracle in itself (though to be fair the engine seems promising,i am sure it will be playable and enjoyable even in 4-6 months,give or take), i am going to focus on what i personally consider important, namely gameplay, atmosphere and other such unneeded things which bethesda tried to "streamline".
    First of all,this is not an rpg in any sense,its a mediocre shooter with (light) rpg elements set in the fallout universe designed for consoles with the pc "port" feeling as an afterthought. Everything we loved in previous game is gone (yes,i am one of the masochists who actually enjoyed FO3), no skill system, no 100s of perks to personalize our character, no survival mode.What we get instead is a half baked building system ,a new power armor system (which is one of the few good things in this abomination imo) and (finally!) cats.
    The dialogue has been replaced by a choice system (namely yes no maybe sarcasm) without any effect on gameplay , not that you actually want to talk to any of the npcs,mind, everyone and everything is mind-numbingly boring without the personality and stories we were used to.
    Atmosphere-wise this is one of the worse games i've seen this decade, there are a ton of places to explore but you don't have any reason to (at ~12 hours in game most of which was spent hoarding junk and planting carrots i have enough stuff to build a megacity and enough weapons to invade russia) ,gone are the little stories you discovered in previous games by looking around,everything (with the notable exception of the airship) is a generic lootfest with enemies spawing out of the ether, magical mutating bosses and... i am sure you get the idea.
    tl;dr if you were smart enough to not preorder (unlike yours truly,i even got the season pass) stay as far away as possible and get it next Christmas on sale.    … Expand
  26. Andy578
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    IT'S A SCAM. game isn't even on the disc, installs 5GB then tells you to download a whopping 24GB. nowhere on the box does it say the game is download only, why even release a disc if you're not going to put the game on it? open games can't be returned so those of us with poor or limited internet are screwed
  27. init000
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    The game is buggie as hell (even by the rock-bottom standards we came to expect from the scum that is Bethesda). It's also blatantly obvious that this is a terribly designed console game that got puked out for PC as an afterthought to milk even more cash - the UI is utterly terrible (even compared to games released 15-20 years ago) as is typical for a console game, the game is obviouslyThe game is buggie as hell (even by the rock-bottom standards we came to expect from the scum that is Bethesda). It's also blatantly obvious that this is a terribly designed console game that got puked out for PC as an afterthought to milk even more cash - the UI is utterly terrible (even compared to games released 15-20 years ago) as is typical for a console game, the game is obviously optimized for consoles and is basically unplayable on a PC without changing settings in INIs (because adding a damn FOV-slider for PC users would probably have required at least one developer with an IQ even slightly above his body temperature) and the graphics look crap compared to proper PC games (that were designed with gaming rigs in mind and not cheap throwaway console hardware that 12 year olds can afford).
    So far the story feels bland and very average. It would have helped if Bethesda had spent more money on actual game design and less on hyping their mediocre product and coke for their board members. But hey, what can you expect from a company like Bethesda run by utter scum like Donald Trumps brother - they proved many times before that producing good games is not what they care about - they only care about profit maximization. This brings me to my last point about this abomination of a game: season passes. It's not bad enough that Bethesda releases half-arsed, unfinished, bugged-to-hell games... no... they also are so desperate for a quick buck that they try and sell you season passes for the content that any half-decent company would have included in the already steep price for the actual game. With these advanced sales of season passes they can steal your cash before actually delivering the content because even the pricks at Bethesda notice how **** the game is and know it will flop.
    I give the game 0 of 10. An absolute no-go. I'd recommend you to wait a year until Bethesda have finished puking out their shallow cash grabs (known otherwise as DLCs) and then download the game from a torrent site and blast through it with cheats on a rainy afternoon. Sadly the game is so **** that this would be a waste of bandwidth. The only thing I can recommend is to boycott scum like Bethesda and also look up their board members and developers so you can avoid supporting any products and companies that this human vermin are involved in in the future.    … Expand
  28. alexkillsdie
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4 is a total disappointment at every level. The game crashes regularly and has more frustrating glitches than you could shake your empty wallet at. The gameplay is boring, repetitive and restrictive. The story is a horrible mix of convoluted dialog and cringe-worthy cliches, you won't know what is going on... and in the end you won't care, every "decision" you make feels forced andFallout 4 is a total disappointment at every level. The game crashes regularly and has more frustrating glitches than you could shake your empty wallet at. The gameplay is boring, repetitive and restrictive. The story is a horrible mix of convoluted dialog and cringe-worthy cliches, you won't know what is going on... and in the end you won't care, every "decision" you make feels forced and contrary to everything a good RPG is supposed to be. The map is pitifully small for a 2015 AAA title, recently we have seen enormous maps from Far Cry 3, Just Cause 2-3 and GTAV that completely dwarf Fallout 4, and just to add insult to injury a large portion of the map is freakin' water! The "build a base" function feels tacked-on, clunky and unfinished which is a theme that runs into almost every facet of the game. The graphics look dated and at best are inconsistent, there exist graphics mods for Fallout 3 that look better than Fallout 4 right now. For me, the worst thing of all is the dialog options, Bethesda replaced the much loved text dialog system from Fallout 3 with a restrictive, badly written and poorly voice acted dialog wheel. Overall a VERY disappointing release, DO NOT BUY!!!… Expand
  29. DomdickJones
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    They still are using the Creation Engine from Oblivion albeit modified?! No wonder why this game is **** outdated trash compactor **** I am refunding this through Steam then repurchasing later when the modding community gives this game a proper makeover. **** sake.
  30. ubnsensei
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    This game is nothing of an RPG, its a shooter now. Dialogues are just a joke... Game world is extremely small, after 2h of game-play i saw almost half of the map. Joke, joke, joke...
  31. Flaminga
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    You.Can't.Kill.People

    Congrats casual players from Fallout 3, this is your game. Biggest failure since Diablo 3, they **** up everything.

    Time to wait for the mod comunity to fix this failure.
  32. Kaapa123
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    Just your average Bethesda release riddled with bugs and disappointment. This reminded me of Skyrim's pc release all over again. Awful bugs, awful performance, awful UI and pc support. Game is fine, nothing ground breaking, graphics are okay ish, combat is good, dialogue is mediocre at best, crafting, building and the story are all good. Wasteland looks ugly, and the lighting in someJust your average Bethesda release riddled with bugs and disappointment. This reminded me of Skyrim's pc release all over again. Awful bugs, awful performance, awful UI and pc support. Game is fine, nothing ground breaking, graphics are okay ish, combat is good, dialogue is mediocre at best, crafting, building and the story are all good. Wasteland looks ugly, and the lighting in some places looks really off to me. Most of these issues can easily be fixed with mods, so theres definitely potential for a great game. In the meantime its just a terrible release.… Expand
  33. BigBoss60
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    The most overhyped piece of **** i've ever seen in video game history.

    Where are the bethesdrones to defend this crap? This is pure cash grab. Horribly optimized, boring quests, useless building construction, useless companion and one of the worst AI of this generation. The story is generic, there's only 4 choices per situation,which have no real impact on the game. There is no karma    The most overhyped piece of **** i've ever seen in video game history.

    Where are the bethesdrones to defend this crap?

    This is pure cash grab. Horribly optimized, boring quests, useless building construction, useless companion and one of the worst AI of this generation. The story is generic, there's only 4 choices per situation,which have no real impact on the game. There is no karma system, everything that made Fallout identity is gone to oblivion...Eh, talking about oblivion, did you know that this piece of dirt use the SAME engine as Oblivion and other bethesda games between them, like Skyrim? The Gamebryo engine since 2006! Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, two-thousand and **** six. AND STILL, the optimization, people.
    This is like the Bethesda optimization team was made of a bunch of monkeys smashing the keybord of their goddamn PC. I have a 120hz monitor on my PC. And when i have a 120hz monitor, you understand that i want to play in 120fps, right? The problem is, of course i can play beyond 60fps, there is no 60fps cap...BUT...a better framerate in this doesn't mean a smother game, no, it means a SPEEDED UP game, and yes it also means that console 30fps versions runs SLOWED DOWN because the normal speed is 60fps. Like a emulated game, damn it. Lip-scyncing is bad, animations are bad, the voice acting is bad.
    The quests are boring are repetitive, the NPCs have no personality. And the ending...

    No, don't pre-order games anymore guys, don't be that idiot. I'm not buying Bethesda games anymore.    … Expand
  34. Hack_Ferrari
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    horrible story seems they were uncreative

    robotics gameplay

    graphs horrible for 2015 game

    It is just the same game in 2008 with a sweetFX

    lousy job of producers

    my fps drops from 60 to 15 constantly

    not worth 10 cents
  35. Jacksimms91
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    By all means get this game if you want a combine the grindy nature of farmville and the linear storyline of a Time Crisis game.

    What have you done Bethesda? You had such a good launching point to go from with NV and you just decided to throw all of that away to make Call of Fallout.
  36. Almostdead
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Really ? Bethesda? You didn't learn anything from flaws of TES? Boring side quest, pointless dialogue, clunky system, ugly UI... There is nothing right in FO4 except gun play and crafting. WTF! If it is not Fallout i might give it 8/10, But you ruin Fallout! You need to learn how to make a RPG from the beginning!
    I beg you Bethesda! Give Fallout 4 to Obsidian!
  37. falloutsux
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I have around 300 hours in fallout 3 so i'm relatively new to the fallout series and this is absolutely a terrible game. I mean, they don't even let you buy your own ship, and the voice acting is abysmal. If you're smart you'll vote with your money and not spend your hard earned dollars on this terrible game.
  38. CriticalMach
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Unable to rebind controls to the number pad. Game is unplayable if you're left handed and can't use a mouse with your right hand. Same problem with literally EVERY single Bethesda game, you'd think they would have learned by now.
  39. Phataser
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Clunky Animations.
    Kindergarten writing.
    Half Life 2 graphics.
    Bug galore.
    Empty and dull map.
    ***** up path finding.
    Is releasing an unfinished game so that modders have to spend months trying to fix it your visiting card now, Bethesda?
  40. Whoami
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    I'm not all about graphics but this game looks like a 50 foot pile of rotted testicles. That would be okay if the AI wasn't retarded and your companions can't even die which takes away from the RPG aspect. It just feels like a crappier version of Fallout 3. A game does not have to be innovative to be good but Fallout 4 my aswell be a dumbed down reskin of Fallout 3... Bethesda isI'm not all about graphics but this game looks like a 50 foot pile of rotted testicles. That would be okay if the AI wasn't retarded and your companions can't even die which takes away from the RPG aspect. It just feels like a crappier version of Fallout 3. A game does not have to be innovative to be good but Fallout 4 my aswell be a dumbed down reskin of Fallout 3... Bethesda is sitting there laughing because they dont need to give a crap about good products anymore because they know the majority of their fanbase are bunch of ball ticklers.

    Bethesda can suck my gooche.    … Expand
  41. MihneaCalin
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Can't believe how bad this game is, at least in terms of being an RPG. I hate to bash down on anything, but the storytelling and the pacing, as well as the bland characters, really watered down the experience for me to a point where, 20 hours in the game, i have major trouble convincing myself to go forward. After the great New Vegas story, i really hoped Bethesda would finally deliver inCan't believe how bad this game is, at least in terms of being an RPG. I hate to bash down on anything, but the storytelling and the pacing, as well as the bland characters, really watered down the experience for me to a point where, 20 hours in the game, i have major trouble convincing myself to go forward. After the great New Vegas story, i really hoped Bethesda would finally deliver in the story department, especially since they pretty much suggested they took some hints from Obsidian in terms of the good bits of that game. But no, apparently not. Time for me to move on...… Expand
  42. Kalex25
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    1) The controller is just a disaster. It feels now and more so on, as if the menu has been created for the console and no longer optimized for the PC.
    2) There is no Karma system.
    3) Radiation itself is no real danger more.
    4) The dialogue system greatly simplified. Even there you realize that it is well adapted to the console.
  43. skankerveen
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Being a die hard fallout fan, I just had to write a review on this game.

    This game is not being meta-bombed for no reason. It's a serious flop. The voice acting and dialogue are abysmal, I've seen B-list movies with better acting. It's so bad any immersion into the world is lost as soon as you speak with an NPC. Also why oh why did they have to give a voice to the player? It's not just    Being a die hard fallout fan, I just had to write a review on this game.

    This game is not being meta-bombed for no reason. It's a serious flop. The voice acting and dialogue are abysmal, I've seen B-list movies with better acting. It's so bad any immersion into the world is lost as soon as you speak with an NPC. Also why oh why did they have to give a voice to the player? It's not just unnecessary, it actually ruins the RPG experience. The comparisons to the Mass Effect dialogue wheel are accurate, no more is there a "list" of good responses, but some generic 4-choice option for every single conversation, and almost all of them have the same outcome. The story/acting/dialogue/writing and everything related to that aspect of the game is utter trash. Also the radio host... cringe...

    Combat and exploration is a bit better, but not much. The FPS element is quite fun at first, although you find yourself never using VATS because it's simply not needed. I definitely find the exploration to be a bit too casual, you find a lot of good stuff really early on and it kind of makes the finding/looting a powerful weapon less special (lol see what I did there).

    Perhaps if I was new to the series I would have enjoyed this game, but coming from fallout 3 and NV I am so very disappointed to the point of being downright sad about this game. There's no immersion, and the game rewards you too easily; it just feels cheap.

    Do not buy. I'm literally going to request a steam refund after I write this even though I'm well past the 2 hour mark.    … Expand
  44. Elorek
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I am a huge fan of Fallout 1 and 2. Both were deep, darkish and great stories with a lot of side quests and interesting random encounters. I've played them both many times again and again from the beginning trying new options. Fallout Tactics was meh, Fallout 3 was fine.
    I recently finished Witcher 3 and game was stunning, let’s face the truth, Witcher 3 changed a lot of people’s minds in    I am a huge fan of Fallout 1 and 2. Both were deep, darkish and great stories with a lot of side quests and interesting random encounters. I've played them both many times again and again from the beginning trying new options. Fallout Tactics was meh, Fallout 3 was fine.
    I recently finished Witcher 3 and game was stunning, let’s face the truth, Witcher 3 changed a lot of people’s minds in terms of new RPG era. Yesterday on 30th birthday I bought Fallout 4 and SC2: Legacy of the Void, decided to play all day long... what happened? First: Graphics! What is this!? Game looks like from 2008-2009! Is this graphics some kind of joke!? Character models are awful. Story: Omg, when they shot this woman and took the baby I thought I need to switch the game off, but tried to go.
    Then I heard first dialogues. I feel woe some. This kind of dialogue quality in RPG's should be punished by law. Interface and hud is terrible. I spent over 5hours in that game and still I am lost why the char doesn't run sometimes and I am not overweight, why doesn't shoot, maybe some glitches. I have no idea what is going on in the equipment, what I'm wearing and it takes ages to clarify the simplest things there and compare items.
    Cursor works so strange. Character controlling is terrible and this game is more like FPP shooter than RPG. Maybe I got spoiled by The Witcher 3. I don't know. I grew up on Fallout 2, Planscape Torment and Baldur's Gate saga. I've waited 13 years for great RPG like Witcher 3 and Fallout supposed to by my icing on the cake... and I got the cake, slack-baked cake. I'm so disappointed with this game.
    Except for many hours I can spend with that game (200+) I have no idea how I will survive with this terrible mechanics, interface, glitches, graphics, dialogues, characters and shallow story. I will try to get refund for Fallout 4. This is some kind of not funny joke! Bethesda please call CD Project Red and ask them, how to make a viable, great RPG with great characters, graphics, side quest and story. And check your calendar, it is 2016 almost and you serve us old, clay graphic engine.
    Ahhh I forgot to mention! Music! Is there any music? I'm still listening Witcher's 3 CD and even my fiancé, who hates computer games and fantasy loves it. You got it Bethesda, you've manipulated and hyped me to buy this crap. Take my money and stuff yourself!    … Expand
  45. ZetarXenil
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    bad graphics, terrible optimization, poor graphic options (no FOV slider, no Vsync disable), antic mechanisms like physics based on frames per second, primitive dialog system.
  46. lyrica_yuckani
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    pesimo juego, historia malisima y mediocre, lleno de bugs y las graficas pesimas, una pena que se llame rpg, el peor fallout de la historia ni si quiera vale la pena ver los videos, una pena de rpg
  47. pleksivolokno40
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Pile of crap this scale I've never seen... Forget the brand atmosphere, gameplay balance, role-playing system and all that you know about the fallout - a farm simulator crossed with titanfall [2]
  48. ThisGamer
    Nov 17, 2015
    2
    Bethesda, What have you done?
    This game is just bad (and quite broken atm). It seems they have decided to rip off every good aspect from previous games.
    [X] No Karma system: you can't create an "evil" character, you'll always be the good hero. [X] No (true) Survival mode: The survival difficulty in Fallout 4 is a joke, no food/sleep/drink needs (let's hope for a mod [X] No RPG    Bethesda, What have you done?
    This game is just bad (and quite broken atm). It seems they have decided to rip off every good aspect from previous games.

    [X] No Karma system: you can't create an "evil" character, you'll always be the good hero.

    [X] No (true) Survival mode: The survival difficulty in Fallout 4 is a joke, no food/sleep/drink needs (let's hope for a mod

    [X] No RPG elements: A dialogue wheel? Really? Yes, No, Maybe, Sarcastic (whatever it means). Can't kill that NPC? Why?

    [X] No good main plot: The main plot is just...stupid, worse than a B-Movie one.

    [X] Full of bugs: Stealth Bugs, Pip-Boy bugs, V.A.T.S bugs, dialogues bugs and so on.

    [X] Stupid and incomplete tutorial: Tutorials are supposed to teach you how to play and to explain how the game works. Did you know there is a "cover system" while aiming with a gun? No? Don't be surprised. How do I connect my settlements in order to get profit? When a player need to read 3rd part wikia for basic knowledge it means that the game has failed.

    [X] Incoherent Universe: So.... Vaults are experiments? Really?...That's stupid. Just stupid. Other Fallout games (even Fallout Shelters) show a different stuff.

    [X] Incoherent NPC behaviors: Dear Lady, you own a mini market/cafeteria in the middle of....nowhere... Would you please remove those f***** skeletons from those chairs? if i'm not wrong...those skeletons have been there for....200 years....really?

    [X] Bad Graphic: Graphic is not the most important aspect, I know, I know. But.....those textures are...pathetic.

    [X] Bad Optimization: No SLI supports? Weird problems if you have more than 1 monitor? Very low frame rate even with high-end machine? We are in 2015, Bethesda.

    [V....no, it's another X] Oh, but you can build you settlement. Yep....great. Mhm Was I play a simcity/The sims game? This is supposed to be a Fallout game. I don't give a ****** about decorating my "house". I hated this "mechanic" in Skyrim (with that horrible Heartfire) and I hate this even more in Fallout because it's supposed to be a "core" feature

    And I could go on for hours....

    [X] Decent voice acting, but sometime it's just....bad, really bad. I've played this game both in English and Italian (my L1) and....jesus, some voices are just wrong.

    [X] Exaggerated facial expressions/Body language: This is almost comical, even for an italian like me.

    And...ok...it's enough

    DO NOT buy this game, Go and play with Fallout 3 or New Vegas.    … Expand
  49. LordDoberman
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    Ok, let's review this game as it's supposed to be : an open-world solo adventure post-apo RPG.

    Graphics (ultra settings) : Props are meh at best. Textures are disgusting (sorry, no other word). Character models are rigid, unexpressive, poorly balanced. Let's be honest, this is not what we can expect from a 60$ solo adventure game in 2015. Don't expect this game to have half the graphic    Ok, let's review this game as it's supposed to be : an open-world solo adventure post-apo RPG.

    Graphics (ultra settings) : Props are meh at best. Textures are disgusting (sorry, no other word). Character models are rigid, unexpressive, poorly balanced. Let's be honest, this is not what we can expect from a 60$ solo adventure game in 2015. Don't expect this game to have half the graphic awesomeness "The last of us" had two years ago.
    Bad graphics ? Ok at least it will run smoothly ... Guess what ? It doesn't ! Inconsistent framerate etc ..

    Gameplay : I won't go into details right here, because this game has been made for console players. Terrible design for keyboard/mouse players. My crosshair is moving faster horizontally than vertically ? No problem, let's get to the settings ! Ok, I can't change that ...
    The VATS system looks like a console player tool made to help them aim the body parts they want. It even fails at doing cool micro-cinematic shoot.
    Gameplay is driven by general objectives like : go there, kill that, loot this ... boring as hell.
    Perks/skills are a letdown. You won't need your brain building your character.

    IA : No IA. Not even a try.

    UI : Probably one of the worst UI I have ever seen. Completely console oriented. Nothing to discuss ... not pc-friendly.
    Loot interface is not intuitive, no drag and drop ...
    Character/weapons/skill interface is a nightmare (click / click / click / click and more clicks for a simple task).

    Storyline and quests : If you are looking for an immersive game with good interactions between the different characters ... look elsewhere ! Because the story is trash and not well written.
    Supposed emotional cutscenes are hilarious ... because there's no emotion at all !
    The thing is, even with emotionless faces like this game have, the game should at least try to make you feel something ... well, it doesn't ... why bother ?
    As I said before, boring tedious repetitive quests ...

    My Fallout 4 experience was like I was playing a F2P korean shooter game but with really bad graphics, bad optimization and an attempt to do some kind of RPG out of it.
    It was so painful I wanted to stab my brain with a q-tip ... multiple times.    … Expand
  50. BlueBangkok
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

    Yet there are still millions of people that pre-order their **** That is nothing short of mind-boggling. Thanks to people like those we get games like Fallout 4. The cycle never ends.
  51. TrevMizer
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    This game had the potential to be GOTY. Now I'm not too sure. To many things have been removed, and not enough added. For what reason do the devs have for using the same engine from morrowing if not just pure laziness?
  52. Gurubuzu
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    End of Fallout :(
    Worst of all, is that i'm sure that this **** will be one of the best games of the year.. How can it be possible¿?
    How can I transmit my disappointment in 150 chars.. I want to cry for these last years in video games, and worse .. insurance future will be worse .
  53. ihatefallout4
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    Read another one of these endless negative reviews. This is the most disappointing game since Destiny. Maybe more. Bland story (exactly the same as fallout 3), absolutely zero customization outside of weapons and armor, bad writing all around, and just zero depth whatsoever.
  54. pessimist93
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    The game looks pretty and thats it. It seems they have dumbed down everything. No weapon duration and malfunctions, no options to change your key bindings, shallow characters and a boring main story. They cut out a lot of features from the last games. And thats not even the worst part. In FO New Vegas you had a reputation system and you could basically kill every NPC which gave you theThe game looks pretty and thats it. It seems they have dumbed down everything. No weapon duration and malfunctions, no options to change your key bindings, shallow characters and a boring main story. They cut out a lot of features from the last games. And thats not even the worst part. In FO New Vegas you had a reputation system and you could basically kill every NPC which gave you the freedom to approach tasks on your own ways. Here you are forced to pick one of the few already carved out ways to complete your task. There are alot of NPCs which cant be killed simply because they wanted to keep things easy and cheap for them. And on top of that the world isnt responding on your actions. You just shot someone in the head and that traveler standing next to him saw you doing that? Nope, no reaction whatsoever. There is almost no impact trough your decisions.

    Seriously, if you liked Fallout New Vegas then stay away from this game. Its a complete overhyped mess. At least wait several months until the modders made he game more enjoyable.    … Expand
  55. JackCarter
    Nov 16, 2015
    0
    The very least Bethesda could do is fix the PC porting issues.

    Fix the UI! Free up the key bindings! Add an FOV slider! Fix the mouse X/Y axis issues. They won't even acknowledge it! They'll simply wait for the modders to fix it while they create DLC's that also won't port well to the PC. Stop focusing on the DLC's and fix the PC porting issues first! Focus on the modding    The very least Bethesda could do is fix the PC porting issues.

    Fix the UI! Free up the key bindings!

    Add an FOV slider!

    Fix the mouse X/Y axis issues.

    They won't even acknowledge it! They'll simply wait for the modders to fix it while they create DLC's that also won't port well to the PC.

    Stop focusing on the DLC's and fix the PC porting issues first! Focus on the modding tools so we can fix this garbage.

    We already paid for the game, Bethesda, so do the RIGHT THING FOR ONCE IN YOUR EXISTENCE!    … Expand
  56. gamereviewerr
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Lets begin with the biggest flaw of this game... The mechanics and the game are horrible programmed and optimized and It is a nightmare of glitches. The graphics look extremely poor, and the animations look horribly done. Can someone please explain why this game wasn't released on ps3 or 360 because it looks absolutely horrible. The game is boring and unimaginative. It tried but completelyLets begin with the biggest flaw of this game... The mechanics and the game are horrible programmed and optimized and It is a nightmare of glitches. The graphics look extremely poor, and the animations look horribly done. Can someone please explain why this game wasn't released on ps3 or 360 because it looks absolutely horrible. The game is boring and unimaginative. It tried but completely failed please stop making games bethesda… Expand
  57. stormbringer83
    Nov 17, 2015
    3
    This is Sim City: Fallout Edition. Or The Sims: Fallout Edition. Or maybe Minecraft: Fallout Edition. But this is definitely _not_ a part of the great FALLOUT series. No strong storyline, no real drama, no difficult choices, no bloody humor, but dumb dialogues and simplified skill system. Everything, that makes every Fallout game so remebering and S.P.E.C.I.A.L, is gone. It's a loss.
  58. pachoz
    Nov 18, 2015
    0
    I guess its a decent game since it seems to remind people of far cry and borderlands and people spoke highly of those games. However as a Fallout game it is Inferior in most ways compared to the previous games in the series due to the removal of just about anything that made it an rpg - now its just an open world shooter and while it's still a fun shooter game it's not the fallout I was expecting.
  59. martindn
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    Hey i have an idea, lets take all context away from the choices the player will make and railroad him into them while we are at it. God the dialogue what a step down from even Fallout 3 nevermind New vegas. I can get over graphics, i can even get over the removal of skills, the simple perks and the same loot over and over and over in varied modified states (in really cool locations), butHey i have an idea, lets take all context away from the choices the player will make and railroad him into them while we are at it. God the dialogue what a step down from even Fallout 3 nevermind New vegas. I can get over graphics, i can even get over the removal of skills, the simple perks and the same loot over and over and over in varied modified states (in really cool locations), but to dumb down the dialogue in such a big way after it has been a staple in the series since the first one is a game breaker.

    https://youtu.be/6PqMe7fydq4?t=43s Compare this from 1998 to 4, the interactivity and dialogue quality just isn't close. This one random Enclave soldier is more interesting than any ive met so far.

    There is no role playing your character any more, no using skills and diplomacy to find alternate solutions you are left with a simplistic system of good/bad/sarcastic that offers no real investigation or world/character building and no other route but to shoot your way out of most situations.

    There is a quest in covenent to go rescue a caravaneer's daughter, you explore around the town picking up clues, hacking computers, talking to the citizens trying to weed information and eventually end up at a secret location. At this location where they keep the prisoners you are told they are dangerous you arent allowed to speak to any of them, do your own investigation, hell maybe look at their evidence to help make the choice. No, you talk to only one person who again gives you vague details. Its either take the bribe or fight a base full of guards. Who wants to play a 100 hour shooter? Not me. Collapse    … Expand
  60. Sirik_Matak
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    Times when Bethesda could release another 15 years old gamebryo-shovelware and get over with it are long gone. I can only be mildly content with people realising that. You can even use old default gamebryo commands, for Christ's sake. This is even worse in 2015 than in 2011 when you could find V.A.T.S. references in Skyrim's files.

    It's your typical Bethesda gamebryo lows with the same    Times when Bethesda could release another 15 years old gamebryo-shovelware and get over with it are long gone. I can only be mildly content with people realising that. You can even use old default gamebryo commands, for Christ's sake. This is even worse in 2015 than in 2011 when you could find V.A.T.S. references in Skyrim's files.

    It's your typical Bethesda gamebryo lows with the same old bugs, the same old graphics tweaked by a bunch of amateurs (modders do a better job with graphical enhancements to Morrowind), even the same old launcher and same options menus.
    The difference between this and Skyrim is that Skyrim managed to look good and work surprisingly well, while Fallout 4 looks, feels and plays like a garbage-bin game or an amateur Unity engine game. It's just awful.
    There's no reason to even launch this game. It offers nothing new, its new features are pethetically cringeworthy (sims building, Christ), mechanics are absolutely butchered down by a maniac to fit into 13 yo dorrito crowds (have you seen the "launch party" - it was just sad). I've never thought I will say it, but Fallout 4 manages to be worse at everything than absolutely horrendous Fallout 3 abomination was. It's really that bad. To make things even worse (!), Bethesda interns decided to feed on NV modding scene (it's really symptomatic that Bethesda behaves like Obsidian's NV never occured - they behave like a spiled brat that don't want to acknowledge they less competent than bugphiliac Obsidian studio) and tried to implement some Nevada's features. And of course they failed miserably. A bunch of modders doing stuff in their free time did more content and executed it better than hundred million budget studio. Pathetic, isn't it?

    Yeah, it will be massively successfull, it sold a lot on cringeworthy teen-centred hype. As I said however, I can be midly content with its dumb metascore (people shouldn't care about it much considering that gaming media are rotten to the core at this point and only '80-like breakdown can change that) is really low (for AAA title) and will probably go lower and some people's backleash on this poor excuse of a game in user comments section is just glorious.
    Bethesda will have to ditch gamebryo engine at last and since its absolutely incompetent at coding 101, they might shatter and die as a studio. Never more, remember F4.    … Expand
  61. jfrisby
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    So far the rpg elements and story are terrible, very disappointed in the new dialogue-wheel and voiced PC. Hope there's some interesting characters and choices later.
  62. Immorta
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    Game panders to Call of Duty crowd and isn't very enjoyable as a RPG experience anymore. Bethesda sells out their long time fans for more money.

    The world feels lifeless and void of any kind of emotion, Every quest ends up in "Fight through X level and Kill Y guy".. The new Legendary system is horrible The items, uninspiring. This game is a huge let down after Skyrim. Spend less    Game panders to Call of Duty crowd and isn't very enjoyable as a RPG experience anymore. Bethesda sells out their long time fans for more money.

    The world feels lifeless and void of any kind of emotion, Every quest ends up in "Fight through X level and Kill Y guy".. The new Legendary system is horrible

    The items, uninspiring.

    This game is a huge let down after Skyrim. Spend less money on banners and advertisement and more on your game please.    … Expand
  63. lasn
    Jul 23, 2017
    4
    Too much of the same. Engine is old, graphics are not the best. Many bugs.
    Repetitive questing. I find basebuilding very boring and many quests makes use of it.
    Game is decent tho, played 30+ hours. Some good encounters here and there. But I have not played it for a few months now. Maybe I will continue later, I'm not sure. Other games are more interesting right now. This is nowhere as    Too much of the same. Engine is old, graphics are not the best. Many bugs.
    Repetitive questing. I find basebuilding very boring and many quests makes use of it.

    Game is decent tho, played 30+ hours. Some good encounters here and there. But I have not played it for a few months now. Maybe I will continue later, I'm not sure. Other games are more interesting right now. This is nowhere as good as Fallout 3 / New Vegas or Skyrim for that matter.    … Expand
  64. deadsanta
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Game unplayable, just a buggy crashing mess, I'll give them an actual review when I get a working game from Bethsoft, Currently my game CTD constantly, my mouse control flies all over the screen, I get like 5 FPS indoors and video artifacts galore even with the nvidia drivers that came out specifically for this game 2 days ago. Oh well, hardly surprising,
  65. HLXen
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bethesda shot one last bullet into the head of a once great game series. Rest in piece fallout.
    If I was the original creator of the fallout franchise I wouldn't want this game to be even associated with my game series.
  66. Erupt50
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Yeah I had to refund this after a couple hours of play. How anyone could highly rate this game is beyond me. I won't even go into all the bugs I've run into because there has been a ton. Some were not a big deal, some were (like clipping through the environment to textures just not loading at times). But even if we ignore the bugs and assume they will mostly be fixed through patches (whichYeah I had to refund this after a couple hours of play. How anyone could highly rate this game is beyond me. I won't even go into all the bugs I've run into because there has been a ton. Some were not a big deal, some were (like clipping through the environment to textures just not loading at times). But even if we ignore the bugs and assume they will mostly be fixed through patches (which is a big assumption) the game itself is just simple not very good.

    The graphics are absolutely out-dated, barely better than Fallout 3.
    The animations especially are just horrid. These are just unacceptable in 2015.
    The textures look like something you would expect to see in a game 6-7 years ago(when they load of course).

    Of course you will have people saying "it's not about the graphics! I only care about gameplay!" Ok fair enough, let's talk about gameplay.
    First of all the controls are just terrible. Maybe this is better on consoles, but for PC users, the game doesn't control well at all. The UI in general is also a pain to use, especially when using the crafting interfaces, etc. It almost seems like they were purposely trolling with the controls in this aspect.

    The gunplay is also not fun at all. Simplistic, yet frustrating would be how I describe it. Frustrating mainly because of the controls, but there just is no depth at all to the actual gameplay. Very watered-down dumbed-downed gameplay in general. Other than that you have the same basic "open-world exploration" gameplay that we have come to expect from every single AAA game out there it seems.

    The conversation wheels are also very simplistic and uninteresting. The story itself is fairly generic and boring, but pretty much what you would expect from a Fallout game. The characters are extremely boring and make you feel absolutely nothing.
    I will admit that I did only play about 3 hours or so, so maybe there is a chance that this stuff (story, characters, etc.) might get better later in the game but I could not force my way through a game that was not fun at all to find out.

    In conclusion let me say that yes, it may seem that I'm being too harsh on the game, and maybe to an extent that's true. But to see so many people and reviewers singing the praises of this game is baffling. The one thing that Bethesda did do well was hype the crap out of this game and I think that's why. Do yourself a favor and at the very least, wait. Wait until the game is on a good sale somewhere, hopefully after the many many many upcoming patches that will be rolling out to slowly try to put together an actual finished game.    … Expand
  67. Sonyggerslol
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Absolute trash of a game. Horrible, unoptimized trash. Graphics are barely better than vanilla Skyrim. Gameplay is extremely boring and basic. The story is quite frankly horrible, and the choices and depth to role playing have been greatly reduced compared to earlier installments. I can not recommend this game, it is everything wrong with AAA gaming today. People should not be relying onAbsolute trash of a game. Horrible, unoptimized trash. Graphics are barely better than vanilla Skyrim. Gameplay is extremely boring and basic. The story is quite frankly horrible, and the choices and depth to role playing have been greatly reduced compared to earlier installments. I can not recommend this game, it is everything wrong with AAA gaming today. People should not be relying on mods to fix games.… Expand
  68. clamflanders
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    These critic reviews are so bought. Read them and they are full of the critics admitting the game's many shortcomings but trying to still paint the game in a positive light regardless. I wonder if someday video game journalism will actually be trustworthy and respected.
  69. BullPower
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    This game sux big time ! All the fame of the Fallout merchandise is far gone. This game is not worth more than 5$. Boring, boring, ugly and boring again.
  70. GunnarGudbjorns
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After great open world and gorgeous story in Witcher 3, i will not recommend Fallout 4 for any gamer, especially Fallout series fan. To be honest, this game is not Fallout, it's more like Call of Duty with power armor (by the way, you can find your first power armor literally at the beginning).… Expand
  71. Sill
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Sry for my English, but i really want to complain about Fallout 4. I even registered right now to do that.

    I was Fallout fan since the first part, as many others. And 1 and 2 parts are soo cool becase they have mb the best RP part in the games. And User Score agrees with me, that players wants good RPG games, rather than bad FPS with some perks. And i better chose one single quest from    Sry for my English, but i really want to complain about Fallout 4. I even registered right now to do that.

    I was Fallout fan since the first part, as many others. And 1 and 2 parts are soo cool becase they have mb the best RP part in the games. And User Score agrees with me, that players wants good RPG games, rather than bad FPS with some perks. And i better chose one single quest from such games as Vtm: Bloodlines, Arcanum, Planescape and New Vegas, rather then 20 quest to kill raiders for some unnamed dummies. I dont want to kill 100 gules in one single canalization copied from F3. But that is the only thing you will get in F4... and some bad sims game. Dialogs and voice acting just like in polish shooters (yes, no, may be, sarcastic). Not even one interesting npc in the game (i played about 20 hours). Bad animation. Bad .... arrrrrrrr this game is bad, thats all. Dont buy it. Like someone said, it's worst than F3 with a few mods.

    And WTF with 87 vs 4.7? Really? Critics?    … Expand
  72. RainXH11
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    this game is not optimized for PC, FX-8350 & R9 280 & 8GB RAM, but somehow it keep stuttering like hell it runs @60fps but hit 0 every 5~10 seconds it's completely ruining the experience
    seriously why's that it's not that graphically intensive to justify that, hell the textures are crap at ultra, default fov made me headaches, the game crashes at start for no reason i thought it was    this game is not optimized for PC, FX-8350 & R9 280 & 8GB RAM, but somehow it keep stuttering like hell it runs @60fps but hit 0 every 5~10 seconds it's completely ruining the experience
    seriously why's that it's not that graphically intensive to justify that, hell the textures are crap at ultra, default fov made me headaches, the game crashes at start for no reason i thought it was sweetfx(i tried sweetfx to sharpen the game so it's looks more acceptable) but even without interfering files i need to launch it several times crashes before it works
    now to the core game: the dialogue choices are stupid and always just 4 choices no less no more sometimes there's choices that are forced to fit this FOUR **** design
    the UI navigation is pain in the ass & clearly designed for console
    to change a **** gun i have to go to the pip boy, use stimpack go to pip boy god damn it it's pc we have more than enough keyboard keys, that's something i hated since fallout 3, and it's still confusing when i want to get out of pip boy i always press ESC instead of TAB Grrrr, & i dont think you can be evil in this game & kill everyone you see like before
    i won't touch this game until it's properly fixed cuz im sure it's fun, shame that we pc gamers have to suffer whenever a big new game come out & it's broken as **** in someway or another    … Expand
  73. tr3bob
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    This game is absolute trash. I am not even talking about the glitches and outdated engine. To turn a great RPG into a low budget FPS shooter is incomprehensible. And then have the audacity to charge $70 for this? For THIS? This piece of call of duty rip off masked as an RPG is an insult to gamers worldwide ( unless you are a 12 year old on his x-box that likes to shoot things with gunsThis game is absolute trash. I am not even talking about the glitches and outdated engine. To turn a great RPG into a low budget FPS shooter is incomprehensible. And then have the audacity to charge $70 for this? For THIS? This piece of call of duty rip off masked as an RPG is an insult to gamers worldwide ( unless you are a 12 year old on his x-box that likes to shoot things with guns that have 7 word names ) A complete disgrace.

    Even by FPS standards this is a shame. Way better FPS shooters out there.

    The story must have been written by a 10 year old or on a heavily coma induced weekend. The characters are like cardboard cutouts of one another. The voice acting is horrible. The map is quite small. It is packed with the same copy paste buildings and cars all over the place. Ghouls spawning out of the ground like it is a DOOM game or something. I tried playing it and liking it but it is sooooooo boooring and mindlessly repetitive. The quests are pretty much all the same. I wish I made it to the end but this game is unbearable to play and after 20 hours I felt like vomiting.

    Bethesda should be ashamed and will never see another penny from me as long as I live. **** you bethesda you greedy corporate catering to 10 year old consolers pieces of amphibian **** I would like to have all of these brilliant developers working hard for 7 long years (on what I don't know) lined up so i can take a giant steaming **** on them.

    **** your sales. I hope you choke on my $70

    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!! unless you are brain dead and like to pointlessly shoot things ad nauseum.    … Expand
  74. crashdj
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    DON'T BUY THIS GAME! Not good. I feel like I'm playing an overpriced DLC for Fallout 3. Move along. There's nothing at all new here - very little about this game that feels new or better than the previous. The graphics might have looked amazing on my PS3 five years ago but on my PS4, they're just ordinary at best. And the bugs... The bugs are so numerous that I almost feel like I'mDON'T BUY THIS GAME! Not good. I feel like I'm playing an overpriced DLC for Fallout 3. Move along. There's nothing at all new here - very little about this game that feels new or better than the previous. The graphics might have looked amazing on my PS3 five years ago but on my PS4, they're just ordinary at best. And the bugs... The bugs are so numerous that I almost feel like I'm standing on an anthill while playing it. I get it. One should expect bugs for a new release but I can't escape thinking that Bethesda just threw this together and released it now because they want to score a mountain of cash from the holidays. They didn't even try to offer a clean release. A few minor bugs would be tolerable but there are massive bugs in this game that prevent me from progressing in this game, really, really massive hindrances. What's even more infuriating, after having done searches about some of the bugs that are preventing me from progressing are being widely report by players on every platform - PS4, Xbox, PC - and yet Bethesda has said nothing to anyone about preparing a fix. We're getting crickets. I really feel cheated having thrown down $60 for this POS. This just may be the last time I throw any money Bethesda's way. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... There are too many other deserving game developers who will be getting my cash in stead.… Expand
  75. phentix
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    HORRIBLY unoptimized.. i'm getting dips of 7 frames per second on a gtx780 (beast card) and an i54670k.. 16gb ram and ssd....

    You basically need to read a manual of fixes on reddit and online to get the game even playable to begin with, before you start dealing with the stuttering and frame dips...
  76. Vanillablue
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    its pretty much like mass effect except not remotely fun.
    This isn't what a fallout game is
    This is basic linear garbage with a horrible generic point-blank story and characters that are naturally insufferable you have no choice in regards to pretty much anything the map is ridiculously small and empty so you are simply unable to do much other then the cliché main quest. The perk    its pretty much like mass effect except not remotely fun.
    This isn't what a fallout game is
    This is basic linear garbage with a horrible generic point-blank story and characters that are naturally insufferable
    you have no choice in regards to pretty much anything
    the map is ridiculously small and empty so you are simply unable to do much other then the cliché main quest.
    The perk system is complete garbage and building your character is pointless because the game hands out weapons like its black friday
    and combat is easy & awkward to say the least and no karma system makes everything just a little bit more pointless
    also your characters predetermined personality is banal and unrelatable
    not to mention that frame rate issues even on extremely strong systems make the game unplayable at times

    this is a grand disappointment
    especially since fallout 3 and new Vegas were some of my all time favorite games.    … Expand
  77. BrNone
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Graphics is quite normal. Graphic style more caroonish though. But. They removed skills. They removed meaninful dialogs. Instead dialogs are now 4 button: yes-no-question-joke. Main quest is a joke itself. In the end - there is no joy in this game for Fallout fan. Like at all.
  78. wayrwayr
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Almost the same game as fallout 3. It is already 2015 and Bethesda thought it's enough to let them earn enough money. Awful graphics and terrible bugs... Really want my money back!
  79. sataricon
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    1-Railroaded progression through the world and map early on.

    2-SPECIAL Stats are kneecapped in terms of effectiveness 3-Unkillable NPCs 4-Too much shooting, too little quality dialogue or roleplaying. AKA, Borderlands Syndrome. 5-Quests are at least 75% kill quests. 6-No Ron Perlman for the intro/outro videos. 7-Endings have been hacked down to nubs, and showcase no    1-Railroaded progression through the world and map early on.

    2-SPECIAL Stats are kneecapped in terms of effectiveness

    3-Unkillable NPCs

    4-Too much shooting, too little quality dialogue or roleplaying. AKA, Borderlands Syndrome.

    5-Quests are at least 75% kill quests.

    6-No Ron Perlman for the intro/outro videos.

    7-Endings have been hacked down to nubs, and showcase no acknowledgement of things you've done outside of one major choice.

    8-Skills are gone, which were a staple of the CRPG genre, especially Fallout.

    9-Karma is also gone.

    10-Dialogue is wretched, and leaves no room for nuance. Speech challenges no longer branch out from Speech alone into Skills.

    11-At least 10 Perks are unlocks of things unrelated to your avatar, while the rest are blase percentage increases, sometimes with overlap in some places.

    12-Getting Power Armor, something that took time and effort to get in past games, within five minutes of leaving the Vault, and a Minigun.

    13-Having Sprint, Grenade and Bash mapped to one button.

    14- Glitches out the ass, including installation glitches and PC crash/freeze bugs.    … Expand
  80. RestlessGamer
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The sad end of an era. I've played every Fallout and Elder Scrolls game (other than the MMO) and loved them all, despite their flaws, but I will never play another after this one.

    While starting out OK, the plot and quests rapidly become boring and repetitive. There's enough initially to get you beyond the two hour steam refund point, but the content quality drops significantly after that. I absolutely despise being handed power armour and a mini-gun, so early in the main plot line. In previous fallout games, being so over-powered was the point at which I started to get bored and yet here I am running around in full power armour with a level 2 character.

    The loss of the skills system along with the dumbing down of the perks is just horrible to see.

    Almost no faction, reputation or ethical plot consequences to your actions.

    Building your own base was a great idea in principle, but implemented really badly and has no real game-play value. Collecting resources for your installations is about as fun as clearing your garden after a big storm and is in many ways similar. Feels tacked on and badly thought out. Also has some of the worst and most awkward UI and control interfaces in the game.

    That's not saying much since, the UI in general is terrible, with really inconsistent, clunky and obscure navigation controls all around. Far worse than previous fallout titles.

    Speech options are incredibly limited, non descriptive and affect little. They lack the dark humour of the previous titles and it is sometimes unclear what they are intended to mean despite usually being only two or three words long. More often than not though they are literally one word, Yes/No choices.

    Trading is a night-mare as item categorisation (available in previous titles) has been removed and so you're reduced to trawling through lists of hundreds of text items with only a dozen or so shown on screen at once.

    Combat is laughable. Companion combat more so. NPC's spam grenades at you, which are really difficult to avoid and usually result in a one shot kill when you're not in power armour.

    Saying that, your indestructible NPC allies will take the brunt of the punishment and leave you with nothing to do but loot the corpses, while they mop up the hordes of bad-guys. Providing your companion hasn't become stuck in the scenery, then by the time you get to a fight, it's usually already over and you may be lucky to get a few xp from shooting the last one or two in the back while they're otherwise occupied.

    Frequently, I've literally had no idea there had even been combat going on without me, until I stumbled across the corpses much later.

    When you do loot corpses, there are no hints that there are more items in a dead NPCs inventory than the four or five shown in the tiny inventory overlay and so you're forced to click on the dialogue and scroll down every time to be sure you've not missed an important item. You will have to do this hundreds of times. Incredibly bad design.

    Graphically; OK in places, but sometimes objects look like development place-holders, with really low resolutions and misaligned textures. I'm playing on ultra high graphics settings at 4K, with the worlds most powerful dual GPU graphics card and 32GB of system memory and yet some of the objects and NPCs have textures reminiscent of the original Doom and I'm getting big frame drops in really unexpected places. Event the power-armour has, in my opinion, low quality modelling and texturing, which is a surprise given that it is the focus of the very dull intro sequence.

    All around, I feel that this is an extremely lazy and poor quality title in which Bethesda have added little and yet taken away so much. The only good thing about it is the re-use of the earlier titles theme music and the atmospheric radio tracks. For that it gets a 1 rather than 0.    … Expand
  81. Falk
    Nov 15, 2015
    1
    FO4 is boring, such a terrible RPG or Action Shooter. Whatever this disaster Bethesda made is it is a failure. Lack of RPG elements has made me decide to not buy from BethSoft ever again.

    Dialogue wheel is bad, level scaling is bad, immortal companions is bad, graphics should of looked better than the blurry textures we got on PC. BGS is not a good game dev anymore and BethSoft is a    FO4 is boring, such a terrible RPG or Action Shooter. Whatever this disaster Bethesda made is it is a failure. Lack of RPG elements has made me decide to not buy from BethSoft ever again.

    Dialogue wheel is bad, level scaling is bad, immortal companions is bad, graphics should of looked better than the blurry textures we got on PC.

    BGS is not a good game dev anymore and BethSoft is a failure of a game pub. FO4 is well optimized on PC that's about the only good thing.

    No more purchases from me from Beth anymore.    … Expand
  82. JasonCDaniels
    Nov 13, 2015
    1
    I really tried to like this game, but it's just awful. To say i dislike it would be an understatement.

    Why? #1. All of the mechanics take too long to assess ... this should have been a red flag... but I persisted anyways. #2. This is not an RPG. This is a FPS piece of twitchware... which would be fine if it had been categorized correctly on Steam, but it was not. So I made the    I really tried to like this game, but it's just awful. To say i dislike it would be an understatement.

    Why?

    #1. All of the mechanics take too long to assess ... this should have been a red flag... but I persisted anyways.

    #2. This is not an RPG. This is a FPS piece of twitchware... which would be fine if it had been categorized correctly on Steam, but it was not. So I made the mistake of buying it. An RPG includes consequences for actions, dialogue trees tied to character attributes, skills, or other traits, and allows the player to hand craft a very details set of characteristics to meet what they imagine. And no single character can assume all roles in an RPG. None of this was evident within the 19 hours of play time I've put into the game.

    My qualifications: I've played pen and paper as well computer RPGs for over 30 years. I've also designed a very detailed pen and paper system of my own, and used it with friends.

    #3. This is NOT Fallout -- in spirit. Sure it's in the name. Sure it has the same critter names. Sure they use the same attributes. Sure they use the term perks, but pervert its original usage. Sure it's a post apocalyptic setting with a pip-boy. That's where the significant similarities to all prior Fallout end. Note: these are superficial. The spirit of Fallout, since version 1, has been: choices have consequences, but you are free to choose as you like, even if that means being worse than raider scum. Also, not evident in this game is that "Life finds a way" civilization will still revive in the absence of the old (hi-tech) world.

    #4. Most of the gameplay mechanics I've looked at are broken or infuriatingly unpolished. Other metacritic user reviews are a great source of the blow by blow on these -- negative and mixed. Even the "mixed" reviews are rather hard on the game, and deservedly so.

    #5. The story is rubbish. It's trite. There is no STORY LEVEL motivation to do anything. I really don't care if the settlers live or die. In fallout 1 you started by trying to save your Vault, then were pulled into a regional conflict which you could resolve many ways, including joining "The Master." The MacGuffin here, in FO4, is handed to you once, and weakly alluded to in select interactions, none of which you have any choice in how to handle.

    #6. The game was NOT designed to be played on a PC. The port was a mindless effort resulting in frustrating, difficult to use UI that eventually drives a person to drink. Others with more console gaming experience here on metacritic have also voiced concerns over the UI as applied to consoles. I find this greatly concerning.

    #7. The game performance, in many categories, is just horrid. Again other metacritic user reviews are a great place to get a breakdown on these details. When people with rigs that are about $1K more expensive (justifiably!) than mine, and mine is not a piece of junk by any stretch, have noticable, and cumbersome, performance issues, that says I will not be able to afford to run this game in a manner I consider acceptable. (I'm not putting $1K into my box to run a bleedin' game with a story that I don't even care about!)

    #8. Item placement for settlement/home building is frustrating, and there is no in game tutorial to assist. You learn by trial and error. Many people have incorrectly claimed that you can't make a perfectly 90 degree corner. It took me about 8 hours of playing with the mechanics to figure it out.

    #9 Mediocre voice acting, even the nerd at Diamond City radio. Its uninspired delivery coupled with unimaginative writing is just dull.

    For these reasons above, and more, I've asked Steam, for the first time ever, for a refund. This is not the first game I've bought and disliked. However, it is the first I've requested a refund on!

    Why ask for a refund on this and not other titles that I've bought that I disliked?

    The ads lied. Bethesda lied.

    Largely false advertising was used to acquire our hard earned dollars for this title. Steam helped perpetrate the lie by categorizing this game as an RPG. It is not an RPG, it's a FPS game. And it is Fallout only in name and superficial theme.

    How is this different from other titles I disliked? Let's look at what were my least two favorite purchases up until this point:

    Mass Effect 2
    Ads for Mass Effect 2 did not lie about what it was, and unlike FO4 it has a compelling story. The mechanics and the fact that it's a piece of twitchware just drove me batty and I stopped playing. I have watched the story as posted on youtube and absolutely love the story. I just hate playing shooters. They're not my scene. It's OK if you love them. I still won't, tho.

    Wastelands 2
    The ads for Wastelands 2 did not outright lie. It is a tactical RPG. It just has an awful story with juvenile writing. Oh and ALL of your rangers are jerks. It's grating. But WHEN the mechanics work it's what I wanted out of Fallout: Tactics. So it's still got some value for me.    … Expand
  83. Lillo
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    No "Hardcore mode", no weapon/armor degradation, no reputation system, no "traits", and the plot and characters are flat.
    But you can build weapons, houses and interact with the "real" pip-boy, so who cares?

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

    Thanks Bethesda for ruining the Fallout series.
  84. shemonger
    Nov 16, 2015
    3
    Are you serious? All the improvements from Fallout 3 and New Vegas (from Obsidian) are removed. Poor gameplay except of FPS. Poor survival. Poor dialogue...
  85. gNarNar
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game is not for hardcore gamer. This me i played and beat fallout 3 and new vegas (even though new vegas sucked) fallout3 was hardcore this game is not hardcore it make no sense over hyped bad game. do not ever buy we will not speak of this game ever, i try to get refund now. i am angry
  86. junaidwahab97
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Did not live up to its own hype. Delivered 20% of what it should have. Xbox One version sucks. Stuttering causes 0 fps during transition between different areas.
  87. loafofbread
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    This game is ultimately an unfocused mess, the developers putting in features that seemed good on paper but ended up being half baked and not gelling well with the actual game play. The settlements, companion romances, weapon mods all seemed like interesting additions, but serve very little purpose in the game, giving little to no reward for the time invested in them.

    Not only were the    This game is ultimately an unfocused mess, the developers putting in features that seemed good on paper but ended up being half baked and not gelling well with the actual game play. The settlements, companion romances, weapon mods all seemed like interesting additions, but serve very little purpose in the game, giving little to no reward for the time invested in them.

    Not only were the new additions poorly implemented, but they stripped out any of the good things they did in fallout 3. The small wasteland makes for a claustrophobic feeling sandbox, which can get over whelming when you first head into boston, which is a far cry from the anticipation that you got in fallout 3 as you headed out into the wide wasteland. Also with the removal of skills in favour of the perk system, bethesda has essentially thrown out any incentive to replay the game, and further waters down progression, where a level 40 character feels almost the same as a level one character and all the characters feel the same as every character has access to the same perks, there is no way to specialize or make an interesting character build at all. Your character will be basically identical to everyone elses.

    In terms of story, it's a bit of a mess. They tried to attempt to make a more focused personal story with the voice protagonist, but end up alienating the player even more. Instead of the semi freedom that you got in the previous 2 games, your character ends up feeling railroaded into a couple of life less dialogue choices of which there are only 4 at any given time, which the player has no way to tell what the player will actually end up saying. Bethesda try and railroad the player into getting emotionally attached by having the player go after your "son", but it feels forced and I cared little about him as there's little reason to care. The story also deals heavily with the advanced technology of the institute, but this feels incredibly jarring and at odds with the rest of the fallout universe.

    All in all, fallout 4 is a bunch of ideas the developers wanted to shove in, implemented very poorly. In the end we're left with a mishmash of gameplay features that were mostly stolen from mods that somehow did a better job than a AAA studio could produce. My recommendation would be to put off buying this game until you can get it cheap and all the DLC has been released, and the modders have fixed bethesda mess, once again.    … Expand
  88. Fulllmetal
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    this is not Fallout =/ Call it SkyrimOut or OblivionOut, but its not Fallout. And wtf with story? imao 0/10 Obsidian made NV wich was not so bad as F3 or F4. But Bethesda not even learn lesson.
  89. bioburn
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    Terrible game. Firstly since I have an overpowered computer I like to run it at high framerates, except it then becomes unplayable!!!

    Also ,the graphics seem to be out of date, and gameplay hasn't really changed much at all except for the 'create your own community' business. Overhyped,oversold,overadvertised game. Never trusting Bethesda again!!!
  90. jurofaro
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    Major disappointment,

    No skills, only perks and now you get one every level. Easy to max out your basic stats. Perk distribution confusing, missing perks. I like new VATS but the new crafting system is confusing, If I wanted to gather materials all day I would have play State of Decay. Dialogue - you guys killed the game. Stop trying to please console players with dumbed down games.    Major disappointment,

    No skills, only perks and now you get one every level. Easy to max out your basic stats. Perk distribution confusing, missing perks. I like new VATS but the new crafting system is confusing, If I wanted to gather materials all day I would have play State of Decay.

    Dialogue - you guys killed the game. Stop trying to please console players with dumbed down games. I hope this is a wake up call, but than again 12 mil copies sold already so who cares about leaving behind a decent successor to an amazing game series. Let's keep the assembly line moving, right?

    Another major annoyance, I got the power armor withing an hour of gameplay. WTF, are you serious? You took all the building up to better gear away from the game, and any strength character can wear it apparently.

    I was really looking forward to this game and now it is all for nothing, going back to Wasteland 2.    … Expand
  91. PaShKoMeTR
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    Це вже не Fallout...це якийсь недошутер! над геймерами просто познущались. напевно, вже не буде того самого Фоллаута, за яким ми усі так сумуємо. на фоні цієї частини, F3 виглядає шедевром:(
  92. Hock
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I am pretty sure New Vegas looked better than this mess that has the audacity to lag. Not to mention the writing feels like it was done by a toddler, with the rpg semblance of "choice" meaning absolutely nothing as your choices have no impact on the endings. Don't waste your money on this game, wait for it to be >5$ if you really wanted, maybe then it will have mods that will make it tolerable.
  93. LittleGirlDwarf
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    ●▬▬▬!WARNING! ▬▬▬●
    DO not be a fool! Bethesda - u r in my blacklist forever! I still can't recover from that terrible mockery on Fallout legendary franchise U made in Fallout 3 yet again U managed to create an even FAR worse game called Fallout 4! I even fail to find at least somewhat little in common with great Fallout games in F4 - its just typical generic mediocre consolized    ●▬▬▬!WARNING! ▬▬▬●
    DO not be a fool! Bethesda - u r in my blacklist forever! I still can't recover from that terrible mockery on Fallout legendary franchise U made in Fallout 3 yet again U managed to create an even FAR worse game called Fallout 4! I even fail to find at least somewhat little in common with great Fallout games in F4 - its just typical generic mediocre consolized shooter/minecraft survavirum with doggy for 5-12y.o. kiddies who have never played the legendary games. I will not tolerate this, Bethesda, I will never ever buy ur game again. Because F4 is just re-texturized Skyrim but with guns and power armour and even less depth to it than Skyrim (and this is when Skyrim itself was an empty copy-paste game). No talents, **** perks, SPECIAL system totally **** up cuz u can +1 to SPECIAL at levels (WTF?SICK!), dialogues are just utter bullsh*t - primitive with "yes", "no","sarcasm" options, VATS is useless because if u have a not so big hit %chance u can still right-mouse-click-to-scope and headshot from 150 meters away like in CallofBooty or any generic shooter (and this is when we speak about Fallout game - a supposedly RPG dammit) , post-apocalyptic world is not post-apocalyptic AT ALL: its too damn bright and and joyful and full of mirth (enough for kiddies who always like bright lifeful graphics in their Crysises). I can enumerate disadvantages of new **** so-called "Fallout" game infinitely. Just DO NOT buy it FFS!! DO not be a sponsor to such bad game industry tendencies when ALL u loved/love got destroyed by the greedy wish to earn more, making far simpler and more primitve games in legendary hardcore franchise!!    … Expand
  94. Suhuy
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    A wonderful game of the "Idiocracy" film, Disgusting game of Fallout series .
    Boring dialogues, poor plot, faceless NPC, unemotional voice .

    If you have not bought the game - do not waste your money , just watch the movie "Idiocracy"
  95. BoiledMonkey
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    Complete and utter abuse of the company's cherished reputation, as was the case with ESO.

    Story is completely uninspired, and as predicted the voiced protagonist means quests and dialogue are paper-thin in terms of plot and gameplay. Entire character motivation is based around a 15 minute cutscene at the start of the game that does nothing to establish a narrative beyond rely on    Complete and utter abuse of the company's cherished reputation, as was the case with ESO.

    Story is completely uninspired, and as predicted the voiced protagonist means quests and dialogue are paper-thin in terms of plot and gameplay. Entire character motivation is based around a 15 minute cutscene at the start of the game that does nothing to establish a narrative beyond rely on pre-established lore (which gets completely disrespected immediately after). Could not care less about my shoe-horned 'family' that im supposed to care about.

    After playing for 15 hours I'm yet to find a quest that isn't 'go here, kill x and return'. Game hits a huge wall around the 10 hour mark, where you realize you've seen all the content you're getting - its just reiterations after that. Those claiming the game is decent are simply yet to hit this wall, or blinded by hype.
    Quest environments are predictable and linear, with little opportunity for straying from the beaten path or using character traits to explore new opportunities. 90% of scenarios are indoor, path driven experiences that only support the run-and-gun tactic.

    Weapon and armor customizations are a joke, differences between customized versions are often completely arbitrary (e.g 5-10% range damage drop off improvement with NO difference in base damage between pistols and SNIPER variants). Ammunition sub-types are completely abolished, and weapon variety is hilariously small compared to previous games - coupled with above mentioned lack of impact from customization, weapons rarely feel any different.

    RPG elements are completely missing, this is an FPS by anyone's standard. Only semblance of RPG is the perk system, which is boring and uninspired compared to previous games. Removal of skills TRIVIALIZES character progression and makes levelling up and making a 'build' a complete waste of time. Unless you're the type that enjoys cracking out a spreadsheet and calculating that extra two damage or ten caps you're saving because of those uninspired perks you spent hours grinding out, prepare to be very disappointed.

    Progression is terrible - power armour is found an hour into the game that makes you nearly invulnerable, and you're also given a minigun and 700 rounds at the same time. Perks are separated in ranks by huge level gaps that make no sense and restrict creativity in building your character. Many rank 10 perks will require level 1 for the first rank, then level 20+ (??!?!?!?) for the second. Many of the seemingly end-game legendary items have trivially easy methods of collection, when compared to some of the massive effort you had to put in to find them in previous games.

    Companions and general AI are PLAGUED with issues, from obvious things like teleporting into elevators and suddenly turning against their own factions at a moments notice, to subtle things like blocking doorways when you're under fire or walking infront of thrown grenades. Enemy AI is completely predictable and does not change at ALL regardless of difficult settings, despite promises that 'higher difficulties wont just turn enemies into sponges' during E3. Enemies will consistently hide behind cover that offers laughable protection and have no concept of how they are placed as a group (I've seen groups of five all trying to use the same doorway as cover...)

    Finally, the world feels empty and barren compared to other games. You don't feel as though you're part of a living, breathing world - you just stumble into an area and everyone is immediately willing to accept this total stranger into their ranks for the most insignificant stuff. Things like being allowed into diamond city or joining the brotherhood of steel after a 30 second encounter just completely devalue the role they play in the world.

    You had seven years Bethesda, what the hell. Obsidian wrote half of this **** for you, all you had to do was pretty it up and create a different looking world for us to exist in. Why would you just cut the franchise to pieces? Why take everything that made the games good and just throw it to the wind in the pursuit of casual FPS appeal?    … Expand
  96. VaultBoy666
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    1) Bad graphics
    2) Bad optimization
    3) Bad physics/animation etc
    4) Bad story line
    5) Terrible, primitive RPG system
    6) Small dead world

    Good job Bethesda, you killed Fallout series.
  97. Jaka
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Ahhh cd project red why don't you's steal fallout of Bethesda they've turned into cash grab dogs like ea games I'll tell you what ya thieving possums c...ts you's get the everyone hyped than everyone buys and you's sit there with your dollar bills laughing at us this isn't fallout looks an Atari game 4 years to make a game and you's still can't do it omg story's gamin don't make sense dogAhhh cd project red why don't you's steal fallout of Bethesda they've turned into cash grab dogs like ea games I'll tell you what ya thieving possums c...ts you's get the everyone hyped than everyone buys and you's sit there with your dollar bills laughing at us this isn't fallout looks an Atari game 4 years to make a game and you's still can't do it omg story's gamin don't make sense dog gets in your way can't move enemies fall through the ground and attack yar with there legs ahhh this is **** house aye it's beyond a joke prob take 40 g to fix everything and it still will be crap Bethesda mate should retire aye should start making Pokemon games they'll be good at that let other game developers come in that care about us and our money this is nothing but a glitch hole eviroments empty no life city's are dull guns and weapons ahhhh I'll stop there… Expand
  98. stonedblues
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Thanks to Bethesda we have a railroad-like shooter with a little RPG-elements based on skyrim. Poor optimisation, awful texture quality, horrible Mass Effect-like dialogue system, and a clusterf**k of bugs, what makes this game barely playable. And of course, seven years of one game making method: release new TES game, add guns and post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and new fallout game is done!Thanks to Bethesda we have a railroad-like shooter with a little RPG-elements based on skyrim. Poor optimisation, awful texture quality, horrible Mass Effect-like dialogue system, and a clusterf**k of bugs, what makes this game barely playable. And of course, seven years of one game making method: release new TES game, add guns and post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and new fallout game is done! I'm tired of this bulls**t… Expand
  99. Dreavus
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Absolutely disaster of a game, does NOT feel like a RPG, Witcher 3 blows BGS out of the water.

    I lost 60 bucks on a game with less RPG elements than ever before. extremely boring to play.
  100. Gingergamer
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    It was kinda suspicious when the "Preorder" button appeared immediately after they announced the game, EA style. But I still hoped for better, I thought that fallout can never be bad, all while cautiously being reluctant to preorder it - there was that annoying feeling that something's not right if a company already wants to take your money before any presentation. Well, now we have theIt was kinda suspicious when the "Preorder" button appeared immediately after they announced the game, EA style. But I still hoped for better, I thought that fallout can never be bad, all while cautiously being reluctant to preorder it - there was that annoying feeling that something's not right if a company already wants to take your money before any presentation. Well, now we have the reason.

    Fallout 4 is a game that tries very hard to be all other popular games, attempting to meet the widest range of tastes, the least average required to gather the biggest audience. As the result, ofcource, the game is average. Everything is done to smear the game like **** in a thin layer across all possible plains. There is an element of building and crafting, because minecraft is popular. There is now a voiced protagonist, because that is popular. An idiot-safe interface for console players. Ridiculously simplified core mechanics to appeal to the widest intellectual range. Because, you know, cutting a whole dimension of depth out from a game is a popular decision.

    None of these changes(except for crafting) were necessary, but were done solely because trends dictate so. And while Bethesda is engulfed heads-over in that wild orgy of people-please for maximum profit, they completely impair a good game to a point where it is nothing but a shadow of its past - a mod-platform in a shell of the great legacy of Interplay.

    But there is a difference between an isolated game being average, and a culmination of an amazing franchise taking a long dip face-down the pavement. A huge difference. Bright minds at Bethesda somehow fail to understand that Fallout is not just an established name - it is a brand, and a brand also bears a set of standards and achievements, which must be upheld. Otherwise there is no reason for the brand to even exist.

    "Professionals" at Bethesda obviously are of a different opinion. This is why we get a voiced protagonist for example. Most people, including Bethesda, don't see a problem with it until they actually play the game. Well, Witcher, for example, had a voiced protagonist. Witcher is also very popular. So lets copy Witcher, amirite?

    None of the them, however, consider that Fallout never was, and never should be Witcher. The difference is their approach to the RPG genre, and while Witcher is an interpretation of a written book, therefore tells the story of a predetermined character, Fallout(and Elder Scrolls aswell), on the other hand, allowed you to experience and write your own story, of YOUR adventures in the world. The character was always determined by you, you created your story, and weren't just following the tale of someone else.

    The voiced protagonist worked in Witcher because it never had that level of immersion in the first place. Taking it and slamming it into Fallout isn't just limitation of the game's potential - its kitsch and mimicry of the lowest grade. The immersion, so vital for a game like Fallout, is irreparably damaged; the franchise is at it's alltime low, but hey, it's familiar to the Witcher fanbase now, so sales are guaranteed, amirite? Bethesda's followers and critics even dare to defend this under the guise of "innovation" - such an amateur, dimwitted argument, used handy all around by studios to hide from their unprofessional decisions. I can bash-in your Cadillac's engine and call it a new model, for the sake of justice.

    The resultant dialogue wheel serves for even more player alienation from the game, now that, just like in Witcher and Mass Effect, your character frequently reacts unparallel to the meaning of your choice and your expectations. A character that has his own will is irritating, annoying and means total death to the immersion.

    Instead of fixing and improving the leveling system Bethesda decided to get rid of a huge chunk of it alltogether - the skills, which were a backbone of character building, are now gone victim of simplification for the average customer. Managing skills and building your character in detail is obviously too hard to brain about. People don't need no **** choice, amirite? Idiots admire a few more perks than before, forgetting that perks are now mixed with usual skill-like traits, which therefore means both less traits and less perks.

    Heck, they wanted to make the game so damn static and predictable, they even replaced normal crits with unleashable criticals(aka crits by button push) - a retardation the likes of which I have never seen before. Because who needs luck factor in a game that features a specific character trait called "luck"... Ooops.

    The plot quality, which was used as explanation for voicing the character, is unsurprisingly nothing special. Without spoilers - you have to search for a member of your family. Yes, again.

    The graphics are a shame for 2015, and there is no big world to compensate for the lack of detail. Lazily done modification of an old engine. Bad animations, bad textures, bad facial detail.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

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