Fallout 4

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  1. selsayed
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    This game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't botheredThis game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't bothered developing a game that could run safely beyond 50 frames per second.

    More than anything, this is unbelievably shoddy programming by Bethesda - more than usual, too, which is saying something - with absolutely stupid bugs all over the place. The engine limitations are also fairly obvious with how dated it is at this stage.

    It's also blatantly obvious Bethesda is using the modding community as a crutch for its poor development practices. I appreciate the dedication of modders and like that they're facilitated but this has enabled bad development practices from Bethesda. If you want a smooth game, wait a year and buy it, do not now.

    In terms of concrete game design, it's better in a lot of ways than 3/NV. The crafting system is amazing and has so much depth, and it will really thrive with the modding scene I think.

    The settlement building system has some interesting concepts but in real terms has poor implementation - you can flatten an entire building for scrap in like 10 seconds - but I think this definitely has a lot of potential and I can see it improving(Again, doubly so with mods. See what I mean?).

    The gun play is vastly improved. The Call of Duty hitmarker stuff is a bit unnecessary but I'm not bothered by it. I'm sure there'll be a mod(again) to disable it, though this should have obviously been a game menu option from release. But overall the gunplay has developed into a solid shooter.

    The dialogue wheel, however, is probably one of the worst design choices that nobody ever asked for. Like seriously, I've never sat through a Bethesda game and thought "You know what I want? A vague dialogue wheel which wont give me all the information I need to make informed decisions." It's a bad choice, it needs to go and never see the light of day in any other games. It's bad, bad, bad.

    The character creation system is probably one of the best I've seen, especially from a Bethesda publication. I'm also still coming to grips with the Perk/Skill system but I'm liking it.

    However, all in all, the design choices are massively overshadowed by the terrible bugs and development practices. For that I would recommend a DO NOT BUY. Wait it out for a few months at least.    … Expand
  2. bajjycom
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Totally useless crafting, boring explorations.
    Every dialog — crude piece of commonness.
    Graphics — Drake face.
    Jolly wasteland... JOLLY WASTELAND, CARL.

    Either past 7 years Bethesda did nothing, or their employees are complete f*cktards.
  3. jseph1234
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This a very clunky, poorly written disappointment after the 5 Year wait for Fallout4. The writing is so bad it makes the whole story asinine. Not enough adventure hooks, branching storyline availability to make this more a one time playthrough.
    Not even CLOSE to Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3 (My First) which were both 9/10 and 10/10 with Mods.

    Fallout 4 is a 4/10 at best...sad, dammit!
  4. Rowbot
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Game was ok until it stopped letting load saves. Literally cannot do anything except launch the game and stare at an endless loading screen. Devs have not said a word regarding startup and save file issues, adding further to user dissatisfaction. If I can't play a game, it gets a ZERO by default. I will change accordingly when these issues are resolved:

    -people can't load saves -people    Game was ok until it stopped letting load saves. Literally cannot do anything except launch the game and stare at an endless loading screen. Devs have not said a word regarding startup and save file issues, adding further to user dissatisfaction. If I can't play a game, it gets a ZERO by default. I will change accordingly when these issues are resolved:

    -people can't load saves
    -people can't get the game to even start
    -people lose saves
    -stuttering
    -physics are tied to fps, so people get gameplay that's either too fast or slow
    -getting stuck and having to revert to an older save
    -missions not progessing
    -issues with mouse acceleration
    -and more I didn't think of or know of...    … Expand
  5. Ilaris-Berdaris
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Простой обыватель, и любитель TES.
    Как ничего не знакомый с серией Fallout, я решил по пробовать новейшую и столь громкую игру 2015 года. И какая моя реакция? Какое впечатление я получил от игры? Вроде всё летает, не зависает, но тут мне игра вначале понравилась... и даже очень.
    Как-то вроде фаллаут, а вроде бы калл оф дюти, да реально похоже на калл раздутый, и графика то очень даже    Простой обыватель, и любитель TES.
    Как ничего не знакомый с серией Fallout, я решил по пробовать новейшую и столь громкую игру 2015 года. И какая моя реакция? Какое впечатление я получил от игры? Вроде всё летает, не зависает, но тут мне игра вначале понравилась... и даже очень.

    Как-то вроде фаллаут, а вроде бы калл оф дюти, да реально похоже на калл раздутый, и графика то очень даже красивая на ультра, тут всё хорошо.
    Но насчет игрового мира... Ладно бы маленький но заполненный и продуманный, здесь я этого не почувствовал, и не воспринял как масштабный мир "нового поколения" как говорили беседка.
    Локации и вправду пустые, и ощущение города не дает, тупо пустая локация с кучей неюзабельных домиков, которые из них 2-3 домика можно поковырять.
    Насчет Сюжета, он здесь хороший но я не сторонник таких сюжетов, ибо я фанат древних свитков и что означает сюжет это мое слабое место.
    Ощущение будто бы играю в Early-Acces, и в этот... Dead Island.
    Вердикт: Максимум 4 из 10.
    Вообщем разочарован. Не повторите судьбу TES 6, посмотрите на морровинд    … Expand
  6. Azuran
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This game is no fun at all it's just boring. I like all of the previous ones, but Fallout 4 just doesn't tick for me.

    Beth failed to deliver what I liked playing in the older games and if this continues I won't be buying their games anymore.
  7. Number213
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    Bethesda is one of the worst game developers ever. Why bother with optimisation, graphics, innovation and stability? Let's take Fallout 3, dumb it down, remove half of features, improve graphics a little bit (while **** up game performance) and sell it as a new game.
  8. Rorix
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Sadly this not the Fallout you're looking for.
    The Engine was last updated at 2012 and you can clearly see that, Bethesda tries to hide that by overusing all effects that the engine is capable of.
    The Game is full of game breaking bugs, they even transferred old bugs from skyrim. For example: If you use a Monitor which is capable of displaying more than 105 FPS then the Physics-Engine    Sadly this not the Fallout you're looking for.
    The Engine was last updated at 2012 and you can clearly see that, Bethesda tries to hide that by overusing all effects that the engine is capable of.
    The Game is full of game breaking bugs, they even transferred old bugs from skyrim. For example: If you use a Monitor which is capable of displaying more than 105 FPS then the Physics-Engine will likely crash and you cant move after that.
    At first i wasn't even able to start the game, i managed to fix that problem by running the launcher as administrator. Maybe that's a Windows 10 specific bug but didn't they tested the game under the latest Windows?
    The lip sync and animations are horrible, no clue why Bethesda thought this is ok. The voice acting is for the most part good but not outstanding.
    I can only repeat what other user said before, if you liked New Vegas than don't buy this game or wait 1 or 2 years till the community fixed all the problems which Bethesda didn't bothered to fix in the first place.
    Its a pure disappointment for me, i didn't really expect much from Bethesda but they really managed to make this game worse than i ever expected.    … Expand
  9. slaw0
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    The game is infested by bugs and glitches, most of which originate from the old engine and the game being obviously a console port.

    I mean without locking at 30fps the game basically breaks? FOV, camera and mouse sensitivity also broken. But at least these problems can be fixed by ini tweaking, however I didn't pay 60 EUR to start fixing bugs before even finishing the tutorial.    The game is infested by bugs and glitches, most of which originate from the old engine and the game being obviously a console port.

    I mean without locking at 30fps the game basically breaks? FOV, camera and mouse sensitivity also broken. But at least these problems can be fixed by ini tweaking, however I didn't pay 60 EUR to start fixing bugs before even finishing the tutorial.

    Whoever (re)designed the story/interaction systems should be fired. The story setting has its potential but the linear storytelling kills it all. I was expecting at least New Vegas level of branching stories, but no. You get 4 endings based on ONE!!! choice. And the interaction? At this rate in the next installment talking to NPCs will consist of smashing one button instead of 4... ARROWS?! At this point they haven't even tried hiding that this is a console port, a crappy one at that.

    Beside these design flaws we have textures not loading at all == invisible trees, or loading and being stuck at horribly low res.

    The only novelty is the base/camp building system with relatively little bugs, alignment issues mostly, but the console controls pop up here again.

    Summa summarum, this shouldn't be even the alpha version of the game, and its certainly not an RPG.    … Expand
  10. herpaderpityder
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game is bad, really bad, usually I dont give 0s even to awful games like this, but this is different, I am actually struggling to think of ANYTHING even decent about it, not excellent, not good but decent, Gameplay has taken a negative turn when it was already bad in Fallout 3, I mean seriously this is worse than Mass Effect 2 and 3, while in terms of mapping its small and shallow IThis game is bad, really bad, usually I dont give 0s even to awful games like this, but this is different, I am actually struggling to think of ANYTHING even decent about it, not excellent, not good but decent, Gameplay has taken a negative turn when it was already bad in Fallout 3, I mean seriously this is worse than Mass Effect 2 and 3, while in terms of mapping its small and shallow I mean its only 9 square kms big, thats significantly less than half the size of Skyrim, on top of bad writing (Kill kid or Nuke Boston) bad interface (Why is the Pipboy so bad) meh music, and its following, what a terrible following, I dont understand the appeal of the game other than 'ITS NOT CAHOOODEEY MAIN, ITS NOT CAHOOODOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEYYY MAAAAIIIIN" and use this in a lot of their praise, they think we are hating on it because we are butt triggered they downboated CAHHOOODOOOEY Black Coks 3, I honestly couldn't give a damn about the game, same for a lot of us doing this, we just don't like this game, it is in all seriousness this is one of the few games that deserve a 0 and Todd Howard really needs to think on how to actually make a proper game not just Morrowind with Guns number 3 and a half, gg do re mi, get triggered fallout tards… Expand
  11. bigfoot
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Move over Big Rigs Over The Road Racing and Daikatana. We have a new contender for worst PC game of all time. Everyone at Bethesda should be tarred and feathered for this travesty.
  12. Densito
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    There is no choice and consequence, no reputation changes from your actions, and no feedback to anything you do. "Freedom" means nothing in an RPG when none of your available actions mean anything. I find this particularly disheartening since it saps me of any motivation to do anything when the narrative provided for those actions is not only weak, but nothing I do matters. What's trulyThere is no choice and consequence, no reputation changes from your actions, and no feedback to anything you do. "Freedom" means nothing in an RPG when none of your available actions mean anything. I find this particularly disheartening since it saps me of any motivation to do anything when the narrative provided for those actions is not only weak, but nothing I do matters. What's truly astounding is that Bethesda actually regressed in this area since the days of Morrowind or even Oblivion where at least a basic reputation system existed and guards hailed me as the Champion of the Arena or something.… Expand
  13. pongkong
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    if you have never played fallout before, by all means play this game maybe youll enjoy yourself. but if youve played fallout i just dont know how you could find this game acceptable. its pathetic really, bethesda should feel embarassed.
  14. ZARgot34
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    Just an another retarded sht which comes with bugs, non graphic, and 0 optimization.
    Good Work Bethesda, this idiots still buy your farts. I really hope you will bankrupt.
  15. floppykid
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    I give this 4/10 game a 0 in order to help balance out the fanboy spam 10s and the sock puppet account reviews no doubt paid for by a PR company.

    Simplified, or, as certain critics would put it "streamlined" game mechanics suit the new first person shooter ethos Bethesda are going with. Plays more like a Bioshock game than a Fallout one, Performance on PCs is abysmal. Considering    I give this 4/10 game a 0 in order to help balance out the fanboy spam 10s and the sock puppet account reviews no doubt paid for by a PR company.

    Simplified, or, as certain critics would put it "streamlined" game mechanics suit the new first person shooter ethos Bethesda are going with. Plays more like a Bioshock game than a Fallout one,

    Performance on PCs is abysmal. Considering that the textures are crap, the graphics are on par with Skyrim and grapical objects are re-used from previous titles, this is flat out unacceptable. Frame rate drops are frequent and I have an R9 290x.

    The story is bland and predictable, the conversation mechanic has been "streamlined" to four conversation wheel options that are vague. This removes the benefits of perk dialogue options and more precise role playing. But it's just so damn simple you gotta love it, right?

    Bethesda are going down the tube as a creative entity, they'll make plenty of green from this direction however. Don't buy this on PC. If you must, wait until it's on sale and the modding community has fixed BetaTesta's game. That is, if you don't have to pay for mods at this stage.    … Expand
  16. offline_n1
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    I really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not soI really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not so "survival", the enemy just getting tougher and you getting weaker that's all, no more "has to sleep" or anthing like the hardcore mode in Falout NV.
    IF you are new to fallout series, you will love this game, if you are a fan of this series? Wait until it's half price at least, and you will be disappointed    … Expand
  17. sfire
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game so bugged that it still should be in development - I say no to that kind of practise. Developers should learn that we clients want expect good quality game without many bgs, fps slow downs and poor graphics. Thats is why I give this game 0. I am very disappointed by this game and I was a real fan of F1, F2
  18. Dasho
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    My favorite RPG from my childhood it's not and RPG anymore, what else do I've to say?
    Oh, yeah, graphics are horrid, gameplay hasn't improved a bit, it's full of bugs, and works really bad in any platafform, even if you have a high end of, because gamespeed it's tied to your FPS.
  19. CHRIIIIIS
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    Most of the negative reviews here are from trolls hating on Fallout 4 because it's popular. I don't dislike Fallout 4 because it's popular - I dislike Fallout 4 because it's frustrating and dull. I am simply not having a good time with this game.

    A lot of the changes and new additions to Fallout 4, I really like. The crafting system is well-implemented, and gives you a great variety of    Most of the negative reviews here are from trolls hating on Fallout 4 because it's popular. I don't dislike Fallout 4 because it's popular - I dislike Fallout 4 because it's frustrating and dull. I am simply not having a good time with this game.

    A lot of the changes and new additions to Fallout 4, I really like. The crafting system is well-implemented, and gives you a great variety of customisation options for your weapons and armour. In the case of weapons especially, these upgrades aren't just minor stat boosts - they each change the look of the weapon you're using, making it feel like your own. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for Bethesda, and something I hope carries over to the next Elder Scrolls game as well as future Fallout titles.
    The workshop, a base-building feature, is also highly addictive. You're given a lot of freedom to create structures, power them, add crafting stations, turrets and traps to defend your home, and so on. It would benefit from a top-down camera for better precision when placing items, but it's definitely a good start.

    Graphically, the game isn't as bad as everyone's saying. Environments look nice, despite some laughably low-resolution textures in some places. Character models, on the other hand, are awful - flat, plastic-looking faces, bad lip-syncing, and shoddy animation (with a couple of exceptions). Conversations are dull, and gone are the lists of dialogue options - you get four options, and they don't branch off or change things very much. The story is very linear overall.

    Here's an example of how linear the story is, in as spoiler-free a manner as possible:
    I found myself in a standoff between myself & my companion and a group of armed thugs. Being a charismatic character, I persuaded the leader of the thugs to let us go without a fight, so I left the area. My companion, however, did not. I had to run back to him, and engage the enemies I'd just persuaded to let us leave. Why was I given the option to talk my way out of a fight if I had to fight regardless? This isn't player choice, it's saying "No, this isn't how you were supposed to do that, now go back and do it the way we want you to do it!".

    The main storyline itself is not even remotely engaging. There's no meaningful choices to make, the karma system has been completely removed, and it's impossible to role play anyone other than a worried parent looking for their child. Want to be an evil character? You're in the wrong place for that. Fallout is no longer an RPG - it's a first person shooter with very light RPG elements. Skills, stats, and everything RPG-like has been stripped down to a perk chart, of which you get to put a single point into once you level up.

    Combat is awful. If the gunplay was "inspired by Destiny", then I don't want to play Destiny. You can shoot enemies point blank and them not take damage. Shooting enemies doesn't even make them flinch, either - they only react once you've crippled a limb or killed them. They also have ridiculous amounts of health - I'd gotten through one rather large building having exhausted all the ammo I had for at least five different weapons, and maybe fought a dozen enemies at most. This is on the "normal" difficulty setting, by the way. At one point I'd unloaded over 200 minigun rounds on two enemies, and one of them was still standing.

    I've played around ten hours of Fallout 4, and can't bring myself to continue. There's some nice new additions in the crafting and base-building systems, but everything else feels mediocre at best and incredibly frustrating at worst.    … Expand
  20. KawaiiiO
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Unsurprisingly the game runs like diarhea. All the "Early Previewers" are full of crap unless they somehow time travelled into the future and downloaded a copy of FO4 that works.

    Early Fallout 4 verdict: very poor console port on the PC. Unplayable at the moment. I'm waiting to see how the console players fared. This will be the very last game that I pre-order.
  21. Winters
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Oh good, you made it for the consoles and ported it to the PC. What a pile of dull, linear, repetitive, unimaginative s***. The graphics are truly awful. The movement has that wonderful console "floaty" feeling to it.

    The game might not rate as a zero but that is what I am giving it, as I am comparing it to Fallout 3.
  22. Counter935
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    Rest in peace, Fallout.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Rest in peace, Fallout.                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  23. DARKWORLD
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    I don't even want to write about good and bad parts of this game. When we wait many years for a game in a super popular franchise like Fallout - we expect quality, especially when developer/publisher is a multi-million organisation, not a 5th party kickstarter with $100k budget. And what we get? A half-assed rushed cash in.

    People, don't support such activities or we will have to "eat"    I don't even want to write about good and bad parts of this game. When we wait many years for a game in a super popular franchise like Fallout - we expect quality, especially when developer/publisher is a multi-million organisation, not a 5th party kickstarter with $100k budget. And what we get? A half-assed rushed cash in.

    People, don't support such activities or we will have to "eat" this kind of quality games for many years to come.    … Expand
  24. barbie
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    nothing wrong with the game itself. it is just that compared to other recent open world games (Skyrim, witcher II & III, GTAV, DAI) this one feels ugly and glitchy.

    Witcher III especially set a new standard for video games, and in comparison to that Fallout4 falls flat.
  25. help
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    basically **** meme trash. waste of money. will take it back and use the money to kill myself, consoles have so many glitches, the crafting is cancer, guns are weak and yeah all round 10/10 meme, good work todd meme lord.
  26. KATBERT
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    There is no FALLOUT. Its just Rage 2 or castrated FAR CRY 3/4. Charisma, now total useless. U now... Far Cry 3 had much cool RP. Can u imaged that? FAR CRY 3 is much better Role Playing game then Fallout. GOD!!!!
  27. DasSauce
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4, a phenomenal game, is marked by incompetent developers who focus solely on the console versions just making them playable on it. Whereas us PC users are shafted. The workshop UI is clearly aimed at console users. Extremely unstable FPS lag due to awful optimization. Time and time again random crashes occur. Crashes are so prevalent that I am LITERALLY UNABLE TO PROGRESS IN THEFallout 4, a phenomenal game, is marked by incompetent developers who focus solely on the console versions just making them playable on it. Whereas us PC users are shafted. The workshop UI is clearly aimed at console users. Extremely unstable FPS lag due to awful optimization. Time and time again random crashes occur. Crashes are so prevalent that I am LITERALLY UNABLE TO PROGRESS IN THE MAIN STORYLINE. This is absolutely disgusting and Bethesda I hope the user score of 4.9/10 (hopefully going lower) will open your eyes and let you know we will not accept such a ridiculously buggy game and lackluster performance from a developer we hold to such high esteem. And no, Bethesda, I'm not from 4cha n. Fix your practices or we will stay angry!… Expand
  28. Ostrypwns
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    Only played enough to get some first impressions, and I doubt I will have the resolve necessary to play it anymore. All the way form the very beginning the game is overly pompous/pathetic - combine this with 7-year-old writing and a bunch of logic holes and basically that's Fallout 4 for you.

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

    Want more?

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

    To sum up, In a new age of games like Witcher 3 and Pillars of Eternity Fallout 4 is not only laughable but also the worst of Bethesda's games to date. Fallout 3 fanboys should have plenty of fun though, so I imagine Todd Howards will keep lying to himself and everyone else around him as he always does.    … Expand
  29. arengles
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    If i am to be quite honest, family, i am shaking my damn head right now. Bethesda has released another cash grab in the form of a "game" that will surely satisfy the cucks that are satisfacted by playing the 4th rendition of the exact same game.
  30. Megatanis
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    My previous review disappeared for reasons I ignore, so here we go again!
    Reviewers score: 86
    Users score: 4.8 Another example of professional reviewers living on another planet. Who are these guys? It's 2015, anyone with an internet connection and a brain can write a videogame review. How can 20 guys be so influential, I mean what they write moves a lot of money, this is fishy. And    My previous review disappeared for reasons I ignore, so here we go again!
    Reviewers score: 86
    Users score: 4.8
    Another example of professional reviewers living on another planet. Who are these guys? It's 2015, anyone with an internet connection and a brain can write a videogame review. How can 20 guys be so influential, I mean what they write moves a lot of money, this is fishy. And it's not the first time.
    Having said this, Fallout 4 is at best a mediocre fps. Boring as hell, average to poor graphics, imho poor gameplay. I'm not a huge fan of fps but I can appreciate a good one, and Fallout 4 isn't. I am sure there is much better out there for those who love this genre.
    As an rpg and most of all as a Fallout game, it's horrible. Dialogues are a joke, consequences of your decisions are negligible, world is inconsistent and bland. You'll have power armor and enough stuff to invade China in 30mins. Yep, power armor in half an hour baby, because why the f*** not right? Skills are gone (gone!), replaced by a bland and (you guessed) boring system that transforms everything in a perk, and allows you to increase your main stats with ease. Game has become a casual shooter in a vaguely post atomic world. The story is very low quality and uninspired, voice acting takes away more than adding, npcs are immortal, everything is linear as hell.
    In addition, I had technical issues and had to tinker with the .ini files to fix a crash when going fullscreen.
    Wow it was hard to do worst than Fo3, and I actually liked FNV and had hopes after it.
    I literally couldn't play this game more than an hour. What a pity.    … Expand
  31. Hoodude
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Disappointment of the year. This game is not worth your money, your time, or the hard drive space it takes. I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas too. Fallout 4 makes me sick. This is a sloppy console port of a Fallout 3 expansion pack made on the Skyrim engine. Puke. I will never buy another Bethesda game. This is getting a refund on steam. Let me sum up my thoughts on it for you:

    -Buggy. At    Disappointment of the year. This game is not worth your money, your time, or the hard drive space it takes. I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas too. Fallout 4 makes me sick. This is a sloppy console port of a Fallout 3 expansion pack made on the Skyrim engine. Puke. I will never buy another Bethesda game. This is getting a refund on steam. Let me sum up my thoughts on it for you:

    -Buggy. At first it wouldn't load, then it had graphical errors.
    -Not optimized for PC: requires editing of the .ini files to fix the field of view and turn off mouse acceleration.
    -Sloppy console port: UI is terrible, laggy, obviously designed for use with a controller and no effort has been made to polish it for the PC version.
    -Horrendously dated graphics, yet still extremely taxing! (I have two R9 290x in crossfire and only get 40 fps in 4K)
    -Terrible, awful, disjointed, badly stitched together voice acting. Sentences composed of words hacked from several other recordings makes it sound terrible. Immediately breaks any immersion you might have been getting.
    -Facial animations are awful.
    -Storyline is dry as sand.
    -No instruction or help whatsoever as to how things work in the game. VATS is not introduced, crafting is not introduced, nothing.
    -The looting system is frustrating, requiring to you pick up everything in order to get the one thing you actually want.
    -The dialog system is dumbed down
    -Gunplay is bad. Firefights feel dull and forced.
    -Dog gets in the way and body-blocks you.
    -Blood and gore effects do not look realistic.
    -The gameplay elements we'd come to know in Fallout 3 and New Vegas (SPECIAL and the Perks system) have been stripped away and replaced with a much simpler unexciting system.

    This game is just bad. Just all around bad. These positive professional reviews are completely fake and paid for. Anyone with a set of eyes and 2 brain cells can see what a steaming pile of excrement this is.    … Expand
  32. dvst11
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    I have been a fan of the series for a long time. This entry is a huge disappointment. A sad day for open world RPG lovers. All of the role playing has been removed from the game via the dialog wheel and voiced character. I tried to look over these things and enjoy the game, but there are countless other huge simplifications made and it feels too shallow.
  33. valbilken
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    if i were a 12-17 years old boy who is fan of cod i would love this game.But unfortunately im not.

    This is a open world cod with 4 talking options

    sarcasm yes no and enough

    thanks bethesta thank you
  34. sophiasunshine
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    What did they do to this game? Constant bugs, I have to quicksave every 10 seconds to avoid getting stuck on random wall fixtures. Dialogue is almost non-existant. Quests now consist of go here and kill everything.
  35. Ogog
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Do not guy the hard copy of the game, of 25Gig only 5 are on the Dvd. the rest need to be downloaded, costing you more than the price of the game.

    I have asked Bathesda repeatedly for this information, and they ignored me, no doubt a tad guilty over ripping off the fanbase like this.

    combat piracy!? - I'm never buying from them again.
  36. kosar1k
    Dec 2, 2015
    0
    They call this an RPG, It's not an RPG anymore.it is no longer an RPG with choice and consequence that also had great writing and characters. It is now just an open world theme park with terrible writing, extremely shallow RPG elements that caters to the casual crowd rather than RPG fans.
  37. Findlays
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Completely dissapointing--a clear detoriation of Bethesda's standards. Such as shame that they could fall from games such as Morrowind and Fallout 3, to casual-pandering games such as this--you can clearly see that it was not quality vs quantitiy in mind when creating this, but money-over-quality.
  38. Prey111
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bethesda is known for making boring buggy games.

    The facial animation on the PC/NPCs barely show any facial expressions. The dialog tree in the game is similiar to BioWare's standard by picking few options and see if the playable character is saying something relevant to the player's choice.

    The overall gameplay is repetitive and dull. The story is boring and makes no sense.
  39. Samaban
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    More of the same.Its skyrim with guns!If you love fallout 3 this game is for you.If you like New Vegas better then this game is not for you.No depth,uninterested characters,boring and plain conversation...Is a fairly good FPS and an horrible RPG.Borderlands Mass Effect and Minecraft made a baby and its called Fallout 4.
  40. Swagsnegger
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    The blind fanboys just annoy the sh!t out me.How can someone be satisfied with an end product like this.The hype is making me crazy.And the fans personally attack the person who says anything about the game's fault.The game itself is below par.This is totally nonsense.
  41. fernandohebcker
    Dec 8, 2015
    0
    Sorry but this is not a 2015 game. The main history have to many holes and grand part of the side missions are annoying and repetitive. So many companions for what? All act the same and have no affinity.
  42. Thraktor
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    What a disappointment Fallout 4 is. Bethesda has taken their writing to a whole new terrible level. The settlement building and scrapping of items is fun, but the quests? That dialogue wheel is a terrible design decision and your armor & weapons not breaking? Come on Bethesda this is a post-apocalyptic world where you have to scavenge and maintain items you have in order to survive whatWhat a disappointment Fallout 4 is. Bethesda has taken their writing to a whole new terrible level. The settlement building and scrapping of items is fun, but the quests? That dialogue wheel is a terrible design decision and your armor & weapons not breaking? Come on Bethesda this is a post-apocalyptic world where you have to scavenge and maintain items you have in order to survive what the world throws at you.

    A Hardcore Mode like from F: NV that Obsidian added would of also been nice Bethesda! PLEASE include a Hardcore Mode with the need of sleep and thirst to survive in the Wasteland. Otherwise this is my last game bought from you.    … Expand
  43. ApexCryptLord
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Worst Fallout game, after a few hours of gameplay, i saw a lot of bugs on the map. I couldn't play it anymore because i couldn't end the situation because of the bug. I though it was only by me, but my friends had the same bug. Fallout 1-3 were much better than this. Idk what they did with the time. The game is broken.
  44. EinKRieGeR
    Nov 18, 2015
    0
    Worst game in franchise ever. They ruined dialogue system, special, perks, vats - almost all. This game not worthy to be called Fallout, and now im afraid to buying any other game in future from Bethesda.
  45. Egofidelis
    Nov 30, 2015
    0
    What the fck is that?! o.O This isnt Follout! This is no brain, boring crapy shooter.... If u want to feel what fallout IS hust try fallout New Vegas or 1/2
  46. EduardoMaia
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer!
  47. birdflu
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    II have seen screenshots of this game and by the look of them alone I would never buy it. They make it look dull and boring and I dont like games like this!
  48. SmokingDog
    Dec 2, 2015
    0
    Bug infested mess in a dead world. Overrated mainstream trash. Buy Xenoblade X for a better open world experience. Bethesda has to leave it up to players to fix their mess of a game through mods, which is a disgrace.
  49. fishu
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bethesda, just look on what the other devs are providing and ask yourself if you've done a good job. With Witcher 3 the expectations are high on quests, and there are a lot of games now that surpass this product in terms of graphics. Optimalization? consoles only. Dumbed down interface.
  50. blackbird1
    Nov 16, 2015
    0
    This Zero is only for not having Brightness Gamma options in the Game .The damn game is to bright indoors and also sometimes outdoors.

    Patch this in and i delete thsi ZERO!
  51. Aeroisticon
    Nov 29, 2015
    2
    If any other developer tried this stunt they would be instantly **** crucified

    +VATS is still fun
    +gunplay has improved

    -boring 2-d story
    -uninteresting characters
    -bug central
    -god awful voice acting
    -2010 graphics
    -0 innovation
    -dumbed down dialogue
    -ridiculously stupid perks
    -terrible optimization
    -clunky pc controls
  52. Ambient
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    It's Fallout for kids.

    The writing and voice acting are insultingly bad, and you are no longer the protagonist - you play a badly voice acted, badly written character who can only interact with other badly voice acted, badly written characters by saying "Yes" "No" "Maybe" "Why here?" "Sarcastic." So basically your dialogue wheel choices imitate a low-intelligence character from the    It's Fallout for kids.

    The writing and voice acting are insultingly bad, and you are no longer the protagonist - you play a badly voice acted, badly written character who can only interact with other badly voice acted, badly written characters by saying "Yes" "No" "Maybe" "Why here?" "Sarcastic." So basically your dialogue wheel choices imitate a low-intelligence character from the previous Fallout games.

    As a longtime Fallout fan I can see where some of the complaints are coming. Particularly the inclusion of the dialogue wheel. I dislike the dialogue wheel and the lack of conversations. You could have long, in depth conversations with people in previous games and so far I have not see that as much. Other than that, the game is quite good. The gunplay is vastly improved and feels wonderful, exploring is great, Inon Zur did an amazing job with the ambient music, and it's generally a well-put together world that is a pleasure to be back in. But none of that matters because the voiced protagonist and dialogue wheel make Fallout a bland, boring FPS grindfest and it ruins the role playing. Since Fallout was a role playing game, that is what I thought I was getting into. Voiced protagonists and dialogue wheels have no place in this series, they don't fit, and what's worse - there is really no dialogue choice at all in this game after 23 hours of playtime. No matter what you choose, you go down a preset dialogue path and you cannot have a simple conversation. All dialogue is there with the goal of getting the quest rather than asking about the world, about the person you're talking to.

    There's no real depth. I don't know if the writers are to blame or the executives, but someone made the decision to severely limit dialogue and conversation in a Fallout game and that is a large reason for these negative scores. If this was a mediocre grindfest like Borderlands, the lack of conversation might be excusable. It's not here.

    Good things about the game:
    Bethesda captured the aesthetic of the Fallout universe well. The music is as good as always, and weapons, fighting, and crafting are well done. However, this just further exaggerates the lack of RPG characteristics. Developers seem to be confusing MMORPG grinds with singleplayer RPGs which depend on dialogue.

    Conclusion: I wish there was more RPG in this game. That is, better dialogue choices and instead of a wheel, something like previous versions gave us. I think moving to a dialogue wheel and lack of dialogue trees is a step in the wrong direction, while all other changes are a step in the right direction.

    It's a good game in the other aspects and certainly does not deserve all the ZERO scores but this is a massive shame. I am trying to be optimistic about future expansions from Bethesda and even a New Vegas like game where Obsidian once again gets a shot at their own Fallout game. Please get rid of this childish, limiting dialogue which turns this game into an FPS - a good FPS, but an FPS nonetheless.

    All other aspects of this game were great, so it's a shame that this terrible decision to limit dialogue and have a voice actor (which itself limits the amount of available dialogue) ruins my enjoyment. I'm going to finish this game only because I love Fallout and I waited 7 years since Fallout 3 and 5 since New Vegas, but I am disappointed with the decision to make this an FPS first and an MMORPG grind second rather than an actual singleplayer RPG with cleverly written dialogue choices, branching paths depending on those choices, and the ability to make my own story with my own protagonist instead of having a pre-recorded protagonist forced on me by the game. Too many games are beginning to look alike - FPS games with cheap MMORPG grinding that pretends to have depth and role-playing.    … Expand
  53. Battletoad
    Feb 18, 2019
    3
    Bad game. Mediocre shooter. Absolutely primitive, not interesting RPG. Not an exciting adventure. Silly story. Awful graphics for 2015.
  54. lilkillpappy
    Sep 2, 2017
    0
    I've lost all respect for Bethesda. After the **** story and writing and dumbed down Fallout 4 and all it's **** expansions, and now this creation club bull****. Bethesda is now a pile of ****
  55. Mystic_Quest
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    This game is a huge step backwards as an RPG. I am very saddened to say that It feels more like an open world COD.

    Dialog options are severely limited. Instead of borrowing elements from FNV, they took a completely different direction. There is no room for rp here. There are no consequences in the world, different options usually lead to the same exact result and answer, the npcs are    This game is a huge step backwards as an RPG. I am very saddened to say that It feels more like an open world COD.

    Dialog options are severely limited. Instead of borrowing elements from FNV, they took a completely different direction. There is no room for rp here.
    There are no consequences in the world, different options usually lead to the same exact result and answer, the npcs are soulless and half of them are... immortal.

    Skills are gone for good. Bethesda, instead of improving a system which worked for two decades, they "streamlined" it to a more simple version in order not to "confuse" its more fps-oriented customers.
    Unfortunately not even the most elaborate mods will manage to cure these.

    While they did add a settlement building system (which ultimately is meaningless as well) and improved FPS elements/combat, few things are left here to remind us of the fallout series. A terrible shame.    … Expand
  56. lovemygamesca
    Feb 19, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Seven years?! Seven years for this POS?!

    Engine and Graphics: The only excuse for how this game looks and plays is that Bethesda honestly finished it in 2010 and they've been keeping it on ice until they needed to raise their profit statement after the failure of Elder Scrolls Online. I'm convinced a malevolent AI from the future sent Fallout 4 back in time to destroy the past. I shudder when I think of the assault on my CPU and graphics card every time I launch this unoptimized

    Story: What story? All roads lead to "Pick A Side". No alternatives, no negotiations, no character development, no customization. It's a story on rails. Your character is already defined by Bethesda. It's an 'open world' game that has you by the collar, no leash to be found. You're held hostage until you arrive at the shamefully disappointing universal ending. My mouth was literally agape as I watched the PS1 era conclusion to the main storyline. Okay, let's see if we can change things up...I played through the main quest again. I randomly pushed buttons for responses for all of the choices and every single one leads to the same conclusion. Every choice is YES...sometimes it is a questioning YES...a sarcastic YES...a negative YES...but still ultimately YES. Why even bother to pretend I have a choice with that abysmal decision wheel. Just give me a cutscene and move me to the next area!

    Gameplay: Every mission, but a few here and there, are fetch or rescue missions. The real reason early promotions focused on Dogmeat is to get you acclimated to the fact that you're no better than a dog. I spent most of my game running to save settlements. I would consciously avoid Preston Garvey, because I knew if talked to him I would be sent on yet another monotonous rescue mission. Not that they're difficult. Opponents run straight at you despite the fact you're lighting them up with gunfire.

    Overall: This is is the most disappointing game of this generation. The fact that Bethesda has failed to even address the OVERWHELMING chorus of voices with legitimate complaints about this turd of a game is further proof of their undeserved arrogance. But, when you think about it, why should they answer to their consumers? I'll admit...it's a hell of a business model. You release an unpolished and unfinished game made on an engine you've been using for almost a decade and allow the modders to fix and improve it over the next few years until they make it playable (if not great).

    Unfortunately, since I bought a retail copy of the game I can't get my money back. Congratulations Bethesda on your brilliant gaming ponzi scheme. I demand answers for this POS...and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who wants an explanation. So far all we're hearing is crickets and the thud of your bank deposits.    … Expand
  57. KaosNegative
    Mar 14, 2016
    4
    This Fallout game is Garbage, I loved Fallout New Vegas, but this is an extremely watered down excuse for a Fallout game, not recommended to anyone especially the heart of the fan-base -_- I said it many time before and I will say it again, this wasn't supposed to be mostly fps with rpg elements, it's meant to be the other way around or maybe JUST rpg like the original games which wereThis Fallout game is Garbage, I loved Fallout New Vegas, but this is an extremely watered down excuse for a Fallout game, not recommended to anyone especially the heart of the fan-base -_- I said it many time before and I will say it again, this wasn't supposed to be mostly fps with rpg elements, it's meant to be the other way around or maybe JUST rpg like the original games which were much farther in depth than this game could ever began to dream of. This is just Bethesda trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than listening to their actual fan-base. Oh how I wish Obsidian would return to development :(… Expand
  58. Indigetes
    May 20, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 4 is disappointing at best. In my honest opinion, it feels like they are getting lazier and lazier. There are plenty of problems in the game, leaving the bugs aside because they would need to invest money to fix them and we cant have a company doing that nowadays.
    The story could have being great, and that is a mayor point. They just took a great idea and implemented it in the worst possible way. There are plenty of choices for the player to do which seems to be important for the main plot but, ultimately, do nothing, being there for the sake of button smashing. In short, most of your “choices” don't matter at all.
    There are quest were you are sent to a combat zone, but you can literally walk through them, while naked and unarmed, but no one will pay you any attention.
    Half of the perks are simply useless, and, once you got the power armour (minute 10?), you have won.
    Once you have some levels, and you craft a good weapon of choice, most legendary enemies will go down in 4-5 hits while playing in survival (legendary deathclaw with two headshots? really?)
    Most heavy weapons are useless.
    Armour is useless because: power armour.
    I wish I could give it a -10.
    At least, you can blow the brotherhood's ship up. It's something.    … Expand
  59. lippy77
    May 18, 2016
    0
    - Utterly non immersive. It feels like they came up with some areas and then just slammed them into a bland openworld map
    - Dull story
    - Dire graphics. The game is simply not fit to be called a AAA game in 2015 looking as it does - Shoddy performance - Same bugs as Skyrim. It's nice to know these idiots are learning from past games...oh wait... - 7 years waiting for this junk? What a    - Utterly non immersive. It feels like they came up with some areas and then just slammed them into a bland openworld map
    - Dull story
    - Dire graphics. The game is simply not fit to be called a AAA game in 2015 looking as it does
    - Shoddy performance
    - Same bugs as Skyrim. It's nice to know these idiots are learning from past games...oh wait...
    - 7 years waiting for this junk? What a joke. This game could have easily come out 4 years ago.
    - Far too easy. Within an hour you have power armour and have killed a Deathclaw. Within 3 hours I had killed a legendary deathclaw and got my hands on a Fatboy.
    - Still walled/loading screen separated towns. GTA doesn't need them so why the **** does this shoddy game?

    - No actual choice. Again, this game isn't fit for 2015. Unlike every other rpg out there this game still gives you no choice on how you want to play it. You have to be the good guy and go down the linear storyline. It's horribly dated.

    If this game didn't have Bethesda or Fallout stamped on it, it would have gone straight to bargain bins    … Expand
  60. Wraithman
    Jan 1, 2016
    4
    After 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this gameAfter 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this game is, definitely not Crpg, shooter more. And this scenario...guys...please. You all Killed this franchise without mercy and, ♥♥♥♥♥ all mature players with Super Sledge. Start is fun..after that everything is dying. So many wasted possibilities, so many booring quests, and in mine loong career as a Game Master in few rpg systems you really really need to send that guys to read some good books. Maybe it will help.
    Anyway mine scores for this game:1 to 10
    Quests - total score 4, main story line beginning 7 ending 2.It start good and ...thats all. Lovercraftian quests toons of wasted potential.
    World - 8 Nice locations few really fun to explore. Prydven is beautiful.
    NPC Characters - 4 Some ok,some flat and boring. Nothing to be excited. Please return to bg 1 bg2 to learn how to build deep funny characters. It is all about story and fun.
    Mechanic - 1. Its booring, and stupid in soo many examples...
    Total not to solid -4.
    And i know for Bethesda last years succes is measured in number of copies sold- but Witcher 3 can do both things. Quality and profit.
    Recommended for easy shooters fans, not recommended for fallout, and post-apo fans.    … Expand
  61. Not_Casual
    Feb 26, 2016
    2
    For every step forward in refining their combat, they took two steps backwards on their rpg element's. Questing, character decisions, and conversation are horrifyingly bad for a game that should be an rpg. After the shining improvements made by obsidian in new Vegas, Bethesda turned and went the opposite direction.

    Rather than feeling like a fallout game, i'm left with this bland    For every step forward in refining their combat, they took two steps backwards on their rpg element's. Questing, character decisions, and conversation are horrifyingly bad for a game that should be an rpg. After the shining improvements made by obsidian in new Vegas, Bethesda turned and went the opposite direction.

    Rather than feeling like a fallout game, i'm left with this bland wasteland of dead characters and streamlined, casual garbage. To top off the utter lack of content and rpg elements, the game difficulty is a joke. With max difficulty, I can't remember the last time a creature did damage to me, or didn't die in two hits.

    Mods can't save an utter lack of immersion, unless they go and redo every quest in the game there's no way to save this hunk of streamlined garbage.    … Expand
  62. coustoe
    Jan 17, 2016
    2
    Buggy, just a rehash of previous game, the loading screens are horrendous, nothing original, real quest are replaced by annoying never ending minutemen "a settlement needs your help". It just seems Bethseda did the most half assed thing they could do to milk the franchise for more money.
  63. rich_pl
    Feb 19, 2016
    4
    Incredibly linear gameplay, very few real impactful player choices and after only a short while it becomes utterly repetitive.

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

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

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

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

    The game offers zero challenge even at the highest difficulty.

    There is simply no reason why this game has gone so backwards in so many regards.    … Expand
  64. moobol
    Feb 15, 2016
    1
    A sloppy dated looking mess. Would just about be excusable if this was released for 9.99 by an indie developer but only just.
    Story - Terrible
    Graphics - about 10 years out of date. RPG mechanics - is it still an RPG? Doesn't feel like it Choices / Decision making - which area of the map do i want to run to and kill things now? is about the only choice to make. Bugs - everywhere.    A sloppy dated looking mess. Would just about be excusable if this was released for 9.99 by an indie developer but only just.
    Story - Terrible
    Graphics - about 10 years out of date.
    RPG mechanics - is it still an RPG? Doesn't feel like it
    Choices / Decision making - which area of the map do i want to run to and kill things now? is about the only choice to make.
    Bugs - everywhere. Characters get stuck all over the place. Can't shoot people just because they are hiding behind something even if i am flanking them.
    AI - horrendous. Preston Garvey can't hit a barn door.
    Voice acting - amateurish
    And as for the base building crap, it's really annoying.
    Stopped playing after about 15 hours and I haven't played a computer game since it's that depressing.
    Sticking with Bioware and CD Projekt Red for my AAA RPG fun.
    Never buying Bethesda ever again and I used to be a fan.
    Oh and the quests are moronic... go here get this and kill that.. because some faceless badly acted person who can barely be bothered to make conversation says you should.
    Oh and it's full of totally forgettable unlikeable characters.
    I can't understand why so many people rate this garbage, it's like Bethesda could send you a poop in a can and people would still say it's great.    … Expand
  65. unbornchikken
    Mar 9, 2016
    1
    It's abysmal. First and foremost the loading time is long, you gotta stay still for a minute to get in or out of a f*** building. It's actually because of laziness of programmers, because could be worked around by using a simple DirectX FPS hack tool. Secondly it's not a Fallout game, it's a lame shooter game with some skills. There is no real decisions, no skills affecting conversations,It's abysmal. First and foremost the loading time is long, you gotta stay still for a minute to get in or out of a f*** building. It's actually because of laziness of programmers, because could be worked around by using a simple DirectX FPS hack tool. Secondly it's not a Fallout game, it's a lame shooter game with some skills. There is no real decisions, no skills affecting conversations, no immersion just kills. And there is that extremely annoying settlement building crap, which is there for improving the gaming experience. I mean if you ignore settlements, you get a way much better and enjoyable game.… Expand
  66. Zeriel
    Feb 12, 2016
    4
    As a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to playAs a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to play League of Legends. **** you Bethesda for abandoning your fans :(… Expand
  67. Exeris666
    Dec 30, 2015
    3
    I feel this is high enough for a game that wasn't finished.

    When you keep seeing things like cars with their doors open and not even a tiny piece of garbage inside, it looks like someone just cleaned the inside of the cars. And the tugboats most of them don't even have a interior. Trying to snipe someone can be quite hard when the draw distance at max is so damn low, use the scope    I feel this is high enough for a game that wasn't finished.

    When you keep seeing things like cars with their doors open and not even a tiny piece of garbage inside, it looks like someone just cleaned the inside of the cars.

    And the tugboats most of them don't even have a interior.

    Trying to snipe someone can be quite hard when the draw distance at max is so damn low, use the scope and most of the game disappears in the distance.

    Overuse of sprites to, but i can understand them on this point. Must have been quite the challenge trying to get this to work on those console ****

    It's worth playing but by far the worst Fallout game to date, emotionless, cold and unfinished.

    Feels like the developers disliked the making of Fallout 4, it bleeds through while playing and gets worse the longer you play.    … Expand
  68. babooba3465
    Feb 11, 2016
    1
    Fallout 4 is the worst title in the Fallout series.

    It is so poorly optimized that if feels that the developers just wanted to throw out a sandbox game and wait for third party modders to fix the game to make it better. So it feels that Bethesda, an amazing RPG developer and publisher, now wants to cash grab what they can while putting in minimal effort, and as well as appealing to the    Fallout 4 is the worst title in the Fallout series.

    It is so poorly optimized that if feels that the developers just wanted to throw out a sandbox game and wait for third party modders to fix the game to make it better. So it feels that Bethesda, an amazing RPG developer and publisher, now wants to cash grab what they can while putting in minimal effort, and as well as appealing to the least common denominator modern RPGS. Skyrim was similar but at least I felt that it was more appropriate since it's medieval fantasy, so it was like Witcher (I think the Witcher games are some of the best and even comparing it to this feels insulting to me as well, I just can't think of a better analogy at the moment) on a smaller/casual scale with a huge world, Fallout 4 doesn't do anything like that. It took it a step back.

    There is no immersion in the game. Bethesda wanted to give the players many choices but in doing so it really redistricts the player further.

    They spent too much time of gun customization and settlement building that everything else falls so short or has to revolve around it. I did not buy a Fallout game so I can run around and play Forge from Halo, pick up random wonderglue and desk fans (essentially garbage I would avoid in other games), and having to build a house to keep people out when in the other games you just get one at the start, it is pretty empty but you customize it as you get actual items to put in. I just don't appreciate having this "forced" onto me (by that I mean you won't get very far without taking advantage of it. Enemies just become bigger bullet sponges so you have to upgrade your stuff but to get materials in a reliable manner, you gotta take advantage of this mechanic).

    The graphics look like it is from the PS3/360 era with severe optimization problems. I could be walking down a road and my foot would get stuck in a crack that looking down, you won't even see it.

    The AI are really retarded and you can't kill most of the characters, looking at you Garvey (I think that's his name). By retarded I mean that I can be standing on the top of a hill with a .45 revolver, a raider from the bottom will try to rush me with a stick and doesn't even bother going for cover, just a straight run at me while I put caps in him. Turning the difficulty up doesn't make it any harder really, instead of shooting the raider once or twice, it'll take five or six shots. Essentially a bullet sponge difficulty change.

    The questing system is that of an MMORPG. Go to point A, kill or pick up B, return to A, get reward. I can't think of how many quests I did like those. After doing a few side quests, I just gave up on them all together. I am not trying to play a World of Fallout game.

    The storyline was a complete letdown. They try to start off strong by taking your son away from you and you begin a quest to traverse the wasteland to find him. But after about 45 min of playtime, the character pretty much forgets about the kidnapped child and is far more interested in looking for fans and glue inside torn down houses. Some of the faction quests are alright but some are buggy so you can just farm infinite experience.

    Speaking of leveling, the jack of all trades system that was used in Skyrim was brought back (although it did start in Oblivion but it was still at a minimal back then). There are infinite levels so eventually the character will get all the perks and can do ANYTHING in the game (ex: I can be a super doctor, hacker, lock-picking thief, the hardest hitting melee character while manning chain guns and fire with almost perfect aim, and at the same time have the charisma level of a president). This presents the problem is having very low replay value in it. Like why go back and make a new character when it's going to turn out pretty much exactly the same?

    It was also not cool to introduce power armor that early in the game. In all the others, you have to work and go through the training thing to use it.

    Pretty bad game, I would not recommend it unless you want Call of Fallout: Modern Post-Apocalyptic Warfare.    … Expand
  69. Trooper224
    Feb 18, 2016
    4
    My First Fallout Game Was Fallout 3 back in 2011 in my PS3. Played all the DLCs i loved it too bits. Then in the same year i got New Vegas. At first i hated the game. but i gave New Vegas another go and i fell in love with it and then i bought the Ultimate edition in 2012 and enjoyed the heck out of it.
    Then in 2014 i bought these games again in Steam & downloaded mods but honestly i    My First Fallout Game Was Fallout 3 back in 2011 in my PS3. Played all the DLCs i loved it too bits. Then in the same year i got New Vegas. At first i hated the game. but i gave New Vegas another go and i fell in love with it and then i bought the Ultimate edition in 2012 and enjoyed the heck out of it.
    Then in 2014 i bought these games again in Steam & downloaded mods but honestly i played more Vegas instead and became a Legion Character and played a Survival Hardcore Mod.
    And then Fallout 1 and 2 along with Tactics jumped into Steam. As a Fan of these series i wanted to try these old school games when i played a bit of Fallout 3 in PC with the Classic Old School Weapons Mod.
    And Yes i had a Blast with these games. Played Fallout 1 with the Fixt Mod and Fallout 2 Unmodded but then with the Restoration Patch in the 2nd Playthrough as a Female Character.
    I Love these games and i have yet to complete Fallout Tactics but when Fallout 4 Came out. I was not these people who jump into the Hype train as i watch instead.
    it turns out the Hype is a bad omen to all of us sadly.
    Pros
    1.Okay Graphics
    -Graphics i don't care for them as they don't make the games ( Just look at MGS1 at the PSX Bad Graphics Awesome Game! ) well unless you put your eyes into the walls to see muddy textures instead.
    2.Weapon Customization
    -A Huge Step up from New Vegas Weapon Customization as you can throw in a Huge Magazine to your 10mm Pistol and then Turn it into a Machine Pistol with a amazing DPS!
    Mixed
    1.The Removal of Choices and Karma and Reputation.
    -I Was upset at seeing this and complained at the Steam forums but no avail the people there are very unhelpful as they say it was flawed. yes dammit but they can atleast fix this but removing these takes away the roleplay and choice as i can't play a Evil Character only an Jerk Marty Stu/Mary Sue.
    as last seen FNV with karma and reputation.
    2.No Ammo Swapping
    -No Armor Piercing. No Hollow Point. No EMP Shotgun Rounds WTH Bethesda!? Oh But you can turn your 10mm Pistol into a Incendiary Firing Pistol with A Weapon Mod. NO!
    In Bioshock 1 i can switch to 3 types of ammo for my guns. Normal, Armor Piercing for Big Daddies, Anti-Personel for the Splicers.
    New Vegas i can do these as well to add strategic elements like should i use Normal Bullets or AP on Deathclaws? Why take this away man? now i can't have a Anti-Material Rifle loaded with incendiary or Explosives rounds now. Only some Unique Weapon can do this as i read the Wiki but none for the Combat Shotty :(
    Hopefully the DLC and the Modding Community will throw these back.
    3.The Story
    -By the Gods it is bad... but its just in the middle of the road. Look i watched a Youtube Lets play and see that... yay family! oh no family got shot by bad guy... and they took the macguffin. its time for revenge! Hell yeah go America! *facepalm*
    The Fallout series was a deconstruction of war and the use of nuclear weapons and America saves the day in the Fallout universe set in a Alternative Time line. War... War never changes. Fallout was never about America's history it was about Fallout's History. the Minutemen which i wish where optional but nope they force you to join them! BOS Isn't even better either too.
    There are Plot holes here and there. Why the Hell the Enclave Power armor Mk1 has Mk3 and Mk5??
    Deathclaw Chameleons? Wern't they unable to do that? ( could had saved for a special area )
    Don't get me started with the Plot twist and the endings because i hate it.
    Get out of Emil Pagliarulo Stalker... I Wished they had Obsidian do the story because FNV's Story was Very Good and i mean it.
    Bad
    1.Voiced protagonist
    -I Don't care about people complaining about Silent protagonists but this one is the Worst thing shoehorned into this game!
    Whats the point? Bethesda only wasted money for this!? now you got limited choices because of this! no more roleplaying and no option to mute the character. I don't care just get a Silent Player Mod instead.
    2.Non-killable Characters -In FNV you where almost able to kill everyone. no one is immortal except the kids and the vendertron. Killing everyone including Doc Mitchel. Marcus. Caesar & Mr.House. only leads to Yes man who Respawns and gives you the Wild card path. Heck FO1 & FO2 Even did this! FO4? Can't i kill the minutemen leader instead? Nope Plot Armor! Kill Dogmeat like a cruel monster? NOPE! Even when you kick him out of your party! FNV Yes Companions were essential. but not when they are out of your party or in Hardcore mode where they can die horribly... ED-E NOOOOOOOO!!
    3.Limited Dialogue -Yes No. Barter. Sarcasm. Nuff Said. Only 4 Options. *sigh* Thank God i didn't buy this game. to expensive man. i read it. watched it and spoiled it. i still got other bads in this game but i don't care anymore. the more i talk the more i hate this game. I rather play STALKER, Metro 2033, Mad Max, Borderlands, Wasteland and Fallout 1,2,3 & NV instead. Just get Obsidian to work on Fallout Bethesda please.    … Expand
  70. regolit
    Feb 20, 2016
    2
    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?
    Raiders behind every corner in amounts that make Fallout 3 envy? I can push "E" and my character will instantly build autocanon from **** sticks and toaster? Sniper rifle what can freeze enemy? Kneepad what give you additional damage for ghouls? Refugees who ask you to build a beds for them? I need to pick every Teddy bear and pan in the world now? It is Fallout now?
    No atmosphere of survival and adventure at all. Super interesting (no) dialogues. Zero logic in world design. Awesome "volume light" effect that will make your video card cry.
    I expected it to be at least little better than F3:New-Vegas, but it is worse than even Fallout 3. No amount of mods can repair it. Considering game need at least 2 much bigger map.    … Expand
  71. Pagani202
    Apr 3, 2016
    4
    Just go watch the Fallout 4 Teaser Trailer. There's something about those images and that music that makes you nostalgic and excited isn't there? That excitement is based off of your previous Fallout experiences. Well, it should be. Unfortunately that isn't what you get with Fallout 4. No longer can you be who you want to be. Whether it's a good-hearted individual who just wants to makeJust go watch the Fallout 4 Teaser Trailer. There's something about those images and that music that makes you nostalgic and excited isn't there? That excitement is based off of your previous Fallout experiences. Well, it should be. Unfortunately that isn't what you get with Fallout 4. No longer can you be who you want to be. Whether it's a good-hearted individual who just wants to make the wasteland a better place, or an **** who finds joy in killing. The beauty of Fallout 4's successors was that you could make these choices and the consequences would be reflected into the wasteland. Even in the ambitious Fallout 3, which brought Fallout to the 1st person world. The story in Fallout 3 is a good or bad ending, nothing else. It never bothered me, but I still prefer New Vegas' endings I mean the possibilities were endless. Fallout 4 fails in that aim with having copy paste endings (I mean 3 out of 4 are the same), a voiced character which prohibits you to became in full who you wish to be, and a story in which your choices are extremely limited. There is no evil ending, no good ending, only faction endings. This game could have been SO much more, but Bethesda decided to attract new customers with jetpacks, settlements that you can build, and flashy images which give very little to the story. Bethesda screwed up, and threw out the rpg elements which made this series great. It is astonishing that a company who has games like Skyrim and Fallout 3, which are masterpieces (Fallout 3 just has low resolution textures), can throw that out the window in the name of money.… Expand
  72. Arkess
    Mar 26, 2016
    2
    РПГ-элементов в игре меньше, чем в Far Cry 4. Открытый мир, окружение, графоний, да даже сюжет, которым ФК4 вообще не блистала - по каждому пункту Фаллаут 4 сливает... шутеру. Игру можно воспринимать исключительно как плевок в лицо фанатам, тем же, кто еще не познакомился с данным эм... продуктом, советую пройти мимо - 2015 год выдался урожайным на хорошие РПГ, Фаллауту 4 не место средиРПГ-элементов в игре меньше, чем в Far Cry 4. Открытый мир, окружение, графоний, да даже сюжет, которым ФК4 вообще не блистала - по каждому пункту Фаллаут 4 сливает... шутеру. Игру можно воспринимать исключительно как плевок в лицо фанатам, тем же, кто еще не познакомился с данным эм... продуктом, советую пройти мимо - 2015 год выдался урожайным на хорошие РПГ, Фаллауту 4 не место среди них.… Expand
  73. chefino
    May 19, 2016
    1
    As a true fan of F1, F2, (not so much of Fallout: Tactics), F3 and New Vegas (although I didn't finish NV) I also took the hype-train and got F4 for my PC. Luckily a month or two after release and via a discounted coupon. Lucky me, would bash my head against the wall otherwise.

    As many have said, shallow story, no RPG elements, uninteresting characters, no real dialogue options, crappy    As a true fan of F1, F2, (not so much of Fallout: Tactics), F3 and New Vegas (although I didn't finish NV) I also took the hype-train and got F4 for my PC. Luckily a month or two after release and via a discounted coupon. Lucky me, would bash my head against the wall otherwise.

    As many have said, shallow story, no RPG elements, uninteresting characters, no real dialogue options, crappy crafting and useless base building. The performance is sub par and every time I had to stare at the freaking loading screen, just to exit a 1 room house, then forgot something inside, only to stare at that sh*t again for several seconds... made me loose all that was left of the appetite to play more. If GTA can do it, why can't they and still recycle this 10 year old engine (yeah Oblivion, I remember you).

    Stay away. You have been warned.    … Expand
  74. dejawolf
    Feb 11, 2016
    4
    to be fair, i enjoy the gameplay. what mars my experience, and the reason i give it such a low score, is because of the technical problems i've experienced, THAT STILL HAVEN'T BEEN FIXED 2 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE.
    problem number 1 is the resolution is locked to about half my actual screen resolution, unless you start editing INI files. this is just pure laziness. so everything is just crazy    to be fair, i enjoy the gameplay. what mars my experience, and the reason i give it such a low score, is because of the technical problems i've experienced, THAT STILL HAVEN'T BEEN FIXED 2 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE.
    problem number 1 is the resolution is locked to about half my actual screen resolution, unless you start editing INI files. this is just pure laziness. so everything is just crazy blurry.
    problem number 2 is UI bugs. i had to spend 2 hours trying to search for a MOD that fixed the disappearing lockpick. FFS, it still pisses me off thinking about that. it is SHAMEFUL for a AAA publisher to release a game with problems like these. it feels like i'm playing a game from 2005.    … Expand
  75. Brackzillar
    May 13, 2016
    2
    If you thought Bethesda learned anything from Obsidian and user feed back on Fallout 3 you will be disappointed.

    Almost all RPG elements have been removed it mine as well be a Farcry expansion with 4 options to talk to people. Only reason I'm giving it a 3 is because settlements and they still managed to screw that up
  76. LonelyPenguin
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Worst bethesda game. I was fanboy of bethesda, and I still cant believe how far have they fallen...

    thi is not an rpg anymore, its just a casual shooter, with no depth. There are a lot of location, but they are all filled with same mobs and uninteresting loot. The thing that they seize all development on this game after 8 months shows that they know they **** up big. u dun goofed,    Worst bethesda game. I was fanboy of bethesda, and I still cant believe how far have they fallen...

    thi is not an rpg anymore, its just a casual shooter, with no depth. There are a lot of location, but they are all filled with same mobs and uninteresting loot.

    The thing that they seize all development on this game after 8 months shows that they know they **** up big.

    u dun goofed, bethesda.    … Expand
  77. coke01
    Nov 25, 2016
    1
    This is not a fallout game, and quite a disgrace on Bethesda to try to pass it off as one. RPG elements are mostly gone, or dumbed down to a ridiculous point. Replay value is gone. Karma is gone. Memorable quests and choices within those quests are gone. Its seriously unbelievable that I had to force my way through my one 80 hour play through. (Just to get my money's worth) ThisThis is not a fallout game, and quite a disgrace on Bethesda to try to pass it off as one. RPG elements are mostly gone, or dumbed down to a ridiculous point. Replay value is gone. Karma is gone. Memorable quests and choices within those quests are gone. Its seriously unbelievable that I had to force my way through my one 80 hour play through. (Just to get my money's worth) This considering I've put countless hours in fallout 1 and 2, a ton of hours in 3, and at least 6 playthroughs of NV. I cant remember a single quest, or memorable moment in 4, and the crafting was a complete waste of time, and boring to the point I would just do what they made me do.

    Im really trying not to be too harsh here, as I've loved Bethesda's work up until this point. This, however, was a total embarrassment. I realize they have to appeal to a wider audience, and trying to maximize sales with a more FPS feel is probably a smart move to that end. Fine. Do an FPS on its own, and leave fallout alone. Keep its core, or dont do it at all, and sell it to obsidian. Seriously, those of us who have been here since the old school games feel totally cheated. I should have asked for my money back. Complete garbage.    … Expand
  78. youbetterwork
    Dec 30, 2015
    4
    Small and disappointing. I'm a big TES fan and have never played a Fallout title. Diamond City in FO4 has about half the quests of Solitude in Skyrim and half the named NPCs. All factions in this game have the same quest. I would have been unhappy if in Skyrim, all the guilds had the same end story. They were similar, sure, but at least featured different people in different places.Small and disappointing. I'm a big TES fan and have never played a Fallout title. Diamond City in FO4 has about half the quests of Solitude in Skyrim and half the named NPCs. All factions in this game have the same quest. I would have been unhappy if in Skyrim, all the guilds had the same end story. They were similar, sure, but at least featured different people in different places.

    Very low replay value compared to current TES titles. I've played thousands of hours of TES but at only a couple hundred hours of FO4, I feel "finished."    … Expand
  79. Aven2334
    May 27, 2016
    3
    FFs Bethesda... Just give the Fallout ip to Obsidian. It seems this game was just a big cash grab from the start. Sure, you guys put work in your game, so that you claim, but it wasn't hard work. This game is one of the most lazy AAA titles I've ever played. I could list so much **** about how much you **** your fans over with this, but it looks like that has been said and done thousandsFFs Bethesda... Just give the Fallout ip to Obsidian. It seems this game was just a big cash grab from the start. Sure, you guys put work in your game, so that you claim, but it wasn't hard work. This game is one of the most lazy AAA titles I've ever played. I could list so much **** about how much you **** your fans over with this, but it looks like that has been said and done thousands of times over. I'll just mention a few thing that just annoy the **** out of me with this. The 'cinematic camera' during dialogue why the **** is this a thing? Do we need it? No, it's just annoying, Fallout isn't a movie. Weapons aren't kept on your character, and they pop into existence when you un-holster them. Combat rifle is the same model as the combat shotgun, but with minor tweaks. Power armor isn't unique. Loading screens are bad and show things to you that you haven't even seen yet in game (Que the loading screen with a big fat suit of X-01 power armor that you've yet to see in the actual game yet cus you haven't fount it yet.). Power armor isn't just the only un-unique thing in the game, I might as well say every thing in the game isn't unique, just renamed **** that looks the same as everything else (cryo sledge hammer? wtf is it magic or some **** why does it do frost damage?). The only companions I thought were worth the time were Cait and Nick, everyone else was just ****ty (boring), too stupid, or annoying as **** Dogmeat was even annoying! He doesn't even ****ing talk because he's a dog, and somehow, still annoying. "Hey what's that I hear? A good ending? Oh, you mean it was cut out? Why? You dunno? Ok." I will say this, Automaton and Far Harbor are worth it, cus they were pretty cool. Wasteland workshop could've been a free update or maybe even cheaper than it is. Oh **** I forgot to mention the assault rifle! No not that "assault rifle" I mean the Chinese one that was an actual assault rifle and is the reason why the assault rifle in the game has a quick select icon that looks like an Ak-47, because they couldn't spend just a little bit more time to finish it so the went through the trouble of renaming the, what was supposed to be, LMG to "assault rifle"(again, lazy).… Expand
  80. Brooderz
    Sep 3, 2016
    0
    Absolute ****. Okay ive never loved these games as much as others but at least they had something this was just a boring action game passing off as something better but its no better than a CoD game. Story absolute rubbish and i wonder if the critics were paid to write good reviews for this one.
  81. LoudBridge5284
    Jan 11, 2017
    0
    This game is an example of terrible design, storytelling and convenient, shallow plot.

    Nothing you do in this game means anything - no faction you join (out of the limited 4 that even exist) ever does anything or makes any amount of sense. Choice is completely obliterated, destroyed for the purposes of brainless gunplay. There are no interesting characters here - all facades are    This game is an example of terrible design, storytelling and convenient, shallow plot.

    Nothing you do in this game means anything - no faction you join (out of the limited 4 that even exist) ever does anything or makes any amount of sense. Choice is completely obliterated, destroyed for the purposes of brainless gunplay.

    There are no interesting characters here - all facades are easily and instantly seen through, as is the plot, which is about as cliche as literally any D- grade movie ever made.

    The graphics are quite terrible as well, limited by the ageing engine.

    Once again, there is no choice - you get to be the good guy, and only the good guy. While some may argue you can roleplay as either, this is false as there is no roleplay in the game from the start.

    The brainless fetch/kill quests are also a disgrace and an embarrassment to whoever had the inclination to decide upon this approach.

    This should never have been released. It is an insult to the artistic medium of interactive media.    … Expand
  82. vegatz
    Oct 5, 2016
    0
    Well,what a huge disappointment. I have really enjoyed F3 and FNV, hence my hopes and expectations for this game were massive. I would have never expected that this franchise would be simply ruined.

    I have played for 10 hours and uninstalled the game. There is absolutely nothing that could keep me playing. RPG elements: difficult choices, immersive story line, colorful characters,    Well,what a huge disappointment. I have really enjoyed F3 and FNV, hence my hopes and expectations for this game were massive. I would have never expected that this franchise would be simply ruined.

    I have played for 10 hours and uninstalled the game. There is absolutely nothing that could keep me playing.

    RPG elements: difficult choices, immersive story line, colorful characters, leveling... it's just not there. There is no depth whatsoever, no purpose. Voice acting seems silly, especially MC's. Side quests are very repetitive, enemies all the same after awhile. This is just an awful game.

    Settlement had promise but is just broken. No way, or very hard to say which settler is doing what etc. Very unpolished. I simply cannot believe that they released it like this! Never, ever will I buy an RPG from Bethesda again. Such a shame :(    … Expand
  83. CerberusGate
    Dec 1, 2015
    4
    After playing Fallout 4 for 50+ hours, I developed my own opinion about Fallout 4. It's not that great of a game nor is it that bad either. It falls in the middle and here's some of the reasons I've come up with while playing.

    Pro: + Improved gun-play (but points docked for bullet sponge enemies) + Gun customization was a good step in New Vegas and Fallout 4 implements it properly.    After playing Fallout 4 for 50+ hours, I developed my own opinion about Fallout 4. It's not that great of a game nor is it that bad either. It falls in the middle and here's some of the reasons I've come up with while playing.

    Pro:
    + Improved gun-play (but points docked for bullet sponge enemies)
    + Gun customization was a good step in New Vegas and Fallout 4 implements it properly. Being able to alter a lousy sniper rifle to a spear of death is rather gratifying.
    + Fun settlement mechanics (some points docked for it feeling like a last minute addition rather than being substantial)
    + Improved Power Armour usage

    Flaws
    - Dialogue system. It is awful here as the decision to give voice acting to the player character winds up limiting dialogue options down to 4 that are usually lead to the same outcome. There are too few dialogue options that radically alter the sequences of events after. Also, whoever thought that brief descriptions of dialogue options was a good idea should be shot or given a broken nose because words like sarcastic or mere one liners do not convey enough about the intent or tone of the dialogue option. I will pick a sarcastic response sometimes only to have it progress the dialogue and making me sound like a complete **** without lasting effect on the other NPCs. It does not help that the only relevant stat to have for dialogue is charisma now unlike previous games that had skill checks to deliver differing results. This is Fallout 4's biggest misstep for me as a good part of the Fallout series involves dialogue with other NPCs with the potential of changing the outcome (this is the series known for being able to talk down the final bosses).
    - No real role-playing potential as a result of the dialogue system. The problem with the dialogue system and the lack of consequences is that the protagonist only comes across as a yes man with varying degrees of acceptance towards his position in life.
    - Main story being lackluster is typical of Bethesda games and Fallout 4 is one of these games. The initial premise and motivator for the story starts out engaging but loses focus when the open world comes it. Since your character has some form of personality due to unprompted dialogue, it is rather jarring to see him forget his main goal to start a farm. The end game is a complete mess of quests for dull and underdeveloped factions (save for one pre-existing group) since it is possible to end-up as friends of 4 factions that oppose each other somehow (rather than New Vegas's well-implemented faction system)
    - Lousy companion AI and far too few companion quests. The number of times Preston and Dogmeat have ruined my stealth runs by moving too close to enemies, blocking my shots or triggered traps will take a calculator to fully quantify. It does not help that only a few of these companions will have quests to begin with which keeps people invested in keeping them around.
    - The removal of skill trees for redundant perks. This is most prominent in the perk for unlocking advanced locks or hacking advanced terminals. The perk simply exists to substitute these removed skills. They do allow for more specialized characters though so it's not all bad. Just disappointing due to the redundant additions.
    - Overly rapid progression (especially with loot) in the game. After the first 1-3 hours, you will start off with Power Armour and a minigun. You then kill a late game deathclaw with your equipment. 3-7 hours later after exploring, you will find a Fat Man/Missile Launcher with more than enough legendary gear to keep you in the game for a long time. I think Bethesda forgot about gradual progression here.
    - Poor graphics for a 2015 triple-A release. When certain textures resemble textures from Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3, something has gone wrong somewhere. Also, lip sync is both terrible and horrifying (Piper's gaping abyss haunts my nightmares). Nice weather effects though.
    - Bugs that pop up too often should stop being a typical thing in a Bethesda game. We should stop giving Bethesda a free pass so often especially when their official fixes take a long time to be implemented and more reliance is placed on independent modders instead. If they could not play-test enough to catch these bugs, at least respond to these issues as quickly as companies like CD Projekt Red who gave pretty quick responses to bugs in Witcher 3. My own list of bugs includes slow switching of weapons with hotkeys, invisible guns when switching at times, crazy ragdoll physics with corpses (corpses should not be capable of doing a horizontal Cossack dance), disappearing textures, companions being incapable of going back to their original home bases, and an occasional hard crash to desktop.
    - Dull sidquests with few locations.

    While the game is fun and will probably fill up your time, it does not really pay off like a Fallout game should. Bethesda really dropped the ball here when making a Fallout game but at least made an okay gam    … Expand
  84. rodq
    Oct 16, 2016
    4
    They should call it Fall of Duty or Casuallout. Unbeliveable almost 10 years after Fallout 3, a game that feels like a literal backstep - including removing many key features. I won't even start to compare to Fallout NV, which was completely ignored in the design of this sequel. The graphics sucks, the world feels generic, I can't understand why they chose Boston, nothing against the cityThey should call it Fall of Duty or Casuallout. Unbeliveable almost 10 years after Fallout 3, a game that feels like a literal backstep - including removing many key features. I won't even start to compare to Fallout NV, which was completely ignored in the design of this sequel. The graphics sucks, the world feels generic, I can't understand why they chose Boston, nothing against the city but it's not as charismatic as DC or Vegas (why not NYC?), and the combat is an absolute piece of garbage, priorizing action over RPG, but even the action feels outdated, so you can say it's a causal action shooter made with a classic RPG franchise, but even at being a casual action shooter it fails. It actually reminds me a lot of the mediocre id's RAGE.

    Anyway, the worst part will always be the horrible loading times on PC, even on a i5 with SSD. And if the game only looked impressed, I would understand the loadings, but waiting minutes to see a ugly world render is the pinnacle of frustration    … Expand
  85. Zdzislaw32
    Sep 11, 2016
    4
    Dull, boring and after all sad experience with this game. This is not how a RPG should look like ffs. Paper cut NPCs, no real survival options even after update and the main story DEAR LORD why, oh why. Im a person, who finished F3 and F3 New Vegas at least 5 times and all i can say about F4 - disappointment. Huge, huge disappointment. I would rather went for F3 & F3: NW with mods onceDull, boring and after all sad experience with this game. This is not how a RPG should look like ffs. Paper cut NPCs, no real survival options even after update and the main story DEAR LORD why, oh why. Im a person, who finished F3 and F3 New Vegas at least 5 times and all i can say about F4 - disappointment. Huge, huge disappointment. I would rather went for F3 & F3: NW with mods once again than for this THING for the second playthrough. Don't waste your time and money for F4.… Expand
  86. Myon-Neutrino
    Jun 15, 2016
    4
    Bethesda can´t do anything special anymore. I´ve played Fallout 3 and NV before and I loved it. But Fallout 4 still offers the same old ugly graphics as its predecessors and delivers an unfinished release-version where the modders have to fix basic problems and basically do bethesda´s job once again. The new action-oriented gameplay style sucks (VATS FTW), the dialoge-options have gotten aBethesda can´t do anything special anymore. I´ve played Fallout 3 and NV before and I loved it. But Fallout 4 still offers the same old ugly graphics as its predecessors and delivers an unfinished release-version where the modders have to fix basic problems and basically do bethesda´s job once again. The new action-oriented gameplay style sucks (VATS FTW), the dialoge-options have gotten a huge downgrade which results in the fact that this game isn´t a RPG anymore in my opinion. And what the hell were they thinking with the PC-controls - it´s the most embarrassing controls for a PC game i´ve ever seen, especially when it comes to build houses and stuff. The whole construcional funcionality may be a good idea, but it´s not intuitive at all. In 2016 there should´nt be any problems developing a simple system to lay electrical conduits and stuff. Instead we got crap at it´s finest. The story is shallow, boring and monotonous. I honestly don´t understand the hype and the "official" high ratings of this bad game.… Expand
  87. ElectricDevil
    Jan 1, 2017
    4
    In some ways, Fallout 4 is superior to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but in many ways, it is an inferior product to both. It takes one step forward, and two steps back by invoking "me too" syndrome so much that it becomes boring.

    Visuals and sound are slightly improved from Fallout 3/New Vegas. The game looks to be on the quality level of Skyrim, but that's about par for the course.    In some ways, Fallout 4 is superior to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but in many ways, it is an inferior product to both. It takes one step forward, and two steps back by invoking "me too" syndrome so much that it becomes boring.

    Visuals and sound are slightly improved from Fallout 3/New Vegas. The game looks to be on the quality level of Skyrim, but that's about par for the course. Skyrim was never the most gorgeous game, but is workable for what it is.

    Sound is a bit improved, especially in the area of voice acting. Bethesda went out of its way to hire more voice actors and more lines for these characters to say in the background, but it's not really there for story purposes, it's all for ambiance.

    Music is a down here. The original soundtrack is passable, but not memorable. What is truly awful is the radio. The majority of the soundtrack from Fallout 3 is re-used, added mostly to by royalty free song tracks that were included in fan-made addons for 3/New Vegas. This is a let-down as you either get 30s/40s/50s era song tracks mixed with heavy-handed atomic-themed songs from that era as well, and nothing that would add to the ambiance of a nuclear Boston.

    Mechanics-wise, in an effort to garner interest and familiarity to a broader gaming audience, Fallout 4 has attempted to improve and simplify it's interface by taking elements from other games and applying it here. The result is a mixed bag that relies on systems that are not conducive to a good roleplaying game. It wants to be New Vegas, Mass Effect, Destiny, and others, but doesn't quite stick the landing or hold to a coherent, meaningful narrative.

    The gunplay is much more polished than previous games, taking a lot of inspiration from Bungie's Destiny game to improve the combat. The result is a much more polished than previous Fallout games.

    However, it is combined with a crafting system that is not nearly as useful as it wants to be. The modular approach to the crafting system is quite underwhelming. While each weapon type is given enough work that they are different, each individual weapon does not really feel more than cosmetically different than another.

    Armor is similar to weapons. It's mostly modular parts you strap to yourself, and allows for a bit more personal customization, but it's ultimately mostly cosmetic.

    Power Armor is a new system and adds a new experience, but ultimately falls on its face. It does feel much more like a vehicle, but at the same time, it's given so early and so easily, it never feels like an accomplishment to use.

    The biggest change, and the most polarizing mechanic, is the settlement building system. Clearly inspired by building games like Minecraft, it does add a system for building your own bases and settlements by collecting resources and using those to make houses and defenses for people to live in your settlements. Much of the DLC for Fallout 4 is based around this system.

    Unfortunately, this mechanic was said to be not required to play Fallout 4, but it is absolutely required to be used in order to progress through the central storyline.

    Companions in Fallout 4 are nothing to write home about. They are better than Fallout 3's companions, but not as nuanced as New Vegas. They are not tied to factions, but rather the player's actions. It is possible to completely ignore your companion's reactions and still achieve the best reputation with them.

    The dialogue wheel comes straight from other, more tightly written games such as Mass Effect or TellTale's Walking Dead. It is also combined with a voiced protagonist. This is not an improvement, as the "do anything you want" approach of previous games is tossed out the window for poorly written dialogue where players do not really know what they are going to say. This new dialogue system works much better in a structured story like the above examples of Mass Effect or Walking Dead, but doesn't quite very well in Fallout 4.

    The dialogue system is further hampered by the story, which is one of the worst parts of Fallout 4. A lot of 4's story is reused from 3. The central plot involves running across the wasteland to find a missing family member, and it requires dealing with three different organizations in order to find a solution to the overall Wasteland problem. Each of the three main factions are unique and at odds with each other in one way or another, but unfortunately, they are not very deeply written or convincing.

    What really hurts Fallout 4 is that there are so many radiant quests, and so few storytelling quests, that you never get to know these groups. There are very few character-building quests tied to these groups that you never get to know what the stakes are for each faction. As such, the repetitive radiant quests are boring filler, and really just takes up time. It doesn't help your understanding of the factions, nor is it interesting enough to be rewarding.    … Expand
  88. cohich
    Feb 6, 2017
    1
    Epic fail of bethesda. Why do you change the scripter team ?! This is not fallout. NO KARMA, no real story, no real faction, no real interest in quest, no...thing. I will not buy the next bethesda game before metacritic user return.

    Fallout is dead
  89. NMLevesque
    Feb 11, 2017
    3
    This game barely if at all qualifies as an rpg. It has a one size fits all build. Where perks don't really change the game so much as they are required to be able to do or use anything properly. You basically have to become invincible, and until then spam healing items because every enemy is a bum rushing horde or pop out of the ground goblin. The 'cover system' doesn't really workThis game barely if at all qualifies as an rpg. It has a one size fits all build. Where perks don't really change the game so much as they are required to be able to do or use anything properly. You basically have to become invincible, and until then spam healing items because every enemy is a bum rushing horde or pop out of the ground goblin. The 'cover system' doesn't really work even with mods so basically all they did was add the sprint feature that modders made for New Vegas, and made free aiming relatively workable. You still can't direct your squad, who also fail at stealth. You're locked into being a particular character that you can't really put yourself into, or decide who they are beyond being nice, sarcastic, or just an jerk. The dialogue is so simplistic that it offers no real choice, nor do any of the quests beyond which hollow, incoherent, and ultimately uninteresting faction you'll side with for the main quest. They literally give you the same quests but only change out which faction you're representing during, over and over again, while giving you side quests that are almost indistinguishable from the endless stream of procedurally generated "radiant quests". Overall the writing quality is so low one would almost think they decided to rip off Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, aka the worst one in the franchise, this time around instead of the first two games like they did with Fallout 3. Which may be why you get a brief one size fits all ending, for the main quest and ending slideshow. All in all the game is painfully short, unless you want to play the crappiest version of minecraft ever. It has the world's worst user interface, and practically zero integration into the rest of the game. It doesn't even have a point. Either you ignore it, or it becomes a chore because your settlers are useless. It also requires you treat the game like an MMO. Which you already kind of have to, what with the grinding and endless farming required to even get halfway to max level and acquire the best gear. Thus exacerbating the hoarding requirements of the last two games, and utterly destroying any notion of prudently managing an inventory of scarce items. Thankfully they saw fit to replace the dozens of fun weapons and armor combos with tiered versions of the five things worth using. Oh yes, the touted crafting system basically just involves making slightly better versions of a scope, a barrel, a grip, and every other component instead of being able to optimize it for your playstyle. Being that only one combination is actually worth using. Especially when you consider the stupid legendary system which means you have to rely entirely on luck to get what you need. Have fun getting 80 different legendary versions of the crappiest weapons in the game. Their effects kind of break immersion, which is also a critical flaw of the game. There are too many continuity errors and nonsensical things to ever properly immerse yourself (you can just straight up craft turrets and generators instantaneously), even before you get to the boring plot and one dimensional characters. The setting is so bland and repetitive that even the standout locations are mostly too boring to explore, and when you bother you find yourself disappointed. The radio is even more repetitive than before because they recycled a bunch of songs, and largely lacks the interesting commentary on your quests that we saw in the previous two games. The ecosystem still makes no sense, and just gradually becomes overrun with the strongest enemy types because apparently every Bethesda Fallout game takes place during a mass extinction event. They scrapped the repair system, and made the one thing that was supposed to be insanely durable require constant maintenance. Overall it doesn't inspire me whatsoever. It contains no dreamfuel, like the previous games where you'd wonder about the possibilities, the lore and history of the Fallout world. Partly because what they present to you is barely half finished, and the rest of it lacks any depth. It's decent if you only play it once, never complete it, and constantly adjust the difficulty settings/mod it to death because it has no sense of scaling. It doesn't really qualify as a Fallout game.… Expand
  90. macncheesus
    Feb 24, 2017
    2
    got so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to givegot so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to give it justice

    to sum up the flaws:
    - story is insulting to intelligence,
    - dialogues are horrible, bad kid's cartoon level
    - rpg elements killed, basically just first person shooter with horrible shooting at that
    - laziness when it comes to designing environments
    - engine is horrible, bugs, loading screens, graphics from past decade
    - immersion breaking lack of logic
    - and many more

    just forget it, waste of money    … Expand
  91. Riwean
    Sep 4, 2017
    0
    Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again.
  92. Cymrix
    Jul 18, 2016
    4
    Judging solely on this game alone, and not the ones that came before, it's just not a good game. For $25 AND heavily modded, it is playable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Overall, I think it's a ****ty port of a condole game, and was never intended to do more than ride the coat tails of our fond memories with Fallout 3. Which, this game is more of a Fallout 3.5. There are a ton of mods that reduce or fix all most of these shortcomings, but you have to search them out and find the right combo of mods to get what you really want. I've spent more time finding the right mods than playingvthe game so far...    … Expand
  93. MR67
    Jul 15, 2016
    4
    I've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro doesI've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro does nothing to build up your interest in the game at all. I've only spent a few hours playing the game but just cannot get into it while I wander around aimlessly just looking for things to shoot as I have absolutely zero motivation to care about anything in the game. Add to that the somewhat dated graphics, environments that seem to seem to belong in an LSD addict's colouring book, terrible facial animations, boring settlement building, retarded dialogue system and dumbed down RPG elements, and I really wonder how the so-called critics could rate this game so highly. Maybe I'll be able to force myself to sit down with this game for a bit longer sometime and revise my rating, but I doubt that. It really seems like this was a side project for Bethe$da just to keep the Fallout franchise going and cash in on the hype with minimal development effort while they focused on other projects like Elder Scrolls Online.

    Rather spend your money on Fallout New Vegas if you haven't already played it and spruce it up to your personal taste with a few choice free mods from the Fallout Nexus or someplace similar. It really is something of a travesty when a company like Bethe$da is raking in the money with these so-called "AAA" titles while the likes of Obsidian who seem to have a much better idea of what constitutes a great CRPG game have to use Kickstarter to fund their projects.    … Expand
  94. Setsuki
    May 19, 2016
    3
    The 3 first things I did when launching the game was :
    1 - enable subtitles
    2 - bind my keys 3 - set my graphical options Then, I launched the game 1 - The game starts a cutscene without subtitles 2 - the character editor doesn't take my binding into account (azerty users will be confused for quite a whie) (also, the interface for the editor is as unintuitive as can be) 3 - the    The 3 first things I did when launching the game was :
    1 - enable subtitles
    2 - bind my keys
    3 - set my graphical options

    Then, I launched the game
    1 - The game starts a cutscene without subtitles
    2 - the character editor doesn't take my binding into account (azerty users will be confused for quite a whie) (also, the interface for the editor is as unintuitive as can be)
    3 - the game runs at 20 FPS during the entire intro sequence. (went from ultra to medium/low settings, didn't change a thing)

    But this was still the best part.

    I can't really explain what it is, but there is something about the controls that feels wrong. Oh yeah, they're sluggish and terrible.
    If you're playing with a controller, most of those issues will probably disappear, but for me, I tried, I played a bit of the "real" game, but when simply moving and looking around is a chore, there's nothing you can do...    … Expand
  95. schizotypal67
    Dec 29, 2016
    2
    Compared to Fallout 3, this is an enormous letdown. Gone is the motivation for completing quests. Instead, gamers are supposed to have fun doing the same radial quests over and over a 100 times. Beth tried to instill the "never-ending game" design from Skyrim into this. Huge failure.
  96. esece93
    Jun 10, 2016
    4
    As a Fallout fan, I write this review for other Fallout fans. They destroyed the game. I give a 4 so just people know that, despite being a good game (and I say a GOOD game, which means that IS NOT a VERY GOOD GAME) is not a real Fallout.
    The perks and leveling system is now a sh** where you choose perks every time you level up, instead of the classic system in which you distribute 15    As a Fallout fan, I write this review for other Fallout fans. They destroyed the game. I give a 4 so just people know that, despite being a good game (and I say a GOOD game, which means that IS NOT a VERY GOOD GAME) is not a real Fallout.
    The perks and leveling system is now a sh** where you choose perks every time you level up, instead of the classic system in which you distribute 15 points and you choose a perk each two levels.
    Remember the satisfaction of completing a quest with a good charisma and hilarious conversations? Forget about that. Now this is all about shots, and more shots, and no really strong decisions, just more shots. Ah, and the conversation system is a failure (you can't even see what you are actually answering, just two words that more or less describe it).

    But this is what happens when you try to reach a more "casual" or bigger group of people, you kill the magic, and create a product that does not satisfy the fans, but the new generation of gamers.

    Such a disappointment, I trusted you Bethesda, but for the last time.

    We will miss you Fallout.    … Expand
  97. NathanielRH
    Jul 14, 2016
    3
    This game is simply bad. I am very depressed to say so. The game starts out so promising, but it has enough bugs to qualify as a species of beetle, terrible graphics which are somehow simultaneously poorly optimized, and simply isn't worth the money you pay for it unless you plan on running it on Medium settings; this game was built for consoles and runs best on your computer if yourThis game is simply bad. I am very depressed to say so. The game starts out so promising, but it has enough bugs to qualify as a species of beetle, terrible graphics which are somehow simultaneously poorly optimized, and simply isn't worth the money you pay for it unless you plan on running it on Medium settings; this game was built for consoles and runs best on your computer if your computer is forcibly ran like a console. If you have an old computer, this is the game for you. If you have a post 2013 computer, don't even buy this game unless you want the graphics falling apart every 15 minutes. The company which made this game will not care to update its large list of problems and modders so far have been incapable of fixing them either. Worst of all is the fact that the hardest difficulty is unplayable because of the amount of bugs in the game. You NEED the game console to play the game because the console is a debugger and is used to fix bugs, but on the hardest difficulty, they remove the console from the game so you can't use it to fix bugs. Playing on survival mode is a DEATH warrant which will lead to endless frustration. The game is a 0/10 on Survival mode and 3/10 because they have other modes you can play on.

    So, to reiterate:
    1. 2013+ computer? Don't buy.
    2. Always play on the hardest difficulty? Don't buy.

    I'd price this game at $0 if you have a newer computer and/or always play the hardest difficulties on games. $10 if you can stand crappy graphics and any difficulty below Survival.

    I would give it a higher rating if I knew Bethesda were working on fixing this game's huge list of problems, but they are not working on it because they have already made a lot of money and have no reason to fix old issues, even though the problems are so deep that modders cannot pick up Bethesda's slack this time.

    Do not buy, do not waste your time, force Bethesda to at least put in some effort on Fallout 5. We know there will be a Fallout 5 as long as there are idiots who buy crappy games like Fallout 4.

    Again, I'm depressed to write this review. I'm sorry.    … Expand
  98. confector
    Aug 30, 2017
    0
    Having supported this developer since Elder Scrolls: Arena, here is my review.

    This persistent model of trying to move to a microtransaction system and forced downloads of content that you do not want, cannot opt out of, and break your game if you have already taken steps to mod (correct/fix) it in the first place. Stop it. I have spent a good chunk of my free time in life    Having supported this developer since Elder Scrolls: Arena, here is my review.

    This persistent model of trying to move to a microtransaction system and forced downloads of content that you do not want, cannot opt out of, and break your game if you have already taken steps to mod (correct/fix) it in the first place.

    Stop it. I have spent a good chunk of my free time in life specifically patronizing your titles because of the enjoyment offered, the modding opportunities at MY direction and choice, NOT YOURS, were my ideal way of passing free time.

    No longer.    … Expand
  99. Splaterson
    Aug 31, 2017
    3
    It was enjoyable on release but Bethesda are victims to their own success and have hit the level of greed usually shown by Activision and EA. They've released paid for Mods, what used to be a free thing people did to improve their own games will now cost, good for developers, bad for customers.

    If you haven't picked this game up yet, I wouldn't bother now, you haven't missed anything    It was enjoyable on release but Bethesda are victims to their own success and have hit the level of greed usually shown by Activision and EA. They've released paid for Mods, what used to be a free thing people did to improve their own games will now cost, good for developers, bad for customers.

    If you haven't picked this game up yet, I wouldn't bother now, you haven't missed anything earlier releases of Fallout can and do provide, the game feels shallow in comparison with not as much love, its full of bugs and optimization issues, not to mention they ruined any aspect of RPG elements in an effort to make the game fresh. It wasn't broken and it didnt need fixing, this game is now an action game, enjoyable but leaves a bitter taste in your mouth after a session playing.    … Expand
  100. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    4
    My review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now ifMy review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now if you want to get somewhere fast, be careful, because you might run into enemies and you won't be able to use VATS. Is this a joke? You've made a short game, so you've added sh***y sprinting that ends every 10 seconds? Where's the running from F3 or NV? Where you would press capslock and the character would always run without getting tired? The other thing missing is the "move button". In F3/NV you would press "q" and the character would move on its own. Well, you won't find this in F4. Thank you Bethesda... remind me to never buy anything from you ever again. But that's not the end of BRILLIANT changes. Remember VATS? Well, now it doesn't stop time. It just slows it down and if you won't make your decisions quickly enemies will hit you. WTF is this again? Why am I being rushed? I always loved the VATS in previous games, you could just relax, choose what body part you want to shoot, maybe drink some tea in meantime, while watching how enemies get torn into pieces. Well now that's gone, thank you Bethesda. You know what's not gone? Bugs. I played the GOTY edition with all the patches. I managed to fall under the world map 8 times. Not kidding. Every bug you saw in Fallout 3 is here again. Hmm I wonder why... maybe because it's the same engine just with a different name. You almost fooled me Bethesda... almost. So, we've established it's the same engine, but you know what's not the same? The requirements. I'm not a type of person, that cares about graphics, but if your game has such big requirements, I'd like to see better graphics. Instead we have sh***y graphics that require a huge PC to run, which is a joke. The optimalization doesn't exist in F4. This game should be able to run on a 1-core 1gb ram 512mb graphic card setup on ultra with 60 frames per second, because it looks like the game was made for such build. But who cares, right? Surely Bethesda doesn't. Let's move on to more funny stuff. The stuff that was the core of NV, F1 & 2, even F3. It's the quests. In previous games, they were more open, we had a few routes to complete them and usually you had a choice how to lead the quest and how it would end. Well forget all about it. Welcome to the "rpg" game where most of the missions are "go talk to someone, he'll tell you what/who to kill, do that, come back, here's your f***ing payment, now get lost". Yep, welcome to Commonwealth. The most funny stuff when it comes to the quests is Preston. He will harass you and talk about "another settlement needs your help". Then he'll mark the location of the settlement on your map and I don't even wanna know how many types of these missions are out there, because I maybe did 4 and all of them were the same. Someone is attacked, you must go and get rid of the problem and do it all over again someplace else. This is insanity. It's what Vass warned us about. The main story wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good. From characters, I really liked Nick Valentine and Piper. I also remember the dog who probably had more charisma than most of the npcs in the game. But in the end the story gets wrecked, because the game forbids us from making our own decisions. This is NOT New Vegas. There are two endings for the game and they both suck. You will not be able to make peace with all the factions, which is ridiculous. Also, if the game establishes that people can send their minds into synths and live in their robot-like bodies, then why would we care about anyone dying especially at the Institute. Logic is not something you will find in this story, which is hilarious, because the game literally focuses on science. This is what happens when you let fake gorillas write your script. So the story is a let down, there is almost none rpg elements left, the shooting is okay, but Fallout isn't supposed to be an fps game. Doom, Blood, Serious Sam, Quake, Painkiller are FPS and they do it well, F4 doesn't. They've also added crafting tools and emphasis on building your base and upgrading it. This might be the worst thing in the game. I don't want Minecraft in Fallout. This is tedious. To build something you will have to acquire items, so everything that is based around the settlements will include going somewhere and finding the tools you need to build the stuff you need to build. It's just a big waste of time and making this a center of your game was a big mistake. So, what's good in Fallout 4? Not much, mostly a few quests and some characters. Don't waste your money or time on this game. Life is not eternal and there's no afterlife. Spend your days on something worth your while. Pickens condemns!… Expand
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#31 Best PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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84

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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