Fallout 4

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  1. Artorias_Win
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Война...война никогда не меняется, но игры меняются. То, что раньше было одной из лучших РПГ в истории "эволюционировало" в обычный шутер. Это больше не суровый постапокалипсис с интересными и мрачными историями, где каждый твой выбор влиял на дальнейшее его развитие и последствия. Это больше нет. Как нет и системы диалогов, которая превратилась в "Да", "Нет (но может да)", "Уточнить",Война...война никогда не меняется, но игры меняются. То, что раньше было одной из лучших РПГ в истории "эволюционировало" в обычный шутер. Это больше не суровый постапокалипсис с интересными и мрачными историями, где каждый твой выбор влиял на дальнейшее его развитие и последствия. Это больше нет. Как нет и системы диалогов, которая превратилась в "Да", "Нет (но может да)", "Уточнить", "Сарказм". Изредка появляются строчки связанные с красноречием, но они являются аналогом "Уточнить", только приносят опыт и требуют навык. Интересных заданий практически нет, ибо обычно всё сводиться к миссии тип "Зачисти лагерь рейдеров", "Зачисти лагерь супермутантов", "Убей гулей" и т.п. Т.е. то, за что игру любили: за какие-то микроистории, интересных персонажей, хорошо работающую систему прокачки, теперь этого просто нет... Зато есть красивые пейзажи, тонна ржавого и некрасивого огнестрельного оружия, миллионы врагов и на десерт - "Построй свою деревню"... Возможны фанаты этого и хотели: строить дома, фармить ресурсы, убивать бесконечных мобов, но раз так, то купили бы Minecraft, а не покупали бы это, чтобы назвать потом шедевром и молиться на игру, как на что-то сверхвыдающееся .___.… Expand
  2. Rahn1908
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Went on a killing spree in vault 81 when they caught me stealing. I'd kill 'em all and close it for good with none being the wiser. The Overseer along with some other named npc's cant be killed... A true gamebreaker when it comes to Fallout. Its not a bad game its just not fallout...
  3. Jwintucson
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Never wrote a review before, never felt the need. Been gaming for 30 years, 100s of games, good titles and bad ones, this is the first time I felt ripped off, and am pursuing a refund.

    Played all of the fallouts, and all of ES games, and Bethesda titles included. FO3 and NV are top 5 favorites, I've replayed both literally dozens of times to try out all the different plot paths.

    This game is just ... really boring.

    Set all the glitches aside, that's FO charm. Set aside the mediocre graphics, that's not why I spend time with these games. Best armor in the game 10 mins in ... Ok ... Being asked by some stoned hobos to build beds instead chasing after my kidnapped child ... Seriously?

    I've been a Popsicle for 200 years, I saw my spouse murdered, child kidnapped, and now I'm building furniture for a lazy crack head?

    FO3 had Moriarty ... First moments out of the Vault and you meet this guy. He's an ass, but he acknowledges you have a problem, and then helps and screws you over at the same time ... classic! Of course, he already had a bed ...

    Lazy, unimaginative, phoned in ... If they spent a fraction of the time on the game as they did the hype, the game would rock.

    For those of you who really like this game, that's fine, you're right. But every review I see with a 10 on it also has they "yeah, but" qualifier. It's not a 10. It's not a zero. The 4 point something I see is probably about right.

    And that is not where a AAA Fallout game should be.    … Expand
  4. t3nt3n
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    I have been a Fallout Fan since Fallout 1 and 4 was one of the games i anticipated MOST! i bought it from my local store the first day it became available to me. In the rear cover there was a notice that the game required internet connection and a steam account to activate. It DID NOT mention that one would have to download the whole game from there. So basically i paid for a game to OWNI have been a Fallout Fan since Fallout 1 and 4 was one of the games i anticipated MOST! i bought it from my local store the first day it became available to me. In the rear cover there was a notice that the game required internet connection and a steam account to activate. It DID NOT mention that one would have to download the whole game from there. So basically i paid for a game to OWN in physical form, in MY HOUSE, and instead i got MOST of it in digital form. This time Bethesda went too far in my opinion.

    I would encourage people NOT to buy it, because no matter how good the game looks, this is a con scheme by definition. It should be noted on the package Explicitly, that the $60-70 one would pay to buy this game, they actually are for buying a DVD in a case, that only includes the executable for the game, and the rest of it, they would have to download from steam.

    Thanks for reading.    … Expand
  5. BowserTheBig69
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    The disappointment of the year. The game has a lot of problems. First, the graphics. This is a problem, but this is not all. The immersion (the blue sky is very WEIRD in this atmosphere) ans the story is not good at all. But the lack of RPG features is its main problem: all mechanics has been simplified, the importance of karma has been reduced and the VATS is now useless.

    In other    The disappointment of the year. The game has a lot of problems. First, the graphics. This is a problem, but this is not all. The immersion (the blue sky is very WEIRD in this atmosphere) ans the story is not good at all. But the lack of RPG features is its main problem: all mechanics has been simplified, the importance of karma has been reduced and the VATS is now useless.

    In other hand, the game is huge and has a lot of hours of funny content. This is the main positive point, but Fallout is more than that. A game that has no relevance in the year of Witcher 3, and will be remembered as the black sheep of the Fallout series.    … Expand
  6. lasn
    Jul 23, 2017
    4
    Too much of the same. Engine is old, graphics are not the best. Many bugs.
    Repetitive questing. I find basebuilding very boring and many quests makes use of it.
    Game is decent tho, played 30+ hours. Some good encounters here and there. But I have not played it for a few months now. Maybe I will continue later, I'm not sure. Other games are more interesting right now. This is nowhere as    Too much of the same. Engine is old, graphics are not the best. Many bugs.
    Repetitive questing. I find basebuilding very boring and many quests makes use of it.

    Game is decent tho, played 30+ hours. Some good encounters here and there. But I have not played it for a few months now. Maybe I will continue later, I'm not sure. Other games are more interesting right now. This is nowhere as good as Fallout 3 / New Vegas or Skyrim for that matter.    … Expand
  7. old__bold_gamer
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 and MGS 5 have been disappointing releases. The Witcher 3 is head and shoulders above all the other games this year, and is unequivocally GOTY imo.
  8. Tillakanesis
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    I'm not gonna bother spending an hour writing a review because almost everything wrong with the game you can find on all the other deserved LOW scores. But basically Bethesda **** over true fans of the series to invite over casuals.

    They rid the game of the Karma System, Reputations, and Stat leveling. The Dialogue is so **** bad it's funny. And never have I seen a fallout game where    I'm not gonna bother spending an hour writing a review because almost everything wrong with the game you can find on all the other deserved LOW scores. But basically Bethesda **** over true fans of the series to invite over casuals.

    They rid the game of the Karma System, Reputations, and Stat leveling. The Dialogue is so **** bad it's funny. And never have I seen a fallout game where dialogue has absolutely no impact. The story flat out sucks. And Bethesda chose your character for you. This isn't an RPG, it's COD open world with some pathetic excuses for RPG elements.

    Don't 'but' this game if you loved previous installments. Don't 'but' this game anyway, Bethesda can **** off if it wants to screw over it's fans for more money. This is ridiculous. This doesn't even reach the amount of WOW Bethesda usually create with their games, it feels like they ripped the code straight from Fallout 3 but made it HD, and also stripped the game to a skeleton. It is Bad.    … Expand
  9. CHEFKOCH
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    contra:
    -poor optimization
    -weak graphics
    -crap story
    -bad dialog system
    -no lipsync, weak character models
    -heavy bugs
    -mediocre skillsystem
    -stupid AI
    -quests are awfully boring
    -weak synchro
    -inconvenient console UI

    Pro:
    -good Loot-System
    -craftsystem
  10. PsychoJonny
    Dec 20, 2015
    4
    I love the fallout series, and generally most Bethesda games. This isn't Fallout though, this is Fallout base management sim beta v 1.0. While the game does have some good qualities you have to wade through a sea of bugs, glitches, and broken gameplay to get to them. I had to restart my file twice due to encountering game breaking bugs to which there has yet to be a patch for either. I'veI love the fallout series, and generally most Bethesda games. This isn't Fallout though, this is Fallout base management sim beta v 1.0. While the game does have some good qualities you have to wade through a sea of bugs, glitches, and broken gameplay to get to them. I had to restart my file twice due to encountering game breaking bugs to which there has yet to be a patch for either. I've had companions vanish before my eyes never to be found again, I've had modded weapons vanish from my inventory, and worst of all I had $60 vanish from my wallet for an unfinished heavily broken beta. Wait until they've heavily patched it, and even then get it on sale. It's not worth it otherwise.… Expand
  11. Chaos411vm
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Fallout. Fallout never changes.

    I honestly regret buying this game. The graphics for the most part don't look dramatically different than Fallout 3 which there is absolutely no excuse for. Dialog syncing and facial animations are terrible and look no better than the latter. It also runs terrible. I could run Witcher 3 at 4k with pretty much max settings. This game struggles with it    Fallout. Fallout never changes.

    I honestly regret buying this game. The graphics for the most part don't look dramatically different than Fallout 3 which there is absolutely no excuse for. Dialog syncing and facial animations are terrible and look no better than the latter.

    It also runs terrible. I could run Witcher 3 at 4k with pretty much max settings. This game struggles with it and again, with graphics and gameplay the way it looks has no excuse to run this way.

    and last...it's story is generic and boring and that saddens me most of all.    … Expand
  12. loafofbread
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    This game is ultimately an unfocused mess, the developers putting in features that seemed good on paper but ended up being half baked and not gelling well with the actual game play. The settlements, companion romances, weapon mods all seemed like interesting additions, but serve very little purpose in the game, giving little to no reward for the time invested in them.

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

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

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

    All in all, fallout 4 is a bunch of ideas the developers wanted to shove in, implemented very poorly. In the end we're left with a mishmash of gameplay features that were mostly stolen from mods that somehow did a better job than a AAA studio could produce. My recommendation would be to put off buying this game until you can get it cheap and all the DLC has been released, and the modders have fixed bethesda mess, once again.    … Expand
  13. MarcioCavalcant
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    Well, all I have to say is that it was pretty disappointing to see that Bethesda stepped down on the RPG type of game and just created another FPS for teenagers. It's a nice FPS, but it's just not a true Fallout game as 1 or 2 (or even FO3 - NV).
    It's also as bugged as you would expect a Bethesda game to be, and on the top of that there is no Karma system, no plethora of lines to follow    Well, all I have to say is that it was pretty disappointing to see that Bethesda stepped down on the RPG type of game and just created another FPS for teenagers. It's a nice FPS, but it's just not a true Fallout game as 1 or 2 (or even FO3 - NV).
    It's also as bugged as you would expect a Bethesda game to be, and on the top of that there is no Karma system, no plethora of lines to follow in conversations (as the good old FO1 & 2 had) and also way less dark humour than the first ones in the series. So, yeah, do buy it if you just want a casual FPS game, but if you wanted a true Fallout, you'll just have to way a few more years.
    I wish the developers would understand people crave for a game that requires more brains than fingers to be well played.    … Expand
  14. neon14501
    Nov 15, 2015
    4
    hmmm... Game is realy bad. If this game would be released on 2008 it would be good game. But now its not worth buying . Just lame shooter . Run and shoot. Thats all. Its shooter not RPG. BG bethesda.
  15. Nevellbye
    Nov 16, 2015
    4
    I don't like Fallout 4. It's boring. The quests are boring. The dialogue system makes all character conversations boring.. The dialogues and interesting quests always were the best part of Fallout, even in Fallout 3. But not here. Bethesda needs to think out a way to do a better game, like they did with New Vegas, wich is perfect.

    P.S. The critics never write bad reviews. And I'm    I don't like Fallout 4. It's boring. The quests are boring. The dialogue system makes all character conversations boring.. The dialogues and interesting quests always were the best part of Fallout, even in Fallout 3. But not here. Bethesda needs to think out a way to do a better game, like they did with New Vegas, wich is perfect.

    P.S.
    The critics never write bad reviews. And I'm afraid, that they usually are not being objective enought and can be bought buy powerfull companies like Bethesda. What a shame that their opinion is still being considered.    … Expand
  16. Lone-Wanderer
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a game of many tastes. If you played first two games and you loved them, you are fu****. If you're person like me who spent 150+ hours with F3 or F:NV (and loved them), you have 50% chance to like or hate this game (40 to 60 on pc). If you are a newcomer to this franchise (especially from Skyrim), chances are high for you to enjoy it.

    What has been improved: 1) Gunplay    Fallout 4 is a game of many tastes. If you played first two games and you loved them, you are fu****. If you're person like me who spent 150+ hours with F3 or F:NV (and loved them), you have 50% chance to like or hate this game (40 to 60 on pc). If you are a newcomer to this franchise (especially from Skyrim), chances are high for you to enjoy it.

    What has been improved:

    1) Gunplay and general movement(not to be confused with controls). Those elements were atrocious in previous 2 games. If you don't own the game already and you're hearing people saying that gunplay is not good, those people never played Fallout before. Bethesda really improved gunplay mechanics, they are smooth, responsive and the won't be disturbing you. Yes, it is no Destiny but it will do the trick quite well.

    2) Interactive world. You can now build your own settlements, you can populate them with settlers and you can find new parts to build int the world. Yes, there is lack of parts and there is also a limit on how many settlers you can have in settlement, but that will be changed by mods. Truth is, that Bethesda should have done that already (considering 5 year production) but for some reason decided not to.
    Junk now also matters, because it can be broken down to raw materials, which you need for building and modding your weapons.

    3) Weapon and armor modding. You can now modify you armor and guns. You can change barrels, stocks, add scopes and bayonets. You heavily modify your armors to add more funncions and protection against various hazards. You have power armor at your disposal in which you can and should use, to get pass by some harder encouters in the game.

    4) Music. The score is very good, on par with previous Fallouts.

    What has been changed (fu**** up):

    1) Dialogues. You can't see what is your character going to say. Instead of whole sentences like in skyrim or F3/F:NV you are now stuck with 4 (~ 3 words each) and you have No idea what's your character going to say. I've found myslef in situations, where I had to reaload because my character said something I had no intention in saying.
    The voice over is not great by any means either. The character sounds silly, like Mark Wahlberg from The Happening. Lot of those voice overs sound like work of an intern sitting on the toilet.

    2) Controls. I don't think Bethesda has any idea what a computer is. The button layout is absolutley infuriating and you will be finding yourself yelling on the poor monitor because key mapping is counter-intuitive. The whole interface is a mess. You can see it was developed for controller. Pip-boy (your handheld inventory manager) is hell to navigate trough using keyboard/mouse. You have also no slider for FoV and some of the gun will occupy half of your screen (no matter the resolution).

    3) Skills and perks. So Bethesda got rid of skills (yeah, you read that right, they are gone). Instead you have 7 base attributes and some perks to choose from. The perks available depend on level of your key attributes. When you level up, you have a point to spare. That's it. that is the entire extend of rpg elements this game has to offer No longer you can build your character with skills and specialize him with perks. No. You will be stuck with this. If you are new comer, you might like it. If you came here from previous fallouts, you will probably cry.

    4) Story and quests. So reviewier who writes that the story was great is either payed, retarded or never played Fallout before. The story is below mediocre at best and it is pulled down further by dialogues and poor voice-over. Now the best story you can have is the one you make yourself. That is true, but some kind of narrative is required because this is not fu**** Minecraft. Even today I can remember most of the characters from F3 and F:NV. Hell, the DLC's in New Vegas? They had absolutley great narrative, their characters were interesting (okay, Honest Hearts was mediocre). Do not expect anything like that in Fallout 4.

    5) Difficulty. Fallout 4 offers 6 difficulties. The last one beeing survival and let me tell you. it sh*ts on everything New Vegas improved. You no longer need to sleep, eat or drink. Stimpacks heal you overtime (which takes ton of time) while sleeping in any bed will miraculously heal you (I've managed to sleep and heal injuries while enemies who injured me were in the next room). Enemies became bullet-sponges and do insane damage while ammo is so scarce to find. At that point, the game is no longer enjoyable and becomes annoying to play.

    Overall, if you played previous games, these changes are killers. Some can be mitigated by mods, but those will take time to develop and test. For a game that has been in development for 5 years, this is poor result.    … Expand
  17. ThatBoyJackie
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a game with potential. Wasted potential.

    First of all, PC version feels like a sloppy console port, especially when it comes to operating any kind of menu (press E, Tab, W, E, Arrow Down, A, E, Put Your Feet In, Put Your Feet Out And Shake It All Around to choose your Perk). Graphics are nice, nothing groundbreaking, feels more Fallout 3 on heavy mods rather then new    Fallout 4 is a game with potential. Wasted potential.

    First of all, PC version feels like a sloppy console port, especially when it comes to operating any kind of menu (press E, Tab, W, E, Arrow Down, A, E, Put Your Feet In, Put Your Feet Out And Shake It All Around to choose your Perk).

    Graphics are nice, nothing groundbreaking, feels more Fallout 3 on heavy mods rather then new production tho.

    Character development (from rpg perspective) in this game is... non existing? I mean, don't get me wrong, you can still make some choices, tho in the end, they do not really matter. You are not playing Your character, you are playing Bethesda's one. Dialogue options are, in most cases "Yes", "No", "Sarcasm", "Goodbye". Remember New Vegas, finding your own way toward the end, backstabbing the faction you've worked for just to gain all the power for yourself? Do you want to see something like that in Fallout 4? Yeah, me too.

    World of Fallout 4 is full of places to see, Raiders to kill, crates to loot, Feral Ghouls to kill, landmarks to see, Raiders to kill, people to talk, Feral Ghouls to kill. You can even take a follower with you, like one of the Minutemen, a great faction that after first quest - killing raiders - makes you their leader and send you to do other quests - killing raiders. Half of the game is killing raiders, And feral ghouls. And closed doors that can be only unlocked by a console next to them. No hacking needed, just use console, use only option "Unlock doors" and... viola, the doors are open.

    It was realy hard for me to "get into" this world, it felt so unreal. Level scaling feels clumsy as hell. Let me give you an example. I'm killing two raiders wearing Power Armors in Camp A. Nothing hard, few shots, they are down, I'm barely bruised. 100 meters from Camp A I've found Camp B with higher level raiders. Guard dog one-shots me. Yay, hurray for the attack dog!.

    Crafting system makes you collect all the trash, pop it into workbench and change some aspects of your weapon. This is actually a nice feature, tho it's nothing special, just a fun lill addition (that we all know from F3/FNV mods *cough*). "Bob the builder" mode on the other hand feels like uncompleted fan created mod. Clumsy, clumsy, clumsy and pointless.

    Overall Fallout 4 don't feel like this AAA that Bethesda promised us. It's more like a community made big patch/update rather then a effect of 7 years work). It works, but it felt so stiff and clunky. Sure, after some time modders will turn it into something better, no doubt about it. But, for now on, I can only suggest playing this game if you are either completely new to Fallout franchise or you have your die-hard-fan-will-defend-the-game-until-I-die glasses on.    … Expand
  18. juliiouse
    Nov 18, 2015
    4
    Although I am a massive fan of previous Fallout games (even Fallout 3), after logging two different playthroughs on Fallout 4, I can honestly say it's the weakest entry in the series and one of the worst games I have played all year.

    Compared to previous Fallout games, the gameplay has been massively dumbed down. Even compared to the likes of Skryim the game feels simplistic. The    Although I am a massive fan of previous Fallout games (even Fallout 3), after logging two different playthroughs on Fallout 4, I can honestly say it's the weakest entry in the series and one of the worst games I have played all year.

    Compared to previous Fallout games, the gameplay has been massively dumbed down. Even compared to the likes of Skryim the game feels simplistic. The SPECIAL system has been rendered inconsequential because you can put points into your SPECIAL stats by simply levelling up and there is no level cap. If you dump points into Intelligence at the start you can be 10/10'd in every stat within the first few hours. The skill system has been taken out and merged with perks, which means you'll never really have to consider your build and can just choose perks in whatever weapon type you fancy using that day. Since most decent weapons can be collected off "legendary" mobs or found in crates and you'll very rarely be troubled by locks or computers compared to previous games, levelling combat perks is all you need to do for success.

    Consequences and morals have also either been removed or dumbed down massively. Instead of the karma system which tracked your general moral standing and a complex factional reputation system, your standing within the gameworld is now only tracked by an utterly broken companion relationship system. Simply put, there just isn't gravity for your actions. Preston- a man dedicated to protecting his settlers and restoring peace to the Commonwealth- was standing with me when I butchered a whole settlement of his followers and stole their stuff. He didn't blink twice and helped me kill them. Later he was offended when I pickpocketed a hostile NPC but makes quips the whole time when you rob the dead. I then got his relationship back to max with me by taking the supressor on and off a gun ten times in a row. Charisma checks are also a waste of time now. They either give you a small increase in the money you get from quests or a small amount more background information into what you're doing. You'll never see any real benefits. The few times it's used to avoid combat have no consequences in the future. The NPCs stop being relevent the second their place in your character's quest are done with.

    Killing people is generally your only option and there is very little in the way of branching paths. You either agree to do a quest or don't and it'll be added into your quest log anyway. Compare and contrast to New Vegas which gives you a massively different tone and experience and style of quest depending on the decisions you make. This year we've seen The Witcher 3 and Undertale, two games which have handled consequences for your actions and interaction with the player character infinitely better than Fallout 4 has.

    Though I was skeptical at the "more personal" story that is offered up by Bethesda this time round, I was willing to give it a chance, but all it has done is restrict the backstory and roleplay potential you have. Unlike New Vegas, which gives you a personal motive of revenge and then opens you up to a grand, region changing plot, Fallout 4 gives you a personal motive that hardly evolves beyond that.

    Graphically, the game is pretty bad. The textures are slightly worse than Skyrim and the clothing is especially awful. Faces can be good or bad depending on the character and it all looks a little jarring. Terrains look very blurred even on ultra graphics, and NPCs can blend into the landscape due to the lack of any real sharpening. Other minor points include the lack of weapon holstering and terrible lip synching.

    Outside of the dummied out stat and level progression system, there is little in the way of improvement. Combat feels a little meatier but melee builds are rendered worthless because NPCs can stunlock you by bashing you with their guns and shooting you down. Stealth is as uninspiring as it was in previous games. The AI is still wonky as well.

    One of the few significant changes is the settlement system which feels more like a poorly implemented Nexus mod rather than an actually important part of the game. One of the few improvements I appreciated was the new modding system.

    Performance is terrible at the moment. Loading times are an embarassment and framerates are very unstable despite the poor graphics.

    Maybe the game will be good in a year or so, but for now there is very little good I can say about the game . The only reason I am not giving this 1/10 is the sound direction is pretty good.    … Expand
  19. DeLaHruza
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further". Now the cons: -Quests: The hell???? It feels like LIneage's "go and fetch a gazillion of dragons bollocks". Even the dialogues are the same!!    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further".

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

    Hey Bethesda, next time let guys at Obsidian do the work! I hope next Elder Scrolls title won't be screwed in similar manner because i like that franchise even more than Fallout.    … Expand
  20. Arieloc
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Overrated as hell. Very bad crafted, it makes me feel like they really don't took their time finishing the game. Total disappointment. Need a major dlc to take the real advantage of the game.
  21. atharoon
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a game somewhere in between fantastic and horrible.
    Its world as well as its various mechanics (crafting, building) is great fun to explore. The story is nice, not witcher-like presented, but entertaining. The graphics are, though not spectacular, nice to look at and well put together.
    After 50 hours of all but rushed playthrough, I started to head deep into Boston Center.    Fallout 4 is a game somewhere in between fantastic and horrible.
    Its world as well as its various mechanics (crafting, building) is great fun to explore. The story is nice, not witcher-like presented, but entertaining. The graphics are, though not spectacular, nice to look at and well put together.
    After 50 hours of all but rushed playthrough, I started to head deep into Boston Center. And out of nowhere Fallout showed its other, technically broken face. In those areas the game performance is drastically worsening. Obviously, those areas contain a high amount of object and detail, but a drecrease of FPS like 50% and worse with additional stuttering, no matter what I tweak via driver or ini files, is just not acceptable at all. And I have to mention that even when playing in the outskirts of the map now, the performance keeps behaving nervous with stutterings in between. To be fair: it helps to reduce shadow distance to the lowest setting, but this heavily affects the graphical fidelity.
    VERDICT: gameplay wise a ton of quality entertainment, unfortunately packed with severe technical issues. From my point of view Fallout 4 needs quick repairs.    … Expand
  22. FreeThinker
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a real disappointment. It seems Bethesda didn't spend any time to make to make the game playable for PC. Instead of testing it by a single PC player, they spend millions on advertising. This is simply unacceptable for a AAA game. That's to bad because it has a lot of potential Hopefully the game will be fixed by Modders, but out of the box, Fallout 4 is simply unplayable. IFallout 4 is a real disappointment. It seems Bethesda didn't spend any time to make to make the game playable for PC. Instead of testing it by a single PC player, they spend millions on advertising. This is simply unacceptable for a AAA game. That's to bad because it has a lot of potential Hopefully the game will be fixed by Modders, but out of the box, Fallout 4 is simply unplayable. I would everyone to avoid it as the plague untill they take PC players serious… Expand
  23. Ma55
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    After over 80 hours logged and playing on hard or very hard this game may be one of my biggest let downs. The RPG elements and dialogue have been butchered, far worse than what was done to Skyrim. The user interface is trash for anything other than controllers. The story and characters are laughable, upon making it to diamond city I had a hearty chuckle at the "emotion" piper portrays atAfter over 80 hours logged and playing on hard or very hard this game may be one of my biggest let downs. The RPG elements and dialogue have been butchered, far worse than what was done to Skyrim. The user interface is trash for anything other than controllers. The story and characters are laughable, upon making it to diamond city I had a hearty chuckle at the "emotion" piper portrays at the gate.The only redeeming quality is the gun-play and modding of guns/armor.

    And to the big list of problems-
    -The dialogue wheel only approximates what your character will actually say and is limited to 4 choices at a time.
    -The game has a whopping 6 pistols, 2 shotguns, 5 rifles (not counting energy), and custom ammo and grenade launchers have been REMOVED. There is not even an under the barrel launcher mod!?
    -After exploring/clearing an area you are rewarded with a chest ala skyrim. At level 50+ it has pipe weapons. Dredging down a Missile Silo in the glowing sea? Think you will find something cool or unique at the end? Nope, just a basic weapon and it will be in a chest rather than placed in the world.
    - At level 50+ enemies are still using basic pipe weapons that are un-modded.
    - Settlements and building are poorly implemented and lack depth.
    - Skills are gone and lockpicking/hacking is now reliant on perks.
    -Shoddy FPS on decent PC
    -Unkillable characters make their return.
    -Explosive builds/characters have little choice in weapons
    - 80 hours and not much left to do
    The list can go on and on    … Expand
  24. bigdaddyaggie
    Nov 21, 2015
    4
    Should have waited and read reviews instead of pre-purchase on greenman. Will have to find something else to play. Like the others say here. It is a FPS not RPG. I am not an FPS fan so it is boring to me. I am not a treasure hunter. I need a story/purpose and the quest are just not interesting. Go clear this area or go fetch this ring. Just doesn't engage me.
  25. matigames12
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    Es increíble como arruinaron una saga : En el E3 de este año el director de Fallout dijo que lo más importante eran los fans, y viendo como reaccionaron los fans se nota que se pasaron eso por sus partes intimas. Simplificaron al extremo el sistema de conversación dando solo 4 respuestas planas donde una eres el tipo malo, en la otra el bueno, en otra eres neutral y la ultima es deEs increíble como arruinaron una saga : En el E3 de este año el director de Fallout dijo que lo más importante eran los fans, y viendo como reaccionaron los fans se nota que se pasaron eso por sus partes intimas. Simplificaron al extremo el sistema de conversación dando solo 4 respuestas planas donde una eres el tipo malo, en la otra el bueno, en otra eres neutral y la ultima es de pregunta. Sacaron el sistema de Karma. La inteligencia artificial parece creada por un niño de 10 años. La curva de dificultad es patética, prácticamente si llevas Servoarmadura eres invencible estés en la dificultad que estés, aunque aveces te salen de la nada enemigos con un lanza misiles o un Fat man y te rompen el alma de un solo golpe, no se lleva un 1 porque el mundo esta bien cuidado y la acción fue muy mejorada. Aparte por el implemento de el modo creador y el alto nivel de modificadores en armas y en el personaje… Expand
  26. toddlockwood
    Nov 23, 2015
    4
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
    This is FPS not RPG!
  27. master7291
    Nov 26, 2015
    4
    Short version:
    Boring game, bad graphics for a 2015 (even ~2013) released game, mundane gameplay, low quality animations, bad voice acting, nothing really exciting, frustrating city-building, only good aspect is the short-lived feeling of wanting to explore the world.
    Long version: Fallout 4 is the typical Bethesda open-world RPG, albeit a bit more boring this time around. You have a    Short version:
    Boring game, bad graphics for a 2015 (even ~2013) released game, mundane gameplay, low quality animations, bad voice acting, nothing really exciting, frustrating city-building, only good aspect is the short-lived feeling of wanting to explore the world.
    Long version:
    Fallout 4 is the typical Bethesda open-world RPG, albeit a bit more boring this time around.
    You have a somewhat large map, with very little actual content.
    The main problem with Fallout 4, as compared to previous Bethesda RPGs, is that it's kinda boring.
    With Skyrim and Fallout 3, you still felt quite a lot of excitement by exploring the world and experiencing the story.
    With Fallout 4, the story is largely uninteresting, the gameplay doesn't feel new and exciting, and the world itself seems boring. The only positive aspect is that you do feel some short-lived feeling of excitement when you first start exploring the world.
    I almost always prefer gameplay over graphics, but the graphics of this game are unacceptable for a game released in 2015. They would probably be unacceptable even for a game released a few years ago.
    The city-building aspect is way too frustrating to use, especially since they expect safe-house-building to be a major part of the game.    … Expand
  28. Kraminator
    Nov 28, 2015
    4
    I'm not a veteran of the Fallout franchise like most reviewers here. I really enjoyed Skyrim and was hoping for an even better experience. What a disappointment. I just finished my first play through of Witcher 3 before starting Fallout 4. Fallout 4 suffers mightily by comparison. If I had to describe Fallout 4 in a few words, they would include "boring" and "ugly". My regard forI'm not a veteran of the Fallout franchise like most reviewers here. I really enjoyed Skyrim and was hoping for an even better experience. What a disappointment. I just finished my first play through of Witcher 3 before starting Fallout 4. Fallout 4 suffers mightily by comparison. If I had to describe Fallout 4 in a few words, they would include "boring" and "ugly". My regard for Bethesda has taken a major hit.… Expand
  29. spambox
    Dec 2, 2015
    4
    Bethesda They were always good at creating large worlds maps and interesting locations and could not done anything else interesting or innovative. Sadly they never made game with good RPG mechanic nor balanced fun game as whole. I think people are getting finally feed with that. Fallout 4 is even below tiers standard in lot of aspects. If you are small kid of average intelligence whoBethesda They were always good at creating large worlds maps and interesting locations and could not done anything else interesting or innovative. Sadly they never made game with good RPG mechanic nor balanced fun game as whole. I think people are getting finally feed with that. Fallout 4 is even below tiers standard in lot of aspects. If you are small kid of average intelligence who likes to consume shiny packaging and well marketed hype you will have fun. Everyone else who has at least some taste and standards stay away.
    Whole game quality like made by some cheap offshore team in Africa or India. Defensively not someone
    with passion and love for his work.

    +game has nice 2d art
    +its fallout

    - - -totally unbalanced. Power armor obtained nearly at start of the game and that is just tip of the iceberg
    (loot suxed with all games I think like oblivion skyrm ...)

    --inventory/loot system is dumb and basic.

    -Dog is an idiot will block you
    -dog works as grande decoy. This is really stupid but I believe lot of kids find is super cool.
    -dog can be used to cary items he, fits more than I can put in my car. (again I bet that dumb kids love that)
    -not even story is fun
    -skills and leveling element still crap but bit better than Skyrm.
    --world is not believable and far fetched. It seems like city got bombarded by few small boms.
    its like made by 15 year old boy.
    -all new features like settlement that tries to be innovative are actually not adding much fun to game.
    --- I could continue for another page of negative points :(

    what I dont understand is reviews. Its probably that they got no balls to rate such hyped AAA tile less than 8 and wanted to stay palls with gaming companies to keep getting games before release or nice xmass presents.
    Unless is total obvious screw up like batman or sim city no one got balls to rate.    … Expand
  30. Japko
    Dec 2, 2015
    4
    After over 100 hours of gameplay, I finally decided to give this game a 4, which basically means below expectations. This is how I feel right now. I feel tricked.

    Game has these fallout vibes. World, even though less interesting, is still doing the job. You can feel all that stuff that previous fallout games gave you. But It makes this game only playable, not a game which you want to    After over 100 hours of gameplay, I finally decided to give this game a 4, which basically means below expectations. This is how I feel right now. I feel tricked.

    Game has these fallout vibes. World, even though less interesting, is still doing the job. You can feel all that stuff that previous fallout games gave you.
    But It makes this game only playable, not a game which you want to play another time after you finish. I tried, it's just too boring, even for me, a guy who only plays few games beside fallouts. All things has been already said, but to make sure:
    -poor dialogues
    -poor story
    -Illusion of choice. You just dont have a real choice. Your only choice iif you want to kill that guy, or u want to talk with that guy, and even that is in most times unavailable, because random guys usually shoot you.

    I bought this game for RPG reason, and what i got is a fu*king shooter. I'll just wait for some big mod that will change this sh*t    … Expand
  31. heygetoffmylawn
    Dec 6, 2015
    4
    I started the series from the beginning, so I feel I might be biased, but as much as I want to like it, I feel it's simply mediocre--and sometime outright bad.

    I will start with the things I felt were noteworthy: The gunplay. Shooting the various creatures of the Commonwealth was certainly just as satisfying as it always was in NV or 3, but what was even better was the tuning of VATS.    I started the series from the beginning, so I feel I might be biased, but as much as I want to like it, I feel it's simply mediocre--and sometime outright bad.

    I will start with the things I felt were noteworthy: The gunplay. Shooting the various creatures of the Commonwealth was certainly just as satisfying as it always was in NV or 3, but what was even better was the tuning of VATS. Instead of trying the mimic the pause-the-game turn based combat of 1 and 2, 4 now slows time while choosing a specific target. I feel this was a good choice.

    And that's about sums up my praise for the game. Almost everything else, I didn't care for, or I felt was totally forgettable. Models, sound, the dialog wheel and it's vague choices. The forced, repelling main story line, the fact that they dropped the Notes tab and now we use the Misc tab like a junk drawer. 'Rolling' a character is pointless if you can upgrade their base stats every consecutive level. The settlements (as neat as the idea) don't really fit in the game. How they totally **** on the lore. Why do we have power armor in the beginning, and why is it so goddamn OP? And the balance is off so much that I don't even have to use it! Increasing the difficulty simply makes the AI bullet sponges, no upgrade in speed or actions--there's so many things I could just nitpick this game to death, but ultimately I think it was just trying to be too many games at once; sandbox, RPG, shooter. Quality over quantity.    … Expand
  32. Mantas35
    Dec 6, 2015
    4
    “My idea is to explore more of the world and more of the ethics of a post-nuclear world, not to make a better plasma gun.”
    Tim Cain, creator of Fallout.

    I think that sum up everything wrong with this game.
  33. Plzstandbuy
    Dec 7, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. RPG mechanics and dialogue are water down to the point of non-existence. The story is poorly written and unoriginal, and the ending is insulting to the franchise.

    Besides from improved gunplay the game mechanics are a downgrade meant to pander towards younger audiences with short attention spans.

    The beloved Fallout lore has been soiled at almost every opportunity, from magic hats that give telekinetic powers to ghoul children that can live trapped in a refrigerator for 200 years without food or water.

    If your past fan, you will feel insulted and depressed, by the utter lack of care or respect Bethesda has made this Franchise.    … Expand
  34. Desirus
    Dec 7, 2015
    4
    A lot of expectations and disappointments ... The plot is banal, the world is empty, horrible ending, the character development is greatly simplified, zero replayability.
  35. taylist
    Dec 11, 2015
    4
    I was really exited when I started playing Fallout 4. Graphics looked good. Combat was great. Having a dog for a companion was a nice touch. And don't get me started on the power armor. Everything seemed lined up for a great gaming experience. Except there was no story at all. No memorable characters or interactions. It just doesn't have a soul. So when the initial excitement of shinyI was really exited when I started playing Fallout 4. Graphics looked good. Combat was great. Having a dog for a companion was a nice touch. And don't get me started on the power armor. Everything seemed lined up for a great gaming experience. Except there was no story at all. No memorable characters or interactions. It just doesn't have a soul. So when the initial excitement of shiny newness left, I was left wondering why I should even bother. So many memories from New Vegas, and none from this little gem surely born from market research instead of passion. I can only hope Elder Scrolls wont meet the same fate. Oh, and lack of native Steam controller support is really annoying.… Expand
  36. mava314
    Dec 11, 2015
    4
    Played over 100 hours, might be all I do for a while though. This review contains nothing related to bugs. Every game has bugs, and considering how huge this game is, i'm amazed at how few bugs there are. And my game has never crashed.

    I'm so sad that this is the game i've been so hyped up about. I've loved every bethesda game ever made until now. Fallout 4 doesn't come close to    Played over 100 hours, might be all I do for a while though. This review contains nothing related to bugs. Every game has bugs, and considering how huge this game is, i'm amazed at how few bugs there are. And my game has never crashed.

    I'm so sad that this is the game i've been so hyped up about. I've loved every bethesda game ever made until now. Fallout 4 doesn't come close to anything previous.
    What I like:
    -Graphics aren't that bad, not 2015, but not bad. Better than all previous bethesda games.
    -The potential. I think mods can do a lot to save this game. I'm just glad they didn't change their view on modding.
    -Exploration is pretty good. The world is huge, lots going on. Very well done ruined city, tons of buildings to explore. Can't imagine how much time was put into creating this world.
    -Crafting is good. I don't like how every single item can be used. A pack of cigarettes gives the same amount of cloth as an area rug... but hey, it doesn't have to be perfect. Crafting is powerful, and fun.
    -Power armor is cool. I really enjoy it, even if i feel a bit OP. Ok way OP. But cranking the difficulty changes that.

    What I don't like, too many thing to list, here are the top ones:
    -Removal of old features like weapon repairs and skill system.
    -Level progress is totally consistent throughout gameplay. It takes the same amount of effort to go from level 1 to level 2 as it takes to go from level 44 to level 45. WTF, thats not normal for rpgs.
    -Settlements are annoying, they break immersion, and make fast travel required. The feature feels unfinished, and unrewarding. It could be so much more than it is. I plan to make a mod to improve this.
    -The wasteland doesn't feel desperate. People seems to be doing just fine, like nukes never destroyed the earth. The environment says otherwise, but it fails to maintain the feeling in some areas as well.
    -Dialogue is a total joke, might as well not give the player a choice in conversation at all.
    -Not very immersive. But i think mods can fix this. All bethesda games need mods for total immersion, but fallout 4 is far worse than usual.
    -Enemies can take a lot of bullets, have way too much health. I'm sure this will be addressed by mods eventually.

    Why did bethesda think changing all this stuff was going to be a good thing? They have such a huge following now, they can release anything and make tons of money from the preorders alone, and they did. They clearly had a working formula for good games, beloved games. But instead of keeping the traditional elements alive, they ruined the game with stupid ideas. I will NEVER pre-order a bethesda game again. I wish i could get my money back, as i feel they don't deserve it. My only hope is that mods will fix this game.    … Expand
  37. Dawhogaboom
    Dec 13, 2015
    4
    I can say it's good.. but it's not a good Fallout game! People are right on the money with the user reviews. It doesn't matter what dialog options you choose the outcome is the same.. Fallout 3 had the same problem, you have to be the hero. Fallout: New Vegas by Obsidian you could kill everyone and take over if you wanted to. You cannot be evil in fallout 4 just a sarcastic good guy. NoI can say it's good.. but it's not a good Fallout game! People are right on the money with the user reviews. It doesn't matter what dialog options you choose the outcome is the same.. Fallout 3 had the same problem, you have to be the hero. Fallout: New Vegas by Obsidian you could kill everyone and take over if you wanted to. You cannot be evil in fallout 4 just a sarcastic good guy. No karma system, no immersion due to a talking protagonist, no special/skill dialogue, hell you cannot even use grenades in VATS! WTF Bethesda! Perhaps Obsidian will get the green light to make another Fallout game and make one right. Easily put over 1000 hours into New Vegas and countless playthroughs. I can't get myself to try to make a new character in Fallout 4 because every character inevitably turns out the same.. Overall it's Skyrim with guns..… Expand
  38. AndyRock5
    Dec 15, 2015
    4
    My experience can be compared to a lake that is a mile wide, but an inch deep. It seems like a large expansive word, but you quickly find out there is very little depth to anything. You end up redoing the same quests over and over and the writing is very much sub-par, from a role-playing standpoint fallout 4 is a failure. The additions of better shooting, crafting and the base buildingMy experience can be compared to a lake that is a mile wide, but an inch deep. It seems like a large expansive word, but you quickly find out there is very little depth to anything. You end up redoing the same quests over and over and the writing is very much sub-par, from a role-playing standpoint fallout 4 is a failure. The additions of better shooting, crafting and the base building seem great at first, until you realise that New Vegas mods did a better job years ago. Overall a mediocre game that fails to live up to my expectations, I might be able to recommend this when the GOTY edition comes out and the modding scene has had time to mature… Expand
  39. VaultB0y
    Dec 15, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 just feels kind of soulless compared to Fallout 3 and even New Vegas. It's not a role playing game anymore, it's an open world shooter as many other people have said. I can't be the drunk Russian guy that only uses Molotov cocktails and a mini-gun. I'm pigeonholed into a stereotypical white picket fence Mr. Jones character, and that's honestly lame as **** and something that iFallout 4 just feels kind of soulless compared to Fallout 3 and even New Vegas. It's not a role playing game anymore, it's an open world shooter as many other people have said. I can't be the drunk Russian guy that only uses Molotov cocktails and a mini-gun. I'm pigeonholed into a stereotypical white picket fence Mr. Jones character, and that's honestly lame as **** and something that i never would have picked on my own.

    I remember Todd Howard saying that the dialogue options wouldn't be limited despite the fact that they went for a voiced protagonist , so either he was lying or is just delusional. Everything in the game i come across feels forced and bland and i honestly can't play the game anymore. It feels like the project started with soul and passion because there are some traces of it still in the game, such as the Dunwitch area. However in the end they did the same thing to the fallout series that they did to Skyrim, except to an even greater extent. That being; ripping all of the soul and passion from the world in favor of lazy randomization and the legendary system, which is just an excuse for them to not design custom weapons or put any backstory into most locations of the game.

    A small upside is that the base engine and overall game has a lot of potential for improvement with mods. The shooting and actual combat is far improved from the other titles. The fact that they are also making consoles mod compatible leads me to believe that they knew this game wasn't going to live up to the fans' expectations, and were content to let unpaid modmakers place all of the heart into the game.

    Ultimately, I was really disappointed with this game, and it sucks after waiting for it for seven years. And at this point i don't really have any hope with future titles from Bethesda because they've ****ed my two favorite series with their latest installments, looking to appeal to the broadest audience possible, and make the most money possible. Rather than you know, making genuine pieces of art as they did with the others.    … Expand
  40. RadicalRic
    Dec 16, 2015
    4
    There's hardly any wow factor in this game. If you close your eyes and try to imagine any generic post-apocalyptic setting, you'll find everything of the concepts you imagined in the first 4 seconds. Sure, there's 50s music and fedoras, but that's pretty much it. The problem is that the Fallout series were all about crazyness, and the predecessor to this particular game was as crazy as aThere's hardly any wow factor in this game. If you close your eyes and try to imagine any generic post-apocalyptic setting, you'll find everything of the concepts you imagined in the first 4 seconds. Sure, there's 50s music and fedoras, but that's pretty much it. The problem is that the Fallout series were all about crazyness, and the predecessor to this particular game was as crazy as a war between cowboys and the roman empire in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas who was now a robot controlled city ruled by an immortal mind connected to a machine. There's none of that interesting uniqueness here, just exploring a wasteland and make your own living out of scrap metal and rubber tires. There's a story somewhere in between that hardly made me involved. Shooting at things is still fun, regardless.… Expand
  41. x_Demonic_z
    Jan 6, 2016
    4
    A 'good' game, terrible Fallout game.

    Fallout, one of my favorite RPG games, has been slaughtered, mutilated and transformed into a hideous mash of random dynamics that only lessened the core of a Fallout game... RPG elements are so watered down, i wouldn't even call this an RPG. The dialogue is less than poor.. Its disgusting.. The simplified dialolgue wheel and the absence of any    A 'good' game, terrible Fallout game.

    Fallout, one of my favorite RPG games, has been slaughtered, mutilated and transformed into a hideous mash of random dynamics that only lessened the core of a Fallout game... RPG elements are so watered down, i wouldn't even call this an RPG. The dialogue is less than poor.. Its disgusting.. The simplified dialolgue wheel and the absence of any special related dialogue options beyond Charisma is a major disappointment, and completely unnessesary. Just... why?

    The lack of character development and choice is an insult to the fallout franchise. Why main protagonist voice acting? Is this mass effect? Why limit character design for only the smallest addition of story telling? What happened to the skills? why is every character the exact same starting off? I remember having a Stupid brute at the start of one playthrough of NV, and a smartass scientist in another... The settlement system is underdeveloped and a waste of time. It literally has zero effect on the game.

    The factions are stale and their quest are all the same repeatable quests taking you to the same area... Not to mention they all lead to the same copy pasta ending scene. If Fallout 4 wasn't a Fallout game, i'd like it more. Just knowing what this could have been, leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

    After all of this, i still think it's a decent game. The world is beautifully crafted, and my only gripe is that it lacks depth. Almost every location is "Kill everything that moves and loot the simi relevent gear". Along with the "Kill everything" scheme, the gunplay has been well done. It really does feel less clunky. However, if i had to choose between gunplay, and RPG elements i'd choose the RPG side.

    To sum it up, If you like open world action shooters, this is a good game for you. However, If you LOVED Fallout 3 and New Vegas as well as their RPG goodness, Don't waste your money.. Wait another year, and maybe the modding community can fix Fallout 4.... or perhaps obsidian will take a crack at it? one can only hope..    … Expand
  42. Solantus
    Dec 23, 2015
    4
    Disappointed of the year,

    People waiting for a fallout game, but they find a mine craft mixed with Sims. I start to play the game after the 3 hours suddenly realize ı just build beds and walls for My Sims. Where is my explore, story, quests. skills most important them all what type of "V.A.T.S" is that ? it is not useful you have to play whole game like a play FPS but this game must be    Disappointed of the year,

    People waiting for a fallout game, but they find a mine craft mixed with Sims. I start to play the game after the 3 hours suddenly realize ı just build beds and walls for My Sims. Where is my explore, story, quests. skills most important them all what type of "V.A.T.S" is that ? it is not useful you have to play whole game like a play FPS but this game must be a RPG right ?    … Expand
  43. faosdelta
    Dec 22, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What happened to the dialogues , the game lost its soul , they offered the role.
    They should have gone the way they left with the fallout new vegas which in my view was the most faithful was the fallout one had the opportunity to make a great game , I think they would have outperformed all the games Fallout series if they had focused more on the mystique of the game that invest in marketing    … Expand
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. slackerrudie
    Jan 16, 2016
    4
    There is not much to say, except Bethesda got rid of the skills, perks and dialog options that are effected by the skills and perks. You have no real choice in how the story progresses and the perks they do have in the game do not effect the game play or story. This adds up to a basic on rails game that pretends to be open. It has zero replay value as the game is on rails and you could notThere is not much to say, except Bethesda got rid of the skills, perks and dialog options that are effected by the skills and perks. You have no real choice in how the story progresses and the perks they do have in the game do not effect the game play or story. This adds up to a basic on rails game that pretends to be open. It has zero replay value as the game is on rails and you could not play as a different type of character even if you wanted to.… Expand
  48. Kohlar
    Jan 16, 2016
    4
    Fallout 4 is an ok game, but it's a terrible Fallout game, and I am rating it as such.
    They improved on a lot of subpar systems from previous games but proceeded to remove nearly everything that made Fallout great.
    Linear story, restrictive dialouge that gives the illusion of choice but you really have no say in it whatsoever, an empty world, no skill checks except charisma checks and    Fallout 4 is an ok game, but it's a terrible Fallout game, and I am rating it as such.
    They improved on a lot of subpar systems from previous games but proceeded to remove nearly everything that made Fallout great.
    Linear story, restrictive dialouge that gives the illusion of choice but you really have no say in it whatsoever, an empty world, no skill checks except charisma checks and they don't really do anything anyway, no skills, no reputation/karma system...
    The list just goes on. It's an incredibly shallow experience and I grow extremely bored of it's repetetive quests and empty world.

    Please, no more of this. Let Obsidian make the next one..    … Expand
  49. Jerusalem9769
    Jan 28, 2016
    4
    Let me start by saying all the fan boys that rated this 10/10 within a couple of days of release are just plain wrong (or so blinded by loyalty they outright lied)

    This is not an RPG, this is a FPS, a FPS with a very very short life span. Once you have completed the extremely short main story there are only very very very boring repeat fetch quests to level up with or settlement    Let me start by saying all the fan boys that rated this 10/10 within a couple of days of release are just plain wrong (or so blinded by loyalty they outright lied)

    This is not an RPG, this is a FPS, a FPS with a very very short life span. Once you have completed the extremely short main story there are only very very very boring repeat fetch quests to level up with or settlement building (which is engaging for a couple of hours until you remember you didn't buy f*cking minecraft)

    Following are some of the poorer aspects of the game -

    Speech is terrible, (the voices, the choices, the script are all awful)
    Repetitive fetch quest, go here, kill everything, come back
    Weapon upgrades are in the main worthless, the same upgrades are almost essential for any weapon
    The perk system is useless, you will never need at least two thirds of them and you will still be over powered.
    Enemy AI is horrendous. Stand there while I pump bullets into you.
    Karma, the one absolutely excellent thing Bethesda did in FO3? Gone, it matters not anyway as you have to be a variation of a good character anyway, you are simply not allowed to kill certain NPC.
    Power armour is a waste of time except as a self styled quest to collect them. It is simply not needed 95% of the time.
    It matters not which faction you 'choose' to side with, the majority of the endings are exactly the same.
    VATS is now completely useless, meaning it's all down the sights COD style shooting.

    I can't be bothered to slate it any more, even though there's more in the tank.

    This could almost be the game that kills the Fallout franchise, it won't because hype beats all, but it certainly could.

    Five years waiting. For this. Shocking. 4/10    … Expand
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. GreenIsTheBest
    Apr 10, 2016
    4
    More fallout 3 - nice ... they dont add good stuff from nv.... Lore ? Power armor fusion core is connected to ur spine there is no texture there. RPG side is dying. I would like to see more synergy in perks with vats and non-vats side settelments was probobly added just before E3. There is around 30 weapons types still u get only 1 type for 44 ammo. Pipe weapons wierd... Weapon modding isMore fallout 3 - nice ... they dont add good stuff from nv.... Lore ? Power armor fusion core is connected to ur spine there is no texture there. RPG side is dying. I would like to see more synergy in perks with vats and non-vats side settelments was probobly added just before E3. There is around 30 weapons types still u get only 1 type for 44 ammo. Pipe weapons wierd... Weapon modding is something fresh but still we cant see ap cost of shot of mod. Beth just add modding weapons and forget about SMG, HMG. Still most ppl uses pipe weapons instead of crossbows/bows. Laser muscet sounds fun and fresh but ... they make it look like laser beam is gathred inside glass tube ? Still hope modders will mod sheet out of fallout 4 and make that game great again ;)… Expand
  55. TheAngryJerk
    Apr 21, 2016
    4
    Well, as a fallout fan I was quite dissapointed. The game achieved all it wanted to be, but it wasn't a very high bar or what most people not bribed with early access content wanted. In the top corner of the map where you start, you see decent modern looking graphics with a lot of effort put into the map. As you progress, the game gets worse and worse with a few lights in the darkness.Well, as a fallout fan I was quite dissapointed. The game achieved all it wanted to be, but it wasn't a very high bar or what most people not bribed with early access content wanted. In the top corner of the map where you start, you see decent modern looking graphics with a lot of effort put into the map. As you progress, the game gets worse and worse with a few lights in the darkness. Sorry Bethesda, I didn't pay 60$ for 5 good quests in a "larger map" of total gray.

    Gone are character progression, actual choices, handwritten quests, and lore accuracy. Instead, you get a whole lot of half completed and/or auto generated enemies with no backstory. AI, graphics, repeated dialogue, or even survival mode. The game's difficulty does not increase over the course of the game, leaving the new combat becomes dry as enemies become auto leveled sponges with garbage guns. I love Fallout as a series, but hell if nostalgia is going to blind me into saying the game was good, or god forbid buy the season pass.

    With perspective (taking time to play the game instead of logging 6 hours before release like every game review company this year), TheAngryJerk    … Expand
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. ShakeY
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    It's like somebody made a Fallout game without realizing what makes a Fallout game good.

    What does make a Fallout game good is a world with stories behind every area, interesting vibrant characters, lots of player choice ,strong storylines and quests that can be approached from different angles depending on how you've levelled your character. Fallout 4, does none of this. It strips    It's like somebody made a Fallout game without realizing what makes a Fallout game good.

    What does make a Fallout game good is a world with stories behind every area, interesting vibrant characters, lots of player choice ,strong storylines and quests that can be approached from different angles depending on how you've levelled your character.

    Fallout 4, does none of this. It strips away everything you like about a Fallout game, chucks in some one-dimensional characters and some guns and leaves it at that. The world's boring, the areas genuinely seem like they were made as replicas to real life counterparts rather than focusing on story depth and good gameplay, stats barely matter and there is no player choice.

    A very poor entry in the Fallout series and a very average (at best) game. When Fallout: New Vegas, a Fallout game that's not even made by the company that traditionally make the game is a way better title , you know there's a problem.    … Expand
  59. gta8b
    Sep 15, 2016
    4
    This game is not a PC game ! Horrible gameplay ! It is not acceptable for PC player to buy a game that is so much unoptimized ! The inventory/controls are made for Xbox/Playstation but not for PC. It could be much better ! Very disappointed ... Also, in comparison, Fallout 3 lvl-up system was much better. Waiting for nice mods to correct that, but I think it should be a developer issue andThis game is not a PC game ! Horrible gameplay ! It is not acceptable for PC player to buy a game that is so much unoptimized ! The inventory/controls are made for Xbox/Playstation but not for PC. It could be much better ! Very disappointed ... Also, in comparison, Fallout 3 lvl-up system was much better. Waiting for nice mods to correct that, but I think it should be a developer issue and not consumer issue.

    Users rating are always lower than general rating ... --> Because general ratings are obviously fake !    … Expand
  60. ant1free3
    Oct 11, 2016
    4
    Уже много сказано, что как шутер игра неплоха, а в остальном... Сюжет дерьмо, опять найди отца/сына, абсолютно убогие детские диалоги с этим голимым [сарказмом], абсолютно беспомощные в бою тупорылые напарники, эта ненужная стройка сортирных поселений для бомжей, непродуманный баланс сражения, опыта за врагов, прогрызающие силовую броню тараканы и прочее прочее гавно...Уже много сказано, что как шутер игра неплоха, а в остальном... Сюжет дерьмо, опять найди отца/сына, абсолютно убогие детские диалоги с этим голимым [сарказмом], абсолютно беспомощные в бою тупорылые напарники, эта ненужная стройка сортирных поселений для бомжей, непродуманный баланс сражения, опыта за врагов, прогрызающие силовую броню тараканы и прочее прочее гавно...
  61. intensegaming12
    Oct 18, 2016
    4
    it sucks a load its the worst ever and Bethesda can go suck a dick, graphics suck, gameplay sucks, building 5/10, story sucks, character are the worst and glitches everywhere. Fallout 4: Glitch party.
  62. 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
  63. kikkkz
    Apr 8, 2017
    4
    Fail out.
    Probably the worst thing I've ever played, the stupid plot, the dull gameplay, [sarcasm] and other flawed dialogues and quests, well, no, never had interesting quests from Bethesda, but there the game pushed both to wagering and studying the world ... So here it is not, just a **** shooter.
  64. CooperK1ng
    Aug 2, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bethesda's Fallouts is the worst fallouts.
    And this because why:
    Bad story.
    Bad characters.
    Bad main character.
    Bad Fractions.
    World is not realy bad, but not pefect.
    Locations repeats.
    Guns are good, even modifications are useful and interesting.
    Sounds are good, but not perfect.

    Fallout is **** sometimes (90%), and good in some things (5%), and realy not bad in guns, modifications and sounds (5%).
    Kappa 4/10;    … Expand
  65. thomaddox4
    Sep 21, 2017
    4
    Like Fallout 3, this game is an absolute joke as an RPG, and a slap in the face to everyone who enjoyed the original games. There is no variety in choice, and I do mean NO VARIETY, no skill checks, no meaningful decisions, a story that appears to have been written by the same middle schoolers who did Fallout 3, and plentiful bugs and performance issues to go along with the BethesdaLike Fallout 3, this game is an absolute joke as an RPG, and a slap in the face to everyone who enjoyed the original games. There is no variety in choice, and I do mean NO VARIETY, no skill checks, no meaningful decisions, a story that appears to have been written by the same middle schoolers who did Fallout 3, and plentiful bugs and performance issues to go along with the Bethesda tradition. However, at least they got the shooting right this time: They must have realized that since combat is the only option you will ever have in the entire game, they should try to make it fun. And it is pretty fun, at least for a few hours. The settlement building was pretty well implemented, and the weapon customization was fantastic, but these things don't even come close to making up for all the ways this game fails.… Expand
  66. nintendo-sekta
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    Игра не ужасна но и не дотягивает до среднего. Ужасен основной квест; дополнительные квесты либо плохи, либо средние; диалогове окно деградировало; канон предыдущих частей переписан. Проблем много но это тот же Fallout по атмосфере что и раньше.Игра не ужасна но и не дотягивает до среднего. Ужасен основной квест; дополнительные квесты либо плохи, либо средние; диалогове окно деградировало; канон предыдущих частей переписан. Проблем много но это тот же Fallout по атмосфере что и раньше.
  67. gameking
    Jan 12, 2020
    4
    Open-world is good but the scenario is not important in this game. The configuration is terrible. They have too many bugs.
  68. 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
  69. Your_Muza
    Jun 5, 2019
    4
    Terrible game. Bad graphics, bad gameplay, everything is bad, except for the plot. I tried to end this too quicly and i suffered. I don't like Bethesda's games and i didn't like Fallout 4.
  70. PHDIKOULAS
    Jan 7, 2020
    4
    review after 80 hours in(according to save file)

    Pros -Great visuals -great combat system Cons -where the Flying F to start. No special or perk tied actions in the game,like in fallout 2 you could tackle each quest if you had either high science or repair or whatever. Also in fallout 2 if you had intelligence 1 the dialogues where hilarious,Fallout 4 dosent have that.    review after 80 hours in(according to save file)

    Pros

    -Great visuals
    -great combat system

    Cons

    -where the Flying F to start. No special or perk tied actions in the game,like in fallout 2 you could tackle each quest if you had either high science or repair or whatever. Also in fallout 2 if you had intelligence 1 the dialogues where hilarious,Fallout 4 dosent have that.

    -dialogue options are either yes or no. FFS in the very first area concord if you talk to preston garvey and say no i wont help you the game will force you to accept his quest and help him oO

    -easy to miss half the game due to interesting stuff being in holotapes.Sadly when you pick the holotapes they dont autoplay so if you missed the name of the holotape good luck finding it in your inventory. No sort by last added either.

    -When you try to sell stuff you dont know what you gave the seller.Mega fail the selling system is going backwards at least 50 steps.

    -Game encourages exploration but if you arent meticulous you might skip interesting areas and miss upgrades to your attributes and skills. Or you could alt tab

    -Guess what bethesda dosent alt tab,you game will get messed and you will need to alt f4 yay

    -Hacking is useless in this game,If its something important theres a key nearby.Also to hack robots you not only need a perk,you also need to find a book in the wasteland and even then its totally useless. Boggles the mind how they did some stuff :/

    -Also some stuff cant be done while in power armor which means you must get out do your stuff get back in. Not a lot but enough to make one angry. Talk about shooting ones self in the leg here

    -Last but not least the option to make your town is good but would be better if you just got the materials and someone else handled it. Theres a mod for that but it the whole town feels like it was slapped in the game at the last second just cause

    -ghouls walk and act like they came from Doom,they re fast and also dodge,Not how ghools are supposed to work in the fallout universe

    so what grade to give this game.I d say a 4.If you gind a goty at 30 bucks or less its a good purchase.Otherwise stick with fallout 2.Those guys knew how to make a game, or try new vegas way better than fallout 3 or 4.    … Expand
  71. lapkina
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    This is not RPG, this is bad writing and cringe characters simulator. Yeah, 10/10 here no doubts. Graphics weak, all characters look the same, story whacks original lore. Few good things in this game: crafting system and shooting mechanics. That's all.
  72. oysteims
    Oct 30, 2019
    4
    This is the game that took the Fallout franchise in a direction I could not get behind. I wanted to like the game, I really did. I already loved the genre, I loved Fallout 3, I loved New Vegas, unfortunately, the game was just not very good.
  73. showt
    Dec 22, 2019
    4
    Не зашло.

    1. Сюжет - 1.
    2. Графика - 5.
    3. Атмосфера - 4.
    4. Музыка, озвучка - 7.
    5. Второстепенный контент - 1.
    6. Геймплей - 5.
    7. Отимизация. теч. часть - 7.
    8. Управление - 8.
  74. neko555
    May 9, 2023
    4
    Este juego es un 9 si aplicas el parche (creado por fans) de tiempos de carga. De no ser así no llega ni al 5. Lo empecé hasta en 4 ocasiones y lo acabe desinstalando por ese motivo. Gracias que finalmente se pudo solucionar por la comunidad (no por Bethesta).
  75. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    4
    Mediocre Game and an Insult to every Fallout-Veteran. Still better than F76 tho. DONT BUY!
  76. uwuseless
    Apr 19, 2020
    4
    After Fallout 3, there was a game called Fallout: New Vegas. It was critically acclaimed because it had really good writing. People looked past its many flaws; glitches, a consequence of Bethesda asking Obsidian to make the game in an afternoon, very ugly graphics for the time and not very fun combat.
    People looked past these flaws because the writing of the game was that good. Even    After Fallout 3, there was a game called Fallout: New Vegas. It was critically acclaimed because it had really good writing. People looked past its many flaws; glitches, a consequence of Bethesda asking Obsidian to make the game in an afternoon, very ugly graphics for the time and not very fun combat.
    People looked past these flaws because the writing of the game was that good. Even today, Fallout: New Vegas keeps a healthy 8.7 user score on this very website. However, Fallout 4 does not enjoy that luxury.

    Why is there such a large discrepancy between critic and audience scores? It's not because critics are out of touch idiot dumdums who are nitpicking and biased, but rather because their job is to literally put out a review. They can't do that one year after the game comes out, can they? I would reckon most critics put out their review within the first month of playing a game.
    And while that might be more than enough time to get through Resident Evil 2 or Super Mario Galaxy, it's not enough time to get through Fallout 4.
    I currently have circa 100 hours in the game, which I would consider very little, compared to my playtime for some other Bethesda RPGs and other Fallout games. This is still probably more time than what critics spent with it in the few weeks between the distribution of review copies and the lifting of the embargo, and most certainly more time than most of the 10/10 user reviews, that were written within 3 days of the game's release.

    What does this mean?

    It means this game that's been advertised as a vast and immersive timesink is being mostly judged by people who haven't even played it that much, and that inflates its review score to hell and back.

    Bethesda ruined the dialogue in a game that heavily relies on dialogue. Bethesda turned a game series that is known for deeply funny and interesting quests into a factory of "another settlement needs your help" quests. Bethesda fundamentally doesn't understand what makes their good games good and fun.

    In Fallout 4, a game advertised as an RPG, you play as Nate, a middle-aged wisecracking war veteran, or Nora, a middle-aged wisecracking wife of a war veteran. You are driven by one thing and one thing only, rescuing your son, whose name I remember starts with an S.

    Your character has the most vanilla voice actor Bethesda came across, who either has no emotion or all the emotions, and no in-between.

    The objective of the game is to find your son, and help settlements along the way. There are branching paths, and your character has mostly figured out how to be an independent, self-driven person, which is a large improvement from the "hey lone wanderer, go here, because your dad went this way" mentality of Fallout 3. It's still "I'm going to go there because my son could have gone that way" but it's better than being told what to do. Credit where credit is due.

    There are some branching paths in the story, similarly to New Vegas, but unfortunately there is very little in the way of consequences for your actions.

    The game leaves very little room for roleplaying beyond the most basic "will you be a good guy,,, or a dick" moral decisions. There are in fact more personalities beyond good guy and dick, and Bethesda doesn't seem to be aware of this.

    The quests are boring. The fact that you have a hard time telling radiant quests and regular, written quests isn't as much a testament to the amazing talent Bethesda has for making great radiant quest systems but more proof that their "real" quests are very bland and cookie cutter.

    This would all be fine if Bethesda finally decided to make a polished game, with fun combat. These would be flaws that people would look past. But that is not the case.
    The combat is boring and not engaging. The novelty of the VATS system has worn off. Every gun feels like a pea shooter. If you increase the difficulty, enemies don't get smarter AI as much as they get health buffs. And shooting at a guy twice is way more fun than shooting at them once.

    The game gives you power armour and lets you kill a deathclaw in its very beginning (or what would be the beginning if you could get past the 2-hour intro that Bethesda insists on putting in every Fallout game and that literally no one in the world likes) seemingly to make you feel like a badass and establish that the game won't make any effort to teach through dying or reward you for effort.

    Speaking of which, can we talk about the intro? What a way to set the tone! It's very frank and honest about what the game is: a linear corridor disguised as an open world, with the most boring characters in the world and nothing interesting to do. A chore.

    That's what this game is. A chore to play. And I'd like to say this review is a call to action for Bethesda, but I just don't believe they can make a good Fallout game, because they seem to fundamentally misunderstand Fallout. I hope this incompetence doesn't bleed to Elder Scrolls VI or Starfield.    … Expand
  77. Locusthorde300
    Jun 27, 2020
    4
    I knew this game was bad about 80 hours into the game. The characters are simple, the plot is atrocious, and bugs and issues are all over this game. This is the game where Bethesda just stopped caring about the IP as anything other than a money machine.
  78. KingPink
    Jul 10, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I love fallout, all of them, and sadly 4 is my least favorite, it's not by dar a bad game it's a good game but the only thing that reminds you of fallout is the lore and some weapons. The game scraps a lot of features that defined fallout being the more notable the fact that our protagonist speaks and he has already a background. Courier 6 has a background but it's one you discover while playing and it's enough that you get and idea of his past but no who he is, bc in NV you are the courier and you decide who is the courier, that can't be said about NATE/NORA bc whe alredady now they are a Housband/Wife from before the bombs fall who lived almost all theyre lives without nedding to survive or make hard decisions, that already tons down the role possibilities but when in top of that, the dialogue is a joke, we don't now what the protagonist is gonna say bc we only have 4 options that are always: Sarcastic, Agrresive, Question, Affable. To add to the problem of this game the story is really meh, in the new factions we have the Minutemen or well A Minutemen Preston you can at least decide if you want to help him regroup the minute men. The railway has more importance in this game wich is really cool and we finally see the institue : D. And it's really lame sadly, you can predict whats gonna happen the moment you enter Diamond city, i really didn't care about Shaun but even if i didn't care about him Nate/Nora does and that was a role killing feature really. Its really funny seeing how Fallout 76 has a more interesting questiine thanks to Wastelanders. Next time whe see a fallout, probably in 2028? or even more i hope they learn from what works in the old fallout games, and take some things from the new ones, but definetly please don't repeat this mess.… Expand
  79. JACOB171w
    Jul 25, 2020
    4
    Fallout 4 is a bad Fallout game and it not that good of a game in general. Fallout 4 is mostly a FPS game with a few RPG mechanics. the game have a lot of bugs. I don't like that there's no level cap.
  80. Rusgamecon
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ок, что мы имеем? Репка, красить силовую броню, ну и вполне нот бэд мир с предысторией и не такой уж и фиговой стрельбой. Из плюсов это пожалуй открытые инструменты сообществу и то что перечислено выше. Минусы: Баги игре уже 5 лет но баги всё ещё раздражают время от времени. Персонажи ну такое се не сильно запоминаются. Сюжет... Я должен что-то говорить? Он до офигевания банален, Твоего пездюка спиздили и ты его пытаешься найти и выясняется что он твой враг фактически(Запоздалый спойлер алёрт, но к добавлению вы можете пройти за институт) так что сюжет на отъебись. Сайд квесты полная дичь без разнообразия. иди убей или найди. Рекомендую ли я поиграть? Как песочницу да, как в игру по фоллычу нет.… Expand
  81. lemonmeat1
    Mar 13, 2021
    4
    the game is pretty good, but every time you start a new game and open your pip-boy you get bombarded with a metric **** ton of tooltips about even the slightest feature. This wouldn't be so bad if you could turn off the ****ing things but you can't.
  82. GarbageGal
    May 13, 2021
    4
    This game fails on a lot of fronts. 1. It's an awful Fallout game. It lacks depth, character, and they even dumbed down the dialogue. Bethesda does not care about the franchise. Hell, they don't even understand it. 2. The main storyline is the exact same as Fallout 3: leave vault, find family member, they die. They couldn't even come up with new ideas. They even put in Fallout 3's endingThis game fails on a lot of fronts. 1. It's an awful Fallout game. It lacks depth, character, and they even dumbed down the dialogue. Bethesda does not care about the franchise. Hell, they don't even understand it. 2. The main storyline is the exact same as Fallout 3: leave vault, find family member, they die. They couldn't even come up with new ideas. They even put in Fallout 3's ending with the Brotherhood, since they just used Liberty Prime again! And that was one of the worst things of 3. This game is lazy, uninspired, and doesn't have a place within its own series.… Expand
  83. Gabry85
    Jul 30, 2021
    4
    Let's start from the beginning. I bought new pc to play this game, because fallout 3 is one of my favourite games, and this looked like "more of the same" with better combat system and better graphic. This two aspects are actually improved, of course, (you see that already in the trailers) mirelurks, deathclaws and radscorpions were never so nice... But there are no other positive aspectsLet's start from the beginning. I bought new pc to play this game, because fallout 3 is one of my favourite games, and this looked like "more of the same" with better combat system and better graphic. This two aspects are actually improved, of course, (you see that already in the trailers) mirelurks, deathclaws and radscorpions were never so nice... But there are no other positive aspects in Fallout 4. The story was interesting in the beginning, the only thing is, it never gets really engaging.

    The bugs were annoying but not so dramatics for me, until I found out that the factions didn't respond as them should. I did a mission where two factions were fighting themselves, I was supposed to fight against one of them too, but because of my good relations with them I could enter the base without fighting, until a turret shot at me and turned everyone aggressive against me again. Where in the world a turret is smarter than a human being and influence his actions? It should be the opposite!

    The factions bugs ruined my suspension of disbelief and in the end become worse because the game force you to kill everyone but your favourite allies.

    Where are the funny dialogues?
    Where are the interesting side quests?
    Where are the multiple choices to complete those quest?

    Maybe sacrificed to create a skins and a better dlc market...    … Expand
  84. th3reaperskull
    Aug 25, 2023
    4
    I happen to have a special affection for the Fallout universe, I think it has a lot of potential to be explored and make a great game. But so far it has disappointed me a lot, I've already finished the game several times and spent several hours playing the game, I have few hours on this account because I even bought a GOTY digital key. Sometimes I added mods, I can't play this without modsI happen to have a special affection for the Fallout universe, I think it has a lot of potential to be explored and make a great game. But so far it has disappointed me a lot, I've already finished the game several times and spent several hours playing the game, I have few hours on this account because I even bought a GOTY digital key. Sometimes I added mods, I can't play this without mods it's impossible for me, the vanilla experience is horrible.
    The mods add a quality of life to this game that Bethesda has no excuse even for the year the game came out the lack of creativity to make a great story without the two games Fallout 3 and Fallout having the main quest to save some of your relatives. In terms of gameplay compared to previous franchises it's a huge downgrade, the perk system is a totally lazy and boring system "more modern and simple", nobody asked for it!
    Yes, the Building Sims system is very funny, it brought diversity to the game, but it does not add new mechanics that add quality of life to the game, so much that it could have done with this game mechanic.
    Combat in the game is very boring they could have improved it because it's still the same combat since the previous ones.
    The difference between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 is just the disk space it takes up because in terms of graphics it wasn't even an update and even that didn't manage to make a beautiful game for height.    … Expand
  85. Wakko
    Jan 10, 2016
    3
    This game is a flat warm coke. It looks like coke, it has the same ingredients, but it tastes horrible.

    3 stars for entertainment value. It's different, its fun, and its entertaining. However; its buggy, broken, and terribly supported (1 patch since release two months ago and DLCs are already being touted before another patch). No more money from me, Bethesda. Not until you make a    This game is a flat warm coke. It looks like coke, it has the same ingredients, but it tastes horrible.

    3 stars for entertainment value. It's different, its fun, and its entertaining. However; its buggy, broken, and terribly supported (1 patch since release two months ago and DLCs are already being touted before another patch).

    No more money from me, Bethesda. Not until you make a Fallout game, because that's not what this is.    … Expand
  86. agalloch
    Nov 19, 2015
    3
    Laughably bad. I just finished the game and truly didn't enjoy it compared to F:NV/FO3. Here are my reasons:

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

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

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

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

    4) The voice acting was stiff.

    5) The theme was not as interesting.

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

    7) Base building is cumbersome and unnecessary.

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

    9) Weapons were extremely boring. You get a power armor WAY too soon in the game.    … Expand
  87. Sakatox
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    A pure disappointment, more smoke than actual fire or content. The game was sold purely on hype.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Bethesda should sell the Fallout IP to some company who's competent enough to make good games again. 3 out of 10.    … Expand
  88. nospam9000
    Nov 29, 2015
    3
    Deinstalled the game after playing 10+ hours. Storyline is boring and difficulty is just random. The character animations would be great for 2005. Loved Fallout 3, but this is just a joke.
  89. TheSlakey
    Dec 9, 2015
    3
    The dialog and quest writing just killed it for me. Side quests and incidental encounters, which are usually the bread and butter of Bethesda games, are reduced to "kill all X at Y" or "bring standard monster drop X to NPC Y". There are no alternate paths to complete any quests unless you count skipping parts with basic "I implore you to reconsider," speech checks. A lot of the companionsThe dialog and quest writing just killed it for me. Side quests and incidental encounters, which are usually the bread and butter of Bethesda games, are reduced to "kill all X at Y" or "bring standard monster drop X to NPC Y". There are no alternate paths to complete any quests unless you count skipping parts with basic "I implore you to reconsider," speech checks. A lot of the companions feel hastily bolted on too. This is worse than it may sound, because they try to give everyone lots of dialog and back story, and it just ends up being cringeworthy.

    On the plus side, the game mechanics are good...for Bethesda, and the main faction stories are actually pretty well thought out. There's no obviously right choice in the endgame, which is refreshing.

    tl;dr: Read the Wiki and maybe watch some YouTube highlights if you care about Fallout, otherwise give it a pass or wait for the Ultimate Edition to go on sale.    … Expand
  90. Zeak
    Mar 7, 2016
    3
    I can't believe how Bethesda manage to release such an utterly boring game in the Fallout franchise.. As many people already noted here, Fallout is all about the choice and it is basically absent in this instance. All you do is kill kill kill. Kill everyone. You just grind through the main quest by shooting everything you see. You encounter a few interesting situations during the gameI can't believe how Bethesda manage to release such an utterly boring game in the Fallout franchise.. As many people already noted here, Fallout is all about the choice and it is basically absent in this instance. All you do is kill kill kill. Kill everyone. You just grind through the main quest by shooting everything you see. You encounter a few interesting situations during the game which eventually turn into a shoot out anyway. The base building part which was so much advertised essentially is DOA. This Fallout is basically brain dead.… Expand
  91. saarmae
    Dec 17, 2015
    3
    It's a Fallout game that threw out every aspect of Fallout for mediocre shooting mechanics.
    No RPG elements, panders to the ''play for 15 hours and not play it again'' crowd, no point in making builds since you can eventually get all the perks and SPECIALs and become god of the wasteland, no RPG elements, no point in replaying the game since it will always be the same **** runs like ****    It's a Fallout game that threw out every aspect of Fallout for mediocre shooting mechanics.
    No RPG elements, panders to the ''play for 15 hours and not play it again'' crowd, no point in making builds since you can eventually get all the perks and SPECIALs and become god of the wasteland, no RPG elements, no point in replaying the game since it will always be the same **** runs like **** in urban areas, lack of weapons, useless time-sink settlement system. Bethesda, once again, puts half the effort into their game and expects their modders to finish the rest for them.    … Expand
  92. bmt11
    Dec 13, 2016
    3
    Upgraded graphics, a better in game console, game play that's a massive step back from Fallout New Vegas and a voiced protagonist that destroys any opportunity to role play in this role playing game, one that limits your response in any conversation to: "Yes", "No", a lame joke or "Why?".
    If you've ever dreamed of being a lame wise cracking mother or father in a post apocalyptic    Upgraded graphics, a better in game console, game play that's a massive step back from Fallout New Vegas and a voiced protagonist that destroys any opportunity to role play in this role playing game, one that limits your response in any conversation to: "Yes", "No", a lame joke or "Why?".
    If you've ever dreamed of being a lame wise cracking mother or father in a post apocalyptic wasteland this is the game for you.    … Expand
  93. DougM
    Nov 20, 2015
    3
    22 hours in and I don't think I have the strength to go on. There is just nothing to hook the player into continuing through this giant mess of an RPG. The main story is just not compelling, the side quests are not compelling, the visuals are awful and the controls are clunky. Even the main radio station stinks.

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

    The only thing I like so far is the build mode but that can only carry you so far before getting bored.    … Expand
  94. Gytis
    Dec 28, 2015
    3
    Fallout 4 for me is most disappointing game of 2015.

    + Gunfights are quite nice, though im not playing fallout 4 for gunfights.. + I think graphics are decent enough but game should run better with such a graphics. + Nice character creation. + So far, i only encountered minor bugs. - Beginning is a good concept executed poorly. Why even bother to start game before the war if there    Fallout 4 for me is most disappointing game of 2015.

    + Gunfights are quite nice, though im not playing fallout 4 for gunfights..
    + I think graphics are decent enough but game should run better with such a graphics.
    + Nice character creation.
    + So far, i only encountered minor bugs.

    - Beginning is a good concept executed poorly. Why even bother to start game before the war if there is nothing to do there? They could have added tutorial or couple of quests that would create emotional connection between our character and wife/husband.
    - Couple hours into the game, you will already have one of the best weapons, power armor and you will defeat deathclaw...
    - High difficulty levels are like this: you are getting weaker while enemies are getting stronger, resulting in enemies being bullet sponges while you can be killed by a rat biting you couple of times.. Also, my beloved hardcore mode is gone...
    - Dialogue is one of the biggest mistakes made by bethesda, there are only 4 options, and even then they are "more info/yes/sarcasm/no".. Why did they change it, it's not like previous dialogue system was bad, i feel like it was changed so it could fit controller layout (4 buttons).
    - Wasteland is very detailed but there is nothing interesting in there, its just buildings full of loot and raiders..
    - Diamond city is extremely small, doesn't even feel like "The Great Green Jewel", its more like "Small settlement".
    - Most of the quests are either fetch quests or "go clear that building from mutants".
    - No side storylines like in skyrim.
    - Quests involving settlements are very boring.

    I feel like a lot of bad decisions were made while creating this game. This game feels more like first person shooter rather than role play game, which is disappointing because rpg aspect is what made me love this franchise.    … Expand
  95. ComicBookGuy
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    I am a very big fallout fan. With that said the overwhelming disappointment I feel while playing Fallout 4 makes me hurt even more. There is a major issue with companies misappropriating development funds and placing them into their marketing team and not the actual game. I haven't seen a game marketing department this saturated since Halo and Mountain Dew. Their adverts are everywhere, soI am a very big fallout fan. With that said the overwhelming disappointment I feel while playing Fallout 4 makes me hurt even more. There is a major issue with companies misappropriating development funds and placing them into their marketing team and not the actual game. I haven't seen a game marketing department this saturated since Halo and Mountain Dew. Their adverts are everywhere, so you would hope for something that they were building to be this massive would be at LEAST as good as Fallout 3 or New Vegas.

    Sadly this is no where near Fallout 3, let alone the improvement of its successor NV.

    Negative points:
    -Weapons clunky and unaimable
    -Removal of immersion and customization
    -Perk system just a number improvement across everything (They should have looked at what made More Perks mod for NV/F3 so interesting)
    -The stolen mod idea taken from Wasteland Settler by Akooka for F3/NV is one of the key selling points of the game, but they didn't really improve on his work - in fact they somehow made a worse version of it.
    -Lips are not synced to voice actors, which they somehow managed to do with F3NV but not F4?
    -Story seems really poorly paced, even with forced drama nothing 'draws' you in like it did in the last two Bethesta Fallouts
    -Power armor at level 2
    -Feels more like an arcade shoot'em up than an immersive RPG
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    Neutral points
    : Graphics naturally improved over predecessors, not to 2015 level (Thanks consoles) but to about a 2011 level

    Positive points
    + House interiors are finally part of the worldbox in most cases ( - however there are still mostly boarded up houses everywhere)

    In summary, Bethesda should have what made NV so great and built on that. They did the right thing with taking the Wasteland Settler Mod and using it as part of the core game, HOWEVER, they should have seen what else people were using and included those mods, rather giving another lowest common denominator cash-in that feels and plays like they spent $1 million on development and $20 million on marketing.    … Expand
  96. le_souriceau
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    Not a true Fallout game, just clunky pretender, using love of fans and media hype. Boring *bla bla bla* story (no logic, poor writing), weak RPG elements (elements! its not realy in RPG genre now or even good Action-RPG), console controls (grrrr), senseless grind, bad AI, annoying, forced usage of American Revoulution theme. Generaly, this is just husk of Fallout stripped off all sweetNot a true Fallout game, just clunky pretender, using love of fans and media hype. Boring *bla bla bla* story (no logic, poor writing), weak RPG elements (elements! its not realy in RPG genre now or even good Action-RPG), console controls (grrrr), senseless grind, bad AI, annoying, forced usage of American Revoulution theme. Generaly, this is just husk of Fallout stripped off all sweet (smarty) things and remade for console generation of young players.… Expand
  97. B2BigAl
    Apr 23, 2017
    3
    This was a great game...once the mod community fixed and added all the crap the useless tools at Bethesda dropped the ball on. This is one of the laziest, buggiest games I've ever played, Bethesda didn't even try on this one. I can't count how many times I had to use the console to get around game breaking bugs, I seriously don't know how console gamers could even play this. BethesdaThis was a great game...once the mod community fixed and added all the crap the useless tools at Bethesda dropped the ball on. This is one of the laziest, buggiest games I've ever played, Bethesda didn't even try on this one. I can't count how many times I had to use the console to get around game breaking bugs, I seriously don't know how console gamers could even play this. Bethesda kmows the mod community will finish their games for them, so why even bother, right? I had to load 52 mods to make this the game it should have been at release, that is beyond absurd! Thank you to all the modders out there, and screw you Bethesda. I'm glad I only paid $10 for this, though they don't even deserve that. Instead, I donated to the modders out there who actually deserved compensation and recognition for their hard work.… Expand
  98. Smilomaniac
    Nov 19, 2015
    3
    There's little more to be said than the fact that Bethesda butchered an amazing setting for the sake of making a gimmicky sandbox shooter.
    For what it is, the game is decent with a lot of work put into details, however there is no point of playing beyond shooting and looting. I recommend any of the Bioshock games as much cheaper and better alternatives.
    For people who specifically want a    There's little more to be said than the fact that Bethesda butchered an amazing setting for the sake of making a gimmicky sandbox shooter.
    For what it is, the game is decent with a lot of work put into details, however there is no point of playing beyond shooting and looting. I recommend any of the Bioshock games as much cheaper and better alternatives.
    For people who specifically want a sandbox game, both Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim are vastly better games with a huge modding community behind both.

    I give this game a score of 3 based on the fact that it does not live up to being a Fallout game - Not just what I personally want from a Fallout game, but what should be expected.
    The lack of meaningful impact you have on the world as well as a dreadful dialogue system equates to having a racing game with roller skates instead of cars. The game just doesn't work beyond the gimmicks.    … Expand
  99. ZaPaAl
    Feb 27, 2016
    3
    Enough with open world games filled with nothingness! I had hopes, because somehow I did like Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but this just doesn't work for me. I looked up a few old fallout videos, and instantly remembered, why they were great. The feeling of progress, hubs filled with good quests, fighting with a lot of strategy ...

    It does start engaging, but looses consistently until I    Enough with open world games filled with nothingness! I had hopes, because somehow I did like Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but this just doesn't work for me. I looked up a few old fallout videos, and instantly remembered, why they were great. The feeling of progress, hubs filled with good quests, fighting with a lot of strategy ...

    It does start engaging, but looses consistently until I just couldn't endure it anymore, feeling crushed by how much (50-66%?) still was unexplored. And why should I explore? To kill another pack of raiders or super mutants, clean out some thrashed buildings and gain hundreds of tons of useless stuff? I had some fun building up my first settlement, building defenses, housing etc. Until I realized, doing so is just a great waste of time. Even with dozens of turrets, walls etc. they can't fight for themselves at all. If a settlement is attacked and you don't show up, everything is lost. So, what for?

    The story isn't motivating, it just dissolves somehow. The parties you can join are boring. Most of the character's you meet are boring. The quests aren't interesting or meaningful. Skill system isn't fun or meaningful. Game looks bland. It can be modded, and needs a lot of it, but that doesn't help on the long run, if the design is broken. It's their best voice acting and dialog system to date, but in it's core it has nothing of fun to offer. What a waste of potential.    … Expand
  100. 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
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#31 Best PC Game of 2015
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

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