Fallout 4

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  1. gromenawer
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    In Fallout 5 the SPECIAL system will be simplified by having only one number, going from 1 to 10, that tells how cool is your character. Perks are completely removed.

    In Fallout 6 you only have one dialogue option. You can press X to initiate dialogue whenever you want. Game still get 10/10 reviews and it is chosen as RPG of the year.

    Fallout 7 have complete Facebook integration.
  2. Screwdrivervasy
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    Disgusting **** Fallout? Were is the Fallout? Take away the rights to Fallout from Bethesda. By the way, how the skill affects the damage of a firearm? He that increases the caliber? **** go to such games. Excuse us, Black Isle, we all screwed up
  3. ComBrandon
    Dec 27, 2015
    2
    +Graphics
    +Power armor is cool
    +Combat is clean Now onto the bad stuff -Worst character creation in all of Fallout history -Very little variety in the enemies that you fight -Very, very bad dialogue with almost no use of the Charisma attribute -Terrible story, with an even worse ending -Walk in a straight line or be punished gameplay (The lower your level is in comparison to an    +Graphics
    +Power armor is cool
    +Combat is clean
    Now onto the bad stuff
    -Worst character creation in all of Fallout history
    -Very little variety in the enemies that you fight
    -Very, very bad dialogue with almost no use of the Charisma attribute
    -Terrible story, with an even worse ending
    -Walk in a straight line or be punished gameplay (The lower your level is in comparison to an enemy, the less damage you will deal regardless of weapon strength or perks)
    -Barely an RPG
    -VATS is now even more sloppy than in previous titles
    -Wasteland does not look barren, or weathered. There is an abundance of wildlife and plants regardless of post-nuclear war. (Completely goes against the theme of Fallout)
    -Extremely small "Open world" map.

    Do not buy this game, its a waste of your money.    … Expand
  4. Toddler
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Huge disappointment after New Vegas, then again we're talking about Bethesda here:
    - Story is bland and stale as a week old coffee
    - Graphic style looks like a mixture between Sims and claymation - No more Traits or Skills, just the same simplified idiotic "character building" as Skyrim. - Plays more like CoD than First Person RPG. Why not add cover system & rebounding Health meter    Huge disappointment after New Vegas, then again we're talking about Bethesda here:
    - Story is bland and stale as a week old coffee
    - Graphic style looks like a mixture between Sims and claymation
    - No more Traits or Skills, just the same simplified idiotic "character building" as Skyrim.
    - Plays more like CoD than First Person RPG. Why not add cover system & rebounding Health meter while you're at it Bethesda?    … Expand
  5. Jedien
    Dec 24, 2015
    2
    If you are a real Fallout 1 - 2 fan do not buy this game !
    Bethesda said it is the biggest game project ever - if yes I am scarred for the future games - honestly.
  6. ariansand
    Nov 20, 2015
    2
    Where to begin?
    I was expecting a great game to say the least. I rode the hype train pretty heavily. However this game was an absolute disaster on so many levels. Just trying to come with it all will be a huge challenge so I am not even going to try. I am just going to list the good and the bad in the game and that's it.
    The good: The character creation system was really good. However I    Where to begin?
    I was expecting a great game to say the least. I rode the hype train pretty heavily. However this game was an absolute disaster on so many levels. Just trying to come with it all will be a huge challenge so I am not even going to try. I am just going to list the good and the bad in the game and that's it.
    The good:
    The character creation system was really good. However I must say that it was pointless creating the look of the other character as that character will not matter at all in the game.
    Crafting system was generally good, at least for the weapons and armor.
    Combat was improved but it is not nearly as good as other titles which focuses more on combat.
    VATS was improved although I think that time goes too fast in VATS and it kind of destroys its purpose. Previous VATS was better, however still a nice feature.
    The bad:
    Leveling up. It was just plain horrible, there is no point leveling up anymore since all you get are these perk points. You can't increase your SPECIAL points when you level up!
    Perks. What the hell, mainstreamed like crazy. Most of these perks are pointless. None of the perks are essential for the game!
    Combat. Especially the stealth combat does not work. There is absolutely no reason to put on a suppressor on a gun as the enemy will still find you even if you shoot from 200 meters away and have all the necessary perks and everything. Also the hip firing is just horrendous, the targeting grid is so huge that it becomes overly changeling to even get a single hit on the other character. In fact I would suggest everyone to just use melee weapons, they are m,much better. Just run up to the enemy and slash their throats.
    Dialogue. Lacking very much, I do enjoy the voice acting and everything but dialogue is such a mess that it is pointless to talk to people. Many characters say the exact same **** often it does not matter what the hell you are saying and sarcasm can go either way.
    Story and quests. Also very lacking, the story was not all that intriguing and felt quite shallow to be honest. But that was still the best part of this section as the quests were absolutely horrendous. What you did was all the same thing, as minuteman you just helped some settlement and as a brotherhood of steel you just went and picked up artifacts and killed every enemy in a location. It was repeated forever, nowhere did it say that, hey stupid progress with the main quest and then the brotherhood of steel quest will also progress. In short quests were awful! Also to note that the story progressed very quickly! Also the ending was basically the same for every faction. The only difference was who was left alive and who roams the commonwealth afterwards as NPCs(boring as hell!).
    Settlements and crafting for those settlements. The worst feature ever! I tried to make my settlement a safe haven for the settlers. I barricaded them with huge fences just like in some kind of concentration camp, I built them a nice place to live with many beds fitted closely together. I put turrets left and right to shoot any and all attackers. I made a single entrance in the form of a gate and put huge defenses both in front of it and behind it. It was secure as hell and I provided them with all their needs, water, food, security, power, beds. They were happy but they were stupid. When there was an attack these people opened the gate and ran outside so that they could fight when they could just have stayed inside and let the turrets take care of the raiders. So they got killed en mass.
    Stupid AI, both the NPCs and especially your companions.
    Graphics. Horrendous graphics and it barely looks better than fallout 3.
    Loading time. What the hell so many loading times(especially in game!). I have a great PC and it still loads forever even through I have specifically put this game on my Intel SSD drive. Also I have the latest i7 6700K CPU and gtx 980 ti in sli config and 32 Gigs of DDR4 RAM. It shows one thing, old and bad engine!!!!
    Radio. The same songs playing over and over again. I just got a headache when listening to it. Bad choice!
    Bugs everywhere! Some bugs were game breaking. I encountered a bug where I did not take with me danse to the supermutant location and he just appeared there. But he appeared as a hostile despite me not firing a single shot at him. That made the whole brotherhood of steel hostiles for no god damn reason.
    This game sucks rotten horse testicles and it was not worth my buy.
    Rating of 2/10 seems to be a rating which is fitting for the current state of the game.    … Expand
  7. Greywolf2001ca
    Aug 22, 2016
    2
    Bethesda disguised their next Elder Scrolls game as a Fallout. This game is just Hack'n'Shoot and has little role-playing in it. It's more of an action-adventure game... you explore, you kill and loot. You sometimes have puzzles and a bit of interaction with some npcs, but your choices in the conversations have little or no impact on the game. The choices are like Knight of the OldBethesda disguised their next Elder Scrolls game as a Fallout. This game is just Hack'n'Shoot and has little role-playing in it. It's more of an action-adventure game... you explore, you kill and loot. You sometimes have puzzles and a bit of interaction with some npcs, but your choices in the conversations have little or no impact on the game. The choices are like Knight of the Old Republic's near the end where you choose your ending, no plot tree, just a boring Elder Scrolls linear story with three to four almost identical endings (like massacre these guys, or kill those guys, etc. No diplomacy, no bargaining, no let's be a happy family with everyone happy, etc.).

    Bethesda are hypocrites. This game ain't part of the Fallout series. If they would have called it like Bloodshed in the Commonwealth, an action-adventure game in the Fallout univverse, I would have given this game a 10 / 10, it would have been a kickass FPS with adventure elements on top of the building of bases.

    Speaking of building bases/hamlets, this aspect of the game is completly useless. Nothing happens with these communities aside from random "go kill X to protect Y" missions. No missions to improve the community, no internal strife, no seek out new colonists for this hamlet, nothing!

    Bethesda has missed the mark for sure. They call this game Fallout 4, but it has nothing of the series aside from the game world. At least the old company had the intelligence of naming their game another way when they tried something else when Fallout Tactics came out. They did not called it Fallout 3.

    They spent too much time and money on graphics and not enough on the game itself. And don't tell me and others that this was what the fans wanted, that is total BS! We want a game like Fallout 1, 2 or New Vegas, at the limit like Fallout 3, but that game was too linear and I won't play anymore. Unlike Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas which I play each year once, sometimes all the way through to the end.

    PLEASE BETHESDA, GIVE BACK THE RIGHTS OF FALLOUT TO OBSIDIAN and the others who worked on the 2 first Fallouts! Please!    … Expand
  8. Demonidze
    Nov 17, 2015
    2
    after 20 hours of play I can say that this is not a Fallout game. the only way so far to solve problems is to kill stuff. there is no more skill checks. this is just a call of duty wonna be game with quests.. and lots of leading screens... all i did was go there kill raiders and fetch some item.. oh and play that facebook game they called settlements where you have to collect all the trashafter 20 hours of play I can say that this is not a Fallout game. the only way so far to solve problems is to kill stuff. there is no more skill checks. this is just a call of duty wonna be game with quests.. and lots of leading screens... all i did was go there kill raiders and fetch some item.. oh and play that facebook game they called settlements where you have to collect all the trash in the world and make a use out of it. it really gets boring after some time.

    one could expect that Bethesda will look at the success of FO:NV and FO3 take the positive and make eve better game next... somehow they failed.. on both ends. this game is a strong contender for biggest disappointment of 2015.    … Expand
  9. johnangel
    Nov 20, 2015
    2
    A mediocre action game.
    A terrible rpg game.
    A disaster as a fallout sequel. The worst bethesda game I played and one of the worst experiences in an rpg game I had. The good : The gun/armor customization is very well done. The power armor. The shooting mechanics are mediocre but I expected worse. The bad : No dialogue choices. The story , need I say more ? Ghouls and    A mediocre action game.
    A terrible rpg game.
    A disaster as a fallout sequel.

    The worst bethesda game I played and one of the worst experiences in an rpg game I had.

    The good :
    The gun/armor customization is very well done.
    The power armor.
    The shooting mechanics are mediocre but I expected worse.

    The bad :
    No dialogue choices.
    The story , need I say more ?
    Ghouls and supermutants are RARE, supermutants are practically extinct as a species.
    It's been 200 plus since the bombs fell , humanity is in the process of starting to prosper again,
    bethesda clearly has no idea of the fallout universe.
    Bugs the game is full of them. Two gamebreaking bugs that happened to me :
    1st - Deathclaw uncounter early in the game bugged had to restart lost 1-2 hours of game.
    2nd - Could not join the brotherhood, had to restart lost 10 hours of game.    … Expand
  10. mevsthevoices
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    Apart from looking good, this game doesn't have one iota of substance. It's unerringly boring and repetitive, lacking even the slight glint held by previous installments in the series.
    What're we doing today, Bob? OH, saving some settlers, again? That never gets old!
  11. Harrythevet
    Nov 20, 2015
    2
    Well, wasn't this like getting the hot chick at the club, getting her home, and finding she's packing a meat and two veg between her legs? Basically, it was a glorified FO3 DLC that took them 6 years to make. Gaaaaaay! Let's see, now:
    1) Crappy graphics. I mean, seriously, it's EXACTLY the same at FO3. Even the bugs are the same.
    2) The storylines are lame as hell, and the "quests" are    Well, wasn't this like getting the hot chick at the club, getting her home, and finding she's packing a meat and two veg between her legs? Basically, it was a glorified FO3 DLC that took them 6 years to make. Gaaaaaay! Let's see, now:
    1) Crappy graphics. I mean, seriously, it's EXACTLY the same at FO3. Even the bugs are the same.
    2) The storylines are lame as hell, and the "quests" are just rinse and repeats of "go here, kill some dudes, come back for some crappy-ass reward of 100 caps"
    3) There is ZERO RPG quality to this. As with Skyrim (which was massively overrated IMHO) it doesn't matter what line of dialogue you choose, it is all going to end up going largely, if not entirely, the same way.
    4) The base-building stuff? Todd Howard made such a big deal about it, but it serves no function and is pretty boring. Do they test this stuff on real gamers or on girls who want to play house? Jeez
    5) It feels this game was made for a mass market that appeals to people who like mindless Quake-style FSP, rather than using their brains.

    I don't know if another Elder Scrolls is in production, but if it is then they need to raise their game MASSIVELY. Also, I think the FO franchise is over. I think they need to think of a new setting/story and make new RPGs in the way they USED to make them.    … Expand
  12. Idiolized
    Oct 5, 2019
    2
    The game in itself is good, no doubt about it, even though it's sad the options becomes more and more limited for each game in the franchise..

    However the Fallout franchise is known (apparently only Bethesda is not aware) of the bugs and crashes, wich wikia sites of quest bugs and other forums clearly bare witness too.. And there are alot of them.. you can even die from hit collision by    The game in itself is good, no doubt about it, even though it's sad the options becomes more and more limited for each game in the franchise..

    However the Fallout franchise is known (apparently only Bethesda is not aware) of the bugs and crashes, wich wikia sites of quest bugs and other forums clearly bare witness too.. And there are alot of them.. you can even die from hit collision by crouching backwards in to a car.. the game is riddled with weird bugs in all areas, and none get fixed unless it's by modders (The unofficial Fallout 4 patch is essential to have).

    If you enjoy some extra challenge in the game and go through survival mode, you're ensured to loose hours on not being able to save before sleeping, and then the game crashes, you die by walking in to a car, you getting stucked in a rock/tree stump etc.

    The game is fun for a casual playthrough, but if you want to achieve something within the game, bugs in quests and the game mechanics itself makes this game quite terrible.. Especially considering they keep doing it over and over and over.    … Expand
  13. Aeroisticon
    Nov 29, 2015
    2
    If any other developer tried this stunt they would be instantly **** crucified

    +VATS is still fun
    +gunplay has improved

    -boring 2-d story
    -uninteresting characters
    -bug central
    -god awful voice acting
    -2010 graphics
    -0 innovation
    -dumbed down dialogue
    -ridiculously stupid perks
    -terrible optimization
    -clunky pc controls
  14. waltari
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    Horrible port of a horrible game, that's about all. Empty story with nothing worth remembering for longer than 10 minutes inside.
    - Hilarious game progress (getting powerarmor after about 12-ish minutes of playing)
    - No motivation (getting into BoS in about 25 minutes) - Horrible voice acts, i mean seriously HORRIBLE - Absence of anything even remotely close to possible RPG element -    Horrible port of a horrible game, that's about all. Empty story with nothing worth remembering for longer than 10 minutes inside.
    - Hilarious game progress (getting powerarmor after about 12-ish minutes of playing)
    - No motivation (getting into BoS in about 25 minutes)
    - Horrible voice acts, i mean seriously HORRIBLE
    - Absence of anything even remotely close to possible RPG element
    - As for story, well i don't know how to express it, lets say even F3 story was somewhat better
    - Missing the postapo feel.
    - Many more

    + 2 points for the effort put into advertisements (apparently better than the game itself)

    Summary: Wasted resources adn opportunity, badly ported shooter, everything from Fallout world is taken away, you can finish this game even if you are braindead.
    * If you love singleplayer shooters, this is game you may like.
    * If you are RPG and/or Fallout fan do not touch this game even with 50 meters stick    … Expand
  15. Prais1980
    Nov 14, 2015
    2
    A lot of people are saying this game is good, you know what? These Gamers are Call of Duty gamers!
    Why? Because Fallout 4 isn't a real RPG anymore.
    Let me explain: - There is no Karma-System - Weapons are immortal, they can not break - there are no skills anymore, repair? Why? You only have your 7 Main Attributes now, NOTHING ELESE! Except these Perks...so every level you can increase    A lot of people are saying this game is good, you know what? These Gamers are Call of Duty gamers!
    Why? Because Fallout 4 isn't a real RPG anymore.
    Let me explain:
    - There is no Karma-System
    - Weapons are immortal, they can not break
    - there are no skills anymore, repair? Why? You only have your 7 Main Attributes now, NOTHING ELESE! Except these Perks...so every level you can increase your 7 Main Attributes or select a perk, so you can have 10 Skillpoints with EVERY Attribute...over powered much?
    - the dialogue system has been caponized for the Shooter gamer, you ONLY have 4 answers, most of the time these answers contains just up to 2 words...sometimes you can just answer YES or NO...omg
    - the characters are in the game so mainstream and boring, no surprises, no freaky ones!
    - random legendary overpowered enemies...like in a MMORPG
    - random encounters are like always the same
    - Grinding (you are forced, for the main quest!), bethesda said, you don't need to craft, but for the Main Quest YOU HAVE TO!
    - the Basebuilding-system is a pain in the a....and feels like it does not match in the game
    - animations are terrible if mobs start a melee attack
    - crashes, i had like 3 total crashs within the first hours.
    - bugs, a lof of them
    - Quests are most time like: CLEAR THIS AREA, FIND THAT, KILL THAT ONE, there are no deep and long quests...boring!
    - the world itself is so tiny and boring, you always see the same 5 cars on and on, most of the cities are ruined ones, which means there are empty, besides Raiders.
    And the Cities where people live, are like 4 at all...and part of the mainquest, so you will not see any good stuff besides the mainquest.

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

    -    … Expand
  16. TomasLacerda
    Dec 28, 2015
    2
    The game is addictive simply because we love all the Fallout precedents, but it's really unpolished. The only thing you do in the game is kill, there is a huge lack of interactions with the world, you just kill. It seems like Fallout 3, and only the main quest is interesting, the side quests is only to kill something.
    The loot system is utterly rubbish, you'll see yourself looting    The game is addictive simply because we love all the Fallout precedents, but it's really unpolished. The only thing you do in the game is kill, there is a huge lack of interactions with the world, you just kill. It seems like Fallout 3, and only the main quest is interesting, the side quests is only to kill something.
    The loot system is utterly rubbish, you'll see yourself looting absolutely everything, fast travel, and get back on it again.
    Really disappointing.    … Expand
  17. salzherz
    Dec 19, 2015
    2
    Old Grumpy Gamer.

    I dont care about graphics ---> the artstyle is still awesone. 9+ I care about the character system ---> and they screwed it. Terrible. No "small Frame ?", no negative perks ? Shame on you. The storyline ? I have to smile the whole time. Written by an undereducated marketing clown. The settlement system ? --> i would like to play an RPG and not a builder. The whole    Old Grumpy Gamer.

    I dont care about graphics ---> the artstyle is still awesone. 9+
    I care about the character system ---> and they screwed it. Terrible. No "small Frame ?", no negative perks ? Shame on you.
    The storyline ? I have to smile the whole time. Written by an undereducated marketing clown.
    The settlement system ? --> i would like to play an RPG and not a builder.
    The whole game is stripped down by complexity.
    The direction Bethesda is aiming is terrible wrong.
    52 hours on the record, bored, deleted.
    Playing Fallout 2 again.    … Expand
  18. kartonio
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    The portage to PC is just plain pathetic, in fact it is so badly done that any PC player will feel insulted at some point.

    from WASD keys that DO NOT REMAP FOR DIALOGUES AND CRAFTING... to the console oriented character creation, crafting, dialogues... EVERYTHING is downgraded on PC thanks to xbox/PS4 versions. I feel insulted, not surprised (they started this kid of behavior wth    The portage to PC is just plain pathetic, in fact it is so badly done that any PC player will feel insulted at some point.

    from WASD keys that DO NOT REMAP FOR DIALOGUES AND CRAFTING... to the console oriented character creation, crafting, dialogues... EVERYTHING is downgraded on PC thanks to xbox/PS4 versions.

    I feel insulted, not surprised (they started this kid of behavior wth Oblivion) and they count on the PC modding community to compensate for they shortcomings... pathetic.    … Expand
  19. waxaw
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    I cannot understand why there is a major discrepancy between critic and user reviews. Are today all reviewers payed to been positive? What is going on?
    Fallout 4 is a punch in the face, NV was the last title worth a positive review, but not this crap. Where is the Fallout atmosphere? From the beginning the story was not convincing me, for example: if the humanity managed to use Fusion why    I cannot understand why there is a major discrepancy between critic and user reviews. Are today all reviewers payed to been positive? What is going on?
    Fallout 4 is a punch in the face, NV was the last title worth a positive review, but not this crap. Where is the Fallout atmosphere? From the beginning the story was not convincing me, for example: if the humanity managed to use Fusion why for god sake are the energy resources depleted??? for fusion you need just tritium and that can you get from water.
    The map size is another down-vote, really Bethesda.
    I have no problem to play it at max, but the graphics are not much better than NV.
    Crafting? OK but this is a pain
    Building system? what? whats the purpose?    … Expand
  20. Orishii
    Nov 21, 2015
    2
    Don't buy this product. Don't pirate this product. If you are a Fallout and a RPG fan stay away from this, its just a lazy game with no soul. No RPG elements at all. This product isn't coherent at all, if you don't follow game script and go to explore at beginning you'll see why. EG you are frozen for 200 and when you wake up world is changed (not much ) there is a city and your premadeDon't buy this product. Don't pirate this product. If you are a Fallout and a RPG fan stay away from this, its just a lazy game with no soul. No RPG elements at all. This product isn't coherent at all, if you don't follow game script and go to explore at beginning you'll see why. EG you are frozen for 200 and when you wake up world is changed (not much ) there is a city and your premade character cant know that city after 200 years of sleep but in conversation (dumped down ) talks like he know that city, but when you go back and follow the script, when that city its mentioned he ask : ''What city ? I don't know that city'' and demand more info about city. Game is scripted as **** and stupid. F4 its just a shooter. Very low textures to most of clutter and objects. Stupid AI, you fire a MINI NUKE at them and after 5-10 seconds they act like nothing happened. Ui is atrocious, for console, they didn't change it for PC. No FOV slide bar ( weapons cover half of screen ), no graphics settings IN GAME. Now we have Farmville in a ''Fallout'' product. Survival difficulty is a joke, to easy, only change is that stimpaks heal slower, that's all. No degradation, no repair, very few types of enemies ( nothing new ), boring quests, no alternative choices of doing quests ( just shooting all time ). You can mod a pistol into a sniper early in the game, Power armor in 30 mins of game. F4 is a lazy and unfinished product.… Expand
  21. stradian
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    This game had one amazing feature that died on release: The largest and most expensive marketing campaign as of late. Outside of that it is a sub par creation unworthy of the reputation of Bethesda.

    As far as role-playing goes, there are only 3 types of human bad guys, with one of the types optional. You can't be a bad person in this game until the end. I won't spoiler the ending, but    This game had one amazing feature that died on release: The largest and most expensive marketing campaign as of late. Outside of that it is a sub par creation unworthy of the reputation of Bethesda.

    As far as role-playing goes, there are only 3 types of human bad guys, with one of the types optional. You can't be a bad person in this game until the end. I won't spoiler the ending, but the game holds your hand until you make a mass effect like decision at the very end, and it only affects what reward video you see. The game also forces you to acquire a dog, you can get rid of him by telling him to stay. The feature promoted at E3 if you have one of the 1000 names, every npc will call you by that name. Unfortunately, only one NPC (the mr.handy at the beginning) will actually say your name.) In addition, Bethesda ensured to give profanities priority over actual names. You can be called **** **** you name it, but "Kyle"? Nope.

    The powerarmor is one of the few assets that's fun. Unfortunately, the worth of powerarmor is hugely diminished by the ability to acquire it (if you go raider hunting) from near the beginning of the game and wear it. In addition, the game is too short that once you get it in the main quest about 3 hours later, you are almost finished with the game. The jetpack also breaks the game. NPCs can not respond to you when you are above them. They won't run into cover, or try to reach you, unless they are at the same ground level as you.

    The legendary items are stupid gimmicks. There is a double barrel shotgun that you never have to reload. Item customization isn't really that much better. Its nice that you can change style of play... but you will end up using the same mods over and over again, because they actually make a real and heavy change.

    The wasteland construction also really serves no point. You can make nice structures, but you have a base already given to you, and you need its utility. Its a utility that can not be replicated. Therefore, you can build around your already established base, but nothing will attack it because its a protected area where no hostile will spawn.

    The voice acting is also annoying and have kirks. The characters are one dimensional, and serve only one purpose. There is little or no character development in this game. They also sandbox terribly, run into walls, and overall be buggy. You can't kill the characters unless they are the only one of the three types I mentioned before. Therefore, if a character is never bad... they are invincible. You can't do mass murder sprees and wipe out towns like you use to.

    Overall... This is a game in a sandbox that has a track. You can play in the sandbox a little with exploring and building creation, but other then that it doesn't serve its purpose as a fallout game. You can't play in the sandbox in protected areas like towns, the main base (you can build around there though), and places where the story take place. Other then being in the sandbox, its like being in an amusement park ride.

    The graphics requirements for this game are too high for what it offers. It just looks bland, and some structures look absolutely low res, even on ultra. View distance has been noticeably slashed from previous games. For the graphics fidelity promised, its disappointing.    … Expand
  22. Marucins
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    Straszny niewypał. Produkt robiony na pozytywnej opinii, krwi i pocie poprzedniego Fallouta.
    Strzelanina z elementami cRPG.
    Kolejna odsłona miała pokazać coś fajnego, coś nowego a tu Bethesda postanowiła stać w miejscu. Zaczynając od zadań, przez NPC, poziomie trudności, kończąc na wyglądzie gry i jej wymaganiach. A swoją drogą po kiego dawali tam VATS, skoro zwykłe strzelanie jest    Straszny niewypał. Produkt robiony na pozytywnej opinii, krwi i pocie poprzedniego Fallouta.
    Strzelanina z elementami cRPG.
    Kolejna odsłona miała pokazać coś fajnego, coś nowego a tu Bethesda postanowiła stać w miejscu. Zaczynając od zadań, przez NPC, poziomie trudności, kończąc na wyglądzie gry i jej wymaganiach. A swoją drogą po kiego dawali tam VATS, skoro zwykłe strzelanie jest bardziej efektowne?
    Czy ta firma jest na tyle bezczelna że wypuszcza chłam licząc na to że gracze wyprostują to coś przez mody do stanu jakim nie powstydziłby się gracz ?    … Expand
  23. HENCHMAN
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    This game is bad, and not in a good way. I was offended by the graphics, the mechanics are ridiculous, not in a good way either. I wanted to get rid of it after playing for a few hours. I'm only playing now to justify my purchase. I was hoping this would be a game i kept in my collection but I will be trading this in for star wars come Tuesday. Basically rented a game for $20. This is myThis game is bad, and not in a good way. I was offended by the graphics, the mechanics are ridiculous, not in a good way either. I wanted to get rid of it after playing for a few hours. I'm only playing now to justify my purchase. I was hoping this would be a game i kept in my collection but I will be trading this in for star wars come Tuesday. Basically rented a game for $20. This is my first fallout game an i got it based on reviews of previous fallout games and the supposed hype of what was to come. I got the Nathan Drake collection as i had not previously played the series and the graphics were on par with fallout 4, a d@mn shame considering the time lapse. I am being generous when i say this game is pedestrian, and a pedestrian with no legs. It only gets a two because it get's a point for writing its name and a point for showing up. Thanks for nothing.… Expand
  24. C0ncox
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    So many people are in denial because this game had an overwhelming amount of hype around it. Some of my friends call it their favorite game of all time. I also succumbed to the hype and bought the game.

    It is 2015. Why can't we have games that actually actually BELONG on next gen consoles. The textures and animations are laughable garbage. My friend tried to tell me that it's in the art    So many people are in denial because this game had an overwhelming amount of hype around it. Some of my friends call it their favorite game of all time. I also succumbed to the hype and bought the game.

    It is 2015. Why can't we have games that actually actually BELONG on next gen consoles. The textures and animations are laughable garbage. My friend tried to tell me that it's in the art style of Fallout 3. LOL Why would you want to make that game look **** on purpose? At least Fallout 3 PASSED as a PS3 game then.

    They never really fixed the issues that 3 and New Vegas had either. The shooting is awkward as **** can't aim at anything and the vats system is about 3x worse, Interface and the Pip-Boy system is still confusing, the Open world may be interesting, but after about 2 hours of play it's hard to progress when you don't have the necessary equipment. The characters are still bland and lifeless. The bad animations were passable in the 2 previous games, but not they just look awkward and unlifelike.

    The new things are awful too. They added a dog! ...So has Call Of Duty! WHO CARES! Your character can speak now? That wouldn't have done anything in the first place. Codsdick can say my name which is cool but also unnecessary. It's cool to see how the world got ****ed but other than that the story is **** The soundtrack, although fantastic, is the same as Fallout 3 which is lazy on a lot of aspects.

    The saddest thing is that people LIKE this game. Bethesda needs to step their game up and people need to see through the hype and nostalgia and see why this game is the Watch Dogs of 2015.    … Expand
  25. FNDeboer
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Wow..this game is dumb. Everything that made the original Fallout from 1997 a masterpiece is gone. Nothing in this game makes sense and it's not even a real RPG. It's a really bad FPS with stats and some Minecraft-style gameplay awkwardly thrown in.

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

    Full disclosure: I thought Fallout 3 was pretty bad compared to Fallout 1, but at least good for a fun romp. From this I expected decent production values at the very least, but everything is half-assed. The art direction is terribly incoherent, the voice acting is downright terrible, the writing is cringe-worthy and the plot is an abomination. Fortunately Steam has a return policy.    … Expand
  26. Randomehro
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 4 is a joke. A huge disappointment for people who played other Fallout parts. It is basically a mix of shooter, badly designed survival game, minecraft in a post-apocalyptic world. If you are looking for a good RPG game, and especially if you played other great titles this year like Witcher 3, you will be extremely disappointed. Straight to the point, here are the main issues with this game:

    1/ The story is flat and boring. Really... a 10 year old would write a better storyline. It is not convincing, after the nuclear holocaust, you just wake up 200 years later. You go outside the Vault, take a look on your old home, meet a dog, which is your new companion. In the next 20 min you help some guys you barely know, and as a gift you get power armor and a minigun! The dialogs were basically eliminated, there are only 4 answer options (single phrases like Yes, No, I don't give a **** Maybe)!!! WTF should this mean!? We are not illiterate, do the developers assumed that every player is an idiot, who only wants to play Fallout4-shooter game? The result is that you just don't care about the quests, or interaction with NPCs.

    2/ The graphics are terrible and cartoony, it is a parody of the Fallout world. This game looks like DLC for Fallout 3 or some kind of bad mod based on 2009 graphics engine.

    3/ The RPG character system was extremely simplified. There are no skills! WTF?! Now, you can specialize in any weapon, armor type etc as you want. Furthermore, you can max you SPECIAL points easily. There is no Karma! You cannot evil, it has no consequences.

    4/ The interface is a bad port from a console game. Unintuitive key binding. There is no FOV slider and bigger guns cover 1/4 of the screen. Third person perspective is unplayable.

    5/ The map is quite small in comparison to other games. There was a lot of time to prepare something bigger.

    It is hard to find some positive sides in comparison to Fallout 3, or New Vegas. Music is fine, the pip-boy app for iOS/Android was a good idea.

    Conclusion:
    I was a huge fan of Fallout world and this part is just the worst of them. It is ridiculous that Fallout 4 got the average 86/100 in the "professional" critic reviews. When you see such a huge discrepancy between scores of critics and users, there must be something wrong with this game...
    Those idiots are just paid scumbags to give a good score. My score is 2/10 to compensate for other fanboys who give this game 10/10 and cannot accept that this purchase was a failure. There was a huge hype wave prior to the release based mostly on the sentiment of the fans of the franchise. But it will not work next time!    … Expand
  27. BuGi
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    It really seems like what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. None of the good features Obsiadian made in Vegas made it to F4. Lack of hardcore mode is the most disappointing which turns survival postapo game into dull shooter. I dont care mods will change this. Im reviewing the game Bethesda made, not community.

    I will not comment about graphics, that was never part of fallout and I    It really seems like what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. None of the good features Obsiadian made in Vegas made it to F4. Lack of hardcore mode is the most disappointing which turns survival postapo game into dull shooter. I dont care mods will change this. Im reviewing the game Bethesda made, not community.

    I will not comment about graphics, that was never part of fallout and I dont mind 64x64px texture being used on bobby pin as well as 5x10m big billboard although it does make your eyes hurt.

    Lack of skills is surprise. If you dont have certain perk, you wont even have chance to try to pick a lock. Game simply doesnt allow you to use it. I'd love to hear Todd Howards speech how less RPG elements actually enhance RPG genere ;)
    SPECIAL is plain pointless and it only affects your hitpoints, action points and carry capacity. Charisma and intelligence are dump stats. Yes, intelligence 1 lets you use same dialogue options and hack computers like a pro. So much for Fallout 1, 2 where intelligence 1 made you a total retard and you couldnt even talk to intelligent people. You simply didnt understand what they are saying. No such cases here in F4.

    Conversations are limited to 4 dialogue options. I liked voice narration, however some players who are role playing might not like it. It makes you feel less connected with hero. Feels like you are just observing someone, doesnt make you feel its you.

    I couldnt help myslef but for the whole time, I had immersion Im playing idSofts RAGE.

    Whie its good the shooting mechanics is better, they fixed combat but completely ignored RPG part of the game. Fallout 4 is as much RPG as Borderlands is. You have generic character pretty much 40% of players will have and you chose perks from simple tree. Its a first/3rd person action shooter. I wouldnt be surprised if there was autoheal.

    You can choose to be good or bad. Thats about it. In both cases, you are supposed to kill everything you meet. Conversations, barter, sneak, etc simply wont allow you to progress without killing everything.
    For more violent players, it also doesnt feel like RPG. You can use every weapon you pick, no more specialization in energy weapons or conventional firearms. This also implies the feel its a shooter. Whatever gun you find, you can use it. Weapon quality degradation is out, no more hunting for spare parts to fix them.

    I didnt bother with the Minecraft or Tower defense part of the game, as I simply think its completely out of topic and has no placein RPG games. Imagine having solitaire minigame in Need for Speed for instance ;)

    All in all, Fallout 4 is mediocre first person shooter in open world with inventory. RPG wise its disaster.
    F1 and F2 fans will absolutely hate it. F3 fans will not like it for even more dunped down RPG elements. (unless they played F3 as shooter as well.)

    Call of Duty and Doom fans will feel right at home though.    … Expand
  28. dax60840
    Jan 27, 2016
    2
    This game is an open world fps, with some perks and a cool crafting system.
    A mix between FarCry 3 and Skyrim with a post-apo vibe in it.
    The writing is pretty bad but it's not that important in fps...

    This game is not an RPG.
    This game is not a Fallout.
  29. Cuttooth
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Unbelievably disappointing addition to the franchise. So much of the core mechanics that made for the immersive RPG experience of previous games have been stripped out reducing it to an uninspiring first person shooter.

    It's truly bizarre to see so many critic reviews praising this complete gutting of the character and narrative systems essential to Fallout as 'streamlining'. I've    Unbelievably disappointing addition to the franchise. So much of the core mechanics that made for the immersive RPG experience of previous games have been stripped out reducing it to an uninspiring first person shooter.

    It's truly bizarre to see so many critic reviews praising this complete gutting of the character and narrative systems essential to Fallout as 'streamlining'.

    I've actually attempted my first ever steam refund after 12 hours when I realised this was not the game I had been sold... fans of the series avoid at all cost.    … Expand
  30. BigDiggerNick
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    If you liked previous fallout games - especially new vegas, then you will find this game a disappointment. You may find entertainment in this game if you enjoy shallow, brainless shooters with the "open world" gimmick tagged on - because that's all you are getting here.
    Firsts things first, however; performance. This game performs quite poorly. While at first, it gave me a decent 60fps,    If you liked previous fallout games - especially new vegas, then you will find this game a disappointment. You may find entertainment in this game if you enjoy shallow, brainless shooters with the "open world" gimmick tagged on - because that's all you are getting here.
    Firsts things first, however; performance. This game performs quite poorly. While at first, it gave me a decent 60fps, performance gradually deteriorated as time went on to the point where the game was nearly unplayable. Stuttering is all over the place, as well as frame rate drops and glitches in textures. Considering that this game is far from impressive in terms of scale and graphics, there is no reason other than sheer incompetence that this game performs so badly. As far as I am aware, this is not limited to my PC (which, I admit, is not top of the range); people with high spec rigs also are reporting serious performance issues with this game.
    While the performance may have pushed me over the edge with this game, it's problems only begin there. As mentioned previously, the game has bad graphics and visuals. Sure, the animations are an improvement on the last installments. However, these are years old by now, and had bad animations and visuals even for when they were new. Character facial animations are wooden, and animations in dialog often glitch out. All in all, games which came out last year look considerably better than this. Hell, slap an enb mod on skyrim and you have better graphics than fallout.
    In terms of gameplay, it can be said that there is an improvement over last games. However, gunplay was awful in previous installments, so it isn't really saying much. The combat is mediocre, nothing more. AI is improved, but still pretty retarded. Just like in skyrim, NPCS get stuck on objects when travelling from location to location, take wild detours en route, and overall act like complete potatoes. In all, combat is playable (when the game isn't stuttering), but nothing particularly entertaining or impressive.
    The controls and UI however, are terrible. The game was clearly designed around consoles, with PC as an afterthought. Everything involving a ui (looting, crafting, dialog) is a complete chore on a keyboard and mouse setup, and feels clunky. The game feels like a badly done console port when it comes to control and UI.
    But the real problem with this game is the writing. Fallout was always an RPG. However, most RPG elements are either gone or dumbed down in this game, to the point where it feels like an actions game. Dialog choices are terrible, and you cannot predict what your character is going to say based on the two syllable (at most) prompts which are given to you. Most dialog choices are "yes" "no" "maybe" or "sarcastic". Seriously. Your character will then enact some lines which you had no idea he was going to say upon clicking one of these choices, of which you are given only four. There is no role playing whatsoever, and no real dialogue choices. You cannot decide what sort of character you want to be beyond a minimal "perk" system which has little bearing on the gameplay. The story is also completely nonsense. I did not once become attached to any of the characters in it, and did not sympathise with the railroaded protagonist at any point.
    Finally, the world. Bethesda has always been reputed for large and impressive open worlds. However, the world in this game is not particularly large, nor is it impressive. It lacks the details previous games had, and I am unable to become immersed in it like I was in the mojave or capital wasteland. I am left with no desire to explore, not least because the controls and UI make everything such a chore.

    Overall the game improves on combat, making it mediocre in comparison to the terrible combat of the last games. However, every other aspect of the game is a step backwards. Role playing is non existent, dialogue is awful, the writing in ridiculous, the UI is even more consolised than skyrims and the world is boring. Combine this with the glitches, terrible performance and drab visuals, and you're left with a game which fails to live up to expectations, hype, or the standards set by previous titles. Nothing but disappointment, all for £39.99.    … Expand
  31. theodoreschmai
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    If you were one of the people like me who were over hyped for this game, I am sorry. Here are some reasons that I am dissapointed.

    First, the story is abysmal. Without going into too much detail, it is a bland linear plot with boring characters and poor progression. The dialogue options are terrible and don't effect really anything. Compared to the Witcher 3, your choices really do not    If you were one of the people like me who were over hyped for this game, I am sorry. Here are some reasons that I am dissapointed.

    First, the story is abysmal. Without going into too much detail, it is a bland linear plot with boring characters and poor progression. The dialogue options are terrible and don't effect really anything. Compared to the Witcher 3, your choices really do not matter at all.

    The quests in this game are the worst of any Bethesda game, especially the side quests. They are all "go here kill this" or "go here fetch this". There is an absurd amount to do but very little worth doing. Its progression for the sake of progression.

    The new construction system doesn't "just work" as advertised and is actually really buggy and annoying. Fences are stuck to going awkward directions that never work, structures don't snap to 90 degrees and are impossible to get right. Scrapping materials seems like a waste of a lot of time. Providing for the people in the settlements is tedious and unrewarding. Basically everything about it is disappointing.

    Gameplay is the worst of any modern shooter. I know VATS is pushed heavily, but it seems weird that the game never introduces it in any way shape or form. Also, VATS now slows down time instead of stopping it, ridding of the series turn based roots, though actually one of the few changes I enjoy. Overall combat is terrible and seems like just another obstacle in every quest rather than creating an experience. With modern games such as the Witcher (I know I've already mentioned it) making combat into something that is really unique and challenging, Fallout ops instead to make it boring and almost unusable.

    Graphics in the game look like Skyrim with some extra lighting and slightly improved textures. In fact, modded Skyrim is far better looking than Fallout 4 on ultra. Also, Fallout is incredibly unoptomized and cripples even the best rigs (I am running it on a 980 and intel 6700k with 16 gigs of memory and still can barely run 45 on ultra and still am less than 60 on high with frequent dips below 20).

    I was a huge fan of Skyrim and Fallout 3, but unfortunately just as war never changes, neither do Bethesda's games. It has been a pretty bland and unmemorable experience so far, and the game is increasingly frustrating and feels like it is from over a decade ago. If you are considering buying the game, please wait until it is further optomised or just don;t at all. It is a mess.    … Expand
  32. Hubbubble
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    The game was advertised as an RPG, but is actually an adventure shooter.

    Gameplay is alright but mislabeled. Please do not make the same mistake, if you intend to buy an RPG look somewhere else.
  33. OraTzo
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Just a shortish review talking about two things because I don't want to waste words on this game.

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

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

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

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

    Oh and I don't expect mods to fix it.
    Fixing the dialog system is not likely to happen and even if it does it'll expose the lack of content in the game.    … Expand
  34. Phataser
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Clunky Animations.
    Kindergarten writing.
    Half Life 2 graphics.
    Bug galore.
    Empty and dull map.
    ***** up path finding.
    Is releasing an unfinished game so that modders have to spend months trying to fix it your visiting card now, Bethesda?
  35. kingraptor724
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Its funny that people think this trash will beat witcher 3 for GOTY. Completed the game, its very predictable story line and pretty boring. The shooting in the game and combat isnt as clunky as like skyrim etc so it was pretty enjoyable. But the graphics, terrible pacing in story, and very empty feeling world makes this game quite easily to fall asleep playing
  36. Alexvl1989
    Nov 21, 2015
    2
    Мне игра вообще не понравилась Беседка полностью просрала атмосферу великого фаллаута и сделала линейный шутер с элементами РПГ в открытом мире. В игре нет интересных квестов, нормальных диалогов, убогая графика и маленькая однообразная карта. Короче Fallout 4 полное гавно!Мне игра вообще не понравилась Беседка полностью просрала атмосферу великого фаллаута и сделала линейный шутер с элементами РПГ в открытом мире. В игре нет интересных квестов, нормальных диалогов, убогая графика и маленькая однообразная карта. Короче Fallout 4 полное гавно!
  37. MartysWasteland
    Apr 23, 2016
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have enjoyed many Bethesda and Fallout games and was rather interested yet critical about this game going in. I expected a fun world with a fun new combat system. What I got was a game that fails even at what was advertised (the combat) and what was to be expected from a Bethesda game (fun world). First off the story has an extreme problem handling emotions. What do I mean? Well at the start of the game your wife gets killed (or husband depending on what sex you choose at the start of the game) and you only have had one conversation prior to death about going to a park. You have no connection to the death and are supposed to care deeply for your son who was kidnapped. Later in the game you meat Kellogg which throws another "emotion" problem. What is the problem? Well the problem is your character cares so deeply for your kid he screams and curses at Kellogg no matter what dialogue you choose. As a character to little to no personality in other quest now all of sudden takes this set protagonist part is crazy. You have a massive player and character disconnect beyond belief. Also no matter what Kellogg will kill you or you him, but Bethesda tries to make you feel for this guy who did nothing good in a memory (thing?). Which would have been great if they established that he was "troubled" and gave you a sort of a benny amount of choices to kill or not kill him. Imagine if you were given the chance and Kellogg showed some emotions before hand--it would have been great, but Bethesda failed to that. The combat is a selling point for this game yet it is nothing of note. It is an objective upgrade handling and mechanically yet the enemy variety, weapons, and overall intrigue in the combat just isn't present. The world is another selling point, but sadly Bethesda forgot what made locations fun to discover and play around with. In this game everything is randomly generated besides a few unique weapons & FCs, so you have no real motive to go into these locations. However if they had fun and unique stories to tell it would have been different right? Well yep, but only 2 times I recall in which has that been the case. Most of the stories are about random uninteresting pre war stories. The staples of the Fallout series side quest, role playing, and lore are all ruined in this game also. Lore inconsistences are everyplace. Vertibirds being prewar, cats being alive, jet being prewar, and another FEV return. The quest are almost always besides 2 quest (gliding grasshopper & covenant) go to the place and kill that/get me that. The dialogue a pillar of role playing is not only glitchy it is broken to its core. It often gives you 4 options and 3 of them mean the exact same thing. No, yes, sarcastic, and ask a question. Sarcastic which is something that describes something should have been "sarcastic yes". Other times the dialogue fails is when sarcastic turns into rage against someone (like valentine in memory d). The only real choices in the dialogue system are the obvious "which faction are you going to choose" and sadly that is it. I could go on forever and will when I do my YouTube review on my YouTube channel (That Marty Fella). Today though I will just leave it at I think this a terrible game and disserves all the hate it is getting.… Expand
  38. Kvaron
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Terrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. NeverthelessTerrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. Nevertheless some arts are very good and impressive, cars with nuclear engine or panoramic views of bridges and post apocalypse landscapes are well drawn. Anyway it doesn't worst buying, save you money. Russian players also have awful localization… Expand
  39. skyhound
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    This is not a Fallout series game.
    Seriously, no dialogs, no more S.P.E.C.I.A.L system, no interesting quests - just loot' n' shoot. But it is a Bethesda game - actually, it is Buggerfall v.2 with F3-like "HELLO SON" scenario.
    Enjoy your AAA!
  40. Anaithnid
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    weapon durability system removed
    ammo type system removed
    hardcore mode removed weapon model on character when holstered removed faction system removed karma system removed Skills removed Traits removed Interior maps removed Dialogue system dumbed down, speech checks for various skills/special absent Narrative nowhere near New Vegas quality Buggy as **** performance problems,    weapon durability system removed
    ammo type system removed
    hardcore mode removed
    weapon model on character when holstered removed
    faction system removed
    karma system removed
    Skills removed
    Traits removed
    Interior maps removed
    Dialogue system dumbed down, speech checks for various skills/special absent
    Narrative nowhere near New Vegas quality
    Buggy as **** performance problems, lacking basic features that require you to go into the files and add lines to the .ini files

    Honesty, Bethesda is much more interested in streamlining the game to widen their audience that they lost me. If you told me back in 1997 that this is what Fallout would become I'd be dumb-founded. With each sequel a game should add more content with each iteration. But because we have to appeal to the mainstream casual audience now we have to remove a lot of the features that made this series great because it'll be to difficult for the masses. Very disappointed that it's come to this.    … Expand
  41. DVcon
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Put 2 only for radio and logo Fallout. Bethesda renounce the copyright to the series. You kill it . Return and Interplay Obsisdian, and buy yourself the right to Crysis and have fun .… Expand
  42. Sean_Alexander
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    Fallout 4 might be great for console players who are used to a lack of playable depth and simplified controls. However, it is a big disappointment for us PC enthusiasts because it lacks the depth of New Vegas from several years ago. Fallout 4's underwhelming graphics and dumbed-down complexity make it a clear miss compared to previous Bethesda gems like New Vegas and Skyrim. Fallout 4Fallout 4 might be great for console players who are used to a lack of playable depth and simplified controls. However, it is a big disappointment for us PC enthusiasts because it lacks the depth of New Vegas from several years ago. Fallout 4's underwhelming graphics and dumbed-down complexity make it a clear miss compared to previous Bethesda gems like New Vegas and Skyrim. Fallout 4 reminds me more of ESO than Fallout, and that's a real bummer.… Expand
  43. Treboras
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    This is the biggest disappointment in gaming for me in years!
    - The UI is horrendously complicated. It reacts slow and does not make good use of space! Everything is too big and you don't have enough information on the screen at once.
    - the story is dull and lifeless - the animations are sometimes quite creepy to watch - character customization is extensive but complicated and badly    This is the biggest disappointment in gaming for me in years!
    - The UI is horrendously complicated. It reacts slow and does not make good use of space! Everything is too big and you don't have enough information on the screen at once.
    - the story is dull and lifeless
    - the animations are sometimes quite creepy to watch
    - character customization is extensive but complicated and badly ported from console
    - weird mouse acceleration (can be turned off via config tweak)
    - not enough role-play elements; seems like an FPS

    + graphics are okay but outdated
    + the beginning was nicely done
    + good voice acting!    … Expand
  44. MrLeeSmith
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bad graphics to much bugs,glitches, few crashes and The unplayeble 3person makes this game rather strangely bad, even worse than bad, unplayable! The story isn't intriguing! The voice acting is off rather poor, the NPC get in your way and give more trouble than they are worth the dogs is the most buggy! He is useless, but sill in the game, the monsters in the game seem slightly off, the power armor makes this game a bit easy, and the shooting just feels like a game from 2001, the game doesn't have the impact that it should can't even burn a house down or blow something up! My rating is 2 cuz i don't believe the game can cost so much for sow bad content! The graphics look like from 2007 and you ask us 60bucks? while Witcher 3 or skyrim offer a lot more for the same price?… Expand
  45. kzkcz
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    REFUND 4.

    Skyrim was too casual and Fallout 4 going deeper. No story, no skill requiered. Overhyped. I love F1 & F2 but this is rly rly rly rly dissapointing. I refund money for F4 and cry a lot about Fallout brand, which I loved.
  46. thedstrat
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    I was so excited for the new Fallout because I've loved all the previous games in the series. I bought a new laptop with intention on playing the game with most game requirements above recommended (asus zenbook). As soon as I clicked Play, the game wouldn't load. Eventually, after doing all the fixes that I saw online and communicating directly with Bethesda, I was able to get the game toI was so excited for the new Fallout because I've loved all the previous games in the series. I bought a new laptop with intention on playing the game with most game requirements above recommended (asus zenbook). As soon as I clicked Play, the game wouldn't load. Eventually, after doing all the fixes that I saw online and communicating directly with Bethesda, I was able to get the game to start. However, it was unplayably slow. Now I want a refund. How can any game be made this sloppily, where a one week old computer with all the recommended settings and configurations, does not even run it? I'm somewhat pissed at Bethesda for this one.… Expand
  47. rinner23
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    This game is Trash. Coming from a long-time fallout fan from the very first, and I even loved Fallout 3.

    Bethesda have basically dumped a terrible console port onto the laps of PC Gamer's everywhere. To do that in itself is bad enough, but to do it with so beloved a franchise is unforgivable. There was a reason for the strict review embargo - this game is trash through and through.    This game is Trash. Coming from a long-time fallout fan from the very first, and I even loved Fallout 3.

    Bethesda have basically dumped a terrible console port onto the laps of PC Gamer's everywhere. To do that in itself is bad enough, but to do it with so beloved a franchise is unforgivable.

    There was a reason for the strict review embargo - this game is trash through and through. It's designed for consoles and even then doesn't come close to 'Next-Gen'. You can't even re-bind all the keys, change the FOV (WTF!), or equalize the horizontal/vertical mouse sensitivity.

    Aside from all the atrocious bugs, the awful face textures, crappy animations, and poor performance this game is just so DULL, DULL, DULL and BORING.

    This game is a horrible, shameful mess, and Bethesda have just lost a customer for life.

    AVOID.    … Expand
  48. Saveus
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    I would rate this 9/10, but not for a fallout game. Fallout is a RPG before everything, now its more like a action adventure shooter than anything else. Bethesda learn absolutely nothing from the master piece that was Fallout New Vegas, developed by Obsidian, they know how to make a Fallout game. Let me explain.The "NEW" Dialogue system, is lame, only 4 dialogue choice and most of themI would rate this 9/10, but not for a fallout game. Fallout is a RPG before everything, now its more like a action adventure shooter than anything else. Bethesda learn absolutely nothing from the master piece that was Fallout New Vegas, developed by Obsidian, they know how to make a Fallout game. Let me explain.The "NEW" Dialogue system, is lame, only 4 dialogue choice and most of them will not change the discussion at all. There are no dialogue tree in this game they are all linear, they don't use skill/perk
    option, and your voice character don't have the personality of the character you might want to have.    … Expand
  49. Sszrysn
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    If you're never played any Fallout games before then you might want to consider buy New Vegas instead. Because this is pretty mediocre FPS/TPS with dumbed-down RPG elements, awful storyline, badly-implemented dialogue wheel and bad voice acting.
  50. ObliviousAdobo
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    The writing in this game is the typical abysmal writing we've come to expect from Bethesda, actual gameplay is good I guess but it's not Fallout. This game isn't a RPG it's some linear sandbox shooter game and has little to none of the original charm and personality that made the previous ones good. If you're unfamiliar to the series then you'll probably enjoy this game with no issue otherThe writing in this game is the typical abysmal writing we've come to expect from Bethesda, actual gameplay is good I guess but it's not Fallout. This game isn't a RPG it's some linear sandbox shooter game and has little to none of the original charm and personality that made the previous ones good. If you're unfamiliar to the series then you'll probably enjoy this game with no issue other than the occasional bug that will probably be patched given time and probably not care about how unbalanced the game is since part of what makes a sandbox game fun is all the broken things you can do in it. Also while I disagree with giving it a zero, don't be rating a 10 to cancel it out please because you're just skewing the rating and that making the user score unreliable.… Expand
  51. lightbetsoin
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    first problem, the immersion.
    you play as a married father. the character you play is not "you". you are playing him, but its definitely not you. When he talks, he have this responsible dady voice, this remind you everytime how far this guy is from you.
    if it was not enought, his dialogue lines are dull, like almost every people in this game. the dialogue weel... in a game like mass    first problem, the immersion.
    you play as a married father. the character you play is not "you". you are playing him, but its definitely not you. When he talks, he have this responsible dady voice, this remind you everytime how far this guy is from you.
    if it was not enought, his dialogue lines are dull, like almost every people in this game.

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

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

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

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

    and a big WTF to the professional critics, 70/100 beeing the worst they can give, really shows the lack of independance they have.    … Expand
  52. lakired
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    For those whose 'Fallout' experience began with Bethesda's resumption of the franchise (III), expectations of what it is to earn the 'Fallout' title will differ grandly from those of us old folk who first cut their teeth on the brilliant and charming wit of the originals. For us, Fallout III was a rather lackluster mimic of its titular predecessors, lacking the charisma and depth thatFor those whose 'Fallout' experience began with Bethesda's resumption of the franchise (III), expectations of what it is to earn the 'Fallout' title will differ grandly from those of us old folk who first cut their teeth on the brilliant and charming wit of the originals. For us, Fallout III was a rather lackluster mimic of its titular predecessors, lacking the charisma and depth that defined the previous games. Viewed in a vacuum, however--other than the absurd and baffling end scene--it was still a remarkably entertaining game. Yet by adopting the Fallout moniker, Bethesda took on the burden of comparison, and cannot fairly be excused from it. As such, I will begin by saying that Fallout IV is unique in its ability to bring both fans of the original and the new version together in decrying its deviations from what made the franchise so beloved.

    Many critics have maligned the title as no longer being housed within the 'RPG' genre. While this isn't in itself strictly true, it is accurate to say that it is now a 'predetermined' RPG, which is to say, you do play a role, but it is one that is decided for you. In a vacuum, this is not necessarily a bad feature. Countless games have had profound success telling linear stories. However, it is simply not what 'Fallout' has ever been at its heart. Do you want to be a hardened scavenger, killing for caps? A silver-tongued rogue manipulating others to their own gain? A stoic hero of 'civilized' society mercilessly ridding the wasteland of mutant scum? Or maybe you've been itching to play a concerned (and occasionally snarky) parent? I hope it's the latter, because that's your only option in Fallout IV.

    In conjunction with this, Bethesda chose to strip down the character customization process. While it may be somewhat a matter of preference, I think overall it was a step back. In its previous incarnations, your SPECIAL stats really defined you as a character, and perks were always interesting and unique. The new system feels watered down and generic in comparison.

    While some may have been uneasy or antagonistic about the inclusion of the entirely new 'settlement construction' aspect, I personally was full ready to embrace it. While it may be new territory for the game, I'm not averse to innovation if it supplements and adds to the rest of the game. That said, the implementation of this feature was clunky, to be as polite as possible. I do have hope however that these infant stumblings will reap a fuller reward in future expansions.

    Graphically, Fallout IV is utilizing the same damn engine that's now near a decade old, while somehow not managing to escape any of the sins of those who've come before it. Even more baffling, despite leaning on older tech, its system demands are not even close to reasonable. If we can't get next-gen graphics, couldn't we at least have gotten better clipping and frame rate?

    As I mentioned before, viewed through the lens of expectation, Fallout III was a disappointment. However, removed from those expectations, it was still an exceptional game that stood on its own merits. So does Fallout IV do the same?

    As it shifts from an RPG focus to more of an Action-FPS, it does so with at least some grace in that its combat system is fluid and tense. The change to VATS is more aligned with the type of game Bethesda has produced. Oh, and there's sprinting! Finally!

    The addition of an in-depth crafting system may seem rather ho-hum given its ubiquity in the current gaming environment, however it really does add to the gritty environment of a scavenged wasteland. With that in mind, its own system is somewhat undermined by the ease of access to high-caliber weaponry and armor from the get-go. Rather than painfully scrounging the desert wasteland for materials to patch together a unique and haphazard arsenal, you'll be stumbling upon miniguns and powersuits so fast that the pipe-pistol and leather duster you found are just more junk to be scrapped and sold, rather than a meaningful and exciting progression.

    While the voice-acting is solid (as is the sound quality in general), the story line--highlighted by clumsy dialogue radial 'options'--is lackluster at best. What's even more damning about this design decision is that it severely impairs the ability of modders to 'save' the game from its own awful and uninspired writing. Quests are soulless and forgettable. The world map is beautiful, but too small to not have greater interactivity (why so few encounters, and so many boarded up filler buildings?).

    All said, even ignoring the long shadow cast by its progenitors, this is not a game that offers enough to justify its price tag. While even Bethesda couldn't ruin its cash-cow to the point of unplayability (when is roaming the wasteland blasting holes in raider skulls not fun?), Fallout: New Vegas with a slew of community mods is still a far better game. So if you're feeling the itch, pull out an old save file from that instead.    … Expand
  53. SubStandard
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    Plays like a clunky FPS with some basic RPG elements. The game engine is showing its age, and the story seems like a last minute thought.

    This is not the Fallout you are looking for.
  54. Wolfsorg
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    This is by far my most disappointing game of the year. Maybe I was stupid for assuming that Bethesda would be able to provide a quality game rather than a buggy Fallout 3 face-lift. Coming after the amazing game that New Vegas was, Fallout 4 is actually an embarrassment. Play if you want less RPG and more "Dude Bro COD No Scope"
  55. bull3271
    Nov 14, 2015
    2
    The game is very deceiving. The dialogue are not interesting at all and become very boring fat making the story unappealing. The navigation trough pip boy is becoming really annoying fast. The AI is buggy and stupid. Not a recommended buy
  56. TyLee
    Nov 14, 2015
    2
    Too many problems that I end up dropping the game after a few hours. A lot more bugs than I expected at launch. Dialogue is a huge step backwards from previous games. Loading screens are incredibly long. stuttering most of the time, and so many more problems. Could have been better.
  57. superuser
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    Ridiculous, how can this game getting 9/10 rating? I think the most reasonable rating is ard 4/10. Character design is weak, look at that **** face, poor animation, boring game plot. Not worth it !
  58. rsklnkff
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    Far from any game which can be called Fallout. Expected Fallout 3/NV with improved crafting and housing, got a game with gun crafting and housing, but without Fallout
  59. MWSoapMactavish
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    Major disappointment of the Year, this game feels like it was developed in a hurry from Bethesda to make money, we have Skills tab removed to have to upgrade SPECIAL stats each time we level up, literally there's no Skill limit to do things, this game feels like a Skyrim with Guns, only that is even more disappointing, the new dialogue system didn't come bug-free as it has awkward anglesMajor disappointment of the Year, this game feels like it was developed in a hurry from Bethesda to make money, we have Skills tab removed to have to upgrade SPECIAL stats each time we level up, literally there's no Skill limit to do things, this game feels like a Skyrim with Guns, only that is even more disappointing, the new dialogue system didn't come bug-free as it has awkward angles and sometimes misses lip-sync, sometimes I can't even heard what the characters are saying, also the new Power Armor feels like the Werewolf mode from Skyrim, this game also comes with a plethora of bugs, and FPS issues, even a high-end rig can't run this game optimally, the gun play is better than before, but lacks any difficulty as it doesn't have any skill to depend on, I couldn't really play the game, as of now I have FPS issues with Fallout 4 and there's no fix that worked, this game feels like a lie when Bethesda says that they've spending six years developing this disappointment, apparently Bethesda thinks that their fans are **** retarded or something as they lie without remorse.
    To be honest, this is an example of how overhype does more harm than good.    … Expand
  60. Mazdaspeed_3_
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    I am one who likes content and a long game that is worth my $80, so I understand that content is key. Although I am very disappointed with the sub par PS3 graphics. Seriously, next gen consoles and this is the crap we get. What a cruel joke. I can't enjoy a game if it looks like garbage. Look at Call of Duty or Halo 5, that should be the graphics benchmark!
  61. FormerlyKnown
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    There is no opinions (except the factions part ) in this review, i will simply tell you what is missing or was "dumbed down" aka streamlined since Fallout 3 or NV.

    Let me preface this by saying that this game was and is the most expensive game ever sold on the Brazilian section of Steam, so if i seem to be angry it is because indeed i am. What do you expect from a Fallout game?    There is no opinions (except the factions part ) in this review, i will simply tell you what is missing or was "dumbed down" aka streamlined since Fallout 3 or NV.

    Let me preface this by saying that this game was and is the most expensive game ever sold on the Brazilian section of Steam, so if i seem to be angry it is because indeed i am.

    What do you expect from a Fallout game?
    -Challenge
    -Freedom
    -Risk/reward type deals
    -backstabbing,stealing,killing annoying npcs
    -multiple endings
    -interesting factions

    Is any of that in the game? Well, even on very hard the enemies are easy, the AI is a throwback to 1998 and will do the absolute worst shooting you ever saw in a game, paradoxally will grenade your candy bottom from 2 miles away with pinpoint precision. There is no alternative way to complete any quest, what you are ordered to do you do and that's that, so forget about speech, sneak, science or any other such way you are able to employ in previous Fallout games, those simply do not exist anymore.

    Freedom comes in the form of free roaming but the wasteland, that remains, but any feeling of accomplishment is taken away by the fact that minutes into the game, if you go where the game wants you too you will be given power armor by people who do not know you, who just watched you kill raiders because reasons and apparently have no use for power armor themselves, if you go off the rails prepare to be carrying 50 pipeguns which are the ugliest guns ever in any Fallout game, and one or two other guns, maybe a few melee which by the way, now require you to press another button to perform a power attack. Since i estabilished that there is no freedom on side-quests, "what about the main quest?" you may wonder, well, there is no freedom at all, you do what you are told and you do it in this specific way and that's it.

    With the removal of speech options and skills altogether it becomes apparent that there is no risk reward anymore, any "build" will max everything and the only hindrance you're going to find are locks with higher levels in the early game, you lose nothing by choosing a particular play style, but win nothing, after 200 hundred years frozen, not knowing jack about **** i was about to be a master engineer, operate high tech weaponry, understand the concept of bottle caps as money, granted these are all reocurring tropes in the Fallout universe, but i expected more from this, they could've easily made it so one of the vault technicians wandered outside and came back, so he/she/it tells you what's up or leaves personal logs on any of the many useless terminals you're bound to find inside the vault.

    Most NPCS in towns and settlements are unkilable just like children, most of them have no personality and no depth, they serve no purpose other than spew expository lines at random to each other, a lot of them feel like that guy from Whiterun "do you get to the cloud district very often?" except in this one you cannot kill them, and if you do there's no consequences to it. Remember there is no Karma system. You cannot backstab you cannot double cross you cannot keep nothing to yourself, you either do the quest like a good boy or skip it, there is no other way.

    There's no multiple ending in the scope or depth that New Vegas had[FACT], you do this evil thing or this good thing and that's that[FACT]. See for yourself it's abolutely anti-climatic.{OPINION]

    The factions are bland, black and white good guy/bad guy mush, no depth no passion, you meet them for 5 minutes and they wanna make you their leaders, the **** from the brotherhood who despised the common rabble are few and far between and the good old days where the brotherhood did not claim to be good or evil, just in the business of acquiring tech are long gone. We saviours now.    … Expand
  62. ZeGypsy
    Nov 16, 2015
    2
    Wait for a sale or torrent it. Fallout 4 is not worth a buy IMO and i regret that i got caught up in the hype and bought it before reading reviews. Its a decent shooter with minor prg elements and if i was rating it based on that alone, i would probably score it 6/10. But its very clear that Betesda doesn't give a **** about the franchise, or the fans and are catering to casual gamers.Wait for a sale or torrent it. Fallout 4 is not worth a buy IMO and i regret that i got caught up in the hype and bought it before reading reviews. Its a decent shooter with minor prg elements and if i was rating it based on that alone, i would probably score it 6/10. But its very clear that Betesda doesn't give a **** about the franchise, or the fans and are catering to casual gamers. if you want an RPG experience, go back and play modded skyrim, fallout 1,2,3, or wasteland 2. IF you want a good dystropian shooter, play metro 2033 and last light. This feels like the worst of both worlds.

    Also the graphics looks several years old.    … Expand
  63. Ensigned
    Dec 4, 2015
    2
    This game has several glitches that make it flat out unplayable. If this were a good game, then maybe one could overlook the fact it was completely rushed and unfinished -- but it is not. It is a hot mess of glitchy gameplay. The combat system sucks. The character development system is far too linear to the point it does not even feel like you are playing an RPG. The story is abysmallyThis game has several glitches that make it flat out unplayable. If this were a good game, then maybe one could overlook the fact it was completely rushed and unfinished -- but it is not. It is a hot mess of glitchy gameplay. The combat system sucks. The character development system is far too linear to the point it does not even feel like you are playing an RPG. The story is abysmally boring. Side quests are redundant and boring. I have seen better graphics on the Nintendo gamecube.

    Add to the fact there exists ample mature content that appears to be there only for the sake of being there, and you have one terrible game and (arguably) the most overhyped game of all time). The game is a disgusting excuse for entertainment. The only reason I give it a 2 instead of a 1 is because of the Fallout name. But make no mistake, this is a franchise ender. Terrible game.    … Expand
  64. ThisGamer
    Nov 17, 2015
    2
    Bethesda, What have you done?
    This game is just bad (and quite broken atm). It seems they have decided to rip off every good aspect from previous games.
    [X] No Karma system: you can't create an "evil" character, you'll always be the good hero. [X] No (true) Survival mode: The survival difficulty in Fallout 4 is a joke, no food/sleep/drink needs (let's hope for a mod [X] No RPG    Bethesda, What have you done?
    This game is just bad (and quite broken atm). It seems they have decided to rip off every good aspect from previous games.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    And I could go on for hours....

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

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

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

    DO NOT buy this game, Go and play with Fallout 3 or New Vegas.    … Expand
  65. letaltrigger
    Nov 20, 2015
    2
    Good:
    The first few minutes of the game are really nice. The atmosphere created in the house is what the entire game should have been like.
    At least when you first encounter Piper she has some good lip sync talking to the gate guard. Bad: No RPG mechanics. They removed Karma, they removed faction popularity (replaced with "This action will make you a permanent enemy to XXXXX. Do you    Good:
    The first few minutes of the game are really nice. The atmosphere created in the house is what the entire game should have been like.
    At least when you first encounter Piper she has some good lip sync talking to the gate guard.

    Bad:
    No RPG mechanics. They removed Karma, they removed faction popularity (replaced with "This action will make you a permanent enemy to XXXXX. Do you wish to continue?" and removed skill checks. Now everything is charisma based which is a huge step back.

    Gun modding could have been MUCH better. The skill progression requiring you to level up is only there to piss you off I guess, but there are already mods getting rid of it.

    Character talks. At first I liked this, until I realised how RAILROAD-ed this game was.The plot is really weak. MUH Shaun... MUH he's still alive. MUH revenge. Awful plot. Oh no we have to free the synths! They are people! Oh no, villagers need help, let's go! Build a beacon for settlers! On New Vegas you can just and kill Benny, but here you cannot skip to the "late game" because you need the Courser **** and build some crap.

    So few guns! Did anyone else notice how it's all Pipe gun/rifle, Plasma pistol/rifle, one sniper rifle, submachine gun, 10mm gun and then the bigs like Fatman? I know you can customize them, but they are still the same thing and only a few NPCs use something other than pipe/plasma (i.e. only those at the quest in which you rescue Valentine use the submachine guns). I have only found one or two melee weapons (if you count a baseball bat...) and absolutely NO unarmed weapons like the mechanic punch-thingie. What?!?    … Expand
  66. kozhura
    Nov 21, 2015
    2
    Bethesda muddled while releasing this game. There is no atmosphere of the universe, which had been before. Awful dialog system like in Mass Effect. Futhermore, everything you doing is shooting everywhere. There is no balance in game. Too poor.
  67. gozerHozer
    Nov 24, 2015
    2
    I played over 200 hours of Fallout 3 and NV and loved it, I even bought the Deluxe FO3 with Lunch box and Bobble-Head, my 9 year old son took the lunch box to school and blew all the teachers minds.
    (I still have the Bobble-head on my desk)
    Fallout 4, wow what a letdown, Unless you liked playing the SIMs. I swear one or more of the SIMs Developers worked on this game, but they could not    I played over 200 hours of Fallout 3 and NV and loved it, I even bought the Deluxe FO3 with Lunch box and Bobble-Head, my 9 year old son took the lunch box to school and blew all the teachers minds.
    (I still have the Bobble-head on my desk)
    Fallout 4, wow what a letdown, Unless you liked playing the SIMs.
    I swear one or more of the SIMs Developers worked on this game, but they could not even pull that off nicely.
    Yes it’s a bit better than Fallout 3, this game engine is old even for a shelved 2010 MMOG.
    What a lazy production of a game.
    I have a high end PC with dual Vid cards and 144hz monitor and cranking up the Res just makes the feeling of disgust even worse.
    Bethesda was so lazy they were playing the SIMs when they made this game and I think played the Sims more than Fallout 4.
    Then I see PS4 and Xbox graphics on these youtube vids, what an embarrassment Bethesda, SIM quality graphics.
    This is just the Fallout 4 MMOG rumored in 2010.
    Let the MODDERs fix?? really???
    Its shows Bethesda could not do it, they could not pull it off; MODDERS make a better games.
    LAME=Wait for the MODs.
    Should we be so thankful for a new Fallout? maybe if this was 2010.
    Digital pre-sales should be banned in a legal way.
    If there were no Pre-orders, I bets my $80 FO4 sales would not be even half they were after the first week.
    My son said it best when I asked him if he wanted my FO4---Meh..    … Expand
  68. BenGarrison
    Nov 22, 2015
    2
    A disgrace. Bethesda has killed fallout. Everything that Obsidian did with Fallout New Vegas is gone and replaced with worse versions of that feature.
  69. RimKello
    Nov 25, 2015
    2
    I will not be long.
    Bethesda make another game that have nothig similar with fallout.
    It's some sort of postapocaliptic sandbox whith awful gameplay in any aspects of the game. Uncomfortable construction mod Dumb action Totaly ruined role system Repetitive, monotonous and irritating quests. Terrible, unfinished dialogues This always happens with games, that do not have a clear    I will not be long.
    Bethesda make another game that have nothig similar with fallout.
    It's some sort of postapocaliptic sandbox whith awful gameplay in any aspects of the game.
    Uncomfortable construction mod
    Dumb action
    Totaly ruined role system
    Repetitive, monotonous and irritating quests.
    Terrible, unfinished dialogues

    This always happens with games, that do not have a clear concept. And they wanted to cram in game as much ideas as it possible. Even without asking questions: Do we need all these things in the game? What effect will this bring?

    And yes, to be honest.
    I'm an oldschool player, and everything that happens with the series after the second part of the game ...    … Expand
  70. Turulo
    Nov 28, 2015
    2
    I didn't expect much of this game, as I know Bethesda and their lack of commitment in quality. Let's be honest they are reusing the same engine that they used in Morrowind (2002) and it has not been improved much since Skyrim. But I bought it anyway because I like to experiment with mods.

    Well the game is exactly what I expected, pretty lame story-wise, the gun-play is better and    I didn't expect much of this game, as I know Bethesda and their lack of commitment in quality. Let's be honest they are reusing the same engine that they used in Morrowind (2002) and it has not been improved much since Skyrim. But I bought it anyway because I like to experiment with mods.

    Well the game is exactly what I expected, pretty lame story-wise, the gun-play is better and checking out the skills can get you entertained for a few days. But graphically is a game that should have been released in 2007, just looking at the animation and character models makes you want to shut the game down. I expect this to change eventually with the help of mods.

    I would have rated it better but I think Bethesda is making money at the backs of the modding community.    … Expand
  71. WTFallout
    Dec 1, 2015
    2
    This game is an overhyped joke.

    The gameplay is mediocre, the loading times are eternal, the graphics are SO BAD and yet the game demands you to have a NASA computer.
    I don't have much to say about the story because I just played 7 or 8 hours. This game is dissapointing.
  72. Derpin
    Dec 2, 2015
    2
    Pretty terrible overall, every single thing got simplified, making a character isnt fun anymore its just
    time consuming. To get certain Perks you gotta be pretty high level (46+) and theres no character level limit.
    There are no decisions to be made, you kill a few more monsters and do whatever you want. The weapons are boring, customisation might be great but unique weapons are    Pretty terrible overall, every single thing got simplified, making a character isnt fun anymore its just
    time consuming. To get certain Perks you gotta be pretty high level (46+) and theres no character level limit.

    There are no decisions to be made, you kill a few more monsters and do whatever you want.

    The weapons are boring, customisation might be great but unique weapons are bland, very few have new models or even textures.

    The writing isnt good and the way the conversations work is terrible.

    If the game wants you to do something it will get you to do it: 4 different awnsers, all 4 mean yes in the end, its literally impossible to have a conversation with a character and not start its quest.

    MOST IMPORTANT TO ME:

    The game more or less forces you to do stuff for the minutemen, if you then do alot for them you will realize
    that there is now acknowledgement for your archivements whatsoever. The guy giving you the quests doesnt know where he lives, a guy you already did 3 quests for will ask whether you are with the minutemen etc.    … Expand
  73. gofindlucy
    Dec 3, 2015
    2
    Game is meh. Pretty bad story, shallow characters. Very un optimized. Honestly fallout 3 and NV look FAR better and run better once modded. Very dissapointed in the gameplay,. All the workbenches are nothing new, we saw much better systems in modded fallout 3 and NV. Very far from an RPG, its more like far cry meets minecraft. The FPS aspect is slightly better than the previous Fallout,Game is meh. Pretty bad story, shallow characters. Very un optimized. Honestly fallout 3 and NV look FAR better and run better once modded. Very dissapointed in the gameplay,. All the workbenches are nothing new, we saw much better systems in modded fallout 3 and NV. Very far from an RPG, its more like far cry meets minecraft. The FPS aspect is slightly better than the previous Fallout, jus meaning the guns are more accurate and not perception dependent (not very immersive imho). They made fallout very cookie cutter and basic this time. Would not spend money on this game, although bethesda would call this game a success and critic reviews are way to high. The game looks and feels dated, the UI is terrible until heavily modded. Oh and did i mention how bad this game runs on ALL systems. xbox and ps4 dipping down to the 10 fps and even mega PCs cant work with the garbage shadows, most of us are removing shadows completely jus to make the game a playable fps. The female voice acting was..well..it was terribly drab. I keep trying to find something positive to say about the game but i just cant seem to think of anything innovative, new, or refreshing about the game. There is no cause and effect in game, its completely linear up until the end where u can join the insitute and have every faction hate you, or not. None of the factions had captivating story or made you feel like you wanted to join them, or hate them. Shipped without the creation kit was another major failure. I mean atleast give us the tools to fix this garbage b4 we all throw it in the recycle bin.… Expand
  74. TOdi1234
    Dec 7, 2015
    2
    Upgraded visually F3 with few cool addition like expanded crafting. The main story line is weak, and boring compared to F2 or even F3. Tones of bugs in every aspect of a game. Broken dialogue system - decision making process has been dumbed down to" Yes"- "No" option.
    But still , AWESOME music , cool looking world, nice shooting mechanic , cool looking power armours.. i can explore this    Upgraded visually F3 with few cool addition like expanded crafting. The main story line is weak, and boring compared to F2 or even F3. Tones of bugs in every aspect of a game. Broken dialogue system - decision making process has been dumbed down to" Yes"- "No" option.
    But still , AWESOME music , cool looking world, nice shooting mechanic , cool looking power armours.. i can explore this **** four hours and for that i will easly give this game 7 but ..this is not what I expected. This is not a quality jump. This is not a Upgraded F3 with the depth of f2... and this is bethesda - they can do better !!!! so 3.    … Expand
  75. eldandy
    Dec 14, 2015
    2
    worst fallout ever. actions and dialogue don't matter. you can only play as a goody two shoes. they have destroyed one of the best series in gaming history. to be fair it looks better than fallout 3, a 10-11 year old game. Molerats look better, every other creature looks worse. even the radio guy is the worst in a fallout game. the main character? good actor but feels so... forced, notworst fallout ever. actions and dialogue don't matter. you can only play as a goody two shoes. they have destroyed one of the best series in gaming history. to be fair it looks better than fallout 3, a 10-11 year old game. Molerats look better, every other creature looks worse. even the radio guy is the worst in a fallout game. the main character? good actor but feels so... forced, not genuine. like this game, which is a dumbed down version created to appease mainstream gamers by badly emulating certain aspects of much better games instead of standing on its own merits. never been so heartbroken by a game before. Not terrible, but just not enjoyable. wanted to love it, but it is boring, unoriginal, rushed, unpolished. it is a half breed, the bastard child of greats but keeping only the worst of the gene pool. this is the most disappointing game of the decade, and we are not even half
    way there. it will ruin lives.
    I dont even care about the bugs. a disgrace    … Expand
  76. DDtoujours
    Dec 18, 2015
    2
    Everything is smaller in scale, no more sense of wonder for exploerers.
    In games like skyrim, fallout, huge open environment where you can wander around and explore is half the fun. In fallout 4, everything got smaller, cramp packed in one small city. No more joys of exploring vast underground subway stations filled with ghouls, no more exploring interesting, sometimes downright    Everything is smaller in scale, no more sense of wonder for exploerers.
    In games like skyrim, fallout, huge open environment where you can wander around and explore is half the fun. In fallout 4, everything got smaller, cramp packed in one small city. No more joys of exploring vast underground subway stations filled with ghouls, no more exploring interesting, sometimes downright sinister vaults ; FO4 has several vaults but they all are smaller and uninteresting compared to FO3.
    Some shills from bethesda will always claim that when indoors and outdoors are combined, FO4 is bigger than FO3. But hey, most of the indoor area is smaller, too, no more sense of wonder, no more vast world out there for you to explore, everything is smaller and packed in a small area.

    You basically goes from street to street where endlessly respawning same 'ol radiers, gunners, mutants in a very familiar area since you've been there more than 40 times!

    Forced, overexaggerated presence of settlement
    This time around building settlement takes a rather big part of fallout gameplay. They say it's completely optional but I can't help but feeling that good chunks of explorable area got reduced or omitted to give ways to this settlement management.

    Really bad optimization
    FO4 apparently focuses heavily on first person shooting this time around. Shooting foes became much more smooth, and feels and handles a lot like any other modern shooters on the market.
    One thing bestheda forgot to realize in the game is that you need a smooth framerate for smooth first person shooting experience. In this regard, FO4 pc version surely dropped the ball. Introduction of nvidia only features like godrays, which btw is the main cause of stuttering and FPS drops even on very beefy machines. Shadow bugs in the city area that can knock out FPS like nobody's business. Pay a visit to corvega assembly plant, and you'll know what it is like to play a FPS with 13~20 FPS.

    One thing you should know is that bestheda along with microsoft, intel HD, nvidia optimus seems to cut off their support for full screen mode on windows 8.1. Basically if you're using a laptop with windwos 8.1 + intel HD graphic card + nvidia optimus card especially GT800M and GT900M series, you can never run the game in full screen and forced to play only on borderless window mode, which introduces another 10 to 15 FPS drop. There is no way to really tell which companies are really responsible or which combination of them are resopnsible, but if there is one thing clear, MS is refusing to update windows 8.1 denying basic functionality like able to play the game in full screen mode for the aforementioned setup. Intel driver department has admitted that this is an issue with the driver, yet couldn't, maybe don't want to come up with the solution for about 2 years now, since dragon age inquisition has the same problem reported by countless users on EA forum, intel forum, nvidia forum alike.    … Expand
  77. imnoo
    Dec 19, 2015
    2
    At first I was so hyped about this game, but after the release, as a FO3&FONV fan, I was really really disappointed.
    Bethesda was successful in converting one of the best game franchise to another brainless-garbage shooter game littered around the street.
  78. Alaska_Wolf
    Feb 7, 2016
    2
    Fallout 4 was disappointing, to me at least, but then I have played all of the Fallout games. Fallout 3 set the bar for the series, Fallout: New Vegas was a close contender; Fallout 4 on the other hand was mediocre at best. With its very poorly implemented settlement system, and it's vast array of technical and graphical issues, most of which Bethesda has yet to acknowledge much lessFallout 4 was disappointing, to me at least, but then I have played all of the Fallout games. Fallout 3 set the bar for the series, Fallout: New Vegas was a close contender; Fallout 4 on the other hand was mediocre at best. With its very poorly implemented settlement system, and it's vast array of technical and graphical issues, most of which Bethesda has yet to acknowledge much less address, the game failed to even come close to the high bar established by Fallout 3.

    I have never been bored with any Fallout game until now, I found the storyline to be pale, non immersive, repetitive and poorly written. The companions and their storylines were also mediocre and I ended up leaving them farming or defending somewhere... To me, the only companion, except Dogmeat, which which I was able to form any sort of bond with was...umm...well, I guess there weren't any. The much touted graphics simply were not that good, and certainly not in the same league as DA: Inquisition or Witcher 3.

    Fallout 4 seems more like a game that was pushed out the door before it was ready. There is a rough, poorly crafted and unfinished feel about the game that I haven't before in the entire Fallout universe. That coupled with Bethesda's insistence on putting it on the much hated Steam platform makes this my least favorite of all of the Fallout games. Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, and its heavy metal game music as opposed to the 30s - 50s genre of the rest of the series, was my least favorite Fallout game until now.

    I have finished my first playthrough, and I am not even remotely interested in going through the game for a second playthrough; F03 and Vegas I have played and replayed for years now. In all honesty, F04 will probably end up relegated to Walmart's bargain game bin, it's just that poorly done. Truthfully, I am surprised that there is such a disparity between the critic and user ratings.    … Expand
  79. Junthor
    Jan 1, 2016
    2
    I was going to give this game a 4 for effort. Up to this point in time it has been a mediocre experience, but I carried on playing though regardless. Pretty much all negative reviews on here are correct, I didn't really feel like I needed to add my opinion to the thousands people voicing their disappointment.
    However I have encountered a serious bug with a main character called Desdemona    I was going to give this game a 4 for effort. Up to this point in time it has been a mediocre experience, but I carried on playing though regardless. Pretty much all negative reviews on here are correct, I didn't really feel like I needed to add my opinion to the thousands people voicing their disappointment.
    However I have encountered a serious bug with a main character called Desdemona and I now cannot progress through the story so I now give this game 2 and now feel compelled to review it.

    I think the user score of 5.4 is generous. Pretty terrible effort from Bethesda, this bland mess simply has no soul and is ridden with bugs. Avoid.    … Expand
  80. schizotypal67
    Dec 29, 2016
    2
    Compared to Fallout 3, this is an enormous letdown. Gone is the motivation for completing quests. Instead, gamers are supposed to have fun doing the same radial quests over and over a 100 times. Beth tried to instill the "never-ending game" design from Skyrim into this. Huge failure.
  81. Monoliithic
    Jan 7, 2016
    2
    Bad story telling, bad character design, bad writing (minus one specific character) and outside of that it's the exact same incredibly buggy Bethesda game we keep getting. There is 0 innovation, and the one thing they added thats new (the sims knockoff) is slipshod at best. But the shooting is better. It's not good, but it's better. So there's that. This game should've been 30 dollars.
  82. MaggieQ
    Jun 4, 2017
    2
    The overall increase in technical performance goes paradoxically accompanied by a decline of the imagination and intelligence of the people. Stanislaw Lem
  83. kitthornton
    Jan 30, 2016
    2
    Let me begin by saying that I'm a Fallout fan, and I've enjoyed many of Bethesda's offerings. That said, I can't give an endorsement to this game. In fact, I strongly advise that you avoid it.

    Sadly, after some hours playing Fallout 4, I have to say I can't recommend it. In fact, I'd avoid it like the plague. Too many game-breaking bugs, screwed-up, uncompleteable quests, and messed-up    Let me begin by saying that I'm a Fallout fan, and I've enjoyed many of Bethesda's offerings. That said, I can't give an endorsement to this game. In fact, I strongly advise that you avoid it.

    Sadly, after some hours playing Fallout 4, I have to say I can't recommend it. In fact, I'd avoid it like the plague. Too many game-breaking bugs, screwed-up, uncompleteable quests, and messed-up scripts. I spent WAY too much time searching the Net for work-arounds and console codes just to allow me to finish quests that I'd done everything right for. I don't think it's possible to complete the game without using the console cheats.
    Some of the bugs are REALLY frustrating. In one of the climactic quests, "Rockets' Red Glare," you're supposed to get on a vertibird transport and fly to enemy HQ on a mission to a final confrontation. The transport never gets there, it just flies around the map at random, not under your control.

    Poor QA seems to be ruining more and more games. In this case, a good game, with interesting mechanics and atmosphere, compelling NPCs and a very interesting world is hopelessly pranged by mistakes that could have been easily avoided. I can't recommend it at all.    … Expand
  84. regolit
    Feb 20, 2016
    2
    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?
    Raiders behind every corner in amounts that make Fallout 3 envy? I can push "E" and my character will instantly build autocanon from **** sticks and toaster? Sniper rifle what can freeze enemy? Kneepad what give you additional damage for ghouls? Refugees who ask you to build a beds for them? I need to pick every Teddy bear and pan in the world now? It is Fallout now?
    No atmosphere of survival and adventure at all. Super interesting (no) dialogues. Zero logic in world design. Awesome "volume light" effect that will make your video card cry.
    I expected it to be at least little better than F3:New-Vegas, but it is worse than even Fallout 3. No amount of mods can repair it. Considering game need at least 2 much bigger map.    … Expand
  85. Tecnologgamer
    Mar 13, 2016
    2
    This is the worse Fallout release ever (after Brotherhood of Steel). The Bethesda unhappy for destroying TES series with Skyrim now he destroy Fallout series with elements of Skyrim and simplifying the Fallout elements.

    - Leveling die. Now you don't have level cap and you now your character can be the most overpowered thing in the game (what break the need of have companion on party)    This is the worse Fallout release ever (after Brotherhood of Steel). The Bethesda unhappy for destroying TES series with Skyrim now he destroy Fallout series with elements of Skyrim and simplifying the Fallout elements.

    - Leveling die. Now you don't have level cap and you now your character can be the most overpowered thing in the game (what break the need of have companion on party)

    -VATS dead, is better you aim for your own than using vats because the game lost the "skills" and now you don't need high points for hits the bullets on enemy.

    -Gear dead. On classics Fallout I always needed find better weapons and better gear for your character do damage and take less damage. Now you take the weapon you more like for grind enemies and use the armor who you like to use (have exception, but is rarely happen).

    -Pointless base build who have nothing cool, just make you more slave of game like Skyrim.

    -Boring quest

    -Story is a copie from Fallout 3 and more boring, they try to putting some companion on main stories, but without sucess.

    -Copie Borderlands elements without the same quality of Borderlands

    -Companions are imortal and don't need equipaments and unlimited ammo.

    -2008 graphics, bad animation, bad modelling, etc.    … Expand
  86. Raith
    May 3, 2016
    2
    Improved gameplay over Fallout 3 and New Vegas does little to diminish the simple fact that this so called Role Playing Game has very little actual role playing in it. I would consider the voiced protagonist to be a minor issue if it weren't for the fact that the voice actors for both the male and the female are the least committed bad guys ever. You cannot be evil in Fallout 4, at theImproved gameplay over Fallout 3 and New Vegas does little to diminish the simple fact that this so called Role Playing Game has very little actual role playing in it. I would consider the voiced protagonist to be a minor issue if it weren't for the fact that the voice actors for both the male and the female are the least committed bad guys ever. You cannot be evil in Fallout 4, at the very worst you are kind of a douche.

    Add this to the fact that Bethesda took out skills and you start to see issues. At level 1 a character with 10 perception and 10 agility is as good at aiming with a rifle as a level 20 character with lots of perks put into small guns. As an avid RPG player I am needless to say quite livid about this.

    Ok so no skills, what else is awful about the game? Well, the quests are awful, it's painful terrible writing. The factions are generally awful, several of them start out strong but quickly deteriorate into stupidity and contradictions, and the endings to the game are the most stupid illogical things I have ever seen. In every other Fallout, except maybe 3 to fair, you would have been able to roleplay into a logical ending but in Fallout 4 this is not allowed.

    I don't even know if mods can fix this one, at the very least it will maybe make the game more enjoyable to mess around and do nothing in.

    Oh and one last gripe, the gun models are absolutely massive. Several of the guns are so huge that they take up at minimal 50% of the right side of your screen. Thanks Bethesda.    … Expand
  87. Brackzillar
    May 13, 2016
    2
    If you thought Bethesda learned anything from Obsidian and user feed back on Fallout 3 you will be disappointed.

    Almost all RPG elements have been removed it mine as well be a Farcry expansion with 4 options to talk to people. Only reason I'm giving it a 3 is because settlements and they still managed to screw that up
  88. Mattyy
    Oct 8, 2016
    2
    I've been a fan of Bethesda for a long time, and of the Fallout series. I loved New Vegas, I loved 3. However, 4 is dreadful. Not only has Bethesda turned this into an action game, it's bug riddled beyond belief, and has become so bad that I can't even play it anymore. Literally. My pc crashes every single time I play it for more than five minutes. Now it isn't my rig, because my rig canI've been a fan of Bethesda for a long time, and of the Fallout series. I loved New Vegas, I loved 3. However, 4 is dreadful. Not only has Bethesda turned this into an action game, it's bug riddled beyond belief, and has become so bad that I can't even play it anymore. Literally. My pc crashes every single time I play it for more than five minutes. Now it isn't my rig, because my rig can run DOOM on ultra settings without breaking a sweat. It's simply poor programming and optimisation on their behalf.

    This was the only game I've ever pre-ordered, and what a fool they've made out of me. Save your money and don't buy this game. I can't give it any higher than a two because the damn game won't even work anymore so it's practically dead. I've tried every fix in the book and nothing. Sorry Bethesda, but you lost a loyal customer.    … Expand
  89. macncheesus
    Feb 24, 2017
    2
    got so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to givegot so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to give it justice

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

    just forget it, waste of money    … Expand
  90. Khalazza
    Mar 20, 2017
    2
    Wait for a sale or torrent it. Fallout 4 is not worth a buy IMO and i regret that i got caught up in the hype and bought it before reading reviews. Its a decent shooter with minor prg elements and if i was rating it based on that alone, i would probably score it 6/10. But its very clear that Betesda doesn't give a **** about the franchise, or the fans and are catering to casual gamers. ifWait for a sale or torrent it. Fallout 4 is not worth a buy IMO and i regret that i got caught up in the hype and bought it before reading reviews. Its a decent shooter with minor prg elements and if i was rating it based on that alone, i would probably score it 6/10. But its very clear that Betesda doesn't give a **** about the franchise, or the fans and are catering to casual gamers. if you want an RPG experience, go back and play modded skyrim, fallout 1,2,3, or wasteland 2. IF you want a good dystropian shooter, play metro 2033 and last light. This feels like the worst of both worlds.

    Also the graphics looks several years old    … Expand
  91. stz322
    Mar 30, 2017
    2
    Having original Fallouts in mind, this game is a joke. I thought Bethesda Fallouts were going to get better after New Vegas (which was OK with mods, but still far far worse than Fallout 1/2), but Fallout 4 can't even be called an RPG game - dialogue choices are non existent, side quests are copy and paste "go there and kill x", there is no way to solve anything peacefully, perk system isHaving original Fallouts in mind, this game is a joke. I thought Bethesda Fallouts were going to get better after New Vegas (which was OK with mods, but still far far worse than Fallout 1/2), but Fallout 4 can't even be called an RPG game - dialogue choices are non existent, side quests are copy and paste "go there and kill x", there is no way to solve anything peacefully, perk system is as dumb as it could be and they even managed to kill the exploration aspect - you won't find anything interesting here, only bandit/monster camps - also main story line is Fallout 3 copy, except this time more predictable and with worse writing.
    There is not a single enjoyable thing in this game - weapon modifications were supposed to be cool, but since there is no diversity and every weapon have "best in slot" mods, adding anything else is pointless. Base building, which was another big feature, is a failure. Bethesda even managed to ruin VATS system, while all they should do is copy it from their previous games.
    Worst Fallout game BY FAR. I thought things couldn't be worse after F3, but Bethesda proved me wrong. I have no idea how is this game getting praised by critics. They either got paid by studio or are extremely incompetent and shouldn't be able to review any more games ever.    … Expand
  92. jamesdanton
    Dec 1, 2018
    2
    I enjoy playing the game despite it not being very deep and quite limited in it's scope of choice but now I have encountered a game breaking bug that Bethesda has just told me to wait for a fix for. The game is nearly 3 years old! I've encountered many glitches and problems but this one has stopped me from progressing. 100 hours down the tube. Bethesda still hasn't fixed the massive bugsI enjoy playing the game despite it not being very deep and quite limited in it's scope of choice but now I have encountered a game breaking bug that Bethesda has just told me to wait for a fix for. The game is nearly 3 years old! I've encountered many glitches and problems but this one has stopped me from progressing. 100 hours down the tube. Bethesda still hasn't fixed the massive bugs and problems with Skyrim but HAS just rereleased it on the Switch. Bugs intact. We can see where their priorities lie.
    UPDATE: 3 years in AND IT JUST KEEPS CRASHING.    … Expand
  93. jlaw88
    Aug 30, 2017
    2
    "I was going to put a brilliant review up for fallout 4. But Bethesda just released a new patch with a Paid mod system that makes you pay for mods you can get for free on nexusmods, and it broke all the free mods.

    The game is good, the publisher seems to only want money.

    Don't support it."
  94. Barmaglott
    Oct 5, 2017
    2
    Creation Club will ruin everything in next Beth's games. Microtransactions in AAA singleplayer games should be gone and paid mods as well. Nothing else to say.
  95. dokdoh9
    Nov 14, 2017
    2
    This game is an insult to the franchise, everything that was good was stripped to be replaced by a boring rpg shooter, where your only task is to kill and collect loot. The campaign is horribly written as well as the sides quests and the dialogue system gives you little to no choice, consisting in a variation of manner to say "yes". Lastly there is paid mod and although a ton of freed modsThis game is an insult to the franchise, everything that was good was stripped to be replaced by a boring rpg shooter, where your only task is to kill and collect loot. The campaign is horribly written as well as the sides quests and the dialogue system gives you little to no choice, consisting in a variation of manner to say "yes". Lastly there is paid mod and although a ton of freed mods exists it's still a shame there is paid mods on top of a 60 dollars game + 40 dollars season pass.… Expand
  96. agrippakc
    Dec 3, 2017
    2
    This game has all the high stakes of a game of go-fish. Its weak story and weird dialogue interaction that gives the illusion of choice is garbage. The entire commonwealth is just sort of there; with everyone under enough stress from other factions to be in full blown riot mode, but they just bumble around. I was thankful for the Brotherhood for landing and shaking things up now andThis game has all the high stakes of a game of go-fish. Its weak story and weird dialogue interaction that gives the illusion of choice is garbage. The entire commonwealth is just sort of there; with everyone under enough stress from other factions to be in full blown riot mode, but they just bumble around. I was thankful for the Brotherhood for landing and shaking things up now and then because otherwise this was a snooze fest.… Expand
  97. skaltura
    Nov 26, 2018
    2
    Such extremely **** code and engine this is completely unplayable on fairly high end system. On decade old system works fine tho.

    Buggy stuttery unplayable mess. The only reason i gave it 2 points is that it somewhat still resembles Fallout. Quite ugly game for 2015, shows the age of the engine. Constant showstopper bugs causing restarts etc. in hopes it doesn't bug this time and you    Such extremely **** code and engine this is completely unplayable on fairly high end system. On decade old system works fine tho.

    Buggy stuttery unplayable mess. The only reason i gave it 2 points is that it somewhat still resembles Fallout.

    Quite ugly game for 2015, shows the age of the engine. Constant showstopper bugs causing restarts etc. in hopes it doesn't bug this time and you can continue on. Fights are almost impossible as the game speed fluctuates while is so stuttery it's almost impossible to aim. Unless you use a decade old system that is.

    Best "enjoyed" with a PC from around 2010 mark. Recommended if torture and anger is your idea of fun time. For extra hell recommend completely top of the line system Threadripper 2950x (2990WX for extra points!) + 2x2080 Ti or 2xVega 64, and set everything to minimum with fps clamp = 60 and freesync/gsync enabled on a 240hz monitor and enjoy the torture!    … Expand
  98. Nagita
    Nov 20, 2018
    2
    In Fallout 4, the name is what is left of the Fallout RPG franchise.

    Most RPG mechanics has been stripped away alongside any attempt of writing an engaging story. Choice no longer matter, as you fasten your seat belts for the bland tale that paints out the world of the game. Instead we have a clunky and awkwardly tacked on base building simulator, and a watered down first person    In Fallout 4, the name is what is left of the Fallout RPG franchise.

    Most RPG mechanics has been stripped away alongside any attempt of writing an engaging story. Choice no longer matter, as you fasten your seat belts for the bland tale that paints out the world of the game.

    Instead we have a clunky and awkwardly tacked on base building simulator, and a watered down first person shooter experience.

    It seem to me, that Bethesda is striving for mediocrity. Aiming to capture every demography of gamer there is within one, watered down wasteland.

    And so the game turned out a jack of all genres, but master of none.    … Expand
  99. BulgarianCritic
    Nov 21, 2018
    2
    Game's should evolve not devolve or maybe Fallout New Vegas put the bar too high and bethesda cant make a game to pass it or even compare to it.Fallout 4 was an incredibly shallow and boring fallout game with fetch quests that makes you want to put a bullet in your head.Bethesda even though that it was a good idea to remove most of the rpg mechanics and make the game into a boring fpsGame's should evolve not devolve or maybe Fallout New Vegas put the bar too high and bethesda cant make a game to pass it or even compare to it.Fallout 4 was an incredibly shallow and boring fallout game with fetch quests that makes you want to put a bullet in your head.Bethesda even though that it was a good idea to remove most of the rpg mechanics and make the game into a boring fps that allows you to craft houses and other stupid **** only interesting thing about this trash of a game were the companions arcs which i think that 80% of the game's budget went to.Todd just let obsidian make fallout games because you certainly are not the man for the job… Expand
  100. harisoharos
    Nov 27, 2018
    2
    The only fun thing about this game is the exploration and the crafting, they improved combat a little. Other than that the game is bland, the story lacks depth and the writer didn't bother to develop it. The dialogues are usually boring, a couple of followers have a good stories to say but that's the exception. Rpg elements have been stripped away and game mechanics oversimplified to theThe only fun thing about this game is the exploration and the crafting, they improved combat a little. Other than that the game is bland, the story lacks depth and the writer didn't bother to develop it. The dialogues are usually boring, a couple of followers have a good stories to say but that's the exception. Rpg elements have been stripped away and game mechanics oversimplified to the point that it inhibits character customisation. Full of radiant quests which are go kill - go fetch, there is very little choice and consequence mechanics to the point this is no more Rpg than Diablo. Most of the textures look ugly and it is still full of bugs, even with the unofficial patches. 3 dlcs just with stuff to craft for mostly aesthetic purposes. Sloppy work not deserving of the full price.… Expand
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#31 Best PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

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