Fallout 4

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  1. Roared
    Aug 9, 2019
    2
    If you compare this game to fallout new Vegas and fallout 3, this game has nothing much to offer. By the time you are 40 hrs into the game you start to get bored quest will be like head to this area kill this kill that. Nothing much going on aside from the improve vats, shooting and building your own settlement. But who has time to build your settlement when Preston is always being a lilIf you compare this game to fallout new Vegas and fallout 3, this game has nothing much to offer. By the time you are 40 hrs into the game you start to get bored quest will be like head to this area kill this kill that. Nothing much going on aside from the improve vats, shooting and building your own settlement. But who has time to build your settlement when Preston is always being a lil b***h whining about his Minuteman's cause?… Expand
  2. Meeleepit
    Nov 5, 2020
    2
    How to **** fallout franchise. Take everything that was good about Fallout 3 and new vegas and scrap it. You are then given Fallout 4. Pathetic!
  3. lwg1103
    Apr 3, 2023
    2
    Disappointing. Nothing improved since previous game, dumb system of creating community, just boring gameplay. Couldn't continue after 8hr of playing.
  4. Trey82
    Feb 28, 2020
    2
    Its a great shooter. Terrible RPG.
    Immersive story. That it doesnt let you play. (GENERAL WE HAVE A SETTLEMENT THAT NEEDS HELP)
    Funny, dramatic, nice, mean, great. Barely. The social options are severely lacking. Things you choose do not translate well to what actually gets said. NOR does it have the intended effect, if you've been in that conversation and picked .. ya know what, this    Its a great shooter. Terrible RPG.
    Immersive story. That it doesnt let you play. (GENERAL WE HAVE A SETTLEMENT THAT NEEDS HELP)
    Funny, dramatic, nice, mean, great. Barely. The social options are severely lacking. Things you choose do not translate well to what actually gets said. NOR does it have the intended effect, if you've been in that conversation and picked .. ya know what, this game has already been reviewed a million times so instead of an objective review I'll just be honest.
    This game isnt fallout. The social aspects dont matter at all, the companions are fluff and garbage, for the most part, the enemies look great, shoot great but are craptastic ~ too easy or too hard, cant make up its mind.

    Music is ripped from older games, sound effects belong in call of duty. Visuals are nice, but now its no longer an RPG with half a$$ed action elements, its action with half a$$ed RPG elements.
    The game doesnt let you play it and when you get hyped for any.. ANY part of it, you get shat on. The settlement building is useless, they wont defend themselves, and whether you actively try to 'break' the game by overgrowing cash crops... crisscrossing the wasteland with your unkillable transports to act as random infantry backups.. or just want extra places to store your gear, it makes it insanely easy. At least on the upper half of the map. You FINALLY get some decent difficulty once you get downtown, but by then you've spent SO much time up north and doing sidequests that it honestly makes the story pretty stupid. You jumped out of your cryochamber in the future to find your son but you got sidetracked for days.. WEEKS at a time doing go-fer fetch-me-everything-AND-KILL-THOSE-GUYS quests for people not worth your time.
    Even if you get over the fact that settlements dont dfend themselves, and you have all the DLC.. you'll find the settlement size limit to be pretty obnoxious, and the game breaking/ IMMERSION breaking bugs are EVERYDANGITWHERE.    … Expand
  5. solokuhn
    Feb 28, 2021
    2
    I will try and be objective here:

    The gameplay and overall atmosphere is great, some characters and quests are really interesting and some locations are just jawdropping. However there are a lot of flaws in the game itself: places often feel empty, locations look interesting but often don't hold anything of relevance for the story or the world they inhabit. Power armor introduction    I will try and be objective here:

    The gameplay and overall atmosphere is great, some characters and quests are really interesting and some locations are just jawdropping.

    However there are a lot of flaws in the game itself: places often feel empty, locations look interesting but often don't hold anything of relevance for the story or the world they inhabit. Power armor introduction feels a bit rubbish and regardless of your playstyle you are forced into encounters were violence are shooting is mandatory.

    All of that would score higher if it wasn't for the bugs and crashes. In a pc sitting in the 99% percentile at pc benchmark I encountered every bug and crash imaginable almost making me quit the game in numerous ocations.

    Examples:

    Game crashed when opening it, spent an hour fixing this issues

    Game crashed when fast traveling to the institute which is essential for the main story, spent hours troubleshooting this.

    Long loading screens, we are talking minutes not seconds. I have an SSD and it still can randomly take more than 3 or 4 minutes to load an area.

    Brown face glitch.

    Quest glitches which prevented them from finishing.

    Sudden deaths.

    Needless to say this is the main reason why the game scores so low.    … Expand
  6. ReviewMachine
    Aug 3, 2020
    2
    This game was garbage. I couldn't even get half way through the main quest before quitting permanently. What little good that was left in the older Fallout games was gutted.
  7. ShadyPlumber
    Sep 5, 2022
    2
    The game is fine, but the load times are just ridiculous. I 0lay about 10 hours and ended up quitting because of the load times.
  8. ChompySays
    Nov 9, 2021
    2
    Extremely boring, with a world that feels lifeless other than synths and automatron encounters. Infinite resources drag the game down, and nothing feels special or unique. Especially the weapons and armor.
  9. Psy_pmP
    Nov 22, 2015
    1
    It has been 12 days since release. But I do not see any movement to rectify the game. It did not work at all of the patch. Thousands of bugs. Every time playing I think I have to start all over again. AutoSave is done badly and overwrite themselves. I again unplayable bug, and all 5 autosave made in the interval of 1 minute.
    And normal save made 6 hours ago.
  10. CodeJerry
    Nov 13, 2015
    1
    This game was by far the worst of fallout series. Only because you can tell how lazy the developers were. . Honestly a few times I thought i was playing Borderlands, Which ain't bad except imagine playing borderlands without friends. The quests are now all becoming escort/get this/kill this. I just beat it and the ending was well.. predictable. . Maybe it will grow on me but the wholeThis game was by far the worst of fallout series. Only because you can tell how lazy the developers were. . Honestly a few times I thought i was playing Borderlands, Which ain't bad except imagine playing borderlands without friends. The quests are now all becoming escort/get this/kill this. I just beat it and the ending was well.. predictable. . Maybe it will grow on me but the whole thing of wearing power armor that costs fuel but doesn't have unlimited sprint.. kinda pointless. You will find yourself wishing it didn't so you could actually do some skill combat that requires moving around fast and not just press E or click. It seems like most side quests when in fallout 3 had meaning and could actually change the enviroment you lived in. Also all the weapons in this game are a few good ones that actually work and the rest can look awesome but are crap and unusable in combat. I wish they would of added some sort of delivery system for your power armour since that would make it more bearable instead you need to walk all the way to where you left it and pick it up and walk all the way back adding pointless things to do to waste time and make your think because your spent this long playing a game you must of liked it.… Expand
  11. Egocentricion
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    The game is absolutely horrifying.

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

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

    Bethesda will ignore their fans. Don't buy the game, don't pay for DLC, don't support a rotten company.    … Expand
  12. DarthPadme
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    It looks like all that marketing and buying out of critic reviews actually paid off - they sold a ton of this game to suckers like me. Despite the utterly lackluster graphics, terrible lipsyncing, crippling glitches, and very little new content over previous titles in the series, I did buy this game, and lucky me, I spent 3 hours "playing" it trying to get it working right on myIt looks like all that marketing and buying out of critic reviews actually paid off - they sold a ton of this game to suckers like me. Despite the utterly lackluster graphics, terrible lipsyncing, crippling glitches, and very little new content over previous titles in the series, I did buy this game, and lucky me, I spent 3 hours "playing" it trying to get it working right on my top-of-the-line rig I just built and now am ineligible for a refund.

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

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

    All in all, from the game's combat, to its busywork, to the graphics and mechanics, Fallout 4 is a COLOSSAL disappointment. If you feel you must play this game, pirate it, because Bethesda and its full staff of developers do not deserve to be rewarded for this **** The media is eating this up just like they did with Skyrim, and dare I say it, this game is even more overhyped. Don't be tricked. Forget about this game.    … Expand
  13. NullBeast
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    No longer RPG, quests feel like MMO quests and the story is like a can of pea soup watered down with a few bits of "oh ok thats alright". Getting stuck in elevators, jumping over things to find out I cannot jump back over to have to load a save and getting stuck inside a building after an npc used a door outside THE ONLY ONE OUT and they buggered the door so it never closed. A couple ofNo longer RPG, quests feel like MMO quests and the story is like a can of pea soup watered down with a few bits of "oh ok thats alright". Getting stuck in elevators, jumping over things to find out I cannot jump back over to have to load a save and getting stuck inside a building after an npc used a door outside THE ONLY ONE OUT and they buggered the door so it never closed. A couple of things like that and the feeling and atmosphere of the game would shine through but it's such a repetitive thing that it grinds away the real enjoyment of it.
    The game gets a 1 from me only because Dogmeat is back and looking wonderful.    … Expand
  14. Fuzi0n
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Take Fallout 3, minimally improve the graphics, dumb down the RPG elements even more, create a wonky dialogue system, add in some kind of MMO resource collecting BS system and otherwise keep everything exactly the same. Then shove it out the door in an unfinished state.

    That is Fallout 4. And it is boring as heck. Avoid this drive at all costs.
  15. smoothietime
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This game plays much more like a Call of Duty or Halo game. Those games are fine in their own right, but this isn't what I wanted when I was told I'd be playing an open world RPG...

    I hate modern gaming **** me
  16. Trypsinogen
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    This is a joke. All the 9.5 and 10's this game is getting is also just a glaring example of why game critics and gaming journalism are a bunch paid scumbags. On a technical level: garbage. Bugs everywhere. Awful graphics. Terrible physics. AWFUL face animations. Awful character models. Ridiculously long load times. Load times every time you want to move more than 20 feet or into a newThis is a joke. All the 9.5 and 10's this game is getting is also just a glaring example of why game critics and gaming journalism are a bunch paid scumbags. On a technical level: garbage. Bugs everywhere. Awful graphics. Terrible physics. AWFUL face animations. Awful character models. Ridiculously long load times. Load times every time you want to move more than 20 feet or into a new building. You compare this side-to-side with The Witcher 3 and the game is an absolute joke.

    And on top of that - garbage story. It's like no one at Bethesda at all played The Last of Us - they know how to make you care about you losing your kid in the introduction. just godawful writing. Awful character development. Awful everything. Setting is just the same old. Nothing improved from previous games. Seriously, watch the intro to The Last of Us - then watch the intro this garbage. Then play The Witcher 3 then play this garbage.    … Expand
  17. PaulGR
    Oct 5, 2019
    1
    This needed AT LEAST an extra year of full development.

    Only PROS: It actually runs on day-one, unlike other games (*cough* Batman: Arkham Knight *cough*) Here are the MAIN problems briefly: -Graphics out of a 2000's game. Sometimes they are so badly done they look cartoonish, like Telltale's Walking Dead/Wolf Among Us. -Nice that everything is voiced, however you are limited to    This needed AT LEAST an extra year of full development.

    Only PROS: It actually runs on day-one, unlike other games (*cough* Batman: Arkham Knight *cough*)

    Here are the MAIN problems briefly:

    -Graphics out of a 2000's game. Sometimes they are so badly done they look cartoonish, like Telltale's Walking Dead/Wolf Among Us.
    -Nice that everything is voiced, however you are limited to 4 answers per dialogue including the classic (Witty, Kind, Evil, No ty) - How innovative!
    -You basically get the Power Armor 15 minutes into the game, taking any challenge out of it.
    -No real Survival theme. More like a First Person Shooter
    -The towns are tiny. Even the supposingly "Jewel" of the game, the big, main settlement - Diamond City, is as small as Dawnstar in Skyrim...and feels like its been rushed - like a copy-paste of megaton from Fallout 3.
    -Still use the same weird "hacking" of computer terminals in which you have to guess 4-5 times and then wait to try again.
    -Skill not high enough? Forget trying. Unlike Skyrim in which you could ATTEMPT to break a Master lock (even with level 1 lockpicking), in Fallout 4 you simply are locked from doing so if you don't have the appropriate perk unlocked.

    -Dialogues are plain childish - no imagination or creative thinking behind them.
    -Story is boring and uninteresting. Nothing that makes me want to investigate and find out what is going on (bad graphics add to that).
    -On dialogues, now you can fully be in 3rd person and look around. However, the camera goes nuts and shows blank walls, or it fully zooms on NPC's hair, etc.

    -Holstered weapons dissapear - nothing at your sides.
    -Enemies get stuck, jump around, run in T-pose. Quest NPCs bug and roam to places unknown, making quests unable to complete.

    -No RPG soul in it. More like an FPS like CoD.
    -Landscapes are simply bad. Nothing breath-taking like Skyrim - hell, I could just sit in front of a river and watch the scenery in Skyrim!
    -Wax museum character models - although character creation looks dope, the poor graphic quality and the same base, copy-pasted face for NPCs ruins it all.
    ALSO: Bethesda didn't even bother changing the hand meshes. Play Male or Female character, your hands use the same (male) model. I played 10 minutes on my female character accidentally this morning, and I realized it when I went 3rd person that I play a female. The hands textures are the same FOR CHRIST SAKE.

    -You need three hands to play (REALLY? WASD, MOUSE, AND ARROWS? SERIOUSLY BETHESDA?)
    -Keyboard keys are hardcoded, for example you can't switch the F-key back to 1st/3rd person like it was in Skyrim - forcing you to use "V"

    More, but it's adding to the inevitable: Let's hope that the modding community can fix this mess.    … Expand
  18. nermack
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This game is just not good. I loved fallout 1-3 and new vegas. This game just is not fun. For every hour i spend exploring or doing quests i have to spend 5 hours crafting..... There is no choice or consequence.
    The game engine is almost a decade old. And nothing about the wooden animations helps me give a damn about any npc in this game. There is just no reason to play it. Pass on this    This game is just not good. I loved fallout 1-3 and new vegas. This game just is not fun. For every hour i spend exploring or doing quests i have to spend 5 hours crafting..... There is no choice or consequence.
    The game engine is almost a decade old. And nothing about the wooden animations helps me give a damn about any npc in this game. There is just no reason to play it. Pass on this game. Even mods can't save it.    … Expand
  19. JanGodwod
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    This game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than byThis game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than by gunning everyone to the ground. Crafting is boring after first 10 minutes, and then you just find endless piles of "Adv. Capt. Supr. Dupr. Gun". Vilage management is nonsense as I'm limited to exact number of things to craft and no more! I want to build huge fort, but I can't build anything else beyond limit. In this time of age? What is this? 1992 and my floppy just filled up to the edge?
    I'm 32 and I've played countless hours trough all previous Fallouts. This is not a Fallout game but something completely different dressed in Fallout clothes.
    I gave up on this game after about 16h and I'm never going back.    … Expand
  20. emrextreme
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This is nothing new than the Fallout 3. Actually with all the mods around Fallout 3 has more to offer than this avarage Joe. It really feels just an expansion, it's overhyped and couldnt meet the expectations.
  21. MihneaCalin
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Can't believe how bad this game is, at least in terms of being an RPG. I hate to bash down on anything, but the storytelling and the pacing, as well as the bland characters, really watered down the experience for me to a point where, 20 hours in the game, i have major trouble convincing myself to go forward. After the great New Vegas story, i really hoped Bethesda would finally deliver inCan't believe how bad this game is, at least in terms of being an RPG. I hate to bash down on anything, but the storytelling and the pacing, as well as the bland characters, really watered down the experience for me to a point where, 20 hours in the game, i have major trouble convincing myself to go forward. After the great New Vegas story, i really hoped Bethesda would finally deliver in the story department, especially since they pretty much suggested they took some hints from Obsidian in terms of the good bits of that game. But no, apparently not. Time for me to move on...… Expand
  22. dmcimo
    Sep 10, 2017
    1
    Bethesda's Paid Mods That Aren't Paid Mods But Are Paid Mods, Fallout 4 Creation Club is a LIE and nothing but a money grab and they have destroyed this game with it. I will never buy or support anymore Bethesda games, I have a bunch.... they are even pulling this in Skyrim. AMAZING paying full price now for games, and they want to include microtransactions and these are KILLING GAMES
  23. neldot
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Sad game for sad players. Where has gone the humour that made the Fallout serie legendary?
    Dumbed down mechanics for dumbed down players. Now it's more a 200h Shooter than a RPG.
    Ugly graphics, ugly lights, ugly characters. Dumb and uninspired story. Dumb missions. Bugs Ridden. I feel very sorry that Bethesda has destroyed this serie, after giving some hope with the Obsidian    Sad game for sad players. Where has gone the humour that made the Fallout serie legendary?
    Dumbed down mechanics for dumbed down players. Now it's more a 200h Shooter than a RPG.
    Ugly graphics, ugly lights, ugly characters.
    Dumb and uninspired story.
    Dumb missions.
    Bugs Ridden.

    I feel very sorry that Bethesda has destroyed this serie, after giving some hope with the Obsidian developed chapter, Fallout New Vegas. But I feel also sorry for the people voting 10 to this puke of a game. Forgive them because they didn't play Fallout 1 & 2 and they don't know what they're saying.    … Expand
  24. golibethesda
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Typical Bethesda game - weak graphics, many bugs and glitches, retarded AI are their trademarks. But it also has weak plot, non-existent dialogues, copy-pasted locations and a very, very slow pacing. In other words this game is boring and really has no quality. A late 2015 game that looks like crap with conversations that must have been written by a 5 year old is not something that shouldTypical Bethesda game - weak graphics, many bugs and glitches, retarded AI are their trademarks. But it also has weak plot, non-existent dialogues, copy-pasted locations and a very, very slow pacing. In other words this game is boring and really has no quality. A late 2015 game that looks like crap with conversations that must have been written by a 5 year old is not something that should be allowed on shelves. Heck, even mirrors do not reflect the image lol. It's also way too easy and character system is a joke. You can max out your character without much effort. What's the point of the character system if you can max it out with any character and see all content in 1 playthrough?… Expand
  25. silviozulato
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Dear Bathesda, I was expecting much more from you.
    First: The game looks like Fallout 3 remastered plus.
    I'm not complaing just about the graphics, it's about all that bugs, deadpan characters.
    Second: The way of characters walk -> TERRIBLE ugly
    third: WTF that texture in 2015?
    I'm sorry Bathesda but in this game you failed to me :(
  26. Jaguar_Paw91
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    The main problem in this game is that feeling that you dont play game from 2015, we have that MONEY problem again, it is all about that. I cant belive someone can work on something for years and then deliver something like that. Yet again we have unfinished product, and now we have to wait that famous "first week patch" to work out so many problems. A lot of people say how this is based onThe main problem in this game is that feeling that you dont play game from 2015, we have that MONEY problem again, it is all about that. I cant belive someone can work on something for years and then deliver something like that. Yet again we have unfinished product, and now we have to wait that famous "first week patch" to work out so many problems. A lot of people say how this is based on consoles and I must agree, because that brings money, at least in the heads of this "hard working people". Everything becomes fake these days, they spend milions of dollars to advertising the crap. You cant, you just cant go to reduction of game, because that dosent match your master consoles plan. PC today is virtually unlimited, and what we have? Those consoles are made from pc core, and if someone lose pc players that is their unconditional fall. I mean in 2015 we have loading screen for entering the building? When you speak to the people in the game it all feels stretch, even the story isnt something. The game feels out of date, because of smart reducttion of people behind this game. Yes you can build your own settlement, you can craft some most generic weapons I ever see, just dosent seems right. A lot of people say it is a Sykrim, but without dragos, yea, sykrim also had his own reductions for the same reasons, and that game was out 2011, and now what year is it? After 4 years, you deliver the same? Something is fron with game industry, and we need gaming revolution, every game become like sport, non of few changes, another year on cover and voila you have a BRAND NEW game. Very disappointing and poor… Expand
  27. FogCityRoller
    Nov 25, 2015
    1
    What do you know, a AAA title that was grossly overhyped and underperformed. Why do I keep setting myself up for disappointment by buying into this garbage? I actually thought Fallout 4 would be "the one" to actually live up to the hype, but holy lol. The graphics are inexcusably dated and gross, the interface is awful, the story is boring. I can't believe people think the graphics areWhat do you know, a AAA title that was grossly overhyped and underperformed. Why do I keep setting myself up for disappointment by buying into this garbage? I actually thought Fallout 4 would be "the one" to actually live up to the hype, but holy lol. The graphics are inexcusably dated and gross, the interface is awful, the story is boring. I can't believe people think the graphics are acceptable, it's on the Creation engine from LAST GEN. Seriously wtf?? That's the same engine they used for Skyrim! Just marginally improved. The fact that they try to call it "a next gen version of last gen's engine" is pathetic and sad. How fanboys defend this crap is beyond me.… Expand
  28. Ozwald
    Nov 17, 2015
    1
    No choice on how to develop your character, no branching storylines in quest, no real RPG elements what so ever. This is one of the most dumbed down entries I've seen in a series that once prided itself on choice and consequence.
  29. INgUSRune
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Pile of crap this scale I've never seen... Forget the brand atmosphere, gameplay balance, role-playing system and all that you know about the fallout - a farm simulator crossed with titanfall
  30. game_over
    Apr 28, 2016
    1
    More heavy handed mod shenanigans from Bethesda. What a surprise.

    Why break a game that some people have more than 100 hours into? Why change your stance on mods? Greed and arrogance.
  31. Munkey
    Nov 27, 2015
    1
    At the start I will just say that I'm a Fallout vet. Played the original Fallout and Fallout 2. Enjoyed Tactics. Fallout 3 base game was ok but with the DLC it really was great. New Vegas was something more similar to the old and classic Fallouts. With all this in mind I really wanted to like this game. Really do but this game is no Fallout in the mechanical and RPG elements. It's a gameAt the start I will just say that I'm a Fallout vet. Played the original Fallout and Fallout 2. Enjoyed Tactics. Fallout 3 base game was ok but with the DLC it really was great. New Vegas was something more similar to the old and classic Fallouts. With all this in mind I really wanted to like this game. Really do but this game is no Fallout in the mechanical and RPG elements. It's a game in the Fallout universe which just feels like Skyrim with guns.
    Graphic wise the game engine is showing it's age. Graphics look just a little bit better then New Vegas. But the thing that looks worse is the character models and facial expression are terrible. For a 2015 release and a 40£ price tag this is not acceptable. The textures and foliage isn't that impressive. The only thing that looks good is during character creation when you make your self. That looks impressive. The followers you can have as companions in your travels also look good but that's it.
    The RPG element just ins't there. Four possible answer in any dialogue that are YES/NO/SARCASTIC/PERSUADE. And even if you try to be evil or role play in any way it's just impossible. It's always the same outcome. No Karma system as well. The character progression is dumbed down or idiot proof. This is not an RPG it's more like a FPS with some elements of an RPG.
    Story well it's just not there for me. Beginning is very slow and after the Concord missions it's more like managing Sanctuary and doing quest for people then finding your son and taking revenge. Te story just isn't there. The quests are just repetitive. The companion quests are a lot better but that is it.
    But even with all this negative there is a good game there. The open world, the character creation, the companions, the weapons and the wastelands of Fallout. I wanted to give it a 6 out of 10.
    But one more thing that was game breaking for me. The bugs and the glitches. I've encountered several game breaking bugs like corrupt save game files, story NPC glitching out. My character glitching out of the game world. Crashes and strange insta deaths from nowhere. I've lost countless hours to re do the same quests and clear the same areas because I've lost a save file or a NPC glitched out.
    I've tried to make the game work. Read several forums or guides to fix the game but it just doesn't run.
    That's why I have to give it a 1 out of 10.
    Really, really sad...    … Expand
  32. listenmymp3
    Feb 19, 2016
    1
    This game should be the last in the Fallout series, because Bethesda has perverted everything that was dear to me and people like me in this game series. The game was lost the spirit of wasteland, an interesting plot (what we were shown in 4 parts - this would be ashamed to even the first man who undertook to write a short story, all the money spent on advertising or premium executiveThis game should be the last in the Fallout series, because Bethesda has perverted everything that was dear to me and people like me in this game series. The game was lost the spirit of wasteland, an interesting plot (what we were shown in 4 parts - this would be ashamed to even the first man who undertook to write a short story, all the money spent on advertising or premium executive staff?), So that there is, in the game even one interesting side of the story, the realities of a post apocalyptic world (slavery, prostitution, hopelessness etc). But we got a simulator gardens, a dead alien (shame, shoved him for show to fans not vozbuhali (indignation)), empty monotonous world, lost all the dialogues and received crosshairs Yes, No, sarcasm, output (misery) and of course we got empty and monotonous world shooter, which in 2015 was awarded DITSE AVARDS GAME OF THE YEAR! and RPG of the year! - A slap in the face to all fans of RPGs. I am sure that these nominations were purchased. The lowest estimate for the worst game of the year.… Expand
  33. NescientWolf
    Nov 20, 2015
    1
    Playable, but barely. Very disappointing. Sick and tired of developers treating gamers like idiots. I can read and reallly want to. The text system burns me up, the perk system is oversimplified, other things... basically if you can't take a step forward with a new product don't release. Putting lipstick on a pig (crafting/base building system) doesn't make it right.
  34. MrZanyGaming
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This game is completely broken. I often find myself stuck after leaving terminals and being forced to reload/restart. The skills system is gone and this game is more of an FPS than an RPG. Graphics, lip sync, and animations are all horrible. Do not buy.
  35. blade01
    Jan 5, 2016
    1
    Wow, where is the game in this desaster?I hated Fallout 3, loved NV and now they produce this kind of garbage that is even worse when i compare it to Fallout 3.Everything is dumbed down.The story is a joke, alle the sidequests are boring as **** sidequest is like "go to X, X says "hey kill or clear Y".No real choices that matter.When i played F1,2,3 or NV at least i had some feeling theWow, where is the game in this desaster?I hated Fallout 3, loved NV and now they produce this kind of garbage that is even worse when i compare it to Fallout 3.Everything is dumbed down.The story is a joke, alle the sidequests are boring as **** sidequest is like "go to X, X says "hey kill or clear Y".No real choices that matter.When i played F1,2,3 or NV at least i had some feeling the quest matters.NV was great when it comes to sidequests.

    Your skills are now useless in conversations.You need X amount of charisma, thats it.NV was so much better when you feel the build of your character matters in some way.

    The UI is a desaster!!!Its not only clunky as hell, its hard to navigate without a gamepad.In fights that sucks!THe VATS is a problem too because the time flows when you are in VATS and most of the time its hard to target certain bodyparts with the mouse.

    Tactical gameplay is not in this game.When you fight enemys above you level youll simply die.I tried just for fun to lure some tough raiders into a minefield with lots and lots of mines.They took nearly no damage.The scaling of the enemys is terrible.You will find it either too hard or too easy.Pop a dozen of ghouls, no prob, minutes later one raider might run you over.You cant roleplay that way i think and its no fun when a game scales so poorly i think.

    I saw some comment the shooting is so much better.Yes, compared to F3 and maybe NV yes but those where no great games.What the hell is your standard?This is clearly no RPG and when i want to play a GREAT FPS i play a great one, not an abomination like Fallout 4.I play Wolfenstein for example with great visuals, great sound and so on!The gunplay is not even ok because everything is so clunky and ugly.So many bad textures that i cant the enemys when they stand next to a **** wall.And the weaponhandling is weird too.I can talk about the framerate too.A great FPS runs with a constant framerate where i can shoot things with precision.Fallout 4 runs NOT smooth.If you think Fallout 4 is an ok shooter go and play Wolfenstein or Shadow Warrior!!!!

    Bugs!!!Bugs!!!Bugs!!!I had some issues with bugs.Power armor is bugged as hell.The HUD is not displaying anything for example!According to my HUD in the armor i have no ammo, no health, no fusion core.This is **** bugs are there, companions fell through the terrain and died(they came back after i fasttraveld) and so on.

    The crafting seems nice, at first.Until you realize that you can just wait when enemys drop better stuff.This way i had a perfect 10mm after hours without wasting resources.I had to build the basic addon, on another weapon of the same model, trade the pieces, done.I have done that with most of my equipment and i had upgrades that needed the last ranks of weaponsmith for example when i was on a low level.That is just bad design because Bethesda makes it so some res are artificially rare and expensive.With my way you dont need that ressources.Should never be that way cause the crafting is a way for YOU to determine the way you want to play.Thats the plan from bethesda i think and they screwed this up.

    Visuals are pretty bad.Who gives this piece of ugly garbage a 95??Of course, IGN.Cause they had no bugs and a brilliant looking game i guess.The engine is outdated and they say its new.Lie!!!

    Conclusion:Boring as **** with bugs, clunky UI, no story, no immersion in the world and they dumbed down EVERYTHING.The 4 way dialogue-wheel is the nail in the coffin.Without the bugs the game might be a 2.With the bugs its 1, barely, because you can start it.I was never that bored when i played a game.Bethesda, you suck.You suck at writing, at programming and at building world where RPG players can immerse themselfes.All the people that think this is a great game:You suck, i dont care if you allowed to have an own oppinion.You are a person without taste!!!    … Expand
  36. ace99
    Dec 1, 2015
    1
    Very bad game is very bad. The gameplay is just awful and very boring. Sad to see how much Bethesda has mutilated the series. Fallout is now a pure first person action game set in a theme park like world.
  37. enfilade
    Dec 17, 2015
    1
    I was going to give Fallout 4 a rating of 4/10, but then I saw multitudes of 10/10 'best game I've ever played' type 'reviews'. Which are packed full of absolute lies. Either posted by fanboys in denial, or by Bethesda's employees.

    This game has been nothing but disappointing so far. I've played for over 40 hours, expecting things to get better, but they have only gotten worse, casual    I was going to give Fallout 4 a rating of 4/10, but then I saw multitudes of 10/10 'best game I've ever played' type 'reviews'. Which are packed full of absolute lies. Either posted by fanboys in denial, or by Bethesda's employees.

    This game has been nothing but disappointing so far. I've played for over 40 hours, expecting things to get better, but they have only gotten worse, casual FPS style.

    The Pros:

    -Graphics are improved over previous entries, but are still sub-standard.

    -Enemy AI is slightly improved, animals will burrow into the ground when you try the old 'stand on a rock to get out of reach' trick that has worked in every other Bethesda RPG. Human enemies actually take cover and don't just rush to their deaths, they also weave when you are aiming at them.

    -Building is a nice touch, although the mechanics of it could be hugely improved, as it is riddled with illogical flaws (like floating buildings). You can actually build a flying wooden house in the sky (not actually flying, just daft physics). Yes, really.

    -The shooting mechanics are a little better than previous entries, BUT the improvement is not massive, and it still feels largely the same as F3/NV. Don't expect Bioshock shooting or anything.

    -Crafting/upgrades. Good, but require far too much time investment to get anything worthwhile.

    -------------

    The cons:

    - Dialogue. The new dialogue system is absolutely atrocious. Now F3 and NV weren't exactly perfect in terms of dialogue, but they provided interesting, unexpected choices, with numerous outcomes in every situation. Remember spitting on Butch's sweet roll? Remember being an evil character? None of this exists in F4, and this is the game's biggest failure: dialogue is now reduced to 4 choices at all times:
    1) yes (the only way to progress)
    2) no (=come back later if you change your mind)
    3) why/what? (provides a recap of whatever has just been said, in case you skipped past the dialogue)
    4) Sarcastic (tell a joke, none of which are ever funny or remotely amusing, and none have any additional effect on the conversation).

    Almost every conversation has only one outcome: violence. I've obsessively re-loaded and tried multiple ways around each conversation/standoff. Only rarely was there any choice whatsoever to avert a bloodbath. More than 90% of these situations have only one outcome. I enjoyed F3 and NV even more. F4 has completely destroyed the most fun and enjoyable aspect of the series: RP and interaction with NPCs. This has truly ruined the core of the game: your choices DO NOT matter. At all.

    -RPG elements removed. Seriously.

    -Voiced protagonist. This was a horrible addition. I have not yet played a female character, but the male voice actor is ridiculous. He sounds completely nonchalant about everything. To clarify: his infant son has just been kidnapped, and he never gives any hints of being upset or traumatised, or being angry or anything. There are a few main story quests where he starts to sound a little upset, and of course, every storyline situation turns into a battle. You get a choice of 4 ways of saying 'ok, let's fight' every time before it starts. The voiced protagonist has no character, and really brings the whole RP element down as he plays the uncaring, nonchalant father looking (or not bothering to, most of the time) for his missing child.

    -Ridiculous plot holes and narrative flaws:
    1) Kellogg (the man who kidnapped your son) somehow knows your son's name, despite there being no possible way of him knowing this, having abducted the baby as an infant and having never seen or heard his name. Somehow, Kellogg magically knows Shaun's name. Ludicrous. Bethesda cannot write coherently at all.

    2) I wandered into a place called Covenant, where my character immediately started getting dialogue options to ask about characters he has never heard of previously, calling them by name. This happens a LOT in Fallout 4 if you do your own exploring instead of just doing what quest-givers tell you.

    -General lack of challenge, juxtaposed against cheap overpowered bullet-sponge 'legendary' enemies.
    The vast majority of side quests consist of 'clear all ghouls' followed by the same quest 10 times in different locations. When it's not 'kill ghouls', it's 'kill all raiders', or 'retrieve item'. These quests make up the vast majority of the game's content, and they offer no dialogue at all, just combat with no other option.

    Within the first 15 minutes or so of starting the game, you are given power-armour with a minigun, and you are made to fight a Deathclaw immediately after getting this gear. Within 30 mins of that, you'll join the Brotherhood of Steel after killing a few ghouls. The power armour removes any aspect of difficulty from this game, so I absolutely refuse to use it at all, it is like having god-mode cheats activated from the beginning. I can't stand using it.

    -Bugs, ranging from the mildly omical, to the game-breaking.

    Do you like Fallout? Avoid this garbage!    … Expand
  38. socialist6
    Nov 25, 2015
    1
    One thing that would be very interesting to know about :
    How many of the critics reviews are bought ...

    I was certainly going to buy this, Fallout has always been a big thing for me, gamewise ... but reading the reviews from the "not sponsored" gamers ... have made me change my mind.
    The "dumbing down" is an epidemic in the gaming industry!
  39. ldub
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    First impression: A buggy console port that is driving me crazy just trying to wade through it like the quagmire it is. This is Fallout on training wheels and the next step in the de-evolution process of the franchise meant to entertain the lowest common denominator. I had such high hopes... but cannot in good conscience suggest this game to friends at the moment. This isn't just a typicalFirst impression: A buggy console port that is driving me crazy just trying to wade through it like the quagmire it is. This is Fallout on training wheels and the next step in the de-evolution process of the franchise meant to entertain the lowest common denominator. I had such high hopes... but cannot in good conscience suggest this game to friends at the moment. This isn't just a typical plate of hot mess at the Bethesda diner. This is an insult to fans of the franchise and PC gamers.

    From the obtuse interface, crippling bugs that force you to restart the game, and contradicting plot issues "because vidya games." By the time I made it out of Vault 111 there wasn't a shred of desire left in me as a Fallout fan to go explore the world or pursue the story with the hope that fixes come sooner than later. The game is so broken I'm several hours in and the game hasn't given me any achievements thanks to a glitch. Despite already knowing how the linear paper thin plot already ends ( look in your steam/fallout4/video folder... you get 2 generic choices that are both garbage), I will play it to completion in order to get my money's worth.

    I feel utterly betrayed by Bethesda as a fan but experience has taught me as a gamer to expect such quality to diminish as studios get more successful. Customers paid premium prices for a AAA title and get bush league indie farm BS.

    How the mighty have truly fallen. This is likely to be the last Bethesda game I'll ever purchase. EA boycott going strong since 08. Blizzard Boycott going strong since 2010. Bethesda is about to be added to that list unless they get their **** together ASAP.    … Expand
  40. kru_
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I expected a RPG. I received a FPS-lite with some perks. Play Borderlands instead of this if FPS with character building is your thing. Stay far away if you want a RPG.
  41. Zer0TheHer0
    Nov 28, 2015
    1
    terrible.dumb dialogue options,especially when you compare it to witcher 3,bad quests,terrible interface,stupid force shoudler camera on third person,boring as hell.
    and the worst of all it's that you can't ever rebind all the keys,some are hard coded and the game won't let you,leading to a very frustrating experience......an not a single reviewer pointed this out in their    terrible.dumb dialogue options,especially when you compare it to witcher 3,bad quests,terrible interface,stupid force shoudler camera on third person,boring as hell.
    and the worst of all it's that you can't ever rebind all the keys,some are hard coded and the game won't let you,leading to a very frustrating experience......an not a single reviewer pointed this out in their reviews.incompetent shills.    … Expand
  42. MartianInvader
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Not much to say about Fallout 4. It's playable alright - if you ignore glitches and bugs that is. But why would anyone want to play it is beyond me. This game is Bethesda's Sacred 3 moment. It was supposed to be an RPG Lite like their previous games. Instead it's a poorly made FPS with clumsy gimmicks like VATS still glued to it for no reason. You get to choose your attribture scores butNot much to say about Fallout 4. It's playable alright - if you ignore glitches and bugs that is. But why would anyone want to play it is beyond me. This game is Bethesda's Sacred 3 moment. It was supposed to be an RPG Lite like their previous games. Instead it's a poorly made FPS with clumsy gimmicks like VATS still glued to it for no reason. You get to choose your attribture scores but they don't really affect anything except which perks you can take.

    If you want to play an open world FPS, get Far Cry 3 instead. Ironically it's also a better RPG than Fallout 4 - at least you'll see some character development there and meet some interesting characters.    … Expand
  43. Kapilux
    Dec 22, 2015
    1
    This game is just so bad in every department. And Bethesda actually succeeded in dumbing down their dumbed down games even more. Everything is just bad or awful - the writing, graphics, art design, voice acting, quest design, story/writing, mechanics, user interface EVERYTHING are just AWFUL. Stay away at all costs and save your money for a decent game.
  44. Kikojak323
    Nov 23, 2015
    1
    Horribly optimized piece of PC port crap. Buggy, Stuttering yet unimpressive graphics. Toned down the settings to prevent stuttering caused from RAM still same problem. Unplayable
  45. sylveria_relden
    Dec 14, 2015
    1
    TL;DR for the ADHD:
    Paid reviews = average of 80, User score = average of 5.5 - Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas's scores are around 80-something and User scores of around 8.0 or so average. Should tell you all you really need to know about how numbers are being "manipulated" and by whom. (I've also no doubt that Xbox and PS4 users come into the PC rating section to try and "boost" them    TL;DR for the ADHD:
    Paid reviews = average of 80, User score = average of 5.5 - Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas's scores are around 80-something and User scores of around 8.0 or so average. Should tell you all you really need to know about how numbers are being "manipulated" and by whom. (I've also no doubt that Xbox and PS4 users come into the PC rating section to try and "boost" them because they love their consoles, but that's another story)

    The LONG version (for those who aren't ADHD and can read)

    I've played Fallout since the very first one, and I remember grabbing it off the shelf and being excited for a new type of RPG. Ever since the first, I've welcomed each one on it's own merit- because I enjoy the story, the RPG elements such as being able to customize your skills and story as you go. The Skilldex system was innovative, especially being able to develop not only strengths but flaws and weaknesses along the way, making each character unique. Combine this with an evolving, unfolding story and you have an awesome experience, even if your character suffers a tragic death as a result of a mistake you made. You feel invested in the game, the NPC's you meet all have some sort of story as well, and most oftentimes a need of some sort. You can choose to align or be maligned, you can choose to do whatever you please along the way. Fallout 3 came along with a new FPS style interface, which at first was revolutionary combined with RPG elements, but it worked. I learned to like it, as I've played FPS games as well, and loved the combination of Fallout's RPG system being integrated. The ability for modders to create content and introduce it was also welcomed- which then continued with Fallout New Vegas with it's different story but very similar design of interface.

    Then comes Fallout 4.... a dumbed-down, consolized interface, lack of choice in almost any respect except for which weapon you choose and where you go. Perk system is a joke. Gone are the days of making choices that matter, gone are the days of feeling invested in the story in any respect. Now it's basically Call of Duty with a Fallout skin applied to it. It feels generic, dialogue system is horrid, and it randomly crashes to desktop without any hint or clue as to why. I play Fallout New Vegas on the same machine, with 120+ mods loaded and it (almost) NEVER crashes. (When it does, it's obvious as to why) Even those with high end equipment have issues with this game running stable at a decent speed. There's really no excuse whatsoever for a AAA developer to release a game in such a state. (but I'm sure fanbois will continue to defend this, too.)

    Two words for anyone considering purchasing this game for PC - "Caveat Emptor" (Buyer Beware). Don't say you weren't warned. Wait until the modders have released decent content and Bethesda (whenever they get around to it) releases a few patches to make the game stable. This release has also seriously made me question whether I'll invest in any of Bethesda's releases in the future- even TES which is another series I've always loved. I've no problem with choice- if you want to play on your console, play on your console- but developing crappy ports to PC and expecting PC users to put up with it will warrant poor consumer scores.

    Finally to those who question the "validity" of such reviews ask yourself a question-

    What does any customer who has bought this game and rates it poorly have to gain? IMO, absolutely nothing. They sure as hell aren't knocking down my door offering a refund.

    So what does any customer who has bought this game and rates it high have to lose?    … Expand
  46. Dafuzz
    Dec 24, 2015
    1
    It is a lousy FPS set in a theme park that Bethesda calls Boston. The RPG mechanics are so dumbed down that they are now essentially non-existent. The user interface, especially the inventory UI, is straight from hell. The graphics, writing, voice acting, animations and anything else are completely awful. This is one of the worst games I have ever play, just do yourself a favor and stayIt is a lousy FPS set in a theme park that Bethesda calls Boston. The RPG mechanics are so dumbed down that they are now essentially non-existent. The user interface, especially the inventory UI, is straight from hell. The graphics, writing, voice acting, animations and anything else are completely awful. This is one of the worst games I have ever play, just do yourself a favor and stay away from this drivel at all costs.… Expand
  47. hannabanana
    Dec 16, 2015
    1
    As a fan of both Fallout and Elder Scrolls series I was very disappointed and sad to see what Fallout has come to.

    I don't get this, frankly. What is this game? A city building game? A first person shooter? I'm not quite sure, but my feeling is I wasted my time waiting for this thing.
  48. help
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    basically **** meme trash. waste of money. will take it back and use the money to kill myself, consoles have so many glitches, the crafting is cancer, guns are weak and yeah all round 10/10 meme, good work todd meme lord.
  49. dk3d
    Nov 17, 2015
    1
    Skyrim was basically the last Bethesda game I played and haven't played in 2 years or more but most recent open world was Far Cry 4 so these are my basis of my review. I have only played this game about 6 hours but already I'm not even interested in continuing it that much. By comparision I played Skyrim hundreds of hours and then played it again. Far Cry 3 was also hundreds and Far Cry 4Skyrim was basically the last Bethesda game I played and haven't played in 2 years or more but most recent open world was Far Cry 4 so these are my basis of my review. I have only played this game about 6 hours but already I'm not even interested in continuing it that much. By comparision I played Skyrim hundreds of hours and then played it again. Far Cry 3 was also hundreds and Far Cry 4 ditto.

    Fallout 4? 6 Hours and it's not doing it for me.

    First of all, given the story, the world doesn't feel or look right or really make sense in my mind.

    It's feels tiny, you travel from one "location" or town(?) to the next by basically taking about 100 steps in any direction and boom! You're in a new location.

    Open World? Pretty loose use of the term in my opinion.

    By comparison Skyrim "felt" immense. Far Cry 3 and 4 felt huge. There were caves and waterfalls and hidden paths and nooks and cranies scattered all over the place, but each one felt quite a ways from the other. Miles it felt like. In Fallout 4 it seems like everything is crammed together. There's no sense of vast nuclear devastation, long straight roads into the distance with no one around.

    Granted, I haven't seen much or played much but then, I almost don't really want to.

    2nd, the World doesn't feel right given the story of this being 200 years after the blast. You're telling me 200 years in, not a single tree has grown back?

    Bugs have mutated to dog size in just 200 years? Really? Even mutant ones?

    And yet, buildings and stuff is still standing 200 years in?

    Sorry, it's all feeling wrong. It all looks wrong.

    Graphics wise, as others have said, it basically feels like a repurposed Skyrim, not that this is bad, but hey, it's like 4 or 5 years later now and granted it's a different environment (one has trees and the other should but doesn't), but FarCry 4 makes this game look really bad by comparison.

    I'm sorry I spent $60 on this game.    … Expand
  50. floppykid
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    I give this 4/10 game a 0 in order to help balance out the fanboy spam 10s and the sock puppet account reviews no doubt paid for by a PR company.

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

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

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

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

    Bethesda are going down the tube as a creative entity, they'll make plenty of green from this direction however. Don't buy this on PC. If you must, wait until it's on sale and the modding community has fixed BetaTesta's game. That is, if you don't have to pay for mods at this stage.    … Expand
  51. Shekel
    Dec 11, 2015
    1
    I am a very big fallout fan. With that said the overwhelming disappointment I feel while playing Fallout 4 makes me hurt even more. There is a major issue with companies misappropriating development funds and placing them into their marketing team and not the actual game. I haven't seen a game marketing department.
  52. chefino
    May 19, 2016
    1
    As a true fan of F1, F2, (not so much of Fallout: Tactics), F3 and New Vegas (although I didn't finish NV) I also took the hype-train and got F4 for my PC. Luckily a month or two after release and via a discounted coupon. Lucky me, would bash my head against the wall otherwise.

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

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

    Stay away. You have been warned.    … Expand
  53. Hakrit
    May 4, 2017
    1
    i just want to stab whoever made this piece of filth
    you call that a fallout game?
    well then i call you an idiot, mate
    do yourself a favor and just buy New Vegas...
  54. CaptainDldo
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Game blows....

    boring
    clunky
    cringeworthy dialogue
    tedious dialogue wheel
    nothing new here, move along
    never pre order a game again
    graphics make it unplayable. just awful. solid game for 20$, not a penny more
  55. dragonfirees
    Jan 11, 2017
    1
    They've done it again. They have taken a very promising franchise and sent it to hell.
    If Bethesda continues dumbing down their games like they have done with Fallout 4, they're gonna end up releasing a JRPG!
  56. gameworm
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Like what is wrong with these false marketing these days? game looks like a playstation 2 port and poor fps poor animation, lack of atmosphere, boring missions, bad gun fight. Like really? mediocre fps at its' best.
  57. bajjycom
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Totally useless crafting, boring explorations.
    Every dialog — crude piece of commonness.
    Graphics — Drake face.
    Jolly wasteland... JOLLY WASTELAND, CARL.

    Either past 7 years Bethesda did nothing, or their employees are complete f*cktards.
  58. Bloodandfury1
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Utterly wank. And i **** called it. As everyone was getting hyped around me screaming about how amazing this game was going to be i knew Bethesda was yet again going to do what they do best: make a buggy mess with uninteresting characters and a dull story and quests.

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

    Pros:
    Power armor actually feels like it should for once

    that's literally all i can think of

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

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

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

    In closing, i called it you're dumb if you bought into the hype thinking this was going to be better than new vegas next time bethesda ****s out another stinker onto your plate don't blow your chump change on it and don't ask for seconds.    … Expand
  59. Ambient
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    It's Fallout for kids.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    All other aspects of this game were great, so it's a shame that this terrible decision to limit dialogue and have a voice actor (which itself limits the amount of available dialogue) ruins my enjoyment. I'm going to finish this game only because I love Fallout and I waited 7 years since Fallout 3 and 5 since New Vegas, but I am disappointed with the decision to make this an FPS first and an MMORPG grind second rather than an actual singleplayer RPG with cleverly written dialogue choices, branching paths depending on those choices, and the ability to make my own story with my own protagonist instead of having a pre-recorded protagonist forced on me by the game. Too many games are beginning to look alike - FPS games with cheap MMORPG grinding that pretends to have depth and role-playing.    … Expand
  60. KRISPEYKREME
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This is not fallout. It is a dull, high spec'd low quality, unimaginative rpg where you are shoe horned into a broad story of one individual. Dual uninspired dialogue and choices, the most you will get out of this game is using it as a walking simulator and mass murder simulator. It is incredibly non optimized, a strewn mish mash of key bindings that make no sense compared to theThis is not fallout. It is a dull, high spec'd low quality, unimaginative rpg where you are shoe horned into a broad story of one individual. Dual uninspired dialogue and choices, the most you will get out of this game is using it as a walking simulator and mass murder simulator. It is incredibly non optimized, a strewn mish mash of key bindings that make no sense compared to the previous games that worked far better, and a UI in past games that worked far better, but they now have a horrid GUI.

    Fallout 4 is the Oblivion of Morrowind if Morrowind was FO3/NV, they completely missed the mark and made a console game for casuals in this generation. Terrible tacked on building and mod simulator to make money off the crop of recent titles. They just didn't put the heart and feelings of the past games in this, it isn't there, there is no nostalgia to lean upon, go play FO3 and NV and mod them like mad. Mods and dlc cannot save FO4.

    We can only hope they go back to the pure roots and get a developer that actually loves Fallout that in FO5 in 4 years no talking protagonist, more branching storylines, and nothing fancy to hype. Back to skills, back to actual roleplaying, back to an actual working UI, back to something made specifically for PC gamers. Graphics might just be the one semi decent thing it has going for it despite what most say, and that is all imo. It however still deserves a zero for bringing out such vitriol I had after 20 hours of play that I had to spend a day to calm down and play games I actually like, such as FO3 and Payday2 (which I don't agree with certain things such as micro transactions) but I play it because I enjoy it, and I do not in anyway as of this moment like FO4.    … Expand
  61. itscalledalance
    Nov 20, 2015
    1
    I will revisit this score sometime never. Releasing something with such a blatant flaw is inexcusable. Especially when games 10 years older did far far better!

    The dialog -from the words, down to the models movements, and eyes- HOLY FAK! its....its...TERRIBLE! why is this dudes arms hover-wiggling while looking at my crotch and talking in odd pauses and inflections!? so so bad! it    I will revisit this score sometime never. Releasing something with such a blatant flaw is inexcusable. Especially when games 10 years older did far far better!

    The dialog -from the words, down to the models movements, and eyes- HOLY FAK! its....its...TERRIBLE! why is this dudes arms hover-wiggling while looking at my crotch and talking in odd pauses and inflections!? so so bad! it literally wrecks this game for me! i can't watch the damn conversations.    … Expand
  62. SMIICE
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    So here is the review after playing for 28 hours.

    Let’s start and say Fallout and Fallout 2 was and will be my favorite games of all time (now I can add Witcher 3 to that list) I did not like Fallout 3 for lack of being Fallout and being Oblivion with guns, but I enjoyed Fallout New Vegas a lot. I love TES series, but it’s not TES series we will be talking about here. Character    So here is the review after playing for 28 hours.

    Let’s start and say Fallout and Fallout 2 was and will be my favorite games of all time (now I can add Witcher 3 to that list)

    I did not like Fallout 3 for lack of being Fallout and being Oblivion with guns, but I enjoyed Fallout New Vegas a lot.

    I love TES series, but it’s not TES series we will be talking about here.

    Character System:

    We don’t have skill anymore just perks.
    The SPECIAL system became even more casual then Fallout 3.

    Combat:

    It not interesting and very outdated.
    Combat stopped being tactical.
    Super mutants don’t feel threatening at all. I play on hard.

    Dialogue system:

    There is no need to invest points into speech (there is not speech skill). Dialogue has only 4 options.
    1) Yes
    2) No
    3) Question?
    4) Sarcasm

    There is no writing involved. Dialogues are not fun. You dot need to use your brain at all.
    I like to hear my name in the game that was a nice touch.

    Quests:

    Side quest are go fetch that item and go kill everyone at the specified location.
    To join the BOS in the first game it was so hard but afterword’s it felt amazing.
    Completing side quest without killing anyone (never happened so far and I played 28 hours).

    There is a quest where it feels like there should be a peaceful solution, but there is none you should kill one side or the other. There is no third option in this game.

    Equipment:

    I like how power armor is designed in Fallout 4. But it stopped being special it need no skill. Everyone can use it. You can find it everywhere.
    Good thing all equipment is customizable (I like it a lot).

    Building:

    I don’t like micromanagement part at all. I would love to have the ability to gather resources and tell settler to build walls and everything else. At least have that option in addition to Farmville simulator. It’s not Sims it is fallout. Upgrading settlement is a great concept but very poorly implemented.

    Graphics:

    Graphics is not an issue for me since I like Fallout 2.
    I do have GTX 980TI and the rest of the good components so I would have appreciated having better graphics and physics like Witcher 3. Recycling old engine is just so... have no words but lazy and greedy. If was Bethesda I would be ashamed to release such product. Bugs: Never ending glitches. This game has 10’s of it. But it's ok, I don’t mind. All bugs can be fixed. Open world: Need to load game every time I enter a large building if super annoying for me and game breaking. I’m tired of never-ending loading screens. Gameworld is so small I would have been ok if there was something to do besides: * Killing everything * Retrieving objects and * do Minecraft things. Verdict: If you like Minecraft and FPS, in general, this is definitely game for you and must buy and most probably the game of the generation. If you like true RPG experience and you fan of fallout universe please stay away and don’t make the mistake like I did. Bethesda destroyed Fallout series with Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, thank god there was Fallout New Vegas (thank you Obsidian for that). Bethesda it was last time I trusted you to make real Fallout but no more. Score: 1 out of 10 (not 0 because robot can sit my name and original art style of Fallout Series is back)    … Expand
  63. Kalex25
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    1) The controller is just a disaster. It feels now and more so on, as if the menu has been created for the console and no longer optimized for the PC.
    2) There is no Karma system.
    3) Radiation itself is no real danger more.
    4) The dialogue system greatly simplified. Even there you realize that it is well adapted to the console.
  64. CODFANBOY2015
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This is pretty sad for Bethesda to do this in 2015, I understood why there were bugs in 2008, but 7 years later you would think they would learn? They have not and it's still a mess with everything including story. I can forgive bugs, but not boring stories that are linear that cut the fun of the ARPG it was meant to be.

    Sad honestly.
  65. ApexCryptLord
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Worst Fallout game, after a few hours of gameplay, i saw a lot of bugs on the map. I couldn't play it anymore because i couldn't end the situation because of the bug. I though it was only by me, but my friends had the same bug. Fallout 1-3 were much better than this. Idk what they did with the time. The game is broken.
  66. VaultBoy666
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    1) Bad graphics
    2) Bad optimization
    3) Bad physics/animation etc
    4) Bad story line
    5) Terrible, primitive RPG system
    6) Small dead world

    Good job Bethesda, you killed Fallout series.
  67. sodanexus
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Bad story line, poorly graphics, bad physics, boring.... If you want a fix, go to fallout new Vegas or fallout 3... they are much better. it's for casual gamer.
  68. abortedfetusofj
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    By far my biggest disappointment.
    A few issues before my long rant:
    -The AI is too dumb; Enemies for some reason turn 360° before shooting you or they just run away then come back, for no reason at all, as if it is scripted "the enemy must come out of this door" so that's what the enemy does, he runs away from me, get past the doorway then turn back and run at me. -THE AI IS TOO DUMB;    By far my biggest disappointment.
    A few issues before my long rant:
    -The AI is too dumb; Enemies for some reason turn 360° before shooting you or they just run away then come back, for no reason at all, as if it is scripted "the enemy must come out of this door" so that's what the enemy does, he runs away from me, get past the doorway then turn back and run at me.
    -THE AI IS TOO DUMB;
    -The voice acting is bad even from Courtney Taylor (who I loved in Mass Effect), this is probably the dialogue's fault because the dialogue feels like it is written by someone who never talked to another person;
    -No variety in armours at all;
    -The game is too easy even in Survival Mode;
    -The animations are really bad;
    -The graphics are what you expect from an indie game;
    -It runs badly despite having an empty world and ugly graphics;
    -Uninteresting characters, shallow world and boring gameplay;

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

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

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

    That's when I decided to quit the game. But I got back to it after a while and went exploring instead of doing quests.
    The world was empty. There are tons of marked locations indeed, but these locations are empty. You loot some things here and there, but they're generic ruins with nothing to do in them.
    So now I uninstalled it.    … Expand
  69. Brogam4r
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    The game is just terrible. I expected so much from it. I can't believe that bethesda did that to us.

    The graphics are bad, performance is atrocious, the story.. I don't even know where to start. Why did they have to do this to us. I feel really bad that I played it for more than 2 hours and now I can't get my refund for it.
  70. cidlain
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    9 years for modded and bugged Skyrim.
    Shi... Bad role-playing, bad plot, dumb quests. And my favorite: SO DEEP DIALOGUES WITH ABSOLUTE FREEDOM OF CHOISE. Bethesda ruined Fallout once again and eventually turned it into a shooter. Hope that mods and Obsidian will fix that game.
    Never buy this if you wand to stop developers from making such a trash.
  71. junkgunk
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    The dialogue system of past fallout games was one of their best attributes. The new system blows and ruins the whole game. Hopefully Bethesda will realize their mistake and avoid migrating the new system to future fallout and elder scroll games.
  72. SalesDonkey
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    I'm a big fan of fallout saga.
    But after some time i realized something went wrong with that title.
    First warning was there when salesman was talking about customized buttons in consoles and crafting. Its is related to RPG ? It is the essence of the playability ? Maybe for him but he is a wrong person in wrong place. For me that was obvious they have big problem with that title.    I'm a big fan of fallout saga.
    But after some time i realized something went wrong with that title.
    First warning was there when salesman was talking about customized buttons in consoles and crafting.
    Its is related to RPG ? It is the essence of the playability ?
    Maybe for him but he is a wrong person in wrong place.

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

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

    Rest of the money from fallout 4 budget was used to "craft" of lives a few "chosen one " people.
    For me this is fail 4 not fallout 4.    … Expand
  73. Krefchenko
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Pure garbage, horribly optimized and horrible looking, unsatisfying gunplay and controls in general, companion AI is broken and insanely annoying in tight places, AI in general is broken, the quests are boring (like 5 quests in a row had me going to different places just to kill every single raider there, my character literally had the option to respond with: "great, more raiders" IFPure garbage, horribly optimized and horrible looking, unsatisfying gunplay and controls in general, companion AI is broken and insanely annoying in tight places, AI in general is broken, the quests are boring (like 5 quests in a row had me going to different places just to kill every single raider there, my character literally had the option to respond with: "great, more raiders" IF YOU'RE AWARE YOU'RE DOING THIS DON'T DO IT PLEASE), dialogue is never interesting, dialogue options have been severely limited and dumbed down to just "sarcastic" or "no" most of the time. When I was making my character, while disappointed in the options available to me I was very pleased with the character I made for myself. A gritty sort of woman with messed up hair and tired eyes, I was excited to roleplay as this kind of person roaming the wasteland, doing everything for my own good, not caring much about others, etc.. However, the devs felt that roleplaying was unnecessary and so they have introduced this new thing where your character talks a lot. So this character of mine was a completely insane person that went from being totally uninterested and cold in conversations to a completely different personality outside of them. Also the game crashed 4 times over 10 minutes of gameplay. All in all, I'm giving it 1/10 because I really like this character I made and would like to play her in a game that's good, there isn't anything good to say about this game.… Expand
  74. Sinius
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    BGS lied, it,s not RPG. Role-playing system does not exsist in f4, dialogs, storyline are poor. Principless exploitation of the name of Fallout. This is the way to the end of rpg-gaming, if games like fallout 4 will win the market.
  75. ametist_pro
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    PC version that is:
    1. NO optimization for old computers (buy new hardware kid!)
    2. Graphics like as F3...little bit better.
    3. Dialogs like horrible console-like circle with "yes", "no", "i don't understand", etc...
    4. RPG part? F4 is NOT a RPG. Only perks, half of which - meaningless
    5. You MUST BUILD! That is the Sims, not Fallout.
    6. A.I. - he is absent

    Summary: worst Fallout ever!
  76. vapko
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Low production quality across all boards, not only ps3 graphics and animation from ps2 era.
    Good gameplay with buggy AI running in circles? I wonder how you see it as good.
    And great god that writing is horrendous.
  77. franklinzunge
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    I can't believe the Gaming Press is giving this 90% and above across the board. And the negative that they say is its too similar to FO3 or NV. I wish it was similar to those games. New Vegas still outdoes it in every area except graphics. I actually prefer the gunplay in new vegas to be frank, I can at least aim the gun when I want and put it down when I want. Its not a good game. YouI can't believe the Gaming Press is giving this 90% and above across the board. And the negative that they say is its too similar to FO3 or NV. I wish it was similar to those games. New Vegas still outdoes it in every area except graphics. I actually prefer the gunplay in new vegas to be frank, I can at least aim the gun when I want and put it down when I want. Its not a good game. You can't even walk correctly in third person which at least Skyrim was able to do. The UI is just tons of flashing **** in your face, no way to customize, no way to get rid of it without making the game impossible to play. Millions of customizable modded guns? based on a few ****ty generic guns and you cant even holster them or put it down when you want to. This isn't an rpg in any way anymore. I am done with Bethesda. I took the week off of work, and I bought a new pc 6 months ago for Fallout 4. It just makes me want to play new vegas or fallout 3. I'm really disgusted by basically every decision.… Expand
  78. Ganda
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is really a horrible bad game. And are you sure this is RPG?? horrible ui. horrible FPS feeling. boring dialogue..I cant believe this is fallout.
    Damn i want my money back.    … Expand
  79. nzxt_extreme
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    If you are looking for Story ? Stay away !
    Game is big big disappointing , Side quest , Main story , Character dialogues all are so crap !

    I gave it multiple chances but I really could not enjoy this game ! It's Horrible
  80. Malaith
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    I have over 200 hours in fallout NV. so I am not new to the fallout series and this is by far the worst game so far . And even though it's **** the so called game journalist are giving it 90+ so be sure that something fishy is going on and this isn't the first time . The game crash constantly!
  81. lyrica_yuckani
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    pesimo juego, historia malisima y mediocre, lleno de bugs y las graficas pesimas, una pena que se llame rpg, el peor fallout de la historia ni si quiera vale la pena ver los videos, una pena de rpg
  82. skankerveen
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Being a die hard fallout fan, I just had to write a review on this game.

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

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

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

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

    Do not buy. I'm literally going to request a steam refund after I write this even though I'm well past the 2 hour mark.    … Expand
  83. RestlessGamer
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The sad end of an era. I've played every Fallout and Elder Scrolls game (other than the MMO) and loved them all, despite their flaws, but I will never play another after this one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    All around, I feel that this is an extremely lazy and poor quality title in which Bethesda have added little and yet taken away so much. The only good thing about it is the re-use of the earlier titles theme music and the atmospheric radio tracks. For that it gets a 1 rather than 0.    … Expand
  84. razvanalbu
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I had very high hopes for Fallout 4 and was disappointed. I have played Fallout 1 & 2 and finished them countless times. Fallout 3 and New Vegas strayed from the depth of Fallout 1 & 2, and Fallout 4 took it even further and transformed the game into an 3rd1st person shooter with some RPG elements. Another example of how major companies can destroy a perfect game.

    - skills are gone -    I had very high hopes for Fallout 4 and was disappointed. I have played Fallout 1 & 2 and finished them countless times. Fallout 3 and New Vegas strayed from the depth of Fallout 1 & 2, and Fallout 4 took it even further and transformed the game into an 3rd1st person shooter with some RPG elements. Another example of how major companies can destroy a perfect game.

    - skills are gone
    - perks are destroyed by mixing them with skills
    - zero-perk influence in-game: without investing in anything I can play 'sniper' with a machine gun :)) A machine gun!!!! Sniper!!! WTF?!
    - no more dialogues with many options that immerse you in the world
    - no chance for charisma characters
    - dumbed down quests like in WoW Vanilla or Burning Crusade: go there, kill that, return, profit, rinse, repeat
    - town building which gives absolutely nothing (no one dies of hunger or thirst or sleep deprivation, no one attacks you etc.)
    - too easy to play now. I can jump in the middle of 10 foes and kill them all with a simple gun. I wasn't able to do that in fallout 2 not even in the end, wearing power armor and best weapons :)

    On the plus side: the graphics are pretty good.    … Expand
  85. Eddie_o
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Bethesda showed the game at E-3, yes.
    And it was exciting, just to know that a Fallout-4 was coming.
    They showed the voice-over feature of our character. Nice looking graphics... The curious start of the game, running to the vault....Showing us how everything started... All good stuff... Yet they did not tell us that all this, was going to be presented in a stupified game mechanic,    Bethesda showed the game at E-3, yes.
    And it was exciting, just to know that a Fallout-4 was coming.
    They showed the voice-over feature of our character.
    Nice looking graphics...
    The curious start of the game, running to the vault....Showing us how everything started...
    All good stuff...

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

    Imagine your disappointment...
    And now respect mine... Thank you    … Expand
  86. Elorek
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I am a huge fan of Fallout 1 and 2. Both were deep, darkish and great stories with a lot of side quests and interesting random encounters. I've played them both many times again and again from the beginning trying new options. Fallout Tactics was meh, Fallout 3 was fine.
    I recently finished Witcher 3 and game was stunning, let’s face the truth, Witcher 3 changed a lot of people’s minds in    I am a huge fan of Fallout 1 and 2. Both were deep, darkish and great stories with a lot of side quests and interesting random encounters. I've played them both many times again and again from the beginning trying new options. Fallout Tactics was meh, Fallout 3 was fine.
    I recently finished Witcher 3 and game was stunning, let’s face the truth, Witcher 3 changed a lot of people’s minds in terms of new RPG era. Yesterday on 30th birthday I bought Fallout 4 and SC2: Legacy of the Void, decided to play all day long... what happened? First: Graphics! What is this!? Game looks like from 2008-2009! Is this graphics some kind of joke!? Character models are awful. Story: Omg, when they shot this woman and took the baby I thought I need to switch the game off, but tried to go.
    Then I heard first dialogues. I feel woe some. This kind of dialogue quality in RPG's should be punished by law. Interface and hud is terrible. I spent over 5hours in that game and still I am lost why the char doesn't run sometimes and I am not overweight, why doesn't shoot, maybe some glitches. I have no idea what is going on in the equipment, what I'm wearing and it takes ages to clarify the simplest things there and compare items.
    Cursor works so strange. Character controlling is terrible and this game is more like FPP shooter than RPG. Maybe I got spoiled by The Witcher 3. I don't know. I grew up on Fallout 2, Planscape Torment and Baldur's Gate saga. I've waited 13 years for great RPG like Witcher 3 and Fallout supposed to by my icing on the cake... and I got the cake, slack-baked cake. I'm so disappointed with this game.
    Except for many hours I can spend with that game (200+) I have no idea how I will survive with this terrible mechanics, interface, glitches, graphics, dialogues, characters and shallow story. I will try to get refund for Fallout 4. This is some kind of not funny joke! Bethesda please call CD Project Red and ask them, how to make a viable, great RPG with great characters, graphics, side quest and story. And check your calendar, it is 2016 almost and you serve us old, clay graphic engine.
    Ahhh I forgot to mention! Music! Is there any music? I'm still listening Witcher's 3 CD and even my fiancé, who hates computer games and fantasy loves it. You got it Bethesda, you've manipulated and hyped me to buy this crap. Take my money and stuff yourself!    … Expand
  87. walktexranga
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Terrible PC port.. no excuse when PS4/XB1 are x86 architecture.. my powerful PC (2 x 780ti with SLI fix and latest drivers) even with game on lowest settings was dipping to 40-50fps with horrendous frame stutter..

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

    Also the various other issues:

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

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

    For a company that made over $1.3 billion revenue from Skyrim, there is just no excuse.. Todd Howard poor form mate.. Fallout originated on PC and now its dead on PC.    … Expand
  88. ysiwnb
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Realy bad game. Hard to control your character and the world does not help. Apart from the glitches, the game suffers due to bad optimization. People say story>graphics. Well this game has both bad story and bad graphics. I would not recommend this game.
  89. Serprent
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Полностью разочарован игрой.Сделаю возврат денег. Минусы описывать не буду,всё довольно популярно уже расписали в других отзывах. Ужас. От Bethesda не ожидал такого,прости Господи,кала.
  90. kurter
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This is without a doubt one of the worst games I've ever played and that's no exaggeration.

    Almost EVERTHING is bad. There's no fun at all. The combat is tedious. Yes shooting is improved but everything just jumps you. Some of the first raiders in the game throw molotov cocktails at you which is basically an instakill. Playing on Surival makes everything into a bulletsponge. The    This is without a doubt one of the worst games I've ever played and that's no exaggeration.

    Almost EVERTHING is bad. There's no fun at all. The combat is tedious. Yes shooting is improved but everything just jumps you. Some of the first raiders in the game throw molotov cocktails at you which is basically an instakill. Playing on Surival makes everything into a bulletsponge.

    The dialogues are completely stupid and make no sense. People don't introduce themselves, you magically know them, because maybe another character is supposed to introduce them. It doesn't matter if you hear the name you just know it all of a sudden. There are no choices. You can either say YES in 3 different ways or NO and leave. Then the game will wait until you say YES.

    The fact that it's voiced makes it even worse because it effectively ruins any role playing you might have had intended. I want to be a moronic brute who couldn't care less about any living being yet I have to look for my infant son and love my dog (who chooses to sit on his lap whining after he takes some hits. Then I have to option to heal him with a stimpack but why the **** would I do that when I can just wait 10 seconds and he's happily jumping around again?).

    Quests? Can't say because I haven't gotten anything yet. Only quest I got was go there kill the raiders. But that's out of the question because I only have like 200 bullets and there's about 30+ enemies. There's no indication where to go so you just stumble on through the wasteland but you'll come across some tough eniemies right from the bat. There's no pacing of story or gameworld.

    The perk system is laughable. Of course it gives you some kind of individuality but in the end it doesn't matter. And even the oh so praised crafting system turns into hoard everything to get adhesive (because you know when you want to harden that metal armor you need some glue...).

    You can't kill people that annoy you which in Fallout 4 is EVERYONE. I came across two totally random characters (a woman and her Jet Junkie son) and they were killable. But the first big town and people SIT ON THE GROUND after you hit them. But of course everyone is hostile then and kills you.

    I've played through the complete Fallout 3. Not the add-ons but the main game. I was frustrated like everyone else about what they did to our Fallout but damn I took it for what it was, and I even enjoyed it to a degree. But there's absolutely nothing redeeming about Fallout 4.

    The graphics are fine since I don't care that much, but the framedrops in certain areas are unbelievable. My system ran Witcher 3 on highest settings.

    I am not even mad but rather shocked at how incompetent and uncaring Bethesda really is. Apparently a big sum of the money usually used for development went straight into the pockets of gaming journalists. There's no other explanation for the oustanding praise this pile of **** has garnered so far.

    You are embarassing liars.    … Expand
  91. derpaherpa
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    Bethesda is the new Electronic Arts.

    This is the Dragon Age 2 of Fallout games. It's like playing Borderlands alone - an MMORPG grindfest. The writing in Borderlands is somehow BETTER than this game. Fallout 4 has the emotional maturity of an adolescent. The writers should be absolutely ashamed that they accepted money in exchange for this drivel. It is an insult not only to fans and to    Bethesda is the new Electronic Arts.

    This is the Dragon Age 2 of Fallout games. It's like playing Borderlands alone - an MMORPG grindfest. The writing in Borderlands is somehow BETTER than this game. Fallout 4 has the emotional maturity of an adolescent. The writers should be absolutely ashamed that they accepted money in exchange for this drivel. It is an insult not only to fans and to the Fallout series but to videogames in general.

    Bethesda is the new Electronic Arts.
    I'm sorry. I tried to like this change with the dialogue wheel. But this is a bunch of crap.

    Fallout was a role playing game, and whoever thought this was the right direction for dialogue options should have been laughed out of the room, not embraced and allowed to develop an FPS and pretend it's a role playing game. Trying new things is important, but this voiced-protagonist and dialogue wheel is RIDICULOUS.    … Expand
  92. epoc1337
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    A huge disappointment. Pre-purchased the Game, installed and boom. It doesnt even launch. Even after several clean installs of several driver settings, nothing. I got meanwhile my money back from Steam support. Never again Bethesda.
  93. Ogi79
    Sep 22, 2017
    1
    OMG! After 30 hours in Fallout instead of enjoying it i feel as if i was kicked in the balls , and while i was lying on the ground i kept receiving kicks.I persenoly on PC cant play normaly more then 30 min because stuttering starts and its slide show!.I have to exit game and reload and start new 30 min of normal play, i mean WTF?! (i play Witcher 3 on ultra high ).Game is fullOMG! After 30 hours in Fallout instead of enjoying it i feel as if i was kicked in the balls , and while i was lying on the ground i kept receiving kicks.I persenoly on PC cant play normaly more then 30 min because stuttering starts and its slide show!.I have to exit game and reload and start new 30 min of normal play, i mean WTF?! (i play Witcher 3 on ultra high ).Game is full of bugs ! like i have cow on my roof! Story is BOOORIIINGG! Console ported sistem to PC is HORRIBLE! Building settlements is pointless .And yes , F4 is like time mashine ! You will see graphics and engine from 2009 ! RPG elements are simplified to the bone , game is made for casual no brain idiots.Nothing in game exist for hard core RPG FAllout fan!NOTHING!… Expand
  94. farrellj0814
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    No need to go into detail here. We were expecting an RPG game but instead we got a FPS with a few perks to unlock. Dialog sucks. Graphics suck (for 2015). Don't Buy it.
  95. Shmorgan
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Terrible game, invincible companions armor and weapons don't break. Not worth the purchase. I thought it would be fun to play, boy was I wrong removal of gear being able to break does not make if fun. Invincible companions is the worst design decision EVER by BGS. You thought Skyrim's protected companions was worse? Think again. No more purchases from BethSoft from me.
  96. ChaffToxicS
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Game is not fun at all. It just doesn't feel right without you're gear breaking and maintaining for repairs. Companions being immortal is bad too. Bethesda has entered the COD realm, my last purchase from now.
  97. XmasonX
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I thought game would be great, BOY was I WRONG. BGS removed a lot of features which made Fallout Fallout and what made me enjoy BGS games like Fallout 3 and F: NV was armor breaking and at least companions can die. NOW? Whoa BGS disappointed me.

    I have 1 pro for this game, MODS! I don't think mods will make me buy BGS next game too much automatic features playing the game for you. Like    I thought game would be great, BOY was I WRONG. BGS removed a lot of features which made Fallout Fallout and what made me enjoy BGS games like Fallout 3 and F: NV was armor breaking and at least companions can die. NOW? Whoa BGS disappointed me.

    I have 1 pro for this game, MODS! I don't think mods will make me buy BGS next game too much automatic features playing the game for you. Like the unkillable companions.    … Expand
  98. racer999
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    A huge disappointment is how I would word my feelings after seeing what has become of the Fallout series.

    - Rather lacking graphics for a 2015 game (just look at Witcher 3 - that's how an AAA title should look like) - Dumbed down Mass Effect lookalike dialog system (the "Sarcastic" option deserves an additional mention as choosing this option can cause unpredictable results) -    A huge disappointment is how I would word my feelings after seeing what has become of the Fallout series.

    - Rather lacking graphics for a 2015 game (just look at Witcher 3 - that's how an AAA title should look like)
    - Dumbed down Mass Effect lookalike dialog system (the "Sarcastic" option deserves an additional mention as choosing this option can cause unpredictable results)
    - Character progression has also been dumbed down,
    - Poor enemy and NPC AI.
    - Story writing is probably the worst one of all of Bethesda's games.
    - All the bugs you can or cannot handle.

    All in all it sits somewhere between F:3 and F:NV and after seeing what a HUGE improvement Skyrim was over Oblivion as well as the fantastic marketing campaign for F:4 I expected this to be the much sought improvement as well. Instead it is overall barely a slightly better F:3 (a 2008 game!!!). By today's standards it is a failure.

    PS. How on earth did the "official" critics not notice all these flaws?    … Expand
  99. Cipher007
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Really horrible Console Port. Did not even try to hide that fact. The game released on PC so horribly buggy that its not playable for me and lost of others. Here I sit waiting for a patch to fix a game that is supposed to be release ready but by far is not.
  100. NoMoreTrolls
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I got excited for the Fallout 4 announcement in June. I was excited to get more information. E3 videos looked like game would be fun, as more info started coming out I grew a bit less excited.

    Game releases yesterday played it for 10 hours. It's EXTREMELY BORING.

    Feels like Beth went the cod route, no more games to be bought from Beth any longer from me. Sad...
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

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  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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