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  1. Oct 30, 2020
    4
    This is not RPG, this is bad writing and cringe characters simulator. Yeah, 10/10 here no doubts. Graphics weak, all characters look the same, story whacks original lore. Few good things in this game: crafting system and shooting mechanics. That's all.
  2. Oct 29, 2020
    7
    Addicting base building and weapon customization however, just a bland story and a world filled with bland characters. This game is more a framework of a game made to be polished by mods, and it still runs on the same buggy engine with un-patched bugs from previous games.
  3. Oct 29, 2020
    0
    would have been 6.5/10 if it were just some random game, but my score is to warn you that you wont enjoy this game if you bought it to play an RPG with choices. FO4 is the DragonAge2 of Fallout Games. it is supposed to be a better version of all previous Fallout games, and the only thing it did better was actual combat. Sadly every other aspect of previous Fallout games (dialogue, choices,would have been 6.5/10 if it were just some random game, but my score is to warn you that you wont enjoy this game if you bought it to play an RPG with choices. FO4 is the DragonAge2 of Fallout Games. it is supposed to be a better version of all previous Fallout games, and the only thing it did better was actual combat. Sadly every other aspect of previous Fallout games (dialogue, choices, skills/perks, characters depth, weapons) is either severely degraded or completely removed.

    just another brick in Bethesda's wall of "over-simplifying games in hope of attracting more buyers", which does not seem to be working as well as they hoped. bethesda did not even learn from FO4, they actually released the worst game of the year (Fallout 76) and added very greedy anti-consumer features into it.
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  4. Oct 28, 2020
    7
    good apocaylse mood. nice shooting. OK RPG. maybe next time...? would be great.
  5. Oct 21, 2020
    10
    Graphic is fantastic gameplay is great and story is very good . I recommend you play this game on 1440p resolution or higher
  6. Sep 24, 2020
    8
    В принципе, я не олд в фолычах , в пред части не играл, поэтому в принципе зашло, прежде всего атмосферой, локами, лором. Старые жалуются на то, мол 4 фолыч ваще не рпг и это абсолютно так, здесь все решается в перестрелках в основном, хотел играть через харизму, замаксил ее, но она весьма бесполезная оказалась, в диалогах почти не роляет. Опять же, если не играли в пред. части - скорееВ принципе, я не олд в фолычах , в пред части не играл, поэтому в принципе зашло, прежде всего атмосферой, локами, лором. Старые жалуются на то, мол 4 фолыч ваще не рпг и это абсолютно так, здесь все решается в перестрелках в основном, хотел играть через харизму, замаксил ее, но она весьма бесполезная оказалась, в диалогах почти не роляет. Опять же, если не играли в пред. части - скорее всего зайдет Expand
  7. Sep 23, 2020
    3
    This was not good at all, maybe I need to retry but I just can't see myself do that in some years or so. Combat was boring, characters was bad and I did not care enough.
  8. Sep 14, 2020
    1
    the second worst fallout that exists for various reasons such as bad dialogue options, the elimination of the karma system, the appropriation of content from modders to pass it off as a dlc, wanting to charge for mods, a dull and lazy story, and a limited Amount of items from previous installments plus the lack of iconic factions like the enclave make this the second worst fallout gamethe second worst fallout that exists for various reasons such as bad dialogue options, the elimination of the karma system, the appropriation of content from modders to pass it off as a dlc, wanting to charge for mods, a dull and lazy story, and a limited Amount of items from previous installments plus the lack of iconic factions like the enclave make this the second worst fallout game only beaten by 76 Expand
  9. Sep 11, 2020
    7
    To me, this game is the definition of a bad game that's fun. It's so unfinished but I still enjoyed it, definitely doesn't feel like a Fallout game. Hopefully Bethesda is able to someday return to their former glory.
  10. Sep 9, 2020
    3
    Poor rpg mecanic : you Can be in situation where all answers means YES . 4 choices discussion and you need to Guess what he will say .
    Leveling system ...more casual IS it possible ?
    Poor story
    Take Fallout 3 story , sens away interesting quest exange your scientific father for your scientific son ...
    And adds bugs a lot of bugs Worst Fzllout game
  11. Sep 9, 2020
    0
    this game sucks nuff said. not worth the money and has a boring story. there are no likeable npc's and it wont evean let you kill them. do me a favor and dont buy this stupid game. it is nothing but a cash grab. the only way to make this game fun is with mods and evean then it will run like a turd in a lawn mower!!!!! DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. Aug 22, 2020
    10
    After years, this game is still too enjoyable. With mods, graphics looks very cool. If you start it to just try, you may not like. Start to enjoy it, not just play. Make it your own game.
  13. Aug 6, 2020
    7
    This isn't like previous fallout games, its not much of an RPG. Nonetheless, it has a pretty good open world setting and a decent story, and i spent a lot of time playing this. However, many of the quests are repetitive (Read Preston) and grindy. Mixed bag.
  14. Aug 6, 2020
    10
    people are too stupid not to reject the false feeling of the old games, I was disappointed in these people, the game deserves more.
  15. 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.
  16. Aug 1, 2020
    10
    Балдёжная игра. Не на десятку конечно, но ставлю её для повышения общей оценки, а то игра заслуживает явно большего, чем 5.5.
  17. Jul 25, 2020
    4
    Fallout 4 is a bad Fallout game and it not that good of a game in general. Fallout 4 is mostly a FPS game with a few RPG mechanics. the game have a lot of bugs. I don't like that there's no level cap.
  18. Jul 21, 2020
    3
    здесь ровно 75 букв чтобы просто оставить оценку игре, не описывая ее + и -
  19. Jul 20, 2020
    7
    Score: 7
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  20. Jul 20, 2020
    7
    No es un Fallout en todo su explendor porque no tiene para nada ese elemento rolero que mola tanto y hace buena la saga como los anteriores.

    Pero aquí tenemos una de las obras más importantes de la actualidad hablando de mundo abierto, y hay que decir que apesar de no tener elementos roleros es jodidamente divertida y llena de contenido. No sera un buen juego fiel a la saga, pero sin
    No es un Fallout en todo su explendor porque no tiene para nada ese elemento rolero que mola tanto y hace buena la saga como los anteriores.

    Pero aquí tenemos una de las obras más importantes de la actualidad hablando de mundo abierto, y hay que decir que apesar de no tener elementos roleros es jodidamente divertida y llena de contenido.

    No sera un buen juego fiel a la saga, pero sin dudarlo es muy buen juego (Con el pase de Expansión ya que arregla y añade cosas que no entiendo como no estaban en el juego base)

    En fin Fallout 4 es un buen juego no es de 10, pero apesar de tener una salida bastante meh, si tienes el pase de expansión y ganas de universo fallout no tienes ninguna excusa.
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  21. Jul 20, 2020
    8
    Thank God that Bethesda has updated the engine and the graphics have become much better. The plot is not bad, the endings are different, but they are made with soul. I like the mode of any pumping, repairing weapons and armor, and you can also build objects from all kinds of garbage.
    Dialogues are terrible done
  22. Jul 19, 2020
    6
    It is a good game. To play if you love the fallout nuclear and apocalyptic scenario. The gameplay is funny but missions are repetitive and the lore is not good as the one from Fallout 3 or Fallout new Vegas. Great character creations mechanic, bad crafting.
  23. Jul 18, 2020
    6
    Seamless, jaw-dropping environments, engaging combat, and a slew of new features such as weapon crafting add considerably to the Fallout experience.

    Unfortunately, I never really felt like I was playing a meaningful, developing character influencing the world around him. This version of Fallout strips out what I enjoy about the game most: the RPG elements. I never felt like my own
    Seamless, jaw-dropping environments, engaging combat, and a slew of new features such as weapon crafting add considerably to the Fallout experience.

    Unfortunately, I never really felt like I was playing a meaningful, developing character influencing the world around him. This version of Fallout strips out what I enjoy about the game most: the RPG elements. I never felt like my own villain or hero (removing the karma system is a huge letdown), and the built-in voice acting and dialogue for the main character is largely hollow and uninteresting. Even after utilizing mods to make the dialogue choices mimic Fallout 3, the whole experience seemed impersonal and boring.

    Settlement building seems out-of-place and distracts from the urgency of an ultimately underwhelming main story. Overall, Fallout 4 chooses to go in a different direction instead of capitalizing on its predecessors' strengths, and what we're left with is just not as strong. That being said, it's a fun game with a lot of memorable moments, and the addicting gameplay of looting, pickpocketing, hacking, and being incredibly empowered in an intriguing wasteland is here.

    Overall, though - Fallout 4 is an extremely disappointing way to follow up two phenomenal games.
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  24. Jul 10, 2020
    5
    СПАСИБО БЕСЕЗДА ЗА РУССКУЮ ОЗВУЧКУ. А так игра кал, зря деньги потратил, но кому-то нравится, значит игра не такая плохая, графен кстати мертв=(
  25. Jul 10, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I love fallout, all of them, and sadly 4 is my least favorite, it's not by dar a bad game it's a good game but the only thing that reminds you of fallout is the lore and some weapons. The game scraps a lot of features that defined fallout being the more notable the fact that our protagonist speaks and he has already a background. Courier 6 has a background but it's one you discover while playing and it's enough that you get and idea of his past but no who he is, bc in NV you are the courier and you decide who is the courier, that can't be said about NATE/NORA bc whe alredady now they are a Housband/Wife from before the bombs fall who lived almost all theyre lives without nedding to survive or make hard decisions, that already tons down the role possibilities but when in top of that, the dialogue is a joke, we don't now what the protagonist is gonna say bc we only have 4 options that are always: Sarcastic, Agrresive, Question, Affable. To add to the problem of this game the story is really meh, in the new factions we have the Minutemen or well A Minutemen Preston you can at least decide if you want to help him regroup the minute men. The railway has more importance in this game wich is really cool and we finally see the institue : D. And it's really lame sadly, you can predict whats gonna happen the moment you enter Diamond city, i really didn't care about Shaun but even if i didn't care about him Nate/Nora does and that was a role killing feature really. Its really funny seeing how Fallout 76 has a more interesting questiine thanks to Wastelanders. Next time whe see a fallout, probably in 2028? or even more i hope they learn from what works in the old fallout games, and take some things from the new ones, but definetly please don't repeat this mess. Expand
  26. Jul 6, 2020
    0
    It's absolute garbage, what Bethesda has done over the past years is pretty known all across the board.
    How could you ever imagine a Fallout game heavy on the FPS action when the shooting was always It's weakest part. Waste of time.
  27. Jun 30, 2020
    7
    После замечательных NV и 3, 4й Фоллыч чувствуется даунгрейдом в плане механик, проработанности сюжета и RPG-составляющей. Слабенькая часть вышла, увы.
  28. Jun 30, 2020
    8
    Always loves bethesda's games, the voive acting ruin the role play tho. hope there a re no more voice acting in the future
  29. Jun 29, 2020
    7
    Fallout 4 improves combat & visual quality from Fallout 3 & NV, however while for some people the graphics are lacking when compared to games like Witcher 3 its often considered a key negative by fan who miss the main purpose of these games.

    its important to remember the core focus is the story, player freedom & the overall ability to Role Play in the game & Fallout NV proves my point
    Fallout 4 improves combat & visual quality from Fallout 3 & NV, however while for some people the graphics are lacking when compared to games like Witcher 3 its often considered a key negative by fan who miss the main purpose of these games.

    its important to remember the core focus is the story, player freedom & the overall ability to Role Play in the game & Fallout NV proves my point as Obsidian used the same engine & graphical assets of Fallout 3 meaning more time is spent on making the main story, its side quests & improving the overall RPG experience all of which was created in just 18 month, but FNV came out buggy & although those bugs were fixed the initial damage was done bringing down review scores, but in the End Fallout NV is remember by most Fallout fans as being better than Fallout 3.

    Now back to Fallout 4 the opposite is true, once the exactment had passed I along with most fans realised the steps backwards, Skills & Perks are merged into one reducing player playstyles, not to mention all too often there aren't multiple ways to solve problems beyond speech check or the use of your guns, settlement building provides a fun way for creating a deeper connection to the world as you build your own home, and you can create settlements each with their own styles if you so wish, though all too often settlements need your babysitting as they seem unable to defend themselves even though you built a wall armed with rocket & laser turrets.

    The addition of a voiced protagonist is a completely unnecessary one, firstly it reduces the players connection to their character and the game world, as lines of dialog are spoken in a way I did not intend for them to be said, in the Vault 88 DLC there's a speech check which I was taking the situation seriously but the voice actor said it like he was joking or being smug this disconnects me from the world reducing my role playing experience as I feel less in control of my character

    Some minor SPOILERS here.
    The core focus of the story is Institute & their Synth, and no where shows just how much of a lack of effort was made to explain and add to the lore than the information surrounding them, it is unclear how Synths are made and function, for a long while I was lead to believe that all Synth have a Synth component (SC) and that was a key part in how they function, but it seem that some synths don't have them leading to speculation that the SC is only in synths that travel to the surface, other speculation includes do synths need to eat, drink, or sleep and just how many bad to good things has the Institute done and its not made clear what their end goal is.

    This when coupled with the cut content some of which was shown the trailers (Combat Zone) show that the game could of done with another 4-6 months to really flesh out the story/lore and indeed correct lore contradictions that are made in the game namely Jet and XO1 power Armor.

    Fallout 4 will go down as the Fallout game of missteps by Bethesda Skill/Perks, Voiced PC, Lore mistakes or full on retcons, lacking features that seem like the logical addtion like a Armor & weapon stand for those settlements you build so you can show off you treasures from the wastes, even after launch features like survival mode were poorly designed, and only catered to the most hardcore players, where as the average player doesn't want to not be able to save whenever they like, or have to take 2x damage from enemy's over the normal difficulty 1x damage, the devs couldn't even get this right.

    Overall Fallout is a fun but ultimately and step backwards in the Bethesda RPG franchise and gives me concern for Elder Scrolls 6 especially when they make games like Fallout 76 that the majority of fans don't want.

    Bethesda need to remember their making games for their millions of fans not the millions on non-fans.
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  30. Jun 28, 2020
    8
    bug fest, but nice story, world, i like the fps element, but wish there was more rpg like options in the story, a lot of customization options ffor your base and weapons the best I have seem in games, whicj is great, so much to do, love the music, but the recycle of sounds and animations is so Bethesda, still I really enjoyed playing it
  31. Jun 28, 2020
    7
    After 200 hrs of playing, my opinion on the game itself is "Ok". Adding mods on PC would introduce much more fun.

    I can feel that the game did try to include RPG elements and create a huge post-apocalyptic world, but the lacking of variety in quests and most of times spent on meaningless reqeusts, makes the world a bit void. The story was also not attractive enough to encourage playing
    After 200 hrs of playing, my opinion on the game itself is "Ok". Adding mods on PC would introduce much more fun.

    I can feel that the game did try to include RPG elements and create a huge post-apocalyptic world, but the lacking of variety in quests and most of times spent on meaningless reqeusts, makes the world a bit void. The story was also not attractive enough to encourage playing through.

    However with Mods it could be a rather open world FPS game plus some RPG elements.
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  32. Jun 27, 2020
    4
    I knew this game was bad about 80 hours into the game. The characters are simple, the plot is atrocious, and bugs and issues are all over this game. This is the game where Bethesda just stopped caring about the IP as anything other than a money machine.
  33. Jun 26, 2020
    8
    I give an 8 simply because the story starting about half way and towards the end is just bad.
    The game play and the way the world carries you through various aspects of a wasteland were dead on 10/10 in that regard, I enjoyed and still enjoy the game after probably 500 hours.
    Combat is fun and many of the characters are interesting.....the ending just about ruined my experience my first
    I give an 8 simply because the story starting about half way and towards the end is just bad.
    The game play and the way the world carries you through various aspects of a wasteland were dead on 10/10 in that regard, I enjoyed and still enjoy the game after probably 500 hours.
    Combat is fun and many of the characters are interesting.....the ending just about ruined my experience my first time playing, the fact Kellog somehow didn't age even though most of his body was organic, a smoker and a drinker living longer than Shaun who had access to the same technology.....they thought it would be a cliffhanger leave you thinking ending, but really it was annoying and lackluster, not to mention siding with any faction means genoicide, not one single diplomatic option for the end, no real comforting closure....written by Satan himself..
    Even though I still consider this in my top 10 list games as far as fun and replay value is concerned, the story alone couldnt carry this title, it is not so bad until you actually start to finish the main story, thankfully I have an imagination and play the game and simply dont finish, creating my own ending in my head. The combat, weapons, and the atmosphere are top notch, these days, this game is my favorite to just pick up and play.
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  34. Jun 26, 2020
    7
    impressive graphics, still good game design, but those new systems are only a problem.
  35. Jun 24, 2020
    8
    There are many things I can criticise about this game.. The voiced protagonist, the poor quantity and quality of meaningful dialog and choices and oh my G*d the bugs.. That said, I had an immense amount of fun with this game.. I am, unapologetically, a massive Fallout fan and have an incredible number of hours played but I am still left thinking that this is a poor quality, unfinished andThere are many things I can criticise about this game.. The voiced protagonist, the poor quantity and quality of meaningful dialog and choices and oh my G*d the bugs.. That said, I had an immense amount of fun with this game.. I am, unapologetically, a massive Fallout fan and have an incredible number of hours played but I am still left thinking that this is a poor quality, unfinished and unpolished game with many, many unresolved flaws.

    What hurts the most, is that Bethesda don't seem to give a crap about any of the faults and have grifted by on the love of the fan-base and it is getting tiresome. Loving this game feels like being in an abusive relationship.. I keep hoping they will change and do better by me but they don't care enough to do that.

    Thank heavens for the modding community at Nexusmods.
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  36. Jun 23, 2020
    3
    One tiny step forward from Fallout 3, one GIANT leap back from Fallout New Vegas. The hype has completely worn off, I can clearly see Fallout 4 for what it is. Dull.

    Fallout 3 made the world fun to explore. Fallout New Vegas made the world fun to be part of. Fallout 4 made the world shallow, repetitive, generic, and boring. Do you want a shallow, shoot 'em up, generic, dull (but
    One tiny step forward from Fallout 3, one GIANT leap back from Fallout New Vegas. The hype has completely worn off, I can clearly see Fallout 4 for what it is. Dull.

    Fallout 3 made the world fun to explore.
    Fallout New Vegas made the world fun to be part of.
    Fallout 4 made the world shallow, repetitive, generic, and boring.

    Do you want a shallow, shoot 'em up, generic, dull (but vibrant game world), game lacking any depth where everyone wants you dead? *sigh* Fallout 4 is for you!
    Do you want a clunky but memorable experience? Fallout 3 GOTY and Fallout New Vegas UE are for you! Install Tale of Two Wastelands, profit. Play a game of caravan, stop by Agatha's house and say hi, that crazy lady in Girdershade wants all the Quantums? Moira wants you to do what in Minefield? FULLY-ERECT HAND PENISES! "You got lives in you, hard to kill. Storm, bullets, sand and wind, yet still you walk. For now." GARY!

    The Good:
    The Colors and the general atmosphere look so much better than Fallout 3 and NV.
    Huge vastly detailed and dense game world.
    Gun play is better.
    No Level cap.
    Easy Looting.
    Junk is now somewhat useful.
    3 of the companions are somewhat memorable. The rest are just boring.
    Dynamic Weather, shadows, lighting, and Physical Based Rendering.
    Beautiful animations

    The Bad:
    Ron Perlman does not say: War. War Never Changes.
    No FOV controls in game.
    No way to disable Head Bobbing.
    No visible holstered weapons like in previous games.
    Advanced graphics options have been completely gutted
    Quests are pretty much this: Go here, kill everything, take loot, return. What is this an MMO?!?
    Radio stations are pretty much meh. I miss Three Dog.
    You have to be the good guy, not the bad guy or the neutral/independent guy like in Fallout New Vegas.
    Oversimplified dialog system, you now have 4 options to choose from. With no indication of exactly what you’re going to say.
    Oversimplified RPG mechanics. Violence was often avoidable depending on your skills.
    Survival difficulty. No Console, saving is disabled. UGH.
    Almost all the NPCs are essential. In Fallout NV you had that fear of losing a companion during a battle.
    Settlement building is meh. It’s clunky and hard to place objects.
    Lots of boarded up nonexplorable buildings.
    Only one or two memorable fun quests that don’t feel like a grind.
    Why does everything want me dead?

    The Ugly:
    Complete lack of interesting locations with quests and unique named NPCs that have a story to tell.
    Fallout 4: Diamond City, Covenant, Vault 81, and Goodneighbor. Everywhere else just feels empty and lifeless.
    Fallout 3: Megaton, Rivet City, Arefu, Little Lamplight, Bigtown, Paradise Falls, Andale, Oasis, The Republic of Dave, Temple of the Union, Girdershade, The Citadel, Hell even downtown DC: The Washington Monument, Underworld, Lincoln Memorial. *Takes deep breath* Did I miss any? Yup, Ranger Compound, Grayditch, Dokov's Place, Tenpenny Tower, Meresti Metro, Canterbury Commons, Regulator HQ, Minefield, Vault 108, GARY!
    All of these locations have at least a population of 1, a quest, a story, a NAMED NPC, an NPC that doesn’t want you dead on sight, and most important of all depth. OK, ok yes GARY and Arkansas both want you to be very dead. The important thing to remember here is both those locations are memorable in some way shape or form.
    Fallout 3 has all these great locations with NAMED NPCs that have a backstory or a quest to give you.
    Forced to use the settlement system.
    Raiders! Raiders everywhere.
    Perk system overhaul and removal of skills.
    Fallout 3 has really beautiful water reflections and refraction. The water in Fallout 4 is flat and dull.
    Interior lighting is completely meh…. I see lots of round low poly shadow caster lights. Lights that don’t match the fixture. Ugly directional lights. Lights bleeding. Phantom lights.
    Tone Mapping. Adds an overexposed look and washes out some colors.
    The Season Pass. Fallout 3 has 5 DLCs, ALL good. Fallout New Vegas has 4 DLCs ALL good. Fallout 4 has what? 2 story based DLCs. Far Harbor: good. Nuka World: Raiders? Settlement DLC? Nope, just noooope. DO NOT WANT. Build a settlement, now what? Look at it, take screenshots, post on reddit? There is nothing to do, no one interesting to meet. ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP! UGH, what is it this time? Raiders on the other side of the map stole your socks?!? K thx bye. In Fallout New Vegas you could have a pet AND a human companion follow you around. It makes sense that you could have let's say Piper and Dogmeat follow you around. But NOOOOO you only get one. Graphically, Fallout 4 is a TES5 reskin with a crappy ENB thrown in. YUCK! TAA looks god awful. Obsidian’s writing is better than Bethesda’s. Obsidian could do it better in half the time it took Bethesda. Just like with Fallout New Vegas, they made it in what 18 months? Imagine for a minute if Obsidian had 4 years to work on Fallout New Vegas… OMG.
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  37. Jun 19, 2020
    4
    Bethesda: The Game 4. Boring, uninspired, tedious, shallow. Take your pick. You would honestly expect better from Bethesda in 2015, but you'd be expecting wrong. Meanwhile the gaming press is fawning over it and making Bethesda think they struck gold, so don't expect any significant improvements in the next Elder Scrolls either.
  38. Jun 18, 2020
    7
    As a Fallout game? Bad. But nonetheless it's not making this game the worst experience in the world.
    Things that i like:
    - Atmosphere
    - Weapon/Armor crafting
    - Gun play and well... game play overall
    Things I do NOT like:
    - Preston
    - Voiced hero and this voice acting
    - Dialogues
    - The story
    Overall. Fallout 4 is a good action game with a RPG elements.
  39. Jun 10, 2020
    10
    If you think of this game as vanilla only, it's 6/10 or 7/10. But with modding Fallout 4 is one of the greatest games of all time.
  40. Jun 6, 2020
    8
    I got very addicted to the game. The story is good imo, the philosophy about synth life and the different views on it. The settlement building is interesting, but seemed like a useless gimmick in the end
  41. Jun 1, 2020
    8
    If you are looking for an deep role playing experience like from the previous Fallout titles then this one doesn't deliver. But what it does deliver is an solid FPS experience. So newcomers to the series can enjoy. But it does not have the same replay value that the past games managed to deliver in an single player setting. The game truly feels like they dropped the production at some point.
  42. May 31, 2020
    9
    This was the first Fallout game I played and I really enjoyed it.
    As someone who likes exploring every area it took me around 50 hours to complete the main storyline
    The settlement building is a nice addition, only con to the game is it crashed sometimes
  43. May 20, 2020
    5
    I am extremely disappointed by Fallout 4. As an avid Fallout fan, I can't help but feel this is the weakest entry yet. While the gunplay and crafting are vastly improved over previous entries, every other system has taken a few steps back. Dialog "choices" hardly exist in the game, quests are linear as can be, side-quests are nearly non-existent (aside from dreaded "fetch" quests), andI am extremely disappointed by Fallout 4. As an avid Fallout fan, I can't help but feel this is the weakest entry yet. While the gunplay and crafting are vastly improved over previous entries, every other system has taken a few steps back. Dialog "choices" hardly exist in the game, quests are linear as can be, side-quests are nearly non-existent (aside from dreaded "fetch" quests), and settlement management is a chore. The new settlement system seems as if it was shoehorned in to appease the emerging demographic of gamers raised on Minecraft.

    Bethesda has stripped down the game elements their core fans want, those being dynamic, player-driven stories, awesome quests, beautiful game worlds, and character development/progression. All of these systems were put on the back burner for things like crafting and settlement management. If Bethesda intends to release another game in the same vein as Fallout 4, I won't be buying it.
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  44. May 16, 2020
    7
    I'm not a fan of Fallout games and the fourth part was the first one I played when she came out. From the basic minuses: the first half of the story is much weaker than the second, there are not many ways to go in addition to "break in and finish everyone off", satellite stories lack details, the ending is disappointing. But on the other hand I liked many things: the post-core world ofI'm not a fan of Fallout games and the fourth part was the first one I played when she came out. From the basic minuses: the first half of the story is much weaker than the second, there are not many ways to go in addition to "break in and finish everyone off", satellite stories lack details, the ending is disappointing. But on the other hand I liked many things: the post-core world of Fallout, the second half of the story becomes a truly non-linear, weapons fetishism, you can build anything from anything. Expand
  45. May 14, 2020
    0
    best game ever made 10/10
    todd howard has blessed us again with his magnum opus.
    truly a masterpiece.
  46. May 13, 2020
    7
    This game's world feels empty and crowded at the same time. The gunplay and graphics are great, but the rest of it is dissapointment.
  47. May 11, 2020
    0
    В целом на 5 из 10, сделано плохо. Графика, эти мини анимации миссий в пип-бое, создание города могло бы увлечь сильно, но мир на "отвали".
  48. Apr 30, 2020
    7
    The story was not as good as Fallout 3, but the feel of combat feels a bit better, and hey the graphics are good. I wish bethesda would have worked a bit more on the story as it felt too short and shallow. But, I still do play it every now and again because I'm addicted to the looting in their games. Companion AI is often wonky, but there are mods for nearly every part of the game, so ifThe story was not as good as Fallout 3, but the feel of combat feels a bit better, and hey the graphics are good. I wish bethesda would have worked a bit more on the story as it felt too short and shallow. But, I still do play it every now and again because I'm addicted to the looting in their games. Companion AI is often wonky, but there are mods for nearly every part of the game, so if you really want to, you can transform Fallout 4 into a much better version that current day vanilla.

    As a side note, while I don't defend the developers or the greedy parent company that controls them, I do understand that as with all releases, there was most likely a schedule they had to meet and so compromises were probably made in order to satisfy the powers at be resulting in a decent but not superb game.

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    Gameplay Enjoyability (0 - worst, 10 - best)

    Story - 6
    Lore - 7
    Character Creation - 9
    Looting/equipment finding - 10
    Questing/variety - 7
    Combat - 8
    Side quests/activities - 6
    Music/soundtrack - 7
    Visuals - 8
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  49. Apr 28, 2020
    0
    Пропадающие лица? Зависающие диалоги? Застрял в текстурах? Это фаллаут, детка!
    Такое ощущение что эту игру сделали за неделю. Место фракций кучки шизов со своими идиотскими идеями, вместо сюжета пропал сынуля, похоже Тодда Говарда в детстве украл мародер и надругался над ним в поле, так он и придумал сделать спустя время Выпадать 4,худшая игра, полная дрисни
    Пропадающие лица? Зависающие диалоги? Застрял в текстурах? Это фаллаут, детка!
    Такое ощущение что эту игру сделали за неделю. Место фракций кучки шизов со своими идиотскими идеями, вместо сюжета пропал сынуля, похоже Тодда Говарда в детстве украл мародер и надругался над ним в поле, так он и придумал сделать спустя время Выпадать 4,худшая игра, полная дрисни
  50. Apr 24, 2020
    10
    Boy oh boy this one is just fun while the glitches are bad and performance may be a little on the downside youll have the time of your life i myself have over 2600 hours in game the mods is what gives this game an extra oomph 10/10 would recommend
  51. Apr 23, 2020
    0
    a total disappointment: i played the game for 20 hours and was disgusted by insignificant story, terrible dialogues, bad controls and non sense recycle mechanism. do not waste money and time and stay away from this game
  52. Apr 20, 2020
    7
    A good game but that's it but which is disappointing for a fallout title. Expected way more of this.
  53. Apr 19, 2020
    4
    After Fallout 3, there was a game called Fallout: New Vegas. It was critically acclaimed because it had really good writing. People looked past its many flaws; glitches, a consequence of Bethesda asking Obsidian to make the game in an afternoon, very ugly graphics for the time and not very fun combat.
    People looked past these flaws because the writing of the game was that good. Even
    After Fallout 3, there was a game called Fallout: New Vegas. It was critically acclaimed because it had really good writing. People looked past its many flaws; glitches, a consequence of Bethesda asking Obsidian to make the game in an afternoon, very ugly graphics for the time and not very fun combat.
    People looked past these flaws because the writing of the game was that good. Even today, Fallout: New Vegas keeps a healthy 8.7 user score on this very website. However, Fallout 4 does not enjoy that luxury.

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

    What does this mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    That's what this game is. A chore to play. And I'd like to say this review is a call to action for Bethesda, but I just don't believe they can make a good Fallout game, because they seem to fundamentally misunderstand Fallout. I hope this incompetence doesn't bleed to Elder Scrolls VI or Starfield.
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  54. Apr 19, 2020
    8
    This is my first fallout game and i enjoyed it a lot. I was playing it 2 weeks non-stop. With lots of amazing mods this game became insane, for me. I was spending hours on completing quests, on building my settlements, organization of passive income from them. Spent hours on creating my own Vault 88, amazing far harbor, nuka cola. I think i spent around 100+ hours in Single(!)player gameThis is my first fallout game and i enjoyed it a lot. I was playing it 2 weeks non-stop. With lots of amazing mods this game became insane, for me. I was spending hours on completing quests, on building my settlements, organization of passive income from them. Spent hours on creating my own Vault 88, amazing far harbor, nuka cola. I think i spent around 100+ hours in Single(!)player game and that's a reason why i give 8 points to this game. Even though, there are lots of disadvantages. Bugs (lots of them), poor animations and graphics, dumb AI and simplified combat. But that wasnt so important for me. To the advantages, i enjoyed a building mode in settlements (thanks to amazing mods), tonns of quests and interactions, lore of the game, and in fact tonns of activities to do, tonns of things to achieve, tonns of people to see. Thats probably one of my greatest single-player experience of last time. Expand
  55. Apr 18, 2020
    1
    The dialog system is SUCH a step down from the previous fallout games.

    Also the talking protagonist is a COMPLETE JOKE. Totally ruins the Immersion of the game.

    If it weren't for those 2 things, I may have been able to enjoy the game, but those two things totally ruined the game for me.
  56. Apr 5, 2020
    5
    Feels bad. Main storyline pretty much suck. There are just a few sude-story quests, that may be considered interesting. Gameplay mechanics were made very casual and oversimplistic. Dialog options, perks, etc... all suck. DLC , well , you've already guessed it, it suck as well. Even Far Harbor. Wasted time and money. Much better with mods, but ,hey, everything is better with mods
  57. Mar 28, 2020
    6
    6/10........................................................................
  58. Mar 17, 2020
    0
    Disappointing for all the reasons cited by others. Should have been marketed as an inspired by game specifically targeting a lighter form of play. Would like to see the publisher lose this IP and pass it on to others who would bring something interesting in the original idea of retrofuturism.
  59. Mar 5, 2020
    3
    Прошёл за 17ч, прошёл квесты Минитменов и института,который вынудил меня уничтожить подземку и братство стали, на братство всё равно, а вон подземку уничтожать я не хотел, игра не дала выбора. И так большую часть игры, вроде тебе дают 4 варианта ответа, только вот они ничего не значат. Выбор без выбора...

    Моя оценка 3 не только из за системы выбора, она за баги и дерьмовый сюжет. Эта
    Прошёл за 17ч, прошёл квесты Минитменов и института,который вынудил меня уничтожить подземку и братство стали, на братство всё равно, а вон подземку уничтожать я не хотел, игра не дала выбора. И так большую часть игры, вроде тебе дают 4 варианта ответа, только вот они ничего не значат. Выбор без выбора...

    Моя оценка 3 не только из за системы выбора, она за баги и дерьмовый сюжет. Эта первая игра серии фаллаут в которую я когда либо играл, если предыдущие части похожи на это то я совершенно не понимаю откуда у этой серии игр столько фанатов...
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  60. 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.
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  61. Feb 26, 2020
    6
    Solid gunplay and visuals. Setting, characters and world lacking in comparison to older Fallout titles.
  62. Feb 20, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. loading screen waiting very long when start the game and other open the door or anything else, very long than Skyrim loading screen Expand
  63. Feb 11, 2020
    5
    Not bad looter-shooter, but mediocre rpg and bad successor to Fallout franchise.
    The worst part is that story is very forgattable.
    I still remambre events from Fallout 1 ;2 and New Vegas, but nothing from this game (outside of modded Enclave rebuilding story).
  64. Feb 2, 2020
    9
    "Fallout 4, что же это такое?" - Задавался я этим вопросом на протяжении всей игры, на протяжении более чем 200 часов. Первое впечатление у меня было неоднозначным, казалось что это будет личная история главного героя, у которого отняли всё. Но ближе к середине, история стала глобальнее в разы, так как появились старые и новые знакомые в лице крупных фракций, которые придерживаются"Fallout 4, что же это такое?" - Задавался я этим вопросом на протяжении всей игры, на протяжении более чем 200 часов. Первое впечатление у меня было неоднозначным, казалось что это будет личная история главного героя, у которого отняли всё. Но ближе к середине, история стала глобальнее в разы, так как появились старые и новые знакомые в лице крупных фракций, которые придерживаются собственной идеологии. Конечно они испортили Братство стали, испортили в разы. Вместо суровой организации с практически полной секретностью, Bethesda сделала Братство как Fallout 3, только ещё хуже. Институт был придуман ещё во времена Fallout 3, там ему даже квест посвящён, но речь не о тех прекрасных временах, а о наших суровых временах и в них Институт не плох, но проходить за него игру я не стал, мне больше по душе Братство и Минитмены, за которых и я и прошёл игру. Минитмены отличная организация, мне она по душе сильнее всех остальных, организация со своими идеями и порядком. А вот Подземка меня разочаровала, я ожидал что они будут иметь при себе тайных информаторов в институте, но таковых я там увы не встретил, в остальном они какие-то бомжи из подвала церкви защищающие синтов. Сюжет здесь не сильно изменился в отличии от Fallout 3, просто поменяли местами сына и отца и добавили 4 сюжетных линии за 4 выше названные фракции. Прокачка стала хуже чем в Fallout 3, это система прокачки из какой нибудь Dragon Age, но никак не из Fallout.
    Квесты стали лучше чем в Fallout 3, но хуже чем в моём любимом Fallout: New Vegas. Есть реально интересные, а есть и квесты по типу убей врагов там и принеси вот это, такие задания порой очень бесят, они подходят для ММО, но никак не для RPG 2015 года. И да, в Fallout 4 должен был быть мультиплеер, но от него отказались. Персонажи, а особенно напарники стали глубже и интереснее, огромный шаг в сравнении с Fallout 3, но маленький шаг назад в сравнении с New Vegas, это касается и квестов напарников. Со звуком точно такая-же история.
    А вот что стало лучше в сравнении с New Vegas: графика, стрельба, дизайн уровней, противников и мира. Стрелять удобно, пушки ощущаются очень реалистично. Графика не супермегахит, но лучше чем в New Vegas. Мир выглядит разнообразным не только благодаря дизайнерам, но и благодаря тому что Bethesda убрала цветовой фильтр в мусорное ведро и правильно сделала, он резал глаза в Fallout 3 и Fallout New Vegas. Противники стали красивее.
    И главное - поселения! Я сейчас на полном серьёзе. Мне они понравилась.
    Вердикт - 9/10 "Шикарно!"
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  65. Feb 4, 2020
    0
    Это не фоллаут а хз что. Кто играл в первый и второй понимает сколько всяких крутых возможностей беседка слила. Вместо крутого сюжета, интересных квестов и вариативности. Они сделали тупую гриндилку с унылыми квестами сходи/принеси/убейЭто не фоллаут а хз что. Кто играл в первый и второй понимает сколько всяких крутых возможностей беседка слила. Вместо крутого сюжета, интересных квестов и вариативности. Они сделали тупую гриндилку с унылыми квестами сходи/принеси/убей
  66. Feb 3, 2020
    5
    Fallout 4 is a spit in the face of fans of Fallout games. Only the blind will not see a regression compared to Fallout 1-2 and New Vegas. Todd Howard pulled down the toilet all that managed to restore Obsidian in New Vegas. In Boston wasteland has raiders and ghouls, raiders and ghouls, but still there are raiders and ghouls. This game is about the genocide of the raiders and ghouls.Fallout 4 is a spit in the face of fans of Fallout games. Only the blind will not see a regression compared to Fallout 1-2 and New Vegas. Todd Howard pulled down the toilet all that managed to restore Obsidian in New Vegas. In Boston wasteland has raiders and ghouls, raiders and ghouls, but still there are raiders and ghouls. This game is about the genocide of the raiders and ghouls. Bethesda, please stop raping a remarkable series of games! Expand
  67. Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Higher graphic but with worse and lazy a** story and the always present bug. Instead of focusing on the necessary part they made a completely useless base making that barely work. A disappointment compared to their previous installment on the franchise.
  68. Jan 27, 2020
    1
    this game is not ABSOLUTE sh*t, but it is sh*t. Bethesda are a disgustingly sly company which cannot stand the idea that obsidian take the cake when they made fallout new vegas. it makes ALMOST 0 sense that this game has the same score as fallout new vegas, i say ALMOST because it is incredibly obvious that they have tampered with it one way or another. the only good thing about fallout 4this game is not ABSOLUTE sh*t, but it is sh*t. Bethesda are a disgustingly sly company which cannot stand the idea that obsidian take the cake when they made fallout new vegas. it makes ALMOST 0 sense that this game has the same score as fallout new vegas, i say ALMOST because it is incredibly obvious that they have tampered with it one way or another. the only good thing about fallout 4 is the gun play, its a shallow piece of rubbish.

    i just want bethesda to know that their company deserves to go up in flames. thank you :)
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  69. Jan 12, 2020
    4
    Open-world is good but the scenario is not important in this game. The configuration is terrible. They have too many bugs.
  70. Jan 7, 2020
    4
    review after 80 hours in(according to save file)

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

    Pros

    -Great visuals
    -great combat system

    Cons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    so what grade to give this game.I d say a 4.If you gind a goty at 30 bucks or less its a good purchase.Otherwise stick with fallout 2.Those guys knew how to make a game, or try new vegas way better than fallout 3 or 4.
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  71. Jan 6, 2020
    10
    Best game i have played thank you Bethesda thank you Todd Howard you must play Fallout 4
  72. Dec 22, 2019
    4
    Не зашло.

    1. Сюжет - 1.
    2. Графика - 5.
    3. Атмосфера - 4.
    4. Музыка, озвучка - 7.
    5. Второстепенный контент - 1.
    6. Геймплей - 5.
    7. Отимизация. теч. часть - 7.
    8. Управление - 8.
  73. Dec 12, 2019
    9
    Отличная игра, если не брать во внимание то, что диалоговое окно ужасно- герой говорит не то, что заявлено в строке выбора реплики, а так же ни к чему эта кинематографичная камера во время диалогов? Не люблю смотреть на своего персонажа со стороны. Теряется отыгрыш роли. А так же не нравится инвентарь. Листать этот список ну просто ооочень утомительно, что бы найти что то нужное среди кучиОтличная игра, если не брать во внимание то, что диалоговое окно ужасно- герой говорит не то, что заявлено в строке выбора реплики, а так же ни к чему эта кинематографичная камера во время диалогов? Не люблю смотреть на своего персонажа со стороны. Теряется отыгрыш роли. А так же не нравится инвентарь. Листать этот список ну просто ооочень утомительно, что бы найти что то нужное среди кучи всякого барахла. Экранчик инвентаря мелкий, раздражающий. Ну в целом мне понравилось, прошел дважды и конечные ощущения от игры положительные. Expand
  74. Dec 10, 2019
    5
    Terrible performance, terrible engine.
    Bethesda has no idead how to make a good game.
    Satay away from this.
  75. Dec 2, 2019
    5
    Not a bad game, but disappointingly shallow as a player of previous fallout's and aware of what Bethesda is capable of. The game has plenty of content but the depth of the content is what is missing. And if you didn't play fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't understand the complaints. The side missions for the most part barring a few fun ones, wereNot a bad game, but disappointingly shallow as a player of previous fallout's and aware of what Bethesda is capable of. The game has plenty of content but the depth of the content is what is missing. And if you didn't play fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't understand the complaints. The side missions for the most part barring a few fun ones, were repetitive fetch quests or clearing an area. Characters you met used to pop up over and over again, in different creative ways. In fallout 4 you meet a character do a mission or so with them and then their dialog runs out and they just walk around one of your settlements. Like Preston Garvey for example(hardly spoilers, happens within the first few hours of the game), at first you think he'll be a very cool partner as he appoints general of the minutemen a cool seeming questline and faction. Yet in reality he spends most of his time giving you orders and telling you to clean up areas and fix up settlements. A real wasted opportunity I think. And many questlines and factions feel the same way. Everywhere you look in Fallout 4 you see great potential but it just doesn't pan out, almost as if the game was planned to be so much more and wasn't finished. A great example of this is the Ocean. The huge percentage of the map in the game is covered in Ocean, Ocean that literally has practically nothing to do in or on it. Making it feel smaller than Even skyrim in my honest opinion, even it was technically bigger. In the old games you could walk around a city and just talk to random people and find little missions everywhere with so much heart and character in them. Some them felt like long expansive quests, with one quest leading to a whole chain of quests. I can think of so many examples of this.

    In fallout New Vegas you walk into an old ratty casino in the broken down poorer part of Vegas, and you chat with the people inside. And this little casino leads to so many quests. Like one where you track down a hilarious male sex robot to bring guests. The same casino lets you go around and collect money from people who owe it. You can even start a quest where you collect stage entertainers, like a stand up comedian and a guitarist who gives you a gun that plays awesome western dual music when you pull it out. And seriously thats just one little building in a game I played years ago and I remember that clearly. I played maybe 20-30 hours of fallout 4 gave it a real chance, and it's just not memorable like its predecessors were.

    I could go on and on and on honestly about all the ways that this game just isn't that good. For instance one thing that I really don't like that some of my friends do is the new level up system. I think its boring as you have to spend perk points on normal skills like weapon damage. In the old games your normal stats were separate from your special perks. YOu always got skill points. And your perk points were dedicated to special abilities. In this game they combined the systems. Leveling up in fallout used to be very fun to me, but I found this new system very boring, bringing an "oh wow another single perk to put into rifle damage *sarcastic yay*". And again just another small factor that made me dislike this game. I know Bethesda I know how awesome their games can be because I've played them, Oblivion(though was too young to be good at/finish it, Skyrim, fallout 3, fallout New Vegas( My personal fav). And thats why I give this a 4/10 because its a bethesda 4/10, below average for what they are capable.

    I think that they were trying to balance this game for both the casual audience and the hardcore gamer. While the out fallouts were more for the hardcore gamer. Usually I would be on the casual end, but the quality of old bethesda were so good that I played them like a hardcore gamer, and spent many hours in them something very rare for me.

    Without considering the games that came before it I would have given fallout 4 a 7 or 8 out of 10, but that would have been for a new game in a new series. Because you give a series leeway when its just starting out. But I honestly feel that Fallout 3 and New Vegas are better games than this.

    Long Story short if you don't have experience with previous fallouts you'll probably like it but eventually you'll get bored and move on. And I suggest that you give the old games a shot if you ever have the time to sit down and play em. So to clarify not a bad game and on some levels its a good game. There are good things about it and I could list those as well. But I can't in good honestly recommend this game full heartedly to gamers, because I just think there are better things to spend your time and money on.

    Hopefully I wasn't too harsh, and this in combination with other reviews gave you a good idea of what to expect with Fallout 4. Thanks for reading.
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  76. Nov 27, 2019
    4
    Don't get me wrong, the game is a classic but I have never experienced so many glitches and bugs in a game.

    Even playing at 1080 resolution with a Strix 1080, i7 700k and 16 ram at 3200mhz in 2019 the game has a lot of trouble keeping at 60 fps stable. I spent a lot of time downloading mods to try to solve the terrible Bethesda engine, and that's not what I want in a game, I want to
    Don't get me wrong, the game is a classic but I have never experienced so many glitches and bugs in a game.

    Even playing at 1080 resolution with a Strix 1080, i7 700k and 16 ram at 3200mhz in 2019 the game has a lot of trouble keeping at 60 fps stable.

    I spent a lot of time downloading mods to try to solve the terrible Bethesda engine, and that's not what I want in a game, I want to install it and play it. (Not counting loading screens that can reach up to 3 minutes just by leaving and entering a building)

    I have to install Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, ENB, tons of textures, change some values with the text editor, watch some videos to solve crashing errors and even use the ingame console to complete some quest that were still bugged.

    It is not worth so much effort and money just so that when the fight starts, the game goes from 60fps (if you had luck) to 40 or even less.

    Bethesta has lost contact with fans delivering increasingly incomplete products, and boy don't let me talk about fallout 76, because otherwise this review would extend a few more characters.
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  77. Nov 18, 2019
    6
    Смешанные чувства после прохождения. Игра зайдет не всем и именно мне она не зашла. Деревянная механика стрельбы, графон не шедевр да и быстро наскучивает. Несмотря на это я нашел для нее 62 часа и прошел ее. 6
  78. Nov 9, 2019
    7
    Эта игра как красивый фрукт с гнилой начинкой, которую начинаешь замечать только пройдя половину сюжета.
  79. Nov 7, 2019
    8
    Good game with a lot of content, huge world and many quests to do. One thing that was missing and took out a lot of fun was a complete lack of satisfaction after completing main quests and a feeling o complete lack of impact on the world.
  80. Nov 6, 2019
    8
    + Стрельба ,Строительство ,Возможность модифицировать оружие и броню ,Много мелких и
    интересных историй ,Интересные компаньоны :
    - Сильно уменьшенная вариативность ,35% квестов (принеси-подай ,пойди и убей ,) 3 из 6 DLC добавляют только предметы для строительства :
    + Стрельба ,Строительство ,Возможность модифицировать оружие и броню ,Много мелких и
    интересных историй ,Интересные компаньоны :
    - Сильно уменьшенная вариативность ,35% квестов (принеси-подай ,пойди и убей ,) 3 из 6 DLC добавляют только предметы для строительства :
  81. Nov 1, 2019
    6
    I do think this game is a decent game even thoe ive only played it once back when it launched, even thoe Im not planning to revisit this game anytime soon I still think this could be a game for a big fallout fan. God parts are some side quests (not all side quests unfortunately) Probadbly the best gunplay in any fallout game so far but ummm... Yeah thats it everything else they **** up bigI do think this game is a decent game even thoe ive only played it once back when it launched, even thoe Im not planning to revisit this game anytime soon I still think this could be a game for a big fallout fan. God parts are some side quests (not all side quests unfortunately) Probadbly the best gunplay in any fallout game so far but ummm... Yeah thats it everything else they **** up big time. They advertised an amazing deep rpg and we got a somewhat good fps. This game can be fun with mods but if your not even modding this game as a part of your plan then this seriously isnt worth getting. Expand
  82. Oct 30, 2019
    4
    This is the game that took the Fallout franchise in a direction I could not get behind. I wanted to like the game, I really did. I already loved the genre, I loved Fallout 3, I loved New Vegas, unfortunately, the game was just not very good.
  83. Oct 29, 2019
    6
    After playing the outer worlds I just cant help but feel this games story and world building is very 2 dimensional. How is it that obsidian can make a game and story from scratch, with a smaller team and still make a better game than any fallout game bethesda ever made. Also with very few bugs might I add.
  84. Oct 25, 2019
    7
    Lacks the atmosphere of Fallout 3 and the main mission gets in the way, but improved game mechanics, graphics and some interesting side missions make it at least worth playing.
  85. Oct 12, 2019
    9
    Fallout 4 is one of my favourite games of all time, sure it's not a good RPG, but over the 1300 hours that I spend in the Commonwealth, I always found myself engaging in new situations.
    It especially excels in terms of Gameplay and sometimes even in terms of Story. The first one manifesting itself in the form of a superb crafting and fps system, which severely lacked in previous titles. I
    Fallout 4 is one of my favourite games of all time, sure it's not a good RPG, but over the 1300 hours that I spend in the Commonwealth, I always found myself engaging in new situations.
    It especially excels in terms of Gameplay and sometimes even in terms of Story. The first one manifesting itself in the form of a superb crafting and fps system, which severely lacked in previous titles. I also love the environmental storytelling the game presents you, it's very intriguing to find out what happened at any given place without a person specifically telling you what exactly happened.
    I can more than recommend it, even more so today, it might not be a good rpg, but it's definetely a good Fallout game, and if that's not enough to convince you, you can basically get the game+its season pass for 15€-30€ in conventional stores.
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  86. Oct 5, 2019
    2
    The game in itself is good, no doubt about it, even though it's sad the options becomes more and more limited for each game in the franchise..

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

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

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

    The game is fun for a casual playthrough, but if you want to achieve something within the game, bugs in quests and the game mechanics itself makes this game quite terrible.. Especially considering they keep doing it over and over and over.
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  87. 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.
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  88. Sep 23, 2019
    8
    not as good fallout 3 storyline and darktone of fallout but its more like fallout 2. you are more free and hang out on fallout world. what makes good firt time brings truerly 3d ruined city without too much loading like necroplis in old fallout first time maded true way. what lack of is game its too fun or shiney. t60 power armor not fit universe its bascily advence version of fallout 3not as good fallout 3 storyline and darktone of fallout but its more like fallout 2. you are more free and hang out on fallout world. what makes good firt time brings truerly 3d ruined city without too much loading like necroplis in old fallout first time maded true way. what lack of is game its too fun or shiney. t60 power armor not fit universe its bascily advence version of fallout 3 t4s but bos using this instead of t51bs makes them feelng more robocupy rather than first fallouts joinable faction. using bos more active makes game better than fallout 2 but absence of power armored bad faction make the game worst than fallout 2 and 3. syth faction more like secret faction not feels like treat as terminators. raiders even feels more treat in this which they using even some kinda power armor. which thinking raider never be treat of fallout universe bos never consider to fight raiders even. what the game real drop too much focing on creating homes or towns like sims game. dlc can be make better if they like fallout 3 dlc but in this dlc even moslty sim addons. nuca cola like again funny mood. only far harbor make seriousy which island dlc not bring the main game too much. custominazion in this game best in serie es for armors and weapons but for ex makes vault armor weak and armored vault armor looks like raider fashinoed. the biggest lost hides weapons on third person yo cant see on your char shoulder which make you dump like armless chracter. adding power armor mixed use each other and inside power armor look best addon for fallout maybe. and nuked wheather in this game true fallout addon but it was much better if it was used on some areas as default wheather rather than sunny mood. using vats still in there tactcaly but game also playable good amount of fast acton style which not fmany fans wanted as tactical rpg. they need to add lower of acton style stats to make them game more than 8 for fallout fans. still the vatts not freeze time as fallout 3 and slows better. in the end com f3 and nw 6 step foward 4step backs exeptvisualls. Expand
  89. Sep 6, 2019
    6
    This game is a dissapointing game for a true fallout fan.
    The game is good yes not saying that it isn't but it's not an RPG game it limits you allot in the Story and even character wise. I mean I can't choose what to be like in new vegas! The only thing that "creates" your character is the "S.P.E.C.I.A.L" and the perks! Where is the skill chooser? Why can't I choose to be either a bartner
    This game is a dissapointing game for a true fallout fan.
    The game is good yes not saying that it isn't but it's not an RPG game it limits you allot in the Story and even character wise. I mean I can't choose what to be like in new vegas! The only thing that "creates" your character is the "S.P.E.C.I.A.L" and the perks! Where is the skill chooser? Why can't I choose to be either a bartner or a speach character? Or a Sciencist and a Medic? That doesn't exist here at all!
    It has this wierd ass "book" that is trash you can just like that put your add SPECIAL points just by leveling up which is wrong! When you level up you should choose your skills or your perks and you can choose to put an interesting perk or decide to add that SPECIAL point if you realy need it!

    The gameplay has shurely improved it's the best in the fallout series and its one of the best things in the game which is the gameplay that is very well made and I realy enjoy it you can customize your gun to make it more powerfull and the depth for you guns is well made.

    the map is very big and its very well made exploring it is very rewarding and they are some realy nice little quests to enjoy. I like exploring every part of it there are well places items hidden trough out the map of Fallout 4 which is very impressive!

    the companions are not good sincerely they are pretty bad (unless dog meat) I mean they are useless they either get mad at you for beeing a bad guy and leave you after doing something bad and don't help you much at all in combat. Its a waste of stimpacs if you decide to use it on them.

    The story OH GOD the story! You are a father of a son and the son gets kidnapped and you have to find him. WAW the creativity! i bet that they looked at Fallout 3 and sayd let's just change it! That's a great idea Bob I love it!. Its horrible let's be honest not good at all not even mediocre in my opinion.
    You can't even choose what to do its just a straight line one way or another even if your mean sarcastic or nice nothing changes which brings me to my other point which is that you can't choose what to say. The only choose you have to say is: 1. Question, 2. Agree, 3. Mean, 4. Sarcastic. That's all 4 **** CHOICES TO SAY?!?!?!?!? WHAT THE **** WHERE THE **** IS THE FREEDOM OF CHOOSING YOUR WAY OH YEAH SORRY THERE IS NONE!
    That is so dissapointing in a FALLOUT game!

    this is all I can say for this. Dissapointing as a Fallout game but good as a FPS random sandbox game.
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  90. Sep 5, 2019
    8
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  91. Aug 30, 2019
    6
    Sadly doesn't live up to expectations or past iterations. Reusing the same engine was a bad decision, and some of the plot elements feel sloppy and uninteresting. Still a nice shooter/RPG.
  92. Aug 17, 2019
    10
    I love this game, I enojoyed making fly some super mutant faces. And the final is very unexpected.
  93. Aug 9, 2019
    8
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  94. 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
  95. Aug 7, 2019
    9
    After playing for 20 hours, my faithful canine companion just found a hunting rifle out of nowhere and fetched it for me; barrel between his teeth. He then laid it down at my feet like a morning newspaper. Mind = Blown.
  96. Jul 21, 2019
    9
    gameplay is fun, npcs feel real and story is heavily effected by player's choices and actions. you can even join the villains!
  97. Jul 19, 2019
    6
    Main evaluation criteria:
    -Story: 6
    -Atmosphere: 6 -Characters: 7 -Graphics and design: 5 -Gameplay: 7 -Sound and Music: 6 -Animations: 5 -Bugs: 6 -Interface: 8 -Completeness of the world: 6 Аdditional evaluation criteria (Do not really affect the assessment): -Freedom of choice: 7 -Coop in Story mode: 0 -Multiplayer: 0 -Mods and the ability to change the game: 8 Scores
    Main evaluation criteria:
    -Story: 6
    -Atmosphere: 6
    -Characters: 7
    -Graphics and design: 5
    -Gameplay: 7
    -Sound and Music: 6
    -Animations: 5
    -Bugs: 6
    -Interface: 8
    -Completeness of the world: 6

    Аdditional evaluation criteria (Do not really affect the assessment):
    -Freedom of choice: 7
    -Coop in Story mode: 0
    -Multiplayer: 0
    -Mods and the ability to change the game: 8

    Scores from 1 to 10, the higher the better
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  98. Jul 19, 2019
    7
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  99. Jul 15, 2019
    3
    Why it's called fallout. It should be called rage 2. There's no any sign of rpg. No dialogs, no rpg combat system, no intresting quests. If you put brotherhood of steel in rage 2, you can't call it fallout. It's and ok shooter, and I score it 7, if it was called rage 2
  100. Jun 25, 2019
    5
    Not bad but pretty mediocre, story sounds cool but ends up being weak. Most of the new characters are pretty lame, there are a few cool ones. Gameplay improvements are pretty nice, the world overall is much less interesting and the game gets boring pretty quickly.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
  2. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    80
    After terrible first couple of hours Fallout 4 pulled itself together and ultimately was almost as fun as The Witcher 3. There’s a huge chasm between these two games in terms of technology (F4 looks like a X360 game), but their open worlds are equally good and Bethesda did a better job with crafting. [01/2016, p.42]
  2. 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.
  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]