Fallout 4

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

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

    This game is just ... really boring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    What has been improved:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    +game has nice 2d art
    +its fallout

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

    --inventory/loot system is dumb and basic.

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

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

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

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

    I bought this game for RPG reason, and what i got is a fu*king shooter. I'll just wait for some big mod that will change this sh*t    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

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