Fallout 4

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  1. BlackEdelweiss
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    I got a refund.

    Why? I played it for three hours and it was one of the most boring three hours of my life. I jumped in enthusiastic, ready for a revamped, improved experience that would trump the fun I'd had with New Vegas and FO3. Instead, I find a comparatively barren, uninteresting world, a downright frustrating 3rd person experience, a severe lack of customization due to the SPECIAL    I got a refund.

    Why? I played it for three hours and it was one of the most boring three hours of my life. I jumped in enthusiastic, ready for a revamped, improved experience that would trump the fun I'd had with New Vegas and FO3. Instead, I find a comparatively barren, uninteresting world, a downright frustrating 3rd person experience, a severe lack of customization due to the SPECIAL system being butchered (no perks, skills, etc). NPCs are slow to respond and dialogue is mostly mindless, with no real choices or impact to your actions. Karma is gone. You could slaughter everyone if you want. The UI is somehow even more frustrating to navigate due to mouse lag. Speaking of lag, movement and combat is even more jarring, sluggish and troublesome due to laughable pathing, giant hitboxes, and a hackneyed environment. Camera angles too are god-awful and are constantly zooming in and out inappropriately. I found myself forced to FIND the VATS hotkey because shooting otherwise was a miserable experience (I had no trouble in NV/FO3 and enjoyed it), and yet the game doesn't even introduce VATS as a feature.

    Overall, it's a huge disappointment. I made an 8 CHR 8 INT character, ready to pump points into Guns/Speech/etc only to find that entire feature was GONE and I'd basically wasted points that could have actually opened up useful SPECIAL traits, and created a character that was more or less useless at anything other than meaningless speech checks that gave me slightly more caps for a job.

    Oh yeah, the quests? Already a MMO-esque experience in the few first hours. Go here, go there, kill these people, kill that person, pick this up, pick that up. No substance or emotion behind any of it. The NPCs themselves are bland and generic, the story lacking, weak.    … Expand
  2. Erupt50
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Yeah I had to refund this after a couple hours of play. How anyone could highly rate this game is beyond me. I won't even go into all the bugs I've run into because there has been a ton. Some were not a big deal, some were (like clipping through the environment to textures just not loading at times). But even if we ignore the bugs and assume they will mostly be fixed through patches (whichYeah I had to refund this after a couple hours of play. How anyone could highly rate this game is beyond me. I won't even go into all the bugs I've run into because there has been a ton. Some were not a big deal, some were (like clipping through the environment to textures just not loading at times). But even if we ignore the bugs and assume they will mostly be fixed through patches (which is a big assumption) the game itself is just simple not very good.

    The graphics are absolutely out-dated, barely better than Fallout 3.
    The animations especially are just horrid. These are just unacceptable in 2015.
    The textures look like something you would expect to see in a game 6-7 years ago(when they load of course).

    Of course you will have people saying "it's not about the graphics! I only care about gameplay!" Ok fair enough, let's talk about gameplay.
    First of all the controls are just terrible. Maybe this is better on consoles, but for PC users, the game doesn't control well at all. The UI in general is also a pain to use, especially when using the crafting interfaces, etc. It almost seems like they were purposely trolling with the controls in this aspect.

    The gunplay is also not fun at all. Simplistic, yet frustrating would be how I describe it. Frustrating mainly because of the controls, but there just is no depth at all to the actual gameplay. Very watered-down dumbed-downed gameplay in general. Other than that you have the same basic "open-world exploration" gameplay that we have come to expect from every single AAA game out there it seems.

    The conversation wheels are also very simplistic and uninteresting. The story itself is fairly generic and boring, but pretty much what you would expect from a Fallout game. The characters are extremely boring and make you feel absolutely nothing.
    I will admit that I did only play about 3 hours or so, so maybe there is a chance that this stuff (story, characters, etc.) might get better later in the game but I could not force my way through a game that was not fun at all to find out.

    In conclusion let me say that yes, it may seem that I'm being too harsh on the game, and maybe to an extent that's true. But to see so many people and reviewers singing the praises of this game is baffling. The one thing that Bethesda did do well was hype the crap out of this game and I think that's why. Do yourself a favor and at the very least, wait. Wait until the game is on a good sale somewhere, hopefully after the many many many upcoming patches that will be rolling out to slowly try to put together an actual finished game.    … Expand
  3. Violett
    Nov 14, 2015
    3
    Right, after first 10 hours of gameplay I finally want to state my opinion of the game.

    First of all – really it was not what I’ve expected after I saw all those advertisement trailers. We were promised none less but new Fallout 2 Starcraft Baldurs Gate Dark Souls, but from user reviews one can clearly see it was faaaar from truth. Far from truth in all directions: Graphics: We    Right, after first 10 hours of gameplay I finally want to state my opinion of the game.

    First of all – really it was not what I’ve expected after I saw all those advertisement trailers. We were promised none less but new Fallout 2 Starcraft Baldurs Gate Dark Souls, but from user reviews one can clearly see it was faaaar from truth.

    Far from truth in all directions:

    Graphics: We were promised graphics at least on par with The Witcher 3 level. Graphics is good, really, but comparing to Witcher? Nope, not even close. I can compare Fallout to Wolfenstein or Bioshock – 1-2 years old games – good graphics, but nothing more, although humongous system requirements trying to convince us otherwise. I even bought new videocard – and for what?

    Plot: This is the weakest point. After 10 hours of gameplay I completed only several dull quests. Protagonist is completely emotionless. He comes out on the surface with face like “ok, nuclear explosion, sh*t happends”. The game didn’t tell who are those people, how did they survive, where did they came from. You don’t live with your character, it is like you are playing Counter-Strike. But this is Fallout after all! Remember those quests lines from Fallout 2? I could feel the world is living there and my character lived in that world. Now I cannot understand why, what for, where …

    Gameplay: I don’t like the games when you need to create your own story. Take Bioshock Infinite for example – playing the game is like you are watching awesome action movie, every second something happens. In Fallout things are like this – you want to get fun? Ok, take hundred of house patterns, take walls, doors, bath tubes and flowes – and make your own home! Go and find some fun for yourself! Probably this is the core of sandbox – maybe I just don’t like sandbox games.

    Controls: This is just bad console port, controls are very bad, you can cancel some menus with ESC, but some only with TAB and this is really painful to remember HOW TO CLOSE EACH MENU – like wtf?! Why I cant cancel it all with ESC?

    Crafting system: For those who like The Sims probably it can be fun, although I have doubts Sims fans will play Fallout games. You can salvage everything – very “realistic” indeed.

    So what did we get? Another Skyrim in post-apocalyptic world with guns instead of magic. Skyrim was great (with better plot btw), but why make second one?

    You know, the best game of all Fallout series for me was Fallout Tactics, and you know why? Because the game had its story. You have had clear course of all missions, you knew that in the end of this map new gauss gun awaits you, while F4 presents with another rusted coffee cup in the end of the long cave.
    The only fun moment so far was in the beginning – the nuclear explosion is really well made – I could almost feel it on my skin, and share those people horror. Too bad that’s the only fun moment in the game. I really should spend those 60 bucks somewhere else. If you are Fallout fan – imagine F4 was never released. Probably it was just a mistake to bring Fallout in 3D after all.    … Expand
  4. max1c
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Mediocre. Barely playable at launch. Feels very sluggish. Slow UI, terrible ported console controls, animations that take forever and can't be skipped. Almost everything about this game feels off. The good things are the gameplay and the voice over. Everything else and especially the graphics are really bad for a game released in 2015.
  5. inverguy
    Dec 9, 2017
    3
    ONLY WITH MODs!

    I'm a huge Fallout fan and do not confuse it with 'fanboy', as such I was extremely disappointed with Fallout 4. There were multiple reviews and attempts to compare F4 map size with F3 and I won't even comment on this. One thing for sure, this is not a Fallout game. This game is like a wolf in Fallout skin. It looks like fallout, it uses the same phrases, but it's not    ONLY WITH MODs!

    I'm a huge Fallout fan and do not confuse it with 'fanboy', as such I was extremely disappointed with Fallout 4. There were multiple reviews and attempts to compare F4 map size with F3 and I won't even comment on this. One thing for sure, this is not a Fallout game. This game is like a wolf in Fallout skin. It looks like fallout, it uses the same phrases, but it's not fallout. For someone playing this for the 1st time in their life I'm sure you'll be very happy with the purchase... BUT as PC gamer I was discussed by this poor attempt of a game. I made a mistake and pre-purchase it (I think) and when I launched it for the 1st time I played for 1.5 hrs and then uninstalled the game for about a year or so.

    After that 12 months I heard about multiple MODs for Fallout4 PC so I decided to give it a go and I had the best time ever!

    If you are a Fallout fan, do not buy this. The map feels small, the loot system alongside weapon building is... very console like and the RPG system and the main story feels shallow.

    If you are looking for a game to fool around... you don't want to treat this seriously, then you will enjoy this. mods mods mods

    Pros: decent graphics and sound
    Cons: small map, shallow story, few bugs (you won't be able to complete some missions - require early save game)    … Expand
  6. selsayed
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    This game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't botheredThis game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't bothered developing a game that could run safely beyond 50 frames per second.

    More than anything, this is unbelievably shoddy programming by Bethesda - more than usual, too, which is saying something - with absolutely stupid bugs all over the place. The engine limitations are also fairly obvious with how dated it is at this stage.

    It's also blatantly obvious Bethesda is using the modding community as a crutch for its poor development practices. I appreciate the dedication of modders and like that they're facilitated but this has enabled bad development practices from Bethesda. If you want a smooth game, wait a year and buy it, do not now.

    In terms of concrete game design, it's better in a lot of ways than 3/NV. The crafting system is amazing and has so much depth, and it will really thrive with the modding scene I think.

    The settlement building system has some interesting concepts but in real terms has poor implementation - you can flatten an entire building for scrap in like 10 seconds - but I think this definitely has a lot of potential and I can see it improving(Again, doubly so with mods. See what I mean?).

    The gun play is vastly improved. The Call of Duty hitmarker stuff is a bit unnecessary but I'm not bothered by it. I'm sure there'll be a mod(again) to disable it, though this should have obviously been a game menu option from release. But overall the gunplay has developed into a solid shooter.

    The dialogue wheel, however, is probably one of the worst design choices that nobody ever asked for. Like seriously, I've never sat through a Bethesda game and thought "You know what I want? A vague dialogue wheel which wont give me all the information I need to make informed decisions." It's a bad choice, it needs to go and never see the light of day in any other games. It's bad, bad, bad.

    The character creation system is probably one of the best I've seen, especially from a Bethesda publication. I'm also still coming to grips with the Perk/Skill system but I'm liking it.

    However, all in all, the design choices are massively overshadowed by the terrible bugs and development practices. For that I would recommend a DO NOT BUY. Wait it out for a few months at least.    … Expand
  7. Field_Moose
    Dec 21, 2015
    3
    Fallout 4 appeals to the lowest common denominator and in the process strips away everything that made the series amazing to begin with. The game was entertaining and was a fairly competent first person shooter/RPG hybrid. But as a fallout game it is extremely lacking. I do not have high hopes for the series in the future.
  8. Satisfaction
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Terribly overhyped with lots of issues. Bad writing, horrible dialogues, visible glitches/bugs. Gunplay is better than in F3/FNV, but I don't know if this is a merit, because this game was supposed to be a RPG, not half-assed sandbox with RPG elements. This game shouldn't be a successor to F1/F2 - hell, even F3 and FNV. Remember to refund it on Steam and do not pre-order uncertain games,Terribly overhyped with lots of issues. Bad writing, horrible dialogues, visible glitches/bugs. Gunplay is better than in F3/FNV, but I don't know if this is a merit, because this game was supposed to be a RPG, not half-assed sandbox with RPG elements. This game shouldn't be a successor to F1/F2 - hell, even F3 and FNV. Remember to refund it on Steam and do not pre-order uncertain games, otherwise they will continue to make crap like this and make it a standard.… Expand
  9. cosmitz
    Dec 2, 2015
    3
    I'm done.

    I'm 130 hours in the game. I'm close to level 70. I'm also close to finishing the game. But i'm done, tired, and disgusted with the game beyond all reason. This has been said but it needs underlining with a bold marker. THIS IS NOT AN RPG. It's a glorified shooter, and even that, it does semi-competently. You might think that if i spend 130 hours in the game it must be    I'm done.

    I'm 130 hours in the game. I'm close to level 70. I'm also close to finishing the game. But i'm done, tired, and disgusted with the game beyond all reason.

    This has been said but it needs underlining with a bold marker. THIS IS NOT AN RPG. It's a glorified shooter, and even that, it does semi-competently. You might think that if i spend 130 hours in the game it must be good, and i must have enjoyed myself... but that'd be false.

    I played it because it was easy, and casual, and not a hassle. It didn't challenge me in any way, shape or form, and i even played on Survival. And when i mention easy i'm not just talking difficulty, i'm talking being comfortable. I got in the game and just shot my way through another few dungeons. I could have done anything in that time in any other game, but Fo4 was just easy and comfortable.

    That should be on the box.

    I tried my best, i really did, to immerse myself and role play this, but the game cut me off at each path, and it did a horrible job of presenting its world, of allowing me into it, and in allowing myself to act in that world in the way that i thought was proper.

    Let's bullet point this instead of me ranting.

    - No dialogue trees, no grays, no morality, just acceptance and denial, oh, and charisma checks for more money
    - Horrible pacing
    - Bad story arching
    - No memorable sidequests
    - TWO entire skill-checks in the entire game. TWO.
    - Poor execution of story-threads
    - Half-arsed settlements mechanics
    - Horrible FPS hiccups even on a 980
    - Shoddy game balance and design

    + Cool crafting system

    So, after all this, you might ask why am i done?

    Because after multiple transgressions, the game doesn't want to 'play' with me, and allow me to make a major role-playing choice.    … Expand
  10. alekseymazgo
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    The dialog system is terrible,the game doesnt have any variation in the dialogues.Compared with the first and second part of this game it has developed into an ordinary shooter for stupid freaks.Вevelopers have taken all the worst aspects of the fallout 3 and made them much worse.
  11. Razielogus
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Appcrash when i try to play. Nothing helps me and Bethesda make bugged and broken game. I spend a lot of money for it and i even cannot play. Totally joke with bad taste.
  12. Belshazzar
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    pros: +Good world for exploration can take up many hours
    +Crafting system
    +Mod support cons: +Awful texture, crappy animation, poor optimization, locked fps, +Control also seem awkward: cant use middle mouse to scroll, mouse move like **** the only way to return from menu, quest, map etc is tab. Stupid interface: wasd to move but arrow to choose between items and mouse to place    pros: +Good world for exploration can take up many hours
    +Crafting system
    +Mod support

    cons: +Awful texture, crappy animation, poor optimization, locked fps,
    +Control also seem awkward: cant use middle mouse to scroll, mouse move like **** the only way to return from menu, quest, map etc is tab. Stupid interface: wasd to move but arrow to choose between items and mouse to place item...
    +Not support 4:3 and ultra wide: can only config through game files but it mess up with the UI
    +Story seem kinda lame plus facial animation don't show any emotion make it even more meh, also stupid dialogue...
    +Retarded AI
    +Bugs, glitches
    +I don't even feel like this is a RPG anymore    … Expand
  13. thorn6
    Nov 27, 2015
    3
    It is a sad game. Good polished presentation, but empty inside. Dialogues, story and characters are badly executed. It feels like epitaph of game industry, where all that money can produce such boring and shallow experience.
  14. Shadeling
    Jan 13, 2016
    3
    My first impression of Fallout 4 immediately got off to a bad start right after I finished installing when I realized, to my horror, that ultra widescreen resolutions were not supported in a AAA game and that I had to research how to edit the ini files to get something passably decent so that the HUD wouldn't drive me crazy while playing. In 2015, there's absolutely no excuse for that!!My first impression of Fallout 4 immediately got off to a bad start right after I finished installing when I realized, to my horror, that ultra widescreen resolutions were not supported in a AAA game and that I had to research how to edit the ini files to get something passably decent so that the HUD wouldn't drive me crazy while playing. In 2015, there's absolutely no excuse for that!!

    As usual, Bethesda crafted a very detailed, open world but unfortunately, the game itself is extremely shallow. The main story is pretty bland. Skills and perks have been gutted, aka 'Streamlined', and combined into one fairly generic system. The dialogue wheel is awful, extremely terse and often misleading. The new voiced protagonist is also a bummer. Even though I really enjoyed Courtenay Taylor as Jack in Mass Effect 2, I found her to be fairly bland and flat as the main protagonist.

    It's clear to me that the bulk of Fallout 4's budget was funneled into the settlement building mechanics which I have to admit can be quite fun especially since I also enjoy builder type games but that's not the experience I'm looking in this franchise. I want Fallout, not Fallout-esque Minecraft. If the roleplaying aspect of the game had even a tiny amount of depth, I'd probably feel a lot better about it but Fallout 4 is so shallow as far as the roleplaying aspect goes, it's just damn sad. I know there will be mods that will probably make up for that but I'm sick and tired of letting Bethesda off the hook with that excuse. The game should stand on its own at release and Fallout 4 does not.

    I'm giving this game a score of three because of the fact that I can find some enjoyment in the settlement building and exploration aspects of the game but as a Fallout roleplaying experience, Fallout 4 fails miserably.    … Expand
  15. daanelf
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    Pro
    - character creation.
    - seems like you can play this game for hundreds of hours.
    - replayability
    - great setting to shoot stuff and do whatever you want. Dont take it serious and have fun.

    Con
    - graphically it looks like a console port. Not impressed. Even when this game came out 4 years ago.
    - buggy
    - crappy AI
    - mediocre story
  16. MSY
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    I have put so many hours into this series, so many hours into New Vegas, why? Because of the RPG element of the game, you know, the "role-playing" bit, too bad that's missing in Fallout 4. The dialogue and the dialogue wheel has destroyed that element and that's really sad. Want to play as a down-on-his-luck Russian alcoholic immigrant? Mel Gibson/Mad Max type character? An IrishI have put so many hours into this series, so many hours into New Vegas, why? Because of the RPG element of the game, you know, the "role-playing" bit, too bad that's missing in Fallout 4. The dialogue and the dialogue wheel has destroyed that element and that's really sad. Want to play as a down-on-his-luck Russian alcoholic immigrant? Mel Gibson/Mad Max type character? An Irish bare-knuckles boxer? Nah, no clean slate character for you, here's a copy paste voice white American voice who has military background, oh, he's also a loving father with a loving family. Enjoy. (FO1 you're just a vault dweller, no attachments, clean slate. FO2 you're a descendent of a vault dweller, clean slate. NV you we're just a courier, and that's it, weren't forced into a character at all. FO3 you had a dad and wanted to find him sure but it never impacted the RPG element). By forcing in this Voiced Protagonist Bethesda has forced you into this box, you play how they want you to play.

    The glitches and bugs are unacceptable for a AAA game (I don't know if I can even call it that), "but it's Bethesda, you should be expecting it", if I hear or read that one more time I'm going to punch my screen. The interface is horrid. The settlements was a nice idea but execution again was lacking, Dogmeat is just forced in, you walk for a bit and then there's a dog, you like dogs don't you? The AI on the companions is not good to say the least.    … Expand
  17. Whoami
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    I'm not all about graphics but this game looks like a 50 foot pile of rotted testicles. That would be okay if the AI wasn't retarded and your companions can't even die which takes away from the RPG aspect. It just feels like a crappier version of Fallout 3. A game does not have to be innovative to be good but Fallout 4 my aswell be a dumbed down reskin of Fallout 3... Bethesda isI'm not all about graphics but this game looks like a 50 foot pile of rotted testicles. That would be okay if the AI wasn't retarded and your companions can't even die which takes away from the RPG aspect. It just feels like a crappier version of Fallout 3. A game does not have to be innovative to be good but Fallout 4 my aswell be a dumbed down reskin of Fallout 3... Bethesda is sitting there laughing because they dont need to give a crap about good products anymore because they know the majority of their fanbase are bunch of ball ticklers.

    Bethesda can suck my gooche.    … Expand
  18. Reinth
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    It's unfortunate to see this game fall flat on it's face after all the massive amounts of hype that went into it, you would think for not announcing it until June, and promising a 2015 release they would have been sitting on a mostly complete game when they announced it, it seems that this wasn't the case, the FPS locks, the crashing bugs, and the fact that a high end pc has incredibleIt's unfortunate to see this game fall flat on it's face after all the massive amounts of hype that went into it, you would think for not announcing it until June, and promising a 2015 release they would have been sitting on a mostly complete game when they announced it, it seems that this wasn't the case, the FPS locks, the crashing bugs, and the fact that a high end pc has incredible stuttering makes me sad, I loved the first 20 minutes that I was able to play, but after that I kept running into glitching, crashing and fps drops to the point that my immersion was killed.

    Once the patches roll out and they finish the game I'll look forward to paying it, but for now, buyers remorse.    … Expand
  19. lurch
    Nov 17, 2015
    3
    I've clocked about 40 hours in this game. It's a good shooter I suppose but technically and storyline wise the game is a huge mess. It could have been so much better but they need to ditch this old ass engine and get some better writers.
  20. ZombieTech
    Jun 26, 2017
    3
    Game engine is okay, gameplay mechanics are decent, base-building is fun... but OMG, the storyline has to be one of the worst.

    You wake up after seeing your son kidnapped and your wife murdered (not really spoilers, it's the opening to the game FYI)... you then prance all around the wasteland doing everything else except finding your son... however, when you do finally find your son,    Game engine is okay, gameplay mechanics are decent, base-building is fun... but OMG, the storyline has to be one of the worst.

    You wake up after seeing your son kidnapped and your wife murdered (not really spoilers, it's the opening to the game FYI)... you then prance all around the wasteland doing everything else except finding your son... however, when you do finally find your son, the story and explanation behind it are just God awful rubbish! >_    … Expand
  21. Fanaro009
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    Beyond mediocre. Completely out of tune with what Fallout is. Fallout 4 is just a cash cow for Bethesda, a buch of generic quests and lazy map design. Why not follow the good examples of Fallout New Vegas - which was developed by another company? Because, to Bethesda, it doesn't matter, their reputation won't go down due to the legion of blinded fanboys and the hypocritical reviewBeyond mediocre. Completely out of tune with what Fallout is. Fallout 4 is just a cash cow for Bethesda, a buch of generic quests and lazy map design. Why not follow the good examples of Fallout New Vegas - which was developed by another company? Because, to Bethesda, it doesn't matter, their reputation won't go down due to the legion of blinded fanboys and the hypocritical review websites, and they can just milk our money without consequences.

    Thank you Bethesda for killing my love for your games and showing once more that the gaming industry has become one with the movie industry, spitting out an infinite stream of special effects garbage to rob the more ignorant side of the audience their money.    … Expand
  22. jamiemgr
    Jun 21, 2017
    3
    What an awful game! full of bugs, terrible dialogue, boring boring boring. What a waste of time and money that was! A badly made game, wouldn't recommend to anyone
  23. silverghost
    Dec 2, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One of the worst games I've paid for. Graphics-horrible (kill your character and watch some Nintendo grade graphics). Gameplay - good grief! (Spend 5 minutes building the wife a face, only to watch her die a few minutes later). ( Or, walk for 10 minutes-literally- to get from point A to point B. Or, spend hours collecting bottle caps and rubber bands so you can build your own weapons. Or, once you die, watch the screen for minutes while they reload the game. Or, strike out to find yor kidnapped baby, but totally forget that's what your mission is. Of, get into a conversation with a game character. Your side of the discussion goes like this-you get a choice of dialog, choose 1 of 4 answers, the last choice Always being the only logical one. Or, if you choose to have a dog, you can't name him-his name is Dogmeat, which is appropriate. Ever few minutes he gets attacked by people or creatures, and if you don't stop what you're doing and rescue him, he will be killed. Is this fun or what? Don't know if you can have a name either, mine was called 'Player'. How original! Seriously, don't waste your money on this 1990-looking trash.… Expand
  24. fredhorrigan
    Dec 3, 2015
    3
    It's a Bethesda game

    The shooting (and only the shooting, enemies are still bullet sponges on normal and up and melee is worse than New Vegas) was improved and the graphics are certainly better but just about every flaw you expect from a bethesda game is here is one way or another, joined by a dumbed down conversation system that limits you to 4 choices that are almost completely    It's a Bethesda game

    The shooting (and only the shooting, enemies are still bullet sponges on normal and up and melee is worse than New Vegas) was improved and the graphics are certainly better but just about every flaw you expect from a bethesda game is here is one way or another, joined by a dumbed down conversation system that limits you to 4 choices that are almost completely identical most of the time and a building system that's acceptable for building a player house but extremely shallow when it comes to building settlements (settlers being invincible unless killed by the player doesn't help).

    Fallout 3.1/10    … Expand
  25. Boberbunker
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    It's not an RPG anymore, just another mass effect-like shooter, but much worse. After 30 minutes in game you find a minigun and power armor... Really? 4 primitive responses in every dialogue. World map is way too small and lifeless.
    Actually it's been said already by everyone here. How could they make such a bad game after New Vegas?
    Please don't waste your money on this piece of garbage    It's not an RPG anymore, just another mass effect-like shooter, but much worse. After 30 minutes in game you find a minigun and power armor... Really? 4 primitive responses in every dialogue. World map is way too small and lifeless.
    Actually it's been said already by everyone here. How could they make such a bad game after New Vegas?
    Please don't waste your money on this piece of garbage or wait for mods.    … Expand
  26. victorvic0
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    summary. this is a casual game to build a settle, this is not fallout NV or 3,

    i've played this game for 13 hours until i said, it's enough, i don't have any reason to keep playing because all quest are boring and the only thing is kill guys, mutants and big rats. ->The dog is stupid and inmortal, comeon ->the enemies are more stupid than my dog, he only know how to shot me and in    summary. this is a casual game to build a settle, this is not fallout NV or 3,

    i've played this game for 13 hours until i said, it's enough, i don't have any reason to keep playing because all quest are boring and the only thing is kill guys, mutants and big rats.
    ->The dog is stupid and inmortal, comeon
    ->the enemies are more stupid than my dog, he only know how to shot me and in some cases, hide form me behind a corner.
    ->full of bethesda bugs, but this time is worse.
    ->my power armor is amazing but i can't find power so it's useless
    (spoiler)
    what about my daughter? someone kidnap her and i'm wasting my time looking for cooper in the ruins to build up a generator or something else.    … Expand
  27. VeIdrin
    Jun 14, 2018
    3
    Neither an good RPG (especially not narrative wise) nor a narrative-driven choices-full tactic-shooter.

    This game is a hybrid with compromises. Narratives toned down. But ludic-wise it is neither satisfying for RPG fans and especially not satisfying for people that love immersive gameplay without perks and **** If you like RPGs. Avoid this. If you HATE RPGs. Avoid this. If you    Neither an good RPG (especially not narrative wise) nor a narrative-driven choices-full tactic-shooter.

    This game is a hybrid with compromises. Narratives toned down. But ludic-wise it is neither satisfying for RPG fans and especially not satisfying for people that love immersive gameplay without perks and ****

    If you like RPGs. Avoid this.

    If you HATE RPGs. Avoid this.

    If you like (tactical) shooters. Avoid this.

    If you liked fallout tactic's combat. Avoid this

    If you like dialogue choices, avoid this

    If you like interensting side quest, this game is not for you

    If you like good gameplay, dont play this

    If you like good narratives, dont play this.

    If you like crafting, and shooting around without any tactic and you like AWESOME perks and stuff and you don't mind doing dull quests, buy it, its especially for you.    … Expand
  28. Jeek
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas so much that it feels very weird to say there is Fallout game i don't like. Fallout 4 is buggy mess and made the game completely different than Fallout 3 and NW. Question is why? Dialogues are now a lot worse, so is leveling up. And am i the only one who doesn't give a **** about building your own HQ?

    This is just not a good game. How is it possible for    I love Fallout 3 and New Vegas so much that it feels very weird to say there is Fallout game i don't like. Fallout 4 is buggy mess and made the game completely different than Fallout 3 and NW. Question is why? Dialogues are now a lot worse, so is leveling up. And am i the only one who doesn't give a **** about building your own HQ?

    This is just not a good game. How is it possible for Bethesda **** up Fallout game so badly? I'm not sure anymore do i even want new Elder Scrolls...    … Expand
  29. Beery
    Nov 14, 2015
    3
    Sadly, the series has devolved, with all the worst problems with earlier games coming back with a vengeance. I won't go into detail on issues that others have mentioned, but one thing always stands out for me as a lost opportunity with all the Fallout games - the scriptwriting and the voice acting. Bethesda made a great decision going with a 1950s inspired future world, but the dialogueSadly, the series has devolved, with all the worst problems with earlier games coming back with a vengeance. I won't go into detail on issues that others have mentioned, but one thing always stands out for me as a lost opportunity with all the Fallout games - the scriptwriting and the voice acting. Bethesda made a great decision going with a 1950s inspired future world, but the dialogue and voice acting never seems to reflect this. It's a great pity that they just won't hire the talented writers or actors necessary to really get the player immersed in the wonderful graphical world they create, and for me, it's become a critical flaw. I really want to like Fallout, but Bethesda never seems willing to help me to like their games. There are too many great games out there for me to be satisfied with mediocrity, and Bethesda is no longer on the cutting edge. These days they just aren't trying hard enough.… Expand
  30. Jason71
    Nov 10, 2015
    3
    This is not Fallout, but Fallout Cry. Really disappointing game for older players of Fallout. They removed the skills, simplified every aspect of the game, removing the wear of objects and the effect of SPECIALThey are fully commercialized.
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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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