Fallout 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    +VATS is still fun
    +gunplay has improved

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Overall the game improves on combat, making it mediocre in comparison to the terrible combat of the last games. However, every other aspect of the game is a step backwards. Role playing is non existent, dialogue is awful, the writing in ridiculous, the UI is even more consolised than skyrims and the world is boring. Combine this with the glitches, terrible performance and drab visuals, and you're left with a game which fails to live up to expectations, hype, or the standards set by previous titles. Nothing but disappointment, all for £39.99.    … Expand
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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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