Fallout 4

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  1. DrMisiaq
    Jun 24, 2019
    8
    Game has it's flaws. Many of them - to be honest. Who did not curse on "another settlement needs your help. I'll mark it on your map" quests and other repetitive stuff? Who did not moan about overall simplification and dialogue tree? But admit it - Fallout 4 is an amazing game. I wonder, how many people really appreciated it after the failure of 76. It has main story, which isn't theGame has it's flaws. Many of them - to be honest. Who did not curse on "another settlement needs your help. I'll mark it on your map" quests and other repetitive stuff? Who did not moan about overall simplification and dialogue tree? But admit it - Fallout 4 is an amazing game. I wonder, how many people really appreciated it after the failure of 76. It has main story, which isn't the deepest stuff in the neighbourhood, but really digs into ethics and questions the problem, of what the hell is humanity. There are tens of sidequests - each taking few hours to complete - which are as memorable as those from first two Fallouts. Sailing f***n' ship full of pirate-robots upon rooftops of Boston? Take my money please. Overall Fallout 4 is highly underappreciated and it deserves at least 8-9 out of 10 in terms of a great video game, even if it goes far from the origins of the series.… Expand
  2. GrindedStone
    Jun 22, 2019
    0
    FO4 requires over 70Gb of mods to even begin to make the game fun, and this is without the HD DLC. Not 3D assets to make the game look better. It needs over 70Gb of gameplay (design/mechanics/systems) just to begin to make the game playable. This being compared to about 10Gb or less of mods in all previous titles.

    There's a good reason why the Fallout community is the most negative    FO4 requires over 70Gb of mods to even begin to make the game fun, and this is without the HD DLC. Not 3D assets to make the game look better. It needs over 70Gb of gameplay (design/mechanics/systems) just to begin to make the game playable. This being compared to about 10Gb or less of mods in all previous titles.

    There's a good reason why the Fallout community is the most negative communities of all time. With the release of F76 all the glaring issues specific to F76 ignited a garbage fire that burned all the way back to Morrowind. Even the good games are tarnished by the same poor design/development at Bethesda Game Studios specifically.

    The Mod Devs, Mod Authors, or Modders get to see the quality of the work put into the game, and let me tell you that work is messy & poor quality. We're officially sick of fixing this. We are sick of playing this. We are sick of being tricked into buying poor quality games based on trickery and deception. Then you still have a host of anti-consumer practices to reason with after those facts.

    2018/2019 Zenimax Media/Bethesda Studios/Bethesda Game Studios has burned itself in a garbage fire from 2004 to 2030. This is solidified by the fact that there are so many other games which are higher quality while being more fun to play. All things being equal those better games win, and not even the people that love these games can stop that from happening.

    Let's just base the review on that I have to spend 6 months working on FO4 just to get it to begin to reach a playable state. Yeah, I still play these games. I still work on these games. But it's a dispassionate thing. Circling the drain on my way out. There were good things to experience with these games in the work that we are allowed to perform on the games work/play, but that depends entirely on if the publisher/studio can make a decent game. That just isn't true anymore after 2018.

    Sorry for the bad news. The 2004-2018 work/play Bethesda party is over.    … Expand
  3. mv999
    Jun 17, 2019
    10
    Sure it has bugs but when you look at how much fun I had those bugs dont matter.
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  4. RazorSamurai
    Jun 11, 2019
    0
    there is no optimizaiton for pc at 2019. vsync is broken when u uncap it game will speedup as hell. and btw the game is fking joke, its not a fallout series game its call of duty new generation (do not confuse with good old cod parts) chapter.
  5. reclocco
    Jun 10, 2019
    8
    Really immersive game that sadly cuts down on some textures quality for some reason. Don’t be put off by that tho because this game still offers a lot.
    All in all it’s a sandbox with great character development, settlement building, crafting system and more. The downside for me is an OK storyline (mainly due to the mediocre human animation quality) and sometimes underwhelming graphics    Really immersive game that sadly cuts down on some textures quality for some reason. Don’t be put off by that tho because this game still offers a lot.
    All in all it’s a sandbox with great character development, settlement building, crafting system and more. The downside for me is an OK storyline (mainly due to the mediocre human animation quality) and sometimes underwhelming graphics (very rarely tho).    … Expand
  6. Blet
    Jun 5, 2019
    3
    Fallout 4 gets a 3 because it improves on the gunplay of previous entries into the fallout universe while achieving little else. The plot, interesting side quests and customisation are largely gone, replaced with a bland fps experience rather than the richer rp elements the franchise is known for. Fallout 4 was a warning sign of the direction Bethesda was taking the franchise. This isFallout 4 gets a 3 because it improves on the gunplay of previous entries into the fallout universe while achieving little else. The plot, interesting side quests and customisation are largely gone, replaced with a bland fps experience rather than the richer rp elements the franchise is known for. Fallout 4 was a warning sign of the direction Bethesda was taking the franchise. This is fallout 76's sad progenitor… Expand
  7. Your_Muza
    Jun 5, 2019
    4
    Terrible game. Bad graphics, bad gameplay, everything is bad, except for the plot. I tried to end this too quicly and i suffered. I don't like Bethesda's games and i didn't like Fallout 4.
  8. LesPaul
    Jun 1, 2019
    5
    A major disappointment, after having played both FallOut 3 and Fallout New Vegas. A soulless, by-the-numbers update of previous Fallout titles. After a couple of hours of gameplay, you realize that the landscape and the encounters found there, are crowded together like exhibits at an amusement park. You jog about 10 seconds in any direction and voulez! you come upon an encounter. You willA major disappointment, after having played both FallOut 3 and Fallout New Vegas. A soulless, by-the-numbers update of previous Fallout titles. After a couple of hours of gameplay, you realize that the landscape and the encounters found there, are crowded together like exhibits at an amusement park. You jog about 10 seconds in any direction and voulez! you come upon an encounter. You will meet ghouls in one place, jog 10 seconds and then meet bandits, turn and jog in another direction and come upon super mutants. How is it that they can exist so tightly packed together and not wiped each other out ? Like I said, after awhile it feels like you are at an amusement park going from one ride to the next.… Expand
  9. Cherudex
    May 29, 2019
    10
    10, just to trying to balance an unfair total score of 5.5... A fair score should be like 7
  10. nereed678
    May 23, 2019
    7
    Yes, fallout 4 is mediocre as a fallout game. Yet, it is still a fun game, full of exploration and an engaging story and environment. While not a classic in the vein of new vegas, it's still a worthy instillation in the series
  11. RudigerTech
    May 15, 2019
    8
    Its a very good Fallout. All in all, there aren't as much interesting characters as in Fallout 3 or New Vegas and it has some bugs. But above all its a solid Title, which have a big amount of sidequests and other things to do. Some mechanisms aren't 100% solid like the Building system without a gamepad.
    But if you like the setting its a must-have.
  12. grimsfield
    Apr 7, 2019
    0
    So I see the good people of metacritic decided to post a fake score of 9 for me on this game when in reality I never even scored it. For that reason I'm filling up the required text box and giving a 0. Not cool metacritic.
  13. Rholzy
    Apr 5, 2019
    7
    On one hand, it doesn't feel like a real Fallout game. It is more like a weird Action-Shooter-Hybrid-Thing. Gameplaywise it doesn't realy know what it want's to be. But still, i realy enjoyed it. Making Power-Armor more like a Vehicle instead of a cloting item was a good move. Crawling through ruins, looting and following the story missions kept several dozen hours playing. Even if you canOn one hand, it doesn't feel like a real Fallout game. It is more like a weird Action-Shooter-Hybrid-Thing. Gameplaywise it doesn't realy know what it want's to be. But still, i realy enjoyed it. Making Power-Armor more like a Vehicle instead of a cloting item was a good move. Crawling through ruins, looting and following the story missions kept several dozen hours playing. Even if you can see the technical limitatons of the engine.
    But i spend almost the same amount of time on the Nexus to mod out the oversights of it's developers. Another Bethesda-Title saved by kind modders.    … Expand
  14. i44arho
    Apr 1, 2019
    10
    Only after playing other similar games, I realized how good this game is! P.S I also played in the previous parts, each episode is good in its own way.
  15. ShonaNingyo
    Mar 23, 2019
    6
    When I first played this game, I had a lot of fun. Playing it the second time, the fun waned just a tiny bit. The third and fourth time..the fifth and sixth time, the appeal wore off very quickly.

    The game is a bit too streamlined and polished. The dialogue options are very limited, as is your ability to play a character like you want -- **** or saint. With the extremely high bar that    When I first played this game, I had a lot of fun. Playing it the second time, the fun waned just a tiny bit. The third and fourth time..the fifth and sixth time, the appeal wore off very quickly.

    The game is a bit too streamlined and polished. The dialogue options are very limited, as is your ability to play a character like you want -- **** or saint. With the extremely high bar that New Vegas set (and that wasn't even by the same people as this game), this game could honestly only disappoint on that front. Not only that, but there is no "END" to this game. As soon as you complete the last mission for what ever faction you've chosen, the game allows you to continue on. There aren't any end title cards, no "Where are they now" for your companions...Nothing. That was one of the best parts of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, seeing how your actions affected the people you encountered. I guess they dropped them in this game because you're now making a new life in this wasteland and your actions haven't caused your death or "sealed your fate"...except they have, at least regarding the latter.

    The fact that you have quite a few colorful companions to accompany you on your journey, and the fact that they are romanceable by you regardless of gender, is a plus for me since I am Bisexual and kind of laissez faire with the whole 'who do you love' sort of deal, but it is admittedly a shallow system: There aren't any indicators that the characters acknowledge your sex and how that plays into a relationship, because it is important despite this being a postnuclear apocalypse...But anyway.

    If I had to summarize this game, it would be that you need mod on top of mod to keep this game interesting past the first three playthroughs, while New Vegas and Fallout 3 require absolutely nothing.    … Expand
  16. Psiraphim
    Mar 21, 2019
    0
    Вы действительно можете это хвалить? В этой игре неплохие только первые два часа, чтобы потом вы не успели вернуть за нее деньги. И то - они НЕПЛОХИЕ, но это не значит что они Хороши.
    Игра ОЧЕНЬ плоха. Это надо было понять сразу и не давать возможности Беседке делать 76-ой. А теперь ее вообще надо бойкотировать во всех играх - Беседка должна понять свою ошибку! Лучший способ - наказывать    Вы действительно можете это хвалить? В этой игре неплохие только первые два часа, чтобы потом вы не успели вернуть за нее деньги. И то - они НЕПЛОХИЕ, но это не значит что они Хороши.
    Игра ОЧЕНЬ плоха. Это надо было понять сразу и не давать возможности Беседке делать 76-ой. А теперь ее вообще надо бойкотировать во всех играх - Беседка должна понять свою ошибку! Лучший способ - наказывать рублем.    … Expand
  17. MadnessisRising
    Mar 15, 2019
    5
    I really didn't enjoyed this. Which is really sad because it was my fullfilled wish for christmas in that year. It all began with the character-design witch is only made for console. Fine, then i'm playing with a random dude barely changed.. After leaving the Vault it was actually hard to find any quests.. Also the whole world was really boring in my opinion. What i liked were yourI really didn't enjoyed this. Which is really sad because it was my fullfilled wish for christmas in that year. It all began with the character-design witch is only made for console. Fine, then i'm playing with a random dude barely changed.. After leaving the Vault it was actually hard to find any quests.. Also the whole world was really boring in my opinion. What i liked were your followers, pretty cool designed characters. But overall it was a unnecessary game. Compared to Fallout 3 and New Vegas it was 90% the same, with some wrong new stuff. (For example the crafting.. gosh what a crap!)… Expand
  18. Sfs
    Mar 13, 2019
    6
    Игра - средняя . Сюжет не очень , диалоги просто супер, часто не влияющие на отношение к ГГ, повторяющийся квесты - на средне , графика в целом норм, но есть конкретное мыло, стрельба кривая, интересно(по началу) строить поселение, нормальные доп. квесты, большая карта для исследования и радует модифицировать оружие и броню. Игра интересна только 1 раз и то исследованием а не квестами.Игра - средняя . Сюжет не очень , диалоги просто супер, часто не влияющие на отношение к ГГ, повторяющийся квесты - на средне , графика в целом норм, но есть конкретное мыло, стрельба кривая, интересно(по началу) строить поселение, нормальные доп. квесты, большая карта для исследования и радует модифицировать оружие и броню. Игра интересна только 1 раз и то исследованием а не квестами.
  19. Whoahoot
    Mar 9, 2019
    8
    Highly underrated game. Not the best game or spectacular game, but in my opinion, a game worth playing. I've 118 hours into the game on a few different characters and I found the game very enjoyable. I thought the combat was fun and engaging, though I'll admit the story was about a 5/10 (average) and the dialog choices were rather leaned toward just a few ways of playing the game (sideHighly underrated game. Not the best game or spectacular game, but in my opinion, a game worth playing. I've 118 hours into the game on a few different characters and I found the game very enjoyable. I thought the combat was fun and engaging, though I'll admit the story was about a 5/10 (average) and the dialog choices were rather leaned toward just a few ways of playing the game (side with 1 of 3 factions).

    Cons -
    1. Mediocre story with characters that make you feel little emotion
    2. Poor dialog choices in an RPG
    3. Few bugs (you shouldn't encounter too many typically speaking)
    4. Some of the textures can look a little poor

    Pros -
    1. I found the gameplay fun and engaging (combat, quests)
    2. Good reward system (perk points, weapon/ammo drops)
    3. Easy to dump time into and have fun for a long time
    4. Very high replayability; at least 80+ hours of enjoyable gameplay with too much repetition

    Conclusion: All in all, a good game I would recommend buying. The negative reviews on this are more negative than they should be as the game is much better than they make it out to be. However, this game is no 9 or 10 because it does have flaws and can be dull at times.    … Expand
  20. VincentVegan
    Mar 4, 2019
    7
    Trotz einiger Probleme (Grafik, Bugs, Bausystem, etc.) dennoch ein spielenswerter Ableger der Serie in welchen ich viele Stunden an Zeit investiert habe.
  21. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    4
    My review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now ifMy review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now if you want to get somewhere fast, be careful, because you might run into enemies and you won't be able to use VATS. Is this a joke? You've made a short game, so you've added sh***y sprinting that ends every 10 seconds? Where's the running from F3 or NV? Where you would press capslock and the character would always run without getting tired? The other thing missing is the "move button". In F3/NV you would press "q" and the character would move on its own. Well, you won't find this in F4. Thank you Bethesda... remind me to never buy anything from you ever again. But that's not the end of BRILLIANT changes. Remember VATS? Well, now it doesn't stop time. It just slows it down and if you won't make your decisions quickly enemies will hit you. WTF is this again? Why am I being rushed? I always loved the VATS in previous games, you could just relax, choose what body part you want to shoot, maybe drink some tea in meantime, while watching how enemies get torn into pieces. Well now that's gone, thank you Bethesda. You know what's not gone? Bugs. I played the GOTY edition with all the patches. I managed to fall under the world map 8 times. Not kidding. Every bug you saw in Fallout 3 is here again. Hmm I wonder why... maybe because it's the same engine just with a different name. You almost fooled me Bethesda... almost. So, we've established it's the same engine, but you know what's not the same? The requirements. I'm not a type of person, that cares about graphics, but if your game has such big requirements, I'd like to see better graphics. Instead we have sh***y graphics that require a huge PC to run, which is a joke. The optimalization doesn't exist in F4. This game should be able to run on a 1-core 1gb ram 512mb graphic card setup on ultra with 60 frames per second, because it looks like the game was made for such build. But who cares, right? Surely Bethesda doesn't. Let's move on to more funny stuff. The stuff that was the core of NV, F1 & 2, even F3. It's the quests. In previous games, they were more open, we had a few routes to complete them and usually you had a choice how to lead the quest and how it would end. Well forget all about it. Welcome to the "rpg" game where most of the missions are "go talk to someone, he'll tell you what/who to kill, do that, come back, here's your f***ing payment, now get lost". Yep, welcome to Commonwealth. The most funny stuff when it comes to the quests is Preston. He will harass you and talk about "another settlement needs your help". Then he'll mark the location of the settlement on your map and I don't even wanna know how many types of these missions are out there, because I maybe did 4 and all of them were the same. Someone is attacked, you must go and get rid of the problem and do it all over again someplace else. This is insanity. It's what Vass warned us about. The main story wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good. From characters, I really liked Nick Valentine and Piper. I also remember the dog who probably had more charisma than most of the npcs in the game. But in the end the story gets wrecked, because the game forbids us from making our own decisions. This is NOT New Vegas. There are two endings for the game and they both suck. You will not be able to make peace with all the factions, which is ridiculous. Also, if the game establishes that people can send their minds into synths and live in their robot-like bodies, then why would we care about anyone dying especially at the Institute. Logic is not something you will find in this story, which is hilarious, because the game literally focuses on science. This is what happens when you let fake gorillas write your script. So the story is a let down, there is almost none rpg elements left, the shooting is okay, but Fallout isn't supposed to be an fps game. Doom, Blood, Serious Sam, Quake, Painkiller are FPS and they do it well, F4 doesn't. They've also added crafting tools and emphasis on building your base and upgrading it. This might be the worst thing in the game. I don't want Minecraft in Fallout. This is tedious. To build something you will have to acquire items, so everything that is based around the settlements will include going somewhere and finding the tools you need to build the stuff you need to build. It's just a big waste of time and making this a center of your game was a big mistake. So, what's good in Fallout 4? Not much, mostly a few quests and some characters. Don't waste your money or time on this game. Life is not eternal and there's no afterlife. Spend your days on something worth your while. Pickens condemns!… Expand
  22. Battletoad
    Feb 18, 2019
    3
    Bad game. Mediocre shooter. Absolutely primitive, not interesting RPG. Not an exciting adventure. Silly story. Awful graphics for 2015.
  23. opium4free
    Feb 17, 2019
    8
    I didn't like how reply lines presented in dialogs and didn't like that annoying radiant-quests from P. Garvey. But for the rest game is actually good (i know that 10 hours played is not really enough).
  24. Zeratex
    Feb 11, 2019
    7
    I know the game is dumbed down version after Fallout 3 and Fallout NV but its still not that bad.
    The graphics are nice and animations are good.
    The soundtracks is also fine.
    The story and rpg elements however are very bad.
    The gameplay is fun with the guns and stuff but it has some bugs.
    Open world is ok a bit empty but still worth exploring.

    7/10
  25. KeonKG
    Jan 27, 2019
    0
    This game is crap. Very buggy and annoying. Most time of this game you wil spend watching loading screens ... Worth maybe 2 cents.
  26. NightGeisha
    Jan 20, 2019
    8
    Fallout 4 is one of my best open world experiences of all times.
    This fantastic RPG will consume you, if you try to visit all the places, do all the quests and side quests you are encountering, collect everything you find and try to work and evolve all settlements of this massive world.
    Easily you can count on more than 120 hours of game, only in the core game. Then there are a number of    Fallout 4 is one of my best open world experiences of all times.
    This fantastic RPG will consume you, if you try to visit all the places, do all the quests and side quests you are encountering, collect everything you find and try to work and evolve all settlements of this massive world.
    Easily you can count on more than 120 hours of game, only in the core game. Then there are a number of DLC's and Add-Ons, but as if that were not enough, it has a fantastic community that creates amazing mods that added dozens of hours of fun.

    Like their predecessors Fallout 4 has an immersive history. Several factions and countless alternative stories make this game a fantastic experience. I will not discuss whether the story is better or worse than Fallout 3 or New Vegas which seems to me to have always been the main concern of the fans.

    I'm happy with the game, yes it has bugs and all kinds of issues but I had fun most of the times. Fallout universe is one of the most fantastic universes in the history of video games. I feel sorry that fallout 76 not being up to the antecessors because with all this successful history it should have been a success too.    … Expand
  27. KuriousJorj
    Jan 15, 2019
    4
    Poor, weak, lazy game. Just boring. Boring combat, boring world, boring story. Not at all fun. Soulless. Empty. I used to love the Fallout games, but I'm done with them. No more for me.
  28. Artem5300
    Jan 11, 2019
    10
    Игра очень хорошая, Геймплей топ, Оптимизация хорошая. Такой маленький бал из за того то-что ее заср*ли олдфаги если вам не нравится идите играйте в свой fallout 1 и 2 на своем старом ноутбуке а так игра норм
  29. VG_Alex
    Jan 6, 2019
    8
    Excellent eschatological RPG game, the setting of the world background is very abundant, inherited the 'Creation' engine extreme degree of freedom, game play compared with the previous work has improved a lot, the workshop system are a major feature of this game, but there are still have few bugs to fix and the main story is too short.
  30. KeepinBlazin
    Dec 31, 2018
    10
    It's an amazing game, really. Sure the quests might not be what you'd expect but they're still great quests. The graphics? Great unless you're playing on Windows 95. All of the youtubers that say this game is terrible are wrong. For others that say it's terrible, you guys have just played better on a beefy PC. If you actually give this game a chance and explore, you'd find that it's a lotIt's an amazing game, really. Sure the quests might not be what you'd expect but they're still great quests. The graphics? Great unless you're playing on Windows 95. All of the youtubers that say this game is terrible are wrong. For others that say it's terrible, you guys have just played better on a beefy PC. If you actually give this game a chance and explore, you'd find that it's a lot better than you give it credit for. Maybe it's not as good as Fallout 76, which came out earlier this year, but this game still has good graphics compared to a lot of games now.… Expand
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#31 Best PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#2 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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Metascore
84

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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