Fallout 4

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  1. Soichy
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    0 only for the fact that the Fallout: New Vegas was rated 84, being a great game. At the same time, the Fallout 4 was rated 85 through corrupt critics. It is only harvesting game without a whole bunch of DLC is not a complete game. And because nuclear batteries for power armor is working 15 minutes instead of hundreds of years. That's all.
  2. smith
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    В целом за игру можно поставить 5 баллов. Но как за фаллоут даже балла не поставлю, игра уг, полное уг, нет ничего связанного с серией фаллоут. Бессмысленная система крафта и строительства, что это за бред. Квесты... сюжет... их здесь просто нет, как и системы диалогов. Можно часами перечислять недостатки, но смысл... бефезда все равно и дальше будет делать угВ целом за игру можно поставить 5 баллов. Но как за фаллоут даже балла не поставлю, игра уг, полное уг, нет ничего связанного с серией фаллоут. Бессмысленная система крафта и строительства, что это за бред. Квесты... сюжет... их здесь просто нет, как и системы диалогов. Можно часами перечислять недостатки, но смысл... бефезда все равно и дальше будет делать уг
  3. kamgeforce
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    Disappointing. Like a casual mode for Fallout 3, pretty much everything was simplified, some mechanics are gone completely, like reputation system. Doge is nice, but wont save it. Plot is weak, dialogues are even weaker. I am really sorry I didnt wait and bought the game for full price, if Witcher 3 is worth 60 bucks with all the content, this game should cost 15 at max.
  4. asfj
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is again a giant company created vast but empty world with bunch of repetitive stuff generated by some randomization, permutation and fractal algorithms which once set, can automatically create endless emptiness abyss in which you never feel enough playing yet can't feel sth with true significance. Killing and rooting are more than 90% of the whole experience while the actualFallout 4 is again a giant company created vast but empty world with bunch of repetitive stuff generated by some randomization, permutation and fractal algorithms which once set, can automatically create endless emptiness abyss in which you never feel enough playing yet can't feel sth with true significance. Killing and rooting are more than 90% of the whole experience while the actual meaningful story is no more than what a decent indie game can deliver, not mention to almost no innovation but just old ideas reused again. The game may deserve $15 like a indie game, but considering its potential high sales figure, its price should be even lower.

    Thats why I'd rather spend my time on indie games majority of which are still HAND-MADE and full of meaningful and innovative content that is even short but let me feel mentally rewarded after experiencing.
    A game shouldn't be qualified by its size and playing time but the actual content hand-made by human in heart. I don't very care how high level or score I can reach, how many shiny badges collected. These are all meaningless afterwards. What I really want is a truly amazing story that can move, inspire and even blow my mind away. After 7 years, still can't figure that out at all? Let me be clear, the term "open-world" is sucked by Bethesda again.

    By the way, if you really care about that customizable construction and weapon system, why don't buy/rent game dev kits which give you true access to large resources, free configuration and much more user-friendly UI to fully release your creativity to craft a really private world or even a game. Do yourself a favor not to waste time on that crappy and painful crafting system in the game. Its not meant for a even casual creator.    … Expand
  5. gef21
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's better than 3 but worse than New Vegas, also I'll spoil the ending since the story in a Bethesda game never matters anyway, and you can judge the quality of writing from this

    Once you get to the final quest everything you've done up until that point becomes irrelevant, you then follow Liberty Prime while it shouts the same things it did in 3, then you get given the decision of whether you kill your dad who is also your son or nuke a large amount of people.    … Expand
  6. Luck1N
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    After playing it for about 15 hours, I finally decided to delete it. After amazing New Vegas, this game is looong step back. I'm not talking about graphics (however, leaving all the work on graphics to moders is just lazy), but the gameplay is average at best (with all the simplifying of character progression system) and the story is just plain dumb.

    I was hyped to get this game, and    After playing it for about 15 hours, I finally decided to delete it. After amazing New Vegas, this game is looong step back. I'm not talking about graphics (however, leaving all the work on graphics to moders is just lazy), but the gameplay is average at best (with all the simplifying of character progression system) and the story is just plain dumb.

    I was hyped to get this game, and right now I really miss my 60€. Totally not worth it. And totally not worth being called a successor to New Vegas.    … Expand
  7. darksidemoon
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    Boring bland and dull. A disgrace to Fallout franchise.

    This game is so bad in so many levels it is a joke or I shall say better that Bethesda developers are a joke.
  8. TastesOfRegret
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Less content than any previous fallout game.
    When the last game we got was New Vegas, this is completely unacceptable. Every new Bethesda game is more dumbed down, stripped down, and hyped up to be better than ever when every single time it has less features.
    And what little content they DID add only served to make the game more unbearable and sever it's ties to the older games. The    Less content than any previous fallout game.
    When the last game we got was New Vegas, this is completely unacceptable. Every new Bethesda game is more dumbed down, stripped down, and hyped up to be better than ever when every single time it has less features.

    And what little content they DID add only served to make the game more unbearable and sever it's ties to the older games.

    The writing is abysmal, the pacing is all over the place and the gameplay is a bug-infested skeleton of it's former self.

    I refunded my purchase, and wouldn't even pirate this game now.    … Expand
  9. Cipher007
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Really horrible Console Port. Did not even try to hide that fact. The game released on PC so horribly buggy that its not playable for me and lost of others. Here I sit waiting for a patch to fix a game that is supposed to be release ready but by far is not.
  10. Burglar
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    Thank you, Bethesda, you ruined so epic atmosphere of Fallout. Fallout 3 was good, Fallout New Vegas was Epic, Fallout 4 - piece of **** for minecrafters and rusters. Give this game to Obsidian, they do it much better.
  11. Days
    Nov 26, 2015
    0
    I belive it is useless to repeat the facts offered in the previous reviews, but to be honest what got me off the most about this game is that it cannot be considered a game like any of the previous fallouts, some may like a shooter more then an rpg and dont' care about flaws becouse with time "mods" will fix them, but in the end fallout 4 is a very limited story driven shooter with fewI belive it is useless to repeat the facts offered in the previous reviews, but to be honest what got me off the most about this game is that it cannot be considered a game like any of the previous fallouts, some may like a shooter more then an rpg and dont' care about flaws becouse with time "mods" will fix them, but in the end fallout 4 is a very limited story driven shooter with few paths, missing components and some rpg elements. Comparing Fallout 3 or NV is impossible becouse they are totally different games at this point, in fact they get rid of some of their best mechanics that some might argue that they were not up to their taste (like karma, yeah we got no karma now, most of the story flagged npc cant' be killed and we got no mechanic to compensate) I'm a player that play the game for a sense of immersion, if i wanted a shooter or an hack and slash there are way better games, most of fallout players love the lore, and not a rushed beginning, of like 5 minutes, we were supposed to see a glimpse of world before the war, but the begin was just too rushed to make people grab pipe guns and pew pew from the start. Tradeskill conversation (becouse yeah, the new voiced dialogue with absolutely no understanding of what the dude or the chick will say is such a step forward) are removed, we got a perk style now similiar like skyrim, and we miss a lot of those small things that make a game worth it, most ignore them, but playing new vegas and hearing the comment of the old man about my start allocation was cute almost as the challange of building an high educated character with low combat skill just to have charisma and tradeskill options, "To see" where the game would react to the character. To conclude Fallout 4 is the son that came out wrong when you mix a shooter with minecraft elements and a bit of mass effect 3 magic, "pun intended."… Expand
  12. yogibbear
    Dec 5, 2015
    7
    Negatives:
    -Terrible UI, terrible M+KB controls, terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI
    -Terrible mouse acceleration (can be fixed in the .ini files) -Terrible Y-axis scaling (can be fixed in the .ini files) -Terrible performance (dropped Shadows to Medium & Godlight to Medium and I now get 45-60FPS on 770GTX, YMMV) -Weapon models are too large -FOV is horrible and    Negatives:
    -Terrible UI, terrible M+KB controls, terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI
    -Terrible mouse acceleration (can be fixed in the .ini files)
    -Terrible Y-axis scaling (can be fixed in the .ini files)
    -Terrible performance (dropped Shadows to Medium & Godlight to Medium and I now get 45-60FPS on 770GTX, YMMV)
    -Weapon models are too large
    -FOV is horrible and nauseating (you can and should fix this via the .ini tweaks)
    -UI colors OMG horrible
    -Removed complexity in levelling system, replaced with only perks, honestly this is horrible, but so far it works OK... [14 hrs in]
    -No companion army
    -Physical copy does not contain the entire game, you will have to download it still.
    -terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI, terrible UI.

    Positives:
    -Crafting weapons, armour, bases is cool and awesome
    -Scrapping stuff adds meaning to exploration and looting buildings
    -The gameplay loop is good
    -Building stuff is a new feature and it's pretty good, even though the UI and controls for it are stupidly wrong, but it works once you figure it out.
    -It's Fallout.
    -There's now a sprint button (like Skyrim added).
    -Boston gameworld is cool and art style is good.
    -Some character animations are better.
    -Getting in and out of power armour is cool.

    ---------------------------

    The above review was written after having played only 10 hours, I am now 67 hours into the game and need to make the following additions:

    Negatives:
    -Radiant quests are trash. There are too many of these thinly disguised "quests" that are just radiant go here, kill everything, repeating ad nausem trash quests for EVERY single damn faction in the game. This is not good game design. This is just bottom barrel scratching for something.
    -The dialogue system is completely trash with very little depth, frustrating "wheel" that doesn't explain what you're going to say, or what saying that will do to the conversation and ultimately leads you down the same linear pathway regardless.
    -The story is not interesting.
    -The settlement building mechanics and settlement happiness in relation to shops, defence, resources, etc. and settlement design could have had way better explaining. It's basically one giant mystery requiring exiting the game and seeing how someone else figured out how to get to 100 happiness, because it is not obvious at all what you are doing wrong.
    -Preston STFU stop giving me quests. Worst. Mechanic. Ever.

    Postives:
    -There are a lot of really cool designed places to explore, and the variety is really really good. Sadly despite all these brilliant places, with interesting tidbits and reasons for existing the actual stuff that you need to accomplish in these places boils down to the same repetitive radiant quest frustrations and ultimately boredom. If you designed any of the artwork, or levels, or world building in this game then you should truly be celebrated. But sadly the vision is not supported by gameplay, by sound, by RPG mechanics, by story, or by anything and the cracks show throughout and it all falls apart.    … Expand
  13. BPoole
    Nov 13, 2015
    1
    Where to begin? Beth has put a great many of us Fallout fans down with Fallout 4. The game is not living up to my expectations of a Fallout game. 6 hours and I just can seem to have fun. The radial dialogue wheel is a disaster. The story seems lacking and it just doesn't feel as good as Fallout: New Vegas. Immortal Dogmeat is stupid.

    Rate 1 and feels like I lost $60. DISAPPOINTED in Beth.
  14. RichardFeynman
    Nov 15, 2015
    3
    Fallout 4 is rated at 5.0 by users! I couldn't believe it. Professional critics rate it above 8/10 all across the board. How can you explain this disparity? Are professional critics just a branch of PR arm for these game companies? Or is the game truly that good? If you check the scores of Fallout 3 and New Vegas ratings they are rated in the 8/10 by regular users – players like myself.Fallout 4 is rated at 5.0 by users! I couldn't believe it. Professional critics rate it above 8/10 all across the board. How can you explain this disparity? Are professional critics just a branch of PR arm for these game companies? Or is the game truly that good? If you check the scores of Fallout 3 and New Vegas ratings they are rated in the 8/10 by regular users – players like myself. That’s a great score. Both critics and gamers agree here. Perhaps Fallout 3 and NV are not as good as the old Fallout classics of 1 and 2, but they are very much enjoyable. And it reflects in the rating scores. Obviously I have bought Fallout 4 already, being a fan of the series, but this time I was eager to see for myself whether these bad ratings had any weight to them. Unfortunately after playing the game I have to agree with most of the heavy criticism I’ve seen so far.

    And I say unfortunately because this is Fallout, a game you really hope and want to enjoy. I am sorry to say that it's a disaster on so many levels. The worst part of the game has got to be the story, writing and dialogue. You have got to be kidding. Are people this brain dead in this day and age? The player gets to choose his dialog responses, just like in the old Fallout titles, expect that your responses are trivialized to simple “YES” and “NO” type of answers. Remember all the cool dialog options you could pick in the previous Fallout games with charisma or intelligence modifiers? Well, it's all gone. The whole RPG aspect is gone as well. Skills – removed. One has to admit that with such a degree of dumbing down this is nothing more than a brain dead shooter. This is not what Fallout is supposed to be about. I can only fit a few flaws here which, in my opinion, blows Fallout 4 apart.

    • Certain aspect ratios of monitors don‘t work. I had the option to use a widescreen monitor, but instead after a few hours of digging and modding I was able to play it on a 5:4 monitor.

    • Many un-killable NPC‘s. You don‘t have the option to kill these people, even if it‘s for the sake of having little bit of fun. Yes, you wouldn’t be able to complete certain quests or even the main story, but that’s what the LOAD save game is for if you change your mind about the massacre you unleashed.

    • Full of game breaking bugs. Getting stuck all over the place, crashing. Stealth bugs; lock picking bugs; terminals bugs. You name it.

    • Abysmal story, writing and dialogue. The things you say don't have any real impact at all. All you get to choose is “Yes”, “No”, “Sarcasm” type of responses. Hell, is it really necessary to point out that a certain response might be sarcastic? I've seen this trend lately in popular culture. Are people this stupid in this day and age? It's a simple concept. If you point out that something is sarcastic in advance, it kind of defeats the whole purpose of sarcasm! It’s not funny or witty anymore. On top of that the game doesn’t really tell you whether these “sarcastic” responses are painted in negative or positive colors. Not that it matters. The story is totally streamlined and makes no difference which response you pick.

    • No Karma system. The world doesn’t care whether you are good or evil. You can’t build your character around that either.

    • You get power armor and a minigun 5 minutes into the game. “I get this stuff already?" - asked myself. What the hell am I going to do later on? I don't deserve to get that, because I didn't actually do anything just yet. I didn’t feel like using those items afterwards. In the previous Fallout games you had to work for the cool and powerful stuff.

    • Fallout 4 lacks the RPG elements of previous Fallout games. The game ages quickly after what seems to be a cool intro and a good start. You mostly just shoot stuff.

    • The graphics aren't good for a game in the year 2015. I don’t really mind that too much, but they are still using the same old engine, which also comes with many of the same old problems. The real issue here is the performance, which is my point.

    • The performance in this game is horrendous. And it’s not just me. I'm running a great rig with a GTX970. I had and still have serious FPS problems, as many people do with even better machines. The only thing that helped was doing some heavy modding (getting old now). Maybe Bethesda is relying on the modders to make their game playable? Is it a way to save some money on developing costs? If there weren’t any modders, Fallout 4 would NOT even be playable.

    • Skills are removed from the game. People often say it’s an “illusion” and those stats or skill points have no real impact. That’s what they did in Diablo III. Well, so what? Is the solution to remove everything entirely? It’s a mistake to remove these mechanics from a game that previously worked just fine.

    • Isn’t the world a bit too small? They had many years to make this game. A few hours into the game and I had half the world covered.

    How could they make it this bad? No room for positive stuff.    … Expand
  15. Alvord12
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Lies, Lies, more Lies. Todd Howard never changes.

    Played this for about an hour. Textures are extremely horrible, performance is atrocious and the story... oh dear lord! The story is completely bland and boring. You have no emotional attachment to your family, 5 minutes later the wife/husband dies and the baby is stolen. You are then given power armor by people who you meet five minutes    Lies, Lies, more Lies. Todd Howard never changes.

    Played this for about an hour. Textures are extremely horrible, performance is atrocious and the story... oh dear lord! The story is completely bland and boring. You have no emotional attachment to your family, 5 minutes later the wife/husband dies and the baby is stolen. You are then given power armor by people who you meet five minutes ago. I just stopped playing at that point. This game is not worth it.

    Bethesda, if you're reading this ENOUGH WITH THE GAMEBRYO ENGINE. KILL IT WITH FIRE! Stop using this **** engine for games in 2015! And to the Bethesda fanboys, get a life. Fallout 4 is a soulless game with plastic looking character models, dumb AI, shallow fanfiction level story and side characters who you don't give a rats ass about.

    Those who have not yet bought the game, do yourself a favour and keep the money with you. Don't give this lazy, greedy company any more money. They don't deserve it.    … Expand
  16. Psychotrip
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Are there trolls out there posting zeroes for no reason? Of course! But there are also trolls posting 10's for no reason. This happens with EVERY popular game.

    There's a reason Fallout 4 has such a low user score: a lot of people just don't like it. Does that mean others can't like it? Of course not. But too many people are writing off our criticisms as trolling. PLEASE: stop    Are there trolls out there posting zeroes for no reason? Of course! But there are also trolls posting 10's for no reason. This happens with EVERY popular game.

    There's a reason Fallout 4 has such a low user score: a lot of people just don't like it.

    Does that mean others can't like it? Of course not.

    But too many people are writing off our criticisms as trolling.

    PLEASE: stop pretending the only people who don't like this game don't like Fallout or bethesda games. This is closed-minded thinking and doesn't lead to a substantive discussion. I've been a Bethesda fan my entire life, but I'm getting tired of these same problems popping up over and over. A lot of people are angry at SPECIFIC perfectly valid things,

    -like the game crashing on startup
    -like frame rate being tied to simulation speed (which is impossible to fix without working from the ground up)
    -things like the dialogue system
    -things like the terrible AI (which was in previous games sure, but don't you think games should improve?)
    -the cliche story
    -uninspired characters

    There's a lot of legitimate complaints here.

    We are just as devoted as fans as you. We just don't like something you like. That's it.    … Expand
  17. Carnakt
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    My guess is that they were overjoyed about how great scores Skyrim got and thought that pretty much the same simplification of core mechanics would work with fallout. Seems like it did not.
  18. JanGodwod
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    This game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than byThis game is just a waste of time. Every mission is repetitive: "go there kill everyone" COD style. No character development. Stupid barriers (You can pick this type of lock if you are lvl. 21 - not earlier!). Dialog is over simplified and it is always the same way (up - ask question, left - sarcasm, right - no, down - yes). There is no way to deal with problems any other way than by gunning everyone to the ground. Crafting is boring after first 10 minutes, and then you just find endless piles of "Adv. Capt. Supr. Dupr. Gun". Vilage management is nonsense as I'm limited to exact number of things to craft and no more! I want to build huge fort, but I can't build anything else beyond limit. In this time of age? What is this? 1992 and my floppy just filled up to the edge?
    I'm 32 and I've played countless hours trough all previous Fallouts. This is not a Fallout game but something completely different dressed in Fallout clothes.
    I gave up on this game after about 16h and I'm never going back.    … Expand
  19. DRJMC
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    When you hype up a game this badly you're really gonna want to follow through with an actually good game. This sadly isn't the care for fallout 4. It's literally Fallout 3 with mods. The good news is that Fallout 3 doesn't play on most PC's so now you can waste over $50 to play fallout 3 without any plot and 'slightly better' graphics instead!

    There are a lot of fanboys who haven't even    When you hype up a game this badly you're really gonna want to follow through with an actually good game. This sadly isn't the care for fallout 4. It's literally Fallout 3 with mods. The good news is that Fallout 3 doesn't play on most PC's so now you can waste over $50 to play fallout 3 without any plot and 'slightly better' graphics instead!

    There are a lot of fanboys who haven't even played the game yet because their parents haven't got it for Christmas. Avoid this game and play The Witcher 3 if you want an RPG experience.. Hell even MGS:5 is better than this game since it has zero **** bugs and a 'slightly better' story.

    I'm giving this a 1/10 because I feel sorry for the people who worked to try and make this game great. I'm pretty sure any innovation for this game was killed as quickly as possible.

    All in all: This is a copy pasted fallout 3, avoid.    … Expand
  20. nickdos
    Nov 12, 2015
    5
    We all played this game 3 times by now since fallout3, skyrim and newvegas, nothing new, same old buggy engine, shallow gameplay and story.
    Anyone that has played those games will get bored quickly.
  21. toshiohc
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4 é simplesmente a maior decepção do ano em termos gráficos, desempenho e enredo. Nada alcança o hype criado em cima da franquia.Tudo que envolve o jogo não tem polimento e a movimentação é extremamente robótica e surreal. Em fim, a maior decepção do ano, sem dúvida.
  22. Kvaron
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Terrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. NeverthelessTerrible animation and graphics (facial animation, clothes textures and oblivion rag-dolls force you to facepalm at least once a minute), it's a shame to develop such game in 2015 after GTA and Witcher, lots of bugs, stupid UI. . Story is full of cliche and stereotypes. Steam refused to do money-back, because I spent two hours and 12 minutes in game. The worst cash in ever. Nevertheless some arts are very good and impressive, cars with nuclear engine or panoramic views of bridges and post apocalypse landscapes are well drawn. Anyway it doesn't worst buying, save you money. Russian players also have awful localization… Expand
  23. Foneg
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Come on, ‎Bethesda‬, you took what all we've dreamed of so long, just scrunched it up and threw into your fans' face. This is a total ruination of my beliefs in you. How come that an fps-minecraft-sims game with mass-effect-imbecile dialogue system is now called "An RPG" and a continue for a great ‎Fallout‬ franchise? ‪‎Fallout4‬ is a so huge disappointment for me and I hope that manyCome on, ‎Bethesda‬, you took what all we've dreamed of so long, just scrunched it up and threw into your fans' face. This is a total ruination of my beliefs in you. How come that an fps-minecraft-sims game with mass-effect-imbecile dialogue system is now called "An RPG" and a continue for a great ‎Fallout‬ franchise? ‪‎Fallout4‬ is a so huge disappointment for me and I hope that many other fans will support me.
    Sell the rights on this to those, who really can make a better lore, gameplay and the spirit of good old Fallout.
    The only thing I really liked - the first 15 minutes of setting (yeah, a good old Vault, where something interesting happens), but that's all. Better cooperate with Activision and make a new Fall Of Duty, that surely will be a good game - a mindless shooter with stupid dialogues and setting.    … Expand
  24. quaid444
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    The map takes twelve minutes travel across which is pathetic to say the least, most likely they are going to rake money from your pockets for "dlc". The graphics are terrible, the frame rate is terrible and the glitches are terrible. my save was corrupted three times! This may be fixed but the amount of glitches for such a small scale game is unacceptable to say the least. They have spentThe map takes twelve minutes travel across which is pathetic to say the least, most likely they are going to rake money from your pockets for "dlc". The graphics are terrible, the frame rate is terrible and the glitches are terrible. my save was corrupted three times! This may be fixed but the amount of glitches for such a small scale game is unacceptable to say the least. They have spent more on marketing this game than development. Do not fall for the hype from the redditards and fallout 3+ fans! This game is an insult and the guys like me who have been playing fallout for twenty years know this deep down. A month from now no one will be talking about this garbage game that was a cheap cash grab by Ubisoft in training Bethesda.… Expand
  25. Vault121
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    If they left the dialogue system from previous games I might be able to give this a 10 out of 10. This is an insult to everyone who loved New Vegas, Fallout 3, and even 1 and 2. The dialogue wheel and voiced main character are so limiting that I cannot believe after 18 hours of playing this game I have yet to have a real in-depth conversation with someone in the game. There is no cleverIf they left the dialogue system from previous games I might be able to give this a 10 out of 10. This is an insult to everyone who loved New Vegas, Fallout 3, and even 1 and 2. The dialogue wheel and voiced main character are so limiting that I cannot believe after 18 hours of playing this game I have yet to have a real in-depth conversation with someone in the game. There is no clever conversation/dialog option in this game. It is not a role-playing game anymore, and this decision ruined the experience for me. I'm sorry, I really tried to like it as a long-time Fallout and Elder Scrolls fan, but this feels extremely insulting to RPG fans everywhere.… Expand
  26. DeLaHruza
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further". Now the cons: -Quests: The hell???? It feels like LIneage's "go and fetch a gazillion of dragons bollocks". Even the dialogues are the same!!    Nope, this ain't no new New Vegas, it's by far worse. First the pros I like:
    +Crafting system: I like this "Lego"-style items creation/customization.
    +Visuals: Pretty nice, thought i wouldn't call it "Next Gen", maybe "Last Gen taken further".

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

    Hey Bethesda, next time let guys at Obsidian do the work! I hope next Elder Scrolls title won't be screwed in similar manner because i like that franchise even more than Fallout.    … Expand
  27. gonorrheahd
    Nov 15, 2015
    2
    This is the last time I will spend money on a Bethesda game, let me tell you.
    Where do I even start with this one?
    First, it took me till 1am to actually get the game, not a 12am release like was promised. They could have easily done all the patching and unpacking 30min to an hour before 12 and it would have been completely fine. But NOPE, I guess that's way to much to ask for.    This is the last time I will spend money on a Bethesda game, let me tell you.
    Where do I even start with this one?

    First, it took me till 1am to actually get the game, not a 12am release like was promised. They could have easily done all the patching and unpacking 30min to an hour before 12 and it would have been completely fine. But NOPE, I guess that's way to much to ask for.

    Second, you still can't see your body when you look down. My god, this is 2015, red faction had better immersion.

    Third, lip sync sucked. Sure it's not game breaking but I purchased what I thought was going to be a fully completed game not some half assed facial animations that are on par with sims 1. Immersion breaking.

    Fourth, Invisible holstered weapons. WHY THE **** WOULD YOU TAKE AWAY THE ABILITY TO HOLSTER YOUR WEAPON ON YOUR SIDE AND BACK LIKE IN FALLOUT 3 AND NEW VEGAS???? This is just wrong man. You wanna know what made me not fall asleep as I traveled the wastes? The ability to watch my character holster and unholster his weapon from time to time. WHAT SOLDIER THROWS HIS WEAPON IN TO THIN AIR IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE?

    FIve, You can't rotate the third person camera while moving... like really seriously why? This was another great feature so you could see your character 360 while he/she is moving. Another thing to do to pass time while walking miles across the wasteland. Which leads to number 6 -

    Six, 11minutes from end to end map distance. It's sad. Everything about this 11 minute walking distance map is sad.

    Seven, **** AI like I mean the ai is as good as new vegas(Unscripted AI my ass, and yes todd did say the ai in this game are unscripted the are far from that and if they truly are, they suck). The death claws are hardly scary, and it's the first bethesda game I've beat on normal like it was easy.

    Eight, Story sucks beyond belief. I won't leave any spoilers but lemme just say it's completely predictable from any sci fi movie you've ever seen.

    Nine, Gameplay consists of being a garbage collector and playing call of duty: AI. And you can't throw grenades on their own any more... like wtf.

    Ten, Skills and Tag perks removed, this new **** skyrim leveling system brought into fallout is disgusting. F U bethesda, that is literal heresy. You demons.

    Eleven, This game sucks never buying another bethesda game again, oh the sweet sweet soft lies of Todd.    … Expand
  28. Cluefulgamer
    Nov 22, 2015
    0
    I've spent around 60 hours attempting to play this game. 30 of those hours are probably scrapping through bugs and crashes.

    Cons: Weakest Fallout story. If they put in effort it was wasted but it doesn't feel like they even tried. Bugs. Obviously this is always gong to impact a game. Pointless activities. Settlements. Uninteresting companions. Ghouls everywhere. Feels like a    I've spent around 60 hours attempting to play this game. 30 of those hours are probably scrapping through bugs and crashes.

    Cons:
    Weakest Fallout story. If they put in effort it was wasted but it doesn't feel like they even tried.
    Bugs. Obviously this is always gong to impact a game.
    Pointless activities. Settlements. Uninteresting companions.
    Ghouls everywhere. Feels like a low quality zombie game often.
    Graphics. The graphics are "good enough." My gripe with them is they don't feel like a Fallout game. Looks like any other game.
    Power Armor. I don't like how it feels. I don't like how it works. I refuse to use it other than to walk it to my settlement to dump it off. I don't like fighting in it. I don't like looting it. It is just irritating.
    Gear. Their poor attempt at a loot system is just awful and irritating.
    Perks. The idea was right but the implementation was crap. Much of what you need to put points in is just so you can try and use the game. Perks use to mean something. Now it is just so I can craft stuff. Irritating and not fun. Seems like they didn't have enough ideas and just started ripping game elements out and putting them in perks to cover their lack of creativity.

    Pros:
    Looking at it before release the map appeared extremely tiny. There is a great deal of dots on the map. Most are rehashed and boring. Some places seem to run on forever with no point, but overall the game world does not appear to me to be as tiny as it first appeared. Still the points won here are not for bringing an impressive map but for not being as bad as it initially appeared.

    Overall it was a disappointing Fallout game. If you like gimmicks and hate substance you will appreciate this installment. I'd advise all others to stay away.    … Expand
  29. MikeBurke
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Never expected myself to rate this negatively, but wow, this game is HORRIBLE. Poor story, counter-intuitive controls, no sense of achievements, karma and all skills GONE -- yes that's right GONE -- worse graphics than Skyrim... Honestly, the list goes on and on and on and on and on... I'm totally flabbergasted this game was received well by reviewer, honestly totally aghast, it's a HUGENever expected myself to rate this negatively, but wow, this game is HORRIBLE. Poor story, counter-intuitive controls, no sense of achievements, karma and all skills GONE -- yes that's right GONE -- worse graphics than Skyrim... Honestly, the list goes on and on and on and on and on... I'm totally flabbergasted this game was received well by reviewer, honestly totally aghast, it's a HUGE step backwards from the last two in the series.… Expand
  30. LordHagen
    Nov 10, 2015
    7
    Graphics is nice but... oh my god... how... how you can sleep dear Bethesda after that?... why? Why you killed Dialogue system?? WHYYY?! People will not forgive you >:-(
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
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  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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