Fallout 4

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  1. Barbar_Conan
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Please Bethesda, let Obsidian make another Fallout game. This is just pathetic. Everything is poor in this game; graphics, writing, story, even the combat.
  2. 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
  3. XmasonX
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I thought game would be great, BOY was I WRONG. BGS removed a lot of features which made Fallout Fallout and what made me enjoy BGS games like Fallout 3 and F: NV was armor breaking and at least companions can die. NOW? Whoa BGS disappointed me.

    I have 1 pro for this game, MODS! I don't think mods will make me buy BGS next game too much automatic features playing the game for you. Like    I thought game would be great, BOY was I WRONG. BGS removed a lot of features which made Fallout Fallout and what made me enjoy BGS games like Fallout 3 and F: NV was armor breaking and at least companions can die. NOW? Whoa BGS disappointed me.

    I have 1 pro for this game, MODS! I don't think mods will make me buy BGS next game too much automatic features playing the game for you. Like the unkillable companions.    … Expand
  4. nbrado
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    Long time fan of the series but quite frankly you can polish a turd all you want buts its still a turd. First performance! Terrible and no excuses but is it any wonder when you are dealing with Bethesda. Now onto the gameplay and story which at best is a yawn fest. The Dialog system is complete rubbish and now the game has been reduced to a lame shooter.

    Hype at the end of the day and a    Long time fan of the series but quite frankly you can polish a turd all you want buts its still a turd. First performance! Terrible and no excuses but is it any wonder when you are dealing with Bethesda. Now onto the gameplay and story which at best is a yawn fest. The Dialog system is complete rubbish and now the game has been reduced to a lame shooter.

    Hype at the end of the day and a complete and utter letdown. Oh and due to the terrible performance I was granted a steam refund.    … Expand
  5. valtsu
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Textures are really bad comparing to Witcher 3 and other games released this year.. why can't Betheseda make some nice textures and good animations with all money?? I'm really disappointed after all hype
  6. janki
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    I don't like that with each release they are going away from the RPG and turning the series more and more into an fps. That's not what it should be about. While the story so far is decent im not a fan of the game play. Graphics aren't all that great either.

    This game has also a lots of bugs. Some of which can break the game.
  7. Tgc
    Nov 16, 2015
    0
    Just before F4 I've played CoD: Black Ops 3. That game had more RPG features than f4. This game is a grim joke. Creators decided to take **** and put fallout flag in it, and some blind fans will buy it anyway. Great marketing strategy. Why not sell boxes with real poo in it? Playing with faeces will give you better post apocalyptic role-playing experience.
  8. TheRulesLawyer
    Nov 12, 2015
    2
    Lots of bugs in the game that are pretty game breaking causing you to have to replay sections again and again. Save often. Character model look decidedly last gen and textures are super low res. Pretty crappy UI that wants you to keep having to move your hands around. Give this one a few months minimum before you buy.
  9. Staeni
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Simply put, this is NOT a finished game. But not only is it unfinished, it's built on a broken foundation. The Creation Engine (based on Gamebryo) has fundamental flaws that have been around since the get-go. Mainly being the physics and many aspects of game logic being tied to the framerate. It's also an engine known for poor CPU utilization, and extremely poor SLI / Crossfire support,Simply put, this is NOT a finished game. But not only is it unfinished, it's built on a broken foundation. The Creation Engine (based on Gamebryo) has fundamental flaws that have been around since the get-go. Mainly being the physics and many aspects of game logic being tied to the framerate. It's also an engine known for poor CPU utilization, and extremely poor SLI / Crossfire support, Last but not least; a vast array of bugs. And of course all of this applies to Fallout 4.

    Problems so far:
    -Character gets stuck after acessing a terminal, can't progress the game
    -No FOV slider
    -Forced mouse acceleration
    -Mouse sensitivity and physics tied to framerate
    -No SLI support even with the newest game ready driver
    -Changing stuff in the .ini files has no effect on anything (tested and tried MANY times)
    -No in-game developer console

    Pathetic attempt at porting a console game. And from what I've seen not only the PC version has problems. Xbox One and PS4 seem to have performance issues and freezes aswell.

    Other than that, the game and story looks decent, but I simply can't give any positive score because the game is unplayable.

    It's a bug ridden mess built on top of a broken foundation, a pretty clear indicator that these bugs will not be fixed any time soon, if at all. And it doesn't help that Bethesda's fanbase rushes in for damage control and defending such a broken and unfinished game. Yes; it's normal for Bethesda games and open world RPGs in general to have some bugs. But it's not excusable, and this is getting beyond ridiculous. Why do people still accept this trend? If the developers and publishers won't give us a finished product, WHY do we still support them? This is why the game industry has gone downhill.

    Do not buy this game. If you already have, refund it.    … Expand
  10. Wolfmoon23
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    I was seldom bored as fast with a game as in this case. played for 2 hours, Pacing is too slow, characters are dull, gameplay is clunky , weapons have no impact to them, everything looks like it is made of clay, AI is retarded, bugs everywhere, writing is lazy and sometimes nonsensical.
    I found no redeeming qualities in this game.
  11. Fuzi0n
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    Take Fallout 3, minimally improve the graphics, dumb down the RPG elements even more, create a wonky dialogue system, add in some kind of MMO resource collecting BS system and otherwise keep everything exactly the same. Then shove it out the door in an unfinished state.

    That is Fallout 4. And it is boring as heck. Avoid this drive at all costs.
  12. mrclopes
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    Welcome to Fallout 4. The graphics looks good, the dialog looks good, the story looks good, the gameplay looks good... But not!

    GRAPHICS The graphics are technically good. It have high-res textures, terrain tesselation, up-to-date shaders and last-gen video card effects. But they weren't able to use that in their favor to deliver stunning scenarios or polished graphics, in other words,    Welcome to Fallout 4. The graphics looks good, the dialog looks good, the story looks good, the gameplay looks good... But not!

    GRAPHICS
    The graphics are technically good. It have high-res textures, terrain tesselation, up-to-date shaders and last-gen video card effects. But they weren't able to use that in their favor to deliver stunning scenarios or polished graphics, in other words, it lacks artistic quality. I've played older games were artistic teams were able to deliver much more beautiful and polished graphics with much less in terms of technology.

    DIALOGS AND NPCS
    After I saw the "wheeled" dialog choices and the player character speaking in trailers. Mass effect came to my mind, but it's not even close in terms of immersion. I didn't feel attached to any of the characters in Fallout 4, and the dialogues were very unsatisfying, boring, uncreative, and the worst of it - DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL - No choices are really made.

    STORY
    The plot is so unimaginative that I never really felt involved or the urge to persuit something. And the side quests are ridiculous kill and fetch chores which doesn't add anything to the game or it's lore. I don't think the people who "wrote" this quests play games at all. I really felt intellectually offended.

    GAMEPLAY
    To simple put, it's a mess, the controls are laggy due massive drops in FPS for no apparent reason. The VATS feel more like a cheap "fix" for a broken and boring gameplay mechanics than a feature. It's neither a 3rd person tactical combat, nor a realtime first-person-shooter. A tactical combat would have something like cover, slow thinking combat or even a semi turn-based system, and a FPS would have bold physics, stable fps and well designed levels to guide a player trough them. Fallout 4 fails as much as a gameplay engine as in terms of level design. After few hours, combat were nothing but a chore.

    VEREDICT
    I always thought Bathesda games lacked quality in many aspects, specially artistically compared to other well-founded companies. But their games were ambitious and had unique concepts to get my attention. But in my opinion, they never really delivered top-quality products for me to consider their games an "A" quality. However, after Skyrim seemed to me that they took some criticism serious and tried to improve, but Fallout 4 proved me I was wrong, they don't give a s**t about quality.

    However, I'm giving a 3/10 because bashing enemies heads with a melee weapon still fun, and the construction mechanics still have potential (if you like sandbox games). But other than that, Fallout 4 have nothing else to offer.    … Expand
  13. korork
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game still uses the buggy Creation Engine and it's abhorrent collision detection that allows bugs such as:
    -walking underwater; not swimming, walking
    -cars clipping into the ground and then exploding
    -falling through the ground because you stood on something and intersected its hitbox so the game teleports you underground
    -Dogmeat bringing you an item only to drop it through the floor
    -You can pick up the engine in the river under the bridge on your way to Concord and use it to fly by jumping with it

    Bethesda still hasn't fixed the issue of companions blocking doors and walkways, you can clip through the floor, but you'll never ever clip through your companion. Maybe they should apply the companion hitbox to the floors and walls.

    The story is a pathetic and clichéd "I must rescue my son, where is my son" story, that's weirdly paced, and your character's motivations don't really match your possible actions actions; you either join Father and help the Institute hide away forever with their robots, or you blow up the Institute. The entire game tells you that the Institute is some sort of bogeyman kidnapping people in the night, but it never actually happens to anyone in the game. This is poor writing, just telling and not showing.

    The game auto-detects controllers and disables mouse and keyboard input while it's plugged in, which really adds to the feel of it's a bad console port, and the controls are weirdly designed i.e. melee/throw grenade/hold breath are the same key, and you can't separate them into different key-binds, leading to many awkward grenade throws after sniping, or throwing a grenade when you wanted to melee someone up close.

    Skills have been change from a levelling up due to use to a more washed out, and casual, perk based skill system. Instead of using a skill to get better at it, every time you level up you just pick a skill to level up with you.

    People are just becoming complacent with Bethesda producing the same low quality game, that cuts more and more corners with every iteration of their games, removing multiple features but adding a shiny new one to distract everyone from what was removed. Removing things like:
    -survival difficulty, where you need to drink, eat and seek doctors to fix damaged limbs.
    -waiting, something you use to change the time of day to a more favourable time to attack, to just limiting it only when you're seated in a chair.
    -multiple conversation choices, to be limited to just 4 possible choices, hardly able to get information out of characters when you can only have 4 questions.

    People have come to expect to fall through the floor in a Bethesda game and no longer even see that as a problem; but it is, it always was.

    The game runs, looks, feels and plays like it was made half-assed in a month using the majority of Fallout 3's code, improving upon nothing but adding in the base building gimmick that was originally just a mod. It plays as a shooter and has barely anything that you could consider classifying as an RPG, other than RPG isn't a properly defined genre and any game could be called one.    … Expand
  14. Djeam
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    You need to replace the writers in the development team on the hoses from the vacuum cleaner . It definitely will improve the quality and interesting f4.
  15. matt79
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    I can't find any pleasure in playing Fallout 4. Mediocre combat mechanics. Extremly simplified, almost non existent RPG elements - the most singnificant part of character creation is face sculpture, so go figure. UI is clunky and not really user friendly. But the worst thing are the dialogues. Damn! The dialogue wheel from Mass Effect got simplified even further. Plus, it just looks dated,I can't find any pleasure in playing Fallout 4. Mediocre combat mechanics. Extremly simplified, almost non existent RPG elements - the most singnificant part of character creation is face sculpture, so go figure. UI is clunky and not really user friendly. But the worst thing are the dialogues. Damn! The dialogue wheel from Mass Effect got simplified even further. Plus, it just looks dated, the world doesn't really give the sense of immersion.… Expand
  16. NoMoreTrolls
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    I got excited for the Fallout 4 announcement in June. I was excited to get more information. E3 videos looked like game would be fun, as more info started coming out I grew a bit less excited.

    Game releases yesterday played it for 10 hours. It's EXTREMELY BORING.

    Feels like Beth went the cod route, no more games to be bought from Beth any longer from me. Sad...
  17. kgersen
    Nov 11, 2015
    4
    "text UI" is from the 90s, I guess it's mainly because of console support. PC gaming is dying because of games like this.

    In 2015 a RPG should have full mouse support, click &drag for inventory management and crafting, colorized items : the top weapon is just a green line of text like the lowest junk item...that's just silly. the Pip is just an annoying gimmick. The time wasted    "text UI" is from the 90s, I guess it's mainly because of console support. PC gaming is dying because of games like this.

    In 2015 a RPG should have full mouse support, click &drag for inventory management and crafting, colorized items : the top weapon is just a green line of text like the lowest junk item...that's just silly. the Pip is just an annoying gimmick.

    The time wasted dealing with that outdated UI is just phenomenal.

    Tip for Bethesda: at least provide a customizable UI system with addons (like WoW for instance) if you can't code a decent UI yourself.    … Expand
  18. PSz
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    This game is so bad it's gonna make kids play F1 and F2 in a desperacy act.
    Pros:
    -Kids are finally gonna play a good Fallout game.
    Cons:
    -Fallout is officialy dead.
  19. selsayed
    Nov 11, 2015
    3
    This game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't botheredThis game has a severe case of consolitis. Yeah it's great that console players can play this game, but we have a situation now where the PC crowd has a screwed up UI(Too big, extremely unwieldly, obviously designed for a game pad), the controls are more often hardlocked than not(Again, obviously designed for a game pad) and we have frame rate caps because the developers weren't bothered developing a game that could run safely beyond 50 frames per second.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    However, all in all, the design choices are massively overshadowed by the terrible bugs and development practices. For that I would recommend a DO NOT BUY. Wait it out for a few months at least.    … Expand
  20. bajjycom
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    Totally useless crafting, boring explorations.
    Every dialog — crude piece of commonness.
    Graphics — Drake face.
    Jolly wasteland... JOLLY WASTELAND, CARL.

    Either past 7 years Bethesda did nothing, or their employees are complete f*cktards.
  21. jseph1234
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This a very clunky, poorly written disappointment after the 5 Year wait for Fallout4. The writing is so bad it makes the whole story asinine. Not enough adventure hooks, branching storyline availability to make this more a one time playthrough.
    Not even CLOSE to Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3 (My First) which were both 9/10 and 10/10 with Mods.

    Fallout 4 is a 4/10 at best...sad, dammit!
  22. Rowbot
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Game was ok until it stopped letting load saves. Literally cannot do anything except launch the game and stare at an endless loading screen. Devs have not said a word regarding startup and save file issues, adding further to user dissatisfaction. If I can't play a game, it gets a ZERO by default. I will change accordingly when these issues are resolved:

    -people can't load saves -people    Game was ok until it stopped letting load saves. Literally cannot do anything except launch the game and stare at an endless loading screen. Devs have not said a word regarding startup and save file issues, adding further to user dissatisfaction. If I can't play a game, it gets a ZERO by default. I will change accordingly when these issues are resolved:

    -people can't load saves
    -people can't get the game to even start
    -people lose saves
    -stuttering
    -physics are tied to fps, so people get gameplay that's either too fast or slow
    -getting stuck and having to revert to an older save
    -missions not progessing
    -issues with mouse acceleration
    -and more I didn't think of or know of...    … Expand
  23. Ilaris-Berdaris
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Простой обыватель, и любитель TES.
    Как ничего не знакомый с серией Fallout, я решил по пробовать новейшую и столь громкую игру 2015 года. И какая моя реакция? Какое впечатление я получил от игры? Вроде всё летает, не зависает, но тут мне игра вначале понравилась... и даже очень.
    Как-то вроде фаллаут, а вроде бы калл оф дюти, да реально похоже на калл раздутый, и графика то очень даже    Простой обыватель, и любитель TES.
    Как ничего не знакомый с серией Fallout, я решил по пробовать новейшую и столь громкую игру 2015 года. И какая моя реакция? Какое впечатление я получил от игры? Вроде всё летает, не зависает, но тут мне игра вначале понравилась... и даже очень.

    Как-то вроде фаллаут, а вроде бы калл оф дюти, да реально похоже на калл раздутый, и графика то очень даже красивая на ультра, тут всё хорошо.
    Но насчет игрового мира... Ладно бы маленький но заполненный и продуманный, здесь я этого не почувствовал, и не воспринял как масштабный мир "нового поколения" как говорили беседка.
    Локации и вправду пустые, и ощущение города не дает, тупо пустая локация с кучей неюзабельных домиков, которые из них 2-3 домика можно поковырять.
    Насчет Сюжета, он здесь хороший но я не сторонник таких сюжетов, ибо я фанат древних свитков и что означает сюжет это мое слабое место.
    Ощущение будто бы играю в Early-Acces, и в этот... Dead Island.
    Вердикт: Максимум 4 из 10.
    Вообщем разочарован. Не повторите судьбу TES 6, посмотрите на морровинд    … Expand
  24. RogueAgent
    Nov 10, 2015
    5
    If you are a Bethesda fan, you probably remember sensation of playing Oblivion or Skyrim for the first time. They showed great improvement from their prequels; there were, of course, shortfalls, but gamers could feel that Bethesda put great degree of effort and care into the game, so we gamers (not all, but majority) were satisfied and loved playing the game.

    This time, however, Fallout    If you are a Bethesda fan, you probably remember sensation of playing Oblivion or Skyrim for the first time. They showed great improvement from their prequels; there were, of course, shortfalls, but gamers could feel that Bethesda put great degree of effort and care into the game, so we gamers (not all, but majority) were satisfied and loved playing the game.

    This time, however, Fallout 4 launching showed how Bethesda got lazy. I feel like Bethesda and Todd Howard became bastard nephews who live on their uncle's generosity (Bethesda name value and already established systems & world from prequels). I wouldn’t surprise if devs are thinking like 'Hey, even if we show **** of laziness, modders gonna finish sanding and polishing!' If I hadn't played previous Bethesda game series, I could give more generous rating, but I played Bethesda games since Arena and witnessed its evolution; Fallout 4 is such disappointment and is a shameful sequel when compared to its prequels.

    Game engine and environment middleware cost money, and yes, everyone wants to reduce production cost and maximize profit; I understand that. Bethesda, however, has been doing this - bugs, shameful in-game envirment and graphics which is two or three gen behind - for more than ten years while milking money out of its loyal fans, and there is barely a sign of improvement thanks to its chronic laziness and ignorance.

    Just look at other games from this generation. Well, actually, others games from several generations back even showed better gameplay environment. When you play Fallout 4 after playing games like Last of Us (which is from three years ago), you would feel like you are in the world of ragdoll.

    I usually put less emphasis on technical issues and in-game environment like graphics and physics engine, since gamers still can acquire great gameplay experience and deep emersion without superb graphics when the game is well designed. But Bethesda, seriously, this is just too much, and you got lazy.

    Decent game, thanks to already-established world settings and systems, but huge disappointment.

    Pro:
    As usual, adventuring wasteland is fun
    Item crafting system: fun to try out different combinations
    Scary deathclaws & ghouls, badass powerarmor, disgusting radroach

    Meh:
    New conversation system
    Housing: I really like the idea, but it needs more improvement
    Story: not terrible, but not superb. Feels like eating mass produced lukewarm mac & cheese.

    Con:
    Usual, everlasting, tiring Bethesda issues (bugs, physics, graphics, motions, etc)
    Feels like Fallout 3: Boston Wasteland DLC with Skyrim engine attached
    Terrible terrible AI    … Expand
  25. Azuran
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    This game is no fun at all it's just boring. I like all of the previous ones, but Fallout 4 just doesn't tick for me.

    Beth failed to deliver what I liked playing in the older games and if this continues I won't be buying their games anymore.
  26. Number213
    Nov 11, 2015
    2
    Bethesda is one of the worst game developers ever. Why bother with optimisation, graphics, innovation and stability? Let's take Fallout 3, dumb it down, remove half of features, improve graphics a little bit (while **** up game performance) and sell it as a new game.
  27. Rorix
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Sadly this not the Fallout you're looking for.
    The Engine was last updated at 2012 and you can clearly see that, Bethesda tries to hide that by overusing all effects that the engine is capable of.
    The Game is full of game breaking bugs, they even transferred old bugs from skyrim. For example: If you use a Monitor which is capable of displaying more than 105 FPS then the Physics-Engine    Sadly this not the Fallout you're looking for.
    The Engine was last updated at 2012 and you can clearly see that, Bethesda tries to hide that by overusing all effects that the engine is capable of.
    The Game is full of game breaking bugs, they even transferred old bugs from skyrim. For example: If you use a Monitor which is capable of displaying more than 105 FPS then the Physics-Engine will likely crash and you cant move after that.
    At first i wasn't even able to start the game, i managed to fix that problem by running the launcher as administrator. Maybe that's a Windows 10 specific bug but didn't they tested the game under the latest Windows?
    The lip sync and animations are horrible, no clue why Bethesda thought this is ok. The voice acting is for the most part good but not outstanding.
    I can only repeat what other user said before, if you liked New Vegas than don't buy this game or wait 1 or 2 years till the community fixed all the problems which Bethesda didn't bothered to fix in the first place.
    Its a pure disappointment for me, i didn't really expect much from Bethesda but they really managed to make this game worse than i ever expected.    … Expand
  28. slaw0
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    The game is infested by bugs and glitches, most of which originate from the old engine and the game being obviously a console port.

    I mean without locking at 30fps the game basically breaks? FOV, camera and mouse sensitivity also broken. But at least these problems can be fixed by ini tweaking, however I didn't pay 60 EUR to start fixing bugs before even finishing the tutorial.    The game is infested by bugs and glitches, most of which originate from the old engine and the game being obviously a console port.

    I mean without locking at 30fps the game basically breaks? FOV, camera and mouse sensitivity also broken. But at least these problems can be fixed by ini tweaking, however I didn't pay 60 EUR to start fixing bugs before even finishing the tutorial.

    Whoever (re)designed the story/interaction systems should be fired. The story setting has its potential but the linear storytelling kills it all. I was expecting at least New Vegas level of branching stories, but no. You get 4 endings based on ONE!!! choice. And the interaction? At this rate in the next installment talking to NPCs will consist of smashing one button instead of 4... ARROWS?! At this point they haven't even tried hiding that this is a console port, a crappy one at that.

    Beside these design flaws we have textures not loading at all == invisible trees, or loading and being stuck at horribly low res.

    The only novelty is the base/camp building system with relatively little bugs, alignment issues mostly, but the console controls pop up here again.

    Summa summarum, this shouldn't be even the alpha version of the game, and its certainly not an RPG.    … Expand
  29. herpaderpityder
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game is bad, really bad, usually I dont give 0s even to awful games like this, but this is different, I am actually struggling to think of ANYTHING even decent about it, not excellent, not good but decent, Gameplay has taken a negative turn when it was already bad in Fallout 3, I mean seriously this is worse than Mass Effect 2 and 3, while in terms of mapping its small and shallow IThis game is bad, really bad, usually I dont give 0s even to awful games like this, but this is different, I am actually struggling to think of ANYTHING even decent about it, not excellent, not good but decent, Gameplay has taken a negative turn when it was already bad in Fallout 3, I mean seriously this is worse than Mass Effect 2 and 3, while in terms of mapping its small and shallow I mean its only 9 square kms big, thats significantly less than half the size of Skyrim, on top of bad writing (Kill kid or Nuke Boston) bad interface (Why is the Pipboy so bad) meh music, and its following, what a terrible following, I dont understand the appeal of the game other than 'ITS NOT CAHOOODEEY MAIN, ITS NOT CAHOOODOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEYYY MAAAAIIIIN" and use this in a lot of their praise, they think we are hating on it because we are butt triggered they downboated CAHHOOODOOOEY Black Coks 3, I honestly couldn't give a damn about the game, same for a lot of us doing this, we just don't like this game, it is in all seriousness this is one of the few games that deserve a 0 and Todd Howard really needs to think on how to actually make a proper game not just Morrowind with Guns number 3 and a half, gg do re mi, get triggered fallout tards… Expand
  30. bigfoot
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Move over Big Rigs Over The Road Racing and Daikatana. We have a new contender for worst PC game of all time. Everyone at Bethesda should be tarred and feathered for this travesty.
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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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