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.
  31. Densito
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    There is no choice and consequence, no reputation changes from your actions, and no feedback to anything you do. "Freedom" means nothing in an RPG when none of your available actions mean anything. I find this particularly disheartening since it saps me of any motivation to do anything when the narrative provided for those actions is not only weak, but nothing I do matters. What's trulyThere is no choice and consequence, no reputation changes from your actions, and no feedback to anything you do. "Freedom" means nothing in an RPG when none of your available actions mean anything. I find this particularly disheartening since it saps me of any motivation to do anything when the narrative provided for those actions is not only weak, but nothing I do matters. What's truly astounding is that Bethesda actually regressed in this area since the days of Morrowind or even Oblivion where at least a basic reputation system existed and guards hailed me as the Champion of the Arena or something.… Expand
  32. pongkong
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    if you have never played fallout before, by all means play this game maybe youll enjoy yourself. but if youve played fallout i just dont know how you could find this game acceptable. its pathetic really, bethesda should feel embarassed.
  33. ZARgot34
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    Just an another retarded sht which comes with bugs, non graphic, and 0 optimization.
    Good Work Bethesda, this idiots still buy your farts. I really hope you will bankrupt.
  34. floppykid
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    I give this 4/10 game a 0 in order to help balance out the fanboy spam 10s and the sock puppet account reviews no doubt paid for by a PR company.

    Simplified, or, as certain critics would put it "streamlined" game mechanics suit the new first person shooter ethos Bethesda are going with. Plays more like a Bioshock game than a Fallout one, Performance on PCs is abysmal. Considering    I give this 4/10 game a 0 in order to help balance out the fanboy spam 10s and the sock puppet account reviews no doubt paid for by a PR company.

    Simplified, or, as certain critics would put it "streamlined" game mechanics suit the new first person shooter ethos Bethesda are going with. Plays more like a Bioshock game than a Fallout one,

    Performance on PCs is abysmal. Considering that the textures are crap, the graphics are on par with Skyrim and grapical objects are re-used from previous titles, this is flat out unacceptable. Frame rate drops are frequent and I have an R9 290x.

    The story is bland and predictable, the conversation mechanic has been "streamlined" to four conversation wheel options that are vague. This removes the benefits of perk dialogue options and more precise role playing. But it's just so damn simple you gotta love it, right?

    Bethesda are going down the tube as a creative entity, they'll make plenty of green from this direction however. Don't buy this on PC. If you must, wait until it's on sale and the modding community has fixed BetaTesta's game. That is, if you don't have to pay for mods at this stage.    … Expand
  35. offline_n1
    Nov 10, 2015
    4
    I really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not soI really do want to give this game 10/10, i really do cause i'm a fan of FO 3 and FO:NV. But the lack of dialogue option and the removed of karma system make the game like child play -_- a step backward for what bethesda had done before. The game now is more like FPS with RPG than RPG with FPS. And of course, i see no value to replay against for me. And 1 more thing: survival mod not so "survival", the enemy just getting tougher and you getting weaker that's all, no more "has to sleep" or anthing like the hardcore mode in Falout NV.
    IF you are new to fallout series, you will love this game, if you are a fan of this series? Wait until it's half price at least, and you will be disappointed    … Expand
  36. sfire
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    This game so bugged that it still should be in development - I say no to that kind of practise. Developers should learn that we clients want expect good quality game without many bgs, fps slow downs and poor graphics. Thats is why I give this game 0. I am very disappointed by this game and I was a real fan of F1, F2
  37. Dasho
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    My favorite RPG from my childhood it's not and RPG anymore, what else do I've to say?
    Oh, yeah, graphics are horrid, gameplay hasn't improved a bit, it's full of bugs, and works really bad in any platafform, even if you have a high end of, because gamespeed it's tied to your FPS.
  38. CHRIIIIIS
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    Most of the negative reviews here are from trolls hating on Fallout 4 because it's popular. I don't dislike Fallout 4 because it's popular - I dislike Fallout 4 because it's frustrating and dull. I am simply not having a good time with this game.

    A lot of the changes and new additions to Fallout 4, I really like. The crafting system is well-implemented, and gives you a great variety of    Most of the negative reviews here are from trolls hating on Fallout 4 because it's popular. I don't dislike Fallout 4 because it's popular - I dislike Fallout 4 because it's frustrating and dull. I am simply not having a good time with this game.

    A lot of the changes and new additions to Fallout 4, I really like. The crafting system is well-implemented, and gives you a great variety of customisation options for your weapons and armour. In the case of weapons especially, these upgrades aren't just minor stat boosts - they each change the look of the weapon you're using, making it feel like your own. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for Bethesda, and something I hope carries over to the next Elder Scrolls game as well as future Fallout titles.
    The workshop, a base-building feature, is also highly addictive. You're given a lot of freedom to create structures, power them, add crafting stations, turrets and traps to defend your home, and so on. It would benefit from a top-down camera for better precision when placing items, but it's definitely a good start.

    Graphically, the game isn't as bad as everyone's saying. Environments look nice, despite some laughably low-resolution textures in some places. Character models, on the other hand, are awful - flat, plastic-looking faces, bad lip-syncing, and shoddy animation (with a couple of exceptions). Conversations are dull, and gone are the lists of dialogue options - you get four options, and they don't branch off or change things very much. The story is very linear overall.

    Here's an example of how linear the story is, in as spoiler-free a manner as possible:
    I found myself in a standoff between myself & my companion and a group of armed thugs. Being a charismatic character, I persuaded the leader of the thugs to let us go without a fight, so I left the area. My companion, however, did not. I had to run back to him, and engage the enemies I'd just persuaded to let us leave. Why was I given the option to talk my way out of a fight if I had to fight regardless? This isn't player choice, it's saying "No, this isn't how you were supposed to do that, now go back and do it the way we want you to do it!".

    The main storyline itself is not even remotely engaging. There's no meaningful choices to make, the karma system has been completely removed, and it's impossible to role play anyone other than a worried parent looking for their child. Want to be an evil character? You're in the wrong place for that. Fallout is no longer an RPG - it's a first person shooter with very light RPG elements. Skills, stats, and everything RPG-like has been stripped down to a perk chart, of which you get to put a single point into once you level up.

    Combat is awful. If the gunplay was "inspired by Destiny", then I don't want to play Destiny. You can shoot enemies point blank and them not take damage. Shooting enemies doesn't even make them flinch, either - they only react once you've crippled a limb or killed them. They also have ridiculous amounts of health - I'd gotten through one rather large building having exhausted all the ammo I had for at least five different weapons, and maybe fought a dozen enemies at most. This is on the "normal" difficulty setting, by the way. At one point I'd unloaded over 200 minigun rounds on two enemies, and one of them was still standing.

    I've played around ten hours of Fallout 4, and can't bring myself to continue. There's some nice new additions in the crafting and base-building systems, but everything else feels mediocre at best and incredibly frustrating at worst.    … Expand
  39. KawaiiiO
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Unsurprisingly the game runs like diarhea. All the "Early Previewers" are full of crap unless they somehow time travelled into the future and downloaded a copy of FO4 that works.

    Early Fallout 4 verdict: very poor console port on the PC. Unplayable at the moment. I'm waiting to see how the console players fared. This will be the very last game that I pre-order.
  40. Winters
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Oh good, you made it for the consoles and ported it to the PC. What a pile of dull, linear, repetitive, unimaginative s***. The graphics are truly awful. The movement has that wonderful console "floaty" feeling to it.

    The game might not rate as a zero but that is what I am giving it, as I am comparing it to Fallout 3.
  41. Counter935
    Nov 16, 2015
    1
    Rest in peace, Fallout.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Rest in peace, Fallout.                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  42. DARKWORLD
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    I don't even want to write about good and bad parts of this game. When we wait many years for a game in a super popular franchise like Fallout - we expect quality, especially when developer/publisher is a multi-million organisation, not a 5th party kickstarter with $100k budget. And what we get? A half-assed rushed cash in.

    People, don't support such activities or we will have to "eat"    I don't even want to write about good and bad parts of this game. When we wait many years for a game in a super popular franchise like Fallout - we expect quality, especially when developer/publisher is a multi-million organisation, not a 5th party kickstarter with $100k budget. And what we get? A half-assed rushed cash in.

    People, don't support such activities or we will have to "eat" this kind of quality games for many years to come.    … Expand
  43. barbie
    Nov 15, 2015
    0
    nothing wrong with the game itself. it is just that compared to other recent open world games (Skyrim, witcher II & III, GTAV, DAI) this one feels ugly and glitchy.

    Witcher III especially set a new standard for video games, and in comparison to that Fallout4 falls flat.
  44. help
    Nov 11, 2015
    1
    basically **** meme trash. waste of money. will take it back and use the money to kill myself, consoles have so many glitches, the crafting is cancer, guns are weak and yeah all round 10/10 meme, good work todd meme lord.
  45. KATBERT
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    There is no FALLOUT. Its just Rage 2 or castrated FAR CRY 3/4. Charisma, now total useless. U now... Far Cry 3 had much cool RP. Can u imaged that? FAR CRY 3 is much better Role Playing game then Fallout. GOD!!!!
  46. DasSauce
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Fallout 4, a phenomenal game, is marked by incompetent developers who focus solely on the console versions just making them playable on it. Whereas us PC users are shafted. The workshop UI is clearly aimed at console users. Extremely unstable FPS lag due to awful optimization. Time and time again random crashes occur. Crashes are so prevalent that I am LITERALLY UNABLE TO PROGRESS IN THEFallout 4, a phenomenal game, is marked by incompetent developers who focus solely on the console versions just making them playable on it. Whereas us PC users are shafted. The workshop UI is clearly aimed at console users. Extremely unstable FPS lag due to awful optimization. Time and time again random crashes occur. Crashes are so prevalent that I am LITERALLY UNABLE TO PROGRESS IN THE MAIN STORYLINE. This is absolutely disgusting and Bethesda I hope the user score of 4.9/10 (hopefully going lower) will open your eyes and let you know we will not accept such a ridiculously buggy game and lackluster performance from a developer we hold to such high esteem. And no, Bethesda, I'm not from 4cha n. Fix your practices or we will stay angry!… Expand
  47. Ostrypwns
    Nov 12, 2015
    4
    Only played enough to get some first impressions, and I doubt I will have the resolve necessary to play it anymore. All the way form the very beginning the game is overly pompous/pathetic - combine this with 7-year-old writing and a bunch of logic holes and basically that's Fallout 4 for you.

    Want more? Overly simplified mechanics - traits and perks gone, the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system    Only played enough to get some first impressions, and I doubt I will have the resolve necessary to play it anymore. All the way form the very beginning the game is overly pompous/pathetic - combine this with 7-year-old writing and a bunch of logic holes and basically that's Fallout 4 for you.

    Want more?

    Overly simplified mechanics - traits and perks gone, the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system devoid of nearly all relevance compared to older titles of the franchise; no hardcore mode which I loved in New Vegas. Graphic engine about 10+ years old only rehashed slightly - for the second time now - and the developers have the audacity to tell us the engine is something brand new... Seriously, this game looks only slightly better than Skyrim. Almost nonexistent dialog options, and if you manage to find them they are almost irrelevant. The voice acting is so sloooow and bland it hurts my ears - combined with HILARIOUS facial expressions and poor childish writing the only feelings it brings up in me are that of embarrassment and amusement so more often than not i would just skip the dialog. But don't worry - should you ever want to skip entire conversation the extremely dumb dialog wheel has it easy for you as most often the only things you can say are 'yes', 'no', 'bad', 'good'.

    To sum up, In a new age of games like Witcher 3 and Pillars of Eternity Fallout 4 is not only laughable but also the worst of Bethesda's games to date. Fallout 3 fanboys should have plenty of fun though, so I imagine Todd Howards will keep lying to himself and everyone else around him as he always does.    … Expand
  48. arengles
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    If i am to be quite honest, family, i am shaking my damn head right now. Bethesda has released another cash grab in the form of a "game" that will surely satisfy the cucks that are satisfacted by playing the 4th rendition of the exact same game.
  49. Megatanis
    Nov 13, 2015
    2
    My previous review disappeared for reasons I ignore, so here we go again!
    Reviewers score: 86
    Users score: 4.8 Another example of professional reviewers living on another planet. Who are these guys? It's 2015, anyone with an internet connection and a brain can write a videogame review. How can 20 guys be so influential, I mean what they write moves a lot of money, this is fishy. And    My previous review disappeared for reasons I ignore, so here we go again!
    Reviewers score: 86
    Users score: 4.8
    Another example of professional reviewers living on another planet. Who are these guys? It's 2015, anyone with an internet connection and a brain can write a videogame review. How can 20 guys be so influential, I mean what they write moves a lot of money, this is fishy. And it's not the first time.
    Having said this, Fallout 4 is at best a mediocre fps. Boring as hell, average to poor graphics, imho poor gameplay. I'm not a huge fan of fps but I can appreciate a good one, and Fallout 4 isn't. I am sure there is much better out there for those who love this genre.
    As an rpg and most of all as a Fallout game, it's horrible. Dialogues are a joke, consequences of your decisions are negligible, world is inconsistent and bland. You'll have power armor and enough stuff to invade China in 30mins. Yep, power armor in half an hour baby, because why the f*** not right? Skills are gone (gone!), replaced by a bland and (you guessed) boring system that transforms everything in a perk, and allows you to increase your main stats with ease. Game has become a casual shooter in a vaguely post atomic world. The story is very low quality and uninspired, voice acting takes away more than adding, npcs are immortal, everything is linear as hell.
    In addition, I had technical issues and had to tinker with the .ini files to fix a crash when going fullscreen.
    Wow it was hard to do worst than Fo3, and I actually liked FNV and had hopes after it.
    I literally couldn't play this game more than an hour. What a pity.    … Expand
  50. Hoodude
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    Disappointment of the year. This game is not worth your money, your time, or the hard drive space it takes. I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas too. Fallout 4 makes me sick. This is a sloppy console port of a Fallout 3 expansion pack made on the Skyrim engine. Puke. I will never buy another Bethesda game. This is getting a refund on steam. Let me sum up my thoughts on it for you:

    -Buggy. At    Disappointment of the year. This game is not worth your money, your time, or the hard drive space it takes. I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas too. Fallout 4 makes me sick. This is a sloppy console port of a Fallout 3 expansion pack made on the Skyrim engine. Puke. I will never buy another Bethesda game. This is getting a refund on steam. Let me sum up my thoughts on it for you:

    -Buggy. At first it wouldn't load, then it had graphical errors.
    -Not optimized for PC: requires editing of the .ini files to fix the field of view and turn off mouse acceleration.
    -Sloppy console port: UI is terrible, laggy, obviously designed for use with a controller and no effort has been made to polish it for the PC version.
    -Horrendously dated graphics, yet still extremely taxing! (I have two R9 290x in crossfire and only get 40 fps in 4K)
    -Terrible, awful, disjointed, badly stitched together voice acting. Sentences composed of words hacked from several other recordings makes it sound terrible. Immediately breaks any immersion you might have been getting.
    -Facial animations are awful.
    -Storyline is dry as sand.
    -No instruction or help whatsoever as to how things work in the game. VATS is not introduced, crafting is not introduced, nothing.
    -The looting system is frustrating, requiring to you pick up everything in order to get the one thing you actually want.
    -The dialog system is dumbed down
    -Gunplay is bad. Firefights feel dull and forced.
    -Dog gets in the way and body-blocks you.
    -Blood and gore effects do not look realistic.
    -The gameplay elements we'd come to know in Fallout 3 and New Vegas (SPECIAL and the Perks system) have been stripped away and replaced with a much simpler unexciting system.

    This game is just bad. Just all around bad. These positive professional reviews are completely fake and paid for. Anyone with a set of eyes and 2 brain cells can see what a steaming pile of excrement this is.    … Expand
  51. dvst11
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    I have been a fan of the series for a long time. This entry is a huge disappointment. A sad day for open world RPG lovers. All of the role playing has been removed from the game via the dialog wheel and voiced character. I tried to look over these things and enjoy the game, but there are countless other huge simplifications made and it feels too shallow.
  52. valbilken
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    if i were a 12-17 years old boy who is fan of cod i would love this game.But unfortunately im not.

    This is a open world cod with 4 talking options

    sarcasm yes no and enough

    thanks bethesta thank you
  53. sophiasunshine
    Nov 13, 2015
    0
    What did they do to this game? Constant bugs, I have to quicksave every 10 seconds to avoid getting stuck on random wall fixtures. Dialogue is almost non-existant. Quests now consist of go here and kill everything.
  54. Ogog
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Do not guy the hard copy of the game, of 25Gig only 5 are on the Dvd. the rest need to be downloaded, costing you more than the price of the game.

    I have asked Bathesda repeatedly for this information, and they ignored me, no doubt a tad guilty over ripping off the fanbase like this.

    combat piracy!? - I'm never buying from them again.
  55. kosar1k
    Dec 2, 2015
    0
    They call this an RPG, It's not an RPG anymore.it is no longer an RPG with choice and consequence that also had great writing and characters. It is now just an open world theme park with terrible writing, extremely shallow RPG elements that caters to the casual crowd rather than RPG fans.
  56. Findlays
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Completely dissapointing--a clear detoriation of Bethesda's standards. Such as shame that they could fall from games such as Morrowind and Fallout 3, to casual-pandering games such as this--you can clearly see that it was not quality vs quantitiy in mind when creating this, but money-over-quality.
  57. Tubey
    Nov 11, 2015
    7
    I was torn between a 6 and a 7 for this game, opted for the higher end because of this reason - ultimately, even after the glaring flaws that exist, this is a "decent" game if you take it on it's own merit and ignore the fact it's a Fallout game and just a standalone title instead.

    Yes, comparing it to Fallout 3 and New Vegas makes it harder to swallow. Fallout 4 lacks the general RPG    I was torn between a 6 and a 7 for this game, opted for the higher end because of this reason - ultimately, even after the glaring flaws that exist, this is a "decent" game if you take it on it's own merit and ignore the fact it's a Fallout game and just a standalone title instead.

    Yes, comparing it to Fallout 3 and New Vegas makes it harder to swallow. Fallout 4 lacks the general RPG elements that were so immersive in those titles, with a heavier focus on combat that screams Battlefield Fallout rather than what we expect from the Bethesda franchise by now. It also has bugs and glitches all over the shop, but manages to just about stay roped together enough to avoid this being a complete disaster.

    Graphically, this is sub-par. Not much of an improvement on, say, Skyrim really. But with all those flaws aside, this is still a massive, well made post-apocalyptic experience, which I'd class as an FPS with RPG elements, rather than a first-person RPG.

    You can safely wait to pick this up on sale quite frankly, but you won't regret playing it. If you're new to the idea of Fallout, you'd be best served going back and playing Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas before picking this up. The low scores for Fallout 4 are a result of the hype before the game not meeting the reality of the release, rather than a score of the games actual quality - the zero scores are even dumber than the nines in this regard, and are kneejerk, hysterical overreactions.

    That said, the practice of over-hyping games needs to stop. It is a direct result of the pre-order culture. People, start learning lessons, wait for a games release, try a demo if you can, THEN buy it if you want to, instead of buying into a game that doesn't exist yet.    … Expand
  58. CreamyyStreams
    Nov 10, 2015
    6
    It's a Bethesda RPG and performs exactly as you'd expect. The world is immense and, in its way, beautiful. There's plenty to do, lots of things to find, places to explore and people to meet. Levelling is reasonably satisfying, a marginal improvement over Skyrim's and a marginal step down from Fallout 3 and NV. I'm sure I'll enjoy getting lost in the wasteland for a few dozen hours.It's a Bethesda RPG and performs exactly as you'd expect. The world is immense and, in its way, beautiful. There's plenty to do, lots of things to find, places to explore and people to meet. Levelling is reasonably satisfying, a marginal improvement over Skyrim's and a marginal step down from Fallout 3 and NV. I'm sure I'll enjoy getting lost in the wasteland for a few dozen hours.

    However, the knife cuts both ways. Alongside all the great things you can always expect from this calibre of game from Bethesda come a whole lot of negatives.

    One of the more immediately noticeable flaws is visual fidelity - or rather, lack thereof. It looks like a game made in 2011, and unfortunately it doesn't even run particularly well to make up for it. It sits around 50fps on an i5 and 970 and there are some noticeable frame drops. Turning off godrays seems to help a little, but a game this visually unimpressive shouldn't require sacrifices to run at a stable framerate. It's unpleasant to tank to the mid-30s every time there's an explosion on screen.

    It's also rife with bugs. We all expected it, but this is an engine that's been around for more than a decade. You'd have thought they'd have figured out how to stop the AI running into walls, elevator floors cutting out and sending you plummeting and corpses flying around violently by now. Not to mention CTDs - I've experienced two in ten hours so far. There is very, very little new technology in this game - CTDs should not be happening. Remarkably as of yet I have not been launched a thousand feet into the air and ragdolled nor have I fallen through the earth into blue space, so take that as you will.

    Keys are not rebindable, which is a pretty nasty oversight in this day and age. There's also a conspicuous lack of adjustable FOV, meaning you'll need an .ini tweak or console command to escape console claustrophobia.

    The writing is atrocious, but that's forgiveable because it's a Bethesda RPG and it'd be delusional to expect otherwise. The bigger issue is character animation. A huge quantity of body language is this game is ripped straight from Skyrim - you've probably seen the clip of 'hat man' at the beginning of the game equipping his clipboard like a shield. Facial animations are impressively awful and regularly resemble those silly over-the-top lipsync videos people make in Source. Voice acting is weak, but again what else would you expect.

    Gunplay in this game is not good. Everything feels a bit floaty and it's not helped by the odd mouse acceleration/smoothing it forces on you. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable it. Perhaps it's better with a controller, but why would you play Fallout with a controller.

    I'd imagine this seems overly critical, even for a 6/10 review, but it's genuinely difficult to recommend this game in its current state. Ultimately it doesn't matter, since it's Fallout and you'll damn well buy it anyway like the rest of us, just please don't go into it thinking it's the same calibre as other heavy-hitters to have come out this year - MGSV and TW3 both blow it out of the water.

    If you have any degree of self control, wait for patches.    … Expand
  59. Bennrama
    Nov 24, 2015
    9
    Posting a revised review now that a few good mods are up. Loving this game now, mainly due to the new sandbox elements that have not been present in previous fallout games, and a few mod tweaks to make the game more challenging, but not tediously so... A mod to bring more depth to the perk system would make this game truly fly... and I really think they should have made survival mode aPosting a revised review now that a few good mods are up. Loving this game now, mainly due to the new sandbox elements that have not been present in previous fallout games, and a few mod tweaks to make the game more challenging, but not tediously so... A mod to bring more depth to the perk system would make this game truly fly... and I really think they should have made survival mode a locked in option at the start of the game (like in fallout NV) and give the player some reward (like an exclusive and fun perk) to encourage them to play a version of the game that actually requires strategy and knowledge of the various enemies.

    Those who are complaining about graphics need to remember that this is an RPG. Graphics wingers can get stuffed as far as I'm concerned... entitled brats. Fallout 4 is a beautifully constructed environment. Those complaining about a lack of RP depth, I feel your pain, but I really do believe the perk system can be built upon in the future, by modders or Bethesda themselves. And the sandbox elements (with some mod tweaks) are excellent, and really do add something to the fallout world that was missing in previous games.

    People are judging this game harshly because of the grandness of the Witcher 3. But I think Fallout 4 offers some things that the Witcher doesn't. It offers a longer RPG experience (if you play survival difficulty and utilize base building properly), sandbox elements, a lot more personalisation of the main character, more influence over the game world, and the opportunity to kill raiders with teddy bears. I personally enjoy a game world more closely related to the real world. Less fantasy/wizard/unicorn nonsense and ye olde tavern crap.    … Expand
  60. Prey111
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bethesda is known for making boring buggy games.

    The facial animation on the PC/NPCs barely show any facial expressions. The dialog tree in the game is similiar to BioWare's standard by picking few options and see if the playable character is saying something relevant to the player's choice.

    The overall gameplay is repetitive and dull. The story is boring and makes no sense.
  61. Samaban
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    More of the same.Its skyrim with guns!If you love fallout 3 this game is for you.If you like New Vegas better then this game is not for you.No depth,uninterested characters,boring and plain conversation...Is a fairly good FPS and an horrible RPG.Borderlands Mass Effect and Minecraft made a baby and its called Fallout 4.
  62. Swagsnegger
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    The blind fanboys just annoy the sh!t out me.How can someone be satisfied with an end product like this.The hype is making me crazy.And the fans personally attack the person who says anything about the game's fault.The game itself is below par.This is totally nonsense.
  63. fernandohebcker
    Dec 8, 2015
    0
    Sorry but this is not a 2015 game. The main history have to many holes and grand part of the side missions are annoying and repetitive. So many companions for what? All act the same and have no affinity.
  64. Thraktor
    Nov 12, 2015
    1
    What a disappointment Fallout 4 is. Bethesda has taken their writing to a whole new terrible level. The settlement building and scrapping of items is fun, but the quests? That dialogue wheel is a terrible design decision and your armor & weapons not breaking? Come on Bethesda this is a post-apocalyptic world where you have to scavenge and maintain items you have in order to survive whatWhat a disappointment Fallout 4 is. Bethesda has taken their writing to a whole new terrible level. The settlement building and scrapping of items is fun, but the quests? That dialogue wheel is a terrible design decision and your armor & weapons not breaking? Come on Bethesda this is a post-apocalyptic world where you have to scavenge and maintain items you have in order to survive what the world throws at you.

    A Hardcore Mode like from F: NV that Obsidian added would of also been nice Bethesda! PLEASE include a Hardcore Mode with the need of sleep and thirst to survive in the Wasteland. Otherwise this is my last game bought from you.    … Expand
  65. ScotchRobbins
    Nov 10, 2015
    5
    PSA: If you mindlessly gave this game a 0 or a 10 within the first day the game was released to the public, you did the community and planet earth a disservice by not being in any way, shape, or form thorough.
  66. ApexCryptLord
    Nov 10, 2015
    1
    Worst Fallout game, after a few hours of gameplay, i saw a lot of bugs on the map. I couldn't play it anymore because i couldn't end the situation because of the bug. I though it was only by me, but my friends had the same bug. Fallout 1-3 were much better than this. Idk what they did with the time. The game is broken.
  67. EinKRieGeR
    Nov 18, 2015
    0
    Worst game in franchise ever. They ruined dialogue system, special, perks, vats - almost all. This game not worthy to be called Fallout, and now im afraid to buying any other game in future from Bethesda.
  68. Egofidelis
    Nov 30, 2015
    0
    What the fck is that?! o.O This isnt Follout! This is no brain, boring crapy shooter.... If u want to feel what fallout IS hust try fallout New Vegas or 1/2
  69. EduardoMaia
    Nov 12, 2015
    0
    Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer! Those "next gen" graphics give me cancer!
  70. birdflu
    Nov 11, 2015
    0
    II have seen screenshots of this game and by the look of them alone I would never buy it. They make it look dull and boring and I dont like games like this!
  71. Aereid
    Nov 10, 2015
    7
    Bad PC port, Keybindings are atrocious and not everyone in the world uses Qwerty Keyboards. And you can not change them, will probably update review later have not advanced the game that much only 2 hours in.
  72. Llyander
    Nov 16, 2015
    8
    I genuinely don't understand the hate being leveled at Fallout 4 right now. I'm having a ball in it, meanwhile message boards are drowning in pure, unadulterated BILE, not just from PC users but all across the board.

    Does it have some problems? A few. I've been lucky enough not to encounter any hard crashes or major glitches, but as with all of Bethesda's big open world games, the edges    I genuinely don't understand the hate being leveled at Fallout 4 right now. I'm having a ball in it, meanwhile message boards are drowning in pure, unadulterated BILE, not just from PC users but all across the board.

    Does it have some problems? A few. I've been lucky enough not to encounter any hard crashes or major glitches, but as with all of Bethesda's big open world games, the edges are a bit rough and ready in places.

    I think the problem is that, once again, people bought into the hype machine. Fallout 4 is a good game, don't get me wrong. The combat is much improved, the story is interesting, the NPC companions engaging, but at its core it's just more Fallout. So if you loved Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, there's a lot to love here.

    But if you're expecting something revolutionary? You're going to be disappointed.

    Adjust your expectations, boys and girls. It's just another Fallout game, and that's a bloody good thing because I, for one, have missed tromping around the wastelands shooting Super Mutants in the face (from a very safe distance away, I might add, because some of those buggers now suicide charge you with Fat Man mini-nukes) and have already sunk nearly a day and a half of solid play into this game.

    Because Fallout. Fallout never changes.

    And I, for one, am glad of that.    … Expand
  73. SmokingDog
    Dec 2, 2015
    0
    Bug infested mess in a dead world. Overrated mainstream trash. Buy Xenoblade X for a better open world experience. Bethesda has to leave it up to players to fix their mess of a game through mods, which is a disgrace.
  74. fishu
    Nov 10, 2015
    0
    Bethesda, just look on what the other devs are providing and ask yourself if you've done a good job. With Witcher 3 the expectations are high on quests, and there are a lot of games now that surpass this product in terms of graphics. Optimalization? consoles only. Dumbed down interface.
  75. TickleMyFickle
    Nov 17, 2015
    8
    Definetly decent, no way a bad game. Yea, the graphics and animation and bugs and glitches are all pretty bad, but it becomes fun as soon as you get over it.
  76. blackbird1
    Nov 16, 2015
    0
    This Zero is only for not having Brightness Gamma options in the Game .The damn game is to bright indoors and also sometimes outdoors.

    Patch this in and i delete thsi ZERO!
  77. Aeroisticon
    Nov 29, 2015
    2
    If any other developer tried this stunt they would be instantly **** crucified

    +VATS is still fun
    +gunplay has improved

    -boring 2-d story
    -uninteresting characters
    -bug central
    -god awful voice acting
    -2010 graphics
    -0 innovation
    -dumbed down dialogue
    -ridiculously stupid perks
    -terrible optimization
    -clunky pc controls
  78. drumbunny
    Nov 14, 2015
    10
    Best Fallout since 1 and 2!!
    I rather have a speaking character, resulting in much more Immersion, than text lines as dialog...
    The story is ok (never been big in Bethesda games), graphics are very good for an open world game, gunplay way better than in FO3 and NV!
  79. Capetown
    Nov 10, 2015
    6
    Bethesda-Sandbox as you know it since Morrowind 2002 but with the usual improvements to make the game less enjoyable:

    - Story not worth mentioning - Horrible UI, thanks to consoles that are needed to finance their games. Even worse than Skyrim, well done! - Controls on PC even more horrible - very simplified game play/game mechanics to make it more accessable for the masses -    Bethesda-Sandbox as you know it since Morrowind 2002 but with the usual improvements to make the game less enjoyable:

    - Story not worth mentioning
    - Horrible UI, thanks to consoles that are needed to finance their games. Even worse than Skyrim, well done!
    - Controls on PC even more horrible
    - very simplified game play/game mechanics to make it more accessable for the masses
    - completely unnecessary "minecraft-feature" where controls are even worse

    Still, exploring wasteland Boston is fun as it always was plus the new crafting features are fun and meaningful. And for the first time in a Bethasda "rpg" you really have the feeling, that your choices make a difference. So another play-through might give you a really different experience.

    But in post-W3 times it might be time for a change Bethesda, now that we've seen what it is possible in an open world RPG. If this is all you can do after 7 years of development maybe it's time for a complete start from scratch.    … Expand
  80. Ambient
    Nov 14, 2015
    1
    It's Fallout for kids.

    The writing and voice acting are insultingly bad, and you are no longer the protagonist - you play a badly voice acted, badly written character who can only interact with other badly voice acted, badly written characters by saying "Yes" "No" "Maybe" "Why here?" "Sarcastic." So basically your dialogue wheel choices imitate a low-intelligence character from the    It's Fallout for kids.

    The writing and voice acting are insultingly bad, and you are no longer the protagonist - you play a badly voice acted, badly written character who can only interact with other badly voice acted, badly written characters by saying "Yes" "No" "Maybe" "Why here?" "Sarcastic." So basically your dialogue wheel choices imitate a low-intelligence character from the previous Fallout games.

    As a longtime Fallout fan I can see where some of the complaints are coming. Particularly the inclusion of the dialogue wheel. I dislike the dialogue wheel and the lack of conversations. You could have long, in depth conversations with people in previous games and so far I have not see that as much. Other than that, the game is quite good. The gunplay is vastly improved and feels wonderful, exploring is great, Inon Zur did an amazing job with the ambient music, and it's generally a well-put together world that is a pleasure to be back in. But none of that matters because the voiced protagonist and dialogue wheel make Fallout a bland, boring FPS grindfest and it ruins the role playing. Since Fallout was a role playing game, that is what I thought I was getting into. Voiced protagonists and dialogue wheels have no place in this series, they don't fit, and what's worse - there is really no dialogue choice at all in this game after 23 hours of playtime. No matter what you choose, you go down a preset dialogue path and you cannot have a simple conversation. All dialogue is there with the goal of getting the quest rather than asking about the world, about the person you're talking to.

    There's no real depth. I don't know if the writers are to blame or the executives, but someone made the decision to severely limit dialogue and conversation in a Fallout game and that is a large reason for these negative scores. If this was a mediocre grindfest like Borderlands, the lack of conversation might be excusable. It's not here.

    Good things about the game:
    Bethesda captured the aesthetic of the Fallout universe well. The music is as good as always, and weapons, fighting, and crafting are well done. However, this just further exaggerates the lack of RPG characteristics. Developers seem to be confusing MMORPG grinds with singleplayer RPGs which depend on dialogue.

    Conclusion: I wish there was more RPG in this game. That is, better dialogue choices and instead of a wheel, something like previous versions gave us. I think moving to a dialogue wheel and lack of dialogue trees is a step in the wrong direction, while all other changes are a step in the right direction.

    It's a good game in the other aspects and certainly does not deserve all the ZERO scores but this is a massive shame. I am trying to be optimistic about future expansions from Bethesda and even a New Vegas like game where Obsidian once again gets a shot at their own Fallout game. Please get rid of this childish, limiting dialogue which turns this game into an FPS - a good FPS, but an FPS nonetheless.

    All other aspects of this game were great, so it's a shame that this terrible decision to limit dialogue and have a voice actor (which itself limits the amount of available dialogue) ruins my enjoyment. I'm going to finish this game only because I love Fallout and I waited 7 years since Fallout 3 and 5 since New Vegas, but I am disappointed with the decision to make this an FPS first and an MMORPG grind second rather than an actual singleplayer RPG with cleverly written dialogue choices, branching paths depending on those choices, and the ability to make my own story with my own protagonist instead of having a pre-recorded protagonist forced on me by the game. Too many games are beginning to look alike - FPS games with cheap MMORPG grinding that pretends to have depth and role-playing.    … Expand
  81. alilsneaky
    Nov 10, 2015
    7
    + gunplay much improved
    +consistent frametimes
    +gun modifications +mod support -the dialog system is only a shadow of what it was in previous games, this was one of the bigger draws of fallout and now it's been stomped because the masses don't like to read or w/e -still the same bethesda jank with awful animations, glitches, dialog audio skipping, corrupted saves etc etc etc.    + gunplay much improved
    +consistent frametimes
    +gun modifications
    +mod support

    -the dialog system is only a shadow of what it was in previous games, this was one of the bigger draws of fallout and now it's been stomped because the masses don't like to read or w/e

    -still the same bethesda jank with awful animations, glitches, dialog audio skipping, corrupted saves etc etc etc.

    -characters and their dialog are extremely forgettable, new vegas was a lot more interesting

    -while the framerate is very consistent (no stutters whatsoever if you can stay above 60 fps, which is a huge improvement over previous bethesda games), the game needs a really powerful pc to get to that 60 fps at decent settings @ 1080p, imo it doesn't look remotely good enough to justify being so demanding

    -enemies don't react to being shot (other than a canned animation that triggers at a certain hp treshhold)
    It's the same issue skyrim has, you might as well be swinging/shooting at thin air, no feed back whatsoever until they die. It's especially jarring on the enemies with more health.

    -base building/village managment addition adds nothing meaningful and isn't fun, it's just a timewaster

    Fallout 4 has basically reduced the 3D fallout formula to being a decentish shooter (except without the satisfying hit reactions from superior shooters like fear/max payne/painkiller etc) where you loot a lot of junk and do some crafting (which doesn't amount to anything more than raising stats on weapons, no cool creative stuff, it might as well not be in the game).
    The RPG aspects are not good in this game. The improved gun animations/behavior/sounds are what make this a 7, otherwise it would be much lower.    … Expand
  82. Kain_Stark
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    It's a Bethesda game, what can I say. Some things have changed, much has stayed the same. It's a massive world to explore with all sorts of kooky places to find.

    - You can build settlements. It's OK. A bit slow and fidgety, but I guess some people enjoy that sort of thing. - You can modify gear extensively. It's fun, if a bit annoying to hoard up the required components. This goes for    It's a Bethesda game, what can I say. Some things have changed, much has stayed the same. It's a massive world to explore with all sorts of kooky places to find.

    - You can build settlements. It's OK. A bit slow and fidgety, but I guess some people enjoy that sort of thing.
    - You can modify gear extensively. It's fun, if a bit annoying to hoard up the required components. This goes for the above as well.
    - The dialogue system has changed. I think it's a downgrade from earlier Bethesda games, but it gets the job done.
    - Skills are gone, there are only perks now. I miss the skills, but it doesn't ruin the game.
    - The story is competent. Nothing new here.
    - Worst negative so far: I had a quest fail due to the time running out, I guess. Bad Bethesda! No timers on quests! (Especially invisible timers).

    Bottom line: It's another Bethesda open world time sink.. and I LOVE it    … Expand
  83. TraumaHunter
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Ignore the negative user reviews.

    This game is amazing. This site got raided and about 1000 negative reviews showed up overnight. You shouldn't be looking here to find quality reviews in the first place. The game is not buggy like everyone claims it is and mods are already fixing the small kinks that are there. The only annoyance i've had is that I had to go to the .ini files    Ignore the negative user reviews.

    This game is amazing.

    This site got raided and about 1000 negative reviews showed up overnight.

    You shouldn't be looking here to find quality reviews in the first place. The game is not buggy like everyone claims it is and mods are already fixing the small kinks that are there.

    The only annoyance i've had is that I had to go to the .ini files to change FOV from 75 to 90 and there was no slider in the options.

    That's literally it.

    Don't listen to the raid : The reviews will hopefully be removed that came as a result of the raid.    … Expand
  84. pi972
    Dec 4, 2015
    6
    It's... Disappointing. That's the word. I set my expectations really low, and this game still didn't meet any of them other than the "it'll be fun for a while" one. There are better games for this price.
  85. Deadragon
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    It's the Stalker of dreams. Great attention to details, Locations and world more working and full of very interesting little atmospheric events. I play on the complexity of survival and happy.
  86. nickm
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Obviously I can't speak for everyone, and some people might not enjoy it. But in my opinion fallout 4 is a phenomenal game which is very fun. The graphics are passable, and the amount of detail put into the game is outstanding.
  87. jcpshd
    Nov 12, 2015
    8
    I'm usually quite critical of recent games and movies, these days everything just feels dumb, rushed and done without love. I like and play Bethesda games, but I recognize that they sometimes drop the ball and create bad products. I was gladly surprised to find out that this wasn't the case with Fallout 4.

    In general the game is good, a solid 8. I've been playing it 9+ hours a day for    I'm usually quite critical of recent games and movies, these days everything just feels dumb, rushed and done without love. I like and play Bethesda games, but I recognize that they sometimes drop the ball and create bad products. I was gladly surprised to find out that this wasn't the case with Fallout 4.

    In general the game is good, a solid 8. I've been playing it 9+ hours a day for the last 3 days and I'm having a lot of fun. Some points worth mentioning are:

    - People complain about the graphics and it's true, the models do look outdated and I was kinda disappointed at the beginning. On the other hand, the more I played I started to really like the world; the weather effects and geography are great. I also found the general artwork fantastic, the color palette contrasting wasteland with colorful buildings was a great idea and it infused the game with an unique identity. Sort of what Dishonored has. Play it for a while and you'll see what I'm talking about. Lighting is very, very good too.

    - Crafting system: I found it very engaging. It's complicated and interesting, I really feel like collecting all that junk to build stuff at my settlements. While playing I also think a lot about how much effort they put to make all weapons and armor variations, good job guys. The unique weapons that you can craft are very well designed too, sort of like the rail-gun in Fallout 3.

    -Gun play and shooting feel really smooth and V.A.T.S has also been improved with more info such as resistances. Definitively an upgrade here.

    - Companions: their movement is a bit clunky and they're always getting into trouble, especially the dog. I built him a house sent him there to chew his toys early in the game. However, I liked the friendship developing system with your other companions, it reminded me of Dragon Age or Mass Effect.

    - Plot: starts a bit cheesy, but it soon gets interesting. I really care about what is going to happen. Much much less cringe by time unit compared to recent movies and other games' plots and dialogues (I'm looking at you Blizzard)

    - Bugs: I haven't found anything important yet.    … Expand
  88. Battletoad
    Feb 18, 2019
    3
    Bad game. Mediocre shooter. Absolutely primitive, not interesting RPG. Not an exciting adventure. Silly story. Awful graphics for 2015.
  89. rebelbebel
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    Honestly, it's a Bethesda game, what do you expect? A lot of gamers world wide are going crazy because it's not this or that, but what were they really expecting? This game goes along Bethesda's RPG tradition by letting you make the story.
    There is nothing quite like going through a world crafted with some of the wildest atmosphere in any game, and being able to do as you wish. If I    Honestly, it's a Bethesda game, what do you expect? A lot of gamers world wide are going crazy because it's not this or that, but what were they really expecting? This game goes along Bethesda's RPG tradition by letting you make the story.
    There is nothing quite like going through a world crafted with some of the wildest atmosphere in any game, and being able to do as you wish. If I wanted to go mad crazy and kill everyone in every town, I very well could... or perhaps I could just stay by myself and wonder aimlessly until I find something shiny in the wasteland. Either way, you, the player, gets to role play how you want.
    The role playing isn't too technical or significant, but it's simple. Simple enough that I can enjoy playing without regretting my decisions I made for my character, and not too much that I can't just grab all the special perks that'll make my "OP" instantly. Although, there is no level cap, so technically you could level up and get all the special abilities and become unstoppable, but that would take incredibly long.
    Moving on to length, to put a dent into this game, you'll need to spend some serious gaming time. Like hundreds of hours. The map might not be bigger than previous Bethesda games, but they sure do pack a lot in such a scrumptious wasteland. After completing dozens of quests myself, not yet done with the main story either, the game feels like a true world with too much to do. That's a good thing to have too much of in a game like this, where there is so much variety, I haven't even thought about slowing down or even got bored for that matter.
    In the end, the 10/10 means that this is a true game worth playing, at least once in your life. I have praised every Bethesda game, but not quite like this one. It has got everything from atmosphere to intriguing plots and things to do. Why are you reading this, play the thing already.    … Expand
  90. Add1cted
    Nov 12, 2015
    8
    Not sure what all the fuss is about. My PC is mid range and it runs great. The graphics look good to me. The world itself is fantastic to explore. Well written. Challenging.

    I'd imagine future patches and mods will knock this up to a 9 or 10.
  91. BaPef
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Absolutely loving this game despite some of it's shortcomings. First the good; New Gameplay mechanics such as crafting and the ability to build a settlement are an excellent addition. Graphics are smooth and polished while still feeling like Fallout. The new weather mechanics are amazing and add a ton of atmosphere to the game. The changes to character leveling and perks while notAbsolutely loving this game despite some of it's shortcomings. First the good; New Gameplay mechanics such as crafting and the ability to build a settlement are an excellent addition. Graphics are smooth and polished while still feeling like Fallout. The new weather mechanics are amazing and add a ton of atmosphere to the game. The changes to character leveling and perks while not explained sufficiently are overall a well needed adjustment. The voice acting and characters are well thought out and just fit nicely. Now for the bad, Some annoying glitches to do with triggering the drawing of graphics when entering new areas. These are few and far between and will likely be resolved in an update so I am not removing a point for it. The change to dialog is also not necessarily an improvement over the old system and has led to some bugs related to subtitles not updating during the conversation which can impact those who are hard of hearings experience with the game. Again though I expect this to be resolved in a future update so I'm not too worried about it but feel people should be made aware.

    Overall: Well worth the price of admission and loving every minute of it.    … Expand
  92. Leap8
    Nov 10, 2015
    8
    I have no idea why people thought this was going to be more like Fallout NV (not created by bethesda) than Skyrim (Bethesdas last game).

    I personally preferred fallout 3s more serious tone than the tone in new vegas. And i loved Skyrim way more than both of them. Currently experiencing none of the bugs other people are talking about. Anyway positives and negatives Positives -    I have no idea why people thought this was going to be more like Fallout NV (not created by bethesda) than Skyrim (Bethesdas last game).

    I personally preferred fallout 3s more serious tone than the tone in new vegas.
    And i loved Skyrim way more than both of them.

    Currently experiencing none of the bugs other people are talking about.
    Anyway positives and negatives

    Positives

    - Combat is 100x better than before

    - Story seems more intriguing so far than the other fallouts

    - Base building is a lot of fun

    - The customizations you can put onto your weapons and armor are really cool and varied.

    Negatives

    - Janky ass companion AI

    - Awful facial animations

    - Dated graphics (two years or so old feeling not anywhere as near as bad as others are saying)

    - The niggling feeling that Witcher 3 is better in every regard.    … Expand
  93. Lambo442
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Haven't experienced any bugs so far. The building aspect alone has been keeping me occupied for hours. It's very intuitive. Deciding whether to keep a neighbours sofa for use in your own home or scrap it for parts is a nice touch and I love the way NPCs come and live with you and can be assigned as workers. It's not linear at all like some people have said. The character animations areHaven't experienced any bugs so far. The building aspect alone has been keeping me occupied for hours. It's very intuitive. Deciding whether to keep a neighbours sofa for use in your own home or scrap it for parts is a nice touch and I love the way NPCs come and live with you and can be assigned as workers. It's not linear at all like some people have said. The character animations are phenomenal and the voice acting is fine. The UI is a lot smoother and looting is ten times quicker as you only have to hover over boxes etc now to see contents. It's perfect. The music is more like the Elder Scrolls universe too, which I dig. User score is incorrect on this one… Expand
  94. Solid_Dustin
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Ich bin völlig erschrocken wie viele leute hier wieder auf den **** train aufgesprungen sind.

    Fallout 4 ist nich perfekt und mach die meisten fehler wie in Skyrim oder Fallout 3 was Interface und Bugs angeht. ABER Fallout 4 ist trotdem ein überdurchschnittlich gutes Spiel und hat seine wertung von 87 locker verdient.
  95. sscott0829tw
    Nov 10, 2015
    7
    Fallout4 is an outstanding Sandbox game,the story and its characters is very decent.The game world is not only beautiful but filled with contents.I especially loved the weapon customization system,I can make some very badass weapons.The building system is good but I don't think is very necessary,cause this is not a multiplayer game,it is boring to build houses and decoration without otherFallout4 is an outstanding Sandbox game,the story and its characters is very decent.The game world is not only beautiful but filled with contents.I especially loved the weapon customization system,I can make some very badass weapons.The building system is good but I don't think is very necessary,cause this is not a multiplayer game,it is boring to build houses and decoration without other players playing with you.Dialogue and conversations are awesome and well designed,your decision really matters.But the graphics are not that good for next gen,perhaps is because Bethesda took too many times to make the game.There are some glitches too,but not many.Overall I do think Fallout 4 is a great game,but failed to reach a higher level.… Expand
  96. SunnyFrimley
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Excellent game. You need to actually play it a while in order to get to grips with the changes since Fallout 3, but once you get used to how the skill system functions now etc it is fine. There is loads of customisation as well, plus the option of building communities etc should you so desire.

    I don't know why this is getting caned so much by some people. I can understand people on slow    Excellent game. You need to actually play it a while in order to get to grips with the changes since Fallout 3, but once you get used to how the skill system functions now etc it is fine. There is loads of customisation as well, plus the option of building communities etc should you so desire.

    I don't know why this is getting caned so much by some people. I can understand people on slow internet connections feeling cheated about not getting the full game on the disk, but the other complaints are just not justified. Play the game and judge for yourself. To me it is everything Fallout 4 should have been.    … Expand
  97. lilkillpappy
    Sep 2, 2017
    0
    I've lost all respect for Bethesda. After the **** story and writing and dumbed down Fallout 4 and all it's **** expansions, and now this creation club bull****. Bethesda is now a pile of ****
  98. gameren82
    Feb 28, 2016
    5
    - The real problem with dialogue system is that choice "either puts you on the same route with the same quest objective or just nets you a "come back later if you change your mind mane" response. Illusion of choice.
    -Repetetive, similar quests.
    - No hardcore mode.
    - No reputation.
    - Graphics and animations outdated.
    - Inventory and sorting
    - Dumbed down RPG elements. '
  99. Vordulak06
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Fallout 4 ended up being way more polished than I expected, I'm kind of blow away by how detailed some of the graphics are. It looks fantastic.

    -For the first time in a Bethesda game you can create a Skinny, Muscular, or Fat character. -The animations are really slick, the best I've seen from Bethesda so far. -The gunplay feels nice and tight, and you now have the option to melee    Fallout 4 ended up being way more polished than I expected, I'm kind of blow away by how detailed some of the graphics are. It looks fantastic.

    -For the first time in a Bethesda game you can create a Skinny, Muscular, or Fat character.
    -The animations are really slick, the best I've seen from Bethesda so far.
    -The gunplay feels nice and tight, and you now have the option to melee attack with firearms.
    -There's tons of crafting in the game from cooking to chemistry to upgrading gear to building.
    -Different armor is available for each limb, it's not just bodysuits like in Fallout 3.
    -The perk chart is well done and perks have requirements before they can be levelled up.    … Expand
  100. Mystic_Quest
    Nov 14, 2015
    0
    This game is a huge step backwards as an RPG. I am very saddened to say that It feels more like an open world COD.

    Dialog options are severely limited. Instead of borrowing elements from FNV, they took a completely different direction. There is no room for rp here. There are no consequences in the world, different options usually lead to the same exact result and answer, the npcs are    This game is a huge step backwards as an RPG. I am very saddened to say that It feels more like an open world COD.

    Dialog options are severely limited. Instead of borrowing elements from FNV, they took a completely different direction. There is no room for rp here.
    There are no consequences in the world, different options usually lead to the same exact result and answer, the npcs are soulless and half of them are... immortal.

    Skills are gone for good. Bethesda, instead of improving a system which worked for two decades, they "streamlined" it to a more simple version in order not to "confuse" its more fps-oriented customers.
    Unfortunately not even the most elaborate mods will manage to cure these.

    While they did add a settlement building system (which ultimately is meaningless as well) and improved FPS elements/combat, few things are left here to remind us of the fallout series. A terrible shame.    … 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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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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