Fallout 4

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  1. Johnny5clowna
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Great game, Just a bunch of people had UNREALISTICALLY high hopes for this game... I was more grounded.. So, not disappointed at all... Bugs will be squashed... Wait for a few weeks so Bethesda can iron out stuff they should have pre-launch.. I can see the potential in this game, so yeah I'm giving it a 10.
  2. AlderHalo
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Nearly flawless, only things that hold it back are the occasional frame rate drops and lip sync, which is for the most part understandable considering a game of this size.
    One of the best and most anticipated titles of the year. Everything ranging from the combat, levelling system, atmosphere and interesting characters, mainly potential companions will bring you back for many weeks or    Nearly flawless, only things that hold it back are the occasional frame rate drops and lip sync, which is for the most part understandable considering a game of this size.
    One of the best and most anticipated titles of the year. Everything ranging from the combat, levelling system, atmosphere and interesting characters, mainly potential companions will bring you back for many weeks or months to come.
    Giving a 10 because it needs a higher user score, if the average score was fair, i'd give it a 9 or 9.5. Everyone giving low scores were either expecting a perfect game, which is asking too much, or mommy didn't give them a bottle of milk.    … Expand
  3. mindw0rk
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Bad: blurry textures that are about the same quality as vanilla Skyrim, dialogue options are constructed the same way for all chats, occasional stuttering.

    Good: story, quests, crafting and town building, balance at highet difficulty.

    Amazing: atmosphere, music, world design and details, ability to use power armor, gameplay overal.
  4. AllUltima
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    About 6 hours in currently. The graphics complaints are frankly baffling... I mean, no incredible cutscenes and the character models still lag a bit... but this is completely and utterly beyond any other Bethesda game. Were you once impressed by Skyrim's World? It's now completely obsolete. Even every tree is different. It's the hugest leap since fallout 2->fallout 3... I was surprised byAbout 6 hours in currently. The graphics complaints are frankly baffling... I mean, no incredible cutscenes and the character models still lag a bit... but this is completely and utterly beyond any other Bethesda game. Were you once impressed by Skyrim's World? It's now completely obsolete. Even every tree is different. It's the hugest leap since fallout 2->fallout 3... I was surprised by Skyrim but not as surprised as I am with how far they lept forward with this. So far the gameplay changes are fun and well thought out, while being enough different from fa3/new vegas to be totally fresh. New, snappier interface, too. Sorting in the UI is extremely welcome. Enemy humans take advantage of cover. Right now I'm enjoying being a weakling but I'm hoping I'll grow into being as epic as fallout 3.… Expand
  5. Daelda
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Excellent game! The game is massive, very enjoyable, and runs extremely well! I have had almost no glitches in my game since installing it, and not a single glitch that caused me to be unable to play or that caused a CTD.

    The settlement system is excellent, if a bit daunting and has a bit of a learning curve to it. The new Power Armor actually FEELS like Power Armor, instead of just    Excellent game! The game is massive, very enjoyable, and runs extremely well! I have had almost no glitches in my game since installing it, and not a single glitch that caused me to be unable to play or that caused a CTD.

    The settlement system is excellent, if a bit daunting and has a bit of a learning curve to it. The new Power Armor actually FEELS like Power Armor, instead of just another suit of armor, similar to steel-colored leather.

    The graphics are beautiful, and, while not "photo-realistic" or anything, they are still very beautiful. I enjoy the voice acting and while the voiced name is mostly a "gimmick", hopefully it can be used by modders and expanded upon by Bethesda in future updates/DLC and upcoming games.

    I was a bit frustrated with the keyboard command layout - I did not like how it was set up, and changing it could be difficult, if not impossible.

    The game's potential, once modders get a hold of the necessary tools, is enormous! I look forward to seeing just what the community does with the game.

    I am old enough to remember playing Fallout when it originally cam out. Is this the same game? No. Does this game fit in the same universe? Sure! As much as Fallout 2 did, and Fallout 3 and New Vegas. If you are a "purist", then really, the only "true" Fallout" game was the original, because the others began drifting from that original vision starting with Fallout 2.

    Oh, and if your complaints are about the lack of an FOV slider, or godrays - this is why they have an ini file. It's easy enough to change them. I set my FOV to 110 in the ini, and used the Bethesda launcher to set the godrays to low. Easy as pie.    … Expand
  6. vanesi24
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Ambientancion brighter , more game mechanics and a simple story , but with better secondary , very elegant side quests and graphics details although not much. good game can give you 10 or 9 or 7 but which gives 0 game does not understand , the better to play the call of duty
  7. Kimi1234
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Better than the previous , more things, more map , more history, more high , more mechanical , more fun , good atmosphere , better than Fallout 3 or New Vegas
  8. rhomoohyeon
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    About 6 hours in currently. The graphics complaints are frankly baffling... I mean, no incredible cutscenes and the character models still lag a bit... but this is completely and utterly beyond any other Bethesda game. Were you once impressed by Skyrim's World? It's now completely obsolete. Even every tree is different. It's the hugest leap since fallout 2->fallout 3... I was surprised byAbout 6 hours in currently. The graphics complaints are frankly baffling... I mean, no incredible cutscenes and the character models still lag a bit... but this is completely and utterly beyond any other Bethesda game. Were you once impressed by Skyrim's World? It's now completely obsolete. Even every tree is different. It's the hugest leap since fallout 2->fallout 3... I was surprised by Skyrim but not as surprised as I am with how far they lept forward with this. So far the gameplay changes are fun and well thought out, while being enough different from fa3/new vegas to be totally fresh. New, snappier interface, too. Sorting in the UI is extremely welcome. Enemy humans take advantage of cover. Right now I'm enjoying being a weakling but I'm hoping I'll grow into being as epic as fallout 3.… Expand
  9. Thasmaan
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Only after a few hours play time I give it a ten. Fallout 4 ticks all the boxes for me so far.

    I am a SUCKER for epic and huge exploration games and this seems to deliver in spades! Anyone who gives up on this game early if they were expecting the Holy Grail of gaming is their loss. I still don't understand user ratings of 0. No Bethesda game deserves a zero. Come on now.    Only after a few hours play time I give it a ten. Fallout 4 ticks all the boxes for me so far.

    I am a SUCKER for epic and huge exploration games and this seems to deliver in spades!

    Anyone who gives up on this game early if they were expecting the Holy Grail of gaming is their loss.

    I still don't understand user ratings of 0. No Bethesda game deserves a zero. Come on now. Regardless of they think it doesn't offer anything new which is far from the truth.

    To those negative reviewers forget about your biases, play the game and just enjoy.

    I know most of the RPG and Fallout players will.    … Expand
  10. mortizauge
    Aug 30, 2019
    6
    Sadly doesn't live up to expectations or past iterations. Reusing the same engine was a bad decision, and some of the plot elements feel sloppy and uninteresting. Still a nice shooter/RPG.
  11. EvilTerrorizer
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Update:

    So I looked over at Steam reviews.. you know of people that actually played the game, and right now it's 8.8k likes, 2.3k dislikes, which on a strick +1, 0, rating would equal to roughly 8/10. I used to trust Meta-critic, but it seems so wildly detached from reality here that I'm shocked. Anyhow... seems Steam reviews are more reliable. I played the game another 10 hours    Update:

    So I looked over at Steam reviews.. you know of people that actually played the game, and right now it's 8.8k likes, 2.3k dislikes, which on a strick +1, 0, rating would equal to roughly 8/10. I used to trust Meta-critic, but it seems so wildly detached from reality here that I'm shocked. Anyhow... seems Steam reviews are more reliable.

    I played the game another 10 hours past the original review and I like the game even more. The crafting system with regards to Armor, Weapons, City Building (yeah awesome), is just amazing. Stlll no bugs, no slowdown, etc. everything on Ultra quality.

    Character interactions are good, story is interesting so far, and I'm looking forward to playing more.

    Original:

    I have a Win 7-64bit, GTX 970, quad-core i7, 16GB RAM. The game runs as smooth as a hot knife through butter. I've played the Prologue and several hours after that so far. Graphics are great, no stuttering, no issues at all, no bugs ,etc.

    The perk tree is huge, so I'm looking forward to leveling that up. Playing on Survival difficulty. Anyway, if you think I'm just a fanboy then take notice that I hated Fallout NV. I'll update more when I get more game time in, but so far it's what I expected.    … Expand
  12. barjo455
    Nov 10, 2015
    5
    Very nice game! The graphics are pretty and the gameplay is awesome!!! I don't know why people hate that much this great game.
    I mean sure there are still some little bugs. But nothing to worry about!
    I recommend this game!
  13. Quellor
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Fallout 4 is one of the most anticipated games for 2015 and it simply delivers when it comes to game play and story. Graphics and new mechanics have been vastly upgraded and the game overall has a polished feel to it. If you are a fan of the Fallout franchise then this is a must have. For people one the fence it would be a strong recommendation to try. Made by Bathesda, well known for aFallout 4 is one of the most anticipated games for 2015 and it simply delivers when it comes to game play and story. Graphics and new mechanics have been vastly upgraded and the game overall has a polished feel to it. If you are a fan of the Fallout franchise then this is a must have. For people one the fence it would be a strong recommendation to try. Made by Bathesda, well known for a hit series of games. I could plainly see that Fallout 4 was made with a high level or attention to detail and built around a strong foundation and reputation.… Expand
  14. zaphod6502
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    It runs well, looks great, I can make my own towns, I can make my own armor and weapons, and I can explore a large number of interesting locations. It's an updated Fallout 3 and I love it.
  15. andrew321
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    after 10 hours feels like fallout 3.5 (same old gameplay + settlements)

    thats exactly what i expected and i am happy to play another fallout game after 5 years of waiting, just no luck for bethesda that witcher3 came this year :(
  16. stocean
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Game is too fun. No time to write in-depth review. It's basically Fallout 3+ in Skyrim engine XXL. If you like free-form exploring, crafting, wandering around doing whatever you want, you'll LOVE this game.
  17. DarkKitaris
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    After years of waiting, after countless fake announcements I've finally got to play Fallout 4. I was damn excited, my expectations were insanely high, especially with a week or more of spoiler ridden Reddit posts and forums. I expected an unplayable bug ridden game that you couldn't play normally. So yeah I started it, played for quite a few hours and I admit I had some funny bugs, butAfter years of waiting, after countless fake announcements I've finally got to play Fallout 4. I was damn excited, my expectations were insanely high, especially with a week or more of spoiler ridden Reddit posts and forums. I expected an unplayable bug ridden game that you couldn't play normally. So yeah I started it, played for quite a few hours and I admit I had some funny bugs, but nothing close to what people were writing on steam or what people are writing on Metacritic.

    To make it clear, I played the game on 2 PCs and on a laptop. One PC is a 3 year old gaming rig, the other PC is brand new Gaming rig, and the gaming laptop is an Asus ROG laptop, anyway, the game looked great! And I know that it's a subjective matter, but the graphics are great, everything is updated from the previous game that used this engine(Skyrim). The only thing I didn't really like are the damn face animations, it's like the mouth of the person talking is detached from the rest of the 3D model. But then again I don't mind that in the least, next to Skyrim the facial animations are better.

    The game runs great on all 3 machines, of course the old PC and laptop ain't running the game on Ultra, but even on High-Medium setting the game looks great and for me(FOR ME PERSONALLY) it ran at 60FPS almost constantly and zooming did not lower the FPS.

    The dialogue and speech is TOP notch! The sound is so epic I get goosebumps every time I have to go into the menu, because that OST is freaking awesome. The world is really beautiful and big, and I mean big it's properly big, anyone saying, "Oh but it's small... Look at the Pip-boy map", is full of **** I didn't like the Dialogue system at first but I now I'm a fan of it. Basically in the vanilla version of Fallout 3 and New Vegas you always had 3 options on screen, then you had to scroll down to get more options, in Fallout 4 you have 4 options on screen and after selecting one, the dialogue tree branches out beautifully! The weapon modding is awesome, the armor modding is awesome, the settlement system is like the best thing I've ever seen, and I could sink 100 hours just into that (and I probably will :P). I just can't tell you enough that this game is really worth your time.

    As with every game IN existance, there are bugs, but for the love of god, not even close to New Vegas or Fallout 3. And that is a bonus in my book! Bethesda actually releasing a game that isn't completely broken. Really, anyone reading these words, let me iterate my point, "IT WORKS, IT ISN'T BROKEN, IT'S EPIC". Anyone giving it a 0 should be ignored, because they mostly give NO actually information about what bugs them.

    As with everything written on the internet ANYTHING must be taken with a pinch of salt. I admit I'm a really big fan of the game. But I'm not blind to the faults that Fallout 4 has, there are bugs, some people are writing that they are getting massive FPS drops, no "Hardcore mode"(which I loved... :() and other artifacts. But nevertheless me giving the game a 10 means that even with the faults I see something beautiful in the game. For me it's perfect, I will play the game for years to come, and anyone reading this who is still deciding to play it or not... Give the game a chance, you WILL be impressed.    … Expand
  18. Kylos
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    What promised to be not just a great RPG, but a great game; perhaps classic has delivered. If I was to say what I love about this game, it would be difficult for me to put into words. Everything is exceptional and done well, from the combat, to the storyline (a surprisingly emotionally engaging narrative) and the new settlement building mini game. This game is a must play for any who areWhat promised to be not just a great RPG, but a great game; perhaps classic has delivered. If I was to say what I love about this game, it would be difficult for me to put into words. Everything is exceptional and done well, from the combat, to the storyline (a surprisingly emotionally engaging narrative) and the new settlement building mini game. This game is a must play for any who are remotely interested in RPG's and especially to those who are fans of the fallout series. This game is perfection personified, and could not be any better. A truly great game from Bethesda once again 10/10.… Expand
  19. bayonettamix
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    If you only know View graphics the game is not for you , is a game with good story, and more than a thousand things to do on a large map with good ambience , the game has bugs , but are usually less bug , in good ending game
  20. UnkleBustakap
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    We already knew it wouldn't look gorgeous. The crafting system and building system are a ton of fun. Some situations are definitely challenging. Pure open world.

    9/10 but an extra point to offset those who don't like bethesda style rpgs.
  21. KoneSide
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Absolutely stunning, HAS got to be GOTY 2015!
    Recommended def.

    Graphics - 9.5/10
    Gameplay - 9.5/10
    Customization 9/10
    Overall 9.5/10

    Amazing game, Todd Howard has done it again.
  22. wubbzie
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Masterpiece! Runs amazing, looks gorgeous, unique, and it makes it where your body doesn't need sleep to function. Instead of sleep you just play the game during normal sleeping hours, work hours, and school hours. You will have no life. Fallout 4 is your life.
  23. Siegvald
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    I've just spent my first hours in the game and...
    Actually i think it's a good game, really, and some of the bad critics about it it's just **** if you ask me... I reaaly like the graphics , the art design even if they're somme better game if you just want to be a graphic whore.
    The dialog system 's more like the Bioware's game (DA and Mass effect), less freedom but more dynamic. It's a    I've just spent my first hours in the game and...
    Actually i think it's a good game, really, and some of the bad critics about it it's just **** if you ask me... I reaaly like the graphics , the art design even if they're somme better game if you just want to be a graphic whore.
    The dialog system 's more like the Bioware's game (DA and Mass effect), less freedom but more dynamic.
    It's a different fallout, yes, but for me not a bad one for what've seen for now.
    I'm not saying it's the game of the century but... it deserve a try, honestly.    … Expand
  24. Benjamin99
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Best game I ever played. I have been a long fan of the fallout franchise since fallout 2 and shady-sands. And I can surely say this is the best fallout version yet. Some of the best mods that was in fallout 3 and New Vegas has been implemented in the core game of fallout 4 and it was a pleasant surprise. 10/10 a must buy for any RPG fan.
  25. badirontree
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Well for the First 4-5 hours i spend my time building my first base :P (minecraft :D )
    This game the Definition of Open ... The story is not as good as the Witcher but the gameplay is :D
    The new Armor Rules ALL :D
  26. keysmachine
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    10 because I think it's funny that there's almost as many positive reviews as there are negative reviews.

    also because this is the game I've been waiting for, for quite some time. The gun-play is nice the graphics are good and I'm getting nothing but butter smooth frame-rates. I wasn't sure how I would feel about my character having a voice, but it's pretty well done. oh and 10 did i    10 because I think it's funny that there's almost as many positive reviews as there are negative reviews.

    also because this is the game I've been waiting for, for quite some time. The gun-play is nice the graphics are good and I'm getting nothing but butter smooth frame-rates. I wasn't sure how I would feel about my character having a voice, but it's pretty well done.

    oh and 10 did i say that already?    … Expand
  27. Ogr
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    A lot of people are pissed because of the graphics, but the game still looks pretty good and the world is full of nice details und adventure. If you liked Fallout 3 you will like Fallout 4. If you are just looking for a pew pew modern game, this might be too oldschool for you. It has not the graphics or storytelling of games like Witcher 3, but it has an great atmosphere and the sandbox isA lot of people are pissed because of the graphics, but the game still looks pretty good and the world is full of nice details und adventure. If you liked Fallout 3 you will like Fallout 4. If you are just looking for a pew pew modern game, this might be too oldschool for you. It has not the graphics or storytelling of games like Witcher 3, but it has an great atmosphere and the sandbox is strong in this one. Hate it if you want, it's a good game and perfect for Fallout Fans.… Expand
  28. kuehnau
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Another great game by Bethesda Softworks, 7 years in the making. Fallout 4 is the perfection combination of new updates and nostalgia. It doesn't fix what never needed to be fixed, address some problems past games had and adds a whole lot more content.

    I was worried the game wouldn't run the best on my hardware, but I was surprised to find out the game wanted to run on 'Ultra' settings.    Another great game by Bethesda Softworks, 7 years in the making. Fallout 4 is the perfection combination of new updates and nostalgia. It doesn't fix what never needed to be fixed, address some problems past games had and adds a whole lot more content.

    I was worried the game wouldn't run the best on my hardware, but I was surprised to find out the game wanted to run on 'Ultra' settings. With a slightly outdated CPU and GPU, this was a nice surprise to know I didn't need to break the bank for optimal performance.

    People complaining about how the game looks, saying it's 'ugly' are just being asses. Any comparison to Fallout 3 and New Vegas can show you they improved how almost everything in the game looks better. I have a feeling most PC gamers are just really spoiled and look for anything to complain about.

    I have spending roughly 7 hours in the game so far, I have yet to run into any bugs or errors that has caused me any problems, unlike other users here, the game hasn't driven me 'insane' with bugs and glitches. Instead, so far, it has been a really enjoyable experience.

    Bottom line, it's a good game, it's hardly as 'ugly' as so many spoiled brats are screaming about and so far I have had nothing but a good time with the game. Haters gonna hate, I guess.    … Expand
  29. Decadency
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    What a lovely wasteland. Nice to come back. Anyway the game IS the Fallout like I expected and it is the RPG I was looking for after the Witcher 3. So I already know both of my favourite games of this year.
  30. JohnCena123
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    I would not consider myself a fallout fanboy - this is my first fallout game ever played. But honestly, this game is amazing, and incredibly immersing in every way - it's story, starting off fairly straightforward, gets much more interesting fairly quickly, which stays interesting throughout.
    The world itself is incredibly detailed - I've played skyrim, but this is much, much better! The    I would not consider myself a fallout fanboy - this is my first fallout game ever played. But honestly, this game is amazing, and incredibly immersing in every way - it's story, starting off fairly straightforward, gets much more interesting fairly quickly, which stays interesting throughout.
    The world itself is incredibly detailed - I've played skyrim, but this is much, much better! The graphics (on my A10 6800k/R9 280) were, not breathtaking, but still superbly detailed and definitely as good as many recent releases.
    My favourite part is probably either the mind-blowing amount of side-quests (in comparison to skyrim, i'd say it has slightly more), or the well thought-out weapons system, with some insanely fun guns to create and use.
    All in all, an unforgettable game that I'm gunna probably be immersed in for weeks!    … Expand
  31. lovemygamesca
    Feb 19, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Seven years?! Seven years for this POS?!

    Engine and Graphics: The only excuse for how this game looks and plays is that Bethesda honestly finished it in 2010 and they've been keeping it on ice until they needed to raise their profit statement after the failure of Elder Scrolls Online. I'm convinced a malevolent AI from the future sent Fallout 4 back in time to destroy the past. I shudder when I think of the assault on my CPU and graphics card every time I launch this unoptimized

    Story: What story? All roads lead to "Pick A Side". No alternatives, no negotiations, no character development, no customization. It's a story on rails. Your character is already defined by Bethesda. It's an 'open world' game that has you by the collar, no leash to be found. You're held hostage until you arrive at the shamefully disappointing universal ending. My mouth was literally agape as I watched the PS1 era conclusion to the main storyline. Okay, let's see if we can change things up...I played through the main quest again. I randomly pushed buttons for responses for all of the choices and every single one leads to the same conclusion. Every choice is YES...sometimes it is a questioning YES...a sarcastic YES...a negative YES...but still ultimately YES. Why even bother to pretend I have a choice with that abysmal decision wheel. Just give me a cutscene and move me to the next area!

    Gameplay: Every mission, but a few here and there, are fetch or rescue missions. The real reason early promotions focused on Dogmeat is to get you acclimated to the fact that you're no better than a dog. I spent most of my game running to save settlements. I would consciously avoid Preston Garvey, because I knew if talked to him I would be sent on yet another monotonous rescue mission. Not that they're difficult. Opponents run straight at you despite the fact you're lighting them up with gunfire.

    Overall: This is is the most disappointing game of this generation. The fact that Bethesda has failed to even address the OVERWHELMING chorus of voices with legitimate complaints about this turd of a game is further proof of their undeserved arrogance. But, when you think about it, why should they answer to their consumers? I'll admit...it's a hell of a business model. You release an unpolished and unfinished game made on an engine you've been using for almost a decade and allow the modders to fix and improve it over the next few years until they make it playable (if not great).

    Unfortunately, since I bought a retail copy of the game I can't get my money back. Congratulations Bethesda on your brilliant gaming ponzi scheme. I demand answers for this POS...and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who wants an explanation. So far all we're hearing is crickets and the thud of your bank deposits.    … Expand
  32. KaosNegative
    Mar 14, 2016
    4
    This Fallout game is Garbage, I loved Fallout New Vegas, but this is an extremely watered down excuse for a Fallout game, not recommended to anyone especially the heart of the fan-base -_- I said it many time before and I will say it again, this wasn't supposed to be mostly fps with rpg elements, it's meant to be the other way around or maybe JUST rpg like the original games which wereThis Fallout game is Garbage, I loved Fallout New Vegas, but this is an extremely watered down excuse for a Fallout game, not recommended to anyone especially the heart of the fan-base -_- I said it many time before and I will say it again, this wasn't supposed to be mostly fps with rpg elements, it's meant to be the other way around or maybe JUST rpg like the original games which were much farther in depth than this game could ever began to dream of. This is just Bethesda trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than listening to their actual fan-base. Oh how I wish Obsidian would return to development :(… Expand
  33. Indigetes
    May 20, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 4 is disappointing at best. In my honest opinion, it feels like they are getting lazier and lazier. There are plenty of problems in the game, leaving the bugs aside because they would need to invest money to fix them and we cant have a company doing that nowadays.
    The story could have being great, and that is a mayor point. They just took a great idea and implemented it in the worst possible way. There are plenty of choices for the player to do which seems to be important for the main plot but, ultimately, do nothing, being there for the sake of button smashing. In short, most of your “choices” don't matter at all.
    There are quest were you are sent to a combat zone, but you can literally walk through them, while naked and unarmed, but no one will pay you any attention.
    Half of the perks are simply useless, and, once you got the power armour (minute 10?), you have won.
    Once you have some levels, and you craft a good weapon of choice, most legendary enemies will go down in 4-5 hits while playing in survival (legendary deathclaw with two headshots? really?)
    Most heavy weapons are useless.
    Armour is useless because: power armour.
    I wish I could give it a -10.
    At least, you can blow the brotherhood's ship up. It's something.    … Expand
  34. lippy77
    May 18, 2016
    0
    - Utterly non immersive. It feels like they came up with some areas and then just slammed them into a bland openworld map
    - Dull story
    - Dire graphics. The game is simply not fit to be called a AAA game in 2015 looking as it does - Shoddy performance - Same bugs as Skyrim. It's nice to know these idiots are learning from past games...oh wait... - 7 years waiting for this junk? What a    - Utterly non immersive. It feels like they came up with some areas and then just slammed them into a bland openworld map
    - Dull story
    - Dire graphics. The game is simply not fit to be called a AAA game in 2015 looking as it does
    - Shoddy performance
    - Same bugs as Skyrim. It's nice to know these idiots are learning from past games...oh wait...
    - 7 years waiting for this junk? What a joke. This game could have easily come out 4 years ago.
    - Far too easy. Within an hour you have power armour and have killed a Deathclaw. Within 3 hours I had killed a legendary deathclaw and got my hands on a Fatboy.
    - Still walled/loading screen separated towns. GTA doesn't need them so why the **** does this shoddy game?

    - No actual choice. Again, this game isn't fit for 2015. Unlike every other rpg out there this game still gives you no choice on how you want to play it. You have to be the good guy and go down the linear storyline. It's horribly dated.

    If this game didn't have Bethesda or Fallout stamped on it, it would have gone straight to bargain bins    … Expand
  35. MartianAxolotl
    Mar 14, 2016
    5
    Really Short Review:

    Bethesda: "We've been hyping this for like 3 years but we dont actually have anything, what are we gonna do guys?" Bethesda Employee: "Okay were gonna... uh... reverse the plot from Fallout 3... make the world smaller so we dont have to make too much. Give them everything in the first 30 minutes so we dont have to complicate the plot... and... take out the    Really Short Review:

    Bethesda: "We've been hyping this for like 3 years but we dont actually have anything, what are we gonna do guys?"

    Bethesda Employee: "Okay were gonna... uh... reverse the plot from Fallout 3... make the world smaller so we dont have to make too much. Give them everything in the first 30 minutes so we dont have to complicate the plot... and... take out the morality system because thats too complex"

    Bethesda: "But thats means its gonna be s***"

    Employee: "Okay we'll add better guns. All the 9 year olds only care about guns anyway"

    Bethesda: "Alright" *makes game in 2 months* *makes it look like theyve been perfectng it for the past 6 years* *bribes the media into saying 10/10 IGN*    … Expand
  36. Wraithman
    Jan 1, 2016
    4
    After 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this gameAfter 11 days with this game..What i can say...Wonderful environment, not bad graphic, terrible combat mechanic, terrible npc ai, really stupid and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main plot. Guys this scenario can write a 10 years, old without that big holes in plot. And when Fallout 3 was a big mistake, Fallout Nv was quite good with complicated world and characters. Fallout 4 i dont know what type this game is, definitely not Crpg, shooter more. And this scenario...guys...please. You all Killed this franchise without mercy and, ♥♥♥♥♥ all mature players with Super Sledge. Start is fun..after that everything is dying. So many wasted possibilities, so many booring quests, and in mine loong career as a Game Master in few rpg systems you really really need to send that guys to read some good books. Maybe it will help.
    Anyway mine scores for this game:1 to 10
    Quests - total score 4, main story line beginning 7 ending 2.It start good and ...thats all. Lovercraftian quests toons of wasted potential.
    World - 8 Nice locations few really fun to explore. Prydven is beautiful.
    NPC Characters - 4 Some ok,some flat and boring. Nothing to be excited. Please return to bg 1 bg2 to learn how to build deep funny characters. It is all about story and fun.
    Mechanic - 1. Its booring, and stupid in soo many examples...
    Total not to solid -4.
    And i know for Bethesda last years succes is measured in number of copies sold- but Witcher 3 can do both things. Quality and profit.
    Recommended for easy shooters fans, not recommended for fallout, and post-apo fans.    … Expand
  37. Not_Casual
    Feb 26, 2016
    2
    For every step forward in refining their combat, they took two steps backwards on their rpg element's. Questing, character decisions, and conversation are horrifyingly bad for a game that should be an rpg. After the shining improvements made by obsidian in new Vegas, Bethesda turned and went the opposite direction.

    Rather than feeling like a fallout game, i'm left with this bland    For every step forward in refining their combat, they took two steps backwards on their rpg element's. Questing, character decisions, and conversation are horrifyingly bad for a game that should be an rpg. After the shining improvements made by obsidian in new Vegas, Bethesda turned and went the opposite direction.

    Rather than feeling like a fallout game, i'm left with this bland wasteland of dead characters and streamlined, casual garbage. To top off the utter lack of content and rpg elements, the game difficulty is a joke. With max difficulty, I can't remember the last time a creature did damage to me, or didn't die in two hits.

    Mods can't save an utter lack of immersion, unless they go and redo every quest in the game there's no way to save this hunk of streamlined garbage.    … Expand
  38. coustoe
    Jan 17, 2016
    2
    Buggy, just a rehash of previous game, the loading screens are horrendous, nothing original, real quest are replaced by annoying never ending minutemen "a settlement needs your help". It just seems Bethseda did the most half assed thing they could do to milk the franchise for more money.
  39. rich_pl
    Feb 19, 2016
    4
    Incredibly linear gameplay, very few real impactful player choices and after only a short while it becomes utterly repetitive.

    the graphics are quite nice, but not without a few notable glitches - combined with a physics engine that can be comedic at times, only further removing the player from any form of immersion. The dialogue options are awful, and more often than not leave the    Incredibly linear gameplay, very few real impactful player choices and after only a short while it becomes utterly repetitive.

    the graphics are quite nice, but not without a few notable glitches - combined with a physics engine that can be comedic at times, only further removing the player from any form of immersion.

    The dialogue options are awful, and more often than not leave the player with no option.

    I gained some enjoyment out of the 'settlement building' feature but even this feels like an empty reproduction of the Sims.

    The game offers zero challenge even at the highest difficulty.

    There is simply no reason why this game has gone so backwards in so many regards.    … Expand
  40. moobol
    Feb 15, 2016
    1
    A sloppy dated looking mess. Would just about be excusable if this was released for 9.99 by an indie developer but only just.
    Story - Terrible
    Graphics - about 10 years out of date. RPG mechanics - is it still an RPG? Doesn't feel like it Choices / Decision making - which area of the map do i want to run to and kill things now? is about the only choice to make. Bugs - everywhere.    A sloppy dated looking mess. Would just about be excusable if this was released for 9.99 by an indie developer but only just.
    Story - Terrible
    Graphics - about 10 years out of date.
    RPG mechanics - is it still an RPG? Doesn't feel like it
    Choices / Decision making - which area of the map do i want to run to and kill things now? is about the only choice to make.
    Bugs - everywhere. Characters get stuck all over the place. Can't shoot people just because they are hiding behind something even if i am flanking them.
    AI - horrendous. Preston Garvey can't hit a barn door.
    Voice acting - amateurish
    And as for the base building crap, it's really annoying.
    Stopped playing after about 15 hours and I haven't played a computer game since it's that depressing.
    Sticking with Bioware and CD Projekt Red for my AAA RPG fun.
    Never buying Bethesda ever again and I used to be a fan.
    Oh and the quests are moronic... go here get this and kill that.. because some faceless badly acted person who can barely be bothered to make conversation says you should.
    Oh and it's full of totally forgettable unlikeable characters.
    I can't understand why so many people rate this garbage, it's like Bethesda could send you a poop in a can and people would still say it's great.    … Expand
  41. unbornchikken
    Mar 9, 2016
    1
    It's abysmal. First and foremost the loading time is long, you gotta stay still for a minute to get in or out of a f*** building. It's actually because of laziness of programmers, because could be worked around by using a simple DirectX FPS hack tool. Secondly it's not a Fallout game, it's a lame shooter game with some skills. There is no real decisions, no skills affecting conversations,It's abysmal. First and foremost the loading time is long, you gotta stay still for a minute to get in or out of a f*** building. It's actually because of laziness of programmers, because could be worked around by using a simple DirectX FPS hack tool. Secondly it's not a Fallout game, it's a lame shooter game with some skills. There is no real decisions, no skills affecting conversations, no immersion just kills. And there is that extremely annoying settlement building crap, which is there for improving the gaming experience. I mean if you ignore settlements, you get a way much better and enjoyable game.… Expand
  42. Zeriel
    Feb 12, 2016
    4
    As a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to playAs a huge Fallout and Bethesda fan this game was a huge disappointment. It's an uninspired mess with a terrible game engine and loading screens every 2 minutes. The quest are repetitive and it's like Bethesda just phoned in the whole game without giving a damn. I loved these series, I saved money for months to buy an R9 390 to play this game and here I am using my 300$ video card to play League of Legends. **** you Bethesda for abandoning your fans :(… Expand
  43. Telembrium
    Nov 19, 2015
    6
    Fallout 4, while still a fun game, is a large step backwards from previous titles in the series with issues ranging from questionable design decisions to poor optimisation to an identity crisis concerning the game's genre. The developers seem to be focusing on adding shallow secondary features rather than creating strong core features. Bethesda's games seem be getting more and more dumbedFallout 4, while still a fun game, is a large step backwards from previous titles in the series with issues ranging from questionable design decisions to poor optimisation to an identity crisis concerning the game's genre. The developers seem to be focusing on adding shallow secondary features rather than creating strong core features. Bethesda's games seem be getting more and more dumbed down with each rendition, and Fallout 4 is far from an exception to this trend. That's not to say that there aren't some innovations, but they're too few and too insignificant to make up for the removed content.

    By far the most flagrant issue with Fallout 4 is the voiced protagonist and the ramifications of its addition. A voiced protagonist could have actually meant good things for the series, but instead it has heralded the removal of a large degree of player freedom and choice. Dialogue has been stripped bare, and a large number of other questionable changes were undoubtedly influenced by the decision to have a voiced protagonist.

    One of the game’s main issues which was obviously inspired by the voiced protagonist is the dialogue. Only four options are given for every conversation, and most of them follow a set template of yes, no, sarcastic, and maybe. When it’s not a template conversation, it usually doesn't even matter what you choose, as the response will just be the same with slight variations, which often leads to jarring and discontinuous conversations. You don't get options which allow you to play antagonistically and your mannerism doesn't change with your character's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats. The only stat which matters in dialogue is charisma, and even then it’s only for speech checks. Almost all of the dialogue options you have are either morally ambiguous or directly related to the predetermined backstory, and a lot of the dialogue options given are also duplicates of questions which you have most likely already had answered by a different NPC. At least the voice acting has improved significantly relative to Skyrim, but it's still not anything special.

    The main story of Fallout 4 is bland, uninspired, and full of clichés. It's like someone wrote the entire story in one night after watching a sci-fi marathon on television. As for quests, they're pretty mediocre: go here, kill that, talk to this guy, yada yada. The only branching I've found was at one point in the main quest, but it was more of a choice of whether you wanted to continue or just quit there than an actual branch.

    Yet another place where Bethesda has dumbed down the game is in the removal of skills. Not only has this made the game less dynamic in gameplay, it has removed the various skill checks from the already suffering dialogue. Perks have been expanded in lieu of skills, but almost all of them are combat-oriented and dull. Lady killer/black widow don't even give custom dialogue. Most offensive of all, though, is the fact that you can now increase your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats at a rate of one per level, rendering any strategic placement of your starting stats effectively null and severely reducing replay value.

    Where has Bethesda put all of their development effort, then? Well, guns now operate like they would in a traditional shooter, and there is a mediocre cover system. It's too bad that the AI improvements are limited to failing to use the cover system instead of actually attacking and being able to constantly spam grenades, which more often hurt themselves or their allies than you. They'll even use missile launchers at point-blank range. Apart from that, expect the traditional tiered bullet sponges system, except for the new bullet sponges that heal to full health when filled with bullets so they can soak up more bullets. These particular bullets sponges drop gear with enchantments. I guess Bethesda decided it would be easier to embrace the crappy MMO-style bullet sponge system by adding more MMO-esque features rather than fix the problem. Speaking of, you can also build settlements now, and they're incredibly mediocre. I can't help but question why they spent all this time on a poorly-interfaced, clunky building system when a player could simply mod in something similar to what they can build much more easily, especially since console players can supposedly use mods now. As for the weapon mods, they've essentially just cut down on the number of unique weapons and replaced them with a system that lets you create military-grade weaponry from tin cans and alarm clocks. Meanwhile, the majority of enemies use guns made out of piping.

    I have a lot more that I’d like to say, but I’m already running into the character limit, so to sum up, Fallout 4 is a poor RPG, a poor FPS, and a somewhat decent adventure FPS with RPG elements. Bethesda needs to focus on making the actual game rather than adding gimmicky features like animated vault boys, mini-games like Donkey Kong, a single NPC which says your name, or shallow settlement-building.    … Expand
  44. Exeris666
    Dec 30, 2015
    3
    I feel this is high enough for a game that wasn't finished.

    When you keep seeing things like cars with their doors open and not even a tiny piece of garbage inside, it looks like someone just cleaned the inside of the cars. And the tugboats most of them don't even have a interior. Trying to snipe someone can be quite hard when the draw distance at max is so damn low, use the scope    I feel this is high enough for a game that wasn't finished.

    When you keep seeing things like cars with their doors open and not even a tiny piece of garbage inside, it looks like someone just cleaned the inside of the cars.

    And the tugboats most of them don't even have a interior.

    Trying to snipe someone can be quite hard when the draw distance at max is so damn low, use the scope and most of the game disappears in the distance.

    Overuse of sprites to, but i can understand them on this point. Must have been quite the challenge trying to get this to work on those console ****

    It's worth playing but by far the worst Fallout game to date, emotionless, cold and unfinished.

    Feels like the developers disliked the making of Fallout 4, it bleeds through while playing and gets worse the longer you play.    … Expand
  45. babooba3465
    Feb 11, 2016
    1
    Fallout 4 is the worst title in the Fallout series.

    It is so poorly optimized that if feels that the developers just wanted to throw out a sandbox game and wait for third party modders to fix the game to make it better. So it feels that Bethesda, an amazing RPG developer and publisher, now wants to cash grab what they can while putting in minimal effort, and as well as appealing to the    Fallout 4 is the worst title in the Fallout series.

    It is so poorly optimized that if feels that the developers just wanted to throw out a sandbox game and wait for third party modders to fix the game to make it better. So it feels that Bethesda, an amazing RPG developer and publisher, now wants to cash grab what they can while putting in minimal effort, and as well as appealing to the least common denominator modern RPGS. Skyrim was similar but at least I felt that it was more appropriate since it's medieval fantasy, so it was like Witcher (I think the Witcher games are some of the best and even comparing it to this feels insulting to me as well, I just can't think of a better analogy at the moment) on a smaller/casual scale with a huge world, Fallout 4 doesn't do anything like that. It took it a step back.

    There is no immersion in the game. Bethesda wanted to give the players many choices but in doing so it really redistricts the player further.

    They spent too much time of gun customization and settlement building that everything else falls so short or has to revolve around it. I did not buy a Fallout game so I can run around and play Forge from Halo, pick up random wonderglue and desk fans (essentially garbage I would avoid in other games), and having to build a house to keep people out when in the other games you just get one at the start, it is pretty empty but you customize it as you get actual items to put in. I just don't appreciate having this "forced" onto me (by that I mean you won't get very far without taking advantage of it. Enemies just become bigger bullet sponges so you have to upgrade your stuff but to get materials in a reliable manner, you gotta take advantage of this mechanic).

    The graphics look like it is from the PS3/360 era with severe optimization problems. I could be walking down a road and my foot would get stuck in a crack that looking down, you won't even see it.

    The AI are really retarded and you can't kill most of the characters, looking at you Garvey (I think that's his name). By retarded I mean that I can be standing on the top of a hill with a .45 revolver, a raider from the bottom will try to rush me with a stick and doesn't even bother going for cover, just a straight run at me while I put caps in him. Turning the difficulty up doesn't make it any harder really, instead of shooting the raider once or twice, it'll take five or six shots. Essentially a bullet sponge difficulty change.

    The questing system is that of an MMORPG. Go to point A, kill or pick up B, return to A, get reward. I can't think of how many quests I did like those. After doing a few side quests, I just gave up on them all together. I am not trying to play a World of Fallout game.

    The storyline was a complete letdown. They try to start off strong by taking your son away from you and you begin a quest to traverse the wasteland to find him. But after about 45 min of playtime, the character pretty much forgets about the kidnapped child and is far more interested in looking for fans and glue inside torn down houses. Some of the faction quests are alright but some are buggy so you can just farm infinite experience.

    Speaking of leveling, the jack of all trades system that was used in Skyrim was brought back (although it did start in Oblivion but it was still at a minimal back then). There are infinite levels so eventually the character will get all the perks and can do ANYTHING in the game (ex: I can be a super doctor, hacker, lock-picking thief, the hardest hitting melee character while manning chain guns and fire with almost perfect aim, and at the same time have the charisma level of a president). This presents the problem is having very low replay value in it. Like why go back and make a new character when it's going to turn out pretty much exactly the same?

    It was also not cool to introduce power armor that early in the game. In all the others, you have to work and go through the training thing to use it.

    Pretty bad game, I would not recommend it unless you want Call of Fallout: Modern Post-Apocalyptic Warfare.    … Expand
  46. Trooper224
    Feb 18, 2016
    4
    My First Fallout Game Was Fallout 3 back in 2011 in my PS3. Played all the DLCs i loved it too bits. Then in the same year i got New Vegas. At first i hated the game. but i gave New Vegas another go and i fell in love with it and then i bought the Ultimate edition in 2012 and enjoyed the heck out of it.
    Then in 2014 i bought these games again in Steam & downloaded mods but honestly i    My First Fallout Game Was Fallout 3 back in 2011 in my PS3. Played all the DLCs i loved it too bits. Then in the same year i got New Vegas. At first i hated the game. but i gave New Vegas another go and i fell in love with it and then i bought the Ultimate edition in 2012 and enjoyed the heck out of it.
    Then in 2014 i bought these games again in Steam & downloaded mods but honestly i played more Vegas instead and became a Legion Character and played a Survival Hardcore Mod.
    And then Fallout 1 and 2 along with Tactics jumped into Steam. As a Fan of these series i wanted to try these old school games when i played a bit of Fallout 3 in PC with the Classic Old School Weapons Mod.
    And Yes i had a Blast with these games. Played Fallout 1 with the Fixt Mod and Fallout 2 Unmodded but then with the Restoration Patch in the 2nd Playthrough as a Female Character.
    I Love these games and i have yet to complete Fallout Tactics but when Fallout 4 Came out. I was not these people who jump into the Hype train as i watch instead.
    it turns out the Hype is a bad omen to all of us sadly.
    Pros
    1.Okay Graphics
    -Graphics i don't care for them as they don't make the games ( Just look at MGS1 at the PSX Bad Graphics Awesome Game! ) well unless you put your eyes into the walls to see muddy textures instead.
    2.Weapon Customization
    -A Huge Step up from New Vegas Weapon Customization as you can throw in a Huge Magazine to your 10mm Pistol and then Turn it into a Machine Pistol with a amazing DPS!
    Mixed
    1.The Removal of Choices and Karma and Reputation.
    -I Was upset at seeing this and complained at the Steam forums but no avail the people there are very unhelpful as they say it was flawed. yes dammit but they can atleast fix this but removing these takes away the roleplay and choice as i can't play a Evil Character only an Jerk Marty Stu/Mary Sue.
    as last seen FNV with karma and reputation.
    2.No Ammo Swapping
    -No Armor Piercing. No Hollow Point. No EMP Shotgun Rounds WTH Bethesda!? Oh But you can turn your 10mm Pistol into a Incendiary Firing Pistol with A Weapon Mod. NO!
    In Bioshock 1 i can switch to 3 types of ammo for my guns. Normal, Armor Piercing for Big Daddies, Anti-Personel for the Splicers.
    New Vegas i can do these as well to add strategic elements like should i use Normal Bullets or AP on Deathclaws? Why take this away man? now i can't have a Anti-Material Rifle loaded with incendiary or Explosives rounds now. Only some Unique Weapon can do this as i read the Wiki but none for the Combat Shotty :(
    Hopefully the DLC and the Modding Community will throw these back.
    3.The Story
    -By the Gods it is bad... but its just in the middle of the road. Look i watched a Youtube Lets play and see that... yay family! oh no family got shot by bad guy... and they took the macguffin. its time for revenge! Hell yeah go America! *facepalm*
    The Fallout series was a deconstruction of war and the use of nuclear weapons and America saves the day in the Fallout universe set in a Alternative Time line. War... War never changes. Fallout was never about America's history it was about Fallout's History. the Minutemen which i wish where optional but nope they force you to join them! BOS Isn't even better either too.
    There are Plot holes here and there. Why the Hell the Enclave Power armor Mk1 has Mk3 and Mk5??
    Deathclaw Chameleons? Wern't they unable to do that? ( could had saved for a special area )
    Don't get me started with the Plot twist and the endings because i hate it.
    Get out of Emil Pagliarulo Stalker... I Wished they had Obsidian do the story because FNV's Story was Very Good and i mean it.
    Bad
    1.Voiced protagonist
    -I Don't care about people complaining about Silent protagonists but this one is the Worst thing shoehorned into this game!
    Whats the point? Bethesda only wasted money for this!? now you got limited choices because of this! no more roleplaying and no option to mute the character. I don't care just get a Silent Player Mod instead.
    2.Non-killable Characters -In FNV you where almost able to kill everyone. no one is immortal except the kids and the vendertron. Killing everyone including Doc Mitchel. Marcus. Caesar & Mr.House. only leads to Yes man who Respawns and gives you the Wild card path. Heck FO1 & FO2 Even did this! FO4? Can't i kill the minutemen leader instead? Nope Plot Armor! Kill Dogmeat like a cruel monster? NOPE! Even when you kick him out of your party! FNV Yes Companions were essential. but not when they are out of your party or in Hardcore mode where they can die horribly... ED-E NOOOOOOOO!!
    3.Limited Dialogue -Yes No. Barter. Sarcasm. Nuff Said. Only 4 Options. *sigh* Thank God i didn't buy this game. to expensive man. i read it. watched it and spoiled it. i still got other bads in this game but i don't care anymore. the more i talk the more i hate this game. I rather play STALKER, Metro 2033, Mad Max, Borderlands, Wasteland and Fallout 1,2,3 & NV instead. Just get Obsidian to work on Fallout Bethesda please.    … Expand
  47. Maverick_25
    Nov 21, 2015
    5
    The story is bad. The mechanics are worse. The gameplay isn't bad. They copied sandbox games like Rust, Ark, Nether, Dayz, 7 Days to Die, The Forest, and so many more with their settlement idea but they did a TERRIBLE job doing it. This game doesn't even work on most Windows computers. It's also buggy as all hell. It's mediocre at best. Didn't specifically dislike it but it was not theThe story is bad. The mechanics are worse. The gameplay isn't bad. They copied sandbox games like Rust, Ark, Nether, Dayz, 7 Days to Die, The Forest, and so many more with their settlement idea but they did a TERRIBLE job doing it. This game doesn't even work on most Windows computers. It's also buggy as all hell. It's mediocre at best. Didn't specifically dislike it but it was not the Fallout I remember.… Expand
  48. regolit
    Feb 20, 2016
    2
    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?    Total disappointment. I could find a much better use for this money( Game lacking almost everything what I expected from "Fallout 4". It is not Fallout at all, just one big scrapyard filled without any logic with some enemies for you to kill and get your exp, money and better gun.
    200 yo ghouls walking streets 5 meters from town? Nobody killed them in 200 years? Seriously Bethesda?
    Raiders behind every corner in amounts that make Fallout 3 envy? I can push "E" and my character will instantly build autocanon from **** sticks and toaster? Sniper rifle what can freeze enemy? Kneepad what give you additional damage for ghouls? Refugees who ask you to build a beds for them? I need to pick every Teddy bear and pan in the world now? It is Fallout now?
    No atmosphere of survival and adventure at all. Super interesting (no) dialogues. Zero logic in world design. Awesome "volume light" effect that will make your video card cry.
    I expected it to be at least little better than F3:New-Vegas, but it is worse than even Fallout 3. No amount of mods can repair it. Considering game need at least 2 much bigger map.    … Expand
  49. Pagani202
    Apr 3, 2016
    4
    Just go watch the Fallout 4 Teaser Trailer. There's something about those images and that music that makes you nostalgic and excited isn't there? That excitement is based off of your previous Fallout experiences. Well, it should be. Unfortunately that isn't what you get with Fallout 4. No longer can you be who you want to be. Whether it's a good-hearted individual who just wants to makeJust go watch the Fallout 4 Teaser Trailer. There's something about those images and that music that makes you nostalgic and excited isn't there? That excitement is based off of your previous Fallout experiences. Well, it should be. Unfortunately that isn't what you get with Fallout 4. No longer can you be who you want to be. Whether it's a good-hearted individual who just wants to make the wasteland a better place, or an **** who finds joy in killing. The beauty of Fallout 4's successors was that you could make these choices and the consequences would be reflected into the wasteland. Even in the ambitious Fallout 3, which brought Fallout to the 1st person world. The story in Fallout 3 is a good or bad ending, nothing else. It never bothered me, but I still prefer New Vegas' endings I mean the possibilities were endless. Fallout 4 fails in that aim with having copy paste endings (I mean 3 out of 4 are the same), a voiced character which prohibits you to became in full who you wish to be, and a story in which your choices are extremely limited. There is no evil ending, no good ending, only faction endings. This game could have been SO much more, but Bethesda decided to attract new customers with jetpacks, settlements that you can build, and flashy images which give very little to the story. Bethesda screwed up, and threw out the rpg elements which made this series great. It is astonishing that a company who has games like Skyrim and Fallout 3, which are masterpieces (Fallout 3 just has low resolution textures), can throw that out the window in the name of money.… Expand
  50. Cask_Fix_Sir_Us
    Jun 4, 2016
    5
    Bethesda failed.

    Fallout 4 doesn’t care who you’ve killed, or didn’t kill. It’s like they tried to come up with a formula they could sell over and over. Like a Q-tip or a cotton ball. There were no moral obstacles to overcome, no thought provoking moments about what faction your character should support. There was no world to explore, no towns to discover, no dungeons to explore, no    Bethesda failed.

    Fallout 4 doesn’t care who you’ve killed, or didn’t kill. It’s like they tried to come up with a formula they could sell over and over. Like a Q-tip or a cotton ball. There were no moral obstacles to overcome, no thought provoking moments about what faction your character should support. There was no world to explore, no towns to discover, no dungeons to explore, no magic to be discovered. Just reskinned enemies, and boring old Boston, those one dimensional buildings, shoot, go upstairs, shoot, jump downstairs, OMG please shoot me! Boston was boring! How did Skyrim feel like an entire world, yet all of Boston felt like a small thug’s neighborhood in GTA V?

    Just kill whoever, the world and its results are static, your presence here has no influence. I’m convinced that if someone programmed a barley functioning AI to play this game (a 5-year-old mind), the end would be the same as yours.

    I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Skyrim. Skyrim was the culmination of great RPG writing and descent gameplay. Fallout 4 was tedious and painfully devoid of life. The future of Fallout 4 is frankly grim, just like Skyrim, it will end up just a weird naked porn machine for a very strange audience.

    Bethesda is drunk with cash, unfortunately for them, my cash isn’t going their way anymore.    … Expand
  51. jrobpaq
    Nov 20, 2015
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I feel cheated. Faction I chose ultimately didn't matter in in the end, and I was surprised when it ended so abruptly. Feels like more Fallout 3. If that's what you're looking for, great, if not, however... If you're a die hard Fallout fan, able to squeeze out every ounce of entertainment out of the games, then you're probably going to be satisfied. If you're looking for a deeper RPG, maybe look somewhere else, or at least wait for the price drop. Surprisingly shallow.… Expand
  52. Arkess
    Mar 26, 2016
    2
    РПГ-элементов в игре меньше, чем в Far Cry 4. Открытый мир, окружение, графоний, да даже сюжет, которым ФК4 вообще не блистала - по каждому пункту Фаллаут 4 сливает... шутеру. Игру можно воспринимать исключительно как плевок в лицо фанатам, тем же, кто еще не познакомился с данным эм... продуктом, советую пройти мимо - 2015 год выдался урожайным на хорошие РПГ, Фаллауту 4 не место средиРПГ-элементов в игре меньше, чем в Far Cry 4. Открытый мир, окружение, графоний, да даже сюжет, которым ФК4 вообще не блистала - по каждому пункту Фаллаут 4 сливает... шутеру. Игру можно воспринимать исключительно как плевок в лицо фанатам, тем же, кто еще не познакомился с данным эм... продуктом, советую пройти мимо - 2015 год выдался урожайным на хорошие РПГ, Фаллауту 4 не место среди них.… Expand
  53. chefino
    May 19, 2016
    1
    As a true fan of F1, F2, (not so much of Fallout: Tactics), F3 and New Vegas (although I didn't finish NV) I also took the hype-train and got F4 for my PC. Luckily a month or two after release and via a discounted coupon. Lucky me, would bash my head against the wall otherwise.

    As many have said, shallow story, no RPG elements, uninteresting characters, no real dialogue options, crappy    As a true fan of F1, F2, (not so much of Fallout: Tactics), F3 and New Vegas (although I didn't finish NV) I also took the hype-train and got F4 for my PC. Luckily a month or two after release and via a discounted coupon. Lucky me, would bash my head against the wall otherwise.

    As many have said, shallow story, no RPG elements, uninteresting characters, no real dialogue options, crappy crafting and useless base building. The performance is sub par and every time I had to stare at the freaking loading screen, just to exit a 1 room house, then forgot something inside, only to stare at that sh*t again for several seconds... made me loose all that was left of the appetite to play more. If GTA can do it, why can't they and still recycle this 10 year old engine (yeah Oblivion, I remember you).

    Stay away. You have been warned.    … Expand
  54. dejawolf
    Feb 11, 2016
    4
    to be fair, i enjoy the gameplay. what mars my experience, and the reason i give it such a low score, is because of the technical problems i've experienced, THAT STILL HAVEN'T BEEN FIXED 2 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE.
    problem number 1 is the resolution is locked to about half my actual screen resolution, unless you start editing INI files. this is just pure laziness. so everything is just crazy    to be fair, i enjoy the gameplay. what mars my experience, and the reason i give it such a low score, is because of the technical problems i've experienced, THAT STILL HAVEN'T BEEN FIXED 2 MONTHS AFTER RELEASE.
    problem number 1 is the resolution is locked to about half my actual screen resolution, unless you start editing INI files. this is just pure laziness. so everything is just crazy blurry.
    problem number 2 is UI bugs. i had to spend 2 hours trying to search for a MOD that fixed the disappearing lockpick. FFS, it still pisses me off thinking about that. it is SHAMEFUL for a AAA publisher to release a game with problems like these. it feels like i'm playing a game from 2005.    … Expand
  55. Brackzillar
    May 13, 2016
    2
    If you thought Bethesda learned anything from Obsidian and user feed back on Fallout 3 you will be disappointed.

    Almost all RPG elements have been removed it mine as well be a Farcry expansion with 4 options to talk to people. Only reason I'm giving it a 3 is because settlements and they still managed to screw that up
  56. LonelyPenguin
    Aug 13, 2016
    0
    Worst bethesda game. I was fanboy of bethesda, and I still cant believe how far have they fallen...

    thi is not an rpg anymore, its just a casual shooter, with no depth. There are a lot of location, but they are all filled with same mobs and uninteresting loot. The thing that they seize all development on this game after 8 months shows that they know they **** up big. u dun goofed,    Worst bethesda game. I was fanboy of bethesda, and I still cant believe how far have they fallen...

    thi is not an rpg anymore, its just a casual shooter, with no depth. There are a lot of location, but they are all filled with same mobs and uninteresting loot.

    The thing that they seize all development on this game after 8 months shows that they know they **** up big.

    u dun goofed, bethesda.    … Expand
  57. TaichiY
    Dec 2, 2019
    5
    Not a bad game, but disappointingly shallow as a player of previous fallout's and aware of what Bethesda is capable of. The game has plenty of content but the depth of the content is what is missing. And if you didn't play fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't understand the complaints. The side missions for the most part barring a few fun ones, wereNot a bad game, but disappointingly shallow as a player of previous fallout's and aware of what Bethesda is capable of. The game has plenty of content but the depth of the content is what is missing. And if you didn't play fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't understand the complaints. The side missions for the most part barring a few fun ones, were repetitive fetch quests or clearing an area. Characters you met used to pop up over and over again, in different creative ways. In fallout 4 you meet a character do a mission or so with them and then their dialog runs out and they just walk around one of your settlements. Like Preston Garvey for example(hardly spoilers, happens within the first few hours of the game), at first you think he'll be a very cool partner as he appoints general of the minutemen a cool seeming questline and faction. Yet in reality he spends most of his time giving you orders and telling you to clean up areas and fix up settlements. A real wasted opportunity I think. And many questlines and factions feel the same way. Everywhere you look in Fallout 4 you see great potential but it just doesn't pan out, almost as if the game was planned to be so much more and wasn't finished. A great example of this is the Ocean. The huge percentage of the map in the game is covered in Ocean, Ocean that literally has practically nothing to do in or on it. Making it feel smaller than Even skyrim in my honest opinion, even it was technically bigger. In the old games you could walk around a city and just talk to random people and find little missions everywhere with so much heart and character in them. Some them felt like long expansive quests, with one quest leading to a whole chain of quests. I can think of so many examples of this.

    In fallout New Vegas you walk into an old ratty casino in the broken down poorer part of Vegas, and you chat with the people inside. And this little casino leads to so many quests. Like one where you track down a hilarious male sex robot to bring guests. The same casino lets you go around and collect money from people who owe it. You can even start a quest where you collect stage entertainers, like a stand up comedian and a guitarist who gives you a gun that plays awesome western dual music when you pull it out. And seriously thats just one little building in a game I played years ago and I remember that clearly. I played maybe 20-30 hours of fallout 4 gave it a real chance, and it's just not memorable like its predecessors were.

    I could go on and on and on honestly about all the ways that this game just isn't that good. For instance one thing that I really don't like that some of my friends do is the new level up system. I think its boring as you have to spend perk points on normal skills like weapon damage. In the old games your normal stats were separate from your special perks. YOu always got skill points. And your perk points were dedicated to special abilities. In this game they combined the systems. Leveling up in fallout used to be very fun to me, but I found this new system very boring, bringing an "oh wow another single perk to put into rifle damage *sarcastic yay*". And again just another small factor that made me dislike this game. I know Bethesda I know how awesome their games can be because I've played them, Oblivion(though was too young to be good at/finish it, Skyrim, fallout 3, fallout New Vegas( My personal fav). And thats why I give this a 4/10 because its a bethesda 4/10, below average for what they are capable.

    I think that they were trying to balance this game for both the casual audience and the hardcore gamer. While the out fallouts were more for the hardcore gamer. Usually I would be on the casual end, but the quality of old bethesda were so good that I played them like a hardcore gamer, and spent many hours in them something very rare for me.

    Without considering the games that came before it I would have given fallout 4 a 7 or 8 out of 10, but that would have been for a new game in a new series. Because you give a series leeway when its just starting out. But I honestly feel that Fallout 3 and New Vegas are better games than this.

    Long Story short if you don't have experience with previous fallouts you'll probably like it but eventually you'll get bored and move on. And I suggest that you give the old games a shot if you ever have the time to sit down and play em. So to clarify not a bad game and on some levels its a good game. There are good things about it and I could list those as well. But I can't in good honestly recommend this game full heartedly to gamers, because I just think there are better things to spend your time and money on.

    Hopefully I wasn't too harsh, and this in combination with other reviews gave you a good idea of what to expect with Fallout 4. Thanks for reading.    … Expand
  58. coke01
    Nov 25, 2016
    1
    This is not a fallout game, and quite a disgrace on Bethesda to try to pass it off as one. RPG elements are mostly gone, or dumbed down to a ridiculous point. Replay value is gone. Karma is gone. Memorable quests and choices within those quests are gone. Its seriously unbelievable that I had to force my way through my one 80 hour play through. (Just to get my money's worth) ThisThis is not a fallout game, and quite a disgrace on Bethesda to try to pass it off as one. RPG elements are mostly gone, or dumbed down to a ridiculous point. Replay value is gone. Karma is gone. Memorable quests and choices within those quests are gone. Its seriously unbelievable that I had to force my way through my one 80 hour play through. (Just to get my money's worth) This considering I've put countless hours in fallout 1 and 2, a ton of hours in 3, and at least 6 playthroughs of NV. I cant remember a single quest, or memorable moment in 4, and the crafting was a complete waste of time, and boring to the point I would just do what they made me do.

    Im really trying not to be too harsh here, as I've loved Bethesda's work up until this point. This, however, was a total embarrassment. I realize they have to appeal to a wider audience, and trying to maximize sales with a more FPS feel is probably a smart move to that end. Fine. Do an FPS on its own, and leave fallout alone. Keep its core, or dont do it at all, and sell it to obsidian. Seriously, those of us who have been here since the old school games feel totally cheated. I should have asked for my money back. Complete garbage.    … Expand
  59. youbetterwork
    Dec 30, 2015
    4
    Small and disappointing. I'm a big TES fan and have never played a Fallout title. Diamond City in FO4 has about half the quests of Solitude in Skyrim and half the named NPCs. All factions in this game have the same quest. I would have been unhappy if in Skyrim, all the guilds had the same end story. They were similar, sure, but at least featured different people in different places.Small and disappointing. I'm a big TES fan and have never played a Fallout title. Diamond City in FO4 has about half the quests of Solitude in Skyrim and half the named NPCs. All factions in this game have the same quest. I would have been unhappy if in Skyrim, all the guilds had the same end story. They were similar, sure, but at least featured different people in different places.

    Very low replay value compared to current TES titles. I've played thousands of hours of TES but at only a couple hundred hours of FO4, I feel "finished."    … Expand
  60. Eggnaug
    Jan 7, 2016
    6
    Fallout 4 was a huge disappointment. It abandoned the variety and wit and charm of the dialogue options, the RPG elements, and the general immersion that New Vegas and 3 had. The graphics are subpar, which doesn't heavily take away from the game, but it would have been nice if it had looked a little bit better. The perk system has been massacred, rendering the S.P.E.C.I.A.L skills choiceFallout 4 was a huge disappointment. It abandoned the variety and wit and charm of the dialogue options, the RPG elements, and the general immersion that New Vegas and 3 had. The graphics are subpar, which doesn't heavily take away from the game, but it would have been nice if it had looked a little bit better. The perk system has been massacred, rendering the S.P.E.C.I.A.L skills choice at the beginning pointless as you can just upgrade them when you level up. The story is poorly written, dull, very little if not non-existent character development, and everything we've come to know and love from Bethesda writing. But seriously, no one bought the damn game for the story anyway. Bethesda did add and improve upon a few things though, although not nearly enough to compensate for all the negatives. The weapons modding/base building system is fun, and helps distract from the lack of variety in the weapons, the power armor is much better, giving a more realistic, slower, clunkier, and stronger feel than those from the other two Fallouts, and the actual combat is probably my favorite out of Vegas and 3. I have encountered very few bugs myself, although I know there are treasure troves of the annoying buggers (I mean come on, this is Bethesda we're talking about). Overall, however, the game is still acceptable, it may not follow the traditional Fallout mold, but it is still a fun to play in my opinion.… Expand
  61. Aven2334
    May 27, 2016
    3
    FFs Bethesda... Just give the Fallout ip to Obsidian. It seems this game was just a big cash grab from the start. Sure, you guys put work in your game, so that you claim, but it wasn't hard work. This game is one of the most lazy AAA titles I've ever played. I could list so much **** about how much you **** your fans over with this, but it looks like that has been said and done thousandsFFs Bethesda... Just give the Fallout ip to Obsidian. It seems this game was just a big cash grab from the start. Sure, you guys put work in your game, so that you claim, but it wasn't hard work. This game is one of the most lazy AAA titles I've ever played. I could list so much **** about how much you **** your fans over with this, but it looks like that has been said and done thousands of times over. I'll just mention a few thing that just annoy the **** out of me with this. The 'cinematic camera' during dialogue why the **** is this a thing? Do we need it? No, it's just annoying, Fallout isn't a movie. Weapons aren't kept on your character, and they pop into existence when you un-holster them. Combat rifle is the same model as the combat shotgun, but with minor tweaks. Power armor isn't unique. Loading screens are bad and show things to you that you haven't even seen yet in game (Que the loading screen with a big fat suit of X-01 power armor that you've yet to see in the actual game yet cus you haven't fount it yet.). Power armor isn't just the only un-unique thing in the game, I might as well say every thing in the game isn't unique, just renamed **** that looks the same as everything else (cryo sledge hammer? wtf is it magic or some **** why does it do frost damage?). The only companions I thought were worth the time were Cait and Nick, everyone else was just ****ty (boring), too stupid, or annoying as **** Dogmeat was even annoying! He doesn't even ****ing talk because he's a dog, and somehow, still annoying. "Hey what's that I hear? A good ending? Oh, you mean it was cut out? Why? You dunno? Ok." I will say this, Automaton and Far Harbor are worth it, cus they were pretty cool. Wasteland workshop could've been a free update or maybe even cheaper than it is. Oh **** I forgot to mention the assault rifle! No not that "assault rifle" I mean the Chinese one that was an actual assault rifle and is the reason why the assault rifle in the game has a quick select icon that looks like an Ak-47, because they couldn't spend just a little bit more time to finish it so the went through the trouble of renaming the, what was supposed to be, LMG to "assault rifle"(again, lazy).… Expand
  62. Brooderz
    Sep 3, 2016
    0
    Absolute ****. Okay ive never loved these games as much as others but at least they had something this was just a boring action game passing off as something better but its no better than a CoD game. Story absolute rubbish and i wonder if the critics were paid to write good reviews for this one.
  63. LoudBridge5284
    Jan 11, 2017
    0
    This game is an example of terrible design, storytelling and convenient, shallow plot.

    Nothing you do in this game means anything - no faction you join (out of the limited 4 that even exist) ever does anything or makes any amount of sense. Choice is completely obliterated, destroyed for the purposes of brainless gunplay. There are no interesting characters here - all facades are    This game is an example of terrible design, storytelling and convenient, shallow plot.

    Nothing you do in this game means anything - no faction you join (out of the limited 4 that even exist) ever does anything or makes any amount of sense. Choice is completely obliterated, destroyed for the purposes of brainless gunplay.

    There are no interesting characters here - all facades are easily and instantly seen through, as is the plot, which is about as cliche as literally any D- grade movie ever made.

    The graphics are quite terrible as well, limited by the ageing engine.

    Once again, there is no choice - you get to be the good guy, and only the good guy. While some may argue you can roleplay as either, this is false as there is no roleplay in the game from the start.

    The brainless fetch/kill quests are also a disgrace and an embarrassment to whoever had the inclination to decide upon this approach.

    This should never have been released. It is an insult to the artistic medium of interactive media.    … Expand
  64. vegatz
    Oct 5, 2016
    0
    Well,what a huge disappointment. I have really enjoyed F3 and FNV, hence my hopes and expectations for this game were massive. I would have never expected that this franchise would be simply ruined.

    I have played for 10 hours and uninstalled the game. There is absolutely nothing that could keep me playing. RPG elements: difficult choices, immersive story line, colorful characters,    Well,what a huge disappointment. I have really enjoyed F3 and FNV, hence my hopes and expectations for this game were massive. I would have never expected that this franchise would be simply ruined.

    I have played for 10 hours and uninstalled the game. There is absolutely nothing that could keep me playing.

    RPG elements: difficult choices, immersive story line, colorful characters, leveling... it's just not there. There is no depth whatsoever, no purpose. Voice acting seems silly, especially MC's. Side quests are very repetitive, enemies all the same after awhile. This is just an awful game.

    Settlement had promise but is just broken. No way, or very hard to say which settler is doing what etc. Very unpolished. I simply cannot believe that they released it like this! Never, ever will I buy an RPG from Bethesda again. Such a shame :(    … Expand
  65. CerberusGate
    Dec 1, 2015
    4
    After playing Fallout 4 for 50+ hours, I developed my own opinion about Fallout 4. It's not that great of a game nor is it that bad either. It falls in the middle and here's some of the reasons I've come up with while playing.

    Pro: + Improved gun-play (but points docked for bullet sponge enemies) + Gun customization was a good step in New Vegas and Fallout 4 implements it properly.    After playing Fallout 4 for 50+ hours, I developed my own opinion about Fallout 4. It's not that great of a game nor is it that bad either. It falls in the middle and here's some of the reasons I've come up with while playing.

    Pro:
    + Improved gun-play (but points docked for bullet sponge enemies)
    + Gun customization was a good step in New Vegas and Fallout 4 implements it properly. Being able to alter a lousy sniper rifle to a spear of death is rather gratifying.
    + Fun settlement mechanics (some points docked for it feeling like a last minute addition rather than being substantial)
    + Improved Power Armour usage

    Flaws
    - Dialogue system. It is awful here as the decision to give voice acting to the player character winds up limiting dialogue options down to 4 that are usually lead to the same outcome. There are too few dialogue options that radically alter the sequences of events after. Also, whoever thought that brief descriptions of dialogue options was a good idea should be shot or given a broken nose because words like sarcastic or mere one liners do not convey enough about the intent or tone of the dialogue option. I will pick a sarcastic response sometimes only to have it progress the dialogue and making me sound like a complete **** without lasting effect on the other NPCs. It does not help that the only relevant stat to have for dialogue is charisma now unlike previous games that had skill checks to deliver differing results. This is Fallout 4's biggest misstep for me as a good part of the Fallout series involves dialogue with other NPCs with the potential of changing the outcome (this is the series known for being able to talk down the final bosses).
    - No real role-playing potential as a result of the dialogue system. The problem with the dialogue system and the lack of consequences is that the protagonist only comes across as a yes man with varying degrees of acceptance towards his position in life.
    - Main story being lackluster is typical of Bethesda games and Fallout 4 is one of these games. The initial premise and motivator for the story starts out engaging but loses focus when the open world comes it. Since your character has some form of personality due to unprompted dialogue, it is rather jarring to see him forget his main goal to start a farm. The end game is a complete mess of quests for dull and underdeveloped factions (save for one pre-existing group) since it is possible to end-up as friends of 4 factions that oppose each other somehow (rather than New Vegas's well-implemented faction system)
    - Lousy companion AI and far too few companion quests. The number of times Preston and Dogmeat have ruined my stealth runs by moving too close to enemies, blocking my shots or triggered traps will take a calculator to fully quantify. It does not help that only a few of these companions will have quests to begin with which keeps people invested in keeping them around.
    - The removal of skill trees for redundant perks. This is most prominent in the perk for unlocking advanced locks or hacking advanced terminals. The perk simply exists to substitute these removed skills. They do allow for more specialized characters though so it's not all bad. Just disappointing due to the redundant additions.
    - Overly rapid progression (especially with loot) in the game. After the first 1-3 hours, you will start off with Power Armour and a minigun. You then kill a late game deathclaw with your equipment. 3-7 hours later after exploring, you will find a Fat Man/Missile Launcher with more than enough legendary gear to keep you in the game for a long time. I think Bethesda forgot about gradual progression here.
    - Poor graphics for a 2015 triple-A release. When certain textures resemble textures from Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3, something has gone wrong somewhere. Also, lip sync is both terrible and horrifying (Piper's gaping abyss haunts my nightmares). Nice weather effects though.
    - Bugs that pop up too often should stop being a typical thing in a Bethesda game. We should stop giving Bethesda a free pass so often especially when their official fixes take a long time to be implemented and more reliance is placed on independent modders instead. If they could not play-test enough to catch these bugs, at least respond to these issues as quickly as companies like CD Projekt Red who gave pretty quick responses to bugs in Witcher 3. My own list of bugs includes slow switching of weapons with hotkeys, invisible guns when switching at times, crazy ragdoll physics with corpses (corpses should not be capable of doing a horizontal Cossack dance), disappearing textures, companions being incapable of going back to their original home bases, and an occasional hard crash to desktop.
    - Dull sidquests with few locations.

    While the game is fun and will probably fill up your time, it does not really pay off like a Fallout game should. Bethesda really dropped the ball here when making a Fallout game but at least made an okay gam    … Expand
  66. thelemonman11
    Nov 20, 2015
    6
    Where should I even begin?

    I don't think I've played a bigger mixed bag in my life. Compared to Fallout 3, Fallout 4 is missing something, and I can't put my finger on it. I think it's heart and soul, but from how I've seen Todd Howard acting about it, I don't think that could be it; but it certainly feels that way. The game is ambitious, I'll give it that, but it doesn't fully    Where should I even begin?

    I don't think I've played a bigger mixed bag in my life. Compared to Fallout 3, Fallout 4 is missing something, and I can't put my finger on it. I think it's heart and soul, but from how I've seen Todd Howard acting about it, I don't think that could be it; but it certainly feels that way.

    The game is ambitious, I'll give it that, but it doesn't fully realize any of it's ambitions. For instance:
    Settlement Creations- Feels like a rushed concept, it's unappealing, and pretty difficult to work with. It is, by no means, a requirement, but Bethesda sure talked it up a lot.

    Weapon Modding- Cool concept, but poorly executed. Having to hunt for scrap items with screws in the wasteland is just as annoying as it sounds, and the entire system pretty much boils down into being a chore.

    Dialogue- A partially interesting concept, and it is acted out rather well, but it deeply takes away from the RPG characterization. Not that this game is much of an RPG to begin with. The fact that there is only one voice selection per gender is seriously annoying as well.

    Despite this stuff, it does do a few good things. The gunplay is extensively improved, there are a lot of companions to choose from (But "Leveling' them with weapons and armor is nearly inexistent, at least in my experience) and it still has an open world to explore. The game is fun more often than it is not, I'll give it that.

    I despise the leveling system. In a massive gutting of RPG elements, Bethesda decided to remove stats, and replace them solely with perks. It's a pretty annoying system- especially when it comes to crafting weapons and armor.

    Overall, the game isn't bad, but it certainly isn't the effigy of greatness we were promised, and is more than a bit disappointing. It's plagued with issues, but at the end of the day, a lot it still feels satisfying.    … Expand
  67. rodq
    Oct 16, 2016
    4
    They should call it Fall of Duty or Casuallout. Unbeliveable almost 10 years after Fallout 3, a game that feels like a literal backstep - including removing many key features. I won't even start to compare to Fallout NV, which was completely ignored in the design of this sequel. The graphics sucks, the world feels generic, I can't understand why they chose Boston, nothing against the cityThey should call it Fall of Duty or Casuallout. Unbeliveable almost 10 years after Fallout 3, a game that feels like a literal backstep - including removing many key features. I won't even start to compare to Fallout NV, which was completely ignored in the design of this sequel. The graphics sucks, the world feels generic, I can't understand why they chose Boston, nothing against the city but it's not as charismatic as DC or Vegas (why not NYC?), and the combat is an absolute piece of garbage, priorizing action over RPG, but even the action feels outdated, so you can say it's a causal action shooter made with a classic RPG franchise, but even at being a casual action shooter it fails. It actually reminds me a lot of the mediocre id's RAGE.

    Anyway, the worst part will always be the horrible loading times on PC, even on a i5 with SSD. And if the game only looked impressed, I would understand the loadings, but waiting minutes to see a ugly world render is the pinnacle of frustration    … Expand
  68. Zdzislaw32
    Sep 11, 2016
    4
    Dull, boring and after all sad experience with this game. This is not how a RPG should look like ffs. Paper cut NPCs, no real survival options even after update and the main story DEAR LORD why, oh why. Im a person, who finished F3 and F3 New Vegas at least 5 times and all i can say about F4 - disappointment. Huge, huge disappointment. I would rather went for F3 & F3: NW with mods onceDull, boring and after all sad experience with this game. This is not how a RPG should look like ffs. Paper cut NPCs, no real survival options even after update and the main story DEAR LORD why, oh why. Im a person, who finished F3 and F3 New Vegas at least 5 times and all i can say about F4 - disappointment. Huge, huge disappointment. I would rather went for F3 & F3: NW with mods once again than for this THING for the second playthrough. Don't waste your time and money for F4.… Expand
  69. Ourlig
    Mar 10, 2016
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just finished Fallout 4 and it's almost funny how it reminds me of Fallout 3. To sum it up, OK Game, BAD Fallout.
    It's a bit like going to the movie expecting to see an Indiana Jones Movie and ending up watching the mummy (or Indy 4, for that matter). It is fun at times but it's clearly not what I could expect from the franchise

    The things I liked :
    - The story is a bit bland but looking for your kidnapped infant is a much better reason to explore the world than trying to catch up with your lousy father so I would give the game a free pass.
    - The building part is fun. it's not why i played the game but I can see the appeal.
    - So is the shooting part. Even if I suck at FPS and didn't buy the game for that.
    - The overall design of the Wasteland has improved. There are a lot of locations with a real, unique atmosphere.
    - the weapon and armor customization. Even if the main reason for it in the first place has disappeared (no more damaging for equipment), it is still fun to improve (and even name) your favorite weapons.
    - The legendary items : fun to collect until you realize your common items are good enough for the job anyway

    The things that annoyed me :
    - The wheel speech. The fact that you only have 4 different things available to say is annoying but to me, the real RPG-feeling killer is that you don't know exactly what your character will say. so you spin the wheel hoping the end result will be good.
    - The key map. more specifically the fact that one key might do the exact opposite of you're expecting simply because you're in a different menu.
    - The control over companions or should I say the complete lack of it. Even in 3, you were able to ask a companion to switch from ranged to melee. Now you can romance them. Great ...
    - the non-existent optimization for PC. Seriously. It's a port (and a rather bad one). otherwise I just can't explain why my PC, despite the fact that it is technically better than a PS4, can only run the game with graphics set on Low (so without any sort of anti-aliasing... in 2016)
    - One common rant is about the acting. Believe me, the English version is FINE, The French one, on the other end, is just horrendous. Bad lip sync, bland acting... it is just pure crap. I switched to English as soon as I realized it was possible. (Thank you steam)

    The real problems :
    - the general dumbing down. Forget everything you learned in the previous game. No enemy should be a real challenge. Super Mutants used to be a deadly threat but since 3, we all know they are a joke. But then Bethesda created the Behemoth. Now, you might not be able the one shot kill them, but a couple of well placed shots will do the trick... as for Deathclaws... they were dangerous. something to treat with caution even for a well prepared end-gamer (especially when found in packs). Now you almost HAVE to kill one in your first hour outside the vault. But don't panic, Bethesda made sure you will have the infinity-1 sword so you can kill it... So the real danger is humanity except it's not raiders, coursers, even power-armor paladins are a joke
    - The quests, secondary or not, are almost exclusively fetch ones. And most of the time, you will have to kill everything in the locations to get it
    - at this point, I don't even want to talk about the biggest problem, the biggest betrayal to the fallout spirit :
    the new perk system that turn every thing into a perk. Building your character up is not a hard choice anymore. So I don't see why I would even try a rerun. Pity    … Expand
  70. GameplayExpert
    Mar 14, 2016
    5
    Bethesda знает, как испортить Fallout, она ничему не научилась после того, как Obsidian показала, как же на самом деле нужно делать игры этой серии. Но нет, они решили, что сами лучше других знают как нужно делать и в итоге мы получили обычный шутан с RPG элементами, лишённый духа оригинальной серии, это просто проявление неуважения к фанатам серии и её истокам.Bethesda знает, как испортить Fallout, она ничему не научилась после того, как Obsidian показала, как же на самом деле нужно делать игры этой серии. Но нет, они решили, что сами лучше других знают как нужно делать и в итоге мы получили обычный шутан с RPG элементами, лишённый духа оригинальной серии, это просто проявление неуважения к фанатам серии и её истокам.
  71. Myon-Neutrino
    Jun 15, 2016
    4
    Bethesda can´t do anything special anymore. I´ve played Fallout 3 and NV before and I loved it. But Fallout 4 still offers the same old ugly graphics as its predecessors and delivers an unfinished release-version where the modders have to fix basic problems and basically do bethesda´s job once again. The new action-oriented gameplay style sucks (VATS FTW), the dialoge-options have gotten aBethesda can´t do anything special anymore. I´ve played Fallout 3 and NV before and I loved it. But Fallout 4 still offers the same old ugly graphics as its predecessors and delivers an unfinished release-version where the modders have to fix basic problems and basically do bethesda´s job once again. The new action-oriented gameplay style sucks (VATS FTW), the dialoge-options have gotten a huge downgrade which results in the fact that this game isn´t a RPG anymore in my opinion. And what the hell were they thinking with the PC-controls - it´s the most embarrassing controls for a PC game i´ve ever seen, especially when it comes to build houses and stuff. The whole construcional funcionality may be a good idea, but it´s not intuitive at all. In 2016 there should´nt be any problems developing a simple system to lay electrical conduits and stuff. Instead we got crap at it´s finest. The story is shallow, boring and monotonous. I honestly don´t understand the hype and the "official" high ratings of this bad game.… Expand
  72. ElectricDevil
    Jan 1, 2017
    4
    In some ways, Fallout 4 is superior to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but in many ways, it is an inferior product to both. It takes one step forward, and two steps back by invoking "me too" syndrome so much that it becomes boring.

    Visuals and sound are slightly improved from Fallout 3/New Vegas. The game looks to be on the quality level of Skyrim, but that's about par for the course.    In some ways, Fallout 4 is superior to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but in many ways, it is an inferior product to both. It takes one step forward, and two steps back by invoking "me too" syndrome so much that it becomes boring.

    Visuals and sound are slightly improved from Fallout 3/New Vegas. The game looks to be on the quality level of Skyrim, but that's about par for the course. Skyrim was never the most gorgeous game, but is workable for what it is.

    Sound is a bit improved, especially in the area of voice acting. Bethesda went out of its way to hire more voice actors and more lines for these characters to say in the background, but it's not really there for story purposes, it's all for ambiance.

    Music is a down here. The original soundtrack is passable, but not memorable. What is truly awful is the radio. The majority of the soundtrack from Fallout 3 is re-used, added mostly to by royalty free song tracks that were included in fan-made addons for 3/New Vegas. This is a let-down as you either get 30s/40s/50s era song tracks mixed with heavy-handed atomic-themed songs from that era as well, and nothing that would add to the ambiance of a nuclear Boston.

    Mechanics-wise, in an effort to garner interest and familiarity to a broader gaming audience, Fallout 4 has attempted to improve and simplify it's interface by taking elements from other games and applying it here. The result is a mixed bag that relies on systems that are not conducive to a good roleplaying game. It wants to be New Vegas, Mass Effect, Destiny, and others, but doesn't quite stick the landing or hold to a coherent, meaningful narrative.

    The gunplay is much more polished than previous games, taking a lot of inspiration from Bungie's Destiny game to improve the combat. The result is a much more polished than previous Fallout games.

    However, it is combined with a crafting system that is not nearly as useful as it wants to be. The modular approach to the crafting system is quite underwhelming. While each weapon type is given enough work that they are different, each individual weapon does not really feel more than cosmetically different than another.

    Armor is similar to weapons. It's mostly modular parts you strap to yourself, and allows for a bit more personal customization, but it's ultimately mostly cosmetic.

    Power Armor is a new system and adds a new experience, but ultimately falls on its face. It does feel much more like a vehicle, but at the same time, it's given so early and so easily, it never feels like an accomplishment to use.

    The biggest change, and the most polarizing mechanic, is the settlement building system. Clearly inspired by building games like Minecraft, it does add a system for building your own bases and settlements by collecting resources and using those to make houses and defenses for people to live in your settlements. Much of the DLC for Fallout 4 is based around this system.

    Unfortunately, this mechanic was said to be not required to play Fallout 4, but it is absolutely required to be used in order to progress through the central storyline.

    Companions in Fallout 4 are nothing to write home about. They are better than Fallout 3's companions, but not as nuanced as New Vegas. They are not tied to factions, but rather the player's actions. It is possible to completely ignore your companion's reactions and still achieve the best reputation with them.

    The dialogue wheel comes straight from other, more tightly written games such as Mass Effect or TellTale's Walking Dead. It is also combined with a voiced protagonist. This is not an improvement, as the "do anything you want" approach of previous games is tossed out the window for poorly written dialogue where players do not really know what they are going to say. This new dialogue system works much better in a structured story like the above examples of Mass Effect or Walking Dead, but doesn't quite very well in Fallout 4.

    The dialogue system is further hampered by the story, which is one of the worst parts of Fallout 4. A lot of 4's story is reused from 3. The central plot involves running across the wasteland to find a missing family member, and it requires dealing with three different organizations in order to find a solution to the overall Wasteland problem. Each of the three main factions are unique and at odds with each other in one way or another, but unfortunately, they are not very deeply written or convincing.

    What really hurts Fallout 4 is that there are so many radiant quests, and so few storytelling quests, that you never get to know these groups. There are very few character-building quests tied to these groups that you never get to know what the stakes are for each faction. As such, the repetitive radiant quests are boring filler, and really just takes up time. It doesn't help your understanding of the factions, nor is it interesting enough to be rewarding.    … Expand
  73. cohich
    Feb 6, 2017
    1
    Epic fail of bethesda. Why do you change the scripter team ?! This is not fallout. NO KARMA, no real story, no real faction, no real interest in quest, no...thing. I will not buy the next bethesda game before metacritic user return.

    Fallout is dead
  74. NMLevesque
    Feb 11, 2017
    3
    This game barely if at all qualifies as an rpg. It has a one size fits all build. Where perks don't really change the game so much as they are required to be able to do or use anything properly. You basically have to become invincible, and until then spam healing items because every enemy is a bum rushing horde or pop out of the ground goblin. The 'cover system' doesn't really workThis game barely if at all qualifies as an rpg. It has a one size fits all build. Where perks don't really change the game so much as they are required to be able to do or use anything properly. You basically have to become invincible, and until then spam healing items because every enemy is a bum rushing horde or pop out of the ground goblin. The 'cover system' doesn't really work even with mods so basically all they did was add the sprint feature that modders made for New Vegas, and made free aiming relatively workable. You still can't direct your squad, who also fail at stealth. You're locked into being a particular character that you can't really put yourself into, or decide who they are beyond being nice, sarcastic, or just an jerk. The dialogue is so simplistic that it offers no real choice, nor do any of the quests beyond which hollow, incoherent, and ultimately uninteresting faction you'll side with for the main quest. They literally give you the same quests but only change out which faction you're representing during, over and over again, while giving you side quests that are almost indistinguishable from the endless stream of procedurally generated "radiant quests". Overall the writing quality is so low one would almost think they decided to rip off Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, aka the worst one in the franchise, this time around instead of the first two games like they did with Fallout 3. Which may be why you get a brief one size fits all ending, for the main quest and ending slideshow. All in all the game is painfully short, unless you want to play the crappiest version of minecraft ever. It has the world's worst user interface, and practically zero integration into the rest of the game. It doesn't even have a point. Either you ignore it, or it becomes a chore because your settlers are useless. It also requires you treat the game like an MMO. Which you already kind of have to, what with the grinding and endless farming required to even get halfway to max level and acquire the best gear. Thus exacerbating the hoarding requirements of the last two games, and utterly destroying any notion of prudently managing an inventory of scarce items. Thankfully they saw fit to replace the dozens of fun weapons and armor combos with tiered versions of the five things worth using. Oh yes, the touted crafting system basically just involves making slightly better versions of a scope, a barrel, a grip, and every other component instead of being able to optimize it for your playstyle. Being that only one combination is actually worth using. Especially when you consider the stupid legendary system which means you have to rely entirely on luck to get what you need. Have fun getting 80 different legendary versions of the crappiest weapons in the game. Their effects kind of break immersion, which is also a critical flaw of the game. There are too many continuity errors and nonsensical things to ever properly immerse yourself (you can just straight up craft turrets and generators instantaneously), even before you get to the boring plot and one dimensional characters. The setting is so bland and repetitive that even the standout locations are mostly too boring to explore, and when you bother you find yourself disappointed. The radio is even more repetitive than before because they recycled a bunch of songs, and largely lacks the interesting commentary on your quests that we saw in the previous two games. The ecosystem still makes no sense, and just gradually becomes overrun with the strongest enemy types because apparently every Bethesda Fallout game takes place during a mass extinction event. They scrapped the repair system, and made the one thing that was supposed to be insanely durable require constant maintenance. Overall it doesn't inspire me whatsoever. It contains no dreamfuel, like the previous games where you'd wonder about the possibilities, the lore and history of the Fallout world. Partly because what they present to you is barely half finished, and the rest of it lacks any depth. It's decent if you only play it once, never complete it, and constantly adjust the difficulty settings/mod it to death because it has no sense of scaling. It doesn't really qualify as a Fallout game.… Expand
  75. macncheesus
    Feb 24, 2017
    2
    got so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to givegot so pissed with this game just after 3hrs of play that I had to register here to stop you from repeating my mistake and buying it.. disappointment of the decade, I've played all fallouts and enjoyed 3 and NV (even though they were far from perfect), but 4 is so bad it just hurts, it's a shame this excuse for a developer has the rights to the title, just sell it if you don't plan to give it justice

    to sum up the flaws:
    - story is insulting to intelligence,
    - dialogues are horrible, bad kid's cartoon level
    - rpg elements killed, basically just first person shooter with horrible shooting at that
    - laziness when it comes to designing environments
    - engine is horrible, bugs, loading screens, graphics from past decade
    - immersion breaking lack of logic
    - and many more

    just forget it, waste of money    … Expand
  76. Riwean
    Sep 4, 2017
    0
    Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again. Paid mods... Again.
  77. Cymrix
    Jul 18, 2016
    4
    Judging solely on this game alone, and not the ones that came before, it's just not a good game. For $25 AND heavily modded, it is playable.

    What makes it bad is the lack of incorporating what other FPS games have done that expand the genre. You still can't grab ledges. A staple in major FPSs for a few years now. Nope, stil can't get over that 4ft wall or climb through a window.    Judging solely on this game alone, and not the ones that came before, it's just not a good game. For $25 AND heavily modded, it is playable.

    What makes it bad is the lack of incorporating what other FPS games have done that expand the genre.

    You still can't grab ledges. A staple in major FPSs for a few years now. Nope, stil can't get over that 4ft wall or climb through a window.
    The thing here is, this is an RPG in first person, and "action" FPSs are more immersive.

    You can't hide in brush, and enemies have a 6th sense to detect you, even if they can't see you. Again, imersion.

    Intetactive kills are a joke. You have to be undetected AND have a melee weapon equipped AND do a power swing.

    Weapon switching doesn't pause the game. And the weapon menu is clunky. And you can't use your mouse wheel to cycle through favorite main weapons. The mouse wheel frickin changes 3rd person camera distance??? How often do you think I "need" to do that vs changing my weapon? Couldn't put that on a ctrl+mousewheel?

    They put Enter key as the select key, but your fingers aren't close to that key. Couldn't make it spacebar? Or give me a keybind?

    Tab OR Esc key will be "back" or "exit" depenfing on the menu or context... wtf? Couldn't just make them always the same?

    No way to build genetic structures for settlements. You have to place every single wall... and the snapping is horrid.... and the rotation has no snap! Why not do 45 degree snaps? So all my **** is lined up? Especially since you made the rotation so fast...

    Unarmoref NPCs can take multiple bullets to the head. Decomposing ghouls take multiple clips before dying, and their attacks kill you easily. I get this isn't an action game, but you are hiding ****ty game mechanics behind artificially inflayed hitpoints per hit zone.

    How is it my "automatic" weapons do less damage pet bullet? It's the same frickin bullet! And, for some reason, in VATS, my automatic weapons fire only one more bullet for the same AP? I'd understand a decrease in accuracy, especially with consecutive shots, but less bullets? Just **** game mechanics...

    Dialog options... how the hell did you skimp on giving us the actual dialog? Several times I chose an option that said something I didn't want, or wouldn't have chosen, if I'd have known the actual dialog. Was this because you didn't want to update text files?

    It's a **** design choice to say almost nothing has grown in 200 years since the nuclear fallout. That is just stupid, and we have several examples of that just not being true in the real world.

    Overall, I think it's a ****ty port of a condole game, and was never intended to do more than ride the coat tails of our fond memories with Fallout 3. Which, this game is more of a Fallout 3.5. There are a ton of mods that reduce or fix all most of these shortcomings, but you have to search them out and find the right combo of mods to get what you really want. I've spent more time finding the right mods than playingvthe game so far...    … Expand
  78. MR67
    Jul 15, 2016
    4
    I've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro doesI've played both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and have to admit both of those were better than this latest iteration in the Fallout series. At least with those two games you had something to hook you into the game and spur on your interest. Fallout 4, like Fallout 3, uses the missing family member plot to try and draw you into the story, but the ridiculously rushed, sloppy intro does nothing to build up your interest in the game at all. I've only spent a few hours playing the game but just cannot get into it while I wander around aimlessly just looking for things to shoot as I have absolutely zero motivation to care about anything in the game. Add to that the somewhat dated graphics, environments that seem to seem to belong in an LSD addict's colouring book, terrible facial animations, boring settlement building, retarded dialogue system and dumbed down RPG elements, and I really wonder how the so-called critics could rate this game so highly. Maybe I'll be able to force myself to sit down with this game for a bit longer sometime and revise my rating, but I doubt that. It really seems like this was a side project for Bethe$da just to keep the Fallout franchise going and cash in on the hype with minimal development effort while they focused on other projects like Elder Scrolls Online.

    Rather spend your money on Fallout New Vegas if you haven't already played it and spruce it up to your personal taste with a few choice free mods from the Fallout Nexus or someplace similar. It really is something of a travesty when a company like Bethe$da is raking in the money with these so-called "AAA" titles while the likes of Obsidian who seem to have a much better idea of what constitutes a great CRPG game have to use Kickstarter to fund their projects.    … Expand
  79. Setsuki
    May 19, 2016
    3
    The 3 first things I did when launching the game was :
    1 - enable subtitles
    2 - bind my keys 3 - set my graphical options Then, I launched the game 1 - The game starts a cutscene without subtitles 2 - the character editor doesn't take my binding into account (azerty users will be confused for quite a whie) (also, the interface for the editor is as unintuitive as can be) 3 - the    The 3 first things I did when launching the game was :
    1 - enable subtitles
    2 - bind my keys
    3 - set my graphical options

    Then, I launched the game
    1 - The game starts a cutscene without subtitles
    2 - the character editor doesn't take my binding into account (azerty users will be confused for quite a whie) (also, the interface for the editor is as unintuitive as can be)
    3 - the game runs at 20 FPS during the entire intro sequence. (went from ultra to medium/low settings, didn't change a thing)

    But this was still the best part.

    I can't really explain what it is, but there is something about the controls that feels wrong. Oh yeah, they're sluggish and terrible.
    If you're playing with a controller, most of those issues will probably disappear, but for me, I tried, I played a bit of the "real" game, but when simply moving and looking around is a chore, there's nothing you can do...    … Expand
  80. Cpt_Jstank
    Nov 25, 2015
    7
    Fall Out 4 is Bethesda's latest entry into their now mega popular Fall Out series. They have sold over 2 million units in just 2 days! But are hard core gamers really impressed? Here at Vault Tech, we think not!

    1. No Player Choice Fear not Vault dweller, here at Vault Tech we have simplified your life by making sure that you always do the right thing! We hope you love being a lawful    Fall Out 4 is Bethesda's latest entry into their now mega popular Fall Out series. They have sold over 2 million units in just 2 days! But are hard core gamers really impressed? Here at Vault Tech, we think not!

    1. No Player Choice

    Fear not Vault dweller, here at Vault Tech we have simplified your life by making sure that you always do the right thing! We hope you love being a lawful good hero because that's what you’re going to do for the next 30 hours of your life! Don't worry about becoming a nasty raider who can go anywhere, do anything, kill anyone, and make a general mess of the waste, Vault Tech has taken care of that for you! You can't kill your friends, because the good people of Vault Tech have made them immortal! You can even shoot them and they will always be your best friend! So get out there vault dweller, and become the goodie tu shu your mamma always wanted you to be!

    2. Nerfed Dialog

    Do you like having deep conversations with your companions about life, love, and the pursuit of horrific amounts of violence? Not if Vault Tech has anything to do with it! Here at Vault Tech we despise deep intelligent conversations, and meaningful dialog! Even if you have 1 intelligence we will make sure that fart sounds don't come out of your mouth and be sure that nothing you say will have a bearing on your own personal story! Afraid of making others mad with your words? Never fear! We also made sure that what you say won't result in your death or bodily injury! Don't know what to say? Now you can only say yes, no, ask a question or be a smart ass! Vault Tech has neatly mapped these options to your D pad. Don’t have a D Pad? Naughty, Naughty vault dweller, nobody likes a PC Supremacist! Be a good Vault Tech rep today and make sure the person you’re talking to completely ignores what you are trying to say so they can get back to telling you how bad the waste really is and how you can help!

    3. Invulnerable NPC's

    Are you tired of your friends constantly dying in the wasteland? Never fear vault dweller, here at Vault Tech we made sure to make your friends invincible to bullets! If you get frustrated with the way your friends are acting, go ahead, use them as a punching bag, or target practice. Like your loyal friend Dog Meat, your wasteland buddies will never get mad at you for trying to bash their heads in with a Super Sledge! Our patented invulnerability implant makes them impervious to enemy fire and yours! Don't be tempted to steal their loot because they don't have anything! Rest assured that we will make every effort to keep them alive so your experience in the waste makes absolutely no sense if you try to murder them horribly!

    4. Underdeveloped and tacked on Settlement System

    Are you trying to be just like PEW DIE DIE, and is your channel Inundated with silly Minecraft videos? Never fear vault dweller, Vault Tech has an alternative for you! Here at Vault Tech our engineers have designed a system where annoying Mine craft lets players such as yourself can create their very own dream house! Do you like holes in your walls and ceilings? Do you like dirty and grimy looking textures with random bits of grass and junk poking through your floors? Do you hate windows? Do you like only being able to build three stories? Do you have an aging YouTube channel devoted completely to Minecraft?! Never fear, Our Vault Tech engineers have worked hard to make sure the crafting system is designed to attract the viewers who already love your channel and that it is so confusing that they will have to come to you for help! Get out there vault dweller and teach em’ how to build the city of their dreams!

    5. Lack of Multiple endings

    Some people think that a good story always ends based on the decisions you make in life. Here at Vault Tech we have a different philosophy! Our Vault Tech representatives have made sure that your travels through the wasteland always arrive at the same conclusion because the conclusion that we have decided on is and always will be the best! We heard a story where a competitor used a technique that utilized multi colored explosions to indicate different endings. We here at Vault Tech have ensured that the ending to your story will be a fantastic disappointing Technicolor mess!    … Expand
  81. styche
    Dec 22, 2015
    5
    Fallout 3 and Fallout 3 NV were great because they had complex story lines where your choices mattered. As you developed and moved along the Wasteland it felt like it was changed/shaped by the choices you made. It felt like you were truly the force behind the story line. Furthermore, in past Fallout games, the factions and NPCs both individually and their interplay amongst each otherFallout 3 and Fallout 3 NV were great because they had complex story lines where your choices mattered. As you developed and moved along the Wasteland it felt like it was changed/shaped by the choices you made. It felt like you were truly the force behind the story line. Furthermore, in past Fallout games, the factions and NPCs both individually and their interplay amongst each other was complex and interesting.

    Here in Fallout 4 unfortunately Bethesda drops the ball and one is not left with the same level of attachment and volition. The factions and the NPC's seem sadly two dimensional and bland - the story line linear. Your interactions with them were furthermore hindered by a new system where you are given only a few words for each response choice. Once you clicked on it the voice over actor would delver them - often to my chagrin to find that the delivery was different than what you thought - be it sarcastic, mean or positive. Tasks/Quests were often repetitive - mostly around killing NPC bad guys. The endings were what made me the most angry. I felt like I was slapped in the face, wasting a few hundred hours of my time playing only to be forced into a very unsatisfying conclusion. Crafting settlements was a nice addition but this became repetitive quickly. Furthermore, with poor physics/manipulation capabilities around trying to align objects became very frustrating. You lost hours trying to get things set up/aligned.

    The positives, while annoying due to shabby physics/manipulation, crafting settlements was fun. The ability to craft/customize your weapons was a nice addition. Combat - while not stellar is better than in previous releases. The mobile device addition to off load the Pip Boy worked well.

    When you create Fallout 3 and Fallout 3 New Vegas (tip the hat to Obsidian on the latter) and you have such a dedicated fan base who makes mods - you need to step up your game. Fallout 4 is a disappointment. Hopefully the fan base will create awesome mods to save the day going forward.    … Expand
  82. schizotypal67
    Dec 29, 2016
    2
    Compared to Fallout 3, this is an enormous letdown. Gone is the motivation for completing quests. Instead, gamers are supposed to have fun doing the same radial quests over and over a 100 times. Beth tried to instill the "never-ending game" design from Skyrim into this. Huge failure.
  83. VasiliJerkof
    Feb 10, 2016
    6
    Did not live up to the hype in my opinion... :/
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  84. esece93
    Jun 10, 2016
    4
    As a Fallout fan, I write this review for other Fallout fans. They destroyed the game. I give a 4 so just people know that, despite being a good game (and I say a GOOD game, which means that IS NOT a VERY GOOD GAME) is not a real Fallout.
    The perks and leveling system is now a sh** where you choose perks every time you level up, instead of the classic system in which you distribute 15    As a Fallout fan, I write this review for other Fallout fans. They destroyed the game. I give a 4 so just people know that, despite being a good game (and I say a GOOD game, which means that IS NOT a VERY GOOD GAME) is not a real Fallout.
    The perks and leveling system is now a sh** where you choose perks every time you level up, instead of the classic system in which you distribute 15 points and you choose a perk each two levels.
    Remember the satisfaction of completing a quest with a good charisma and hilarious conversations? Forget about that. Now this is all about shots, and more shots, and no really strong decisions, just more shots. Ah, and the conversation system is a failure (you can't even see what you are actually answering, just two words that more or less describe it).

    But this is what happens when you try to reach a more "casual" or bigger group of people, you kill the magic, and create a product that does not satisfy the fans, but the new generation of gamers.

    Such a disappointment, I trusted you Bethesda, but for the last time.

    We will miss you Fallout.    … Expand
  85. NathanielRH
    Jul 14, 2016
    3
    This game is simply bad. I am very depressed to say so. The game starts out so promising, but it has enough bugs to qualify as a species of beetle, terrible graphics which are somehow simultaneously poorly optimized, and simply isn't worth the money you pay for it unless you plan on running it on Medium settings; this game was built for consoles and runs best on your computer if yourThis game is simply bad. I am very depressed to say so. The game starts out so promising, but it has enough bugs to qualify as a species of beetle, terrible graphics which are somehow simultaneously poorly optimized, and simply isn't worth the money you pay for it unless you plan on running it on Medium settings; this game was built for consoles and runs best on your computer if your computer is forcibly ran like a console. If you have an old computer, this is the game for you. If you have a post 2013 computer, don't even buy this game unless you want the graphics falling apart every 15 minutes. The company which made this game will not care to update its large list of problems and modders so far have been incapable of fixing them either. Worst of all is the fact that the hardest difficulty is unplayable because of the amount of bugs in the game. You NEED the game console to play the game because the console is a debugger and is used to fix bugs, but on the hardest difficulty, they remove the console from the game so you can't use it to fix bugs. Playing on survival mode is a DEATH warrant which will lead to endless frustration. The game is a 0/10 on Survival mode and 3/10 because they have other modes you can play on.

    So, to reiterate:
    1. 2013+ computer? Don't buy.
    2. Always play on the hardest difficulty? Don't buy.

    I'd price this game at $0 if you have a newer computer and/or always play the hardest difficulties on games. $10 if you can stand crappy graphics and any difficulty below Survival.

    I would give it a higher rating if I knew Bethesda were working on fixing this game's huge list of problems, but they are not working on it because they have already made a lot of money and have no reason to fix old issues, even though the problems are so deep that modders cannot pick up Bethesda's slack this time.

    Do not buy, do not waste your time, force Bethesda to at least put in some effort on Fallout 5. We know there will be a Fallout 5 as long as there are idiots who buy crappy games like Fallout 4.

    Again, I'm depressed to write this review. I'm sorry.    … Expand
  86. confector
    Aug 30, 2017
    0
    Having supported this developer since Elder Scrolls: Arena, here is my review.

    This persistent model of trying to move to a microtransaction system and forced downloads of content that you do not want, cannot opt out of, and break your game if you have already taken steps to mod (correct/fix) it in the first place. Stop it. I have spent a good chunk of my free time in life    Having supported this developer since Elder Scrolls: Arena, here is my review.

    This persistent model of trying to move to a microtransaction system and forced downloads of content that you do not want, cannot opt out of, and break your game if you have already taken steps to mod (correct/fix) it in the first place.

    Stop it. I have spent a good chunk of my free time in life specifically patronizing your titles because of the enjoyment offered, the modding opportunities at MY direction and choice, NOT YOURS, were my ideal way of passing free time.

    No longer.    … Expand
  87. Splaterson
    Aug 31, 2017
    3
    It was enjoyable on release but Bethesda are victims to their own success and have hit the level of greed usually shown by Activision and EA. They've released paid for Mods, what used to be a free thing people did to improve their own games will now cost, good for developers, bad for customers.

    If you haven't picked this game up yet, I wouldn't bother now, you haven't missed anything    It was enjoyable on release but Bethesda are victims to their own success and have hit the level of greed usually shown by Activision and EA. They've released paid for Mods, what used to be a free thing people did to improve their own games will now cost, good for developers, bad for customers.

    If you haven't picked this game up yet, I wouldn't bother now, you haven't missed anything earlier releases of Fallout can and do provide, the game feels shallow in comparison with not as much love, its full of bugs and optimization issues, not to mention they ruined any aspect of RPG elements in an effort to make the game fresh. It wasn't broken and it didnt need fixing, this game is now an action game, enjoyable but leaves a bitter taste in your mouth after a session playing.    … Expand
  88. JaydenPickens
    Feb 20, 2019
    4
    My review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now ifMy review is too long for metacritic, so I'll keep it short. Conversations. In previous parts we didn't had to choose one dialog, but could speak with an npc with lots of options. Well, not in this game. Also did I forgot to mention, that there are always only 4 dialogue options? Movement. F4 introduces sprinting from Skyrim where you have stamina which is tied to action points, so now if you want to get somewhere fast, be careful, because you might run into enemies and you won't be able to use VATS. Is this a joke? You've made a short game, so you've added sh***y sprinting that ends every 10 seconds? Where's the running from F3 or NV? Where you would press capslock and the character would always run without getting tired? The other thing missing is the "move button". In F3/NV you would press "q" and the character would move on its own. Well, you won't find this in F4. Thank you Bethesda... remind me to never buy anything from you ever again. But that's not the end of BRILLIANT changes. Remember VATS? Well, now it doesn't stop time. It just slows it down and if you won't make your decisions quickly enemies will hit you. WTF is this again? Why am I being rushed? I always loved the VATS in previous games, you could just relax, choose what body part you want to shoot, maybe drink some tea in meantime, while watching how enemies get torn into pieces. Well now that's gone, thank you Bethesda. You know what's not gone? Bugs. I played the GOTY edition with all the patches. I managed to fall under the world map 8 times. Not kidding. Every bug you saw in Fallout 3 is here again. Hmm I wonder why... maybe because it's the same engine just with a different name. You almost fooled me Bethesda... almost. So, we've established it's the same engine, but you know what's not the same? The requirements. I'm not a type of person, that cares about graphics, but if your game has such big requirements, I'd like to see better graphics. Instead we have sh***y graphics that require a huge PC to run, which is a joke. The optimalization doesn't exist in F4. This game should be able to run on a 1-core 1gb ram 512mb graphic card setup on ultra with 60 frames per second, because it looks like the game was made for such build. But who cares, right? Surely Bethesda doesn't. Let's move on to more funny stuff. The stuff that was the core of NV, F1 & 2, even F3. It's the quests. In previous games, they were more open, we had a few routes to complete them and usually you had a choice how to lead the quest and how it would end. Well forget all about it. Welcome to the "rpg" game where most of the missions are "go talk to someone, he'll tell you what/who to kill, do that, come back, here's your f***ing payment, now get lost". Yep, welcome to Commonwealth. The most funny stuff when it comes to the quests is Preston. He will harass you and talk about "another settlement needs your help". Then he'll mark the location of the settlement on your map and I don't even wanna know how many types of these missions are out there, because I maybe did 4 and all of them were the same. Someone is attacked, you must go and get rid of the problem and do it all over again someplace else. This is insanity. It's what Vass warned us about. The main story wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good. From characters, I really liked Nick Valentine and Piper. I also remember the dog who probably had more charisma than most of the npcs in the game. But in the end the story gets wrecked, because the game forbids us from making our own decisions. This is NOT New Vegas. There are two endings for the game and they both suck. You will not be able to make peace with all the factions, which is ridiculous. Also, if the game establishes that people can send their minds into synths and live in their robot-like bodies, then why would we care about anyone dying especially at the Institute. Logic is not something you will find in this story, which is hilarious, because the game literally focuses on science. This is what happens when you let fake gorillas write your script. So the story is a let down, there is almost none rpg elements left, the shooting is okay, but Fallout isn't supposed to be an fps game. Doom, Blood, Serious Sam, Quake, Painkiller are FPS and they do it well, F4 doesn't. They've also added crafting tools and emphasis on building your base and upgrading it. This might be the worst thing in the game. I don't want Minecraft in Fallout. This is tedious. To build something you will have to acquire items, so everything that is based around the settlements will include going somewhere and finding the tools you need to build the stuff you need to build. It's just a big waste of time and making this a center of your game was a big mistake. So, what's good in Fallout 4? Not much, mostly a few quests and some characters. Don't waste your money or time on this game. Life is not eternal and there's no afterlife. Spend your days on something worth your while. Pickens condemns!… Expand
  89. Crazyferret
    Jun 10, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. At first I was excited to play a new Fallout. I thought it looked amazing and the gunplay was good. As I kept playing though, I found that was about it. I saw that it was actually very shallow and became boring quickly.

    The voiced character is a mistake in my opinion, as it really restricts the dialogue. The dialogue choices rarely even mattered. For example, in the quest The whole yes, sarcastic (yes), No (yes), speech check (yes) is very true. Really makes the choices seem worthless, and they certainly are most of the time.

    The story wasn't really good. It came down to two things. They want you to care about this story by making you chase after a son you don't get to know. They make it seem like the story is urgent while wanting you to explore. Quest weren't that great either. some were interesting, but most fell flat. A lot ended with just killing everything in a certain area. Lots of unnecessary radiant quests that add nothing. Places you clear out will just spawn more raiders or super mutants for you to kill for your next quest.

    The roleplaying aspect is severely crippled. You don't get to build your own character but play their character. The voiced dialogue is part of the problem. You are always going to be the concerned parents. You aren't really able to be evil so much as just an **** sometimes. If you want to play like the exact character you are given, then you'll be okay. Anything else just doesn't fit. Really kills replayability. Fallout has always been about making your own character and acting like that character would. That shouldn't be taken away from a Fallout game or open world sandox RPGs.

    Fallout games should be a RPG first and a shooter second. This game is a FPS first with leveling and some perks on the side, and most of that seems meaningless anyway. It's closer to Farcry than previous Fallout games. The leveling doesn't have a cap, so you will get all the perks at some point. Skills were removed and SPECIAL is the only thing that affects stats, but you can max these out as well. Many of the perks are damage buffs, crafting, skills like lockpicking/hacking, and useless ones like less rads from food (which cooking removes from most things.) Weapons seem to be more important than anything else. I played on survival (the original with the bulletsponge enemies) without taking the damage buff perks for weapon, and I had no problems. the RPG elements are minimal and take a backseat to the gunplay.

    That's just a few things I found wrong. I've already rambled so I'll give my finale review.

    TL;DR Very dissapointing. Seems fun at first until you get into it. If you want Fallout, this isn't it. If you want an RPG, this isn't. If you want to go around shooting thing in an open-world FPS with some quests and a small story, then this is an okay game for that. There are games that do that better though. (Farcry, Borderlands, etc.)

    4/10 - No Ron Perlman intro/outro    … Expand
  90. bmt11
    Dec 13, 2016
    3
    Upgraded graphics, a better in game console, game play that's a massive step back from Fallout New Vegas and a voiced protagonist that destroys any opportunity to role play in this role playing game, one that limits your response in any conversation to: "Yes", "No", a lame joke or "Why?".
    If you've ever dreamed of being a lame wise cracking mother or father in a post apocalyptic    Upgraded graphics, a better in game console, game play that's a massive step back from Fallout New Vegas and a voiced protagonist that destroys any opportunity to role play in this role playing game, one that limits your response in any conversation to: "Yes", "No", a lame joke or "Why?".
    If you've ever dreamed of being a lame wise cracking mother or father in a post apocalyptic wasteland this is the game for you.    … Expand
  91. Iblis
    Sep 12, 2017
    0
    The technology is now in place to give us the TES 6 experience that we deserve... welcome to bethesdarD0Tnet and PAID MODS people. The horse power armor (true story) says it is loud, and proud and here to stay. My purchase of future titles is not, however, here to stay. Those of you that eat up full retail priced games with lots of dlc + microtransactions on top of it all (Call of DutyThe technology is now in place to give us the TES 6 experience that we deserve... welcome to bethesdarD0Tnet and PAID MODS people. The horse power armor (true story) says it is loud, and proud and here to stay. My purchase of future titles is not, however, here to stay. Those of you that eat up full retail priced games with lots of dlc + microtransactions on top of it all (Call of Duty players, I'm talking to you) you have a bright future ahead of you with this and TES series.

    The future's so bright, I've gotta wear
    ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
    SHADES....

    Also enjoy 4 different ways to not make a choice in dialogue 'options' and being shoehorned into the role of a whiny moralf*g 'family guy' that can never stfu about his son so you'd wish you could find it just to stomp the little brat to death except with no karma system and branching moral decisions that affect gameplay it would only matter to you. Dayz with ghouls basically.    … Expand
  92. Saratosa75
    Nov 30, 2015
    5
    The near 10 year old Gamebyro engine (Oblivion, Fallout,Skyrim) never looked this good, but its also shows its shortcomings.
    The game looks great - compared to what Bethesda previously has done. Fact, although there still plenty of muddy/low resolution textures, but this isn't only about the graphics.
    The gameplay isn't much different from Fallout 3. You go out and kill everything in    The near 10 year old Gamebyro engine (Oblivion, Fallout,Skyrim) never looked this good, but its also shows its shortcomings.
    The game looks great - compared to what Bethesda previously has done. Fact, although there still plenty of muddy/low resolution textures, but this isn't only about the graphics.
    The gameplay isn't much different from Fallout 3.
    You go out and kill everything in sight, collect and loot everything down to the last spoon and tin can. Both Skyrim and Oblivion and FO3 had the same. You spend half of your gameplay staring at your inventory and trying to decide what to keep, what to throw away. You can write this in stone: Your inventory will be full almost all the time. We have all got to this in Oblivion and Skryim and FO3 too.
    The engine has familiar downfalls, that Bethesda was never able to conquer over 2 decades.
    Anyone, who played Oblivion or Skyrim immediately feel right at home, regarding the problematic areas of this open world engine. If an NPC attacking a hostile NPC..you can't really do anything. VATS help but you gonna end up shooting your friendly too.
    Getting into a conversation while others pushing you around is annoying. Sometimes it's hard to initiate a conversation, because the NPC is trying to walk away or turn away. Sometimes you are "stuck" in a conversation and you keep turning around, even if you are happened to be under attack. This is all familiar.
    Strange physics sometimes ...things can get stuck in other objects and shake violently.
    The crafting mechanics is good...this is surely adding some extra gameplay no doubt.
    The menus and the interface is awful. This is worse than Skyrim. There is no way to have a clear well categorized menu option for the items. Especially when transfering . It's hard to tell what is worth to pick up. Surely, this game has the most horrendous menu system I have ever seen. Imagine 200-300 items you look through..and it's in line..like in a notepad format and you barely get any clue about what is what or which is better. Now, imagine, you have to look through over and over, as you pick up new things. Assigning to numbers while keeping an eye on your type of ammo and the amount, it gets really old an annoying.
    Even if you don't want to, you gonna end up carrying 7-8 types of weapons, because they all need different ammo. 7-8 types of weapons with multiple configurations...it gets really confusing and wasting a lot of time, due to the menu system being so inefficient and unnecessarily hard to sort. Imagine, if they would have just a copy of a spreadheet from Excel, that would have been a 100 times better. That's how awful it is.

    Missions.
    If you have played FO3 or Skyrim, well you gonna feel right at home. Go here, kill them, come back. Go there kill them, come back. You get the idea. The new recruiting stations is a good idea though. Once you figure out the - once again- God awful menu system, you gonna be building bases and managing the people you recruited. It's a good way to break up the monotone fetch and loot missions.
    Also, it's gonna take several hours, until you figure out how things work with the crafting and building..since there is hardly any explanation for anything. You either watch youtube videos, or you just go on and you figure it out as you play. It will take several hours. It took me several hours, but i also didn't watch any youtube videos, neither read any guides. I'm still not entirely know everything, even after 15 hours, I have questions regarding buildings, bases, crafting.
    Despite the good entertainment value and refreshing extra elements, I can't give more than 5. The bugs and glitches remain, the structure of the missions remain, the repetition and garbage collecting remain, just as it was in FO3, Skryim or Oblivion. Deep down, you gonna feel like, this game is a blast of the past despite its new shiny coating of graphics, and while things improved, there are decade old problems remained.    … Expand
  93. nabla
    Nov 20, 2015
    6
    People have written enough about all of Fallout 4's good and bad sides so I want to keep it short. Fallout 4 doesn't deserve 10 points nor does it deserve 0 points. It's a mediocre game with decent atmosphere but very little RPG elements.

    Shooting and graphics seem to be the only two things that have been improved over New Vegas. Everything else is just sub-par. The story is very    People have written enough about all of Fallout 4's good and bad sides so I want to keep it short. Fallout 4 doesn't deserve 10 points nor does it deserve 0 points. It's a mediocre game with decent atmosphere but very little RPG elements.

    Shooting and graphics seem to be the only two things that have been improved over New Vegas. Everything else is just sub-par. The story is very boring. There's no tension, no surprises. Same is true for all of the quests. Go there, kill that (80%). Go there, fetch that (20%). That's it. Everything seems to be built around the modding and crafting features which are not bad in itself. They would have been a great addition to the game if there was any other content in it worth mentioning.

    There are just a few basic weapon and armor models plus hundreds of mods for them. But the modding doesn't seem to make much of a difference in practice so I didn't use it much.

    UI is just ridiculous as always. I don't understand why Bethesda outfits every game with the same unusable UI at release which must be improved by modders in every single iteration over and over again.

    Also this will be the last game I bought from you unless you move on to a modern engine with decent animations and proper FOV.

    Don't get me wrong, the game is playable and it is even fun (I finished the main storyline and most of the side quests), but it is nothing new. It feels like a DLC for Fallout 3 with slightly improved graphics. But I can't give more than 6 points.

    I don't understand the people which give less than 5 points though. If you want to see a game that clearly deserves way less than 5 points go pirate Dragon Age: Inquisition and delete it again after five minutes of gameplay.    … Expand
  94. ROK1992
    Feb 27, 2016
    5
    Such a disappointment... It seems Bethesda had completely forgotten what made Fallout 3 and Fallout NV such a classic. Morally controversial choices, one of a kind atmosphere and a flexible RPG system. I'm truly sorry to say that Fallout 4 lacks all of that (or is non-existent). A mediocre, generic shooter is simply not acceptable for a Fallout title.
  95. Greywolf2001ca
    Aug 22, 2016
    2
    Bethesda disguised their next Elder Scrolls game as a Fallout. This game is just Hack'n'Shoot and has little role-playing in it. It's more of an action-adventure game... you explore, you kill and loot. You sometimes have puzzles and a bit of interaction with some npcs, but your choices in the conversations have little or no impact on the game. The choices are like Knight of the OldBethesda disguised their next Elder Scrolls game as a Fallout. This game is just Hack'n'Shoot and has little role-playing in it. It's more of an action-adventure game... you explore, you kill and loot. You sometimes have puzzles and a bit of interaction with some npcs, but your choices in the conversations have little or no impact on the game. The choices are like Knight of the Old Republic's near the end where you choose your ending, no plot tree, just a boring Elder Scrolls linear story with three to four almost identical endings (like massacre these guys, or kill those guys, etc. No diplomacy, no bargaining, no let's be a happy family with everyone happy, etc.).

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

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

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

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

    PLEASE BETHESDA, GIVE BACK THE RIGHTS OF FALLOUT TO OBSIDIAN and the others who worked on the 2 first Fallouts! Please!    … Expand
  96. smahlt
    Aug 31, 2017
    0
    >paid mods

    Your review must be at least 150 characters long. Your review must be at least 150 characters long. Your review must be at least 150 chara
  97. cyllan
    Aug 16, 2016
    3
    meta critic has stopped being any kind of benchmark...........it is another paid up propaganda tool to sell ......

    i dont use it anymore....except the user reviews........the last game i trusted and i ignored the users was wastelands 2.......wont be making this mistake anymore. 60% of reviews are negative/neutral........but for metacritic it was an 84%.......sorry no........ the    meta critic has stopped being any kind of benchmark...........it is another paid up propaganda tool to sell ......

    i dont use it anymore....except the user reviews........the last game i trusted and i ignored the users was wastelands 2.......wont be making this mistake anymore.

    60% of reviews are negative/neutral........but for metacritic it was an 84%.......sorry no........

    the rpg elements are simplified........eveyrthing is dumbed down "special" is gone ......check steam user reviews check user reviews.....dont ever rely on media....

    pc gamer originally scored drafon age 2 a 94%.........rome 2 high 80's on RELEASE!!!!!......

    enough manipulation    … Expand
  98. calderra
    Oct 22, 2018
    0
    Garbage. The only people who like this game are people who still think loot boxes are okay, seriously.

    The story? The entire emotional setup of the opening chapter lasts about 30 seconds, so by the time the "big plot event" happens you barely have any idea who these characters are and you certainly don't have any reason to care about them. No build-up, no payoff. The RPG mechanics?    Garbage. The only people who like this game are people who still think loot boxes are okay, seriously.

    The story? The entire emotional setup of the opening chapter lasts about 30 seconds, so by the time the "big plot event" happens you barely have any idea who these characters are and you certainly don't have any reason to care about them. No build-up, no payoff.

    The RPG mechanics? Hilariously bad. I hadn't been sufficiently warned by other reviews so here's the deal. You only get a few points to put into your SPECIAL stats at the start. This is because at any level up, you can put that point into any SPECIAL stat- OR IN ANY PERK IN THE ENTIRE TREE! This means that by Level 3 you could already have every single perk you really need for a super-overpowered build that will destroy combat for the rest of the game. In older fallouts, many perks were gated by level or by other perks so you had to build things on top of each other. That system was way more rewarding. Like the plot there's no build-up, so there's no pay-off. You don't feel like you earned anything on the entire tree- because you can get the "best" perk in the game at Level 1. Seriously.

    The shooting mechanics? This engine is old, ugly, buggy, and clunky. There's not getting around this. So even though the shooting is much more like "Caller Doody" than in past entries, it's still bad. So they sacrificed all the RPG elements, for mediocre-at-best- shooting. Not worth it.

    The time sinks? Base building / settlements are an MMO-style time sink. You really have to look up tips online for almost everything because the interface is awful and poorly described in-game. The materials are absolutely a time-waster. Trying to craft settlements, weapons, and armor will add literally tens of hours to your game- not by increasing the fun you'll have- but by making you pick up every freaking thing you run across to throw it into the recycling bin and turn it into crap. Bo-ring. Luckily, you can skip almost all of it. Deposit your normal armloads of crap into the bin, and combined with the easy game and overpowered perk system, you don't really have to worry about crafting good stuff to complete the game. Ever.

    The settlements? I'm not doing them except for the main story. Period. It's absolute bullcrap MMO-style time sinks. And the system behind the settlements is useless- anyone who actually cares about this part of the game has to mod it heavily to make it behave in a sane way. Short version- even if you arm your best settlement with way too many defenses, the game caps out at something like 80% chance they'll lose when they get attacked. It's stupid. There is no point.

    The business practices? Creation club is horrible business. They tried to make you pay money for community-developed mods. So people in the community improve the game, and Bethesda wants to profit off them. Absolutely greedy.

    Worst entry in the Fallout series, save for the "Fallout Shelter" mobile game. It's that bad. Do not buy at full price, ever. Maybe worth $15 if you're a hardcore fan. But 5 minutes in you may get a loading screen that spoils the biggest reveal in the entire plot since they're randomized. Non-spoiler.. the "new kind of robot" in the game was my second-ever loading screen. Now the whole second half of the game is spoiled for me. Who the hell decided that was okay?    … Expand
  99. Iplayedthegame
    Aug 11, 2016
    3
    Fallout 4 is by far the most disappointing game purchase of 2015. In the 25 hours I spent in Fallout 4 I found hardly anything to be excited about. Give the choice, I would rather play New Vegas or even Fallout 3. I'm glad I didn't buy the season pass as I have no desire to revisit the Boston wasteland. Skip this one entirely. Opening a box of Hot Pockets™ offers more immersion and freedomFallout 4 is by far the most disappointing game purchase of 2015. In the 25 hours I spent in Fallout 4 I found hardly anything to be excited about. Give the choice, I would rather play New Vegas or even Fallout 3. I'm glad I didn't buy the season pass as I have no desire to revisit the Boston wasteland. Skip this one entirely. Opening a box of Hot Pockets™ offers more immersion and freedom of choice than this game.… Expand
  100. hero665
    Aug 30, 2016
    3
    I've played the game for 200 hrs the game is a slightly more open game then farcry 3. Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle. I can only remember one location and its diamond city and again i've played for 200 hrs. fallout NV had so many memorable locations like good springs camp mccarran The Strip and more so did fallout 3 and skyrim. fallout 4 is Bethesda's attempt of copying minecraft andI've played the game for 200 hrs the game is a slightly more open game then farcry 3. Wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle. I can only remember one location and its diamond city and again i've played for 200 hrs. fallout NV had so many memorable locations like good springs camp mccarran The Strip and more so did fallout 3 and skyrim. fallout 4 is Bethesda's attempt of copying minecraft and in my opinion i think they failed at that attempt. If you look at the steam charts website you can see more people playing skyrim then fallout 4 it has very little replayability and no feel of mystery and adventure since you have to build your own locations.
    There's a lot of criticism about the graphics but you can ignore them bethesda rpgs never had very good graphics any way. If you're looking for a zen game about collecting resources and building things i'd suggest save your money and play minecraft. If you're looking for a cathartic experience going around killing things and blowing stuff up i'd suggest playing just cause 2.
    Buy fallout 4 when it's on a discount and avoid the dlc    … Expand
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  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    80
    After terrible first couple of hours Fallout 4 pulled itself together and ultimately was almost as fun as The Witcher 3. There’s a huge chasm between these two games in terms of technology (F4 looks like a X360 game), but their open worlds are equally good and Bethesda did a better job with crafting. [01/2016, p.42]
  2. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    70
    This isn’t the step forward I expected, though. Here we are, the first Bethesda game on a new hardware generation, and I can’t help feeling like we’ve regressed—like Fallout 4 really is Oblivion-with-guns. A decade later, it certainly makes many of the same mistakes.
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  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 4, 2016
    92
    It’s easy to get carried away by Fallout 4’s massive open world. While the gunplay is much improved and the quests fun, I found the UI lacking on the PC. The inventory and build menus are really tedious to use. [Dec 2015]
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