Fallout 4

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  1. ReviewMachine
    Aug 3, 2020
    2
    This game was garbage. I couldn't even get half way through the main quest before quitting permanently. What little good that was left in the older Fallout games was gutted.
  2. Dersoli
    Aug 6, 2020
    10
    people are too stupid not to reject the false feeling of the old games, I was disappointed in these people, the game deserves more.
  3. wadroid
    Dec 4, 2020
    1
    Watered down rpg mechanics. Pretty average action game, but awful as a Fallout game.
  4. UnbiasedSalt
    Dec 13, 2020
    6
    Just to sum it up, it's an "eh" game. Not good, not bad, it's "eh". Story is partially interesting the first time you play it. Graphics are okay I guess, the atmosphere isn't just there, some characters are memorable, side-quests are horrible, combat is actually good, the map is good and all of the endings are basically the same. Also, the "RPG" element is kind of taken away. InJust to sum it up, it's an "eh" game. Not good, not bad, it's "eh". Story is partially interesting the first time you play it. Graphics are okay I guess, the atmosphere isn't just there, some characters are memorable, side-quests are horrible, combat is actually good, the map is good and all of the endings are basically the same. Also, the "RPG" element is kind of taken away. In conclusion, the game is only good the first time you play it.… Expand
  5. InterestingName
    Dec 13, 2020
    8
    Very enjoyable open world game, but it lacks the rpg mechanics that made the other fallouts so good. The main and side quests are good enough to encourage exploration, and the weapons are satisfying to use. It is really good if you look at it from a survival game perspective.
  6. Rusgamecon
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ок, что мы имеем? Репка, красить силовую броню, ну и вполне нот бэд мир с предысторией и не такой уж и фиговой стрельбой. Из плюсов это пожалуй открытые инструменты сообществу и то что перечислено выше. Минусы: Баги игре уже 5 лет но баги всё ещё раздражают время от времени. Персонажи ну такое се не сильно запоминаются. Сюжет... Я должен что-то говорить? Он до офигевания банален, Твоего пездюка спиздили и ты его пытаешься найти и выясняется что он твой враг фактически(Запоздалый спойлер алёрт, но к добавлению вы можете пройти за институт) так что сюжет на отъебись. Сайд квесты полная дичь без разнообразия. иди убей или найди. Рекомендую ли я поиграть? Как песочницу да, как в игру по фоллычу нет.… Expand
  7. completo3
    Dec 15, 2020
    7
    El juego esta bien, no es el mejor Fallout ni de lejos y tampoco es posible completarlo al 100%, hiperazucarado, el logro mas difícil esta bugueado como otro montón de apartados del titulo, es disfrutable y su mundo esta lleno de cosas para hacer y con un gran repertorio de armas o armaduras para explotar su potencial. El DLC de Automatron y Far Harbor son los mejores, Nuka-World esEl juego esta bien, no es el mejor Fallout ni de lejos y tampoco es posible completarlo al 100%, hiperazucarado, el logro mas difícil esta bugueado como otro montón de apartados del titulo, es disfrutable y su mundo esta lleno de cosas para hacer y con un gran repertorio de armas o armaduras para explotar su potencial. El DLC de Automatron y Far Harbor son los mejores, Nuka-World es bastante pesado y esta bastante bugueado, los demás son ridícilos. El juego se conserva bien a pesar de los 4 años que tiene, recomiendo su compra si lo encuentras a menos de 10€ ya que da bastantes horas y la historia principal entretiene.… Expand
  8. JoelArpal
    Dec 30, 2020
    7
    It has a lot of bad things and i understand why Fallout fans tend to hate it, but i had a good time playing it. That being said, it has the same problems as the other games from Bethesda, so i also ended up droping it.
  9. gerardiph
    Dec 25, 2020
    0
    The most prominent video game industry failure for me lately was Fallout 4. They eliminated all the RPG components and transformed it into a shallow dumbed-down shooter looter.

    How many FPS games and shooter looters are there on the gaming market? Approximately a billion, and they offer more invariably. How typical are post-apocalyptic RPGs? These games are very sparse, yet they still    The most prominent video game industry failure for me lately was Fallout 4. They eliminated all the RPG components and transformed it into a shallow dumbed-down shooter looter.

    How many FPS games and shooter looters are there on the gaming market? Approximately a billion, and they offer more invariably. How typical are post-apocalyptic RPGs? These games are very sparse, yet they still had to take Fallout from us and make it into a stupid game for idiots.

    For example, Fallout 3 significantly altered the F1 and F2 isometric 2D engine to a complete 3D powerhouse. Bethesda did a satisfactory job with F3, and I nevertheless go back to it occasionally. I've remained a die-hard Fallout enthusiast since I learned about the game (many believed they would adopt a GURPS based system at the moment) in a publication back in the mid-90s. However, the disappointment of how poorly Bethesda did with Fallout 4 has made me never want to play another Fallout game ever again.    … Expand
  10. ktoxo4et
    Dec 26, 2020
    10
    Played 1300+hours and this is great!Building is great, world is interesting and good to explore.Yep, as RPG this is worth, than F:New Vegas, but not so bad.There's interesting quests and storyline.
    BUT DAMN OPTIMIZATION...It's verrrryyyy bad
  11. Juli01223
    Jan 15, 2021
    7
    Even today fallout 4 for me is one of the most buggy games ... For me fallout tries to be everything but it is not good at anything, it is just average, since he thinks it is a bigger game than really. The game also has performance problems to this day. And unlike skyrim, your world is not at all interesting to me.
  12. Jahidster
    Apr 2, 2021
    10
    You all should respect this game, there are no such games as Fallout 4. It is absolutely different game, it has a fantastic atmosphere!
  13. applecookie
    Dec 11, 2022
    7
    It's a shame compared to Skyrim. Fallout 4 is not a bad game
    Compared to other open-world games (Ubisoft`s game), Fallout 4 is a good game and a fully enjoyable game
  14. Naked_Snakee
    Mar 21, 2023
    7
    Just text (crutch) to save the game to the list. Such things. Maybe I'll do a review later.
  15. benny0909
    Jan 22, 2016
    0
    Put over 1000 hours into New Vegas. Can't be bothered to put in more than 60 into Fallout 4. While the game is beautiful, it lacks any depth. The story is just...terrible. RPG elements almost non-existent. A settlement system which has little to no meaningful impact & only consists of maybe a hundred assets when there are 10,000's in the game. The companion AI....my god. I can'tPut over 1000 hours into New Vegas. Can't be bothered to put in more than 60 into Fallout 4. While the game is beautiful, it lacks any depth. The story is just...terrible. RPG elements almost non-existent. A settlement system which has little to no meaningful impact & only consists of maybe a hundred assets when there are 10,000's in the game. The companion AI....my god. I can't even describe how horrible it is other than to say it literally gave me real migraines. This took 7 years to make? What the hell happened?… Expand
  16. dharc
    Jan 18, 2016
    0
    yet another example of the gaming industry treating its audience as idiot, taking away any choice in the game apart from whether you accept a quest or not. the game has been dumbed down to the point where there you have no ability to chose a play style.
    its just another case of "lets make a game that's all action because that's fun". which it is, for ten minutes. but after that ten    yet another example of the gaming industry treating its audience as idiot, taking away any choice in the game apart from whether you accept a quest or not. the game has been dumbed down to the point where there you have no ability to chose a play style.
    its just another case of "lets make a game that's all action because that's fun". which it is, for ten minutes. but after that ten minutes you start seeing the lack of story or character creation (i mean who your character is, not what they look like.

    Lame/10    … Expand
  17. Jerusalem9769
    Jan 28, 2016
    4
    Let me start by saying all the fan boys that rated this 10/10 within a couple of days of release are just plain wrong (or so blinded by loyalty they outright lied)

    This is not an RPG, this is a FPS, a FPS with a very very short life span. Once you have completed the extremely short main story there are only very very very boring repeat fetch quests to level up with or settlement    Let me start by saying all the fan boys that rated this 10/10 within a couple of days of release are just plain wrong (or so blinded by loyalty they outright lied)

    This is not an RPG, this is a FPS, a FPS with a very very short life span. Once you have completed the extremely short main story there are only very very very boring repeat fetch quests to level up with or settlement building (which is engaging for a couple of hours until you remember you didn't buy f*cking minecraft)

    Following are some of the poorer aspects of the game -

    Speech is terrible, (the voices, the choices, the script are all awful)
    Repetitive fetch quest, go here, kill everything, come back
    Weapon upgrades are in the main worthless, the same upgrades are almost essential for any weapon
    The perk system is useless, you will never need at least two thirds of them and you will still be over powered.
    Enemy AI is horrendous. Stand there while I pump bullets into you.
    Karma, the one absolutely excellent thing Bethesda did in FO3? Gone, it matters not anyway as you have to be a variation of a good character anyway, you are simply not allowed to kill certain NPC.
    Power armour is a waste of time except as a self styled quest to collect them. It is simply not needed 95% of the time.
    It matters not which faction you 'choose' to side with, the majority of the endings are exactly the same.
    VATS is now completely useless, meaning it's all down the sights COD style shooting.

    I can't be bothered to slate it any more, even though there's more in the tank.

    This could almost be the game that kills the Fallout franchise, it won't because hype beats all, but it certainly could.

    Five years waiting. For this. Shocking. 4/10    … Expand
  18. aslan06
    Jan 18, 2016
    0
    Even mоre dumbed-dоwn than Skyrim,i was thinking that it impоsibIe...and this game shоw exacIy hоw Iazy bethesda is.I can't beIive peоpIe stiII defending this cоmpany.
  19. howtolevelagirl
    Nov 14, 2015
    6
    I get the 0 ratings. If the 0 ratings were all 5-6, the game overall would get an 8 or 9 that it does not deserve, and the sizeable number of consumers who are dissatisfied with the game would not get heard over the paid-professional reviewers.

    There is a difference in paying $10 for a game, and it's amusing for a few hours and just okay. But let's get serious. I paid $120 for a Pip-Boy    I get the 0 ratings. If the 0 ratings were all 5-6, the game overall would get an 8 or 9 that it does not deserve, and the sizeable number of consumers who are dissatisfied with the game would not get heard over the paid-professional reviewers.

    There is a difference in paying $10 for a game, and it's amusing for a few hours and just okay. But let's get serious. I paid $120 for a Pip-Boy Edition and $40 for a hardbound Survival Guide. And when I went into Best Buy on Tuesday, the first thing they did was offer a $30 Season Pass for future, unreleased game content.

    The problem with Fallout 4 is that I just shelled out $200 and didn't get $200 worth of satisfaction. I paid around about that on Skyrim, and Skyrim was worth every penny. I certainly didn't spend time the weekend afterwards trying to explain online why I didn't find the game... fun.

    And no, I've never posted another review before. I came over here to look after a tweet from AngryJoe.

    So I'd give it a 6-10. I am sorely tempted to hit 0. Why? Buying a AAA game is like an arranged marriage. You shell out the money based on the reputation of the game studio and there isn't any quickie divorce if your spouse turns out to be a broke, alcoholic mess.

    People should go ahead and play the game, but get it used if you haven't already done so. Save your money for a later version where the major bugs have been fixed. And stop telling outraged gamers who feel like they've been conned and robbed that they are trolls.

    Problems:

    1. The plot is horrible. It's Ally McBeal. And it's not an RPG. Beyond that, it's a boring, cardboard and morally devoid non-RPG story. The game fails to make you at all interested in your primary motivation. Besides, the opening sequence was poorly disguised emotional manipulation (though pretty graphics) of kneejerk "Support the Troops!" It wasn't what we were expecting, which was something Epic. Instead, we got a homesick sob-story from some random guy we don't care about.

    2. The voiced main protagonist is as bad as we all feared it would be (unless you are a paid reviewer). I don't mind voiced protagonists per se (Fable, Dead Space, Tomb Raider), but it breaks the particular sort of immersion that an open-world RPG can offer. You end up feeling like you are just giving a makeover to someone else no matter how many rerolls you do. The Wheel system doesn't work, largely because the options don't accurately describe the voiced dialogue. It's a rip-off of the Emotion-Wheel that failed so memorably in Fable 3.

    3. The facial animations are a huge slide backwards. They might be slightly more realistic at the skin level than Skyrim, but the coordination between voice and mouth is consistently off, and the NPCs constantly make physical motions (bobbing heads, etc) at points where it's very unnatural. Worse, they fail at demonstrating an emotional context to the situation or dialogue of the NPC. Every one looks like they are standing in a long check out line at a grocery store, not like they live in a nuclear wasteland.
    (New players note: You can turn off the dialogue camera, which I recommend.)

    4. So many Fallout favorite gameplay mechanics have been stripped out of the game: Karma, Reputation, Repair. That your gear will degrade, that replacements are rare, that upgrades are exceedingly rare, are necessary components of a survival-nuclear wasteland. The gear-candy situation and the instant trust of sheep-like people never make you feel like you are carving out a place for yourself. Instead it's more like being a rich person shopping at a thrift store because its chic.

    5. The zany fun in some of the first few levels were stripped out in favor of making the opening 5 hours of game play a condensed version of a Fallout game. I literally had a sniper-rifle the equivalent of what I used to fight the Second Battle of Hoover Dam after 3 hours. In the rush to throw Power Armor, a minigun, and a Death Claw at critics before they wrote a first day review, the vast majority of players lost out on a few hours of wearing your Vault Suit in combat and killing things with pool cues and baseball bats.

    6. The quests are devoid of real, convincing moral conflict or choices. Everyone hates everyone because... Because! The specifics of a lot of it would require using spoilers, so basically choosing a faction in this game is just choosing one list of different quests for each play through. In Fallout:New Vegas, you spent most of your gameplay (for example if you went NCR), negotiating out how other nonaligned factions responded in the inevitable war over Hoover Dam, thus deciding their fate in the future of the Mojave desert. There's no real moral choice here, just a whole bunch of fetch-or-kill quests for no real end purpose.

    TLDR: Bugs don't make me mad at spending $200 and feel like giving this a 0. A boring, cardboard open world game stripped of any real RPG elements makes me mad that I spent more than $30. YMMV.    … Expand
  20. bigdaddyaggie
    Nov 21, 2015
    4
    Should have waited and read reviews instead of pre-purchase on greenman. Will have to find something else to play. Like the others say here. It is a FPS not RPG. I am not an FPS fan so it is boring to me. I am not a treasure hunter. I need a story/purpose and the quest are just not interesting. Go clear this area or go fetch this ring. Just doesn't engage me.
  21. Fearls1
    Jan 12, 2016
    1
    Sadly this is the route AAA games have gone in the past 5 years. Simplify and sale as many copies as possible to the ignorant masses. Due to the amount this game sold, you can bet your ass that Bethesda "knows" what gamer's want.
  22. Solantus
    Dec 23, 2015
    4
    Disappointed of the year,

    People waiting for a fallout game, but they find a mine craft mixed with Sims. I start to play the game after the 3 hours suddenly realize ı just build beds and walls for My Sims. Where is my explore, story, quests. skills most important them all what type of "V.A.T.S" is that ? it is not useful you have to play whole game like a play FPS but this game must be    Disappointed of the year,

    People waiting for a fallout game, but they find a mine craft mixed with Sims. I start to play the game after the 3 hours suddenly realize ı just build beds and walls for My Sims. Where is my explore, story, quests. skills most important them all what type of "V.A.T.S" is that ? it is not useful you have to play whole game like a play FPS but this game must be a RPG right ?    … Expand
  23. Monoliithic
    Jan 7, 2016
    2
    Bad story telling, bad character design, bad writing (minus one specific character) and outside of that it's the exact same incredibly buggy Bethesda game we keep getting. There is 0 innovation, and the one thing they added thats new (the sims knockoff) is slipshod at best. But the shooting is better. It's not good, but it's better. So there's that. This game should've been 30 dollars.
  24. Jedien
    Dec 24, 2015
    2
    If you are a real Fallout 1 - 2 fan do not buy this game !
    Bethesda said it is the biggest game project ever - if yes I am scarred for the future games - honestly.
  25. Sapistas
    Nov 15, 2015
    6
    Sorry but the game is very boring. Apart from some new gameplay mechanics, it has nothing more to add to the series. Bethesda just dosen't "got it" with Fallout. The story and writing is extremely cheesy. I mean Bethesda was never good with writing but this is their worst effort on the subject. It feels it's written by a 13 year old boy.
    Anyway, if this is your first fallout game ever or    Sorry but the game is very boring. Apart from some new gameplay mechanics, it has nothing more to add to the series. Bethesda just dosen't "got it" with Fallout. The story and writing is extremely cheesy. I mean Bethesda was never good with writing but this is their worst effort on the subject. It feels it's written by a 13 year old boy.
    Anyway, if this is your first fallout game ever or if you enjoy running around in a wasteland shooting stuff than roleplaying and wanting to see how the world advances through the series this might be a game for you. If not, I don't believe you'll stay long.
    There are others (you know who) that know how to handle a Fallout game. Hope Bethesda will have them make another one ;)    … Expand
  26. beerweed
    Nov 17, 2015
    5
    After finishing Fallout 4 choosing to ally myself with the institute i came to the conclusion it doesnt even match up to Fallout: New Vegas, The game is simplified and dumbed down, lacks creativity, lacks wonder, feels rushed. I hated the game, i give it a 6/10 because its barely playable.
  27. eldandy
    Dec 14, 2015
    2
    worst fallout ever. actions and dialogue don't matter. you can only play as a goody two shoes. they have destroyed one of the best series in gaming history. to be fair it looks better than fallout 3, a 10-11 year old game. Molerats look better, every other creature looks worse. even the radio guy is the worst in a fallout game. the main character? good actor but feels so... forced, notworst fallout ever. actions and dialogue don't matter. you can only play as a goody two shoes. they have destroyed one of the best series in gaming history. to be fair it looks better than fallout 3, a 10-11 year old game. Molerats look better, every other creature looks worse. even the radio guy is the worst in a fallout game. the main character? good actor but feels so... forced, not genuine. like this game, which is a dumbed down version created to appease mainstream gamers by badly emulating certain aspects of much better games instead of standing on its own merits. never been so heartbroken by a game before. Not terrible, but just not enjoyable. wanted to love it, but it is boring, unoriginal, rushed, unpolished. it is a half breed, the bastard child of greats but keeping only the worst of the gene pool. this is the most disappointing game of the decade, and we are not even half
    way there. it will ruin lives.
    I dont even care about the bugs. a disgrace    … Expand
  28. Junthor
    Jan 1, 2016
    2
    I was going to give this game a 4 for effort. Up to this point in time it has been a mediocre experience, but I carried on playing though regardless. Pretty much all negative reviews on here are correct, I didn't really feel like I needed to add my opinion to the thousands people voicing their disappointment.
    However I have encountered a serious bug with a main character called Desdemona    I was going to give this game a 4 for effort. Up to this point in time it has been a mediocre experience, but I carried on playing though regardless. Pretty much all negative reviews on here are correct, I didn't really feel like I needed to add my opinion to the thousands people voicing their disappointment.
    However I have encountered a serious bug with a main character called Desdemona and I now cannot progress through the story so I now give this game 2 and now feel compelled to review it.

    I think the user score of 5.4 is generous. Pretty terrible effort from Bethesda, this bland mess simply has no soul and is ridden with bugs. Avoid.    … Expand
  29. new_age_retro
    Jan 11, 2016
    0
    Esto no es Fallout. Todo elemento RPG característico de la franquicia fue eliminado por Bethesda y el resultado es un juego que es más un Far Cry que un Fallout. Creo que el juego en sí no es malo, pero lo que hizo Bethesda en este título es el paso equivocado a seguir. Por favor Obsidian, arregla lo que hicieron estos tipos que no tienen idea sobre hacer un RPG.
  30. OldSocks
    May 4, 2016
    0
    Game is a bug fest. The latest patch turned it into a grind fest on top of it.. Save your money, its extremely repetitive and not fun. The quests are boring. Expect most of the gameplay to involve collecting junk for crafting, endless hours of it.
  31. Josphi
    Dec 14, 2015
    2
    Half of game is missing compared to FO3 and FONV: no karma system, awful quests (inc.main story line), terrible dailog system, factions are uninteresting and will recruit you and give you high rank with almost no effort effort on your side. Fallout lore is broken as if nobody on dev team played the orginal. Overall this is nothing but crappy shooter with minecraft elements, you will findHalf of game is missing compared to FO3 and FONV: no karma system, awful quests (inc.main story line), terrible dailog system, factions are uninteresting and will recruit you and give you high rank with almost no effort effort on your side. Fallout lore is broken as if nobody on dev team played the orginal. Overall this is nothing but crappy shooter with minecraft elements, you will find yourself killing enemies then packing whole place up into your bag and making 3-4 trips to your settlement every time what takes loads of time, because of loading times.… Expand
  32. Kapilux
    Dec 22, 2015
    1
    This game is just so bad in every department. And Bethesda actually succeeded in dumbing down their dumbed down games even more. Everything is just bad or awful - the writing, graphics, art design, voice acting, quest design, story/writing, mechanics, user interface EVERYTHING are just AWFUL. Stay away at all costs and save your money for a decent game.
  33. twitcheeeee
    Nov 14, 2015
    5
    Professional reviewers will give this game a 9, but THAT'S BECAUSE THEY GRADE EVERYTHING FROM 7 ONWARDS and never use 0-6 at all. If you want the real perspective about whether this game is worth buying, read the user reviews here instead. Now, to be honest, I pirated this game on the PC so I didn't have to spend money on it, but if a friend is asking me whether he should spend hisProfessional reviewers will give this game a 9, but THAT'S BECAUSE THEY GRADE EVERYTHING FROM 7 ONWARDS and never use 0-6 at all. If you want the real perspective about whether this game is worth buying, read the user reviews here instead. Now, to be honest, I pirated this game on the PC so I didn't have to spend money on it, but if a friend is asking me whether he should spend his hard-earned money to buy this game right now, my advice is NO. The game is seriously riddled with bugs, bugs and bugs. It's got poor performance even on top-range PC and exhibit super annoying micro-stuttering, even when you're running at 60 fps. It takes a lot of tweaking and modding and messing around with the .ini files to make it run acceptably.

    Then coupled with the generic and rather uninspiring storylines, the stripped-down RPG element so the game feels a lot like a shooter now, the awkward model and animations in 2015. AND DID I MENTION THE POOR PERFORMANCE? My advice is basically if you want to play the best open world games, go get GTA V or even Skyrim. Buy this game only when it hits the discount shelf 3 - 6 months from now and all the problems have been fixed and patched by Bethesda or the modding community.

    Once again, do not trust professional reviewers. They will give anything that runs 7-8.    … Expand
  34. FreeThinker
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a real disappointment. It seems Bethesda didn't spend any time to make to make the game playable for PC. Instead of testing it by a single PC player, they spend millions on advertising. This is simply unacceptable for a AAA game. That's to bad because it has a lot of potential Hopefully the game will be fixed by Modders, but out of the box, Fallout 4 is simply unplayable. IFallout 4 is a real disappointment. It seems Bethesda didn't spend any time to make to make the game playable for PC. Instead of testing it by a single PC player, they spend millions on advertising. This is simply unacceptable for a AAA game. That's to bad because it has a lot of potential Hopefully the game will be fixed by Modders, but out of the box, Fallout 4 is simply unplayable. I would everyone to avoid it as the plague untill they take PC players serious… Expand
  35. Ma55
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    After over 80 hours logged and playing on hard or very hard this game may be one of my biggest let downs. The RPG elements and dialogue have been butchered, far worse than what was done to Skyrim. The user interface is trash for anything other than controllers. The story and characters are laughable, upon making it to diamond city I had a hearty chuckle at the "emotion" piper portrays atAfter over 80 hours logged and playing on hard or very hard this game may be one of my biggest let downs. The RPG elements and dialogue have been butchered, far worse than what was done to Skyrim. The user interface is trash for anything other than controllers. The story and characters are laughable, upon making it to diamond city I had a hearty chuckle at the "emotion" piper portrays at the gate.The only redeeming quality is the gun-play and modding of guns/armor.

    And to the big list of problems-
    -The dialogue wheel only approximates what your character will actually say and is limited to 4 choices at a time.
    -The game has a whopping 6 pistols, 2 shotguns, 5 rifles (not counting energy), and custom ammo and grenade launchers have been REMOVED. There is not even an under the barrel launcher mod!?
    -After exploring/clearing an area you are rewarded with a chest ala skyrim. At level 50+ it has pipe weapons. Dredging down a Missile Silo in the glowing sea? Think you will find something cool or unique at the end? Nope, just a basic weapon and it will be in a chest rather than placed in the world.
    - At level 50+ enemies are still using basic pipe weapons that are un-modded.
    - Settlements and building are poorly implemented and lack depth.
    - Skills are gone and lockpicking/hacking is now reliant on perks.
    -Shoddy FPS on decent PC
    -Unkillable characters make their return.
    -Explosive builds/characters have little choice in weapons
    - 80 hours and not much left to do
    The list can go on and on    … Expand
  36. heygetoffmylawn
    Dec 6, 2015
    4
    I started the series from the beginning, so I feel I might be biased, but as much as I want to like it, I feel it's simply mediocre--and sometime outright bad.

    I will start with the things I felt were noteworthy: The gunplay. Shooting the various creatures of the Commonwealth was certainly just as satisfying as it always was in NV or 3, but what was even better was the tuning of VATS.    I started the series from the beginning, so I feel I might be biased, but as much as I want to like it, I feel it's simply mediocre--and sometime outright bad.

    I will start with the things I felt were noteworthy: The gunplay. Shooting the various creatures of the Commonwealth was certainly just as satisfying as it always was in NV or 3, but what was even better was the tuning of VATS. Instead of trying the mimic the pause-the-game turn based combat of 1 and 2, 4 now slows time while choosing a specific target. I feel this was a good choice.

    And that's about sums up my praise for the game. Almost everything else, I didn't care for, or I felt was totally forgettable. Models, sound, the dialog wheel and it's vague choices. The forced, repelling main story line, the fact that they dropped the Notes tab and now we use the Misc tab like a junk drawer. 'Rolling' a character is pointless if you can upgrade their base stats every consecutive level. The settlements (as neat as the idea) don't really fit in the game. How they totally **** on the lore. Why do we have power armor in the beginning, and why is it so goddamn OP? And the balance is off so much that I don't even have to use it! Increasing the difficulty simply makes the AI bullet sponges, no upgrade in speed or actions--there's so many things I could just nitpick this game to death, but ultimately I think it was just trying to be too many games at once; sandbox, RPG, shooter. Quality over quantity.    … Expand
  37. Kodie53
    Dec 12, 2015
    3
    The only way I could have any fun with this game was by cranking the difficulty to max, requiring pixel perfection on every move I made.
    Besides that the cliche story and forced characterization is extremely sub-par for a AAA $60 title, and completely removes any desire for a second play through.
    The overall atmosphere of the game falls flat, compared to the rest of the fallout series.    The only way I could have any fun with this game was by cranking the difficulty to max, requiring pixel perfection on every move I made.
    Besides that the cliche story and forced characterization is extremely sub-par for a AAA $60 title, and completely removes any desire for a second play through.
    The overall atmosphere of the game falls flat, compared to the rest of the fallout series.
    The main character is a cookie cutter 1950's family man/woman with a spouse and kid,and the player is given no real choice in how their story progresses. The only divergence in the path is through charisma based dialog options, and even those choices are completely negligible, only truly mattering to your current companion.
    Speaking of companions, the 'vast array' available in Fallout 4 are all extremely poorly coded, have lazily written dialog, have no affect on the plot/ending, and over all become more of a nuisance than an actual wasteland companion. All of them are like having the 'Adoring Fan' from Oblivion follow you around (nearly identical AI behaviors aside), but they block doorways more often.
    The graphics are decent at best,and the game speed being dependent on frame rate is a pathetic disease that should not plaque games with multi-million dollar budgets.
    The game's engine, Creation Engine, was old in 2011, and it shows in game play.
    Overall as a Fallout game its a 3/10 because it is possible to enjoy this game, and its not the worst game I have ever played.
    That being said, I have played the Fallout series since Fallout 2, and this is by far the least enjoyable, shallowest, and overall weakest game in the entire series.
    However, even taking the game out of Fallout context, and considering it its very own game belonging to no series, it is still a 3/10.
    The extremely heavy FPS focus turns away a lot of players, who aren't big FPS gamers.
    The 'infinite' quests are more redundant than for(;;), and about as interesting.
    The settlements feels like a game all on its own, was poorly implemented, and has nothing at all to do with anything else in the game. you get no ending relating to your settlement, no bonus karma, no army, nothing. At most you get some extra caps and junk materials.
    The AI is absolutely horrendous, beyond outdated, and if it weren't for the lone wanderer perk, it would bring the game down to a 2/10, but the developers obviously knew that they implemented a horrible AI system, so they gave you a perk so you didn't have to deal with followers. At least that is what I've decided to believe.
    And finally, getting back to the Fallout series, the end of the game is so immensely disappointing that I plan to never pick the game up again.
    The end of the game is defined by only 1 factor, with only 4 available endings, dependent solely on which faction you side with, a pathetically low number when you consider that there were:
    6 main endings and 2-4 distinct endings for each faction and companion in NV
    26 different factors in 3
    and in Fallout 2 there are 50+ ending scenes, all effected by your choices in the game.

    TL;DR
    This game is shallow, poorly written, poorly coded, all the 'extra cool features' felt last minute and are all buggy or poorly implemented. The game leaves you disappointed and unfulfilled, yet gives you no incentive to start a new play through.
    3/10 not worth the hype, 150 hours, or $60 dollars I wasted on it.    … Expand
  38. RadicalRic
    Dec 16, 2015
    4
    There's hardly any wow factor in this game. If you close your eyes and try to imagine any generic post-apocalyptic setting, you'll find everything of the concepts you imagined in the first 4 seconds. Sure, there's 50s music and fedoras, but that's pretty much it. The problem is that the Fallout series were all about crazyness, and the predecessor to this particular game was as crazy as aThere's hardly any wow factor in this game. If you close your eyes and try to imagine any generic post-apocalyptic setting, you'll find everything of the concepts you imagined in the first 4 seconds. Sure, there's 50s music and fedoras, but that's pretty much it. The problem is that the Fallout series were all about crazyness, and the predecessor to this particular game was as crazy as a war between cowboys and the roman empire in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas who was now a robot controlled city ruled by an immortal mind connected to a machine. There's none of that interesting uniqueness here, just exploring a wasteland and make your own living out of scrap metal and rubber tires. There's a story somewhere in between that hardly made me involved. Shooting at things is still fun, regardless.… Expand
  39. x_Demonic_z
    Jan 6, 2016
    4
    A 'good' game, terrible Fallout game.

    Fallout, one of my favorite RPG games, has been slaughtered, mutilated and transformed into a hideous mash of random dynamics that only lessened the core of a Fallout game... RPG elements are so watered down, i wouldn't even call this an RPG. The dialogue is less than poor.. Its disgusting.. The simplified dialolgue wheel and the absence of any    A 'good' game, terrible Fallout game.

    Fallout, one of my favorite RPG games, has been slaughtered, mutilated and transformed into a hideous mash of random dynamics that only lessened the core of a Fallout game... RPG elements are so watered down, i wouldn't even call this an RPG. The dialogue is less than poor.. Its disgusting.. The simplified dialolgue wheel and the absence of any special related dialogue options beyond Charisma is a major disappointment, and completely unnessesary. Just... why?

    The lack of character development and choice is an insult to the fallout franchise. Why main protagonist voice acting? Is this mass effect? Why limit character design for only the smallest addition of story telling? What happened to the skills? why is every character the exact same starting off? I remember having a Stupid brute at the start of one playthrough of NV, and a smartass scientist in another... The settlement system is underdeveloped and a waste of time. It literally has zero effect on the game.

    The factions are stale and their quest are all the same repeatable quests taking you to the same area... Not to mention they all lead to the same copy pasta ending scene. If Fallout 4 wasn't a Fallout game, i'd like it more. Just knowing what this could have been, leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

    After all of this, i still think it's a decent game. The world is beautifully crafted, and my only gripe is that it lacks depth. Almost every location is "Kill everything that moves and loot the simi relevent gear". Along with the "Kill everything" scheme, the gunplay has been well done. It really does feel less clunky. However, if i had to choose between gunplay, and RPG elements i'd choose the RPG side.

    To sum it up, If you like open world action shooters, this is a good game for you. However, If you LOVED Fallout 3 and New Vegas as well as their RPG goodness, Don't waste your money.. Wait another year, and maybe the modding community can fix Fallout 4.... or perhaps obsidian will take a crack at it? one can only hope..    … Expand
  40. WahjahEater
    Jun 21, 2018
    1
    Good First Person Shooter. Bad Fallout Game.

    The enjoyment of this title will totally depend on the type of person playing Fallout 4. If you're into Bioshock-esque type of games where the narrative is drawn mostly from the environment, terminals, and notes left behind by "people" of the waste along with a solid FPS system then Fallout 4 might be for you. I see Fallout as a way different    Good First Person Shooter. Bad Fallout Game.

    The enjoyment of this title will totally depend on the type of person playing Fallout 4. If you're into Bioshock-esque type of games where the narrative is drawn mostly from the environment, terminals, and notes left behind by "people" of the waste along with a solid FPS system then Fallout 4 might be for you. I see Fallout as a way different brainchild from Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas. I've been playing the Fallout series starting back in 98' on my old Dell Pentium I (one) during the RPG isometric days. I was intially happy to hear about Fallout's reboot around 2007, but was a bit disappointed in a way to find out it would be done with Bethesda's dated Gamebyro engine, which I was not impressed by ESIV: Oblivion (but you when got to save cash where it matters I suppose it isn't all that bad from a devolper's point of view) nonetheless I was still excited to hear that it would get its reboot, regardless of how it would be released. I'll give Bethesda credit for being able to create interesting worldspaces and level designs, very great at setting up atmospheres and all that it entices. But what I won't forgive them for is the lack of intelligence or effort that they decide to put into their writing for this type of role playing game. The thing that made the early Fallout titles memorable and replayable, was its really interesting story and story arcs although contained within a limited worldspace, it was able to conjure up the idea or illusion of a civilization in shambles. It was able to sustain an interesting type of universe that warded its lore with believable tragedies and at times humorous writing; all without holding the players hand through a well thought out system of dialog choices ranging from good, bad, everything in between and outright goof that would affect or tie-into the endgame story and it's arcs. It would keep you invested enough to get into its sometimes tough RPG Special system and turn based combat. It was something you learned to live with because that was what they could pull off due to technical limitations which was strongly influenced from table top games that relied heavily on the players imagination. A sort of freedom or spark that is lacking from both Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. It's something that Bethesda has failed to recapture with its own iteration's of this IP. So Fallout 4 is a whole different beast in terms of what its pretending to do. It pretends to give you choice through this awfully adopted Mass Effect dialog wheel where none of the choices you choose have any affect in the outcome of the game itself. I would not have mind the voice protagonist had it not lend itself to a linear style. Although I found it's linear narrative annoying, it's a nice post apocalyptic worldspace to look at and it comes with FPS mechanics and graphics you'd come to expect with any modern shooter. Is it a good RPG? No. Is it a good shooter? Yes.    … Expand
  41. Mmollle
    Jun 12, 2016
    0
    A piece of crap game. Many people say "a bad RPG, a good game" but i say its a bad RPG and a bad game. Its an embarrasment to the whole Fallout franchise and the biggest dissapointment of a game Ive ever experienced.
  42. a20012322
    Jan 5, 2016
    2
    Poor story, poor UI, poor graphics. Stripped out the choice from FO3 (not that there was much there anyway) and converted it to a pick your ending game with everyone offering quests.

    The same old crappy buggy zombie not paying licensing fee's gamebryo engine still drives the game and it really shows through with old mini-games, old graphics, old bugs, ... It is a fallout game but not    Poor story, poor UI, poor graphics. Stripped out the choice from FO3 (not that there was much there anyway) and converted it to a pick your ending game with everyone offering quests.

    The same old crappy buggy zombie not paying licensing fee's gamebryo engine still drives the game and it really shows through with old mini-games, old graphics, old bugs, ...

    It is a fallout game but not only is the old (FO, FO2) spirit completely gone they even decided the new FO3/FONV was too much and stripped the game down even more while offering ARK survival evolved style building for no apparent reason.    … Expand
  43. MagnesiumDew
    Nov 20, 2015
    4
    Yep, its **** Well not that **** but they've managed to de-rpg the **** out of this. No more karma, meaningful conversations, crap performance (once again) and low quality textures abound. I have a 980 TI and since the framerate is bound to the gameplay, indoors, the game plays at 2x speed. Its worse IMHO than Saints Row 2's port was. And this isn't even a port.
    For ****s Sake Bethesda.    Yep, its **** Well not that **** but they've managed to de-rpg the **** out of this. No more karma, meaningful conversations, crap performance (once again) and low quality textures abound. I have a 980 TI and since the framerate is bound to the gameplay, indoors, the game plays at 2x speed. Its worse IMHO than Saints Row 2's port was. And this isn't even a port.
    For ****s Sake Bethesda.
    For ****s Sake    … Expand
  44. enfilade
    Dec 17, 2015
    1
    I was going to give Fallout 4 a rating of 4/10, but then I saw multitudes of 10/10 'best game I've ever played' type 'reviews'. Which are packed full of absolute lies. Either posted by fanboys in denial, or by Bethesda's employees.

    This game has been nothing but disappointing so far. I've played for over 40 hours, expecting things to get better, but they have only gotten worse, casual    I was going to give Fallout 4 a rating of 4/10, but then I saw multitudes of 10/10 'best game I've ever played' type 'reviews'. Which are packed full of absolute lies. Either posted by fanboys in denial, or by Bethesda's employees.

    This game has been nothing but disappointing so far. I've played for over 40 hours, expecting things to get better, but they have only gotten worse, casual FPS style.

    The Pros:

    -Graphics are improved over previous entries, but are still sub-standard.

    -Enemy AI is slightly improved, animals will burrow into the ground when you try the old 'stand on a rock to get out of reach' trick that has worked in every other Bethesda RPG. Human enemies actually take cover and don't just rush to their deaths, they also weave when you are aiming at them.

    -Building is a nice touch, although the mechanics of it could be hugely improved, as it is riddled with illogical flaws (like floating buildings). You can actually build a flying wooden house in the sky (not actually flying, just daft physics). Yes, really.

    -The shooting mechanics are a little better than previous entries, BUT the improvement is not massive, and it still feels largely the same as F3/NV. Don't expect Bioshock shooting or anything.

    -Crafting/upgrades. Good, but require far too much time investment to get anything worthwhile.

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

    The cons:

    - Dialogue. The new dialogue system is absolutely atrocious. Now F3 and NV weren't exactly perfect in terms of dialogue, but they provided interesting, unexpected choices, with numerous outcomes in every situation. Remember spitting on Butch's sweet roll? Remember being an evil character? None of this exists in F4, and this is the game's biggest failure: dialogue is now reduced to 4 choices at all times:
    1) yes (the only way to progress)
    2) no (=come back later if you change your mind)
    3) why/what? (provides a recap of whatever has just been said, in case you skipped past the dialogue)
    4) Sarcastic (tell a joke, none of which are ever funny or remotely amusing, and none have any additional effect on the conversation).

    Almost every conversation has only one outcome: violence. I've obsessively re-loaded and tried multiple ways around each conversation/standoff. Only rarely was there any choice whatsoever to avert a bloodbath. More than 90% of these situations have only one outcome. I enjoyed F3 and NV even more. F4 has completely destroyed the most fun and enjoyable aspect of the series: RP and interaction with NPCs. This has truly ruined the core of the game: your choices DO NOT matter. At all.

    -RPG elements removed. Seriously.

    -Voiced protagonist. This was a horrible addition. I have not yet played a female character, but the male voice actor is ridiculous. He sounds completely nonchalant about everything. To clarify: his infant son has just been kidnapped, and he never gives any hints of being upset or traumatised, or being angry or anything. There are a few main story quests where he starts to sound a little upset, and of course, every storyline situation turns into a battle. You get a choice of 4 ways of saying 'ok, let's fight' every time before it starts. The voiced protagonist has no character, and really brings the whole RP element down as he plays the uncaring, nonchalant father looking (or not bothering to, most of the time) for his missing child.

    -Ridiculous plot holes and narrative flaws:
    1) Kellogg (the man who kidnapped your son) somehow knows your son's name, despite there being no possible way of him knowing this, having abducted the baby as an infant and having never seen or heard his name. Somehow, Kellogg magically knows Shaun's name. Ludicrous. Bethesda cannot write coherently at all.

    2) I wandered into a place called Covenant, where my character immediately started getting dialogue options to ask about characters he has never heard of previously, calling them by name. This happens a LOT in Fallout 4 if you do your own exploring instead of just doing what quest-givers tell you.

    -General lack of challenge, juxtaposed against cheap overpowered bullet-sponge 'legendary' enemies.
    The vast majority of side quests consist of 'clear all ghouls' followed by the same quest 10 times in different locations. When it's not 'kill ghouls', it's 'kill all raiders', or 'retrieve item'. These quests make up the vast majority of the game's content, and they offer no dialogue at all, just combat with no other option.

    Within the first 15 minutes or so of starting the game, you are given power-armour with a minigun, and you are made to fight a Deathclaw immediately after getting this gear. Within 30 mins of that, you'll join the Brotherhood of Steel after killing a few ghouls. The power armour removes any aspect of difficulty from this game, so I absolutely refuse to use it at all, it is like having god-mode cheats activated from the beginning. I can't stand using it.

    -Bugs, ranging from the mildly omical, to the game-breaking.

    Do you like Fallout? Avoid this garbage!    … Expand
  45. kingofworld
    Jun 16, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah, i spent more than 8 hrs per day on this game the first 3 months it released. have to say i really enjoyed digging up every junk i can find or shooting enemies with 12 new companions (every one of them has their own stories now, seems almost good as Serana in Skyrim) at first, even spending hours just trying to get a legendary minigun or fat man could be fun.

    But later i realized that i just wasted my 5 month time on endless repetitive crappy nonsense. Some awful game experience also started to sick me. i played TESV again and found out that Skyrim is a goddamn masterpiece. Bethesda only take half or less efforts on Fallout 4 than they did in Skyrim!

    I think Preston Garvey and his minutemen are totally garbage. They don't have any meaningful tasks for you, just bossing you around and making you play nice. I feel like a slave when forced to do their endless crap. I HATE PRESTON GARVEY. He is TOO good to be true, he seems fake to me. The guy has NO sense of humor, you can't even have a joke on him. Even worse, he asks player to be as Mr. Goody as he. You are the general? Sure. When people bump into him, he always says: YEAH, I AM THE PRESIDENT **** GARVEY. He NEVER Introduces ME, THE GENERAL to anyone, even once. HEY WHERE'S THE GRATITUTE? It's ME who safe their sorry asses from those scary little bugs or being kidnapped by hungry green-skin monsters LOL!

    And why the hell should i help those low life farmers? I build them houses, make them beds, give them food and water, hell i even set missile turrets all around the whole damn village, i **** did everything they asked, and what did they do? They steal my delicious deathclaw steaks, they steal my fat man and gatling laser, they steal my X-01 power armor and wouldn't get out, they sleep on the bed that is supposed shared only between Piper and me. Wait, there's more. They still think you are a dangerous figure who is looking for trouble, they still suspect you to be the synth spy sent by the evil institute, they still complain about their filthy fingernails filled with mud to ruin your dinner. And the best part is that these idiots love bossing you around. When i beat one place and about to loot legendary miniguns, a dude sit on the ground next to the treasure chest and yell at me: Hey you, i was kidnapped by these scary little bugs, take me to my house 100 meters from here or i won't get up and you are an **** WTF??? These kinds of kidnapping **** even happens before the task is activated. I dare say these cute bugs are the world's best bodyguards for those hostage cosplay lovers because the dude "kidnapped" will stay in that place forever if you just ignore them. Once i used console command to summon that idiot back to his house and guess what? He just walked back to the place where he was "kidnapped"!

    The companions are dull. Most of their stories are boring after all, losing girls, losing mommy and daddy, all the same stuff. You know, this is wasteland, i don't really care about some miserable pass, too common in this **** commonwealth. i want something new, something that can really hook my mind, some adventurous type story. This game has no totally badass followers. All humanoid companions dislikes murder. Why the hell? You gotta trust our judgement. We killed this son of **** because we have a DAMN GOOD REASON, that's why, and that's that. All companions except Hancock dislike chem use at last, even include Cait after helping her rid of drug addict and MacCready if romanced. What's wrong with chem anyway? Yeah we know drug is bad in real life but this is Fallout 4!

    BUT these are not the most disgusting thing. The worst **** is, why the hell is everybody just shoot player if they get pissed by a even accidental or minor mistake? I remember once i got caught when stealing a BOBBY PIN in Diamond City, the guard just shoot on sight, and the whole city turn hostile immediately. WTF is wrong with these people? Petty crime is different from capital offence, you know. The faction setting in this game is totally ****. NPCs solve problems only by killing and violence, they never talk or negotiate first. This is goddamn barbaric! NPCs in fallout 4 never understand the difference between friendly fire/collateral damage and intentional murder, the whole bunch of people just shoot you without warning first if you accidentally hit them. I remember in Skyrim friendly NPC would usually say I AM ON YOUR SIDE or DON'T DO THAT if you hit them by accident. The city guards will always try to ask for fine first before attack in TESV.

    The faction setting also makes companions can easily turn against you. Most companions will become immediately hostile in many cases. Where the hell is loyalty then? Sure, they have your whatever good point, but they shouldn't stab me on the back. That's treason, and I HATE TRAITORS. And i can't revenge on damn traitors because this game set companions as essential characters and they are invincible!    … Expand
  46. Metahumanoid
    Jan 12, 2016
    4
    Second playthrough...desperately trying to inject some sort of meaning into the experience. Come on imagination, you can do it! Nope...nothing. I know! I'll add a cr*pload of mods. That's gotta help! Right? Hmmmm....still not feeling it(Even an 'A.P' mod couldn't save this game, me is thinking at this point). Maybe I need some modding? Pufffffffff. What?? Still no emotion? But that almostSecond playthrough...desperately trying to inject some sort of meaning into the experience. Come on imagination, you can do it! Nope...nothing. I know! I'll add a cr*pload of mods. That's gotta help! Right? Hmmmm....still not feeling it(Even an 'A.P' mod couldn't save this game, me is thinking at this point). Maybe I need some modding? Pufffffffff. What?? Still no emotion? But that almost ALWAYS works! What new form of devious chicanery is this?? Then I recall a latent, niggling theory of mine - this game, along with many others, is a deliberate diversionary, time wasting distraction FIRST, and a genuine attempt at entertainment SECOND, hence the RETARDED companion AI. You CAN'T make it THAT annoying by accident.(I'll leave it to the reader to discern exactly what they're being distracted from.)

    And Boston?? Sorry, but most people outside the U.S don't give a flying cr*p about Boston(sorry Bostonians, it is what it is). New York, L.A...maybe Miami. Heck, even...somewhere in Texas. But Boston + Baseball "Themed" Main City = TWO 'nobody outside the U.S gives a cr*p(s)'.(Yeah yeah, I get it. Go Sox! Ra-Ra-Sis-Boom-Ba! But again, nobody outside the U.S gives an actual cr*p!)

    I suspect you've all come down with a severe case of Cranium-in-anus-itis. Seek medical attention immediately!!

    I could never give you a 0/10...for balance, Fallout4, but I can only give you a 4/10...for old time's sake if nothing else.(You've really really let yourself go. Uggghhh!)    … Expand
  47. PsychoJonny
    Dec 20, 2015
    4
    I love the fallout series, and generally most Bethesda games. This isn't Fallout though, this is Fallout base management sim beta v 1.0. While the game does have some good qualities you have to wade through a sea of bugs, glitches, and broken gameplay to get to them. I had to restart my file twice due to encountering game breaking bugs to which there has yet to be a patch for either. I'veI love the fallout series, and generally most Bethesda games. This isn't Fallout though, this is Fallout base management sim beta v 1.0. While the game does have some good qualities you have to wade through a sea of bugs, glitches, and broken gameplay to get to them. I had to restart my file twice due to encountering game breaking bugs to which there has yet to be a patch for either. I've had companions vanish before my eyes never to be found again, I've had modded weapons vanish from my inventory, and worst of all I had $60 vanish from my wallet for an unfinished heavily broken beta. Wait until they've heavily patched it, and even then get it on sale. It's not worth it otherwise.… Expand
  48. the_d
    Jan 14, 2016
    1
    So tedious. Inspires no "awe." And the story just mystifies me it's so stupid. Bethesda, are you telling me you couldn't recruit college English major interns to write better quests? Boring.

    And if I have to shoot one more dumb ghoul I will lose my mind. Really pissed I paid $60 for this and didn't wait for it to go on sale in 3 months for 75% off. My bad.
  49. slackerrudie
    Jan 16, 2016
    4
    There is not much to say, except Bethesda got rid of the skills, perks and dialog options that are effected by the skills and perks. You have no real choice in how the story progresses and the perks they do have in the game do not effect the game play or story. This adds up to a basic on rails game that pretends to be open. It has zero replay value as the game is on rails and you could notThere is not much to say, except Bethesda got rid of the skills, perks and dialog options that are effected by the skills and perks. You have no real choice in how the story progresses and the perks they do have in the game do not effect the game play or story. This adds up to a basic on rails game that pretends to be open. It has zero replay value as the game is on rails and you could not play as a different type of character even if you wanted to.… Expand
  50. Kohlar
    Jan 16, 2016
    4
    Fallout 4 is an ok game, but it's a terrible Fallout game, and I am rating it as such.
    They improved on a lot of subpar systems from previous games but proceeded to remove nearly everything that made Fallout great.
    Linear story, restrictive dialouge that gives the illusion of choice but you really have no say in it whatsoever, an empty world, no skill checks except charisma checks and    Fallout 4 is an ok game, but it's a terrible Fallout game, and I am rating it as such.
    They improved on a lot of subpar systems from previous games but proceeded to remove nearly everything that made Fallout great.
    Linear story, restrictive dialouge that gives the illusion of choice but you really have no say in it whatsoever, an empty world, no skill checks except charisma checks and they don't really do anything anyway, no skills, no reputation/karma system...
    The list just goes on. It's an incredibly shallow experience and I grow extremely bored of it's repetetive quests and empty world.

    Please, no more of this. Let Obsidian make the next one..    … Expand
  51. Leo24
    Jan 28, 2016
    1
    What a huge disappointment, clearly took a different with this one. I don't even know where to begin, it's all wrong, it's all cheap and lacks anything beyond the surface. It's a (decent?) shooter game, and nothing more, this isn't a fallout game... not even close.
  52. BZibi
    Jul 8, 2016
    0
    Bethesda killed Fallout series, I hope it's clear for everybody now, from a epic game, with fantastic mechanics, advanced char building, superb dialogues, story and political incorrectness, we now have a first-person shooter with minimal story + Sims, but you can't build a big settlement even if you have quad GeForce Titan X in your PC, because the game engine is old, buggy and inefficientBethesda killed Fallout series, I hope it's clear for everybody now, from a epic game, with fantastic mechanics, advanced char building, superb dialogues, story and political incorrectness, we now have a first-person shooter with minimal story + Sims, but you can't build a big settlement even if you have quad GeForce Titan X in your PC, because the game engine is old, buggy and inefficient and it will still lag and your frames will drop to 2 FPS, so there's no endgame. The storyline for base game and the DLC's (Automatron and Far Harbor) is very short, you can finish the base game in one day. I'm not counting "Contraptions" or Wasteland Workshop" as a DLC's because that would be a bad joke, Bethesda focused on quantity of DLC's, not their quality. And one of the funniest things is that the modders realeased tons of stuff for free before Bethesda's pseudo-DLC's, like elevators more than three months before the "Contraptions DLC" was released.… Expand
  53. Nomus
    Nov 14, 2015
    5
    A very mediocre game that has a little to do with Fallout. It's Borderlands with Sims elements. Bethesda has no idea how to do a proper Fallout game. Please leave this franchise to Obsidian. Stop butcher it.
  54. Cyper
    Feb 15, 2016
    4
    This is ’’Fallcry 4’’.

    The story itself is a good idea but unfortunately, poor design choices stands in the way for the story to develop. When I play the story I feel like i’m a dog on a leash with someone who hold my paw throughout the whole game. There is nothing unexpected that happens but it all feels very predetermined in advance. The game is extremely easy as well. There is no    This is ’’Fallcry 4’’.

    The story itself is a good idea but unfortunately, poor design choices stands in the way for the story to develop. When I play the story I feel like i’m a dog on a leash with someone who hold my paw throughout the whole game. There is nothing unexpected that happens but it all feels very predetermined in advance. The game is extremely easy as well. There is no sense off difficulty to it. In less than in an hour of playing you got your first power armor.

    In terms of gameplay Fallout 4 is a mix between Fallout and Far Cry. The main concern in the game is to shoot other people in the head. RPG element of the game has been weakened in many ways (even though it has been improved in others). The new dialog layout is stupid and unintuitive but after all the dialog does not offer much variety and regardless of what action you take it has more or less not impact on the world or the player. For example the whole Karma system is removed completely from the game and this is and this is a terrible great loss.

    I can forgive bugs and other small errors in the game given that these are fixed latter. I am not picky when it comes to graphics either. But textures look very poor and for some reason they get worse after i’ve been playing making the world look uggly. However, I can not forgive the developers to create a game that does not measure up in the story and gameplay.

    To me, it seems like ’new devs’ were let into the warm room to make the game more ’’accessible’’ and ’’streamlined’’ as its called… and it shows because the game suffers because of these stupid ideas and if it becomes more dumbed-down you may as well not call it fallout anymore.. but Fallcry.

    There is great potential for this game... the problem is that there obviously is CONFLICTING IDEAS of how the game should be because now it does not feel like a coherent experience.    … Expand
  55. game_over
    Apr 28, 2016
    1
    More heavy handed mod shenanigans from Bethesda. What a surprise.

    Why break a game that some people have more than 100 hours into? Why change your stance on mods? Greed and arrogance.
  56. TomasLacerda
    Dec 28, 2015
    2
    The game is addictive simply because we love all the Fallout precedents, but it's really unpolished. The only thing you do in the game is kill, there is a huge lack of interactions with the world, you just kill. It seems like Fallout 3, and only the main quest is interesting, the side quests is only to kill something.
    The loot system is utterly rubbish, you'll see yourself looting    The game is addictive simply because we love all the Fallout precedents, but it's really unpolished. The only thing you do in the game is kill, there is a huge lack of interactions with the world, you just kill. It seems like Fallout 3, and only the main quest is interesting, the side quests is only to kill something.
    The loot system is utterly rubbish, you'll see yourself looting absolutely everything, fast travel, and get back on it again.
    Really disappointing.    … Expand
  57. salzherz
    Dec 19, 2015
    2
    Old Grumpy Gamer.

    I dont care about graphics ---> the artstyle is still awesone. 9+ I care about the character system ---> and they screwed it. Terrible. No "small Frame ?", no negative perks ? Shame on you. The storyline ? I have to smile the whole time. Written by an undereducated marketing clown. The settlement system ? --> i would like to play an RPG and not a builder. The whole    Old Grumpy Gamer.

    I dont care about graphics ---> the artstyle is still awesone. 9+
    I care about the character system ---> and they screwed it. Terrible. No "small Frame ?", no negative perks ? Shame on you.
    The storyline ? I have to smile the whole time. Written by an undereducated marketing clown.
    The settlement system ? --> i would like to play an RPG and not a builder.
    The whole game is stripped down by complexity.
    The direction Bethesda is aiming is terrible wrong.
    52 hours on the record, bored, deleted.
    Playing Fallout 2 again.    … Expand
  58. IamJacksReason
    Nov 13, 2015
    6
    Let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of Bethesda games starting from Morrowind in 2002. Over the years I've probably spent thouthands of hours playing their Fallout and Elder Scrolls games and enjoyed them very much. I am also a Fallout series fan, although I cant boast that I played the first games in the series, unfourtunately. I think, whether it is good or bad for bothLet me start by saying that I am a huge fan of Bethesda games starting from Morrowind in 2002. Over the years I've probably spent thouthands of hours playing their Fallout and Elder Scrolls games and enjoyed them very much. I am also a Fallout series fan, although I cant boast that I played the first games in the series, unfourtunately. I think, whether it is good or bad for both franchises (TES and Fallout), they are increasingly being brought down the same path by the devs. I am not happy with the direction they chose. And Fallout 4, sadly, is just another step in this process of simplification, just like Skyrim before it.
    Yes, it is true that Fallout 4 has some new features of different degree of coolness - like crafting system (which imho is the best mechanics this game has to offer), or settlement management (which is also somewhat nice). I strongly believe that open world RPG games should have as much opportunities and game mechanics as possible for the players to choose, yet, preferably, they should not be obligatory. With Fallout 4 Bethesda managed to deliver in this department.
    My main grudge with this game is that it just oozes laziness. It's like Bethesda decided to do the game somewhere in the beggining of 2015, quickly assembled all the existing parts of previous games together, implementing a couple of new features and released it . My sincere hope is that it was due to them devoting the majoity of their time and resources to the next Elder Scrolls game)
    You can see the lazy approach almost everywhere. I'm not talking about the graphics here - yes, it is dated and powered by the same engine as Oblivion (or as some say even Morrowind), although heavily updated, but that is not the point. You can deliver a solid and polished-looking product even with not-so-hi-res textures or without some fancy postprocessing.
    But the game fails miserably to do that. The distant buildings look like they are made of carton (and badly made for that matter, like if you would assemble a carton box and fail to correctly align its sides), distant water is divided by a clearly visible ugly-looking line, etc. And DON'T YOU DARE trying too look out of the widows when you're inside! You will witness the most horribly assembled apocalypse scenery with the earth cracked open into the greyish void of nothingness and ugly carton boxes desperately trying not to fall down through them. I don't understand the devs here. Do they honestly think that people should overlook such things. It is immersion breaking. And such games should be all about immersion. Ok, let the scenery outside lack polygons or whatever, but at least make it orderly and polished, or hide it altogether. It is like trying to wear your suit inside out to a very important meeting and hoping that no one will notice that you look like a hobo.
    Another dissapointing thing is the omission of the skills-leveling system. RIP RPG-element. I don't understand why they keep doing this first with TES then with Fallout. Perks are ok, but why not combine it with the good old skills and characteristics?! Miserable dumb down. A couple more iterations like this and Fallout 6 and TES 7 will feature only one attribute - health, or awesomeness... Or none at all, why bother.
    Surprisingly, also omitted was the feature of displaying holstered weapons. In this, I guess, the devs decided to honor their 2002 masterpiece) I see no other resonable explanation for this. How could anyone decide that it was somehow better not to see your weapon hanging behind your shoulder? I saw on some forum that it was due to a multy-layered armor system. But that is an excuse fit for modders, not the AAA-game developing studio. But after what I saw in Fallout 4 windows I should probably not be surprised.
    They also decided not to invest much in soundtrack, as I think 70-80% of songs I heard on the radio were the same ones I heard in Fallout 3/New Vegas.
    The UI... console port, enough said.
    It's a common knowledge that animations are Bethesda's weakness. This time, however, they are somehow even worse than in Skyrim. Go see any youtube 3rd person videos..
    Another shortcoming is the omission of hardcore mod with survival elements, which was present in New Vegas.

    Overall, regrettably, Fallout 4 fails to deliver a truly entertaining and immersive experience. Its replayability, which is, I think, one of the most important qualities for any video game, is significantly hampered by the lack of diverse levelling system, while overall lazy execution by bethesda does everything to kill immersion.
    There are strong points, of course. And for a while they will offset some of the negatives for devoted players or diehard fans. But the devs should not be encouraged to pull off such lazy releases on us, and their work does not deserve the high scores awarded to it by the media and some of the gamers.
    6/10 for taking my attention for a couple of days. Guess it is up for the modding community to finish the job.    … Expand
  59. Plzstandbuy
    Dec 7, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. RPG mechanics and dialogue are water down to the point of non-existence. The story is poorly written and unoriginal, and the ending is insulting to the franchise.

    Besides from improved gunplay the game mechanics are a downgrade meant to pander towards younger audiences with short attention spans.

    The beloved Fallout lore has been soiled at almost every opportunity, from magic hats that give telekinetic powers to ghoul children that can live trapped in a refrigerator for 200 years without food or water.

    If your past fan, you will feel insulted and depressed, by the utter lack of care or respect Bethesda has made this Franchise.    … Expand
  60. AlexanderFerris
    Feb 10, 2016
    1
    I have to say I am very disappointed with Fallout 4. I received Fallout 4 as a gift and I initially I loved this game, however I got only 20 hours out of this game at best. I used to work fine but recently I have been getting unexplainable and random crashes to desktop every time I try to play. I have no mods whatsoever, and my rig is built to play games like this at the highest graphicI have to say I am very disappointed with Fallout 4. I received Fallout 4 as a gift and I initially I loved this game, however I got only 20 hours out of this game at best. I used to work fine but recently I have been getting unexplainable and random crashes to desktop every time I try to play. I have no mods whatsoever, and my rig is built to play games like this at the highest graphic setting. This problem only seems to happen to Fallout 4 not to Skyrim or any other game I have installed on my computer. I have literally tried everything from multiple reinstallations of the game to attempting to tweak my graphic card, and hard drive. Needless to say I am frustrated beyond belief and am ready to give up on the game all together.… Expand
  61. Yennefer
    Sep 23, 2016
    0
    when i die, have bethesda lower my coffin into the ground so they can let me down one more time. The game is bland, boring, badly written, badly optimized and full of bugs. They didnt event patch it properly and leave it to the modders to patch (after only 9-10 months!). DLCs over priced and comprised of mostly stuff that you hate.
  62. Magnethead
    Jan 24, 2016
    4
    I had so looked forward to finally playing this title, I had put it off until I had the time to really get immersed. And I started out with an abundance of enthusiasm that lasted through the character creation and prologue. After about five hours of game time, however, it started creeping up on me. Where was the Fallout feeling, where was the desire to play on?

    I tried messing with the    I had so looked forward to finally playing this title, I had put it off until I had the time to really get immersed. And I started out with an abundance of enthusiasm that lasted through the character creation and prologue. After about five hours of game time, however, it started creeping up on me. Where was the Fallout feeling, where was the desire to play on?

    I tried messing with the graphics (to solve the mysterious problem of the game being horribly overbright to look at), I considered a new character, starting over and taking it more slowly. I yanked the difficulty to Survival so I would feel that I was in danger at least. Everything. In the end I tried to push on, to go out and just explore, to feel the world itself. Then after a few hours more it struck me. the plain, horrible truth of it: Fallout 4 is a mediocre game. Plain and simple, I never thought I would say that out loud but it's the truth.

    The graphics are mediocre, the scenery is nice but skin textures stretch awkwardly across poorly animated actors. The voice acting is bad, the story offers no immersion and doesn't spark any desire to explore or interact. I tried to ignore all that and set out on one of the classic exploration tours that I loved in the former Fallout games. Just going into the wasteland, feeling that specific tingling that comes with exploring a dead world where anything (often times something terrible) is waiting around the corner. I went from house to house, explored, looted. Found dead people but they meant nothing. The town had no feeling, just random houses with a surprising abundance of loot. At that time it hit me for real, I shouldn't have bought this game. I had thrown money out the window. I was now at the mercy of the modding community, I pray they'll save this train wreck. I don't know how or why, but I hope they find a way.

    So be warned, if you liked Fallout 3 and/or New Vegas (Fallout 2 is extremely different so I won't include that as a comparison) , you'll very likely not like this game. It seems haphazardly put together, devoid of charm and personality. It's such a shame... really is.    … Expand
  63. StrategosLC
    Nov 26, 2016
    5
    Take Fallout 3. Now remove everything from Fallout 3 that made it immersive and "deep". Then, make it super casual by restricting player choice, adding hitmarkers, and making it feel as much like a crappy RPG spin off of everybody's favorite overhyped multiplayer twitch shooter as possible. Also, don't forget to make the graphics look cartoony. Nothing says immersive apocalyptic RPG likeTake Fallout 3. Now remove everything from Fallout 3 that made it immersive and "deep". Then, make it super casual by restricting player choice, adding hitmarkers, and making it feel as much like a crappy RPG spin off of everybody's favorite overhyped multiplayer twitch shooter as possible. Also, don't forget to make the graphics look cartoony. Nothing says immersive apocalyptic RPG like cartoony graphics. Finally, make way too much about the game revolve around a crappy minecraft settlement simulator, and you have finally arrived at why this game is a bastard incarnation of Fallout.… Expand
  64. listenmymp3
    Feb 19, 2016
    1
    This game should be the last in the Fallout series, because Bethesda has perverted everything that was dear to me and people like me in this game series. The game was lost the spirit of wasteland, an interesting plot (what we were shown in 4 parts - this would be ashamed to even the first man who undertook to write a short story, all the money spent on advertising or premium executiveThis game should be the last in the Fallout series, because Bethesda has perverted everything that was dear to me and people like me in this game series. The game was lost the spirit of wasteland, an interesting plot (what we were shown in 4 parts - this would be ashamed to even the first man who undertook to write a short story, all the money spent on advertising or premium executive staff?), So that there is, in the game even one interesting side of the story, the realities of a post apocalyptic world (slavery, prostitution, hopelessness etc). But we got a simulator gardens, a dead alien (shame, shoved him for show to fans not vozbuhali (indignation)), empty monotonous world, lost all the dialogues and received crosshairs Yes, No, sarcasm, output (misery) and of course we got empty and monotonous world shooter, which in 2015 was awarded DITSE AVARDS GAME OF THE YEAR! and RPG of the year! - A slap in the face to all fans of RPGs. I am sure that these nominations were purchased. The lowest estimate for the worst game of the year.… Expand
  65. skyst
    Dec 10, 2015
    5
    Fallout 4 is an exceedingly difficult game for me to score. Currently, the game sits at a 5.4/10 here with just under 6,000 ratings. This low score does not come from the game being broken, buggy or bad per se, but from taking what could be a really fun game and then underperforming in basically every category, most offensively the fact that this a Fallout game.

    At the core, Fallout    Fallout 4 is an exceedingly difficult game for me to score. Currently, the game sits at a 5.4/10 here with just under 6,000 ratings. This low score does not come from the game being broken, buggy or bad per se, but from taking what could be a really fun game and then underperforming in basically every category, most offensively the fact that this a Fallout game.

    At the core, Fallout is a RPG franchise. Fallout 4 continues the trend of stripping away RPG mechanics and replacing them with more action. Gone are the intricate SPECIAL (ability score) builds to acquire certain skills and perks to make the wasteland diplomat or wandering sniper. Every character kind of plays the same here, exception being whether you deal double damage with a melee weapon or an automatic gun. Skills are out, replaced with stats which do nothing notable but gate perks which do nothing notable really. 20% extra damage with this type of weapon, some extra hit points, increased stealth, not much but combat stuff (base building stuff aside, we'll get there in a bit!), as far as I know, none of your character build choices can really affect much outside of killing things.

    By contrast, my typical Fallout 1 or 2 character prioritizes intelligence, charisma and speech skills to waltz his way through branching dialogue trees, unlocking all those juicy hidden speech checks, solving everyone's problems diplomatically and generally being a righteous dude. Fallout 4 dialogues essentially ignore your SPECIAL scores or perks, unless you're asking for more (and more, and more... really?) money, then you'd better be packing charisma (or, at least reload and put on a nice suit, hat and glasses for the same effect). Each and every dialogue boils down to saying yes 4 different ways. Unless, of course, you're chatting up a shopkeep, in which case you can click to spend money! Earlier Fallouts incorporated you character's SPECIAL, skills and sometimes perks into quests, from simply being able to fix a brahmin's broken leg to proving your handiness with explosives to an old cowboy. Unfortunately, Bethesda tosses it all out the window. Even Skyrim had some reactivity based on your character build, "Favor the bow, eh?" - none of that in FO4.

    Story has never really been this franchise's strong suit, Fallout is more about experiencing and interacting with a finely crafted, post apocalyptic world. That's fine, we don't always need twists, turns and huge reveals. Fallout 4 goes for it anyway and never really delivers. The big reveal 3/4 of the way through the main quest is so hamfisted and obvious by the time you get to it that you would have to be skipping all of the conversations to not see it coming a mile away. And it all feels exceptionally underwhelming, especially since you can't roleplay a character and only choose whether to be the solemn sole survivor or the sarcastic one.

    Fallout 4 attempts to build upon the faction system worked into Fallout: New Vegas by Obsidian. The system in NV was quite complex as you gain and lose reputation with the various players in the Mojave. The 'factions' in FO4 are more like the guilds in previous The Elder Scrolls games, you can work will all of them as much as you like with no consequences. After a handful of quests, you're up to the point where you choose who helps you win the game. And then none of these 'decisions' are factored into the ending, something FO1&2 did brilliantly over 15 years ago.

    Probably the biggest addition to the franchise is the town building aspect. Being able to choose from 20 or so locations to set up your own, personal Falloutville was a really neat touch, and what I spent most of my time on. The feature feels blatantly unfinished, bolted on and, usually, infuriating (damn you wall, attach to my floor!), but hauling materials back to my town and using them to build walls, houses and shops and then populate them tickled some simple, ocd part of me. Unfortunately, so much more could have been done with this feature, especially since the bulk of it had fairly steep character build requirements. I would have loved to see more unique settlers, quests and interaction between towns. After a while, settlement building, like the rest of the game, just gave more frustration than pleasure.

    In summary, had Fallout 4 been a new IP, it would have been rated much higher. People come into a Fallout game expecting a rich RPG experience. We got a FPS with stripped down RPG mechanics shoehorned in, insultingly simplistic storytelling, and unreactive world and an unfinished base building minigame. Is the game fun? Yes. Is it a true Fallout experience? No.    … Expand
  66. Shekel
    Dec 11, 2015
    1
    I am a very big fallout fan. With that said the overwhelming disappointment I feel while playing Fallout 4 makes me hurt even more. There is a major issue with companies misappropriating development funds and placing them into their marketing team and not the actual game. I haven't seen a game marketing department.
  67. thallsohard
    Nov 16, 2015
    5
    This game really is a mixed bag for me - there is certainly a lot to be enjoyed but the negatives are usually big ones. I'll try to split this up in groups

    Positives: - Vastly improved gunplay the games really needed - The crafting and settlement system might not be for everyone but I've been really enjoying it and its something I've always wanted in a Fallout game - Atmosphere,    This game really is a mixed bag for me - there is certainly a lot to be enjoyed but the negatives are usually big ones. I'll try to split this up in groups

    Positives:
    - Vastly improved gunplay the games really needed
    - The crafting and settlement system might not be for everyone but I've been really enjoying it and its something I've always wanted in a Fallout game
    - Atmosphere, music, and world building are all good

    Neutral:
    - Graphics are more negative than positive but I do think some people exaggerate how bad they are, aside from the textures. I can generally look past it but they have their moments when I am severely underwhelmed.
    - Quests are sometimes good, sometimes absolutely trash. About what you'd expect from Bethesda I guess but haven't had anything particularly exciting yet.

    Negatives:
    - Dialogue System/Voiced main character are both just awful. Is it really too much to know exactly what I'm going to respond with? It also severely limits your freedom of choice with your character and your responses.
    - Lack of player choice, which is based off of the voiced main character. Its actually impossible to be evil in this game, refuse to do quests, or pick alternatives because it would have been exponentially more expensive to do the voice overs for all the branches.
    - The perk system feels ultra casualized. What the hell is the point of making another character when you can just keep leveling up and using points to raise your SPECIAL stats?
    - Terrible writing in the main story line, way too cliche, shoehorns your character into a very specific mold regardless of how you want to play

    Overall, Fallout 4 gets some stuff right but wow, it completely threw major components of what made Fallout a fun RPG game into the trash in favor of a watered down FPS-Open World game. I really hope they learn from this and do not repeat this on any TES or Fallout games in the future. If Bethesda was so hell bent on telling the story they wanted to in this game they should have done it outside of Fallout - its completely antithetical to what they have always been.

    I still enjoy the game and I'm going to keep enjoying it, but make no mistake, its barely worthy of the "Fallout" name and its really pushing the boundaries of what I'd consider acceptable for the streamlining of a Bethesda RPG. I love the games and the lore but I'm going to approach everything else they release with a lot more caution in the future.    … Expand
  68. jrton
    Nov 19, 2015
    5
    [reviewed by someone who began Bethesda RPG life with Morrowind]

    Summary: If you are in to FPSRPG's like borderlands, this game is for you for sure. If your coming here for a classic bethesda RPG (The Elder Scrolls & earlier fallout instalments) I would say don't set your bar very high. Pro's: Shooting mechanics vastly improved from earlier iterations (though you might expect that    [reviewed by someone who began Bethesda RPG life with Morrowind]

    Summary: If you are in to FPSRPG's like borderlands, this game is for you for sure. If your coming here for a classic bethesda RPG (The Elder Scrolls & earlier fallout instalments) I would say don't set your bar very high.

    Pro's:

    Shooting mechanics vastly improved from earlier iterations (though you might expect that considering they're 6 years newer). Exploration is still fun perhaps the best of any bethesda game with a densely packed map. Weapon customisation is much more than a gimmick and lets you deeply customise your weapons. Fallout theme still feels very strong and old players will know the world straight away.

    Cons:

    A voiced protagonist CAN work. Mass Effect did it superbly, being a badass with Shepherd felt natural but so did being a saint. FO4 however falls way below the mark, and I feel as though anyone who has played the previous games can feel this. The dialogue is on rails, meaning what you say in convos has little or no effect on the path of the conversation, gone are the days of saying something so aggressive or offensive the whole town pulls a piece on you, it is literally totally cosmetic (around 90% of the time at least.)

    The game completely prevents you from making any kind of impactful evil/heroic choices!! There are a few at the end, but it's the lack of the small choices and seeing how those choices affect the people around you that really hit home in mid game. I just felt the whole game and every time the portage opened his mouth that this was their character, not mine, a far cry from the madness of NV or FO3 or Oblivion.

    The game absolutely forces this character upon you from the instant, something they have NEVER done before in ANY game. When you get shot in NV, escape the prison in oblivion, break out of the vault in FO3, all of those games gave you a very grey start that set the stage for you to have reasons for being evil, and reasons for being good. Fallout 4 FORCES you to be good, literally. I cannot overstate how unnatural it feels to be an evil character in this game, such a stark contrast from any of the previous titles.

    Finally, THERE ARE NO SKILLS. Nope, you read that right, none. No more big guns science speech bartering, all there is is the "Special" scheme from the last game and some perks which add SOME depth, but levelling up the individual perks really became tedious, and it puts a barrier in the way of fine tuning your character thats hard to explain.

    In conclusion, this game was fun, definitely, and there is a lot of innovation here. To say this game is bad would be a lie. There were frame rate drops and some graphical issues but I don't play these games for that so didn't bother me. What a do play them for however, is immersion and character development, both of which, are inconceivably lacking, considering bethesda's past.    … Expand
  69. AndyRock5
    Dec 15, 2015
    4
    My experience can be compared to a lake that is a mile wide, but an inch deep. It seems like a large expansive word, but you quickly find out there is very little depth to anything. You end up redoing the same quests over and over and the writing is very much sub-par, from a role-playing standpoint fallout 4 is a failure. The additions of better shooting, crafting and the base buildingMy experience can be compared to a lake that is a mile wide, but an inch deep. It seems like a large expansive word, but you quickly find out there is very little depth to anything. You end up redoing the same quests over and over and the writing is very much sub-par, from a role-playing standpoint fallout 4 is a failure. The additions of better shooting, crafting and the base building seem great at first, until you realise that New Vegas mods did a better job years ago. Overall a mediocre game that fails to live up to my expectations, I might be able to recommend this when the GOTY edition comes out and the modding scene has had time to mature… Expand
  70. imnoo
    Dec 19, 2015
    2
    At first I was so hyped about this game, but after the release, as a FO3&FONV fan, I was really really disappointed.
    Bethesda was successful in converting one of the best game franchise to another brainless-garbage shooter game littered around the street.
  71. xonedl
    Dec 20, 2015
    3
    From a player that never played older Fallout before:

    1, game performance & visual For a 2015 game, the visual department of this game is pretty terrible. Low polygon stuff, unnecessarily high resolution but still rather low quality textures. Long loading time, stutter, freeze, there seems to be issue about Nvidia vs AMD again. For all the technical problems piles up in exchange for a    From a player that never played older Fallout before:

    1, game performance & visual
    For a 2015 game, the visual department of this game is pretty terrible. Low polygon stuff, unnecessarily high resolution but still rather low quality textures. Long loading time, stutter, freeze, there seems to be issue about Nvidia vs AMD again. For all the technical problems piles up in exchange for a game that looks like from 2010... it just fail this category. The developer seriously should have just throw that old game engine to the bin already and use something more modern, at least Unreal Engine 3 or something. I understand that the game is made for modding and I guess that's the primary reason why they stuck with an engine so old. But still, should have use other better engine and spent the time to figure out about the modding addition.

    2, audio and dialog
    Bland. Oh their son got kidnapped, husband/wife got killed... and... Still sounds like your character just woke up from a normal day sleep nothing had happened. Nothing much interesting about all those dialogs.

    3, story & quests
    Kill the raiders / monsters, setup radio tower, repeat. Is there even a story in this game? So far after a few days playing, everything seems so bland. Hell even S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl have a decent story to it from the get go.

    4, weapon, gears & combat, etc
    Before I going to talk about combat I have to point out the interface is terrible to sort / find items. With equipped items stays in the same list, it's annoying to move stuff around and often accidentally move or even worst - scraped your gear. Worst when you try to scroll the whole big list trying to find your junk material...
    Weapons have no durability and don't lock up. Wut?! Those pipes quality sure are good! Duh... I understand they trying to keep the game really "crude" with all those pipes weapons, but seriously isn't this is the USA we're talking about? With all those pipes weapons, the combat isn't exactly great in early game. Weapon/bullet ballistic, it just doesn't have any good feelings playing those weapons. Can be the problem of bland audio and visual feedback making everything seems kinda cartoonish. Gun fights seems pretty boring in this game. And those NPCs can takes like what... 10... 20 bullets onto their head... (there is a mod to fix this problem)
    And that stupid dog, always get in my way. And it can carry as much items I load onto it and it still runs normally. Doesn't seem to be any weight limit on it? And oh, it doesn't even have any bags, how can a dog carry so many stuff LOL! Terrible.
    The radiation mechanics in this game is weird and almost useless. I am almost wearing nothing and still can stand in the radiation storm without much trouble. Go swim in the river and got some radiation, came back on land and no more radiation that continues to kill you, instead it just a static red bar on your health bar. Radiation doesn't seem to be even a threat AT ALL.

    5, settlement system
    I don't know if that appear in older Fallout game, but there was a game I played that have 100% identical system, Rust. In Rust, the constructing system is more robust and easy to use. But this game have some issues like not allowing you to place an item, having some weird gaps, or the super annoying snapping problem. In the end of the day there are just some critical mods required in this department to spice the settlement system up - mods that adds TONS more items to make, increase build range, allow placing despite "red", allow clipping, etc... I can see that this is a interesting part of the game that people will spent most of their time into than anything else.    … Expand
  72. LordNighthawk
    Dec 30, 2015
    5
    Fallout 4, the long awaited sequel to a long line of successful predecessors.

    I am not sure if it was Todd Howards own decision or if the management level told him to design the game like this, but Fallout 4 is just a hull disemboweled from all elements the previous Fallouts made so famous. The good side of the game are the improved graphics (still no challenge for other 2015 titles,    Fallout 4, the long awaited sequel to a long line of successful predecessors.

    I am not sure if it was Todd Howards own decision or if the management level told him to design the game like this, but Fallout 4 is just a hull disemboweled from all elements the previous Fallouts made so famous.

    The good side of the game are the improved graphics (still no challenge for other 2015 titles, but if you look at Fallout 4 and then start up Fallout: NV you know what i mean) and the really nice looking gameworld and the new gun handling that feels fantastic to previous fallouts and upgrading your weapons is a better version of the module upgrades from Fallout New Vegas. But thats already the point where the positive stuff ends.

    Beeing able to build settlements is a nice feature but at last it´s only a time sink for to increase your ingame time as it does not affect the game world/progress with anything.

    The negative parts are that Fallout 4 got rid of everything that made the old Fallouts out. The Dialogue system has no multilayered choices anymore. In previous Fallouts saying "no" to an npc often opened the option to be able to talk to another person and get another quest or something else. Nothing like this left, 4 options where 3 are all the same (say yes, yes ironically, yes with getting some options) or no. And no only ends the dialogue leaving you with... nothing. Quests are not multi-layered anymore and Fallout 4 is filled up with repeating radiant quests mainly. 3-4 interesting mini-multi-layeres sidequest lines, the rest is simple: go there, kill everything, get something that is done in normaly 5 minutes.

    The rpg part is the most controverse i have seen yet and it´s design (and player reactions) remind me a bit of the Diablo 3 desaster. It is not your character in Fallout 4 anymore as the perk system is that way simplyfied that it forgives every wrong set point in the next few levels. And you can´t really set wrong skills as only the weapon affecting skills are really useful, the rest will nearly never change anything of your experience. Where lockpicking/hacking was a useful skill in previous fallouts to get a better armor/weapon at some point it will only give you 10 shots ammo and some bottlecaps more in Fallout 4.
    Exploration gets not rewarded, in absolute no point as nearly all special items are directly placed on your mainquest route.

    Fallout 4 turned out to be a nice looking shooter with a Fallout shirt put on, but from it´s rpg demanding and good rated predecessors is not really much left. I really don´t like the direction Bethesda went with this franchise, they could also have called it Wolfenstein:The Fallout.

    I give it a 4 points as the graphics are still okay and fitting for the theme and it gave me some hours moving through the game world. Everyone who is looking for more should take a step back and maybe choose another title.    … Expand
  73. TheAngryJerk
    Apr 21, 2016
    4
    Well, as a fallout fan I was quite dissapointed. The game achieved all it wanted to be, but it wasn't a very high bar or what most people not bribed with early access content wanted. In the top corner of the map where you start, you see decent modern looking graphics with a lot of effort put into the map. As you progress, the game gets worse and worse with a few lights in the darkness.Well, as a fallout fan I was quite dissapointed. The game achieved all it wanted to be, but it wasn't a very high bar or what most people not bribed with early access content wanted. In the top corner of the map where you start, you see decent modern looking graphics with a lot of effort put into the map. As you progress, the game gets worse and worse with a few lights in the darkness. Sorry Bethesda, I didn't pay 60$ for 5 good quests in a "larger map" of total gray.

    Gone are character progression, actual choices, handwritten quests, and lore accuracy. Instead, you get a whole lot of half completed and/or auto generated enemies with no backstory. AI, graphics, repeated dialogue, or even survival mode. The game's difficulty does not increase over the course of the game, leaving the new combat becomes dry as enemies become auto leveled sponges with garbage guns. I love Fallout as a series, but hell if nostalgia is going to blind me into saying the game was good, or god forbid buy the season pass.

    With perspective (taking time to play the game instead of logging 6 hours before release like every game review company this year), TheAngryJerk    … Expand
  74. SkyeShark
    Jun 26, 2016
    1
    I gave it a 2 instead of a 0, because, as sandbox post-apocalyptic single-player Rust knock offs go, its pretty decent. Like most of the most helpful rated reviews on here, I don't think this is a Fallout game... or an RPG for that matter. It lacks heart, the writers and the people who decided what quests should make it into the game should all be fired. The art is killer, great 3dI gave it a 2 instead of a 0, because, as sandbox post-apocalyptic single-player Rust knock offs go, its pretty decent. Like most of the most helpful rated reviews on here, I don't think this is a Fallout game... or an RPG for that matter. It lacks heart, the writers and the people who decided what quests should make it into the game should all be fired. The art is killer, great 3d modelers and such, could have used more actual PBR maps but yeah.

    Anyways, this game has ensured that I will never actually pay for another Bethedsa game again. Why should I? This game has no heart, not a single moment in the game moved me emotionally at all. In contrast, parts in Fallout 3 gave me frisson and Fallout New Vegas outright made me tear up. You basically tricked me, Bethedsa, and for that **** YOU. You lead me to believe that you were going to make an at least halfway decent Fallout game that would have at least a few poignant story moments that I'd remember for years to come. What I got is a shallow piece of **** that's only good for the same kind of entertainment I get out of Minecraft/Rust/Ark.

    The Season Pass gave me some hope that you'd release some deeper DLCs, but so far, nothing. Far Harbor is even more shallow than the main game, and the "largest DLC land area ever" seems like an empty level with nothing to do but shoot ****. I put like a 1000 hours into Fallout 3 and 2000+ into Fallout New Vegas... I doubt I'll even get past 300 in FO4, even after you release Nuka World.

    Case and point; if you want to make hit single player games and not have them pirated, then make them deep and moving. People play single player for ****ing storyline, you idiots. Consider all the future single player so-called "FPS-RPG" games that I pirate from you my way of trying to get a refund for FO4.    … Expand
  75. Megaparadox
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Like a witcher 3 just epic, but no epic worked , a epic crap.
    What can we draw from the construction of the house, especially after the fallout 3, the developers did not do the work on the bugs.
    The main quest is horrible (when compared to Witcher 3 it's just bad taste), questing out - "Kill, kill, kill" and only those. The main complication is essentially no different from the Fallout    Like a witcher 3 just epic, but no epic worked , a epic crap.
    What can we draw from the construction of the house, especially after the fallout 3, the developers did not do the work on the bugs.
    The main quest is horrible (when compared to Witcher 3 it's just bad taste), questing out - "Kill, kill, kill" and only those.
    The main complication is essentially no different from the Fallout 3, and again all the theme. Well, seriously, to press more on this aspect? That's funny.
    And also a lot of bugs of our favorite engine from Skyrim ...    … Expand
  76. Shadeling
    Jan 13, 2016
    3
    My first impression of Fallout 4 immediately got off to a bad start right after I finished installing when I realized, to my horror, that ultra widescreen resolutions were not supported in a AAA game and that I had to research how to edit the ini files to get something passably decent so that the HUD wouldn't drive me crazy while playing. In 2015, there's absolutely no excuse for that!!My first impression of Fallout 4 immediately got off to a bad start right after I finished installing when I realized, to my horror, that ultra widescreen resolutions were not supported in a AAA game and that I had to research how to edit the ini files to get something passably decent so that the HUD wouldn't drive me crazy while playing. In 2015, there's absolutely no excuse for that!!

    As usual, Bethesda crafted a very detailed, open world but unfortunately, the game itself is extremely shallow. The main story is pretty bland. Skills and perks have been gutted, aka 'Streamlined', and combined into one fairly generic system. The dialogue wheel is awful, extremely terse and often misleading. The new voiced protagonist is also a bummer. Even though I really enjoyed Courtenay Taylor as Jack in Mass Effect 2, I found her to be fairly bland and flat as the main protagonist.

    It's clear to me that the bulk of Fallout 4's budget was funneled into the settlement building mechanics which I have to admit can be quite fun especially since I also enjoy builder type games but that's not the experience I'm looking in this franchise. I want Fallout, not Fallout-esque Minecraft. If the roleplaying aspect of the game had even a tiny amount of depth, I'd probably feel a lot better about it but Fallout 4 is so shallow as far as the roleplaying aspect goes, it's just damn sad. I know there will be mods that will probably make up for that but I'm sick and tired of letting Bethesda off the hook with that excuse. The game should stand on its own at release and Fallout 4 does not.

    I'm giving this game a score of three because of the fact that I can find some enjoyment in the settlement building and exploration aspects of the game but as a Fallout roleplaying experience, Fallout 4 fails miserably.    … Expand
  77. Amocoru
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    If you've played Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, you've already played this game. There are virtually 0 improvements from the previous two titles in this game. Sure, they updated the graphics a bit and made the shooting feel a little better, but that's it. The story fall completely flat and is barely even engaging at all. These graphics would've been accepted 7-10 years ago, but byIf you've played Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, you've already played this game. There are virtually 0 improvements from the previous two titles in this game. Sure, they updated the graphics a bit and made the shooting feel a little better, but that's it. The story fall completely flat and is barely even engaging at all. These graphics would've been accepted 7-10 years ago, but by today's standards it barely passes for just beyond mediocre. This should've been named Fallout 4: The Sims because that's the only part of the game that is any fun at all.… Expand
  78. Blue84
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is overhyped, it seems like Bethesda has spent more effort on building the hype and making sure to get great reviews from alleged gaming journalist, than actually focusing on the game itself.

    The graphics and animations looks dated and I know that a lot of people would argue that a good game is about more that graphics, and that is true to some extent, but I would just like to    Fallout 4 is overhyped, it seems like Bethesda has spent more effort on building the hype and making sure to get great reviews from alleged gaming journalist, than actually focusing on the game itself.

    The graphics and animations looks dated and I know that a lot of people would argue that a good game is about more that graphics, and that is true to some extent, but I would just like to remind you that this is supposed to be a AAA title so I think it's fair to expect more than what we are getting from Fallout 4.

    When it comes to actual gameplay it just feels dull and unfinished, the NPC's are uninteresting, most quests feels uninspiring, most of it is "Go kill this/ Go fetch this". It's also hard to roleplay when you have a voiced character with an already laid out background. It just doesn't feel like I've created my own character, it feels like Bethesda's character, a main character. The game feels like a mess on PC, it's poorly optimized, the UI doesn't really work, the game crashes here and there for no reason and so on.

    It simply doesn't feel like and RPG. The combat is alright and some of the building features can be fun for a while but overall it leaves me with a feeling of disappointment. The problem is that Bethesda never gets any pushback from gaming "journalists", it's all hype and perfect 10/10 scores.

    It feels like, once again, the modding community will be the once to attempt to fix everything that is broken, and that in itself is just wrong. You shouldn't have to pay 60 dollars or so for a game and rely on mods to make the game worth playing.    … Expand
  79. skybird
    Nov 18, 2015
    6
    Like few here I played Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout since nr 1 and always loved them.
    Skyrim (even with much better graphics) was the first warning of some of the old magic disappearing but I had hope for F04. I know Oblivion and FO3 spoiled me.
    When I visit Metacritic the first thing that hits me are the ‘critic’ reviews. I can only say same as so many here, don't trust the Critic    Like few here I played Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout since nr 1 and always loved them.
    Skyrim (even with much better graphics) was the first warning of some of the old magic disappearing but I had hope for F04. I know Oblivion and FO3 spoiled me.

    When I visit Metacritic the first thing that hits me are the ‘critic’ reviews.
    I can only say same as so many here, don't trust the Critic Reviews. 10/10 for this game... We all know they are paid to write that but still... Even as a fanboy I don’t get it.
    On the other hand 0/10 from users is also not correct. The game works (with bugs). Even when like for me this game is a big disappointment it aint a 0/10 at all.

    I am used to play heavily modded FO3 and F0NV and that influences my verdict, a lot 'so called' new stuff' aint new to me. Played both 3 and NV hundreds of hours. My NV looks actually better than this 4 ...
    Weapon modding is not new, I have in FO3 already for example and I don’t find it that brilliant in this game at all.

    Is it pretty for a game in 2015: No way; ugly: No.
    Is that a problem: NO but I miss it, I still enjoy Oblivion for example, still we are 2015 and most have better PC now then 5 years ago. I played FarCry 4 and GTA5 lately and when you then go to FO4 it is like going back in time. For any other studio OK but this is Bethesda, these guys are supposed to be the top.
    They should at least have made a new engine. Maybe they needed quick cash for whatever reasons.

    FO4 should have been called FO Baltimore the 4 is simply not justified, people would still buy it but not at the actual price but at $40 for example.
    Been playing 40 hours now and still have no emotional feel with this game. It feels dead, dumb, dialogues are oh dear... and it feels small.
    In general the game just feels wrong, hard to put a finger on it. Same feel I had with Skyrim but in that game that feel only came After 60 hours playing.
    I could go on but not in the mood, I join the comments of people who gave this game a 5/10. For a Publisher like Betheseda 5/10 is like a 0/10 compared to other publishers.

    My score: compared to modded FONV = 4/10 because I am sure the modders would have done a much better job or already did.
    For the ones who never modded = 6/10.    … Expand
  80. KeNT_
    Nov 17, 2015
    6
    >2010: WTF!?!?! When these guys will make real fallout game!?
    @
    >2015: You understand that real fallout was made in 2010.

    All in all this game is lacking on every front. No story, no emotion, no choice, no consequence, very streamlined and boring character development. It's a pure shooter game and not an RPG. Fallout is dead.
  81. Lone-Wanderer
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Fallout 4 is a game of many tastes. If you played first two games and you loved them, you are fu****. If you're person like me who spent 150+ hours with F3 or F:NV (and loved them), you have 50% chance to like or hate this game (40 to 60 on pc). If you are a newcomer to this franchise (especially from Skyrim), chances are high for you to enjoy it.

    What has been improved: 1) Gunplay    Fallout 4 is a game of many tastes. If you played first two games and you loved them, you are fu****. If you're person like me who spent 150+ hours with F3 or F:NV (and loved them), you have 50% chance to like or hate this game (40 to 60 on pc). If you are a newcomer to this franchise (especially from Skyrim), chances are high for you to enjoy it.

    What has been improved:

    1) Gunplay and general movement(not to be confused with controls). Those elements were atrocious in previous 2 games. If you don't own the game already and you're hearing people saying that gunplay is not good, those people never played Fallout before. Bethesda really improved gunplay mechanics, they are smooth, responsive and the won't be disturbing you. Yes, it is no Destiny but it will do the trick quite well.

    2) Interactive world. You can now build your own settlements, you can populate them with settlers and you can find new parts to build int the world. Yes, there is lack of parts and there is also a limit on how many settlers you can have in settlement, but that will be changed by mods. Truth is, that Bethesda should have done that already (considering 5 year production) but for some reason decided not to.
    Junk now also matters, because it can be broken down to raw materials, which you need for building and modding your weapons.

    3) Weapon and armor modding. You can now modify you armor and guns. You can change barrels, stocks, add scopes and bayonets. You heavily modify your armors to add more funncions and protection against various hazards. You have power armor at your disposal in which you can and should use, to get pass by some harder encouters in the game.

    4) Music. The score is very good, on par with previous Fallouts.

    What has been changed (fu**** up):

    1) Dialogues. You can't see what is your character going to say. Instead of whole sentences like in skyrim or F3/F:NV you are now stuck with 4 (~ 3 words each) and you have No idea what's your character going to say. I've found myslef in situations, where I had to reaload because my character said something I had no intention in saying.
    The voice over is not great by any means either. The character sounds silly, like Mark Wahlberg from The Happening. Lot of those voice overs sound like work of an intern sitting on the toilet.

    2) Controls. I don't think Bethesda has any idea what a computer is. The button layout is absolutley infuriating and you will be finding yourself yelling on the poor monitor because key mapping is counter-intuitive. The whole interface is a mess. You can see it was developed for controller. Pip-boy (your handheld inventory manager) is hell to navigate trough using keyboard/mouse. You have also no slider for FoV and some of the gun will occupy half of your screen (no matter the resolution).

    3) Skills and perks. So Bethesda got rid of skills (yeah, you read that right, they are gone). Instead you have 7 base attributes and some perks to choose from. The perks available depend on level of your key attributes. When you level up, you have a point to spare. That's it. that is the entire extend of rpg elements this game has to offer No longer you can build your character with skills and specialize him with perks. No. You will be stuck with this. If you are new comer, you might like it. If you came here from previous fallouts, you will probably cry.

    4) Story and quests. So reviewier who writes that the story was great is either payed, retarded or never played Fallout before. The story is below mediocre at best and it is pulled down further by dialogues and poor voice-over. Now the best story you can have is the one you make yourself. That is true, but some kind of narrative is required because this is not fu**** Minecraft. Even today I can remember most of the characters from F3 and F:NV. Hell, the DLC's in New Vegas? They had absolutley great narrative, their characters were interesting (okay, Honest Hearts was mediocre). Do not expect anything like that in Fallout 4.

    5) Difficulty. Fallout 4 offers 6 difficulties. The last one beeing survival and let me tell you. it sh*ts on everything New Vegas improved. You no longer need to sleep, eat or drink. Stimpacks heal you overtime (which takes ton of time) while sleeping in any bed will miraculously heal you (I've managed to sleep and heal injuries while enemies who injured me were in the next room). Enemies became bullet-sponges and do insane damage while ammo is so scarce to find. At that point, the game is no longer enjoyable and becomes annoying to play.

    Overall, if you played previous games, these changes are killers. Some can be mitigated by mods, but those will take time to develop and test. For a game that has been in development for 5 years, this is poor result.    … Expand
  82. BenGarrison
    Nov 22, 2015
    2
    A disgrace. Bethesda has killed fallout. Everything that Obsidian did with Fallout New Vegas is gone and replaced with worse versions of that feature.
  83. Merari
    Dec 13, 2015
    4
    It's simply not a good Fallout game.

    It's a decent enough shooter but if this didn't have the Fallout name attached to it then it would have been gone and forgotten by 2016 and certainly would not have gotten such glowing reviews from the professional sites. Most all RPG elements have been removed. Choice and consequence, dialogue, removed. In its place are boring endlessly repeated    It's simply not a good Fallout game.

    It's a decent enough shooter but if this didn't have the Fallout name attached to it then it would have been gone and forgotten by 2016 and certainly would not have gotten such glowing reviews from the professional sites.

    Most all RPG elements have been removed. Choice and consequence, dialogue, removed. In its place are boring endlessly repeated quests and an incentive to collect every single bit of respawning trash on the map.

    I will never, ever pre-order another Bethesda game after this. They peaked with Morrowind and have been going steadily downhill ever since.    … Expand
  84. footysurfrat
    Feb 3, 2016
    5
    I'm a massive Fallout fan, i played the 97 Fallout to death when it came out, and everyone since has been an improvement, Fallout 3 was epic, even Las Vegas was ok, I didn't expect it to be anything other than a extension of 3 and it was. I had big hopes for 4, couldn't wait, and then it finally came out and i was soooo disappointed. They've kept all the bits we didn't like about 3 ( theI'm a massive Fallout fan, i played the 97 Fallout to death when it came out, and everyone since has been an improvement, Fallout 3 was epic, even Las Vegas was ok, I didn't expect it to be anything other than a extension of 3 and it was. I had big hopes for 4, couldn't wait, and then it finally came out and i was soooo disappointed. They've kept all the bits we didn't like about 3 ( the dodgy shooting etc) and bolted on a few new, but ultimately pretty lame, new bits such as making your own town. It looks dated and i lost interest within a few days. Guess Fallout is done then....Bethesda need a new engine.… Expand
  85. ComBrandon
    Dec 27, 2015
    2
    +Graphics
    +Power armor is cool
    +Combat is clean Now onto the bad stuff -Worst character creation in all of Fallout history -Very little variety in the enemies that you fight -Very, very bad dialogue with almost no use of the Charisma attribute -Terrible story, with an even worse ending -Walk in a straight line or be punished gameplay (The lower your level is in comparison to an    +Graphics
    +Power armor is cool
    +Combat is clean
    Now onto the bad stuff
    -Worst character creation in all of Fallout history
    -Very little variety in the enemies that you fight
    -Very, very bad dialogue with almost no use of the Charisma attribute
    -Terrible story, with an even worse ending
    -Walk in a straight line or be punished gameplay (The lower your level is in comparison to an enemy, the less damage you will deal regardless of weapon strength or perks)
    -Barely an RPG
    -VATS is now even more sloppy than in previous titles
    -Wasteland does not look barren, or weathered. There is an abundance of wildlife and plants regardless of post-nuclear war. (Completely goes against the theme of Fallout)
    -Extremely small "Open world" map.

    Do not buy this game, its a waste of your money.    … Expand
  86. gigeorge
    Jan 27, 2016
    4
    Not a patch on FO3. RPG, what rpg. FPS more like ! I was hoping for something a lot better than 3/vegas but Bethesda didn't deliver. Money for old rope !
  87. Kissameow
    Nov 22, 2015
    4
    This game runs like **** on my r9 380 and isn't even that good game. Chrachater customization is good but I feel like I need to buy ammo all the time and it's gone in 5min.
  88. brain9h
    Nov 22, 2015
    6
    Decent game. Not an RPG, but a sandbox shooter with a below-average story mode. As a shooter, is it good one, but nothing spectacular. The best part is the ambience, the wasteland is very well done and despite the poor graphics it is a fun playground. The soundtrack is excellent too.

    All in all a game below the expectations with little replay value that will get you bored quick.
  89. wujekblazej
    Dec 18, 2015
    1
    This is the worst Bethesda could do - go further than Fallout 3 with simplicity and lore-killing. I am a BIG fan of F1, F2 (!), FNV - I used to think Fallout 3 was the worst game in the franchise, but Bethesda has proven me wrong. Fallout 3 is now really okay, comparing to fourth installment.
    I do not care for graphics, I care for the world, setting, story, lore. All what was good in old    This is the worst Bethesda could do - go further than Fallout 3 with simplicity and lore-killing. I am a BIG fan of F1, F2 (!), FNV - I used to think Fallout 3 was the worst game in the franchise, but Bethesda has proven me wrong. Fallout 3 is now really okay, comparing to fourth installment.
    I do not care for graphics, I care for the world, setting, story, lore. All what was good in old Fallouts is thrown away. Bethesda tries to reinvent whole post-apo franchise and in my opinion they made it for MUCH worse. Fallout 4 has proven that story of first two Fallouts (+NV) is not important - and it was the best Fallout franchise could offer. Sadly, it's all put into garbage    … Expand
  90. AsYx
    Dec 20, 2015
    1
    Really,
    We could start a kicksarter project for Interplay to buy back Fallout...
    Bethesda AND the console players are gonna kill the Fallout series if there are going to be more Fallout games.
    AWESOME
  91. faosdelta
    Dec 22, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What happened to the dialogues , the game lost its soul , they offered the role.
    They should have gone the way they left with the fallout new vegas which in my view was the most faithful was the fallout one had the opportunity to make a great game , I think they would have outperformed all the games Fallout series if they had focused more on the mystique of the game that invest in marketing    … Expand
  92. pr3tzdothack
    Jan 12, 2016
    5
    I'm kind of at a loss of how to describe the disappointment I have with Fallout 4. I've been playing the games since the original, and each one I've felt was better than the last. Even when Bethesda came in and overhauled the core gameplay with Fallout 3 I welcomed the change. When Obsidian returned for New Vegas I felt the game was as good as it could get. Updated engine, and intriguingI'm kind of at a loss of how to describe the disappointment I have with Fallout 4. I've been playing the games since the original, and each one I've felt was better than the last. Even when Bethesda came in and overhauled the core gameplay with Fallout 3 I welcomed the change. When Obsidian returned for New Vegas I felt the game was as good as it could get. Updated engine, and intriguing characters/world? Yes, please.

    The gameplay for Fallout 4 is pretty similar to FO3 with some improvements to combat, and the hotkey system being the most obvious. The biggest addition to the game would be the settlement crafting, which, IIRC, was a very popular mod for NV/FO3. However you're extremely limited on what can be created and placed. Settlements are, currently, where the modding community thrives.

    The SPECIAL/perk system has been re-imagined as this over-loaded chart that has you increase the rank of a perk for more benefits. There is no level cap and as such allows your character build to be inconsequential in the end. Gone are the options to make your character intelligent with special dialogue options to outsmart an Institute scientist, or being so stupid that you'd believe radroaches started the Great War.

    However, for me, the gameplay in Fallout was always backseat to the story, lore, characters, and world. Fallout 4 however completely seems to miss the mark on this. The Commonwealth seems to be filled with bland, two-dimensional characters. Talking with these NPC's is relegated to "four" choices of spoken dialogue, but with a mod that displays the full dialogue option, rather than just a single keyword, it's clear that all the "choices" are more or less the same. The game is pretty much "on rails".

    Quests are seriously lacking, and other than main-story quests are, more or less, repeated fetch/kill quests. The other main quest type is the "protect" or "scout" settlement quests. Over, and over ad infinitum. The over-all writing seems to suffer. I find myself completely disinterested in the plight of the main character, the factions in the area, and the Commonwealth as a whole. There are a few exceptions to this. Some of the companions personal quests are intriguing, and The Covenant settlement is interesting.

    Overall I find myself TRYING to enjoy the game rather than actually enjoying it. I put off doing any quests in favor of modding, and crafting settlements. I find myself mindlessly exploring the wastes simply "because" rather than having the urge to continue on, and find out what happens next.

    The best thing that can come from Fallout 4, again in my opinion, is that Obsidian now has access to new assets to make a better game. One that Fallout 4 should have been.    … Expand
  93. kitthornton
    Jan 30, 2016
    2
    Let me begin by saying that I'm a Fallout fan, and I've enjoyed many of Bethesda's offerings. That said, I can't give an endorsement to this game. In fact, I strongly advise that you avoid it.

    Sadly, after some hours playing Fallout 4, I have to say I can't recommend it. In fact, I'd avoid it like the plague. Too many game-breaking bugs, screwed-up, uncompleteable quests, and messed-up    Let me begin by saying that I'm a Fallout fan, and I've enjoyed many of Bethesda's offerings. That said, I can't give an endorsement to this game. In fact, I strongly advise that you avoid it.

    Sadly, after some hours playing Fallout 4, I have to say I can't recommend it. In fact, I'd avoid it like the plague. Too many game-breaking bugs, screwed-up, uncompleteable quests, and messed-up scripts. I spent WAY too much time searching the Net for work-arounds and console codes just to allow me to finish quests that I'd done everything right for. I don't think it's possible to complete the game without using the console cheats.
    Some of the bugs are REALLY frustrating. In one of the climactic quests, "Rockets' Red Glare," you're supposed to get on a vertibird transport and fly to enemy HQ on a mission to a final confrontation. The transport never gets there, it just flies around the map at random, not under your control.

    Poor QA seems to be ruining more and more games. In this case, a good game, with interesting mechanics and atmosphere, compelling NPCs and a very interesting world is hopelessly pranged by mistakes that could have been easily avoided. I can't recommend it at all.    … Expand
  94. Zigmar
    Feb 11, 2016
    3
    It might me not a bad game by itself, it is, after all, a quite beautifully designed action game with some RPG elements. But if one judge it as a Fallout game - it just plain terrible. Absolutely nothing of what made Fallout series great isn't here, besides maybe a good music and beautiful world. There is no consequences whatsoever to anything you do (crazy example: insulting a BoS elderIt might me not a bad game by itself, it is, after all, a quite beautifully designed action game with some RPG elements. But if one judge it as a Fallout game - it just plain terrible. Absolutely nothing of what made Fallout series great isn't here, besides maybe a good music and beautiful world. There is no consequences whatsoever to anything you do (crazy example: insulting a BoS elder and mocking their values, won't prevent them from making you a paladin two minutes later), there is no real dialogue (all choices have exactly same outcome, you can't even deny doing quests for NPCs, if you say you don't want - they just ask to think again, and you go back to the same dialogue fork, with only way out to accept the quest), there almost zero interesting bald characters (I could count two or three maybe), all the side quests and huge chunk of main plotline are boring fetch and kill quests (which game happily generate procedurally for you, as all you want to do in Fallout game is do boring kill-all-raiders-and-get-an-item quests). Note: if you familiar with other games in series, you no doubt aware, that side quests, where you meet interesting character and discover things about the world, were the actual "meat" of the games, where main quest line was just a skeleton it was handing on. Non of it is here, after doing couple of dozen of side quests, I just stopped bothering, because literally not of them were interesting, it was just a boring side activity, without as much as an interesting story to discover in old terminal. Grind, as they call it.
    Every faction in game was just a bunch of boring illogical one-dimensional cliche stereotypes, leaving me with non to emotionally or rationally relate. And you didn't even had an option to side non of them, you had to join one of them, and kill all the others (BTW: peaceful solution was not an option in absolute majority of main and quests).
    Out of love for the series, I decided to finish the game (main quest) but I must tell, it wasn't a rewarding experience. At the end, I just ignored all the sides quests, dragged myself throughout the rest of the game, reluctantly joined one faction (which looked only a tiny bit less stupid than the rest) to finish the main quest. And I got rewarded by most boring and anticlimatic ending one can imagine. And they added insult to an injury, as apparently no matter which faction you end with - you get the same cinematic (albeit few phrases changed).And you just continue playing (read: killing raiders and fetching items) as nothing had happened. Nothing you did - really mattered.

    So if you looking for a Fallout game - skip this or you will be greatly disappointed. If you just want to shoot some raiders in a Fallout-themed world - you might give it a try. But you might as well go play Borderland - at least has better written characters (I'm not joking!).    … Expand
  95. GarlDeathHand
    Apr 2, 2017
    0
    It is the first time i was ever so disappointed by Bethesda. All the things that make fallout what it is are gone.
    Special system, gone.
    Karma system, gone. Decisions affecting game world and different outcomes to a situation, GONE. Dialogue has been reduced to something i could only describe as boring and idiotic. They managed to turn a beautiful RPG game into a pre-written shooter    It is the first time i was ever so disappointed by Bethesda. All the things that make fallout what it is are gone.
    Special system, gone.
    Karma system, gone.
    Decisions affecting game world and different outcomes to a situation, GONE.
    Dialogue has been reduced to something i could only describe as boring and idiotic.
    They managed to turn a beautiful RPG game into a pre-written shooter adventure.
    Not a fallout game.    … Expand
  96. monroe076
    Nov 19, 2015
    4
    This had the potential to be a really good game, but it lacks a good story, non repetitive quests and interesting characters. It just feels empty and boring. All the quests are basically the same, you get a location and you go there and shoot everybody. You just have to shoot everybody there is no other option. The dialogue system was lobotomized, the UI is for consoles and it feels dumbThis had the potential to be a really good game, but it lacks a good story, non repetitive quests and interesting characters. It just feels empty and boring. All the quests are basically the same, you get a location and you go there and shoot everybody. You just have to shoot everybody there is no other option. The dialogue system was lobotomized, the UI is for consoles and it feels dumb using it on a PC. There is some sort of crafting system for building communities and towns, but it has no real effect on the game so it's just a time-sink I guess.

    All in all, the game just lacks soul and imagination to the point it just saddens me because I see the potential in it.    … Expand
  97. Dafuzz
    Dec 24, 2015
    1
    It is a lousy FPS set in a theme park that Bethesda calls Boston. The RPG mechanics are so dumbed down that they are now essentially non-existent. The user interface, especially the inventory UI, is straight from hell. The graphics, writing, voice acting, animations and anything else are completely awful. This is one of the worst games I have ever play, just do yourself a favor and stayIt is a lousy FPS set in a theme park that Bethesda calls Boston. The RPG mechanics are so dumbed down that they are now essentially non-existent. The user interface, especially the inventory UI, is straight from hell. The graphics, writing, voice acting, animations and anything else are completely awful. This is one of the worst games I have ever play, just do yourself a favor and stay away from this drivel at all costs.… Expand
  98. lw88
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Terrible mouse controls, no FOV, awful framerate, suicidal impossibly accurate with a molotov enemies, zero effort put in to a cohesive or at least believable world.

    Smacks of marketing and budgets, not good game design or passion.
  99. PandaOfDoom
    Jan 4, 2017
    0
    Probably doesn't deserve 0, but for how disappointing it was, and that it represents a change towards mass market appeal rather than artistic integrity that the industry is heading towards, I cant in good conscious give it any higher. If you liked the previous Fallout games such as 3 or New Vegas or even 1 and 2, don't touch Fallout 4 with a 10 foot pole.
  100. Sarahbrewery
    Jan 30, 2016
    3
    The only thing that this game has improved on compared to its predecessors is the gunplay. In every other way, it is a massive step back. The dialogue system is completely insulting, with only four options that boil down to: Yes, Yes?, Sarcastic, and No(really means not right now). The script is laughable, and if the game didn't take itself so seriously, one would think it was satire.The only thing that this game has improved on compared to its predecessors is the gunplay. In every other way, it is a massive step back. The dialogue system is completely insulting, with only four options that boil down to: Yes, Yes?, Sarcastic, and No(really means not right now). The script is laughable, and if the game didn't take itself so seriously, one would think it was satire. There are no longer multiple ways to finish most quests, because every quest is "Go here and kill this". The game no longer has skills or traits, instead they've "streamlined" all the rpg elements away, and all that is left is a game that is no longer an rpg at all. There is now only one build, and that is a combat oriented one. It honestly feels more like a poorly made clone falling somewhere between the mass effect and borderlands series. This is not a good thing. Stay far away unless all you are interested in is shooting things and looting locations. There is no payoff at all for your actions in this very shallow playground of a game. It did accomplish one good thing by making me want to replay New Vegas!… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    80
    After terrible first couple of hours Fallout 4 pulled itself together and ultimately was almost as fun as The Witcher 3. There’s a huge chasm between these two games in terms of technology (F4 looks like a X360 game), but their open worlds are equally good and Bethesda did a better job with crafting. [01/2016, p.42]
  2. PCWorld
    Jan 19, 2016
    70
    This isn’t the step forward I expected, though. Here we are, the first Bethesda game on a new hardware generation, and I can’t help feeling like we’ve regressed—like Fallout 4 really is Oblivion-with-guns. A decade later, it certainly makes many of the same mistakes.
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  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 4, 2016
    92
    It’s easy to get carried away by Fallout 4’s massive open world. While the gunplay is much improved and the quests fun, I found the UI lacking on the PC. The inventory and build menus are really tedious to use. [Dec 2015]
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