Fallout 4

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6.8

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  1. salalab
    Nov 23, 2018
    7
    Fallout New Vegas and 3 are better than this although its still a good game and i defiantly recommend it .
  2. Irisen
    Dec 6, 2018
    7
    Fun way to pass the time but it's more of a sandbox for me than a real game. I haven't been bothered to do the main quest, which isn't very engaging. The combat system is meh and, while the game looks better than its predecessors, it's still relatively flat.
    However, the open world remains fun to explore and the sheer amount of side quests make it worth playing.
    All in all a pretty okay game.
  3. NazgulzLegacy
    Feb 19, 2019
    7
    This game is not as long as it should be, not worth the money i spent, the previous games were better, and every fallout game i have played has way to many glitches, i am very dissapointed in bethesda.
  4. GreenManGaming
    Mar 23, 2019
    7
    The world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game. Great new reasons to obsessively gather and hoard relics of happier times, strong companions, and sympathetic villains driving tough decisions make it an adventure I’ll definitely replay and revisit. Even the technical shakiness that crops up here andThe world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game. Great new reasons to obsessively gather and hoard relics of happier times, strong companions, and sympathetic villains driving tough decisions make it an adventure I’ll definitely replay and revisit. Even the technical shakiness that crops up here and there can’t even begin to slow down its momentum.… Expand
  5. Patajullo
    Jul 9, 2019
    7
    No es todo el buen juego que podía haber sido y encima le parche quita todo el valor a la edición física del producto.
  6. bcaoo
    Jun 19, 2019
    7
    The world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game. Great new reasons to obsessively gather and hoard relics of happier times, strong companions, and sympathetic villains driving tough decisions make it an adventure I’ll definitely replay and revisit. Even the technical shakiness that crops up here andThe world, exploration, crafting, atmosphere, and story of Fallout 4 are all key parts of this hugely successful sandbox role-playing game. Great new reasons to obsessively gather and hoard relics of happier times, strong companions, and sympathetic villains driving tough decisions make it an adventure I’ll definitely replay and revisit. Even the technical shakiness that crops up here and there can’t even begin to slow down its momentum.… Expand
  7. Banjo-Reviewee
    Jun 21, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 4, when you get down it, is a game that achieves everything it sets out to do, its just that what it aims to be is another unambitious open-world adventure. The vanilla game itself runs well, though when there are any hiccups they are extremely noticeable but not game-breaking, same with the glitches which are, from my experience, almost entirely graphical. The game also tries to tell a narrative with multiple paths, which is maybe the most unengaging because of the plain dumb plot and the lack of significant story interaction. Progressing the story requires quest completion, which means completing simple tasks like killing enemies or interacting with something or someone, which isn't always terribly interesting but almost always clear to the player thanks to quest markers, though ultimately the entire game is just following the way point and making a lot of the same interactions. Combat is the game's greatest strength, every weapon feel great to use in bouts but a lot of the enemies you'll be fighting aren't all that interesting, with illusionary battle tactics from most of your combatants, they all may as well fight like Space Invaders. Players can also customize their abilities with perks, which is honestly just fine, their fun enough even the useless ones. Something new to Fallout is settlement building and crafting system, which sucks and is the most boring aspect, for some people along with me at least especially because its lacking and shoe-horned importance. Another big part of the game is the huge explorable open-world, which is incredibly detailed and is almost entirely filled with interesting locations, however some of the things you find or have do in these places may not really be all that interesting, Getting around to these places is easy with fast-travel, but I feel like a lot of the loading screens from doing so slow down the pace with later game loading taking significantly longer, i feel this wouldn't be a issue if the area around the locations was just more interesting same with the interior exits on to seemingly empty (but almost always) roof areas. As a whole the game is fine, if you like this sort of thing then play Fallout 4 but if you don't then prepare to be shutting the game off when your attention shifts to anything that isn't as dull.… Expand
  8. PETRIK33
    Jun 27, 2019
    7
    Не самая лучшая стрельба, нет атмосферы пост апокалипсиса, есть провисания FPS.
  9. Jmar
    Apr 10, 2020
    7
    Fallout 4 is nothing special. I have played it a number of times and enjoyed many aspects of it. I wen’t crazy with the building and crafting which also ended up driving me crazy. The glitches in this game are unbelievable and really frustrate me. The story and all the additional content was worth playing and I enjoyed it but after playing it over multiple times it becomes more of a hassleFallout 4 is nothing special. I have played it a number of times and enjoyed many aspects of it. I wen’t crazy with the building and crafting which also ended up driving me crazy. The glitches in this game are unbelievable and really frustrate me. The story and all the additional content was worth playing and I enjoyed it but after playing it over multiple times it becomes more of a hassle than a fun experience.… Expand
  10. Arya977
    Oct 26, 2022
    7
    Gameplay..............Mediocre
    Graphics................Mediocre
    Story.......................Great
    Score.....................Good
  11. ryman221
    Apr 20, 2020
    7
    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale: 1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed. 2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting. 3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities. 4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality    7.25 out of 10 - Great game.

    Scoring Scale:
    1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed.
    2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting.
    3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities.
    4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality sprinkled throughout. More than anything it's forgettable.
    5 - (OKAY) For every positive this game has there is just as many negatives. You may be able to find enjoyment in these games however you will likely be met with equal amounts frustration and disappointment.
    6 - (GOOD) There is a decent amount of fun to be had in these games albeit with a few noticeable drawbacks. Worth checking out at some point especially if on sale.
    7 - (GREAT) A game that has some flaws but all in all is a great game worth every penny of its purchase price.
    8 - (AMAZING) Game of the year contender only allowing for some minor flaws.
    9 - (SUPERB) One of if not the best game released that year, truly special.
    10 - (NEAR PERFECT) One of the best games ever made.    … Expand
  12. Al1ne
    Jul 2, 2021
    7
    Wait, WHAT?how this game have 87 points,this game is not so bad,but really, 87? Atmosphere is good,guns is variable,and some of missions is interesting. But,optimization is bad(17fps hello),story is boring,map is empty.
  13. INU4SH4
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    The beginning of the game can be very tedious and it takes too long to level up but finally hitting high levels and getting a decent build working for you can be quite satisfying.

    The strongest points of this game are its gameplay and world. I very much enjoyed exploring Fallout 4 depressing world and finding new companions and differents stuff to kill. The graphics still look good and    The beginning of the game can be very tedious and it takes too long to level up but finally hitting high levels and getting a decent build working for you can be quite satisfying.

    The strongest points of this game are its gameplay and world. I very much enjoyed exploring Fallout 4 depressing world and finding new companions and differents stuff to kill. The graphics still look good and that plays out to make the world feel even more satisfying to explore.

    The story was certainly not the best and most factions were pretty weak motivation-wise.

    While there are many better action-RPG games on the system, it's still a game worth playing on the PS4.    … Expand
  14. Daniel2005
    Aug 10, 2020
    7
    Very few RPG elements, the map is too big and too empty (that is the biggest problem of this game), graphics are bellow average no matter this is a big open world game the engine it is just outdated, the majority of side quest are incredibly blend,mediocre, unoriginal!
    No matter which fraction you side with the game is basically the same (big **** no no since this should be an rpg game).    Very few RPG elements, the map is too big and too empty (that is the biggest problem of this game), graphics are bellow average no matter this is a big open world game the engine it is just outdated, the majority of side quest are incredibly blend,mediocre, unoriginal!
    No matter which fraction you side with the game is basically the same (big **** no no since this should be an rpg game).
    The gameplay and upgrade system can be rewarding and addictive, there are some amazing side quests and phenomenal creatures.
    Overall the game is worth playing!    … Expand
  15. Tuhkakasa
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    I did get some enterteiment of game. World of Fallout is interesting and story have potential. Some characters are interesting. (Valentine)
    If you like to use Mods what community had made it make game better.
    I noticed that I like return to game, but I don't want to play it after mid point.
  16. Tw1x097
    Jul 25, 2020
    7
    В принципе хорошая игра, но из-за большого количества багов на релизе и нереализованного сюжетного потенциала (а он был), игра вышла просто хорошей, хотелось бы большего, особенно в части нарратива.
  17. Casarinpaulo
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    Gostei muito porém ele se torna repetitivo , a história é boa e a possibilidade de se fazer vários finais aumenta a vida útil do game
  18. elijahlape
    May 11, 2022
    7
    Fun, at times a bit repetitive and a little tiring, Fallout 4 is an overall enjoyable, relaxed and intriguing action RPG. I'm not a big fan of the franchise, but the story and its characters are very fun, very interesting to learn more about. The game, just like other Bethesda games, has its quirky, buggy, but build-with-love DNA.
  19. Xvatch
    Feb 4, 2021
    7
    Amazing base builder, graphics and environmental detail. But no longer a Fallout game and more Action-Adventure that seemed to feel undecided
  20. xxboxx
    Jul 7, 2020
    7
    Fallout 4 engages you by its graphically astonishing, beautiful, dangerous and unforgiving world. But falls short on providing depth to what looks superficially engaging.
    How ironic it may sound, the game's achilles heel are its predecessors and its Bethesda's peers, that made more with less.
    The game still provides you with a good open world RPG experience.
  21. Group4K
    Aug 14, 2020
    7
    Fallout 4 is an amazing game. Seriously it's very good but it has also lots of issues. First is poor optimization on PS4. Second, map is unreasonably big and side missions always repeat themselves. It gets boring after a point. In a dense area or a large shootout fps drops to somewhere near 22. A.I. is very dumb as it is in many other games. But what's worse is bugs. Hell, it even makesFallout 4 is an amazing game. Seriously it's very good but it has also lots of issues. First is poor optimization on PS4. Second, map is unreasonably big and side missions always repeat themselves. It gets boring after a point. In a dense area or a large shootout fps drops to somewhere near 22. A.I. is very dumb as it is in many other games. But what's worse is bugs. Hell, it even makes game unplayable at some points. Satisfaction and musics are great. Graphics are good for its era. Most fun part is ability to hold and move anything (if not very heavy) like moving props in gmod. Game is based on looting and crafting system. Number of items in game is unbelievable. Story is amazing and attractive. Player can get the feeling of revenge easily. World of Fallout 4, Commonwealth, is huge and almost every part is filled with enemies, secrets, missions, and etc. Perks are fun. Leveling up and investing points in base perks unlock other perks connected to them. Father and son feeling is at point. Almost everything is great but again, bugs.. It feels a little unfinished. For example when talking to an NPC, it draws out gun out of nowhere or walks away while talking and cuts conversation which means you need to start conversation again from beginning. Anyway, post apocalyptic world feeling, atmosphere is great but as i said it feels "uncooked".… Expand
  22. M1sfiT__
    Aug 23, 2020
    7
    Mesma engine e bugs. Bethesda larga na mão os jogos e os modders que se virem para arrumar. Um put descaso. Tomara que Starfield melhore. Fallout 76 nem dá para contar.
  23. Chupinacas
    Sep 17, 2020
    7
    Al igual que mucha gente este fue mi primer fallout y después de innumerables horas de juego comparado con sus hermanos este se ve vacío.
    Las misiones secundarias se reducen todas a lo mismo, ir a buscar a algo o alguien a un lugar y matar saqueadores, mutantes u otros enemigos y la mayoría no tienen ningún trasfondo ni nada que te atrape, cosa que no pasa con otros títulos de la    Al igual que mucha gente este fue mi primer fallout y después de innumerables horas de juego comparado con sus hermanos este se ve vacío.
    Las misiones secundarias se reducen todas a lo mismo, ir a buscar a algo o alguien a un lugar y matar saqueadores, mutantes u otros enemigos y la mayoría no tienen ningún trasfondo ni nada que te atrape, cosa que no pasa con otros títulos de la franquicia.
    La dificultad aunque puede ajustarse me parece bastante ridícula, y a nada que buscas te encuentras con armas o trajes que te facilitan demasiado la aventura.
    Es muy fácil buguear al personaje intentando entrar, colarte o saltar por sitios que a simple vista parecen accesibles,
    Los gráficos me parecen bastante por debajo de la media en su época aunque esto se lo de menos se nota y bastante.
    Pero aunque tiene bastantes cosas negativas también tiene muchas otras positivas como el sistema de construcción de asentamientos, el de módulos de armas o el arbol de habilidades que no estaban en anteriores juegos.
    En resumen el juego esta por debajo en calidad a sus antecesores pero es muy divertido y da para muchas horas de juego sin contar los DLCs y personalmente le guardo cariño por ser mi primer fallout y ser el que me introdujo a esta gran saga.    … Expand
  24. MulQuahDiiv
    Nov 21, 2020
    7
    I've never been a fan of post-apo, but Fallout 4 is the first game in that genre that attracted me for hours. Maybe it's because i didn't expect much, but I had really good fun playing. It's definitely not perfect and sometimes glitched. I didn't feel that joining different fractions or choosing dialogue options change much in the experience, but I really enjoyed exploring the worldI've never been a fan of post-apo, but Fallout 4 is the first game in that genre that attracted me for hours. Maybe it's because i didn't expect much, but I had really good fun playing. It's definitely not perfect and sometimes glitched. I didn't feel that joining different fractions or choosing dialogue options change much in the experience, but I really enjoyed exploring the world between quests. Definitely not bad, but also not the best.… Expand
  25. Irene27
    Dec 13, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. buggy, but lovely.
    I really like the atmosphere of the game, music, partners, cities... but the fact that sometimes annoying bugs come out spoils impressions of the game.
    An additional minus is the inability to have romance with Nick Valentine :[    … Expand
  26. jpgaming333
    Aug 13, 2021
    7
    Fallout 4 starts out as a fun, interesting experience, but grows dull over the course of your play through. Compared to past Fallout games and Skyrim, Fallout 4 has made great advancements in terms of gunplay of combat. Even if it's still sub-par from an industry standpoint, it still feels decent enough for long hours of play. However, I feel that the new focus towards these weapon systemsFallout 4 starts out as a fun, interesting experience, but grows dull over the course of your play through. Compared to past Fallout games and Skyrim, Fallout 4 has made great advancements in terms of gunplay of combat. Even if it's still sub-par from an industry standpoint, it still feels decent enough for long hours of play. However, I feel that the new focus towards these weapon systems has hurt the ability for choice-making, which made other Fallout games before it so unique. Despite much defense that I've heard, I refuse to consider this game an RPG. Not in the same way Fallout 3, New Vegas, and even Skyrim were. I enjoyed the companions in this game. I thought they were well-fleshed out in terms of story, and I played with them beside me for almost all 40-50 hours I spent on the game. I also appreciate Fallout 4's beautiful world, and I think it's probably one of Bethesda's more creative over the years. Overall, I liked this game. I don't regret playing it. But there are some important flaws that hold this game back, and prevent it from reaching its full potential.… Expand
  27. Danton1996
    Jan 4, 2022
    7
    The best to play and recommend is to use the mods that some people made to enhance the feeling or reality in a world after nuclear fallout. Its fun and has more feel to the world instead of the game only. Its fun to craft and build settlements and even hunt some monsters. But the only downside is that it doesn't give you creativity and just loot every single junk you find, only to findThe best to play and recommend is to use the mods that some people made to enhance the feeling or reality in a world after nuclear fallout. Its fun and has more feel to the world instead of the game only. Its fun to craft and build settlements and even hunt some monsters. But the only downside is that it doesn't give you creativity and just loot every single junk you find, only to find yourself being to heavy to move. So inshort: playable with mods, otherwise its boring.… Expand
  28. MrBrooun
    Feb 20, 2022
    7
    Атмосфера предыдущих частей утрачена, похвальная нелинейность сюжета, скучные персонажи
  29. chernandez31
    Feb 22, 2022
    7
    The first and only fallout game I have played (sadly) and I had a lot of fun looking back at it. I plan to play other titles thanks to Gamepass so my opinion on this game could change, but for now it’s a solid 7. I would say it’s pretty good but doesn’t excel at anything.
  30. Jdotdeedot
    Jul 1, 2022
    7
    I loved this game when I first got it a while ago and I've done about three playthroughs. However, i'm currently playing new vegas and it changed my view of this game a ton. New vegas has such more depth to it than fallout 4 which is sad because bethesda gets so much time to work on these games while the company who made new vegas The only thing fallout 4 does the best is the animationsI loved this game when I first got it a while ago and I've done about three playthroughs. However, i'm currently playing new vegas and it changed my view of this game a ton. New vegas has such more depth to it than fallout 4 which is sad because bethesda gets so much time to work on these games while the company who made new vegas The only thing fallout 4 does the best is the animations and gun play otherwise it's completely inferior. The story in this game is decent, but not anything to run home about. there's literally no roleplay elements in this game which is where the biggest fault in this game lies. Some characters are cool and there are some badass weapons in the game and the factions are pretty awesome in this game. The commonwealth map is pretty fun to explore and I fairly enjoy the dlc. Yea that's pretty much it.… Expand
  31. HuevoAlce
    Jun 27, 2022
    7
    Fallout 4 is fun, sure. But Bethesda refuses to update its engine and, thus, Fallout 4 looks outdated.
  32. Agt_Killionaire
    Oct 7, 2022
    7
    The story is nice and rooted but they dropped the skills system for the specials system and I’m not for that.
  33. Dinglemerk
    Nov 15, 2022
    7
    It’s not as bad as some people make it out to be, alot of people portray this game as being awful and a insult to the franchise, as someone who has played all the other 3d fallout games, it’s a damn good time even without modding, the game itself does have its flaws though. The story is absolutely awful and it’s a shame because the story was off to a good start, the game is extremelyIt’s not as bad as some people make it out to be, alot of people portray this game as being awful and a insult to the franchise, as someone who has played all the other 3d fallout games, it’s a damn good time even without modding, the game itself does have its flaws though. The story is absolutely awful and it’s a shame because the story was off to a good start, the game is extremely buggy, probably more than any other Bethesda game. However I love the gunplay and just messing around. It’s a good time and the dlcs just make it even better!… Expand
  34. Vannkrn6
    Dec 4, 2022
    7
    literally the only reason this **** is even high rated is because people just buy this game to instal boob mods that's all, and you can't even do this on the PS4 so why is this high rated more than new vegas which is an actual good game? ??? the story sucks, characters are not rememberable, you literally forget that you need to "save" your son mid game by REFORMING YOUR HOUSE. IF I WANTEDliterally the only reason this **** is even high rated is because people just buy this game to instal boob mods that's all, and you can't even do this on the PS4 so why is this high rated more than new vegas which is an actual good game? ??? the story sucks, characters are not rememberable, you literally forget that you need to "save" your son mid game by REFORMING YOUR HOUSE. IF I WANTED TO REFORM MY HOUSE I WOULD BUY HOUSE FLIPPER NOT THIS **** i only give 7 out of 10 because i like fallout, i like the series and i like the graphics and the gameplay (slightly) i rather play new vegas than this garbage. I will give a … Expand
  35. Yojimbo2015
    May 21, 2023
    7
    One of the original sandbox FPS RPGs, Fallout is starting to show its age a little. The graphics are not really up to scratch by PS4 standards, looking more like a PS3 game with a lick of paint and the narrative structure is not quite strong enough. You seem to spend too much time picking over the scenery looking for junk for the over-complicated crafting system and getting killed byOne of the original sandbox FPS RPGs, Fallout is starting to show its age a little. The graphics are not really up to scratch by PS4 standards, looking more like a PS3 game with a lick of paint and the narrative structure is not quite strong enough. You seem to spend too much time picking over the scenery looking for junk for the over-complicated crafting system and getting killed by random baddies who have nothing to do with the ongoing story, which actually discourages exploration. Not a bad game certainly, but the likes of Horizon: Zero Dawn have surpassed it in pretty much every department.… Expand
  36. Potet69
    Jun 1, 2023
    7
    Good game, but very slow start and very plain.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎
  37. Crowolff
    Jun 28, 2023
    7
    like this, the story is bad, the guilds are nothing, the writing is bad, like everything from Bethesda, the combat is so-so, you can find a mission that suits you, the research is fun, like every game from Bethesda, the game is very shallow, fun, but shallow if you catch the game by Take 20 euros or dollars, but not more than that for a Bethesda game, because their games are quite shallowlike this, the story is bad, the guilds are nothing, the writing is bad, like everything from Bethesda, the combat is so-so, you can find a mission that suits you, the research is fun, like every game from Bethesda, the game is very shallow, fun, but shallow if you catch the game by Take 20 euros or dollars, but not more than that for a Bethesda game, because their games are quite shallow and the writing is bad.… Expand
  38. Filip1992
    Aug 17, 2023
    7
    Just like skyrim this game is shallow...combat is poor,story...exploration is repetitive a loot after a while is boring ..skills in game are fine ...dlc far harbor is better than main game ..nuka world is not that good .....overall poor experience....if you get this game for like 15 euros/dollars then fine have fun more than than noo man
  39. rodericrinehart
    Jan 30, 2016
    6
    Fallout 4 is a step back from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and really shows that Bethesda has failed to innovate much in terms of their game engine, graphics, or gameplay. What they do is pretty cool, but it is becoming stale. And in the wake of The Witcher 3, the bad story and lack of any meaningful choices is made that much more glaring. That said, I had fun, but this could have been so muchFallout 4 is a step back from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and really shows that Bethesda has failed to innovate much in terms of their game engine, graphics, or gameplay. What they do is pretty cool, but it is becoming stale. And in the wake of The Witcher 3, the bad story and lack of any meaningful choices is made that much more glaring. That said, I had fun, but this could have been so much more, and I genuinely hope that Bethesda will learn from their mistakes - instead of just swimming in their cash - and deliver the next Elder Scrolls game with upgrades and improvements across the board.… Expand
  40. grinderX19
    Apr 27, 2016
    6
    Of all Bethesda games I have completed only Fallout 3 (I've enjoyed Oblivion and Skyrim but after 30-40 hours they're getting repetitive), so I've been really waiting for a sequel.

    However, Bethesda failed to reach the bar it set with previous titles. Almost all aspects of the game are either boring or dumb. The most disappointing are new crafting and settlement systems. Haven't    Of all Bethesda games I have completed only Fallout 3 (I've enjoyed Oblivion and Skyrim but after 30-40 hours they're getting repetitive), so I've been really waiting for a sequel.

    However, Bethesda failed to reach the bar it set with previous titles. Almost all aspects of the game are either boring or dumb. The most disappointing are new crafting and settlement systems.

    Haven't completed the game yet (hopefully, I'll be able to push it) but the story is not very interesting or intriguing so far. Dialogs are really dumbed down comparing even to F3, you have no choice at all.

    The game is not rewarding, I feel nothing finding new items, especially it it's the items I already have with upgrades installed. If it wasn't about trophies, I'll have no reason to continue at all...    … Expand
  41. et_phone_home
    Nov 12, 2015
    6
    STOP!

    Don't buy this game now and wait for the price to drop and buy it cheap. Cheap price for a cheap game. I'm not gonna repeat all that is said in the bad reviews, read them, it's all there. 1) Bethesda should fire all team. There is a clear lack of ambition and competence. You have the money, but you lack the professionals. Bethesda was a reference in RPGs but no longer.    STOP!

    Don't buy this game now and wait for the price to drop and buy it cheap.
    Cheap price for a cheap game.

    I'm not gonna repeat all that is said in the bad reviews, read them, it's all there.

    1) Bethesda should fire all team. There is a clear lack of ambition and competence. You have the money, but you lack the professionals. Bethesda was a reference in RPGs but no longer. There are emerging teams a lot better than you creating RPG games.

    Like in the Elder Scrolls series that afters a decade can't still even get a decent combat system.

    2) Get a new decent engine along with decent programmers, writters and graphical artists. Your employees suck. They lack vision, quality and ambition. This is 2015 and Bethesda no longer rule in the RPG kingdom.

    I should have bought Divinity: Original Sin for PS4 instead of Fallout 4. What a mistake...

    This game is no way a zero, but you get one has a punishment for trying to destroy what was in the past a decent game.

    Please Bethesda, if you ever read this, fire all your employees and get new ones. Why?

    I love Witcher as i love Fallout, Mass Effect or Elder scrolls, so i'm not defending or attacking no one...

    Witcher 3

    "Took 3.5 years to develope with a total of 240 in-house staff. The development and marketing costs was about $81 million USD."

    And they've created a great game techically, artistically and with amazing writting.

    So now, Bethesda, compare this values with your values to create Fallout 4 that has poor writting, poor artistic value and technically looks like a Fallout 3 HD Remaster.

    After all this years of waiting i must say i'm truly disappointed with this game.

    Now i have to wait another 7 years to review Fallout 5.

    Over and out.    … Expand
  42. FranktheTank12
    Nov 24, 2015
    6
    Debated hard about how to rate this game and settled with a 6. It has it moments dont get me wrong but somehow fall short of the expectations I had before purchasing the game.

    As somebody who loved both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas I highly anticipated the release of this game(perhaps a little too much) and unfortunatly like most games ive purchased recently it seemed to do nothing    Debated hard about how to rate this game and settled with a 6. It has it moments dont get me wrong but somehow fall short of the expectations I had before purchasing the game.

    As somebody who loved both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas I highly anticipated the release of this game(perhaps a little too much) and unfortunatly like most games ive purchased recently it seemed to do nothing more than leave me feeling disappointed.

    First off Ill start with the pros of the game. Its an entertaining game and will keep players going for hours on end. However the story line offers no immersion for the player often feeling very forced especially with the new voice options ( all four buttons offer options but often just yes and no answers, all resulting in the same future series of events). Previous games main stories seemed to keep players drawn to the game but this offers nothing more than "Wheres my Son" and some side missions almost as if Liam Neeson had to go off and raise the money before going to look for his daughter in taken.
    Side missions dont know have the same feel as they did in previous games. Both the Minutemen and the Brotherhood of steel follow the same pattern go here, talk to X, go and clear out where X asks you to, return to X, then return to who started the quest. Needless journey time between places and similar stories just leave the game feeling repetivive. This also leads to a situation where exploring the wasteland seems pointless and they areas you find come up on these missions with the same plots leaves it feeling boring unlike previous games which had so many different things going off if you took a walk (remember the Republic of Dave in fallout 3).

    Good but very average game, storyline and game play leave a lot to be desired, new features such as the settlement building feel more like time filler than interesting play. Would recommend not paying full price for this but wait for a cheaper second hand version.    … Expand
  43. owmynose9000
    Feb 28, 2017
    6
    The Fallout series is known for detailed worlds that were fun to explore, aesthetically pleasing, immersive and yet Fallout 4 is lacking in all areas. This review will describe my experience with Fallout 4 but also heavily consider, compare and contrast with against the series because I believe it essential to fully understand why Fallout 4 failed as an anticipated sequel. FalloutThe Fallout series is known for detailed worlds that were fun to explore, aesthetically pleasing, immersive and yet Fallout 4 is lacking in all areas. This review will describe my experience with Fallout 4 but also heavily consider, compare and contrast with against the series because I believe it essential to fully understand why Fallout 4 failed as an anticipated sequel. Fallout developed a formula that worked, ever since the very first game it was able to capture the iconic post-apocalyptic feel of the series so well. Through the music, mechanics, and overall world that is generated; Fallout is known for memorable immersive game-play. The series changes over from isometric point-and-click to third/first-person in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Through this change, players were able to absorb the world around them even more so through this new formula

    Quests are a powerful and essential part of the Fallout series that expand the world and offer narrative and meaning to the desolate environment.. Side-quests greatly influenced the game-play as simply traversing the world would lead into ambiguous and yet engaging story-lines that would ultimately contribute to a player's own personal story. Fallout: New Vegas was most successful at this as many of quests were presented in a more subtle manner than three and therefore offered more narrative. Side-quests were plentiful in New Vegas and felt substantial especially considering the faction system.

    The game-play mechanics of Fallout especially in Fallout 3 and New Vegas complimented the experience perfectly and felt natural. Looting, shooting, inventory management, the perk system and diversity in availability of items and weapons made everything seem fresh and intuitive. Being able to play the game uniquely through based on personal play-style was very important as individuals could do this with variety. This added to characterization and immersion.

    Fallout 4 lacked so much in terms of what made the series a phenomenal success and memorable for fans. It lost the feel of the world and adopted a new game-play style that felt nothing like what made the character feel immersed. The newer style feels intuitive and yet doesn't match the role-played style of the series, much rather it accustomed to a game reminiscent of a shooter genre. This leads into the other major issue being the world and quests; the game lacked narrative structure and exploration. Fallout is filled with dead-ends and major lack of opportunity. It is built for players that prefer action over immersion and that is one of the biggest problems of the sequel. The entire mentality behind what the philosophy of Fallout was changed. Fallout being a game where environment and world were so heavily emphasized, Fallout 4 chooses to instead deliver fast-paced linear quest lines.

    The quests of Fallout 4 were its biggest downfall due to the lack of choice, opportunity, and overall meaning. The main quests are very linear and barely offer decision based on narrative reflection or moral judgment. They are abrupt and do not contribute at all to a sense of belonging to the world the player navigates throughout the game. Rather, the game feels tedious as due to a lack of interesting side-quests or side-quests at all for that matter. The world feels ultimately empty and is meant as more of a playground where the character feels empowered through weapons and power armor that don't fit the mood and feel of classic apocalyptic Fallout themes. The series was built of subtlety where the character felt vulnerable and there was a sense of unease. In Fallout 4, there is no characterization and game-play although feeling modern does not reflect a sense of playing a role in world that's truly unique. Fallout 4 lacks these key features and fails to create the ideal Fallout experience.

    Fallout 4 is not a bad game, it offers many changes that make for great modern role-playing game play however it lacks the classic immersion of Fallout. The modern RPG is heavily reliant on the formula created by the Fallout series and Fallout 4 disregards many of its key elements. Instead it is appealing to changing industry that demands much of big release titles. Fallout 4 is too laid back, it has removed the themes that brought nuance to the game. Fallout was about being independent, engaging in multi-layered narratives and experiencing a world that was threatening. This is no longer the case and is why Fallout 4 ultimately fails to truly capture the vision set out by its predecessors.    … Expand
  44. Punya
    Dec 11, 2015
    6
    This is basically Fallout 3.5: same quests, same interface, same bugs... hell, even similar (boring) story.
    Too bad 7 years have passed since F3 release, and it seems Bethesda didn't notice.
    A sad attempt to milk some more money from the franchise with zero effort.
  45. ReubenIsAGod
    Dec 14, 2020
    6
    I somehow managed to break my gameplay experience so I never actually finished the main quest-line. In saying this i did spend about 57 hours within the game kinda just **** around and leveling up my character.

    I really love the Fallout franchise. It's a lot of fun, a really interesting open-world to explore, and also has some interesting lore and locations. Um, so Fallout 4? It's    I somehow managed to break my gameplay experience so I never actually finished the main quest-line. In saying this i did spend about 57 hours within the game kinda just **** around and leveling up my character.

    I really love the Fallout franchise. It's a lot of fun, a really interesting open-world to explore, and also has some interesting lore and locations. Um, so Fallout 4? It's incredibly okay. I went through 3 stages of grief playing the game.
    1. I love it! The gameplay is smooth, solid, feels satisfying shooting guns and collecting loot. The actual core-mechanics and leveling up system is pretty good this time. Not as deep, or dense, as the OG, but definitely good. Building bases is kinda fun. I love the environment and setting. I mean, it's basically fallout 3...but better looking? Also has nice gameplay elements.
    2. Wait! Is this basically a grind-fest-looter-shooter...why are the main quests and side-quests all feel repetitive and annoying. Um, it's got some alright moments. But like, hmmm, I'm getting BORED FAST.
    3. **** this! **** What are these repetitive randomly generated **** quests? Why is the narrative so weak? **** the Companions, they are annoying (and also pointless) What does this game even want to be??? WHY IS IT A **** LOOTER SHOOTER!!!!!!! WTF !!!! I just...I guess I'm done with the game. Thank God. Moving on.

    These are my opinions on Fallout 4. It's a fallout looter shooter w light RPG elements and annoying repetitive generated quests. Gets really Dull after about 20 hours of gameplay. None of the factions are that interesting either! I also Really REALLY missed (and hate) what they do with the Insitute.It's all boring...I really missed the Enclave. Also having a voiced character is **** DUMB and takes away from the immersive elements of these games. **** dumb.

    Super Mixed bag aye. I would recommend this game for 10 dollars (I paid this much for it) You do get a lot of content. The game is flawed.    … Expand
  46. JAGUAR10
    Jul 26, 2016
    6
    Liked the game until the building crap started. If I wanted to build stuff (which I don't!) I would have bought Minecraft!! All the building DLC is crap as well!! I have no interest in building up settlements, taking care of whiny people, planting crops, etc. Bad move, Bethesda. And then to add insult to injury you come out with Wasteland Workshop - more building! I don't have timeLiked the game until the building crap started. If I wanted to build stuff (which I don't!) I would have bought Minecraft!! All the building DLC is crap as well!! I have no interest in building up settlements, taking care of whiny people, planting crops, etc. Bad move, Bethesda. And then to add insult to injury you come out with Wasteland Workshop - more building! I don't have time to sit around building stuff. I'm not nine years old nor am I Minecraft fan. You were just trying to score off the popularity of that game and it ruined yours!… Expand
  47. grazr
    Nov 24, 2015
    6
    Graphics are not the end all be all of a game, there are plenty of games who's interactive narrative and game play more than make up for lacking aesthetics, but considering this game was essentially built on top of an existing engine you would think that freed up some development time to refine what they were making for it. This simply doesn't appear to be the case. In fact with theGraphics are not the end all be all of a game, there are plenty of games who's interactive narrative and game play more than make up for lacking aesthetics, but considering this game was essentially built on top of an existing engine you would think that freed up some development time to refine what they were making for it. This simply doesn't appear to be the case. In fact with the exception of the gun and character models and improvements to the shading you'd be forgiven for thinking anything had changed at all.

    The settlement building strikes me more as merely an after thought, it lacks both content and refinement. The snap-to-grid is often seemingly arbitrary and the complete lack of window pieces and single door frame is just bizarre given the scale of customisation hinted at during revealers. The impression of the builder at first is that it would function much like Rust's/ARK's builder that some gamers might be familiar with, but it simply does not have the same level of functionality. It can only be assumed that Bethesda included the basics and hoped that the modding community would pick up where they left off; which really smacks of laziness more than anything. Needless to say this feature is frustrating more than anything so it's saving grace is the fact that it is in fact optional.

    VATS has never quite been the same since it moved from Fallout's turn based combat in the first 2 titles, it never quite gelled with the real time combat of an FPS. The primary incentive to using it in FO3 was simply to avoid the even more insufferable real time combat. Now VATS has moved towards playing like some pseudo bullet time mechanic since rather than stopping time, it only slows it down and whilst some players have enjoyed the added urgency of it, it really only emphasised the mediocre animations and bizarre physics at play throughout. The saving grace in this case of course is the massive improvement to actual gun play that allowed me to near on completely ignore VATS altogether, though the other major reason for avoiding it was it rendering you immobile and thus vulnerable to explosives like bombs, grenades and kamikaze super mutants, serving more as a disadvantage than a boon. It was just a shame it felt like any investment into use of action points felt wasted as a result.

    One pro is the shear amount of content in general. There are a lot of experiences to be found and had through "The Commonwealth". The most obvious comparison here would be against Skyrim, a game by the same developers, on the same engine. Which recycled a lot more of its assets which vicariously worked wonders for performance/optimisation. But there-in lies some of the games [Fallout 4] fundamental problems, being more demanding on any particular systems hardware, particularly memory and data with no real apparent improvement in quality. One thing is for sure though, there are plenty game hours to be invested.

    Lastly, before a final anecdote, the UI is something of a nightmare. It's a pain in the arse to navigate, at least on a keyboard, it might seem more streamlined on a controller, but your hands are all over the place, moving your selection up and down and swapping out menu's, i'm still hitting the wrong navigational buttons 60 hours into the game.

    Anecdote regarding S.P.E.C.I.A.L: I'm not sure how this was balanced, it seemed like Charisma and Intelligence would play more of an important role in terms of survival. I almost exclusively play Strength/Endurance builds due to being generally self-sustaining and practical. I decided i should really change and go for something different and interesting. However even with 8/10 charisma by level 7 and +4 charisma from apparel and chem/beverage bonuses i still fail 9/10 charisma checks in dialogue; and when reloading to check for different results it still takes 5-6 attempts just to roll a positive result. Against yellow (easy/normal) checks, not even orange or red which are harder. Yellow dialogue options. I was hoping this would be more balanced than Skyrim wasn't.    … Expand
  48. Vegetabtk
    Feb 9, 2016
    6
    Months prior to its November 2015 release, Bethesda finally revealed the game avid fallout fans had been anticipating for years, some even up to a half-decade. The official announcement delivered courtesy of Todd Howard was grand. The hype train roared across the internet. Some, like myself, just had that feeling: that this was the one, the game we had been waiting our entire lives toMonths prior to its November 2015 release, Bethesda finally revealed the game avid fallout fans had been anticipating for years, some even up to a half-decade. The official announcement delivered courtesy of Todd Howard was grand. The hype train roared across the internet. Some, like myself, just had that feeling: that this was the one, the game we had been waiting our entire lives to play, an RPG masterpiece with "Fallout" aptly tagged on the title.

    Sadly, this is not a Fallout game. It is designed for gamers of the first person shooter persuasion, catering to the lowest common denominator in lieu of fans of the series. FO4 is an FPS first and an RPG last. And to boot, as is typical of contemporary Bethesda, story and plot were given little care or thought. Nothing branches out or even stands out. Choices are limited. Flare, intrigue, artistic and/or literary risk, all null.

    There are praiseworthy elements. Your brain will release dopamine while playing this lengthy title. But at some point during your adventure set in post-apocalyptic Boston, 50 hours, 20 hours, maybe even 5 hours, you will have an epiphany: that Fallout 4 is a barren wasteland. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. See, Fallout 4 has no soul. Open-world is (was) Bethesda's specialty, but this latest iteration by the developers of Skyrim is a shallow sandbox devoid of personality and emotion.

    Open world Boston is decently big, rich in places to explore, and yet there is nothing to do bar aiming your gun and pulling the trigger. You go to a new place and then get shot at by the denizens of New England. And then you shoot back. That is the crux of Fallout 4.

    The customization of your gear was highly emphasized in Bethesda's advertising. Howard's silver-tongued slander. The amount of guns you can customize are actually quite slim, and although numerous mods can be attached there is always a best, singular option. Armor options are also very limited. The diversity is as incrementally uninspired as that of vanilla skyrim. Progressive pieces lack variety and chic aesthetic appeal. Unique armors are present, but most are bland and/or inferior. Fashion is a rarity in post-apocalyptic Boston.

    My antidote and opinion, yes, but if you were a fan of previous Fallout games you will notice quickly and harshly that the original RPG formula has been tampered with and denigrated. Bethesda elected to surgically eviscerate player "Skills," tying character progression and level growth to the accumulation of perks. You can also max out your SPECIAL traits. Depending upon your preferences, abandoning "skills" was big news before the November 10th, 2015 release. Good or bad or neutral news. Some fans were worried about the architecture of leveling in general. Others were not swayed. They had faith in Bethesda. Unfortunately, the concerns regarding the leveling system were justified. Most perks serve only to bolster your character's weapon damage or damage resistance. There is no jaw-dropping perk nor any creativity. Worse, because Bethesda nullified "Skills" and allows you to pump all SPECIAL traits at will, diversity in character design no longer influence the Fallout experience. Cookie-cutter characters galore. No deviations, no reason to play as a medic, or scientist, or mechanic. In fact, scavenging for weapons and armor to make repairs, which was a big deal in previous entries, is no more. Rarely do you ever come across a story or conversational situation where only a specially designed character can accomplish some sort of specialized feat. For example, across my first (and last) play through there was only one encounter where a certain amount of intelligence was required to do something. In this case, during a fix/fetch quest I needed 10 intelligence to repair some gizmo on the spot. That, or I would have to make a hike elsewhere to another location and retrieve a replacement. Because I did have a 10 in Intelligence (along with a few others with all the rest pending) I saved myself a trip. It was not very compelling.

    RPG elements are sparse. In fact, they have been all but been abandoned, replaced by redundant instant gratification in the form of aiming down your iron sights and pulling the trigger. Enemies are more than a little common. Raiders have set up shop everywhere, and every single one of them is hostile. Gunners too. No chitchat. No conversations. No choices. Absolutely no option to join a raider gang or start one of your own.

    Choices & karma, these are absent in Fallout 4. The latter would not have been an issue if moral gray and ambiguity were more prevailing themes, but sadly the framework of a Bethesda story is about as complicated and poorly paced as a teenage fanfic. Factions are about as bare bones and one-dimensional as hollywood protagonists and antagonists. As usual, Bethesda cannot stray from a black and white story.

    Black and white and forgettable. That is FO4. Good and bad and quite ugly.    … Expand
  49. Alkatraz
    Dec 3, 2015
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There's love for this game from Bethesda....just...not enough.

    Like everyone else I looked forward to this game, and going through a dry spell of decent RPG's, Fallout 4(F4) was the light at the end of the tunnel - although, yes, the game itself has many redeeming qualities, the intense immersive gameplay the previous fallout games possessed show how lackluster F4 is.

    Here's what you'll enjoy:
    - More of the F4 world
    - New base building
    - Interesting new equipment mechanics
    - New and interesting perks
    - More action and fighting focus

    Here's what you may dislike:
    - Dated graphics engine
    - A reliance of mod community to clean up some of the graphics, fix power suit balances, and essentially rely on the community to refine the game.
    - Shallow characters and stilted dialogue
    - More action and fighting focus

    You might be wondering why I give it a 6, because honestly it is not a bad game, the controls and FPS component feel more refined, the world appears to be well detailed, the seed community's allowing players to build a town is a great idea, and the atmosphere of F3 is still present. What F4 is missing, imo, is character.

    The dialogue is terrible, you obtain equipment far to easily, and have access to the power suit quite early on. The beginning of F4 is painstakingly boring (for me), and I [spoiler] before we really get to enjoy our family or create a bond they are ripped away - I don't know them enough to care....

    Suggestions:
    - Give the player a powersuit but have it break after using it the first time; the player is given time to VALUE the immense power of the suit, so that they work towards it's repair. Create value for players so they see the need to use the suit and how important it is.
    - Spend more time with your family or don't make the story about your family if you can only attribute 10 minutes of gameplay to them. Perhaps make it about your family, but cryogenic damage has caused memory loss, or someone has implanted memories that were never there....give me a reason to care Bethesda....give us a unique story....

    I feel my gripe lies heavily in what feels like an unpolished gem, that will only get better once the modding community and DLC for the game comes out. The game is fine, playable, but by no means GOTY quality, or has the same enjoyable traits as F3; but I can't ignore the fact that it does a "good" job, and not a "great" job. So if you like the Fallout world and want more of the same-ish, add it to you list. If you were expecting something different, innovative, and there to create RPG memories, it just didn't draw me in like the previous Fallout's have.

    I hope the review helped.    … Expand
  50. Barca1985
    Nov 13, 2015
    6
    It's a pretty good game considering the open world, what you can do in it, the atmosphere and that your decisions influences the game. I played for like 10 hours because i didn't know what to think about it. I wasn't blown away by it or addicted as some others. Yes, the graphics are not what one would suspect from a PS4 game but i accepted that. It looks like a PS3 game. BUT there areIt's a pretty good game considering the open world, what you can do in it, the atmosphere and that your decisions influences the game. I played for like 10 hours because i didn't know what to think about it. I wasn't blown away by it or addicted as some others. Yes, the graphics are not what one would suspect from a PS4 game but i accepted that. It looks like a PS3 game. BUT there are glitched and bugs as well. Like, i saw an enemy stuck in the ground. Or getting stuck somewhere Or dialogue isn't going correctly. Overall i was bored because it's grind grind grind. Get every object you can because you might need it in the future. Good idea's in this game but i think it could've been much better. Selling it right now.… Expand
  51. Elucidate
    Jun 24, 2018
    6
    There's too much to say about this game so I'll just highlight a few main thoughts I have on it.

    Pros: 1. Better performance (at least in my experience), especially compared to the laggy/freezy FO3 and FNV 2. A few decent moments in the main story, like when you get to first enter the Institute 3. Weapon customization/upgrading 4. Some great environment/atmosphere/immersion    There's too much to say about this game so I'll just highlight a few main thoughts I have on it.

    Pros:
    1. Better performance (at least in my experience), especially compared to the laggy/freezy FO3 and FNV
    2. A few decent moments in the main story, like when you get to first enter the Institute
    3. Weapon customization/upgrading
    4. Some great environment/atmosphere/immersion elements, like the Glowing Sea, or even the little story behind the Boston Mayoral Shelter
    5. Better character appearance customization

    Cons:
    1. Overly combat-centric, which quickly results in an overpowered player character with overpowered weapons that can sweep anything they encounter in the wasteland. Also harms the feasibility of a peaceful-approach play-style that some might want to go for
    2. Factions that are one-dimensional and often seem juvenile (besides the Institute, which was just poorly written). Makes you wish there was a Yes-Man-esque ending option where you didn't have to side with one of them
    3. The lazy and annoying repeatable quests. Gone are the in-depth side quests featuring interesting NPCs, to be replaced by meaningless retrieval or killing-mission quests
    4. Perhaps most seriously of all, the unmistakable shift away from RPG and towards first-person/third-person shooter. The new perk system and getting rid of skills was just the beginning. Your choices are mostly superficial and limited in their impact, besides the obvious choice of selecting whom to side with in the end. Others have gone into more depth about this, so I won't bother repeating more of it here.

    Overall, FO4 isn't a terrible game, but it is one that lacks sophistication and heart. It doesn't draw me back to play it again in the same way FO3 and especially FNV did, despite their respective flaws. Bethesda can, and really should, do better.    … Expand
  52. Necroluster
    May 31, 2016
    6
    As much as I hate the abbreviated conversations and linear quests, Fallout 4 is still entertaining. Nowhere near New Vegas though. Good action, world exploration and base building. Too bad it's harder to role play in it than previous Fallout games. Hardly any skill checks at all. No branching conversations/quests to speak of. I hate playing as the character Bethesda wants me to play as. IAs much as I hate the abbreviated conversations and linear quests, Fallout 4 is still entertaining. Nowhere near New Vegas though. Good action, world exploration and base building. Too bad it's harder to role play in it than previous Fallout games. Hardly any skill checks at all. No branching conversations/quests to speak of. I hate playing as the character Bethesda wants me to play as. I hate the whiny voiced protagonist. Want your character to sound like a hardened post-apocalyptic mercenary? Sorry, you're stuck with the default 30-year old nice-guy daddy.

    Fallout 4 is a decent game that could have been great if it hadn't been crippled. It stands as a monument to what happens when a hardcore audience is ignored in order to appease casual gamers. Fallout is turning into COD, and I don't like it. If this is the way Bethesda keeps treating their loyal fans, then I'm not buying the next Elder Scrolls.    … Expand
  53. DoUEvnLft
    Nov 13, 2015
    6
    Far from a perfect game, the writing is decent and the world is a lot more dense and packed than previous iterations, but unpolished visuals and continuous performance issues hinder an experience that already feels too familiar to be set apart from its predecessors. Enhanced gunplay and animations make the game feel more solid, but from a general standpoint the gameplay feels like nothingFar from a perfect game, the writing is decent and the world is a lot more dense and packed than previous iterations, but unpolished visuals and continuous performance issues hinder an experience that already feels too familiar to be set apart from its predecessors. Enhanced gunplay and animations make the game feel more solid, but from a general standpoint the gameplay feels like nothing special. Base building and deep character customisation are a nice addition, but not enough to keep me engrossed for more than a few more hours.… Expand
  54. Firestorm94
    Jun 7, 2016
    6
    I Am a huge Fallout fan and I have also put many hours into this game and i have also gotten the platinum trophy, so i have pretty much seen almost all of what Fallout 4 has to offer. Although i do not think the game is bad i feel that it was a huge disappointment especially to the long time fans of the series.

    I will say the game improved on it's combat system and added a great    I Am a huge Fallout fan and I have also put many hours into this game and i have also gotten the platinum trophy, so i have pretty much seen almost all of what Fallout 4 has to offer. Although i do not think the game is bad i feel that it was a huge disappointment especially to the long time fans of the series.

    I will say the game improved on it's combat system and added a great variety of weapon and armor mods and just overall had a really good crafting system. but other than that the RPG elements that made Fallout what it is are completely gone, the new dialogue system is is just completely dumbed down and it limits you to what you can say and it even points out which choices are good and bad and doesn't make you think about each choice the the older games. Also it was just a horrible idea to add a voice to you're character it makes you feel like your playing as someone else and just completely ruins the immersion.

    The graphics in the game are nothing too special but one of my biggest issues with the gameplay is the constant fps drops, almost anytime i get into any sort of combat in this game the fps drops to a point where it can become unplayable . Also to mention for a current gen game it has very long loading times whenever you enter/exit a building or when you fast travel.

    Despite what i said i don't think Fallout 4 is a bad game, i just thought it was a huge disappointment especially compared to Fallout 3 and New Vegas.    … Expand
  55. HaloFever
    Apr 19, 2021
    6
    The early days of the PS4 were an ugly time for games and Fallout 4 is no exception. In 2021, the Fallout 4 looks and plays even worse compared modern gaming, but the SSD in a PS5 is a savior to get through the game's many loading screens. You experience on an old PS4 may vary.

    Fallout 4 looks bad. Compare it to The Witcher 3 and there is no contest. Compare it to Fallout 3 and you    The early days of the PS4 were an ugly time for games and Fallout 4 is no exception. In 2021, the Fallout 4 looks and plays even worse compared modern gaming, but the SSD in a PS5 is a savior to get through the game's many loading screens. You experience on an old PS4 may vary.

    Fallout 4 looks bad. Compare it to The Witcher 3 and there is no contest. Compare it to Fallout 3 and you wonder what Bethesda had been doing for 7 years. It's not just the lighting, character models, and ever present green hue. The game recycles models from Fallout 3 and itself, over and over, so you really have no idea where you are or what the landscape is supposed to be. The character models and faces are indeed terrible. Enemies are completely uninteresting and all wear variations of the same types of armor. The dialogue options are just as generic and dialogue options rarely, if ever, have an impact on the game.

    Fallout 4 also plays bad. The V.A.T.S. system from Fallout 3 returns without any apparent changes. (Was this entire game planned as DLC for Fallout 3?) Players can queue up attacks in a way that briefly turns battles into turn based encounters. I like V.A.T.S. as an alternative for RPG fans who are not saavy with shooters. However, if you are saavy with shooters, the live action gunplay is garbage. I don't expect a Bethesda game to play as smooth as a Bungie game, but at least nail the fundamentals of slowing down the reticle speed as you near the target. Or put another way, playtest your game with a controller and not a keyboard and mouse! I found that cover and sidestepping made no difference with enemies. You stand (or crouch) your ground and shoot until all enemies are dead. Every battle is like a war of attrition. Whether you go melee or guns, V.A.T.S. or live action, the gameplay has to pause every thirty seconds to a minute while you scroll through a menu to use a health item.

    By the way, I have not got gotten to the worst part. The game forces players to build settlements and manage the settlers. At first, I thought this idea was a little tacked on but had intriguing implications. Those fine thoughts were dispelled as soon as the game forced me to assign a settler to work a water pump. There is no overarching menu screen for this. You cannot boot up a version of Fallout Shelter on your phone. Instead, you clumsily enter crafting mode, highlight a settler with your reticle, and then highlight the item you want the settler to work. If you do not set up your settlements well enough, they will be constantly attacked by enemies. The attacks will show up as quest objects and you can help if you want. Don't. The attacks never end and you will never actually finish the game if you go down the base building, base defending rabbit hole. The entire settlement system and the defense of settlements looks from the outside like a great way to pad playtime so the game looks bigger than it really is.

    The settlement and crafting system seems very 2015. Minecraft was incredibly successful back then and many games were jumping on the crafting bandwagon. Fallout seems like a good series to add crafting because you make do with the resources left behind. But not this kind of crafting. Not a chore. Adding insult to injury, every building you craft looks a ramshackle shack. No matter how you design a giant mansion for yourself, it will always look like a monstrosity. Why not just move into one of the cookie cutter office buildings that are still standing?

    Fallout 4 does allow mods on the PS4 to change the playing experience. I saw some that make collecting items and thus base building easier by removing the carry limit. This is especially important because all settlement structures require parts that have to be salvaged, and it sucks to make multiple trips to carry it all. Various other mods solve the settlement defense problem. The downsides to mods are breaking the game and losing access to trophies. The game is already a sandbox that is essentially made to be broken. This is the only reason I play these kinds of RPGs. If I wanted a good shooting game, a good building game, or a good story game, I would play almost anything else.

    All-in-all, Fallout 4 is a crap game. Playing it more does not make it better. All I really want is for Skyrim and The Witcher 3 to have a baby, and let me make my own character in a world that looks as good as The Witcher 3 and has the quality storytelling of The Witcher 3. Bethesda games are the best in their niche if only because they are the only games in that niche. To be clear about the effect of this, I waited this long to buy Fallout 4 because of how disappointed I was with the game trailers and previews. Quality matters.

    Update: I finished the main story and my opinions are unchanged. A dud is a dud.

    Full Disclosure: I downloaded Fallout 4 for "free" with the PS+ collection on PS5. Not only did I not pay $60 for this game, I also did not suffer long loading times.    … Expand
  56. Viscari
    Jan 15, 2016
    6
    Would have been an 8 or 9, but the sub par graphics combined with some horrific loading times and watered down npc conversations = 6.

    The building aspect while entertaining for an hour or so, is too buggy, feels rushed and shoehorned into the game. It also takes far too long to grind out scrap to build a mega base.. It should be fun not a chore.
  57. DinoBeam
    Mar 28, 2021
    6
    EDIT: I'm lowering this to a 6, Im trying to enjoy myself, I find a cool submarine, and where does that quest send me? TO **** SAUGUS IRON WORKS!!!! I'VE ALREADY CLEARED THAT PLACE OUT 4 TIMES FOR 4 OTHER **** QUESTS! HOW IS THIS GAME THAT TRASHY!?!??!?!??!??

    This is a solid game all around, yes it isn't as good as Skyrim for a number of reasons; --Too many boring go clear a    EDIT: I'm lowering this to a 6, Im trying to enjoy myself, I find a cool submarine, and where does that quest send me? TO **** SAUGUS IRON WORKS!!!! I'VE ALREADY CLEARED THAT PLACE OUT 4 TIMES FOR 4 OTHER **** QUESTS! HOW IS THIS GAME THAT TRASHY!?!??!?!??!??

    This is a solid game all around, yes it isn't as good as Skyrim for a number of reasons;

    --Too many boring go clear a building quests
    --Locations reused multiple times
    --Uglier terrain
    --Nameless NPCs to 'flesh out' cities
    --Lack of location variety
    --Obvious copy and pasted areas
    --More bland infinitely generated quests

    But it does come with a bunch of upgrades

    --you don't have to level up a perk to unlock a perk, you are free as long as you meet the level requirement for that stat
    --you don't have to go into a menu to loot containers and bodies
    --your followers all have their own backstories, and as they get to like you they reveal a little bit of it here and there, until they ask you to go on a quest with them!
    --completing said follower quest unlocks a perk
    --there are multiple factions that actually oppose each other, you can't just join them all

    There are also times it seems Bethesda didn't care about the game. When you clear out a location to build a settlement, the dead bodies stay there forever, and I am playing in 2021. You'll be addicted and frustrated. It feels so annoying and passive aggressive when they force a random event "kill some people for no real reason" missions to be selected and pop up on your HUD.    … Expand
  58. Tinagowtfay12
    Jun 23, 2020
    6
    A step back for the Fallout franchise. Really enjoyed both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, so it was very exciting to see a 4th in the making, but I just can't bring myself to complete it. My major complaint is they focused way too much on the new "building" mechanics. I'm not here to play minecraft. The graphics are mediocre, however, so are most of Bethesda's games. I feel the game was veryA step back for the Fallout franchise. Really enjoyed both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, so it was very exciting to see a 4th in the making, but I just can't bring myself to complete it. My major complaint is they focused way too much on the new "building" mechanics. I'm not here to play minecraft. The graphics are mediocre, however, so are most of Bethesda's games. I feel the game was very rushed just to please fans and make some extra cash. The gameplay is very poor in my opinion as well. 6/10.… Expand
  59. murderboner
    Feb 29, 2016
    6
    Diehard Fallout fan. Have all the platinum trophies, played through 3 and NV dozens of times.

    That said, F4 gets a solid 6. Why so low? Essentially, this is a tale of two Fallouts. On one hand, you've got a Fallout with much better and responsive shooting, similar to Destiny (on which it modeled itself after). On the other, you've got the same Fallout experience you've seen prior. The    Diehard Fallout fan. Have all the platinum trophies, played through 3 and NV dozens of times.

    That said, F4 gets a solid 6. Why so low? Essentially, this is a tale of two Fallouts. On one hand, you've got a Fallout with much better and responsive shooting, similar to Destiny (on which it modeled itself after). On the other, you've got the same Fallout experience you've seen prior. The bugs and crashes are far less than before, if ever occurring. The ability to now run is appreciated. However, like most people are saying, this is a great game, but a **** Fallout game.

    When we look at Fallout as a franchise, we expect just a few small things we deem as essential to the experience: Ambience and atmosphere, narrative and storyline, weapon degradation, and most importantly--DIALOG, WRITING, AND CHOICES THAT MATTER.

    Fallout 4 has none of these things, virtually making this iteration so far removed from Fallout you can't really call it Fallout. Guns don't break down, so I can just grab a Super Sledge and never worry about another weapon again, ever, effectively removing immersion and potential strategies for combat prep. You don't have to worry, it'll never break. Boston simply sucks, feels small, confined, and empty. There's zero lore outside of the story missions, and the story was not very good overall. I think BGS tried to go more dense and vertical, and I'm sorry, but they failed miserably in this experiment. Fallout is the one game that NEEDS empty expanse to effectively communicate the fear and isolation embedded in the franchise. It's literally the only franchise that can get away with it. Imagine if F4 had Just Cause 3's (which is awesome fun) map and density. But the most unforgivable sin of this game is the writing and dialog options. Simply awful. Since this game came out over 5 years after New Vegas, it is simply no excuse to not tirelessly labor to get the writing and dialog and choice making crystallized. The game is pure illusion of choice: you either agree happily, or you agree sarcastically. There is no option to be the bad guy. NO KARMA SYSTEM. Hyper-reduced dialog choices. Your decisions don't matter, they never did. Additionally, the graphics are quite bad for a game that took over 7 years to produce. Unacceptable and upstart devs like CD PROJEKT are lapping them. Cyberpunk 2077 may be the Fallout franchise killer.

    In sum, you'll have a good time playing this game. But you won't be enjoying the bastard casualization of this beloved franchise. Better shooting, less lore, less reality, bad graphics, horrible writing, abysmal dialog, ugh I cant write anymore.

    Bethesda, watch your ass, your competition will and is already lapping you. Do yourself a favor and give Fallout to OBSIDIAN, a developer that understands Fallout much more than you do in all ways. They are the ones that gave you better custom mods, a world with actual consequences for your actions and choices that truly matter, weapon degrading, stellar voice acting and radio stations, and a sense of atmosphere and ambiance that makes you truly feel the world is dead and you are a wandering loner lost in the dust of the old west.    … Expand
  60. Dannystaples
    Jan 10, 2016
    6
    The game starts well I was actually enjoying it for a short time.

    Then the game becomes boring. You start feeling like you're seeing the same things over and over. The main story missions are typical Bethesda. Half arsed and uninteresting. So I ran off into the wilderness and start exploring. Most buildings are filled with the same handful of enemies. Offer nothing interesting to    The game starts well I was actually enjoying it for a short time.

    Then the game becomes boring. You start feeling like you're seeing the same things over and over.

    The main story missions are typical Bethesda. Half arsed and uninteresting.

    So I ran off into the wilderness and start exploring. Most buildings are filled with the same handful of enemies. Offer nothing interesting to see or find. You just spend your entire time collecting junk.

    Crafting system is clunky, shallow and offers nothing relevant to the game. You spend ages trying to get the walls of your house to snap together in the one orientation it refuses to go into and then it has no baring on the story. I played for about 50 hours and never once saw a Raider attack. So what the is point in even having it?

    Crafting weapons is cool until you realise there are about 20 guns in the game and you'll have seen them all within the first hour. It is just the same old crappy guns with slightly different mods.

    The factions are boring. There are no choices in this game that make any significant difference.

    Largely you will run around in boring places, fighting boring enemies with boring weapons and you will have NOTHING to show for it when you are done.

    I'm going back to Witcher 3. There is more writing and interesting information in a single Bestiary entry in Witcher 3 than the entire script of Fallout 4.    … Expand
  61. ChazzRabble
    Jan 14, 2016
    6
    I finished Fallout 3 and played a bunch of hours of Fallout New Vegas, but I'm not sure what it is about this game - but I find it frustratingly hard. I've now got it on 'very easy' and I'm still dying more than I want to. I'm not a noob at games like this - but I find the lack of explanations really annoying. Also there are about 5 missions that I cannot pass currently as I don't haveI finished Fallout 3 and played a bunch of hours of Fallout New Vegas, but I'm not sure what it is about this game - but I find it frustratingly hard. I've now got it on 'very easy' and I'm still dying more than I want to. I'm not a noob at games like this - but I find the lack of explanations really annoying. Also there are about 5 missions that I cannot pass currently as I don't have the right science level or what not - but it's not telling me how to improve that. Graphics are pretty average, characters are clunky as always with fallout games. The world is sometimes fun to explore though!… Expand
  62. Mamal
    Dec 17, 2016
    6
    The world can be a fun place to explore but the characters and the quests start to feel very boring after a while and the settlement building is not fun at all. The main story is pretty boring as well and the dialogue options are a joke.
  63. rainbetween
    Nov 15, 2015
    6
    I played for about 12 hours and the game crashed 4 times and glitched out several times more. I find crashes and glitches annoying, as anyone would, but I also like to think that I'm patient enough to be able to forgive these things when they happen as the PS4 allows AAA developers a lot of freedom to create very new and ambitious projects. However Fallout 4 was a bit harder to forgive asI played for about 12 hours and the game crashed 4 times and glitched out several times more. I find crashes and glitches annoying, as anyone would, but I also like to think that I'm patient enough to be able to forgive these things when they happen as the PS4 allows AAA developers a lot of freedom to create very new and ambitious projects. However Fallout 4 was a bit harder to forgive as it didn't strike me as all that ambitious. The Witcher 3 is ambitious. Fallout 4 at times felt LAZY by comparison. I don't believe that graphics make a game, and I certainly wasn't expecting much from a Bethesda game (I mean, come on it's Bethesda). But I still couldn't shake the constant feeling of "I wish they had tried a bit harder" as I observed some of the fine details in the game. Also, after 12 hours the story still hadn't drawn me in and I found myself zoning out during a lot of the sidequest dialogues, so I ultimately decided to return it to Amazon. I hope Bethesda releases some patches soon to fix all the bugs and crashes for people who are enjoying the game.… Expand
  64. Jozefow
    Dec 27, 2015
    6
    When someone asks me my favourite game, by FAR it's Fallout. I was checking online for a couple years on updates for release. I found out that I couldn't get it on PS3. So I bit the bullet and purchased an XBox one. I read that this game was going to be so good and expansive that it required the better system. I always felt Fallout was great but had MANY areas for improvement. I imaginedWhen someone asks me my favourite game, by FAR it's Fallout. I was checking online for a couple years on updates for release. I found out that I couldn't get it on PS3. So I bit the bullet and purchased an XBox one. I read that this game was going to be so good and expansive that it required the better system. I always felt Fallout was great but had MANY areas for improvement. I imagined this Fallout would be the same great "choose your adventure" type format, with better game play. Destiny's game play, to me is among the best but could learn from Fallout's story and story telling. I envisioned vastly improved game play that fixed many of the ridiculously annoying things like issues with your companion, from them disappearing to when they are in the area, but cannot be found. If I have to chase Dogmeat one more time to access gear I'm going to lose my mind. I may have figured out the inventory thing now, that I got the supply lines perk and I can just dismantle everything, but I'm level 40 and just got it now so we'll have to see. You would think you'd want your players focused on the story and not juggling crap all the time. I ended up putting all my companions at the Sanctuary and loading them all up. So many things about this game SCREAM lazy. The freaking Brotherhood of Steel. LAZY. The Institute, LAZY. The synth's looking exactly like the dudes from I, Robot....LAZY. Everything else that is exactly the same as previous Fallout games. LAZY. I think all of these companies need creative people who are not game designers. If they do have these people they are terrible at picking them. There are also SO many things that take you out of the game. I have left Preston at the Sanctuary the entire game and have the 18 settlers with 80% happiness level. There's about 65,000 turrets and all other defensive crap. People are still getting kidnapped and then when I get called for the kidnapping the settler asks, "Are you from the Minutemen?" Well, I've been here 800 times, built the entire city and tote a sledgehammer with rocket propulsion....YA, I'm from the Minutemen. It would be pretty easy to have a single line of dialogue as you increase your completed missions for an area. If you are going to complete several missions for each area, I think there should be more attacks on the area that test the defense you have spent your time and loot creating. Instead of the kidnapping already happening, why not have the kidnapping attempt be the mission. Have a pack of Super Mutants rush your settlement and see what happens. Even if it is a no-brainer victory it would be nice to see the stuff in action more. Maybe it happens later in the game.
    I'm at level 40 and have only changed my armor once. I was getting tired of managing inventory, managing power armor and managing settlements, so I dropped the difficultly level and ditched the power armor. All the power armor did was let me jump from the top of satellite arrays, which was fun for a bit.
    The construction of settlements is FAR from intuitive. Apparently walls and fences can only happen at right angles, so when terrain gets hilly, fences go sub-terrain. There is a big disconnect in what a player envisions to what they can actually do.
    The companion is terrible. So terrible they have the perk of going it alone. My companion does no real damage and just goes off and dies 90% of the time. Sometimes Dogmeat holds a guy for me that I can tee up with a melee weapon, but most of the time he just screws up sneak attacks or I just use him as a beacon to draw fire until he dies. Has anyone ever used a Stimpak mid battle to revive him? I love the parts of the game where he's sniffing stuff out and using his unique skills. There could be more of that for all the different companions.
    I know this is long and won't be read, but I really don't get why you can't have game play as good as Destiny and a story/world like Fallout. I also don't understand why creativity is such a low priority. In my business we get hundreds of idea from users that have no expertise in the discipline. Yes, 99 of the ideas out of 100 are flushed, but a few times I ask the designers, "Is there a reason we can't do that?" and when the answer is no, it can be a great concept to bring to your product. I guess because even though there may be many behind the scenes things that required a PS4 or XBox one, as the end-user, I don't see them. This feels like something that could have been released a year after New Vegas on PS3 or XBox 360    … Expand
  65. McEmow
    Dec 1, 2015
    6
    This is the first Fallout game I have ever played so I don't know anything about it's predecessors.

    The game starts a bit slow at the beginning but after a while the awesome story unfolds and the journey begins. The story is good. Very good with some nice plot twists but with a fairly disappointing ending. There are different factions in the game you can join and all have faction    This is the first Fallout game I have ever played so I don't know anything about it's predecessors.

    The game starts a bit slow at the beginning but after a while the awesome story unfolds and the journey begins.
    The story is good. Very good with some nice plot twists but with a fairly disappointing ending.

    There are different factions in the game you can join and all have faction specific quests.
    This sounds cool but all the endings are 90% the same?? What the hell?? This doesn't make any sense.
    It would be nice if there were 3 very different endings.

    Graphics wise it's weak. I mean come one guys this game has like PS3 graphics.
    I could justify the graphics if the game ran steady but it doesn't. In busy sections the frame-rate drops enormously and stutter begins. This is very annoying and takes the fun away when shooting.

    The customization is AWESOME!! Enormous ammount of parts you can craft and use for your weapons/armor. The settlements are also very nice. Fun for the creative people but doesn't add much to the story.

    There are also companions you can travel with. This adds life to your story. Without this the travels would be a bit boring. But this is something personal as others like to travel alone.

    The overall feeling of this game was good but i just can't accept the fact that a huge developer like Bethesda uses an old engine with sloppy frame-rates.

    There haven't been a single patch as today to fix these issues. I wil rate this a 6 now. A 7 when there is a patch.    … Expand
  66. WhiskeyJacker
    Nov 16, 2015
    6
    Don't buy it, not until the patches come out. It's Bethesda, should go without saying.

    Anyway. Gameplay is a definite improvement over previous games, more fluid and less blocky. That said, VATS still takes front and center to the point of repetition and quickly becomes just as stale as it was in previous installments. The best addition is the use of grenades without being forced to    Don't buy it, not until the patches come out. It's Bethesda, should go without saying.

    Anyway. Gameplay is a definite improvement over previous games, more fluid and less blocky. That said, VATS still takes front and center to the point of repetition and quickly becomes just as stale as it was in previous installments. The best addition is the use of grenades without being forced to manually equip them; makes clearing a room much more fun.

    Main Story wise, it's good. The basic plot gives you just enough emotional connection to keep chugging along, though the killer is in the details (Some holotapes and character dialogue are particularly well done). Probably the first time Bethesda had taken me on a feels trip, even if a short one. That said, it's spectacularly short and fairly linear. If you're looking for the branching campaigns like Fallout New Vegas, you're sure to be disappointed. Factions are inferred rather than outright stated and have minimal bearing on the story until the last 5 hours or so of gameplay.

    Side quests. Non. **** Existent. Compared to any other Bethesda game, the world feeling lacking in the tinier stories that would normally suck up your time in the wasteland. Their reliance on 'Radiant Quests' (A la Skyrim) quickly becomes a boring grind and by the 40 hour mark you'll find that you're down to skin and bones when looking for a diversion from the main questline.

    Companions. Best done by Bethesda yet. Well written and voice acted. Only downside is the 'affection system' needed to progress their story line requires a metric **** of work to get going (Trust me, those 'Radiant Quests' quickly become your only option of furthering your relationship).

    Overall polish of game? It's **** Bethesda. Within 2 hours I found myself glitched out of a quest line and when I went to start a new game on a second character I quickly ran into a game-breaking bug that has currently caused me to shelve the game for the time being. Expected but still frustrating.

    Additional notes: Nerfing power armor was definitely a poor choice and essentially renders it useless until end game when you actually have the resources to take it out and about. And, Though I do like the new segmented armor system, the lack of different styles and armor types makes customizing your character more than a bit dry. Crafting system is a big plus, and you'll want to dedicate yourself to learning it's ins and outs to get the most out of your gear.

    All in all. Average. A decent game but far too hyped. It's like eating salad and only salad for dinner. It's food, it'll sustain you, but it won't fill you up and leave you satisfied. And now I'll end this review with words that curdle my own blood... "Maybe the patches and DLC will fix it".    … Expand
  67. Dmitro
    Nov 10, 2015
    6
    After playing ten hours. 12 lvl.
    1. Wild bakes the need to engage in the construction of the village. I do not need another survayvaloporasha of Greenlight. I nuzhon FOLLACH. Even if we assume that I would like to build houses for the nameless NPCs interface of this **** is worthless. Throw garbage on the ground to dismantle it then? Yeah **** you gave? How to assign people to work and I    After playing ten hours. 12 lvl.
    1. Wild bakes the need to engage in the construction of the village. I do not need another survayvaloporasha of Greenlight. I nuzhon FOLLACH. Even if we assume that I would like to build houses for the nameless NPCs interface of this **** is worthless. Throw garbage on the ground to dismantle it then? Yeah **** you gave? How to assign people to work and I did not understand and do not believe that it is in principle possible to do.

    2. The world is small. From this, too, it was hot. On the one hand, I already Jam empty endless worlds in games, but then the world and empty a little, just like your daddy dickhead. No animals, random encounters few, and those that have scenes represent a type of "Raiders vs. Ghouls" and "Brotherhood of Steel against the mutants." Dialogues are no such scenes there. Lulzim too. So ****ing "city", consisting of boxes with boarded windows and doors.
    3. Kraft cool weapons. Well, they probably will, after finished modes. Now even to cheat the sight on the gun should be nihuevo pumped into the right perks and years to collect garbage on the heath. One upgrade every four hours - not the fans, as for me.

    4.Ot dialog wheels mass effect was hot, too. Not as much as some here, but decent. Mainly because of the words in the "wheel" does not conclude what will eventually figure. "Select" answer, and what a character - the game rubs. While this may seem simple, because all lines of dialogue SG - extremely retardovye. NIPAROLIPLEIT.

    5.Roamit of heath fun. Disadvantages not particularly noticeable when you go Explora. The strongest part of the game, brought the soul. Here are just a taste of **** is because you know that instead of NEXT - you have given gene gameplay from treshki. Few innovations.

    6. Very strongly bakes what is Skyrim with guns. The boys showed off their ultradvizhkom and ultratehnologiyami, and eventually rolled eychdi reissue dovakinopriklyucheny. Lighting finished texture resolution and little - a little over done and everything. NO MORE YOU Yoba TECHNOLOGIES, Eat **** With PASTGENA.

    In summary - it is an all Oblivion Over egeyn. I feel the same emotions. On the one hand - we want poautirovat lamp ones and on the other - a gazebo too much crap from the technical side and constantly get the feeling that the game in the Polish clone Gothic. Govnetsa sweetness on the lips.    … Expand
  68. BarryZut
    Nov 17, 2015
    6
    This game, like the other Bethesda games I've played, are a lot of fun. I love The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, and this one is no exception.
    But, I barely can see any difference with for example Skryim. The graphics and gameplay feels very familiar with a game from 2011. I thought there was some improvement in four years, but there are none. This is not a huge problem, because it is    This game, like the other Bethesda games I've played, are a lot of fun. I love The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, and this one is no exception.
    But, I barely can see any difference with for example Skryim. The graphics and gameplay feels very familiar with a game from 2011. I thought there was some improvement in four years, but there are none. This is not a huge problem, because it is still a lot of fun to play. The bugs and glitches however, are not. Never I have seen so much bugs and glitches than in Fallout 4. In one week of playing, I had as much bugs and glitches than in six months of playing The Witcher 3. So much, that I stopped playing to wait for a Bethesda patch so I can rejoin the fun.
    The game is a big fat 9, when the game breaking bugs are cleared.    … Expand
  69. F0rZ3r0
    Oct 30, 2022
    6
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  70. CalRochey
    Apr 21, 2016
    6
    Should have been a fallout spin off 3rd person action game, the RPG elements of the game have been dumbed to near nothing, its the illusion of choice. Feel like I would have enjoyed the game better if I knew it was so linear and just gave me a character to play as with no interacting with the dialog and was just cut scenes.

    If future games like the elder scrolls and the next fallout    Should have been a fallout spin off 3rd person action game, the RPG elements of the game have been dumbed to near nothing, its the illusion of choice. Feel like I would have enjoyed the game better if I knew it was so linear and just gave me a character to play as with no interacting with the dialog and was just cut scenes.

    If future games like the elder scrolls and the next fallout games follow down the same path as this one I think if you really love role playing as a character your not going to find it here anymore.    … Expand
  71. Nixxime
    Dec 26, 2015
    6
    From Skyrim to Fallout 4

    I know I know you can't compare the two together but both games were made by Bethesda and there are definitely things that one can expect from a Bethesda game. I was really hyped out for Fallout 4 since I enjoy FPS but hate the multi-player, the scripted campaigns and the lack of freedom and open world so Fallout 4 was a match made in heaven. The main    From Skyrim to Fallout 4

    I know I know you can't compare the two together but both games were made by Bethesda and there are definitely things that one can expect from a Bethesda game.

    I was really hyped out for Fallout 4 since I enjoy FPS but hate the multi-player, the scripted campaigns and the lack of freedom and open world so Fallout 4 was a match made in heaven.

    The main features that made me really excited to buy it on day 1 was:
    - FPS in RPG
    -In depth Armour and Weapon Customization
    -Huge Open World
    -Settlement Construction(really like this one)
    -Vertibirds
    -Smart Companions
    -Freedom of Choices

    I expected Fallout 4 to live up to the 10/10, game of the year hype that everyone said it would but sadly, not really.

    Fallout 4 isn't a bad game but its just a good-OK game hence my score. The main issues i had with the game that wasn't good was:

    -Dumbed down Dialogue, no really choice you basically can say yes only
    -Poor Frame-rate
    -Clearly Outdated game engine
    -Story is borderline
    -Exploration has no real rewards, most of the time its a randomly generated equipment with star bonus
    -Weak side quest, you will do a lot of 'clear the area' quest
    -Most outfits are not aesthetically pleasing
    -Perks have very little effect not really game changing except for a few
    -Lip-sync is not always right
    -Long and abundant loading screens
    -Crashes randomly
    -Ugly character Models

    Aside from negatives the games also has some features that are redeeming:

    -Living world, brotherhood of steel members can be seen fighting others on their own not because of scripted events.
    -Power Armour
    -Vertibirds
    -Well-crafted and designed world

    Fallout 4 is good but not the game of year that one would expect it to be... Fallout 4 experiences crashes, lags, frame rate issues and long loading times that further worsens the enjoyment of a game with already no real freedom of choice, weak story and mindless quests. Its not terrible game but a so-so one, if you really love RPGs then you can give Fallout 4 a go.    … Expand
  72. Zantos
    Nov 10, 2015
    6
    in Summary cool world nice shooting system but awful controls on pc with mouse and keyboard and the dialogue system is complete trash. Its absolutely no fun to talk to other people. Every time 4 answer possibilities most of them are yes no or maybe and the third is a one-liner too. not a worthy successor for Fallout 3 or New Vegas. Maybe Mods will do it
  73. jml8080
    Nov 10, 2015
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Felt compelled to give an opinion on this one. This game is a massive disappointment so I bullet the reasons why. IMHO, I bulleted important and then made comparisons to previous games.

    - Voiced character/Commander Shepherd, accept much worse, has a dialogue box that destroys any form of imagination and immersion. Yes, like 5-8 word responses, sometimes taken exactly from the dialogue boxes. Codsworth, your robotic butler, has more emotion then your player character. He's like Commander Shepherd with a T-800 automated voice response. This is a major step backward for the game franchise. The opening narration and ending from your voice character was good and so was the end. There was no need to change the dialogue system and they did. It's really, really not good.

    2. Game world appears to be significantly smaller then FO3 and FNV. We are talking a DLC sized map. They spent seven years to bring us this?!!

    3. Game characters are inferior to the cast of colorful characters in FO3 and especially, FNV.

    4. Fallout 4 asks the question what would happen if we reversed the main plotline with the two main cast of characters? Still confused? Don't worry, you'll find out when you play.

    5. A lot of game glitches and optimization issues. This is handing a broken game to gamers for $60. FNV was attacked on release by major reviewers, but most are sold (bought, kaching, kaching) on this one.

    6. Get BOS power armor in 20 minutes and kill a death claw.

    Now with those impressions out of the way, I really don't know what to say. FO3 and FNV are superior games . The game reminds me of a good launch title to show off a system, sort of like what it did at the E3 press conference. It reminds me of the game RAGE. In fact, I was having more fun with Rage at this point. Meaning a colorful vibrant world, but a lack of dialogue, depth, speech points, and a story recycled and rehashed from FO3. Diamond City looks like Megaton. The lack of any type of ingenuity or progression in this game is staggering.

    Fallout 3 is a phenomenal game, possibly one of the best games of all time. FNV had some flaws, but made up for its hilarious dialogue, quirkiness of Characters and plots (Yes Man flipping general off Hoover Dam, ding a ding ding baby, crossdressing, super mutant Tabitha, the Elvis gang, ghouls in rocket ships, the lottery winner, the excellent idiocy of Fantastic, the various factions, and moral choices throughout the game). FNV was flawed but it was hilarious and sometimes was superior to FO3, having the dark comedy of FO and FO2. The fun of the characters, along with the snide and hilarious responses are gone. I named my character Commander Shepherd btw lol.

    The issue of this game stems from the continued lack of ingenuity, sequelitis, and a half polished game for a cash grab.

    The game is a 6. The graphics are of a good quality and the locations are good, when you're not talking. It's not groundbreaking in any way shape or form. Personally, this is the worst disappointment since the ME 3 ending. Yes, I think its that bad. It may actually be worse. We'll see.

    So do yourself a favor and buy this at your own risk. This is not a revival of the game franchise. It is a devival of the highest caliber. Unless you a hardcore fan, you will be disappointed with this one. Hopefully, this allow gamers to think twice about this one, before buying it if at all. The game is anywhere between a 5-7 on a scale of 1-10.

    Not a 9-10 from all of the game reviewers and Let's Players who broke street date, thank you so much so drop a "like" and then get cash and repeat, like Bethesda. I worry about Elder Scrolls and hopefully they'll learn from this one. So please complain and speak up. They need to hear it.

    YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. I'm out.

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  74. AncientDeath
    Nov 12, 2015
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Good effort from Bethesda to bring the series to current generation consoles though they fail short at many part. I would buy it from bargain or game of the year edition with all DLC once it is released in 1-2 years.

    + Graphics are nice as well as quality of life improvements to the old formula.

    - The story
    SPOILER ABOUT STORY TO FOLLOW

    The story is remodeled version of Fallout 3. Instead of lost father it is a lost son.
    In the end you can either kill the son or aid him in his death bed.

    Basically they re-used the old Fallout 3 story that was discarded for the current Fallout 3 story.
    This in my opinion was a mistake. There are a lot of different motivations or reasons how the story could have proceed yet Bethesda re-used the same chase family member in post apocalypse.

    The game also is typical Bethesda game containing a lot of bugs that Bethesda will "hopefully" fix in future or they expect people to fix them self. Their DIY- game model is popular among modders but for console players it is a bane.    … Expand
  75. Jalmerk
    Nov 14, 2015
    6
    At its best Fallout 4 is pretty good, at its worst it is a broken disjointed mess. The writing is shoddy, and the dialogue system has been grossly simplified from previous iterations, the characters are bland and the game does a poor job of getting you interested in anything it has to offer. Remarkably little of note has been added to this series since Fallout 3, and honestly Fallout 4At its best Fallout 4 is pretty good, at its worst it is a broken disjointed mess. The writing is shoddy, and the dialogue system has been grossly simplified from previous iterations, the characters are bland and the game does a poor job of getting you interested in anything it has to offer. Remarkably little of note has been added to this series since Fallout 3, and honestly Fallout 4 feels more like a ps3 remaster of Fallout 3, than a true current gen entry in the Fallout series. All that said, if you are a fan of Fallout you won't HATE this game.. But it doesn't have any surprises for you either.… Expand
  76. kubaw
    Nov 15, 2015
    6
    I read and watched a lot of reviews because it was strange that is so big difference between professional gaming sites and average gamer. First group probably played in rush to make a review and you can see from what they say and write that didn't made big progress in game. That is not their fault, only a couple days for Monday (end of embargo), also at beginning I thought that title isI read and watched a lot of reviews because it was strange that is so big difference between professional gaming sites and average gamer. First group probably played in rush to make a review and you can see from what they say and write that didn't made big progress in game. That is not their fault, only a couple days for Monday (end of embargo), also at beginning I thought that title is really good. The problem is the more you play it, the more bad mechanics and ideas you see. I am not talking about graphics or bugs. Really for so huge game bugs are normal and never in my case they limited or destroyed my game play. Of course I got like 1 game error on ps4 and 3 times game didn't start properly (same error, I had to start game again from system menu) during 55-60 hours of game play. These are not a reason that will make me to give that game 0/10. No I accept that in such project over time after patches most of those issues will be sorted.
    I also have to mention graphics because people give fallout bad review just for this reason. On ps4 game looks worse than on PC, sometimes framerate drops, not all textures looks sharp. But still overall game looks nice,

    Real problems start when you progress in the game, start to make all of those quests along with main one. Actually yesterday after around 60 hours of gameplay I decided that I can't play this game anymore. I didn't want to force myself to finish it. I cleared my head for a day and started think why is that. I liked fallout 3, I know it is not fallout 2 that I played more than 10 times. Ultra fans have to accept the fact that bethesda has rights and can do their own vision. Personally I played Wasteland 2 and enjoyed it because it was closer to f2. On the other hand I accepted Fallout 3 for what it is, I try to be open minded and liked a lot of it. Really ppl should treat this as spin-off the f2 and move on.
    What made me to quit playing fallout 4?
    I got bored with this Call of Duty game on rails. Most of quests are "go there and kill, or bring something back". This game lack of variety and bigger consequences of player actions. Sometimes I got impression there is no reason to even read/hear the conversation because I have only impact on order of interaction and not shaping my story. I understand that main plot has to be directed and I accept that. Actually main story is not as bad as ppl say and the development of it is quite varied. But when you create world of crafting where you manage resources for building settlements, armor, weapons or even just hunt for caps you make players to do side quests.That's good cause you think that it is your journey. The problem is that most of those quests are just go and kill, so on one hand you experience different places, enemies but in the root of the concept it is so repetitive. I got bored at some point. It is shame that so much time and money went to make this unique world, cities, ships, npc's and bethesda made everything behave the same. I experienced the same pattern of gameplay most of the time, of course in different unique places, but really does it make this game feel unique?

    Still we should thank bethesda that as a package this game is big, I think lots of gamers will spend a lot of time with it. In fallout main plot is varied but the rest is like copy paste pattern. I had impression that Bethesda accepted that it should see this project in broad perspective. What are currently 2 most played games? Minecraft and Call of Duty. Sorry to say that but fallout looks like this kind of mix. It is not bad in terms of direction. Games have to evolve, crafting for me is ok, especially weapons and thank Bethesda you didn't make them to get damage o break. Cool that ammo does not weight anything. Shooting feels good, vats is also ok for me.
    I remember on mission when I had to go to some plant to make it work properly again for some farm, I had to kill mutants but also interact with environment so it was varied enough to keep me interested. But later the same pattern is used to clear some place of ghouls or mutants etc. Millions spent for graphics, engine, programmers and really it is so hard to make some good scenarios for missions?

    I am in point where I know I will buy next fallout game but also I suspect I will not be hayped that much for it, just because of curiosity and sentiment. This is actually bad for bethesda because decisions to target broader audience (cod, minecraft) will backfire in shrinking their audience. This could be a perfect game, there was so little effort to do that, just make mission more unique. Unfortunately someone decided to simplify everything and enjoy shooting.    … Expand
  77. ohnotheragain
    Nov 16, 2015
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was really looking forward to this game and playing on rainy days of winter. I pre-ordered it. Alas, it doesn't appear that this one is going to hold my attention. Before you tune me out, I've played Fallout 3, New Vegas, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. So I'm not a Bethesda basher. I've given them free passes in the past. This game has been a long time in development. This time they don't get a free pass.

    The graphic engine is very dated and after playing The Wild Hunt, I was expecting a lot more. It's very 2008, but we're in 2015 and on a different generation of consoles. Black Ops 3 looks great.

    Then there's the dialogue wheel. While I'm used to this in Bioware games, the "paraphrasing" was just horrid, and reminded me of the gem in Mass Effect 1 "Asari reproduction" dialogue choice with Liara. which had your character, Commander Shepard, look like a complete idiot. But with the Fallout dialogue you can say "Yes", "No", "Sarcastic", or "Help" except saying no to someone only gives the NPC another opportunity to persuade you to take their quest, and "No" is darkened the next time. So if you see someone doing something and you don't want to do a side quest, don't talk to them. You can't refuse the quest.

    And I loved how the woman I was playing, who seemed to have the vulnerabilities of a 1950s housewife in the prologue, left the vault and became a gun toting vault heroine who found the Minutemen cowering inside a museum against raiders and had to rescue them using a suit of power armor and mini-gun that she just so happened to know how to use. If Bethesda had given my character a military background I might have bought that, but they didn't. It was very lazy writing. The whole game story is very lazy writing.

    I really wanted to come here and give this game a 9, but I can't do that. That said, I've played worse games to which I've given a 4, so I have to give this a 6. If you're a Fallout fan, buy it but wait for the price to drop.    … Expand
  78. Sammo_644
    Nov 17, 2015
    6
    Having played over 70 hours, and acquired the platinum trophy, I believe I can now make an informed review on the game.

    I love the Fallout universe, and have played all of them, With New Vegas being my favourite. But I don't love this game, and cannot see any replay value in this game. Firstly the positives: The combat/gunplay system is much improved. Enemies are quick and move    Having played over 70 hours, and acquired the platinum trophy, I believe I can now make an informed review on the game.

    I love the Fallout universe, and have played all of them, With New Vegas being my favourite. But I don't love this game, and cannot see any replay value in this game.

    Firstly the positives:

    The combat/gunplay system is much improved. Enemies are quick and move about a lot, making VATS seem much more important and useful.

    The looting system when picking up items is also a lot less time consuming, something that has always annoyed me in 3 and New Vegas

    The graphics, for the most part, are decent, not the best for a supposed 'RPG' but Bethesda have always been lacking in that department.

    Companions have come to life in this game, having some sort of background, a quest for each one, and actually react to your actions.

    Weapons/Armour crafting: In my opinion, this is a welcome addition. It makes for a broad spectrum of weapons that you can create, tailoring them to your playstyle or wants. It can be quite tedious collecting the parts to make them, however the grind makes it more satisfying when you can finally improve that Sniper of yours.

    The radio: Favourites of Fallout 3's songs make a return, as well as others that are a welcome addition.

    The Neutral Stuff:

    The Story. I won't spoil anything, but it didn't invoke any emotion out of me, nor did I feel any emotion for the character I was playing. However, some of the main characters that you meet are interesting, and the 3 main factions do pose a moral dilemma.

    The settlement building. Getting to 100 happiness for one of the settlements was a real grind, and not an enjoyable one. Spending all my caps on stores that I never used and doing the same boring 'Clear out X' quests was not fun either, so much so that I changed the difficulty from Very Hard to Very Easy just to do it quickly. However, I realise that some will love this setting, as it does give the player freedom to create their own little town/village.

    The bad:

    The dialogue: While in some ways I have come around to like the voiced protagonist, I despise the fact that you can only choose 4 different options, which are normally always Yes/No/Sarcasm(or asking about reward)/Question. This is a step down from previous titles and makes conversations feel like they have no depth, or that you have much of a choice.

    The S.P.E.C.I.A.L/ skill points mechanic. Charisma is ridiculously overpowered in this game, and abandonment of skill points was not needed, nor anyone was calling out for. It worked in the old games, and I see no improvement in this one. You cannot roleplay to the same extent that you could in previous instalments, as the skill point system has been taken away, and the SPECIAL points don't really change the story of the game, something they could do in previous ones. It does feel dumbed down to a certain extent.

    Facial Animations. While this isn't much of a problem for me, I can see how this will be very annoying for others, and it can be immersion breaking during some scenes.

    In conclusion, to me, this feels like a game that has not been fully thought through, not listened enough to what the fans of fallout really liked about the previous games, and have started to abandon what makes a fallout game, fallout. It has been dumbed down, tailored to a much wider audience, which I feel may have distanced the more devoted fallout fans. On its own right, it is a good game, but for a fallout game, it hasn't lived up to what it could and should have been.    … Expand
  79. BarbasIsDogmeat
    Nov 28, 2015
    6
    Bethesda dropped the ball on this one. It's going to still be one of the best selling games of all time. They nailed the marketing, the hype levels for this were astronomical...they sold so many copies that porn hub had a massive dip in viewers on release day. I have invested an absolutely embarrassing amount of time in the other Fallout games. Like, I could have written some novels...someBethesda dropped the ball on this one. It's going to still be one of the best selling games of all time. They nailed the marketing, the hype levels for this were astronomical...they sold so many copies that porn hub had a massive dip in viewers on release day. I have invested an absolutely embarrassing amount of time in the other Fallout games. Like, I could have written some novels...some GRRM novels. This one I put in about 30 hours and I am done. Its not a roleplaying game. Its kind of like a super clunky post-apocalyptic far cry. Its a sandbox action game. It's still a fun game, its just that the other fallout games really tap into something s.p.e.c.i.a.l. (get it?) and it seems like the people who made this game have no clue what that is. Every single quest ends in massive bloody violence, there is barely even the illusion of choice, there is no sense of progression, no feeling that you have earned any kind of victory. Seriously within the first hour I had Power Armor, a minigun, and had killed a deathclaw.
    They are going to make a boatload of money, the whole pre-order racket has seen to that, but where do they go from here? They are loosing the old school fans, and gaining a super fickle audience that they simply can't maintain. This game is aiming for the Call Of Duty, Assassins Creed, Far Cry Crowd. Those games have several things in common. Cutting edge graphics, super tight game mechanics, and MULTIPLAYER. Also bland, boring, and repetitive game-play.
    I'm not a graphics guy. I love 8 bit games and indie stuff, but this game looks rough. It looks PS3.5. The animation is busted all to hell and its just crawling with bugs. I am playing on the PS4 and it has the most obtuse nonsense IU I can imagine, Vats feels more like a cheat code than an essential part of the game, and the whole settlement building mechanic feels like your building a level in an old Tony Hawk game. This game simply has no multiplayer....which is what keeps people playing and thinking about these properties in between releases. Bethesda games don't usually need this because they are packed with alternate paths, emergent gameplay, and varying play styles. In Fallout 4 you start out as a character who is good at just about everything. Leveling up works more like character bonuses. I don't mind some of the streamlining here. The way the system is setup is interesting, but its just that you can't really make a character that's bad at anything. If you are out of vats you are just as likely to hit your enemy with a rocket launcher as you are a pistol or an energy weapon. There aren't really fail checks. You either can do something or you can't do it. No system of chance. So its really difficult to create a "build". Also some stats are useless. Since this game offers no choice and every mission just ends in a bloodbath charisma does nothing except occasionally allow you to extort some extra money out of people.
    By far the worse thing they did was give the protagonist a voice. You can be a man or a woman. Your choices for role playing are 1. a concerned mother who is a saint, 2. a concerned Mother who is kind of grouchy, or 3 an incredibly BLAND concerned father who is a saint, 4 really really whiny (yet concerned father) who doesn't make a whole lot of sense.. That's it. I played through the first time has concerned mother who is a saint. The VA for the female MC is great. Yes they options are super limited,but I liked her characterizations and I felt connect to her. I decided for my second play through that I would play a male character who was kind of the opposite. The male character in the game is an ex soldier (of course) so I thought about playing this really scarred guy, violent, cruel, shell shocked. The moment he opened his mouth it was just ludicrous. All of his dialogue just became parody. I had him refuse to help one NPC, just really giving her **** condescending, insulting....dudes a turd, and then because you have to do the goddamn quest to complete the game I agreed and he just looks at her and earnestly vows,"I will find him for you. I promise." I wound up going to the plastic surgeon and making him look like king diamond and shutting the game off.
    The story has some interesting twists and turns. There are several companions, but really there is just one. Nick Valentine is one of the best NPC followers Bethesda has ever created and he deserves to be in a better game. My choice of faction in the end really really disappointed him, and I genuinely felt kinda bad about it. You also get a scraggly dog that more or less is a walking cheat code. He can carry all your extra junk and somehow unlock master locks. You can seriously get one of the best guns in the game just by having the dog search the beginning area. So yeah, rent it. Go in with reservations. Its not really an

    rpg. As a game were you shoot monsters in the face its

    pretty fun, but if you are an old school fallout fan, or an

    avid rpg lover....its a huge disappointment. Somewhere I

    imagine Nick Valentine, Harold, and Bob are sharing a drink,

    and wondering about what kind of micro-transactions, and

    online multiplayer death matches they are going to have to

    get into with Fallout 5.    … Expand
  80. TheSimpleOne
    Dec 3, 2015
    6
    I have been a Bethesda fan since I was introduced to Morrowind way back when and have always purchased their games. Saying that I would have to go on record as to say this may been their poorest showing to date. For some reason or another after the initial hour of game play I felt as though I was not as drawn into this game I was was to previous installments of New Vegas or Fallout 3, letI have been a Bethesda fan since I was introduced to Morrowind way back when and have always purchased their games. Saying that I would have to go on record as to say this may been their poorest showing to date. For some reason or another after the initial hour of game play I felt as though I was not as drawn into this game I was was to previous installments of New Vegas or Fallout 3, let alone Skyrim or Oblivion. I personally like the idea of building my character around Charisma in which I did and right after I started putting some serious skill points into it I noticed it does not really effect the game play like it did in previous installments. This was a major turnoff to me.

    just really a disappointment.    … Expand
  81. francism1875
    Dec 1, 2015
    6
    I made a metacritic just to review this. I had pre-ordered this game as soon as it was announced with the collector's edition, to be honest, I don't regret it all. I have been a fan of the franchise for 6 years, and have played Fallout (1), Fallout 3, and New Vegas, all of which I loved. But the game was not what I thought it would be. What bothered me the most, was the dumbing down of theI made a metacritic just to review this. I had pre-ordered this game as soon as it was announced with the collector's edition, to be honest, I don't regret it all. I have been a fan of the franchise for 6 years, and have played Fallout (1), Fallout 3, and New Vegas, all of which I loved. But the game was not what I thought it would be. What bothered me the most, was the dumbing down of the dialog, less RPG-ness, and just the boring story. I am not going to tell you that FO3 had a great story, but you'd think Bethesda would've learned something from Obsidian with New Vegas. The story was just too linear, restrictive, and generic. There's not much space to use your imagination with your character, they are set individuals with set personalities. In NV (even FO3) if you wanted to make a psychopathic cowboy arsonist (or just a really evil person) it could make sense, here your character is a normal dude/ lady with an average life living in the suburbs, so it wouldn't add up. It also takes away from the immersive-ness. As for dialog, your options are yes, no, sarcastic, and ask question. This was the most annoying thing, considering previous FO games had many options, some even requiring skill level in barter, guns, speech, etc. FO4 just color indicates an option (based on your charisma) that may/ may not give you XP, no actual number or percentage. The change in perk/ skill system does not bother me so much because I like to play jack of all trades characters, but it may be more difficult for other types, especially with the harder to find ammo. I am hoping in the future that Bethesda does not dumb down dialog in the Elder Scrolls series. Character creation was uncomfortable for me but it's not bad. I prefer the sliders to be honest. Now, the game isn't bad but it wasn't as amazing as I'd thought it would be. It felt like I was playing a continuation of FO3, with slightly better graphics, more weapon mods, armor mods, and settlement construction. As for glitches and frame rate, the frame rate gets cruddy every now. As for the glitches, I had a game breaking one when I made my second character but I just had to reinstall it to fix it. Although I don't love this game as much as the previous ones, I have still put in a lot of hours. The game offers tons of hours in gameplay with pretty good side-quests and even just roaming around. There's a lot replay- ability. So in conclusion, it's worth a purchase but it's just shallower than its predecessors.

    TLDR: If you are a fan of the series, you'll probably be disappointed but if you are new, you'll probably enjoy it. The Fallout world is an amazing and addicting one but this wasn't the Fallout I had waited for so long.    … Expand
  82. kidcwithaperiod
    Dec 2, 2015
    6
    Fallout 4 is one of the most overhyped games of the past 10 years. So many people from around the world have wanted this game for the longest time and I can understand why, Fallout 3 is considered a classic and one of the best games from the last generation but Fallout 4 fails to deliver on all of the hype.

    Now, don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game, it's pretty fun and has some nice    Fallout 4 is one of the most overhyped games of the past 10 years. So many people from around the world have wanted this game for the longest time and I can understand why, Fallout 3 is considered a classic and one of the best games from the last generation but Fallout 4 fails to deliver on all of the hype.

    Now, don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game, it's pretty fun and has some nice new integrations, such as the base-building elements, the better followers/companions system and better shooting mechanics. The positives don't outweigh the negatives though, such as the pretty bad framerate drops on console, dropping to 20FPS occasionally when the game gets really hectic, the fairly dated graphics and the obviously aged engine that Bethesda insists is vital to make the game run better. (F*ck the Gamebryo engine)

    The story in the game is one of the most lackluster tales Bethesda have ever told and although most people don't come to Fallout for the story, it still should be noted on for people who were expecting something of high production value.

    I've clocked around 9 to 10 hours in the game so far and although some of the time has been incredibly fun, such as encountering the new Ghouls for the first time, finding Dogmeat and hearing Codsworth saying 'Batty', my in-game character's name, these were all fun times but the novelty of all of these wore off quickly.

    I wish I could say better things about the game but it's just such an average run of the mill game that I can't find many merits to say about the game.    … Expand
  83. Kydd_Amigo
    Dec 3, 2015
    6
    So I should preface by saying, I think Bethesda are great storytellers. I love the Elder Scrolls series and really liked the idea for Fallout.

    I picked up the game hesitant since I'm not a huge post apocalyptic fan, but I figured the story was good and depth/breadth would not be a concern. (I've heard some state the game has well over 150 hours of quests) Unfortunately, a number of    So I should preface by saying, I think Bethesda are great storytellers. I love the Elder Scrolls series and really liked the idea for Fallout.

    I picked up the game hesitant since I'm not a huge post apocalyptic fan, but I figured the story was good and depth/breadth would not be a concern. (I've heard some state the game has well over 150 hours of quests) Unfortunately, a number of factors left me feeling this was average at best.

    Gunplay, outside of V.A.T.S. (think turn based system) it's almost impossible to hit anything. The aiming well and truly sucks.

    Graphics are extremely dated given the next gen consoles capability, and it's just hard to spend hours on a game when things look dated and two dimensional. (The colour palette was debated but didn't overly concern me, it's a wasteland after all).

    Finally, game breaking bugs rendered this extremely frustrating. An hour into the game I completed a quest which requires you to kill all hostiles in a town. I was unable to complete it due to a known bug which would not register completion once the town was clear. (Seriously almost the first important quest!?)

    The above factors, for me unfortunately were enough to derail my enjoyment and interest.

    Hardcore fans ofc will love the game since it has all the great elements of others in the series.

    But, if you're 50/50 on this, I would recommend passing.    … Expand
  84. gamingpe
    Dec 12, 2015
    6
    Like many others, I made this account because I was itching to review this game. I wish I had read the user reviews before purchasing it, but it doesn't matter anymore as this game is on the shelf of my nearest Gamestop.
    Regarding the actual game, I'd say it's more close to Rage than Fallout 3. Yes, it still retains Fallout 3's assets, from the early character customization to your escape    Like many others, I made this account because I was itching to review this game. I wish I had read the user reviews before purchasing it, but it doesn't matter anymore as this game is on the shelf of my nearest Gamestop.
    Regarding the actual game, I'd say it's more close to Rage than Fallout 3. Yes, it still retains Fallout 3's assets, from the early character customization to your escape from the Vault and subsequent embracing of a post apocalyptic world.
    However that is where all the similarities end. Gone are your SPECIALs and the importance of your well spent points when tackling quests differently. Whether previous Fallout games awarded your abilities in medicine, explosives, barter, charisma, science by having a different set of options regarding dialogue, the newest Fallout 4 gets rid of all that in favor of a dumbed down and more streamlined dialogue wheel.

    It's not like the outcome matters anyways since about 75% of the game is resolved with violence. And it is not some violence that will affect your persona later on because no matter what you do, you will still be heralded as the hero of Vault 111.

    I won't spoil the game because most of my criticism revolves around a very mediocre quest and not so interesting lore.

    I believe Bethesda made this game exclusively for the new fans, and if you are someone who have never played a Fallout game, you may like it. For those returning Fallout fans, keep waiting for the next Fallout game because this one, is not.    … Expand
  85. brettjm
    Dec 29, 2015
    6
    Edit: Please note that I have the PC version and am too dumb to figure out how to change the platform this review is listed under.

    15 hours in, and I call it a mixed blessing. Here's my list of pros and cons. The good -Its big. It feels less big than Skyrim IMO, but there is a lot of content I've not seen yet, and there seems to be a lot of dimension to everything (e.g. can go in    Edit: Please note that I have the PC version and am too dumb to figure out how to change the platform this review is listed under.

    15 hours in, and I call it a mixed blessing. Here's my list of pros and cons.

    The good
    -Its big. It feels less big than Skyrim IMO, but there is a lot of content I've not seen yet, and there seems to be a lot of dimension to everything (e.g. can go in many buildings, if I can't, I can still get on top of them somehow)
    -Crafting. Its pretty sweet to construct a town. About 1/3 of my time has been spent doing this. Maybe too easy though...also it needs a re-balance badly. Why does breaking down a pistol give me 6 steel, and scrapping a car only gives me 10? Still fun though.
    -Dialogue. Bear with me...I don't love it, but its better than I thought it would be based on early reviews. Also, the voiced protagonist doesn't annoy me nearly as much as I thought...in fact, the "Silver Shroud" quest was pretty amazing/hilarious.
    -Graphics. Again, not great, but better than I thought. I'm not disappointed, but I'm not blown away either.
    -A.I. While the enemies aren't necessarily smarter, they at least are difficult to hit (e.g. deathclaw strafes towards you back and forth, but isn't actively dodging you). Some enemies use cover pretty well too. Heh...some don't.

    The bad
    -Dialogue. Better than I thought does not equal great. In fact, I HATE the dialogue wheel. About 75% of the time its fine, but that other 25% is just stupid. I need a mod that writes out everything. If I want a "sarcastic" comment, I've got a 50/50 chance my character says something funny vs. mean. If its funny, my companion enjoys it, If its mean, they think I'm a jerk. Most folks are also complaining about "same outcome no matter what," but that is often the case for most interactions anyways. However...I have other problems with the dialogue. See below.
    -Options/checks. There are so few, and it sucks. Sometimes I get a speech check, but not often. I miss having 2 or 3 options for dialogue that are strictly based on intelligence, charisma, or a random skill for say "science" or "barter." 4 options (really 2-3) is not enough, and with hardly any "checks," its all too simplified. Also, I dreadfully miss the karma system.
    -Skills. What the ****, man? You just did away with them? You just simplified like, 15-20% of the game?! Fewer skill checks, fewer requirements for perks, fewer fun options for dialogue? Christ I hope someone comes up with a mod to bring them back. It would be a tremendous undertaking, but a guy can dream, right?
    -Leveling. Theoretically I can play forever, and have all perks and 10/10 for every SPECIAL category. Jesus, at LEAST have perks that are mutually exclusive, or a maximum number of perks put into "SPECIAL" building, or something. What they offered up to us is dumb, one dimensional, and brings me to my last grouping.

    Unknown
    -Replayability. Huge unknown at this point. I've only scratched the main storyline, so I don't know if my choices really matter. The SPECIAL/perk system does not look good though...it basically means that while I can make different character builds early on, my outcomes are largely the same after 20-25 levels. That REALLY sucks. I hope my choices really do matter though...

    Closing statement: Got this game for full price (DANGIT STEAM!! 12 bucks off a week after?!). If/when a fallout 5 comes around, I won't pay full price for it, nor will I buy it within 6 months of it coming out. Hear that Bethesda? Speaking with my dollar here. While your game is fun, and I'm enjoying it, it takes major steps backward for every step forward, and you gotta fix that before I'll buy another Fallout at full price. You made a lot of fans happy by letting us build settlements and such, and the voiced protagonist has potential...but you royally -effed up your dialogue/skill/dimensionality of the game.    … Expand
  86. Mojourno
    Jan 7, 2016
    6
    Like many others, the disparity between the rave reviews this game received and its actual quality prompted me to write my first review on metacritic.
    Let's get the good stuff out of the way - the artwork is lovely, all post-apocalyptic Americana, vast landscapes, and truly gruesome creatures to shoot (and run away from). There's huge detail in this world, tons of customisation options    Like many others, the disparity between the rave reviews this game received and its actual quality prompted me to write my first review on metacritic.
    Let's get the good stuff out of the way - the artwork is lovely, all post-apocalyptic Americana, vast landscapes, and truly gruesome creatures to shoot (and run away from). There's huge detail in this world, tons of customisation options for weapons and armour and lots of places to explore, all with their own stories and characters.
    Now for the bad:

    1. Crafting and grinding. Hate it. A big feature in this game is hunting around the vast map for screws, metal and bits of leather etc to beef up and customise your weapons. That, in turn, involves negotiating a long-winded and counter-intuitive set of branched menus. This kind of stuff is a time sink and bores me to tears - they feel like the online equivalent of errands.

    2. For what is billed as an RPG, the actual options for interacting with characters and the dialogue you're given is fairly limited. The script is fairly cheesy and/or boring, and you get the feeling it doesn't really matter much what responses you give. In some cases, the phrases your character actually utters do not match the decision you've chosen on the dialogue wheel.

    3. So let's move onto the shooting. It's not bad, but it's not good either. We're talking Half-Life / N64 Golden Eye-style floaty, weightless, puppety shooting with poor hit-tracking and vague aiming. Come on, it's 2016, gamers deserve better.

    4. The story itself is kind of uninspired. Without giving too much away, you're basically looking for a lost family member, which is all well and good, but the way the game is set up there seems to be no urgency in finding your loved one at all, and instead the designers seem keen to sidetrack you into all manner of side quests from day one.

    5. The graphics are decidedly last gen. While the artwork is nice, faces still look doll-like, lip-syncing is off, animation is mostly robotic and lighting is weird (a canine companion you have early in the game seems to glow in the dark). I'm playing MGS5 at the same time, and there simply is no comparing its flawless animation and gorgeous landscapes and characters with those in FO4.

    6. Bugs bugs bugs. Lots of them. Dialogue that ends mid-sentance, NPCs that randomly pop in and out of view, and annoying companion AI that seems determined to ignore your cautious apporach and run into all manner of monsters and draw them to you.

    7. Ugly and counter-intutitive UI. It's basically green type on a black background, like on 80s computers, which I suppose the game's designers have implemented for effect, but which seriously cramps usability. You have to navigate reams of menus containing tonnes of found objects and negotiate a very basic map of a vast world all on a small, menu-driven green-screened wrist computer. Annoying.

    8. This game makes absolutely no concessions to casual gamers and those new to the FO universe, such as myself. There's no tutorial and a lot of mechanics are left unexplained, forcing you resort to online guides. Also, unexpected difficulty spikes - one minute you're picking off basic ghouls and dogs, and the next you're repeatedly floored by some massive creature that came out of nowhere and will require you to scrounge for more kit for the next few hours to upgrade your weapons.

    Overall, this simply isn't my type of game (it was a Christmas gift), as I simply don't have the time or patience to wander around for hours picking up bits of wood, screws and metal to make weapons. Even then, if the story was great or gunplay good, I might have continued, but that was not to be ufnortunately. Shame.    … Expand
  87. idikov
    Mar 22, 2016
    6
    Fallout 4 is not a bad game. It is a bad RPG and a misdirected installment in the franchise. Still, many Bethesda fans or just players who enjoy exploring unfamiliar worlds will be satisfied with it, as it has one of the richest, most detailed game worlds ever created. Lore is presented to the player in different ways around every corner of the game world. Together with the masterfullyFallout 4 is not a bad game. It is a bad RPG and a misdirected installment in the franchise. Still, many Bethesda fans or just players who enjoy exploring unfamiliar worlds will be satisfied with it, as it has one of the richest, most detailed game worlds ever created. Lore is presented to the player in different ways around every corner of the game world. Together with the masterfully crafted sound design it will help immerse even newcomers in the interesting world of Fallout. The game also has a lot to offer to gun nuts as the game features improved shooting and an expansive crafting system that takes resources from the clutter in the open world.

    However, Fallout 4 is a big departure from the franchise in terms of its way of storytelling and RPG mechanics, which will most likely disappoint long-time fans of the franchise. It is apparent that BGS have taken inspiration from other popular games. It seems to me that in the beginning of the development cycle of the game, the developers asked the question “can we” too many times and didn’t ask the question “should we” enough. As a result the narrative of the game suffers, as the actions of the player often contradict with or completely undermine the meaning of the main story of the game.

    For the first time in a Bethesda game, the protagonist is given strictly defining traits that force them to follow a linear path towards an endgame goal. This not only limits the possibilities for role playing, but it creates a pseudo narrative dissonance between the actions that the player makes during the main quests and the rest of their journey in the open world. On one hand the game tries to be an emotional story about family and difficult choices. On the other, it tries to tell a story about hope, building a new healthy community in the post-apocalyptic world. Unfortunately it does not spend enough time on any of these two sides and fails to tell a coherent story as a result of their inability to exist in correlation.

    This new way of storytelling is totally uncalled for and it betrays the philosophy of player freedom that BGS has always had. Fallout 4 is a lesser RPG in almost every aspect, even compared to Fallout 3: The removal of the karma system (and the ability to role play as an evil persona); The new “dialogue wheel” which only gives the illusion of choice but ultimately lacks any consequences; The voiced protagonist with defined traits and goals; The removal of skills making your character inexplicably proficient in any kind of weapon and power armor from the very start of the game; The overall lack of choice in quests or the illusion of such. All of these aspects were hallmarks of the franchise and, in my opinion, made the previous Fallout games one of the best RPG games of all time.

    Moreover, the quest scripts themselves are repetitive, uninspired and boring. In terms of their mechanics, the quests of Fallout 4 could very well exist in an MMORPG, just in bigger numbers. All quest objectives can be narrowed down to: Acquire X item, place X item, kill X NPC, talk to X NPC, escort X NPC. Inexplicably, 95% of the population of the Commonwealth consists of generic, respawning enemies to kill in an attempt by Bethesda to bring the franchise to the mainstream audience of action hungry FPS players.

    The lack of innovation in the mechanics of the game might very well be due to engine limitations. Unsurprisingly, Bethesda decided to use an upgraded version of the engine that they used for Skyrim. This is not the first time that the Fallout franchise receives this kind of treatment as Fallout 3 used an upgraded version of Oblivion's engine. It might have made sense at the time, as Fallout 3 was Bethesda’s first try at the IP and there was a certain amount of risk involved but it cannot be justified after the huge success of both Fallout 3 and Skyrim.

    There has been an argument that the team behind these games is considerably small and they like to keep it this way because they are used to working with each other. This is possibly the biggest lie that Bethesda’s PR team has come up with and anyone with even a little knowledge about the game industry can pick it apart. I am totally fine with BGS keeping their artists and world designers and writers as they are. However, the choice by Bethesda not to hire more software engineers and graphics designers is a purely business decision since those types of employees rarely have any influence on the overall theme of the game. It is unforgivable for a AAA title in 2015 to have so many bugs, to look considerably worse than other games that came out in the same year while running poorly. This is not the quality that we should expect from the company behind some of the best selling games of the decade. As long as the community shows that they are willing to forgive poor mechanics, ugly, not optimized textures and game breaking bugs, BGS will keep releasing games in an unfinished state.    … Expand
  88. RodSal
    Feb 25, 2016
    6
    Honest opinion. 50+ hours played.

    I didnt play the previous fallout game, so this is my first one. At first, looks a real nice game, big open world and lots of junks for you build houses, guns, armors and so on. Graphics are just terrible! I dont know what happned here. Old Engine maybe? Cos it look like i was playing last generation game. Just bad! Dialogues are patethic. If you are    Honest opinion. 50+ hours played.

    I didnt play the previous fallout game, so this is my first one. At first, looks a real nice game, big open world and lots of junks for you build houses, guns, armors and so on.

    Graphics are just terrible! I dont know what happned here. Old Engine maybe? Cos it look like i was playing last generation game. Just bad! Dialogues are patethic. If you are a RPG lover, you gonna be disappointed. Options are also very poor, always like "yes" , "no", "sarcastic", "maybe". Damn... just not good at all!

    The good features of the game imo are weapons and clothes, tons to use and the perk system is also very good. Combat system is ok, but the game lacks of diferent types of enemies. The companions are a cool adition to the game, i had fun with some of them and each one have a special ability wich can make things easier.

    Overall i would give this game 8 for the first hours of play, but after several hours, it made me bored.

    6/10    … Expand
  89. RealisticCritic
    Feb 14, 2016
    6
    i have completed all the modern fallout games (3d) so without further ado let's get started

    positives:Your main character has a voice now +1

    the shooting actually works without vats +2

    the storytelling:+3

    The negatives:Removed content (Karma,skills,Unique dialogue options etc,)

    Bugs

    Graphics

    Facial animations are still garbage
  90. Shadow1
    May 3, 2016
    6
    This game is normal game . Not bad graphics and this game do not like on Fallout 3 or even New Vegas . I not really like Fallout series , but New Vegas and 4 are awesome . Fallout 4 is not best game of 2015 and Fallout 4 which is on par with Mad Max it may be even worse . Poor 8/10
  91. Jimi360
    Mar 24, 2016
    6
    Here's an unpopular opinion, Fallout 4 is not that good. The huge jump that the Fallout games made when jumping from 2 to 3 was mesmerising. Fallout 3 made every decision count, and there were quests that really mattered and, in my opinion, were actually more interesting than the main story. None of this is present in Fallout 4. The dialogue choices are atrocious, and no matter what answerHere's an unpopular opinion, Fallout 4 is not that good. The huge jump that the Fallout games made when jumping from 2 to 3 was mesmerising. Fallout 3 made every decision count, and there were quests that really mattered and, in my opinion, were actually more interesting than the main story. None of this is present in Fallout 4. The dialogue choices are atrocious, and no matter what answer you choose to most questions it does not matter as the game will pretty much put you where you need to be.

    Character customization is brilliant, and the graphics within post-apocalypse Boston are fantastic. But that is what we've come to expect from next-generation consoles, what matters here is the game. The workbenches to enhance your weapons and armour are great additions, and the fact that this gives junk a purpose in the game as you can use junk when enhancing weapons and armour is a very clever prospect. The settlement building is okay, but I'm sure people did not buy this game to play a budget version of The Sims.

    Apart from all of this, Fallout 4 does not improve on anything Fallout 3 had to offer, and in some aspects even regressed rather than progressed. It is not a bad game, not by any stretch of the imagination, just highly disappointing.    … Expand
  92. Skyrimisgreat
    Mar 25, 2016
    6
    The fourth entry into the fallout series is a bit of mess. Its do its glitchy gameplay; which isn't game breaking, but are annoying like when special characters you need to talk to will spawn on a roof. Ok but

    Sometimes bad follower AI; that gets stuck in doorways(which is so frustrating),walls/objects in the environment and will just wander aimlessly and will just randomly go    The fourth entry into the fallout series is a bit of mess. Its do its glitchy gameplay; which isn't game breaking, but are annoying like when special characters you need to talk to will spawn on a roof. Ok but

    Sometimes bad follower AI; that gets stuck in doorways(which is so frustrating),walls/objects in the

    environment and will just wander aimlessly and will just randomly go through traps. The settlement system is kind of a mess because the hud for feels disorganized. I'd sometimes go back to find something but get lost trying to look for it. It also has a lack of a tutorial to where I didnt know I could do certain important things; like sending out a settler on a caravan rout to trade with another settlement. I mostly agree with what they did with the leveling system, but one thing I disagree with is getting rid of the level cap. The level cap is what really makes you think about what kind of character you want in your first playthrough. Its supposed to limit you so where you cant become a god character in one playthrough and increase game replayability. This is a role playing game; not a a fps. The pip boy menu disorganized just looking through all your weapons, armor and junk can be frustrating. Probably the most disappointing part of the game is the dialogue system and voiced protagonist. Why Bethesda why????? Why in the world would you ever sacrifice choice which you were known for just some emotion. THIS IS A ROLE PLAYING GAME!!!!!!!!! Its not just that their is only four options, and just TWO OPTIONS DESCRIBING WHAT YOUR GOING TO SAY, BUT YOUR CHOICES ONLY MATTER ALMOST 0% IN BOTH THE MAIN QUEST AND SIDE MISSIONS!!!!!!!!!!! With the vice protagonist I think the vice acting is pretty good. My problem with it is that the voice just doesn't match any other race well than the white man or woman. Thats one big reanson why haveing the voiced protagonist was a mistake. In skyrim their was 100 plus side quest; in fallout 4 there is around 35. I think its because they focused so much on the voice acting for the protagonist that they didnt have time to do tuns of side quest like in skyrim.That's another reason a voiced protagonist is a huge mistake. Dont forget the weird facial animations,mostly poor character models, and long loading times. The main quest is leaps and bounds betters than skyrims with interesting and well written characters and mostly well placed and interesting plot. But the ending cutsene doesn't even adress the ending of the game no matter what factions you chose. Dont forget that the choices in dialogue in the main story dont matter; but fallout 4 still had more choice than skyrim. Even after all those problems fallout 4 is saved by its crazy and addicting customization for weapons and settlement building. Its interesting dense world to explore. Excellent environmental story telling. Fun improved slowmotion vats and real time gun play. Fun and interesting characters.    … Expand
  93. vigaworld
    Apr 13, 2016
    6
    Ante todo, he de confesar que este ha sido mi primer Fallout ya que los juegos de mundo abierto tan extensos nunca han sido de mi completo agrado.

    Estamos ante un juego bastante feo técnicamente. Gráficos desfasados, bugs por doquier..., sin embargo, bien es cierto que la historia es entretenida. El personaje principal es bastante flojo en personalidad, aunque tampoco se puede pedir    Ante todo, he de confesar que este ha sido mi primer Fallout ya que los juegos de mundo abierto tan extensos nunca han sido de mi completo agrado.

    Estamos ante un juego bastante feo técnicamente. Gráficos desfasados, bugs por doquier..., sin embargo, bien es cierto que la historia es entretenida.
    El personaje principal es bastante flojo en personalidad, aunque tampoco se puede pedir mucho cuando la main story hace aguas desde el minuto 1.

    Si disfrutas el mundo abierto y andar husmeando y creando tanto armas como refugios yo creo que es un juego muy aprovechable. Si tu estilo es más de juego guionizado, o de no tan libre albedrío, ni lo intentes. Será un desembolso de dinero para acabar en el carro de juegos de 2ª mano.    … Expand
  94. LoveeLand
    Apr 21, 2016
    6
    Fallout 4 is a good video game, but a subpar Fallout game. While the mechanics and gameplay are "smoother" than it's predecessors, it is still below average for next gen console games. Parts of the game get laggy, especially when you go downtown, and the game still suffers from the usual bugs like every other Bethesda game. The story is basically Fallout 3 in reverse but it does have someFallout 4 is a good video game, but a subpar Fallout game. While the mechanics and gameplay are "smoother" than it's predecessors, it is still below average for next gen console games. Parts of the game get laggy, especially when you go downtown, and the game still suffers from the usual bugs like every other Bethesda game. The story is basically Fallout 3 in reverse but it does have some interesting twists down the road, however the first part of the campaign is not enjoyable at all and is very time consuming. The factions in the game are quite disappointing and underwhelming when compared to the factions of other fallout games. The Institute could have been so much better and more formidable and the railroad consists of like 20 people. This on top of the fact that another faction, The Minutemen is basically where the player is a one man army. This leaves the Brotherhood, and while I like them, I am getting tired of them being a major role in every fallout game, however I do like the direction Bethesda took them in, back to their old ways of preserving tech rather than being peacekeepers. All of the factions are accessed way too easily except the Institute obviously, and until the story's climax, they have you run around as an errand boy solo doing small missions. The game is filled with radiant quests which become more annoying than useful, and often times are unavoidable. The power armor makeover was not a good decision, as you now need fusion cores to power it and it is very clunky and difficult to move around in and overall discourages it's own use.
    The Commonwealth is probably the worst wasteland ever created in a fallout game. The city in no way reminds me of Boston, and the game has a design struggle between buildings: some look very old (revolutionary era), some have that 50's design to them, and some have this futuristic, colorful, plastic look to them. This is probably the worst part about the game. The Capital Wasteland, and Mojave were full of interesting places to explore with unique loot scattered throughout their wastelands. The Commonwealth is full of inaccessible buildings, and the ones that can be accessed are very dull and filled with either raiders, ghouls, or mutants. Outside the city it is basically a massive swamp scattered with useless prewar towns and buildings that contain nothing unique or interesting. And Bethesda tried to make the game world pretty, while failing to realize these game worlds should not be pretty, but they should make you feel like they were before the war. However a great addition they added were the new crafting tools (without them I would've given this game a 4) as they have greatly expanded what the player can do in the game. I personally love building things so I found it to be a great addition, however many people do not enjoy building, so this will not suit everyone. Overall I was disappointed with the game's quests and the world (including everything in it), and I found the gunplay to be simply decent, as well as the graphics. The crafting was the best part in my opinion, as without it the game would not have much replay value. But if you want a great fallout game, go with Fallout 3 or NV.    … Expand
  95. georgem
    May 9, 2016
    6
    There's plenty to do in Fallout 4 but after several hours of gameplay its fallen flat, and its just not that much fun to play. I really enjoyed fallout 3, Skyrim and Oblivion but fallout 4 doesn't capture the same magic or awesome "holy ****!" moments. Bethesda games usually have something for everyone, but thats not the case with Fallout 4.

    Many elements are just not quite right and    There's plenty to do in Fallout 4 but after several hours of gameplay its fallen flat, and its just not that much fun to play. I really enjoyed fallout 3, Skyrim and Oblivion but fallout 4 doesn't capture the same magic or awesome "holy ****!" moments. Bethesda games usually have something for everyone, but thats not the case with Fallout 4.

    Many elements are just not quite right and the culmination is a mediocre gaming experience. The story is...okay it suffers a slow start and poor exposition but its a decent enough hook. The dialogue wheel/menu is terrible: misleading and the answers dull, it feels like a step back from the silent protagonist of previous games. A poor Mass Effect/Dragon Age imitator in this respect. The Bethesda formula feels tired and old and there isn't enough to make the gaming feel fresh.

    The settlements are clunky and the quest line boring. All the factions have overwhelming flaws that rather than nuanced flaws or politics which makes you want to not root for anyone. The side quests are uninteresting.

    In terms of the way it runs, It has the same old Bethesda clunky menus and average graphics, which are more difficult to overlook when the rest of the game is less polished. The loading times are long and frequent.

    I'm giving up on this one for a while. I may come back to it and just play like an out and out shooter because thats the game's best attribute.

    If you just wanna climb into some power armour and blow everything to pieces then go for it, I think you'll have a blast, but if you're looking for a more complete role playing experience look elsewhere!    … Expand
  96. Rocketman64
    May 13, 2016
    6
    This a great game. The story is passable, the game play is good, the world is also well build if not a little to same-y. What elevates the game is how you experience the world and are free to explore it. Everything else is really secondary to the wonderful hours of wandering blissfully through several environments.It may not have any high points but the game is a very good chillThis a great game. The story is passable, the game play is good, the world is also well build if not a little to same-y. What elevates the game is how you experience the world and are free to explore it. Everything else is really secondary to the wonderful hours of wandering blissfully through several environments.It may not have any high points but the game is a very good chill experience. There are several problems though. The levels are uninspired and after 3 hours everything from then on is basically copy-pasted. The action RPG nature also means at the beginning of the game you have a ton of options but as the game goes on you are forced into one style of play unable to adapt to the situation. It basically is just a really smooth time sink of a game that starts great but gets more boring the longer you play it.… Expand
  97. DutchDelight
    May 16, 2016
    6
    The long long wait for Fallout 4 to arrive and when it arrived its f*kkn ****

    +Big new world to explore in the fallout universe +Building your own settlement is fun. +Modifying weapon and armour -Boring Story ( they should fire and ban the writer) -Boring NPC'S -Boring Factions -Although building your own settlement is fun, its kinda pointless. The npcs wander like zombies..    The long long wait for Fallout 4 to arrive and when it arrived its f*kkn ****

    +Big new world to explore in the fallout universe
    +Building your own settlement is fun.
    +Modifying weapon and armour

    -Boring Story ( they should fire and ban the writer)
    -Boring NPC'S
    -Boring Factions
    -Although building your own settlement is fun, its kinda pointless. The npcs wander like zombies..
    -Boring enemies, there several difference, but in the end they are all boring and generic.
    -DLC sucks thusfar, Bethesda should be ashamed.
    -No rpg
    -No important choices to make, every quest is ; kill loot return

    Overal the game is fun if your unfamilair with any previous fallout game.
    If you loved Fallout 3 and the far far superior New Vegas, Fallout 4 is an kick in the balls in your an fan of the series.
    I still cant believe that the game turned out to be an turd.

    This is the last time i preorder an Bethesda game and an season pass.    … Expand
  98. KeySharkz
    Jun 28, 2016
    6
    I want to give Fallout 4 more than this for the PS4 version... But I really can't.

    we keep getting promised that Bethesda will stop doing the same song and dance every game they make and every time we're made into fools. Favoritism towards the Xbox/PC versions means PS4 users wait the longest for bug fixes, updates and sometimes even DLC. To top that off, considering the game is not    I want to give Fallout 4 more than this for the PS4 version... But I really can't.

    we keep getting promised that Bethesda will stop doing the same song and dance every game they make and every time we're made into fools. Favoritism towards the Xbox/PC versions means PS4 users wait the longest for bug fixes, updates and sometimes even DLC.

    To top that off, considering the game is not that graphically intensive and locked at 30FPS on the PS4 it's amazing that it has so many performance issues. Framerate dips below 30FPS regularly, load times are abysmal and the game likes to crash now and then.

    There's virtually little wrong with the gameplay and story, but the poor optimization makes Fallout 4 possibly the last non-id software Bethesda title I'll trust to throw money at.    … Expand
  99. Kenanman
    Aug 13, 2016
    6
    Fallout 4 получился довольно смешанной игрой. Кому-то он понравится т.к. там есть открытый мир и много чего интересного. Кому-то не понравится т.к. они либо впервые играют в серию fallout, либо играли в 3 часть. Мне лично не понравился т.к. понял что исследования мира это не мое.. Но если у вас есть свободные 50 часов и вы любитель исследовать миры, то эта игра именно для вас!Fallout 4 получился довольно смешанной игрой. Кому-то он понравится т.к. там есть открытый мир и много чего интересного. Кому-то не понравится т.к. они либо впервые играют в серию fallout, либо играли в 3 часть. Мне лично не понравился т.к. понял что исследования мира это не мое.. Но если у вас есть свободные 50 часов и вы любитель исследовать миры, то эта игра именно для вас!
  100. XavierPlaysGame
    Oct 2, 2016
    6
    I am a person who finds himself spending most if not all of his free time playing video games. I have played MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), MOBAs, (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), First person shooters, platformers, and in general consider myself to be a jack of all trades when it comes to video games. My review will be divided into 5 separate sections that iI am a person who finds himself spending most if not all of his free time playing video games. I have played MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games), MOBAs, (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), First person shooters, platformers, and in general consider myself to be a jack of all trades when it comes to video games. My review will be divided into 5 separate sections that i believe to be important to the gaming experience.

    LEGACY:
    This is somewhat of a controversial topic when it comes to fans of the Fallout series. Some of us think that this game is an amazing fifth game in the series that has throwbacks to older games with some improvements to old issues. Others will tell you that the game has become a first person SIMS in a post apocalyptic environment. In my opinion there is some truth in both of these arguments but what many people fail to realize is that after the tutorial stage of the game, everything is up to the player. If you're the type of player who wants to spend time setting up settlements then you can, but if you would rather spend time cleansing the wastes of raiders then that's also up to you. However I dearly miss the voice options from the previous games.

    SETTLEMENT FEATURES:
    This is a feature that i personally really dislike and i feel that it was given too much attention in this installment of the series. While you aren't forced to indulge in the Minuetmen's campaign to colonize the wastelands, it definitely feels forced. The entire crafting system has a very Minecraft-esque feel to it. I was never personally big on the franchise but I can see the appeal.

    BASE GAME AND ADDONS:
    I have seen the argument quite a lot with people saying ''Oh there was planned DLC? That means that it's an unfinished game." I find this to be a very ignorant perspective and people don't seem to realize that it is much better to release a game and then to continue to add new and interesting content to it, then it is to release one game and cram as many things into it as you can. I like the option that if you aren't attracted to the idea of an addon that you aren't required to buy it.

    STORY:
    I am going to attempt this section with no spoilers in it so bear with the vagueness. Bethesda has really implemented a vast story and while sadly they have removed any sense of choices, the story itself is nice. They added depth to the robo-life that was already in the game and while creating new factions, also brought back some old ones. I very much miss the game defining choices that used to come in Fallout games, but this game has taken a very different route than previous installments so these changes are understandable.

    PERK SYSTEM:
    This is one of the highlights in my mind of this game compared to the previous games. The way that all your skills are built off of others and the whole thing being visualized in the way that it is, is a huge plus. This isn't a main part of the game however the skills themselves are. While many are the same from older games they all have a unique touch to them. This was absolutely my favorite feature from this game.

    CONCLUSION:
    Overall this game will be getting a 6 from me, if Bethesda had changed a few elements and released this as a standalone game instead of slapping the "Fallout brand" onto it I think the game would have gotten higher ratings. Since the removal of all the best voice lines and the ability to impact your story with the choices you make, this really stopped being an RPG and became a shooter with a story line. I am very sad to see Bethesda doing this to the game series i used to know and love.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#16 Best PS4 Game of 2015
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#3 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2015
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#2 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 58 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 58
  3. Negative: 0 out of 58
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 16, 2015
    80
    A strong return for the franchise, boasting incredible customisation, a fascinating world and brutal yet brainy shooting, slightly tarnished by lacklustre AI and tedious inventory management. [Christmas 2015, p.88]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Dec 15, 2015
    90
    Feral Ghoul ugly in many ways, but beneath its iffy exterior beats the heart of one helluva great RPG. Get past the graphics deficiency, and the sheer thrill of Fallout 4’s combat, crafting options, and exploring will hold your attention for months. [January 2015, p64]
  3. GameOver.gr
    Dec 11, 2015
    70
    Fallout 4 leans to the Shooting side of things. It strips down the gameplay from the actual RPG elements and offers a meta-nuclaer shooting gallery which of course keep its charm and gameplay wealth but also feels a little too friendly for the new comers. The Base builder mode is unnecessary, boring and irritating. Unfortunately, overall, there are no steps forward for this Nuclear Holocaust Behemoth of the video games industry. Only steps sideways.
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