On paper, Fallout 4 is a good game. The game begins with your character narrowly escaping the bombs that are the origin of all Fallout games and losing everything they held dear. It’s a powerful start to the game, witnessing the war that is only alluded to in all other Fallout games.
If you’re looking forward to the climactic end of the story, you may as well stop playing here, because the game stops being interesting at this point.
There are more deaths, more gun fights, more plot twists ahead in the story but I could not have cared less by the time I got to the end for various reasons.
– The revised dialogue system is a disaster. You’re only given hints as to what your character is going to say. E.g. “sarcastic” could mean anything from your character making a light-hearted jibe to launching a head-on barrage of insults at an unwitting NPC.
– Bugs are rampant and infuriating.
– Few of the characters in-game are sympathetic or even likeable.
There is a lot of exploring that can be done and the in-game world is expansive. If you’re into customisation, there’s plenty of armour and weapons to mess around with. But the whole game feels very shallow and superficial: what’s the point of spending hours on tesla rifles just to use them on yet more raiders?
With the exception of Far Harbour, the story of which raises some interesting ethical questions, there’s not much point getting the DLC.
I don’t regret buying Fallout 4 since I have sunk a lot of hours into it but this is, at the very best, an average game. Looking for a compelling Fallout story? Play New Vegas.

The Fallout 4 game is a game like many others that I’ve played: One that I’m afraid to finish. Maybe I shouldn’t, because there are so many side-quests, the stories from the DLCs, etc. But there’s a nice magic in playing the game and its side-quests while preserving the factions on the game. The challenge is maintained, and with these, the desire to play the game as a survival apocalyptic one.

Well, If I’m at the end of the world, life should be difficult, plain difficult. And during the storyline in Fallout 4, it seems harsh on the others NPCs, but not on you. As you level-up, build protection on your settlements and choose your perfect set of armor, there are various strategies that are foolproof to defeat your enemies. Even if you can mod your way out to the best gameplay experience, this lack of more meaningful AI makes the game a little tiring at the end.

Even so, there’s always a new quest to do, with fun and interesting story to catch, new items, lore to understand and more. Also, there are the companions! Interesting characters with lots of background story to tell, lines to talk, feeling a nice companion for your long life during the Fallout.

Technically, the game is perfect. It’s addictive, interesting, and with modding, there’s only more to do at the game. It’s open-world, and as such, I think it should have something to put the player back on the “tracks” of the game, a purpose, a reward to be again onto the main campaign of the game. Because if the games tells a story, it should be one that the players is compelled to read until the end.

Fallout 4 Review

Fallout 76 is only few days away, and I decided to replay Fallout 4 (and I’m deciding to review it because it’s the 3rd anniversary of the game), and my opinion has lightened, but this game is far from a masterpiece that people tout it as, so let’s get into this to see whether or not it’s for you.

Fallout 4 is an Action RPG developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and Published by Bethesda Softworks in 2015 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, this game was released to massive financial success and critical acclaim, basically causing Fallout to be a mainline RPG series rather than being an obscure RPG series on the PC. However, a lot of Fallout fans completely railed this game for its streamlined RPG mechanics, and dumbed-down gameplay. However lets get into it.

Story- You are the Sole Survivor, the lone survivor from Vault 111, after seeing you baby taken from the Vault and your spouse killed right in front of your eyes, you bow to find your child and avenge your spouse but it slowly turns into a tale to change the commonwealth through some of the Factions This story is okay, not terrible, not great. The plot has some massive lore jump and logic jumps, but besides that, it’s predictable and inoffensive, the pacing is pretty good though, also a lot of the characters are poorly written and feel like they’re only there to give you shitty radiant quests (Preston >:-( !!!) however there are some very well written characters such as Nick Valentine. However it seems to be a rehash of Fallout 3’s story, up until the second act So it’s okay, predictable and inoffensive, but, Okay.

Dialogue: Easily the worst part about this game, and there’s this copypasta to basically sum up my thoughts with it:

A baby is drowning in the lake:

-Fallout 1

Ask for more information
Agree to help
Decide not to help
Accidentally say something that pisses the NPC off, failing the quest
Reveal too much information about yourself, causing the Super Mutants to track your vault more easily

-Fallout 2

Ask for more information
Agree to help
Decide not to help
Accidentally say something that pisses the NPC off, failing the quest
Pop culture reference about the baby

-Fallout 3
Yes, I will save the baby
Depends on the caps
I will not save the baby
[Intelligence] The baby is drowning

-Fallout New Vegas
I will save the baby
I will not save the baby
[Barter 30] Double the caps and I’ll save the baby
[Medicine 30] Thanks to my medical knowledge, I will easily be able to save the baby
[Survival 15/30] Uh… yeah, I totally know how to swim

-Fallout 4
Yes
No (Yes)
Sarcastic (Yes)
Hate babies

As you can see it’s an extreme downgrade of the RPG mechanics and prevents you from actually role-playing a character that you want

World- The world is absolutely beautiful, and it seems that every single place was extremely meticulously crafted, and there is always a story in every single area, and this definitely shows where all of the time went to. I love it!!!

Combat: This definitely had a ton of work, and it allows me to play the game and not use vats, the system is smooth, fluent, and responsive, and with the crafting it allows me to specialize my combat style. Hell I just love the crafting and was a great addition to it. Overall was extremely fun and had a great time slaughtering raiders with it!

Crafting and Settlement building: This was an extremely polarizing reveal since Fallout is not known for its extensive crafting and settlement system, but I loved it, especially the crafting, as I said in the combat section it allowed me to specialize my play-style in combat, The settlement building was something I loved, but was poorly explained and kinda felt a little ham-fisted as buggy, but when you have an entire trade route and a capitalistic wasteland economic empire, it’s fucking amazing, and I’m glad that it was in the game! Overall I really liked it, but needed a lot more polish.

Presentation: The game is very pretty at points, and definitely isn’t a bad looking game, but what kills it is the engine, its dated and old, and I had multiple frame rate drops, crashes, and glitches, this engine fucking sucks and it need to be replaced after Fallout 76.

Music: A very enjoyable soundtrack, very atmospheric and engrossing, Inon Zur is a great composer!

Closing thoughts: This is a great game, but a bad RPG, you have very little control over your character and the dialogue system is pathetic, but I loved my time playing this game, but is disappointing in retrospect and the context of thee series, and if you’re new to the Fallout franchise, just pick up New Vegas, it’s leagues better than 3 or 4. But in spite of that, I just had a great time playing the game, so it’s saved from my 7 and below scores.

Final Score: 8/10

I see a lot people saying how this is “the worst in the franchise” and a “shit game”. Honestly, yeah its fairly different too the other games and lacks some RPG elements, but i love still love it and find my self coming back to it every now and then.
I was a huge fan of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and i still love this game, just because you are a fan of 3 or NV does not mean you will hate this game.

I will definitely recommend not spending money on any of the dlc however. Fallout 3 and New Vegas’ dlc were great and added a lot to the game however Fallout 4 dlc is not like that. Far Harbor is probably the best one out of the 6, Automatron’s story line was fairly short and added some new crafting features but is not worth the money it in my opinion. and then the other dlc’s are just crafting add ons that Bethesda decided to release as separate add ons trying to force you to spend more money on more dlc or buy the season pass.

This game is everything that Fallout is not, i recommend staying away from this game, since it neutered and destroyed the franchise, and made it into something it should never have been.

This game is shit.