Patrick Waring at GameCloud writes: "Fallout 4 is essentially a great framework with a lot of good ideas, but suffers from poor execution. There are a lot of great systems, but none of them are explained very well, or sometimes at all, and are put together without much thought as to how they’ll affect one another. The story is all over the place, which reduces the impact of some of its most powerful moments. In the interest of giving the player character a voice, they’ve removed a lot of the role playing and forced players into having a very narrow choice of personalities, which are themselves very bland and basic. Combat, world exploration, and land settling are all fun and clearly received a lot of attention during design. But in saying that, each of these components still suffers from a lot of basic oversights that noticeably subtract from the experience. And the bugs, oh the bugs… Bethesda, listen, when you get onto making the New Vegas style spin off in a few years, please learn to play nice with Obsidian and let them handle the writing and just focus on the gameplay. In the meantime, I guess the modding community will fix this for you. Again."
A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.
How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.
I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.
Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."
It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder
That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game
The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.
It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.
They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.
I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.
I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.
It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
I enjoyed what I played of it, but I moved on rather quickly. I don't know, I'll get back to it eventually.
its really not a very good game. And ugly as sh!t as well.
between this and Phantom Pain, I don't know which one proved to be the bigger disappointment.
Once the dust settles, real reviews come up.
No one can use that excuse "you didn't play it right", "you didn't play it enough". The game isn't good.
INB4 "nu-fallout fans/Beth fans" type "yawn", clickbait, or "the game doesn't deserve this score, it's too good" and before they start disagreeing with every comment just cause.
Yawn