There is no other game that I have played that makes me feel the way that Fallout 4 makes me feel. I feel so lonely but also so extremely immersed when exploring the wasteland. Turning on the radio and killing creatures, stealing from people, base building, the story, the silly little glitches that happen here and there along with the many other features that make this game so amazing to me. This is my favorite Fallout game in the franchise and It's a really amazing experience when you don't have a New Vegas super fan screaming in your ear that the game is bad. Mods also take this game to a whole other level and I highly recommend.

tentei logo quando saiu no ps4, tentei na minha epoca de xbox one anos depois e tentei agora pós assistir o primeiro ep da série que me animou muito pra jogar.
mas comigo o sentimento é sempre o mesmo, um começo de jogo curioso e empolgante que corta todo seu entusiasmo a partir do momento em que seu personagem vai pra superfície.
sério, eu quase durmo com os diálogos chatos de NPC's sem vida que só tão seguindo um script.
de verdade, eu tenho inveja de quem consegue mergulhar na imersão desse jogo, até ia falar que Fallout nao é pra mim, mas me recordei que me diverti por semanas jogando o New Vegas no PS3...então acredito que meu problema é com o 4 mesmo.

por enquano não senti que é um "Adeus, até nunca!"
algo ainda me diz que eu vou conseguir jogar esse game, e que talvez seja bom, assim como eu insisti e me apaixonei por Skyrim

It’s strange. I’ve tried to play Fallout: New Vegas twice now, and both times I had to stop my playthrough when I inevitably get softlocked out of the game. Even when I could actually play it, it was still plagued with constant crashes and bugs. But for some reason, the only thing I could think of while playing Fallout 4 was how much I’d rather be playing New Vegas.

Very strange decision for the latest entry in your roleplaying game franchise to strip away most of the roleplaying aspects. It ends up feeling more like an action-survival game than an RPG. The simplified roleplaying systems seemingly come in exchange for more in-depth survival mechanics, like weapon and armour customisation, settlement building, and so on but I never actually engaged with these unless I was forced to. The main gameplay loop is based around exploring the map and completing quests, so these overcomplicated systems just kind of exist for the sake of existing, and hunting down resources just to build a guard tower or whatever is just tedious. The moments when I was forced to build a settlement or whatever to complete a quest were some of my least favourite parts of the game, and I hated repairing and upgrading power armour so much that I just sold all of my power armour parts and abandoned it in Diamond City.

I personally like it when an RPG gives you a voiced character with preset details about their backstory, core personality, and motivation. I think it works really well in games like Cyberpunk 2077, the Witcher, or Mass Effect. But the thing about those games is that their missions and narratives are constructed around those characters. In Cyberpunk, V is a mercenary, which justifies why they're taking all of the sidequests in the game even when they don't directly contribute to the main questline. But in Fallout 4, the Sole Survivor doesn't really feel like they belong in this game. Their mission is to save their son, which creates a dissonance when you're taking sidequests or doing anything that doesn't directly contribute to that goal. Their personality is simultaneously blank enough that they aren't interesting to follow but defined enough that they can't really be played as a self-insert or roleplayed in any different ways.

I probably would’ve finished the main quest, but then I was forced to build up the defences at the Minutemen castle and I just don’t want to spend the time scrounging for the resources to do that, taking me away from everything I’ve enjoyed about it. Combat is fun, the soundtrack is pretty good (though New Vegas has a better one IMO), and some of the characters are enjoyable, but the world is kinda disinteresting. It feels like they put so much effort into the settlement building and survival mechanics that they didn’t work on any towns except for Goodneighbour and Diamond City. I could see myself returning to it someday, and maybe I'll like it more if I finish the story, but I don't think I will for a little while.

Revisited this after watching the show and i've always had a complicated relationship with this game. Never before was I so hyped and then disappointed in a game - only to recently look back more favorably.

It's easy to judge the game by its cut content, as well as other games of the franchise. What we have instead is a really tight looter shooter still based in one my favorite fictional universes. As well as having a fun settlement system.

The thing that bothers me is the story, its missions, the shallow conversations and choices you can make. It lacks depth compared to its predecessors as well as that dire and hopeless vibe being replaced with this cute sandbox that is Boston. Yet overall, its gameplay takes centerstage and is the fondest thing i get out of this divisive game.

Also the DLC is mid at best lmao.

I could complain about the goofy perk system, the removal of skills, the voiced and limited player dialogue, the stinky factions and more, but honestly, none of that really matters. Fallout 4 was really fun to play, I enjoyed almost every minute of it, and that's what counts. It wasn't the sequel I wanted but it's just more Fallout and I love Fallout so what's there to complain about. I sunk 50 hours into it in two weeks and still could play more.

I had to put the game down in 2016 because the original console release game me horrible motion sickness, but I'm really glad I went back to it. Already want to play again with a new build and a new faction.

Played this game at launch and haven't felt like playing it through again since, but Fallout 4 is a lot of fun when you're shooting and exploring but the story and questing segments in-between are painfully mediocre to bad.

The gunplay is fine and I enjoyed exploring the Commonwealth but the RPG elements are toned down so much that they might as well not be here. In particular, I take huge issue with the voiced protagonist (not the acting, it was fine), it had such a negative impact on the whole dialogue system that not even mods can really fix due to the, at max, four responses an NPC can give you when you are given a choice. The story is uninteresting with pretty poor writing and very few likeable characters. Also, the way they did the whole "choose a side just to get this ending" thing was done so poorly (in part due to the lack of a real Reputation system), it felt pretty rushed in the end.

It's pretty disappointing to me as a Fallout game but I had a good time with it, overall. Most of the DLC was pretty shit but I highly recommend checking out the Far Harbor expansion if you enjoyed the synth related and Nick Valentine quest lines. It still has many issues that the base game does but with a more interesting setting and much improved writing.

i struggle to find anything good in this. the environments are well crafted? maybe? that's it. everything else here is embarrassing on an irredeemable scale. the combat is better than previous entries, but still feels like wading through mud. in an entry where being an rpg is put on the back-burner and the action is at the forefront of its M.O., this is more jarring than ever. bad combat is excusable in a game like new vegas, wherein the fights are maybe the fourth most important thing in the gameplay loop; in 4, however, 'better' is nowhere near good enough. the dialogue in this thing is just slightly more interesting than reading a phonebook. the characters are flat. the progression system is bad. this is the kind of game that makes me never want to play another game again

Trying this out again with the PS5 update. I never played this game on anything else other than my OG PS4, got the plat back in like 2017 and I never touched it since. So it's kinda crazy seeing it in smooth 60 FPS.

Anyways, this game singlehandedly carried me out of Destiny jail back in the day, the gameplay loop was more than addictive enough for me. Pick a spot in the map, shoot all the bad guys there, loot everything, haul it all back so you can upgrade your equipment, and repeat. The gunplay is quite solid, especially for an action RPG. And the weapons customization is just so fun to do, mfs be trembling at the sight of my glow-sighted drum-barrel powerful long-barrel automatic pipe rifle.

Then you have the Commonwealth open world itself, which nails the 50s retrofuturistic aesthetic that Bethesda really likes to focus on. And Fallout 4's colorful-yet-rustic art direction creates a lot of varied atmospheric locales to explore. Bethesda also handles their typical environmental storytelling stuff quite well, so there's usually some interesting tales to stumble upon.

Speaking of stories, there's no escaping NPCs in this game, and the actual dialogue driven stories that you'll be experiencing are just so flat, aside from a couple exceptions. The RPG aspects unfortunately doesn't extend to its story, and even in the dialogue choices, it doesn't feel like you're carving out a path for yourself. It always feels linear and limited, which is not good for a series that has made a name for itself with big narrative playgrounds. And the general quality of writing is just meh. A lot of the dialogues don't convey enough personality, and it can come across as toothless and boring. I do quite like the company of some characters like Nick Valentine and Piper, and there's some good story moments scattered all over the main and side missions, but overall it is not the driving force of the game's fun factor. They did made Far Harbor, which basically transplants an actually good RPG storyline with memorable writing into the game, so it's not like they can't do it. I guess they don't care enough or something.

But yeah, that's it really. Fallout 4 is a fun time when you don't have classic Fallout fans screaming at you. It's a very wide inflatable pool that has a lot of floaties to play with, but it's still an inflatable pool, and you'll probably yearn for the sight and sounds of the real sea at some point.

A coworker of mine the other day was talking about Fallout, and I mentioned how I thought Fallout 4 sucked shit (in a much more polite way, we're cool). She asked why, and in response, I asked her to describe her favorite character in the game and why they resonated with her. I didn't get an answer, nor did I expect one.

As an open world game where you walk around in the woods for 40-80 hours and pick up used candy bar wrappers to repair your guns, Fallout 4 is totally acceptable. If they offered PS4 games on flights, there would be worse ways to kill a few hours.

As a narrative, it's a Bethesda game. I don't think there's any other developer that could do a worse job with the story of Fallout. Idea Factory would be a welcome improvement. The changes to the core setting of the game are, at best, lazy and at worst outright contemptuous of the themes of the previous games. None of the characters work. Their use of pre-war American iconography totally misses the point of the previous games. Even divorced from the previous games, the role playing aspect of Fallout 4 looks barren compared to even other flawed WRPGs like Mass Effect. It's a game that railroads you in order to tell a very specific story, and that story was written by hollow men.

This game set the tone that the franchise would take going forward. I think about other Bethesda games like Skyrim and laugh at their total ineptitude. Fallout 4 actively makes me upset. If there's any just and loving God, Zenimax will be bought out by a private equity firm and stripped for parts like Sears, or Toys r' Us.

The mid 2010s were so bad for gaming, it's insane how much better things have gotten.

Fallout 4 has neither the gripping narratives nor the fun roleplaying aspects of its predecessors.

While it certainly makes FO4 feel lesser than the previous installments from the Fallout series, FO4 boasts one of the best art-direction (and that being a Fallout game being set in the 1950's) and perhaps the best gameplay loop amongst Bethesda's library.

Yes, isometric Fallout and New Vegas are still my top-dogs for the series, but to dismiss Fallout 4? I don't think I can.

- waited patiently for the "next-gen" update.
- steam deck verified. nice
- boot it up on my deck
- no graphics settings. they got verification by removing the only thing that requires mouse and keyboard and then didn't give you an in-game way to change them (they did this for skyrim too)
- runs worse

fuck off bethesda jesus christ

Felt in the mood to replay this after finishing New Vegas again (I was put in the mood for that after finishing the show). While I'm not finished this playthough, I highly doubt my opinions will change as I know this game pretty well.

This playthrough is heavily modded, using the Welcome to Paradise Wabbajack list as a base. I added the Be Exceptional progression rework, as well as True Damage and SCOURGE to re-balance the combat. I also installed miscellaneous weapons and armors from the previous games.

I think it's important to preface with this because I think this Fallout 4 is the best example of Bethesda's games getting exponentially better through mods.
What Bethesda is consistently amazing at with their games is world and atmosphere, and they have always been world class in this regard. I haven't played Starfield so I can't comment on it, but Skyrim and Fallout 3 are both incredible at developing a setting. Both those games are carried by this.

Why I love this game despite its myriad of notable flaws is that it combines their deftness at creating worlds with their best gameplay loop. An unusual quirk of Bethesda games is that almost every item in the world is interact-able in some way. In Fallout 4 this is given a new purpose, as literally every item that can be picked up can be used in crafting. Quests often revolve around completing dungeons, like all Bethesda games, but the new crafting system adds so many more personal sub-objectives to the dungeon crawling. If you're eyeing a particular upgrade for your power armor or your favourite gun you can just tag the required parts and go hunting.

The exploration is also boosted by the beautiful world and music. This is a great example of art direction > graphical fidelity. Even without graphics mods the game still looks good, and with a few tweaks it can look legitimately breathtaking. The soundtrack is also great. As always with Fallout, the radio stations add great classic songs from the 1930s-60s. My favourite in this game is probably "End of the World". The original score is also great. My favourite ambient track is easily "Rebuild, Renew". It just sounds incredibly soothing and hopeful, a powerful contrast against the destroyed world around you.

I won't deny the games main story is heavily flawed, especially compared to New Vegas' complexity, but there are still bright spots worth commending.
Nick Valentine might just be my favourite fallout character. His inner struggle with what it means to be a digital copy of a dead man is very compelling, and his voice performance is perfection. He's also a sick ass android detective.

I truly love this game, warts and all. New Vegas zealots can suck a fat one.