Apesar de toda dor eu ainda te amo Bethesda
There are so many things wrong with this game and I have tried 5 times since 2015 to actually finish it and then be able to shit on it with sufficient data. But it has proven to be impossible.
After watching the Fallout TV show, I felt like playing a Fallout game, so I decided to play Fallout 4 since I already owned it. However, it turned out to be the worst decision I made this entire week. The game is nearly a decade old, yet it still has many issues. My game froze after trying to stop the baby from crying, which happened only 10 minutes into the game. Additionally, my character got stuck in an infinite animation after trying to activate the terminal for one of the missions, which was around 30 minutes into the game. I had to reload the game and lost my progress because the game didn't save. Also, every time the characters talk, their lips move in some of the weirdest ways possible. The movement feels really janky, and every time I run, my character would randomly stop even though my stamina wasn't low.
Fallout 4 sucks! the TV show is 100x better. I have no plans to play the older Fallout games since if Fallout 4 is this janky, I cannot imagine how much worse the older games could be.
Fallout 4 sucks! the TV show is 100x better. I have no plans to play the older Fallout games since if Fallout 4 is this janky, I cannot imagine how much worse the older games could be.
This review contains spoilers
There's a lot that I adore about this game and then there's a few criticisms I have. Namely, the endings. I didn't really like any of the endings to the base game. I love the Brotherhood of Steel and all, but I feel like they should've been a bigger presence in one of the DLCs or something. I wish they spent more time fleshing out the Minutemen and the Railroad factions because they just weren't that interesting in the game. I like the idea of their factions, but there's just something missing from both of them. For the Minutemen, it's the first faction you become acquainted to in the game. But after that first mission, they just don't feel like as big a presence in the Commonwealth as they should. Even when you do start gaining more followers in the faction. Their quests boil down to just saving "x" settlement and develop it. The Railroad just feels too one dimensional. I feel like if they just cut the Brotherhood out, or gave them a smaller role, they could've allocated more resources to fleshing out these two new factions. There are amazing things too about this game, I wouldn't give it a 3 if not. I love the combat. My favorite in any Fallout game and the settlement creator is really fun. The side quests are also great. It's just hard to overlook some glaring story issues.
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.
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.
I'll never forget when I told someone I liked this game and they tried to explain to me that a game in the same series with worse gameplay was better because the dialog options were in lines instead of in a circle or something.
Honestly couldn't get into this. I really do need to try again one day.
Depois de inúmeras tentativas, finalmente consegui completar FO4, de longe o pior jogo da série e umas das piores histórias que eu já vi em um RPG. Gameplay foi o único aprimoramento em relação aos outros jogos da série, em compensação as quests e os elementos de roleplay são terríveis. Espero que a Microsoft entregue a série na mão de outra desenvolvedora, Bethesda não tá dando conta mais.
I am not wasting my time with Fallout 4 anymore. Horrible game. Back to New Vegas.
Ta wapo
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.
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.
- 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
- 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
Capitalism and its consequences (better combat, worse dialogues)
seria melhor se eu pudesse construir as coisas de verdade e nao umas palafita caindo as pedaços aé as faccoes são medianas e e vsf merdande de aço mesmo assim amo esse simulador de eletricista
my experience in this game was making my character look like a kid from my school i didn't like and then i made all of his stats 1 because i didn't like him
Utterly mediocre, at best. Horrendous writing, technical issues and a glaring absence of RPG mechanics makes Fallout 4 one of the worst entries in the series.
for starters, I did install mods to just be a menace to society so I'm not exactly playing the game as intended on my first playthrough. now for the actual review, I'm confused on whether or not I'm doing the actual story or just the longest string of side quests I've ever encountered. The minute men stuff is good but I don't know if it's the main campaign of the game or not, but the game play's fun and somewhat fluid, and the design of the wasteland or commonwealth as the game calls it is very detailed. graphics are insane for a bethesda release. good game so far, just need some direction.
He intentado jugar Fallout 4 2 o 3 veces y siempre lo dejaba al principio, no me terminaba de enganchar. Al fin he conseguido terminarlo, y aunque me lo he pasado muy bien, no creo que sea un gran juego.
Prácticamente todo lo nuevo que aporta con respecto a las anteriores entregas no me ha gustado nada (La power armor, los asentamientos o la manera de buscar materiales), es un juego mucho más de acción que de rol, y las misiones y decisiones en las mismas son algo pobres.
Me ha gustado porque al fin y al cabo sigue siendo de base un Fallout. Es muy divertido explorar, lootear, ir pillando y mejorando armas y poniéndote algún perk chulo. Esto y que el gunplay es mejor que en los otros juegos es lo que más me ha mantenido enganchado.
Si esperas una experiencia parecida al 3 te puedes decepcionar: Fallout 4 me parece más un juego de disparos y mundo abierto que un juego de rol, y creo que ese es su mayor problema.
Por ahora creo que voy a descansar y pasar de los DLCs, pero si en algún momento me apetece los probaré.
Prácticamente todo lo nuevo que aporta con respecto a las anteriores entregas no me ha gustado nada (La power armor, los asentamientos o la manera de buscar materiales), es un juego mucho más de acción que de rol, y las misiones y decisiones en las mismas son algo pobres.
Me ha gustado porque al fin y al cabo sigue siendo de base un Fallout. Es muy divertido explorar, lootear, ir pillando y mejorando armas y poniéndote algún perk chulo. Esto y que el gunplay es mejor que en los otros juegos es lo que más me ha mantenido enganchado.
Si esperas una experiencia parecida al 3 te puedes decepcionar: Fallout 4 me parece más un juego de disparos y mundo abierto que un juego de rol, y creo que ese es su mayor problema.
Por ahora creo que voy a descansar y pasar de los DLCs, pero si en algún momento me apetece los probaré.
If you like this game, ok. It is a good game. However, if you think its better than any of the previous games, you are WRONG, and a dummy head. thanks for listening.
Might try again later but for now I really did not care for a single thing happening.
Best SP game i have ever played
4 for fallout 4
this isn’t what I want from a fallout game and sadly I don’t find it fun without a few mods to give it more variety, I much prefer new vegas for all its age due its attention to detail and superior writing /rpg mechanics… however there are many elements Fallout 4 that I do enjoy quite a bit like the gameplay/shooting, the general exploration and the in depth base building,
It’s very good but not for the same reasons as new vegas
It’s very good but not for the same reasons as new vegas
After watching the Fallout series I had the urge to pick up a fallout game and play. I decided to pick up Fallout 4 and after playing a good bit I was not disappointed. I am really enjoying my time with the game. For my first Fallout game I can say that I like the series. Idk really what else to say, other than I am enjoying my time playing this game.
even though its worse than NV in almost very way i still prefer playing it, aint that whack
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
I dont even know how to feel about this game... The map feels alive and so imersive, yet the protagonist doesnt. While the factions and dialogue arent that well written, this game actually has balls to pose ethical dillemas and allow you to choose (unlike Fallout 3). The gunplay feels good and the new mechanics are so cool yet the movement is kinda clunky the game has plenty of bugs, at least in my experience. This game feels like a 10/10 and a 3/10 at the same time. I really dont know what to say in this review but its definetely a decent experience
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.
I've owned Fallout 4 on PC for what feels like an entire lifetime and every time I try to give it another shot, I keep stopping about 5 hours in.
I think it's time I make the call that this game just isn't for me.
I think it's time I make the call that this game just isn't for me.
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.
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.