Played for 40 hours and completed the main quest on the base version that’s available on PC Game Pass. Didn’t try any mods
I was excited to play Fallout 4, it’s one of the few games that made me want to upgrade from my Xbox 360 back in the day when I didn’t have a PC.
Sadly tho, I ended up being disappointing and mostly annoyed with this game mostly because of two main things: how Bethesda Softworks has curated quests in this game and how the story just ends abruptly.
I like the promise of a journey to find your missing son but as soon as that plot twist in the Institute comes, the game just sort of…dies. Not a lot of story after that point as I did like only two more quests after that in the Minutemen faction. All of that felt very abrupt and anti-climatic and I hate that I saved the robot version of my son only for him to disappear?!
But what really ruined my experience were the quests…the infinite quests. You see, I had finish the Next-Gen update quests at the start of the game without knowing anything and was very over-powered and that coupled with the extremely insulting way those quests just kept sending me to the same locations again again just made the game feel so mechanical and soulless and then you had to do them a bunch more times for the Minutemen to unlock the final quest?! why and not to mention that near the end my quest log was half full of these fake quests
I enjoyed how fluid the shooting is, it’s easily the best improvement over the previous games but hate that the dialogue wheel is just now a dialogue flavor wheel. You get four options to choose from and most of the time they just say stuff like "Go on. or “Okay” which is needless and lazy
Overall: 6/10 I did have some fun with it and I liked the premise of the story at first but for someone who doesn’t do mods a lot and is interested in experiencing the story and hand-crafted quests…this game just feels shallow. I’m ready to be over this game and go back to playing something indie and much more compelling
You want to see my Fallout 4 impression?
Nyuh, nyuh, nyuh. I’m Fallout 4. Nyuh, nyuh, nyuh.
But seriously, I was quite disappointed by it too. I really enjoyed 3. NV was kind of fun too. 4 just felt like it was trying too hard in the wrong places. They put a lot of the effort that should have gone into storyline development and put it into the town building minigame. They tried to catch the wave of Ark and all those other base builders and lost the story in the sandbox. Two half games don’t make a whole game.
Now try Starfield.
You’ll find it so shallow that Fallout 4 seems like the Mariana Trench.
I like them both, to me starfield just feels like a newer fallout 4, but I also like space and the guns, but at the same time after playing oblivion a ton in highschool all bethesda games just feel like the same thing with a bit less. at least with fallout and starfield you could build up bases and stuff, ive actually been replaying oblivion remastered a ton since I havent really gamed in a long time just because its so familiar but new at the same time after all these years
Hard disagree in my case. But that might be because it’s a new IP. When I play Fallout 4 I can’t stop myself of thinking what was and could have been. I obviously don’t have that with Starfield and found it much more enjoyable
I found Fallout 4 had good gameplay, but the main questline didn’t connect with me at all. I’m currently playing through Starfield at the moment, have like 220 hours playtime, I honestly wish I wasn’t finding it so boring but it’s easily the most bland Bethesda game I’ve ever played.
The story writing seems kinda half-arsed, but my main issue with Starfield is in the environments. Every location feels the same, and the planets are all just barren deserts with a random base and two caves plopped on it. At least Fallout 4’s environment felt hand-crafted, and not just like they rolled three dice.
What part of it do you connect with most?
I thought the main story was pretty enjoyable tbh. I can still remember some side quests really vividly as well, which is a good sign. The batman nod for example, or the 0 g casino. There was a lot of copy and paste, agreed, but the gunplay was fun so I didn’t mind that much. Also I spent hours on ship creation, thatwas cool
every time I got lost in the ship builder, I’d spend an hour on some crazy design, be a piece away from saving it, and the game would just lock up and stop responding to input. Only ever happened in ship builder. I lost like 4 hours to that flippin’ bug!
Not modding a Bethesda game is a mistake though.
They’re notorious for publishing half assed games with great potential, but tend to be fairly open to the modding community patching things up and enhancing the experience.
If you ever would consider replaying it,
look into TheMidnightRide,
which is a great quality of life modpack for Fallout 4: https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/I would definitely get into it again if I ended up owning it on another store. Xbox App version PC straight up won’t let me download some of the mods in-game and has write protection all over the actual files so I didn’t bother
Sounds like Microsoft owns your copy of the game
I would say the only thing I cherish from Fallout 4 is the power armor mechanics. Throw that shit in New Vegas and let’s gooo
Yeah, I’m also of the opinion that Fallout 4 lacks that spark that makes a good game. It’s got all of these fancy environments, characters, mechanics, and graphics (for the time), yet it just doesn’t seem to all come together for me. Skyrim, while being a little tedious at times, actually feels like something you would really want to play to the end and then some. Fallout 4, however, isn’t much more in my eyes than a mishmash of vaguely game-adjacent concepts that barely appear to fit together.
Maybe cuz despite all of the settlement helping and everything, the game doesn’t manage to be lived in. The constant radiant quests show the mechanicality of the game instead of fleshing out the world. I love Morrowind, I just played it for the first time last year and it still felt like a more lived world than Fallout 4
Ok now do The Outer Worlds
Not so fast, I kind of side-lined Clair Obscure for this game and I need to get back to that. Plus my friend has been telling me to play Dredge. Good thing summer vacations are on, I’ll definitely add The Outer Worlds on my playlist, thanks
Oooh I picked up Dredge in some Steam sale of yore, need to check it out.
The Outer Worlds is fucking phenomenal, dude. It’s pretty much exactly what I was hoping for when I heard the New Vegas studio was making a space game.
