Fallout 4

just short of 4000 hours played via Steam (and 2000+ hours on my original CD, long since lost to a flood), and this is one game that I will keep coming back to, again and again. Even after 9+ years, there are still things that surprise me. (Also, beware the Red Death! Save it for the post-game, when you've maxed out your weapons! And NEVER go "melee build" against it!)

Next Gen patch absolutely bricked all my mods, I even tried uninstalling the game, deleting EVERYTHING fallout 4 related, re-downloading the game, and playing it 100% unmodified. To my surprise, a bone stock install with a fresh "new game play through" still failed! As soon as I would get close to the small bridge that goes over the creek at the start of the game it would crash to desktop. I had to do some Google searching to find out that the next gen update borked this game so bad that now even to play the vanilla I had to turn off "weapons debris". My system is a 3080ti and a 12700k just in case you think I'm complaining about the game while trying to run it on a potato. I used to love this games, mods made it so much fun, and to top it all off I paid for a bunch of DLC just months before the next gen update hit breaking everything for me. I haven't even had a chance to use my DLC content I purchased. I wasted my money on DLC I cant use because I'm not playing this game vanilla and as someone with a full time job and a life I don't have time to go through all the mods that work and the ones that don't. So I may be retiring from this game now entirely, I do not recommend this game until they fix the update that broke so much.

For those looking to try Fallout, it's a true wasteland survival experience with a great story, great side quests, and a game where you can still do something once you've finished the game.

When I first stepped into the world of Fallout 4, I did not step lightly. The earth had been scorched, the skies forever dimmed, and the echoes of the old world still clung to the bones of broken cities. I had just lost all that was dear: [spoiler]my home, my love, and the child I swore to protect. In a single breath, the warmth of the past was turned to cold memory.[/spoiler] And yet… I emerged. From the metal womb of Vault 111, into a world reborn in ruin. The surface was not what it once was — no, it was something else entirely. Alive. Chaotic. Honest. Every step forward was a test. Sometimes, I survived with only my fists and will. Sometimes with a pipe pistol held together by rust and desperation. Other times, it was not my strength, but my words — a calm voice, a raised brow, a subtle gesture that allowed me to walk away from a boiling conflict unscathed. In this world, a sharp tongue is often deadlier than a sharp blade. The people? Oh, they are many and varied. Some cling to ideals like rust clings to steel: zealots who pray to atomic gods, raiders who laugh at the sun, scientists who twist the fabric of life in laboratories forgotten by time. And yet, some are simply lost: scavengers, builders, wanderers… like me. All seeking purpose in the post-apocalyptic dust. [h1] Fallout 4 does not offer a paradise. It offers potential. [/h1] You may choose to be a savior, a tyrant, a diplomat, or merely a tired soul gathering scrap to build a single, sturdy wall in a world where nothing stands for long. You can rebuild towns. You can ignite wars. You can even dress your dog in goggles and call it destiny. Yes, it is a dark world. Yes, it reminds us painfully of what happens when greed outpaces wisdom. But in that desolation, there is also room for laughter, for stories by the campfire, for sarcastic robots and teddy bears holding cigars. It is a world as absurd as it is tragic. Perhaps that is the lesson hidden in all the rubble: Even after the bombs fall, even when all is lost there is still something worth fighting for. And sometimes, something worth smiling about.

I love this game for the upgrades from previous titles as far as the engine and gameplay. It's a great game to throw mods into and kinda make it your own. However, with that said, the base game's story is mediocre at best. Their lead writer Emil Pagliarulo goes by the mantra "Keep It Simple, Stupid". Maybe good for something like Doom, but Fallout being an RPG requires deeper nuance than that. Find a new lead writer for this franchise, this guy isn't doing it justice.

Amazing game really fun if there was a amount of stars i could rate it would be a 4/5 because the dlcs are too expensive

⭐ Final Verdict: 8.3/10 With 106 hours logged and many more on my xbox one that probaly has like 200 hours, Fallout 4 is a game I kept coming back to—not because of its story, but because the world feels alive. It’s immersive, explosive, and endlessly modifiable. While it lacks the moral ambiguity and reactivity of New Vegas, it more than makes up for it with moment-to-moment gameplay and a beautifully broken world worth exploring. [As I mentioned in my FNV review this was my first serious fallout game and I dont really get the hate besides its very diff combat n gun-wise, but isnt that to be expected.Plus I thought the companions and story was great, plus points for being able to build] If Fallout 3 was about survival, and New Vegas about choice, Fallout 4 is about freedom. And that freedom kept me invested for well over 100 hours. ✅ Pros: Satisfying, punchy combat and weapon modding Deep, creative settlement system Strong companion personalities and loyalty quests Exploration that constantly rewards curiosity Gorgeous environmental storytelling ❌ Cons: Dialogue system limits expression and roleplay Main story lacks real branching depth Faction outcomes feel less reactive than previous games Some radiant quests and settlement alerts get repetitive ☢️ DLC – A Mixed Bag, but Far Harbor Shines Fallout 4’s DLC adds value, especially for builders and lore-lovers: Far Harbor: Easily the best—strong narrative, great faction balance, and creepy Lovecraftian atmosphere. Nuka-World: More action-focused, letting you rule as a Raider—but lighter in story. Automatron and Contraptions expand gameplay systems rather than narrative.

Fallout 4. Its not the best fallout game ever made, its certainty not the worst. But it is extremely addicting, settlement building can get really brainless really quickly, collecting stuff is also addicting. This game has an effect similar to other Bethesda games where one moment your playing a quest the next moment you the richest man ever and have 20 more hours on the game. I would highly recommend this game for anybody new to the franchise, its the easiest to understand, probably one of the better optimized games in the series. 9.5/10 Overall

As much as I want to enjoy this, I cant. Its clunky, feels oddly cartoony for a game that takes place after the apocalypse, and despite supposedly taking place in Boston, you wouldn't know unless told. I feel like you're way better off playing New Vegas.

Fallout 4 is a mixed bag. for me, i love it, even vanilla. There's something about this game that just clicks with me and i love it. From it's wacky stuff, DLCs and inconsistent performance, to weirdly engaging exploration and vibe. But on the other hand, i do know that the game has some serious issues and some pretty poor design choices. Things that sure you can fix with mods, yeah. But that shouldn't be necessary. Mods should enhance an already complete experience and not fix it. The main core product should already be enough. Bethesda really cut some major corners with this game, that's for sure. From re-using animations across multiple guns, re-using assets throughout the game, questionable lore and design flaws, to some odd gameplay mechanics that makes you wonder WTF happened during development. Either way, i still enjoy Fallout 4 for what it is. It's certainly more on the action shooter/exploration genre than a true RPG like it's predecessors, but something about it clicks with me. And the modding community for this game is huge. Like REALLY dedicated. And for all of that, i give it a thumbs up 100%. You can and will definitely find enjoyment playing this one, vanilla and modded. i've put countless hours on xbox so i bought it on pc mainly for the mods.

Fallout 4 is a game of great scale and impressive worldbuilding. It has an exceptional amount of content, and the early sense of exploring the wasteland is thrilling . Unfortunately, it turns out to be a massive letdown. Here are four reasons why!   1. The UI is poor. Endlessly scrolling through the Misc section of your inventory to find the latest note or disc which you picked up is infuriating. The lack of any sort of indication of the locations of your companions is a glaring omission, especially given how prone they are to lag behind or disappear altogether (I had to use console commands to retrieve Dogmeat at one point).   2. It’s not a good RPG. You are rarely given compelling choices, and most of those are crude binary options. Skillchecks are limited to dialogue, based on RNG and are easily maxed out regardless of your character build due to the levelling system. I never felt like I was playing *my* character. I completed New Vegas six times just to try different character builds and choices. Once is enough for this game.   3. The writing is bland and forgettable for the most part. Nothing about this game made me care about the people, factions or places it depicts. It was hard to choose between factions not because each had strong merits, but because I disliked them all. As the story funnelled me into wiping out person after person, I realised that I didn't care about the named characters any more than the countless faceless enemies who I'd wiped out in the wasteland. It all felt so meaningless.   4. It’s packed full of busywork. Settlement building is utterly pointless and inconsequential; it doesn’t matter if my settlers have no food or beds. Radiant and miscellaneous quests just act as tedious busywork to fill out the playing time. If a fraction of the time spent on this was spent on the UI, the game would be a better experience.

What more needs to be said. Amazing game that has great repeat playability

Its a classic Bethesda game with all the good things and all the bad things that come with it. Even though I liked the game I felt frustrated with it a lot of the time either because of its bugs or stuff that wasnt entirely polished. Last 30 hours I played only because I wanted to finish it since the variety of content has run out and even the ending disappointed me. Also locked 60 fps is just embarrassing even for 2015. I would recommend the game, the setting is great, gameplay is the best in the series and dungeons are extremly fun. Pros: -good soundtrack -great exploration -fun dungeons -crafting -interesting companions -bugs (funny ones) -building settlements Cons: -bugs (gamebreaking ones) -inventory -not seeing stats of things on the ground -low enemy variety -companions constantly blocking -dialogue -settlements dont share resources -long loading screens

I like Fallout 4, but i love Fallout: New Vegas Fallout 4 is a good game, or at the very least, a very decent game. It has it's flaws, some are arguably more annoying than the flaws New Vegas have. The Assaultrons are such a pain when going with a Melee or Unarmed build, since they block almost every single time, not to mention the blatantly-overpowered laser they fire. Speaking of Melee, enemies block and bash WAY more than they do in New Vegas or 3, to the point of frustration. You can have a melee fight thats literally just "attack, oops they blocked try again, attack, oops they blocked try again attack, oops they blocked try again, attack, finally hit your swing". Also the lack of Skills is kinda annoying and removes certain RPG aspects from an RPG game, but some of the perks are kinda neat Also recommend getting this game during a sale, this game isnt really worth 19,99 euro

Spend more time crafting and building settlements than in the wasteland

As long as you mod the game its great! its a lot of fun! but get good with modding. otherwise its unplayable.

I know it may be sacrilege, but I played this Fallout game first, and its really the only one I like. It makes me feel S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Next-Gen updates completely bricked my game. Can't get past the title screen no matter what.

The plot is great. Side-quests are fun and engaging. The companions you meet throughout the game are also well written as characters. The game let's you explore so much and each time you star playing again, there are still more places, things, and people to discover.

might well be the greatest game ever made. Yes, it's a little glitchy from time to time, but in terms of game play, storytelling, imagination and pure awesomeness, it has no rival. Where else can you stumble upon robots that think they're pirates on a galleon that they fly into a city - just as a side quest!

Since the Next Gen udate the game has become something not worth the money paid for it. It will not launch if mods exceed 30, when before you could add at least 100 if anything, i would recommend any potential new player to buy a pre next gen non steam version as you will be allowed to choose the update or not.

A fantastic continuation of the Fallout series. Visually so nice, gameplay is fun and just works, and lots of new mechanics from previous games.

been playing this garbage for the past 10 years and I can't uninstall it, send help.

War Never Changes, But Apparently My Kid Does Let’s get this out of the vault: Fallout 4 is one of the weirdest emotional rollercoasters I’ve ever ridden, and I say that as someone who flirted with a radiation-sick ghoul, married a robot in New Vegas, and built a shantytown out of broken toasters. The game starts strong. There’s nuclear panic, emotional tragedy, and your spouse gets murdered right in front of your cryo-frozen face. The game says, “Hey, your infant son has been kidnapped! This will be your central motivation!” And for about five minutes, I cared deeply. Then I met Piper Wright. Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a review. It’s a love letter to the plucky, leather-jacketed reporter of Diamond City. Piper is smart, scrappy, and talks faster than a Minuteman hands out settlements. She’s got sarcasm, charm, and the only moral compass in the Commonwealth that isn’t being used as a landmine. I took one look at her messy ponytail, fierce loyalty, and oversized press hat and thought, “Forget the main quest. I’ll find my son after I finish flirting.” And flirt I did. I brought her purified water. I picked locks in front of her. I gave honest answers in dialogue just to hear her say she admired me. And when she finally opened up about her past? I melted faster than a synth in a plasma storm. Piper isn’t just a companion—she’s the companion. She’s the reason I stopped fast traveling and started taking the scenic route through irradiated hellscapes. Now, about that main quest. Bethesda wants you to care about your son, Shaun. They want you to feel urgency. But by the time I actually found him—now a middle-aged scientist with the emotional warmth of a Radroach—it felt less like a reunion and more like showing up late to a philosophy lecture taught by a smug AI cult leader. He’s like, “Hello, Father,” and I’m like, “Excuse me? I’ve been wandering around for 80 hours building settlements and kissing reporters. Who are you again?” I was supposed to care. Instead, I kind of wanted to punch him. Also, let’s be real—building settlements for Preston Garvey gets old fast. "Another settlement needs your help!" Bro, I’m trying to figure out if Piper likes Salisbury steak or sugar bombs. Priorities. The world itself? Classic Fallout goodness. Wrecked cities, mutant wildlife, questionable moral decisions, and enough duct tape and wonderglue to construct an entire post-apocalyptic Home Depot. The gunplay actually feels decent this time, and crafting your own weapons and power armor feels like strapping together hope and desperation with rusty bolts. I love it. But the heart of Fallout 4 isn’t the factions or the fatherhood melodrama. It’s the small stories. The weird vault experiments. The quiet moments around a campfire. And, for me, every snarky line Piper delivers when we walk into some raider-infested nightmare and she quips, “This place gives me the creeps.” Same, Piper. Same. Final verdict? Fallout 4 is messy, ambitious, uneven, and unforgettable. The main plot may be a half-baked soap opera with a clone twist no one asked for, but the real story is the one you make. For me, that story involved a lot of side quests, a massive crush on a fearless journalist, and maybe accidentally nuking someone I sort of liked. Would I play it again? Absolutely. Would I ditch the Institute again for Piper? In a heartbeat.

Fallout 4 is an absolute garbage pile of a game. Bethesda FUCKED us so hard with Fallout 4, let me lay it out for you. Beginning of the game is the most BBBBOOOAAARRRRIINNNGGG opening for a game, ive ever seen. then halfway through the tutorial you get power armor, POWER ARMOR! A full suite of it, and a mini gun, a shelter that has all the stuff youll need and then a dog as your first or second follower companion. Giving all of those tow you right from the start is just poor game design. The power armor is the best thing Bathesda has ever made, the design, sound animations, and getting, running and maintaining it could have been a big primes of the game but nope, you get a full set right of the start, and with that you can literally explore every inch of the map at level 1. So with that it completely ruins the ENTIRE ASPECT OF THE GAMES PRIMES! Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas (best game of the series) theres a big crescendo build up throughout the games, from unlocking new skills to learning how to wear and use power armor. Fallout 4 theres no build up at all, and exploring is just hollow. From the opening where you see the bombs drop, explorations is completely ruined, random questing in Fallout 3 was so good that it held the game together. All the locations in Fallout 4 are average (and im being generous) I explored just about every location and none of them are stand out locations at all. The Mass Fusions building you can see from the opening of the game, is not woirht exploring at all because they add no story or side quests and theres A LOT of locations that are like that. There is one place thats built up perfectly though, The Glowing Sea. You see if after you get out of the vault you were frozen in for the last 200 years and you wanna go, because its THE location to go to. It should have been a massive build up, collecting Radaway and Rad-X, power armor, Stimpacks and all that. Oh btw you can just got straight here at level 1, with the power armor you get from the tutorial and start exploring. However if you head there with NO power armor and no cloths at all, with just rad-x and radaway you can explore the entire area with only taking +1 radiation damage in blotchy spots or whenever the lightning strikes, what a massive let down. Then The Dunwhich building you can find in the glowing sea is an even bigger disappointment and breaks all the lore for the Dunwhich lore completely. You get there and go inside and its full from front to back with gunners and turrets (TURRETS! IN A HORROR LOCATION! SERIOUSLY!?) completely ruins the immersion you got from exploring the Dunwhich building in Fallout 3. Constantly throughout the game you have to have these massive battles, bigger than Hoover Damn in Fallout New Vegas just to find out if any character from the location was worth finding. Now the combat from previous game has been clunky and you had to rely on VATS (which you almost never need to use in Fallout 4), explosives and a variety of weapons to get through a fight and that meant you wernt faced with lots of enemies, however in Fallout 4 the easiest solution is to just go in guns blazing. Which just makes combat simple now and with that simplicity Bathesda decided to add more enemies to the fights to add difficulty to the game. Problem is with more enemies adds tons of movement and combat on screen that sometimes it makes you feel sick. Also whoever decided that the critical meter be a bar deserves a potral opened to hell for them, when your in a fight the meter will SLOWLY build up and you can store them for when you really need to win a fight, however that completely removes all aspect of surprise from the proceeding. Remember setting your luck to 10 in Fallout New Vegas, and Doc Mitchel says "with luck like that I'm surprised the bullets didnt turn right back around and climb back into the gun." well if New Vegas would have been like Fallout 3 Doc would have said "Dont forget to press x when your critical bar is full to preform a critical hit" enraging. In previous games of the series, combat was uses as a passive thing to do between or during the completion of side quests, in Fallout 4 killing enemies is the main reason you go exploring. You can also find magazines that increase your stats marginally but you mostly just find ones that increase your critical hit. Fallout 4 is only about combat, and theres no locations that scream that more than the vaults of Fallout 4. AS well know exploring the Vaults in Fallout 3 and New Vegas was just magical, Bathesda and Obsidian and the best part of those games. The slow pace and the eerie broken sound track of wispers and broken radio signals created an AMAZING tone, BUT NOT IN FALLOUT 4! The vaults are just like every other location in the Commonwealth, full of enemies your just there to kill. Vault 81 was alright though. HOWEVER there are a lot of very impressive things Bathesda has done in the game theyre just so spread out and to thin that it feels hollow. The amount of things they accomplished with Fallout 4 is just mental, BUT Bathesda was too caught up in weather or not they could do with the game verses weather or not they should. - Entire new perk and leveling system - 4 factions with bracing story options - 13 companions with near-limitless dialogue - ALL enemies and weapons fully redesigned - A full city with hundreds of buildings - Most buildings are fully exploitable - 2 fully voiced main characters - Base building and sim base management - Combat system completely redesigned - Limitless weapon and armor modding - Full underwater exploration - Cities marshes, seas, mountains Thats just a few off the top of my head and any sane person looking at this list will go "doing all thats impossible" Now the dialogue in Fallout 4 is just atrocious, in Fallout 3 and New Vegas the dialogue options really showed the creativeness that the writers could do and added so much to the games. There was cheeky options from the Black widow perk to the confirmed bachelor perk. Not one word answers like Fallout 4 which is just such bad design it makes your brain hurt. Im surprised the people who made and added that to Fallout 4 could design a completely functional game at all but i guess its fine, whatever. It isnt to bad at the beginning, they seem thought out and you can basically assume what your character is gonna say but by the time you get to Goodneighbor the writes seem to have just given up, its just Yes, No, Maybe and something random, which leavers you not know what your characters gonna say at all. There are 13,000 lines of dialogue that someone had to simplify down to one word answers and that somehow makes sense in context and to what end making the game substantially worse. The new style completely breaks any potential dialogue puzzles the game could have had. For example, one of the best side quest lines in Fallout 4 you can become the Silver Shroud and travel around fighting crime, if you dress as the shroud while you do this you get to talk like the shroud did, and its quite fun to be honest, to complete this quest line you have to fight a big crime boss and one of the ways to defeat him is to talk like the shroud over and over till he gets scared. Rather that reading through dialogue to carefully decide which one sounds most likely what the shroud would say, the game gives you three option (that just says "talk like the shroud") three times in a row and thats it, quest done. the entire game does this same style over and over with every time you engage in dialogue. Its an absolute mess and a travesty. Theres a lot more i could say about everything on the list but i only have so may characters im allowed to type...

this game isnt a rpg its more of a open world looter that has missions sprinkled about. the factions arent that good at but other than that it helped me pass time while i was wating for my wife to be done with fred in the bedroom.

Mechanist bug ruins the game, hours of gameplay wasted. Fuck Todd Howard, I hope that cokc sucker dies and rots in hell.

Probably the best Fallout series game. Excellent story as main quest, Multiple side quests and you you want base build and management. DLCs are also a plus and with the multiple mods the fun never ends.

good game no lags story rich good side quest hard and easy

Look, i Love Fallout and Fallout 4. But Bethesda gave us the last update and couldn't be bothered to add proper ultra-wide support. Yeah my game is in 2650 x 1080, but the UI is in 1920 x 1080 and it is stretched. It's not subtle. I cant even play the game, it SUUUUUUUUUCKS. I LOVE THE GAME. But I'd rather spend 10 hours modding New Vegas than to find a solution around this. Please fix this Bethesda. Your old games supported ultra-wide. Oblivion got a very good remaster, give Fallout 4 that TOUCH of love and please offer a real 2560 x 1080, UI /HUD included support. (I buy your games either way, I only ask the "little" things). I will Change this review if it's added

One of my favourite games of ALL TIME, i love collecting power armour and legendary items. Just moved from console to pc and I am amazed at all the mods i now have access to 10/10 must play game

Worst lore and dialogue of the franchise, but the gameplay is awesome. Some DLC are worth it, specially the robots one....

You know what you are getting into. Buy it on sale for less than $20 and then go install 50 mods. Also treat yourself and cheat in 500 ceramic, copper, adhesive, and aluminium.

I cannot remember the state of the game when I played it originally, back in early 2016. I used mods and stuck with the Institute, but never bothered to finish the achievements. Flash forward to now, and I am not sure if the game has improved. This playthrough was based on the un-modded version of the game. The loading times range from a couple of seconds to nearly a minute, and with everything being isolated in their own areas, you are going to be seeing those loading screens often. It kills the flow of the game considerably and starts to become more noticeable. Path-finding can be incredibly frustrating with NPCs just standing still after being activated for a quest or taking forever to start moving after hitting the corner of a door, as if the programming is struggling to compensate. Thankfully, I had only three cases where I needed load a safe to retry the section to get them to move, but the amount of downtime this creates is beyond irritating. Then there is the wonkiness of your own movement, whether in a suit of power armor or standard. You could be moving forward, then suddenly the locomotion shifts to the side and no amount of course correction can eliminate the drifting sensation. There are even times the character will just randomly strafe from side to side when you are trying to make a turn or backing up. I cannot remember the last time I experienced this in a game. Then you have the way dialog tracking is cut off when you initially start dialog, which makes it difficult to skip it without risking accidentally shooting your weapon into them and requiring a reload. It is bad enough NPCs will start talking to you without a prompt and trap you in a dialog choice screen when all you were doing was trying to sit down or wait for a NPC to finish walking to your location. There are a slew of bugs ranging from items not spawning properly, enemies disappearing into the terrain, objectives not updating properly, and doors leading to a new area not working properly. Thankfully the game ran better than I expected with consistent frame rates, but there are times the game did crash (only a few times). This is more of a case of justifying the experience. With how much the system struggles and the amount of time you are forced to wait for subpar combat and the blatant settlement padding, I just can't recommend it. If the story and side content was better (subjective), but even with the two major DLCs being fresh content for me, it really left little in the way of any lasting impression. The Far Harbor was too bogged down by further synth arguments and the Nuka World content had very little in the way of character development (also bogged down by more settlement padding). Some of the companions are great, but the majority felt very flat-line, and the heavy focus on synths can be a huge turn off (depends on your stance on empathy toward machines and the lack of tension due to how they are handled in the setting). I just can't recommend it for the technical issues. If you think the story will be interesting, only grab it on a steep sale (which happens often enough), but realize there can be a lot of downtime between action. P.S. If you are just after the achievements, be prepared for an annoying grind for the tickets at the Nuka-cade (unless you use the console commands, but no clue if that voids achievements)

Next gen update ruined the game without mods. Load times can and will take 5min+.

I love skyrim and fallout 4, but i prefer the combat and setting of fallout.... apocalypse now, then, and forevermore....

[h3]Story: 8[/h3] [h3]Gameplay: 9[/h3] [h3]Overall: 8.5/10[/h3] How to fix the extremely long loading times on SSD, for displays over 60Hz: 0. Since it was previously required in order to play the game at all without it breaking, if you've capped your Fallout 4 FPS to 60 using your graphics card's software, make sure you disable the FPS limiter before doing anything else. 1. Manually download "Load Accelerator" by hippo from Nexus Mods. 2. Unzip the file and copy the .dll and .ini files. 3. Paste both files into your [Steam > steamapps > common > Fallout 4] folder. 4. Open LoadAccelerator.ini and look for the line "FPSLimitInGame = 0" 5. Change it to "FPSLimitInGame = 60" 6. Enjoy lightning fast loading screens, as was intended for your SSD.

Next gen update obliterated this game. Used to be something I didnt care about but now that I have like, a life, and a job, and actual things to do, I cant spend two straight weeks rebuilding my 498 mod setup. Obviously no sane person plays this game vanilla it wouldn't be as popular as it is if there wasnt for mods and bethesda seems to love fucking mod users on a yearly basis.

already a fun game, if you overlook everyone who's played other games screaming in your ear about "how different it is". I personally love the take they did on power armor- yes, the fusion cores can be annoying, and repairing armor is a chore, but you FEEL awesome. Look awesome, too.

Fallout 4 is an extremely good game, good graphics, runs well on lower end computers, i love the fact that you can chose your OWN story in a way and side with who ever you want

I do love this game but after 16 hours the problems outweigh the enjoyment. I love the Skyrim of the future vibes, the humour is perfect and the story is very interesting. The America of the 50s vibe is perfect and whats left in the wasteland is great. But loading times are a joke, they were taking 2-8 minutes to load a level when you exit/enter a buliding. I found a mod to cut this down a little bit but it never drops below 2 mins. It breaks the story completely sitting looking at a loading screen (I have SSD, 16 Gb Ram & an RTX4070). Then walking, it's so slow, my god i thought AC Valhalla was bad this is a whole new level. It's always the little things that ruin a good game and 16 hours was my limit. It's cheap but those loading times, lack of direction in the story just broke me. I love Skyrim, Odyseey, Origins, Hellblade, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator so slow is my bag.

The game used to work JUST FINE, then Bethesd wants to update it, break the fps, and it crashes EVERY TIME on load up when trying to stream on obs. I recommend you throw this game in the recycle bin where it belongs

I have wasted my life away playing this game and enjoyed every second. Mods give you a nice burst of new enjoyment from the game. 9/10 only because it simply "just works".... until it doesnt. nothing reloading a earlier save cant fix but for first time/lazy players it can be frustrating.

The popularity of this game is inseparable from the support of mods. Once again, thank you to those mod creators in the community，But there are indeed too many bugs in this game.

Must play game! Amazing as the vanilla game, amazing DLCs, amazing mods.

I finally found the time to give Fallout 4 a good play through and certainly was not disappointed. The Commonwealth is great setting and the new factions are interesting. I will say that I found Preston Garvey to be annoying, but the Minutemen do add to the world building. The game play becomes like that of a more traditional shooter in comparison to the shooting mechanics of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I still think that Fallout: New Vegas is my favorite title in the series, but this is still a great addition to the franchise. Also the only correct play through is siding with the Brotherhood of Steel. Ad Victoriam.

Although earlier titles are great additions to fallout, Fallout 4 is the quintessential Fallout experience; albeit with all it's faults. Everything I like about fallout is in this game, and everything that is less desirable is also within the contents.

Good game, steam hours aren't an accurate depiction of my game time as ive played on console aswell, On PC this game vastly out performs its console counter parts and you suffer a lot less crashes which makes the game overall a better experience, As a fallout game though i felt like my choices in how i developed or made my character meant nothing when it came to quests or dialogue etc apart from charisma being the main focus point of dialogue choices In FO3/NV having a dialogue option you could get because of the skills you trained or your special stats felt like you earned that extra choice and though the choices overall didnt effect gameplay too much, having those unique choices made those games replay value in my opinion alot better than this ones, that being said the chat options are the only issue i have with this game, the things fallout 4 introduced, were things you would talk to your friends about like "Imagine if we had attachments for our guns, imagine if we could make our own town" etc, and in my opinion those features are great Power armor in this game really does feel like power armor compared to older fallouts aswell, being able to be over your carry weight just to hop inside an exoskeleton and still being able to walk make sense, and is immersive, going from the brink of death to hopping in a suit and becoming a walking tank is how power armor should have felt all along The factions are great and having multiple different paths to choose from makes you want to play the game through atleast a couple times to see how each factions story plays out, though more often than not i find myself using the same weapons/armor style and skills in each of the play throughs due to lack of unique consequences of the choices you make with these things. the DLC's are amazing, nuka world and far harbour are masterpieces, far harbour gave me point lookout vibes from F03 while still feeling entirely unique, nuka world, well i mean its disneyland for nuka cola Overall its a fallout game, and its a great game, in my opinion its not the best fallout game, but it definetly isnt the worst, and worth playing through atleast once.

Fallout 4 is my favorite Fallout of the series, i recommend this game to anyone who enjoys post apocalyptic games, This game is a big open world game and you can get lost for hours in it, totally recommend.

The game is epic. There is so much to do in the game. A great experience!!