Posted on: October 28, 2023

TEHtwitcher

Games: 244 Reviews: 4

Just meh

I already own the base game on steam and although it's tempting, I'm refusing to give Bethesda any more money. By now pretty much everyone should know that the RPG elements have been stripped back to the bare minimum and choice is mostly restricted to "Yes I will do yet another meningless side quest" or "I want more money for doing another meaningless side quest" and the game is padded out with endless radient quests that will have you either finding a pointless MacGuffin, planting a pointless MacGuffin and clearing respawning enemies from THE SAME LOCATIONS for EVERY faction. What is not mentioned as often is just how poor the writing is. I mean in FO3 you are trying to find your dad and fight a shadowy technologically advanced genocidal organization. Well guess what? In FO4 you are trying to find your son and fight a technologically advanced shadowy genocidal organization. Wow Bethesda, you really have some really creative writers(!) Talking to NPCs can be a real chore as the dialogue wheel all too often gives an inaccurate summary of what your character will say and the "Sarcasm" option is just an unfunny joke. And I mean really unfunny joke.... Where's the Fallout: New Vegas team when you need them? It won't matter most of tthe time as NPC interactions are only programmed to give you a quest so you can't provoke a fight or get frozen out of further interaction World building is something Bethesda excelled at with Fallout 3 and even more so with Skyrim, yet FO4 doesn't really have anything impressive: wasteland, ruined towns and swampland, yet theres nothing impressive such as the ruins of the capital in FO3 or the bizarre and vast underworld of Blackreach in Skyrim. It's all too empty and this is not helped by the lack of content and repetitive quests. I did indulge my OCD with settlement building, which should've been a golden oopportunity to explore, yet everything falls backm on "build yet another settlement". It;s not awful, it's just empty.

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Posted on: August 17, 2023

theengineer0404

Games: 1465 Reviews: 4

sonofa...

I bought this on Steam two months ago after having on Xbox for years. I was like I guess its never coming to GoG. Of course as soon as I buy it there it shows up here. Buying for the third time, here I come.

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Posted on: October 23, 2023

dwinblood

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Games: 1970 Reviews: 9

Fallout 4 is only one that does this.

Fallout 4 is a typical Bethesda Studios open world game engine at it's heart. It does many things and creates a unique world. Fallout 4 does this quite well. Fallout 4 isn't my favorite setting of the Bethesda games but it is still the game that has me reinstalling and playing yet again years later. Why? It does some things none of the other games do, and some things I know of no other game out there that does them. This aspect may not appeal to some people but to someone like me who likes to visibly see the world change due to my actions in more than just a pre-scripted change that everyone that plays it see. Outposts and the Supply Lines you can set up between them are the thing. You can tell someone about them and they still may not quite experience it. Once you have a level in the Local Leader PERK under the Charisma branch you can setup supply lines. These link any outposts you build together so they share resources. Okay, but it get's better. You actually have to tell an NPC in your settlements that is their job. You can outfit them (and the other settlers) with weapons and armor. They will then walk that path between the outposts. Depending upon what you do it creates a very noticeable I AM CHANGING THE WORLD feel to the game. They will be out fighting encounters on the road between. They will make more activity near the outposts as they engage things on the outskirts. They make the world come alive. Since where they go to, how they are outfitted, etc. is up to you it creates world changes that are different EVERY play through. I have many other games since Fallout 4 came out but I still will return to it just for this changing the world experience. I also recommend strongly installing the Sim Settlements 2, and Chapter 2, and 3 of that MOD from simsettlements2.com as it takes the entire Outpost thing to another level while adding very professionally crafted new quests, NPCs, fully voiced over dialog, etc.

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Posted on: August 18, 2023

Verified owner

Games: 0 Reviews: 2

Great job with this release.

I almost didn't buy this game with Starfield so close to launch and I've already logged several hundred hours on Steam with this game. But, I decided to buy it anyway and it being on sale made it that a much better situation. I was real happy when Skyrim released here back in September of last year. The only drawbacks I had were getting Vortex to properly recognize it which I got help with in a quick and timely manner and then I had to wait on mods (in particular, SKSE64 mods) to be updated to be compatible with this version of the game which, ultimately, all the SKSE mods I was using did eventually get updated to support. However, with this GOG release of Fallout 4, (So far) all of my mods (F4SE mods and otherwise) and F4SE_Loader itself are working for me right out of the box. This makes me very happy. I was able to load my character right up. I'll be enjoying this for awhile to come (at least until Starfield goes live on Steam).

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Posted on: August 17, 2023

Stolik1985

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Games: 212 Reviews: 20

Great Job!

Congrats to the GoG team for getting this game on the platform. Keep up the good work.

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