Posted on: November 1, 2024

rosumek

Games: 145 Reviews: 26

Is it just... boring?

I'm not "used" to Bethesda games, this one was the first I really gave a try. It looked promising at the beggining, although as a letf-handed person I spend an awful time trying to make the terrible hardcoded controls to work. The other awful time was managing the inventory and item bloat, thinking that it was meaningful, but yeah, it's one of those "huge" open worlds that are just full of nothing. Useless junk, uninteresting enemies, shallow locations. Thus, exploration? Boring. Settlement management? Boring. Combat? Boring. Increased from normal to hard, but still was able to just shotgun everybody on the face while getting shot, no strategy at all, and the fact that you may just pause in front of your enemies to eat some food and recover health... well, "dumbed down" is a compliment. As a consequence, crafting and upgrading wasn't really meaningful, and, well, boring. By the time I decided to just forget the open world and follow the main story, I already lost interest in this.

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Posted on: November 6, 2024

antoniogold1236

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Games: 14 Reviews: 2

No "next gen" update

Still on past gen patch

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Posted on: December 2, 2024

borisus

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Games: 113 Reviews: 7

It's a great game BUT

The Review that's also a commercial. You need to install Horizon mod. It fixes the game, it adds things that feel the base game should have come with, it upgrades the existing game features sensibly, and it doesn't crash nearly as often. The people(or person) that made Horizon shouldbe hired by Bethesda, because seriously they did in a couple years what their team couldn't do with 8 years of updates? Just wow. Alright, now to the base game: It's a vanilla experience compared to some of the shenanigans in the original 4 fallouts(especially original 2 and new vegas), that having been said it still has a few twists and turns and you owe it to yourself to play a character through all 4 endings. I very much enjoyed the base story. Sound design is dismal. The same creature noises you've heard before in every other game. Nothing breathtaking. The cooler thing was keeping tabs on enemies based on footsteps with 3D audio, that addition I enjoyed a lot. Music is reminiscent of New Vegas a bit, but with a more professional team working on it. The radio music is okay too, and probably my favourite compared to 3 and NV. 3 had some of the same songs, but they added a lot more for 4. The combat design is where it's lacking drastically. I only know this because after playing the Horizon mod, the original is a janky mess. Enemies always seem to have near perfect sight of you and accuracy with any weapon while yours seriously lack. Healing you can just spam the injectors and take on almost anything. The guns were lacking in every which way, not enough ratings, not enough guns, not enough ways to upgrade them. Woof all around. The game really shined with the talent tree, for me. The base building and settlement system was another aspect they really tried to integrate but it needed so much more time to cook. That having been said, it's still a huge step forward in what could be done, and I enjoyed building settlements despite all the shortcomings. Alright, i'm out of room, thanks!

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Posted on: December 3, 2024

The_Chaos_Engine

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Games: 9 Reviews: 1

unbelievable

Crashed 1 minute in to the game... can't leave the house google says it's a known bug. One reviewer said if you want to spend hours in config files and patches etc etc this game is for you. Well I don't. I used to when I was a kid but as an adult spending hard earned money... I don't. Such a shame. To make the TV show more realistic the episodes should black out and crash after the first commercial break. I played for 5 minutes and asked GOG for a refund. How can you call this a GAME OF THE YEAR edition? Unbelievable.

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Posted on: December 7, 2024

jasondotg

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Games: 81 Reviews: 1

One of the best games ever

New Vegas will always be my favorite Fallout game, but FO4 just took a huge leap in series. Countless hours playing this one. So much to do just with the base game, but the add-ons bring in so much more.

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