I've played this game back in the day, but never finished it - unlike Fallout 1, which I've completed several times. Now, I thought it's the perfect time to give it another go (watching the series right now), and it's still a top-notch postapocalyptic RPG! With the unofficial patch, it's totally playable on current hardware, and I didn't run into any bugs or glitches until now (I remember the original version was buggy AF). The game is VERY hard, you'll see the "game over" screen very often, giving you the feeling you're just a puny human on the harsh wasteland. On the other hand, this makes the game kinda linear: while you can free roam on a kinda big map, you're so week that actually you can go in one direction only, and can do very limited things. My other issue is that the quest log is almost non-existent: it makes very limited notes, and often not even making a note of a quest/mission, until you actually do the first step of the given quest, so you either remember what you need to get/do at which place, or you make notes. Nevertheless, it's a superb game even in 2024!
Fallout 4 is a washed-out Fallout game. It missing the RPG-elements, missing the (skill based) dialogues, missing the postapocalyptic atmoshpere. Has a LOTS of junk laying around, which makes it feel like a looter shooter, without an actually good gunplay. Has totally unnecessary parts, like settlement building and overcomplicated crafting. Still has LOTS of bugs, even after unofficial patch. Also, the loading times are INSANE, sometimes I need to wait for several minutes to load the next location. The only good things for me are the prologue part (I must admit, it's AWESOME), and the funny/interesting situatiations/moments/quests. This is definetaly the worst Fallout game (I've not played F76, but my guess it's even worse), and a mid game overall. I'd recommend to play the classic Fallout games (with the unofficial patch they're working on modern hardware just fine) and F3 and NV instead.
This game has potential, has lots of really good and quite unique features, but there are quite some irritating minor issues which at the end of the day, turns this otherwise awesome FPS-RPG into a frustrating experience. I ended up rage quitting, which I don't really do often. Also, mods seems to be not working anymore?
The game very closely sticks to the original, 1994 game, so much, that it's essentially a remaster instead a remake, with a few QoL updates here and there. Even the Unreal engine is using somewhat pixelated textures to have the original aestetics. Having said that, you might as well just play the original game, with it's clunky combat, tedious inventory management, awful level design, and whatnot. They've kept almost everything from the original game, which is good if you want an almost perfect recreation of the 30 years old game, but bad if you want to play a decent game today. I was waiting for this, but it's a big disappointment.
First of all, I've played this game 30 years ago, and I've loved it! It was probably my first game I've ever finished. Now, the game totally holds up still today. The controls are a bit clunky and needs some time to get used to, but I remember how "challanging" was to use the shield playing on a keyboard - today, using a controller, it's much better. You can either play using the original sounds and graphics, or choose remastered sounds and some visual filters (CRT emulation, antialiasing, etc.). You can turn these on/off one by one, so you can personalize the game to your taste. There is also a "rewind" feature, which enables you to rewind the game if you e.g. abruptly died (which can happen quite often), without the need to restart from the last checkpoint/save point. Saves you a lot of time/frustration! The only negative thing I've come across is that it seems if there were some slowdowns here and there, but I'm not really sure, it's so minor. But other than this, this is a great port and a great game.
I had no idea what this game is, just installed it because today is the last day of June xD (and I had it for free) Well... it starts of as a cute, charming game (although with somehow creepy graphics with those eyeholes lol), but it quickly becomes boring and uninteresting. This is a "walking simulator", I guess, which I don't have problems with - if it's done right. But it's not, or at least this story and the characters (mainly, the protagonist) didn't resonate me well. After the first 30 mins I gave up.
I don't really like rougelikes, but I gave it a try, nonetheless. I like the base idea, where you can't control the hero directly, only the sorrundings, the graphics is nice, too. But I don't really see where is the challange, because you start every "loop" with no equipments/the same basic stats anyway, so the only thing you really lose when you die is 70% of your loot, meaning you just extend your grinding/playtime a bit. Yeah, you can unlock more casts and build some buildings in the camp which gives you interesting upgrades, but it doesn't changes the basic concept of endless grinding with nothing to loose, really.
...but you need to get there. The UI and the whole user experience is just awful. You need to google how to finish the first tutorial, because you can simply stuck, or because important information is downright missing from the tutorial text. Also, the UI is very unintuitive, ie. you might think that some options should be found at one location, yet it can be found in a totally different location. Otherwise, the graphics, the sound, etc. looks nice, and the gameplay is probably good too AFTER you've learned how to get around, but the beginning is way too rough.
This game is really not what I thought it would be. I thought it's gonna be some (c)RPG in a cyberpunk setting, but actually it's the Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment game. Which I love, but that was not what I've expected. Also, it feels really dumb that the gameplay is essentially you are running in circles in a pretty small map and asking the newly unlocked dialogue options of the 5 NPCs (and some new NPCs, which just appeared out of nowhere). (At least for the first case.) Also, the "convincing" mechanism is... interesting, but in a bad way. I'm just like 3 hours in, but I hope it's gonna be more than this.
It looks nice, I like this "talking-to-yourself" kind of narration, and I'm not totally against that this game is more like a novel than anything else (with a dice check in almost every situation and dialogue). My problem is that I'm 3 hours into the game and I've didn't really progressed, at all. I'm still a junkie with no police badge or gun or shoes, and as I miss some specific skills, I'm not even able to check the dead body. At the moment, I should wait almost 2 hours to get some knowledge into my head, and it's like 2 real time hours, as I don't have the option to pass time at this point. I don't really get the hype for this game, I'd better get some of my old "Choose your own fantasy" type of books, because the two are essentially the same.
