Fallout 4 - Reviews thread

-MD- said:
Was pretty sure some shit was going down after that thread yesterday, pleasantly surprised with this.
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It's kind of entirely expected. Bethesda's games aren't really something you can properly assess within just a week or so. Once the honeymoon period is over and you actually start to get more deeply familiarized with the game, unraveling its systems and getting a better overall impression of the content, you'll start finding some serious faults that'll put a damper on how much substance you really expected to find beneath the shiny surface.
 
On top of this, Xbox One is unique in its suffering of a stuttering issue, halting the game experience for up to a second during play. It's a glaring hitch downward, and matching runs to the gates of Diamond City shows Xbox One dropping to a record 0fps (zero) while PS4 turns the same corner at 28fps. Each has their blips, but having tested two separate Xbox One and PS4 consoles, the results are always the same across the world at large; we get sizeable stutters on Microsoft's console that aren't present on PS4.
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More troubling still, I've suffered an appalling frame rate that plummets to what appear to be single figures during moments of intense action, and lengthy pauses while the game hangs and decides if it wants to continue or not. I've only suffered one fatal crash in over 50 hours of play, but that's not really a record worth celebrating. Experience tells me that with any Bethesda RPG, such issues tend to get worse over time, as your save file balloons, rather than better.
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.....I guess these problems are still considered playable enough to get suburb scores.
 
Jebusman said:
Why did anyone expect this to score any less than a 9/10 from major outlets? At all?

How many times have we been through this with every game in existance.

It doesn't matter how many flaws or what flaws you find, or complaints about regression in systems, buggy performance, etc, the hype train consumes all and 9/10s will be thrown about.

Then in 6-12 months from now we'll start nitpicking the shit out of the game and people will start questioning "Wait why did we think this game was amazing? It's still good but this is nowhere near perfect".

Again, and again, and again.

I'll play Fallout 4, but man, anyone expecting this game to get any less than 90s was in some dream world.
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Idk wby people are even salty that the game is reviewing well when they know nothing about it and likely haven't played it.
 
Fantastapotamus said:
Gamespot talking about "excellent storytelling".....I think I will wait for some GAF impressions here.
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This is Bethesda we are talking about. Sometimes you have to wonder about these reviews, but by the time the discussion is relevant, it is really too late to bring up any issues.
 
fidelio_forte said:
I hadn't seen ACG until his superb AC: Syndicate review, but he's been immediately become one of my favourite reviewers. I'm watching his Tomb Raider review at the moment, and it's fantastic. Off to watch FO4 next!

Also, Jim's site has crashed. I wanted to read that 9.5 for myself!
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I only read the last paragraph before it started crashing because I didn't want to dive into the detail, but it went something like: "Fallout 4 might be something special. Scratch that, it's down right S.P.E.C.I.A.L."
 
iNvid02 said:
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I can't speak for everyone, but I always knew the game was going to review well, regardless of how poorly it runs or whatever technical hitches there might be. Critics always give Bethesda a free pass in that respect. Skyrim on the PS3 is flat out fucking broken, but somehow it still managed to accrue a score of 92 on Metacritic.

The true backlash will begin when the masses get their hands on it for themselves.
 
Welp, looks like I'm buying it. Anybody know if the PC retail copy is Steam? I want to use my GCU at Best Buy.
 
Our review on International Business Times UK (not the US site that broke embargo) from freelancer Ian Dransfield

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fallout-4-...c-rpg-feels-like-step-wrong-direction-1527810

Fallout 4 is a good game, no doubt, but it's hard not to feel let down after six months of solid hype, and high expectations on the side of the players. It hasn't learned any lessons from predecessor New Vegas, and aside from smaller tweaks and decent gunplay, there's very little to the core game that wasn't in Fallout 3. Building your settlements is fun and the main campaign missions (after a time) are engaging and entertaining. However, for a near-20-year-old series to take two huge steps forward in 2008 and 2010, only to hardly make any progress in 2015, is galling. Go in with that in mind and you'll have a lot of fun. Expect a nuclear revolution and you'll be left wanting.

3.5 / 5
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Jim's site is down... wow.

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I'm actually really happy this is happening. I never wanted to say anything in the other threads due to fear as an adult man that my opinions would be wrong somehow
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but I was really anxious to see this game get the scores I knew it was going to get, in spite of possible/likely technical issues.

Gaffers, like most gamers, are too protected in their own bubbles.

We're talking about a Bethesda game here folks... it's going to sell gangbusters and garnish the highest praise... it was never not going to be the case.

Can't wait to explore the wastes again in less than 16 hours.
 
I honestly don't give a shit about the score. I just want honesty when it comes to the performance. Give it a ten, i don't give a shit.
 
7DollarHagane said:
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Idk wby people are even salty that the game is reviewing well when they know nothing about it and likely haven't played it.
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What kind of a shitty response is this? Why would I be salty? I played through Fallout 3, NV, Oblivion and Skyrim. They were all buggy technical messes and I've had to full restart at least once or twice in each of those games because of how fucking jank the engine was. If it wasn't for the work of the modders it would've been fucking unplayable.

I had zero expectations that any major outlet would even touch on issues like those because that's not what people want to hear, and why people thought they would give anything less than 9/10 or actually start giving a fuck about performance and bugs was a pipe dream.
 
CaptainAhab said:
I notice you left out that destructoid review.
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pls im trying to build a narrative here

Acquiescence said:
I can't speak for everyone, but I always knew the game was going to review well, regardless of how poorly it runs or whatever technical hitches there might be. Critics always give Bethesda a free pass in that respect. Skyrim on the PS3 is flat out fucking broken, but somehow it still managed to accrue a score of 92 on Metacritic.

The true backlash will begin when the masses get their hands on it for themselves.
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ayup, just visited the DF thread and its basically a confirmation of those comparison clips earlier, sounds like a lousy experience technically on consoles.
 
Tubie said:
Were people here really expecting low reviews for this? Seems that way from reading the first few posts in this thread.

I wasn't expecting low reviews but almost universal 9+ is amazing, can't way till midnight to play!
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People got stuck in the negative, toxic, graphic whore circle jerk and started believing their own BS despite not having played the game.
 
gossi said:
This is gonna be the first properly high scoring Metacritic game of this generation. FINALLY.
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There have been quite a few actually:

Super Mario 3D World - 93
Metal Gear Solid V - 93
The Witcher 3 - 92
Super Smash Bros for Wii U - 92
Bloodborne - 92
Bayonetta 2 - 91
 
im waiting for PC GAF to get their hands on this one.

great scores so far but MGS V got those as well and I was not a big fan...
 
At this point, you're probably aware of Bethesda's history with shipping buggy open-world games by now. If you were hoping that somehow a generational leap would magically buck that trend, prepare to be disappointed. Nearly every classic glitch is accounted for, including occasional save data issues, repeated dialogue, frameskipping, severe frame-rate drops, pop-in, falling through the floor, and so on.
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And does Destructoid think that gamers today even care about this? It's actually even better now, so your youtube channel can go viral with gltiches and bugs!!11!!1
 
Just curious as I don't follow websites that post reviews and such but is Destructoid generally one that scores lower than most other outlets?
 
First two reviews I checked, Jim's and Polygon's don't even mention the dialogue system. If I didn't know any better, I'd say game journalists have different priorities than I do!
 
I did this over on RPG Site - spent 70+ hours total with the game, 60+ of those on my main save:
http://www.rpgsite.net/review/4601-fallout-4-review

There's also some video - a 1 hour extended look with commentary, plus three shorter gameplay videos showing off third person, settlement building, and some general first person combat:
http://www.rpgsite.net/feature/4602-here-s-an-hour-of-us-tooling-around-in-fallout-4-s-wasteland
http://www.rpgsite.net/feature/4604...ttlement-building-3rd-person-lockpicking-more
 
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