Fallout 4 - Reviews thread

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/09/fallout-4-review-pc/

52 hours in, would I go back for more? Yes, absolutely. I lived and breathed Fallout 4 for the vast majority of last week and the fact I was mostly having a damn good time meant I did it willingly. It’s glitchy, a little repetitive and over-familiar, and far too heavy on unconvincing combat, but the improved technology (or the budget) means it’s able to realise the dense, detailed, beautiful decay that Fallout 3 did not, and its dramatically better-presented and performed characters means it’s not shooting itself in the foot in the way Oblivion and Skyrim did. The personality gulf between Bethesda games and BioWare games feels a whole lot narrower now. I won’t for one second pretend that it’s what devotees of Fallout 1 and 2 want, but it does feel like the game Fallout 3 tried and, to my mind, failed to be.

Vibrant and characterful as well as immense, Fallout 4 is the giant leap forwards Bethesda’s RPGs sorely needed in terms of presentation, though the unrelenting focus on routine, lightweight combat sees it fall just short of triumph status.
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Cloyster said:
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!
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Who cares about dialogue when you can shoot stuff ?
 
Nameless said:
People got stuck in the negative, toxic, graphic whore circle jerk and started believing their own BS despite not having played the game.
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This.

Granted... in 3 weeks time we could all be coming back here and have a deja vue of MGS V... but still, anyone predicting this game wouldn't be heaping praise are knee-jerk prone.
 
Scrawnton said:
I love how GAF has an agenda for this game to fail and most will disregard the great scores this game is getting.
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Yeah, first a lot of people were making fun of other's positivity and talking about how it's going to be disappointing. Now, when it's reviewing well, a lot are instead giving excuses for it.
 
Yep, gameplay seems great and from the leaked storyline the storyline is shit. But... this is to be expected. Sad that they actually went with finding your family member... again.
 
Fairfax said:
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Maybe you should make a new one for all the excuses for the positive reviews.
 
lazygecko said:
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.
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I've played through most Bethesda games and the ones I enjoyed, I enjoyed the entire time. Fallout 3 and New Vegas were perfectly fine imo.
 
Crazy how Gaf thought this game wouldn't do well thanks to Bethesda's bugs and such.

It's been a blast reading the meltdown threads the past week.

These guys are kings of open world design. Fallout is not my cup of tea (so I kinda feel left out) but congrats to Bethesda and enjoy the game fellow gaffers!
 
I'm seeing reviews saying the writing is much improved, the choice/consequence is much improved, the combat is much improved, and the world design is much improved.

Frame rate issues are disappointing, but god damnit, I'm getting this game.
 
Great reviews.

For me a game can have glitches / bugs and still score 10 out of 10 fine. No game can be perfect - always room for improvement.

And a giant RPG like this? Will always score highest with me.
 
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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Just like Watch_Dogs and Assassins Creed Unity were drowing in those 9 and 10 reviews because of hype train. Or COD Ghosts or... You might have had point early last gen but this gen 9s and 10s have not been awarded like candy.
 
Not surprised by the results. Hopefully the writing and quests are strong because I don't have the patience for running around doing emergent shit anymore.
 
Easy to say when I'll be playing on my PC but at the end of the day, A great game is a great game despite any technical difficulties.

Well done Bethesda.

Hope everyone enjoys and doesn't get hung up on any issues.
 
Man, never hope on mainstream reviewers being able to get it right. Looking forward to the clear-headed retrospectives a month or two from now which wont matter then
 
Lmaooo I remember people saying yesterday the review thread will be a bloodbath. This game was never not going to review well if it was fun. Sure it has issues but in a 40+ hour game if it doesn't hinder your enjoyment the general public doesn't care at large
 
Lakitu said:
It's one review...

The technical issues are concerning though.
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I'm more forgiving of technical issues than story/mechanic problems. There is always a hope that technical issues can be sorted out.

Look at the DF analysis of the XBO stuttering when loading new guns and the PS4 issues with transparency/interiors. Both should be fixed in upcoming patches you would hope.

If the gameplay sucks there isn't much you can do.
 
Glitchfest huh with major fps issues? Yeah, I'll pass.

Bethesda needs to clean up their act. With open-world games like Witcher 3 out there raising the bar, there is no excuse for Bethesda to deliver F4 looking like and playing like poo.
 
Miracle said:
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Hahaha I love fallout and I expected 85 on MC, I know, I know, Mc is not the best way to judge a game but 90+?
OMG I am so hype, between this, the witcher 3, divinity with VA, and bloodborne... 2015 became one of the best gaming years for an rpg fan
 
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