I recently replayed it and I ignored the Minute Men entirely lol so that annoying bullshit never even starts up. If you don’t join them it isn’t a problem
I recently discovered a mod that only allows Preston to give out one Minuteman quest at a time and makes it such that, for the most part, you have to actually ask him to receive another quest. It also makes it such that you have to actually tune your radio to Radio Freedom for it to give you a quest. It's really made a difference for me since it allows me to control the pacing much more effectively. I no longer feel like I have to avoid Preston and my game experience is immeasurably improved by just this little adjustment. Bethesda really messed things up by programming Preston to throw out those quests every time the player was anywhere near to him. It would still be even nicer if one could reject a settlement acquisition quest outright so that I could group my settlements in particular areas of the map (so that I don't have to run very far to defend against settlement attacks) - but maybe there is another mod for that and I just haven't found it yet in the Xbox list.
32:50 65535 is the maximum level because that is the max value a 16-bit integer can hold, which is what they must be using as the variable type for levels in the game. (which you did a great job of illustrating that the data overflows, which leads to the crash)
Any two of Starfield’s faction storylines are as big (and better written/paced) than FO4’s entire main plot. It’s a fundamentally different game; not worse, different.
Play it with grindterra mods, royal galaxy and no more duplicates, in extreme you will care it makes it pretty close to older proper dungeon hunting role play. These are tiny downloads that transform the game in a major way...animation is still bad so you have to deal with that.
The biggest sin of the Minutemen which makes them unacceptable as a faction is that they are boring af. I'm not even talking about them being moral paragons. They just have boring quests, boring characters except that one older lady, and are ultimately overshadowed by the Institute, BoS and Railroad which have their own problems but at least they have some flavor.
One of my favorite main stories in gaming is a full conversion mod for Skyrim. Enderal features a fantastic story and some side quests that I will never forget. It's still insane that it's free, and while I'll never be entirely comfortable with paying for every mod for a game, I would understand paying for full conversion mods. Enderal took me 90 hours to finish, which is double the game length of most games. Enderal features some excellent VA (and some bad VA) and has some cutscenes that are better than anything in Skyrim
Oh, man, hearing you talk about this game's story has given me flashbacks on how much I hated it when I first played it. And it's not that it's all terrible, it's that is frustrating how better it could have been and the amount of stuff that goes nowhere and/or is forced upon you without having no control to the end result, beggining with the character choice. It doesn't matter if you choose to play as the war veteran Nate or the seasoned lawyer Norah, both play the exact same way. That's a huge missed opportunity. If you're forcing me to have a backstory, make that backstory count. Have Norah be better at talking and worse at fighting and viceversa. Make Nate's combat skill count for stuff and Norah's intelligence play out in some situations. Give me a reason to choose who I play as beyond cosmetic options. But no. Of course not. Because this game is too afraid of not pleasing every player.
It seems that every faction is the worst, except for all the other ones. Reminds me of Tyranny but in that game you can just say "scr** all of you" and complete the game on your own. But that was a cRPG, not an openworld sandbox FPS survival crafting basebuilding RPG
I have an unfortunate issue, that forces me to disable Survival mode when I get to level 50+, where the higher level I get the more likely it is for my game to freeze. The issue is limited specifically to Survival mode, and it really starts to get exponentially bad the higher level I get. To the point where VATS and transition loading screens are a gamble.
For me this was the game where bethesda began dying. They watered the rpg elements, story, formula, etc. down to the point where is is just so……. meh….. As wide as a lake, as deep as a puddle
When it comes to the Evolution of V.A.T.S. : in F76 it became pretty much an aimbot. I don't know if they changed it by now, but last time i played (roughly half a year ago) it still was this way: When you activate the System it autosnaps to the target nearest to your crosshair and with the right perks let's you autosnap to specific bodyparts (like the head or Fusion core) without hindering your movement. Only Downside is that the Hitchance is Statbased (but you can push those so high it doesn't rly matter) and that each shot costs AP which, with the right Gear and Perksetup becomes a nonissue too. Once you set your perks up and got the right gear, you can just hold activate vats, hold down the mousebutton and watch your crosshair snap around until everything is dead or you ran out of ammo.
Survival mode was fantastic, that's the first and only way I have played Fallout 4. Power armor was so so vital, especially in the early/mid game, and managing power cores became a necessity. No fast travel was obviously tough early, but when I joined up with the Brotherhood of Steel and they offered me the Vertibird Flares, which work like a real-time/in-game fast travel, that was so impactful. I absolutely recommend that everyone plays Fallout 4 on Survival - I'm positive that I would not have have enjoyed it as much if I didn't do that.
The main story of this game is basically you lost your son in a post apocalyptic disneyland but you get distracted with all the attractions and rides that you care more about having fun than finding your missing child.
What I like to do when I play Fallout 4, just lean all the way into the reworked power armor and roleplay as a Nate who's done playing nice. Makes it a bit easier to justify sticking with the Brotherhood and I think power armor/melee/heavy weapons is actually pretty fun in this.
reading many mods descriptions and hearing about data miners discoveries made me question why did they removed so much content (some even post launch) and made me afraid for future bethesda games currently i can't imagine playing fallout 4 without mods that either fix or improve or add completely new mechanics (getting close to 5k hours)
When Fallout 4 first released I was a little disappointed because my expectations were high. Still gave it about an 8/10 Replayed it 2 years later on Survival difficulty and with all the DLCs abd it became an all-timer for me. Even if I liked the setting/tone of 3 and NV mkre, Fallout 4 was just such a fun game
The most ridiculous plot hole in the whole game is that Kellog has some "immortality tech" that keeps him the same age forever. If they have that ability, why doesn't Father also use it? It's mind boggling that they didn't make the Kellog you encounter during the main quest into a synth. They can clearly copy the memories of real people into synths yet they just made him immortal in some vague way. I'm still mad it about it a decade later.
I think the biggest problem with Fallout 4, obviously the story, is it felt like they wrote the entire story for Fallout 4 before developing the game. Then tried to develop the game around that story, and give the player illusion of choice. However, the illusion of choice is blatantly obvious after playing and you didn't have a choice. While with a game like Fallout: New Vegas, it felt like they started with the factions, wrote the entire story with each faction, and then mixed things here or there. So while there is still some illusion of choice it's less obvious.
Many hours in all the BGS Fallouts and what I loved about FO4 was the map. The only real wide open downtown, many unmarked locations, and just a cool sand box. I loved the feel of the FO3 map though. Also, there are so many wicked battles with buildings and areas loaded with stacks of hard enemies. I enjoyed several complete survival runs as well and did it without power armor. All the walking got old though even with vertibirds.
Funny to see a new FO4 review. I got back into it a week ago. I have a love hate relationship with the game. It is fun to explore the world, I love the settlement building (with mods)...but the actual rpg stuff feels so weak.
One of this games where I entertain the idea of return but I know I need to suffer through horrible beginning. It really doesn't encourage repetition for me (unlike New Vegas
Fallout 4 isn't even a real RPG though. The game isn't designed to allow for any real roleplaying. The closest it gets to being an RPG is letting you pick your stats and perks when you level up, which isn't even really what makes something an RPG.
Aside from the issues that had been identified, my main qualm is how inconsistent some of the plot/storylines/quests are just because of either laziness or because of poor writing. I personally want to go with poor writing. I love the quest to turn Curie into a "human" synth, from a Mister Handy robot. But for some stupid reason, you can't do it for other robots, even worst, not even for robobrain bots. I'm sure there are some lame excuse for this, from either the writers or some lame reasons from the hardcore fans, but I really wished that I could have my Codsworth or Ada as a "human" synth. At least make it a simple optional questline, otherwise, it just feels so inconsistent. Even if it's a matter of not important enough to make it at launch, just do it over patches. I just want Codsworth to be the Alfred to my Batman.
I loved New Vegas. But bethesdas versions of the game, after that "what's over the next hill" experience wears off, tend to fall flat for me. I never get invested in their gameworld or care for their characters. Same happened with Skyrim, Bethesda games feel hollow to me, never making me care about anyone or anything
Fallout 4 is just a 3 way war between the BoS, Institute, and RR. The Minutemen don't give a shit and are just trying to protect the average joes. I can appreciate their mission, but unless you put in the work to gather supplies (guns, armor, building materials, etc) or use mods the MM cannot be a truly effective defense force. Sure a random settler may pick up a "better gun" from a raider or whoever attacks the settlement, but the actual MM troops will assault the Institute with pipe guns and laser muskets at player level 100+. There is a CC pack called Gunners vs Minutemen that really does remedy this problem, but only for that particular group of friendly NPCs. The fighting is scaled to your level so when you show up you could get your bog standard Minutemen troops with pipe guns and little to no armor, or you can rock up to troops wearing sturdy/heavy armor with proper laser guns and even the occasional suit of PA. Makes Quincy even better for farming runs bc you can get combat armor and multiple suits of PA each time the place resets
I have the GOG version, installed the super textures, and .... never saw them. It's nowhere explained if you need to take any steps whatsoever. Found nothing in the options. 40 or so Gigabytes of texture crap downloaded. Nothing used.
Counterpoint, I got the gog version and wish I got the Steam version. Wabbajack lists are made for Steam, and DLC isn't transferable for Fallout VR. This is an outlier, though. I still prefer GOG for a lot of games.
I've played unmodded Fallout 4 on Survival many times, and the biggest issue for me is the difficulty curve. At low levels, everything is great, but as you level up, things become easier and boring.
When the next gen patch came out i started a new run on ps5, intending to 100% the game. Ive had so many quests break on me that i would have to do another run in order to get the achievements. Ive also had a glitch where Preston gave me 5 settlement quests in a row, and every time i complete one he just replaces it with another leading to a full quest log at all times. Its kinda disappointing how broken their games stay
I remember I once found an explosive minigun. The damage scales with both the explosive perks and the big guns one. It genuinely made the game boring because it utterly trivialised the combat, even Mirelurk Queens died in literal seconds.
Its by far the weakest fallout, may not buy the next one as a result. The attemp to turn it into a colony sim is not what i want from fallout. The repeat quest that make up the majority of the game are ass, and there are less than 20 actual sidequests with actual storylines. Main quest is actually kinda good. The new way they handle level progression is ass. Weapon selection is boring as hell.
Still one of my favorite sandboxes. Even after all this time, Fallout 4 and Skyrim still have something that other open worlds lack. I can't put it into words, but they feel more 'real', or just pull me in deeper than any other open worlds.
I agree with the lack of consequences, but I have to admit, I HATED Nuka World. I hated being forced to be a Raider. I thought it was a cool idea, if you wanted to do it, but I never did. I also never got into the settlement DLC with the contraptions and such. But I enjoyed Automaton, but wished they would not have reused Mechanist and Antagonizer from FO3. But the story was intersting. Far Harbor was Shivering Isles and DragonBorn levels of Bethesda Quality story telling.
@theobell2002 I seem to remember being forced become a Raider to get into Nuka World, then Forced to take over atleast one settlement as a Raider as part of the main storyline for it. But it has been around 8 years since I played any part of that DLC.
It's annoying that Bethesda could have fundamentally changed the entire story for the better with just one caveat. Make the player a synth. The twist being that Sean created a synth in the exact image of his father, implanted it with memories ect. and sent it out there to see if it would seek it's "child" on it's own accord and how. This would turn the story into a Blade Runner esque "what really makes us human" and would even explain some of the downright silly encounters like the infamous child in the fridge. All those things are planted by the institute to see how this advanced synth would react and if it would deviate from it's goal. Wouldn't have turned the game into a milestone in writing but would've made it way more engaging imo
Fallout 4 was always a sore spot for me. When it came out I was in that stage where you go from "I love videogames because videogames" to "I love videogames as an actual art and therefore feel a need to look at them critically". I was in a constant tug of war with myself trying to love it but just aware enough to recognize alot of it's huge flaws. It was like the crushing feeling as an adult realizing your favorite 99 percent sugar breakfast cereal is actually pretty crappy and bad for you.
I got so many "lost" hours in this game I gess only New Vegas has more playtime. Where you talk about numbers of synths infiltrating as a fixed number I think is not entirely correct, I did an experimennt in one of my playthrough a clear Dimond city at level 12-15 and found about 4 synth componets. Reloded and repeted it at level 50-55 and then found over 10 synths componets so I concluded that the longer you leave the Institute alone the more they infiltrate commonwealth. That said it might also just be random when you drop an none quest npc if he is synth or not.
Good on you but no way this is even enjoyable without mods, there are no playable animations for melee/unarmed there is so much missing in the perk system in order to play this for fun mods are a hard requirement.
Fo4 does need to get shoutouts for being great, in relation to some other similar games. The skill system.. and Encased/underrail/age of decedance, etc. Fo4 is doing it right. you can't quite brick your character at creation. yes, it heavily influences, but its not totally bricked. like you can do in Encased, age of dec, blackgeyser, and other game with similar systems. underrail does also let you "adjust" to a limited degree. Good. Encased does NOT give you more attributes, neither does blackgeyser. Bad. realizing my character was 1 int away from the "good ending" on my encased char, was not a nice feeling. I bricked them in character creation. Survival base/settlement builder. Conan, enshrouded, soulmask, kenshi, aska, valhiem.. to this DAY, fo4 still has one of the most robust and fleshed out settlement building of any game. even those specifically designed for it. seriously. conan and enshrouded just added "living" npcs. and fo4 is still better at it.
I really enjoyed this game while I was playing it .. exploring finding new locations looting and fighting through the dungeons.. but once I finished everything up, all the dlc and story content, I basically uninstalled it and never looked back lol it’s weird like that .. I loved it while I was in it but once it was all said n done I look back on it like meh
Imho the building and progression system is a lot better in Fallout 4 than in Fallout 3 and New vegas and thank god they got rid of all the useless skills. Is right to say that the main quest and the factions of the base game are really bad (but Brotherood of steel are really cool), but i also think that the main quest is bad in almost every Bethesda games (maybe only in Morrowind is a little better). Not the best RPG that i have played, but there are a lot of RPG that are much worse tha Fallout 4.
If I were to review this game, the score would be something like 5-6/10. Simply meh. Not bad, but also not good. I prefer actual rpg elements and good storytelling to the sandbox. But to be honest I still had better time with it than with Starfield.
Hi yes Fallout 4 I would say pretty much my a great game as was a bit of a modern classic I would say I like the gameplay more but the story is New Vegas is
Did I miss your comparisons to the other Fallouts in the review? I may have misinterpreted you early, too, but I thought you were going to discuss your thoughts on the whole series, and I didn't catch it in the review.
I wish Bethesda would quit being so damn lazy and fix the next gen version. I was having a blast putting dozens of hours into it again and I go to robco and it is completely bugged, couldn't leave, walls were see through, literally unplayable. Still think Fallout 4 is a king of an escapist rpg
Prepare to catch an insane amount of flak for your takes...what makes it worse is that you made this video when people are usually off work, but engagement creates ad credits so...I guess it's great? Reminds me of how the news works, intentional baiting or going after divisive topics with just the goal to gain money...not that this is what your intent is/was...just that it's crazy how similar the process is for a lot of even small creators.
F3/FNV/F4 all have inherently flawed cultish or even batshit crazy factions its very clear that they spent a lot of time and energy to make you actually not fully like any of them sort of like the Traits that give you a buff on one hand and a debuff on the other. I think it is deliberately confusing and off putting and create an odd "charm" where you seem to be the only person who is fully sane
I found base building boring as hell. The game was okay, I really liked the DLC's that came out, but overall even with mods I haven't played it in years. Probably won't again either.
Unfortunately when I bought a PS5 and transfered games fallout 4 dlc,s no longer work and I've tried everything so never did finish game ,the far harbor and nuka world are great Preston Garvey crappola sucks
I like pretty much everything about FO4 save the story. I am not a parent, I have no desire to have children of my own, I, while I am capable of being compassionate towards a parent losing their child and being isekai'd 212 years into the future, I'm incapable of true empathy and understanding for such a character, and therefore unable to truly put myself in the characters shoes. So shouting about Shawn every 27.3 seconds in every other conversation really pulls me out of the world and the character. A simple "Pragmatist"speech option everytime Shawn came up that let you focus on the whole "Isekai'd 212 years into the future" and deflect the whole "missing child" thing would have done wonders for immersion and role-play for myself and others lile me. You're 212 years from home, in a strange world, with unknown dangers, few friends, and few resources, any sane person would worry about their own survival and establish themselves before sprinting off into a radioactive wasteland unprepared to chase after a child they don't know the location of, and that's probably not still alive seeing as *gestures broadly at irradiated hellscape*
Nee Vegas is also afraid to let you commit to a faction until a certain point, I don't know why people don't talk about this. Once you reach the Lucky 38, all factions forgive everything you ever did to them so the player can change their mind if they wanted.
I really don't understand the hate Fallout 4 gets. The overarching story imho is better than "looking for a water chip " or even NV and the revenge story of another chip being lost among cosplayers of cowboys and greco Romans. Fallout 4 main story was more personal , left you with questions of "are you actually a synth" , etc. Plus it was more dense than previous games in terms of exploration environments and the gunplay was leagues better than previous games. Im not a fan of base building in most games but I was really into this one. Found that island and built my base and tony stark iron man suits like shrine for all my power armors. Out of the Bethesda owned Fallout games , NV had the best dlc , Fallout 3 has the nostalgia going for it and 4 was a better overall package imho .
Flashbacks of Preston Garvey's "Another settlement needs your help." 😂
I recently replayed it and I ignored the Minute Men entirely lol so that annoying bullshit never even starts up. If you don’t join them it isn’t a problem
I recently discovered a mod that only allows Preston to give out one Minuteman quest at a time and makes it such that, for the most part, you have to actually ask him to receive another quest. It also makes it such that you have to actually tune your radio to Radio Freedom for it to give you a quest. It's really made a difference for me since it allows me to control the pacing much more effectively. I no longer feel like I have to avoid Preston and my game experience is immeasurably improved by just this little adjustment. Bethesda really messed things up by programming Preston to throw out those quests every time the player was anywhere near to him.
It would still be even nicer if one could reject a settlement acquisition quest outright so that I could group my settlements in particular areas of the map (so that I don't have to run very far to defend against settlement attacks) - but maybe there is another mod for that and I just haven't found it yet in the Xbox list.
32:50 65535 is the maximum level because that is the max value a 16-bit integer can hold, which is what they must be using as the variable type for levels in the game. (which you did a great job of illustrating that the data overflows, which leads to the crash)
2:10 "your custom character appears in a cutscene" moment
One of my favorite games ever! Sunk over 1,000 hours with the settlement system!
Liked FNV story more, but I really liked what Fo4 had to offer! 👍
I love the settlement system too. I was soo excited about Starfeild bcs of this, such disappointment but not suprise really.
FO4: Huh, what's that over there? I'm gonna check it out.
Starfield: What's that over there? Oh right... I don’t care.
Any two of Starfield’s faction storylines are as big (and better written/paced) than FO4’s entire main plot.
It’s a fundamentally different game; not worse, different.
Starfield quests are easily better than Fallouts
Play it with grindterra mods, royal galaxy and no more duplicates, in extreme you will care it makes it pretty close to older proper dungeon hunting role play. These are tiny downloads that transform the game in a major way...animation is still bad so you have to deal with that.
Definitely agree about Far Harbor. If the whole game was that good, well. A girl can dream, can't she?
The biggest sin of the Minutemen which makes them unacceptable as a faction is that they are boring af. I'm not even talking about them being moral paragons. They just have boring quests, boring characters except that one older lady, and are ultimately overshadowed by the Institute, BoS and Railroad which have their own problems but at least they have some flavor.
I quit half way through for just that reason. It got so boring and uninteresting. I didn't care about any faction.
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Exactly how I'm viewing it currently 😂
I really loved this game and i CANT WAIT for fallout 5 to come out in 2036 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Enjoy this game, the next fallout comes out in 10 years.
One of my favorite main stories in gaming is a full conversion mod for Skyrim. Enderal features a fantastic story and some side quests that I will never forget. It's still insane that it's free, and while I'll never be entirely comfortable with paying for every mod for a game, I would understand paying for full conversion mods. Enderal took me 90 hours to finish, which is double the game length of most games. Enderal features some excellent VA (and some bad VA) and has some cutscenes that are better than anything in Skyrim
Does Enderal work with The Anniversary Edition?
@@eternaldarkness3139 Yes
@ I'm sure it would. Enderal isn't like most mods. You install it like a game on steam instead of going through the workshop.
Oh, man, hearing you talk about this game's story has given me flashbacks on how much I hated it when I first played it. And it's not that it's all terrible, it's that is frustrating how better it could have been and the amount of stuff that goes nowhere and/or is forced upon you without having no control to the end result, beggining with the character choice. It doesn't matter if you choose to play as the war veteran Nate or the seasoned lawyer Norah, both play the exact same way. That's a huge missed opportunity. If you're forcing me to have a backstory, make that backstory count. Have Norah be better at talking and worse at fighting and viceversa. Make Nate's combat skill count for stuff and Norah's intelligence play out in some situations. Give me a reason to choose who I play as beyond cosmetic options.
But no. Of course not. Because this game is too afraid of not pleasing every player.
It seems that every faction is the worst, except for all the other ones. Reminds me of Tyranny but in that game you can just say "scr** all of you" and complete the game on your own. But that was a cRPG, not an openworld sandbox FPS survival crafting basebuilding RPG
I have an unfortunate issue, that forces me to disable Survival mode when I get to level 50+, where the higher level I get the more likely it is for my game to freeze. The issue is limited specifically to Survival mode, and it really starts to get exponentially bad the higher level I get. To the point where VATS and transition loading screens are a gamble.
So many people have had crashing issues with the game. If you're on PC there's a good number of performance mods to help.
Now that’s a Christmas gift !!! Thanks Mortem !!!
For me this was the game where bethesda began dying.
They watered the rpg elements, story, formula, etc. down to the point where is is just so……. meh…..
As wide as a lake, as deep as a puddle
When it comes to the Evolution of V.A.T.S. : in F76 it became pretty much an aimbot.
I don't know if they changed it by now, but last time i played (roughly half a year ago) it still was this way:
When you activate the System it autosnaps to the target nearest to your crosshair and with the right perks let's you autosnap to specific bodyparts (like the head or Fusion core) without hindering your movement.
Only Downside is that the Hitchance is Statbased (but you can push those so high it doesn't rly matter) and that each shot costs AP which, with the right Gear and Perksetup becomes a nonissue too.
Once you set your perks up and got the right gear, you can just hold activate vats, hold down the mousebutton and watch your crosshair snap around until everything is dead or you ran out of ammo.
Survival mode was fantastic, that's the first and only way I have played Fallout 4. Power armor was so so vital, especially in the early/mid game, and managing power cores became a necessity. No fast travel was obviously tough early, but when I joined up with the Brotherhood of Steel and they offered me the Vertibird Flares, which work like a real-time/in-game fast travel, that was so impactful. I absolutely recommend that everyone plays Fallout 4 on Survival - I'm positive that I would not have have enjoyed it as much if I didn't do that.
Great video my man. Didn’t know you were a fellow army guy.
The main story of this game is basically you lost your son in a post apocalyptic disneyland but you get distracted with all the attractions and rides that you care more about having fun than finding your missing child.
What I like to do when I play Fallout 4, just lean all the way into the reworked power armor and roleplay as a Nate who's done playing nice. Makes it a bit easier to justify sticking with the Brotherhood and I think power armor/melee/heavy weapons is actually pretty fun in this.
I like that. A Nate who is done playing nice is a great way to put that.
reading many mods descriptions and hearing about data miners discoveries made me question why did they removed so much content (some even post launch) and made me afraid for future bethesda games
currently i can't imagine playing fallout 4 without mods that either fix or improve or add completely new mechanics (getting close to 5k hours)
An FPS that tried to be an RPG where decisions don't matter
When Fallout 4 first released I was a little disappointed because my expectations were high. Still gave it about an 8/10
Replayed it 2 years later on Survival difficulty and with all the DLCs abd it became an all-timer for me. Even if I liked the setting/tone of 3 and NV mkre, Fallout 4 was just such a fun game
I 100% fallout 4 on survival mode. It was extremely fun!
The big "m" helmet is a nice touch
Bruh.. I literally downloaded this last night while I was sleeping to replay. The timing was insane.
The most ridiculous plot hole in the whole game is that Kellog has some "immortality tech" that keeps him the same age forever. If they have that ability, why doesn't Father also use it? It's mind boggling that they didn't make the Kellog you encounter during the main quest into a synth. They can clearly copy the memories of real people into synths yet they just made him immortal in some vague way. I'm still mad it about it a decade later.
Sunk so many hours in this game. Cant wait to see your full thoughts on this👌🏼definitely had its highs and lows for sure
in the end i just became the raider big boss and burned down settlements
I think the biggest problem with Fallout 4, obviously the story, is it felt like they wrote the entire story for Fallout 4 before developing the game. Then tried to develop the game around that story, and give the player illusion of choice. However, the illusion of choice is blatantly obvious after playing and you didn't have a choice. While with a game like Fallout: New Vegas, it felt like they started with the factions, wrote the entire story with each faction, and then mixed things here or there. So while there is still some illusion of choice it's less obvious.
if you put 10 on a atribute and find a bubblehead you still get 1 pont and become 11
Many hours in all the BGS Fallouts and what I loved about FO4 was the map. The only real wide open downtown, many unmarked locations, and just a cool sand box. I loved the feel of the FO3 map though. Also, there are so many wicked battles with buildings and areas loaded with stacks of hard enemies. I enjoyed several complete survival runs as well and did it without power armor. All the walking got old though even with vertibirds.
I do another modded run of skyrim and FO4 every year. Love them so much, even now a decade later i still find new things.
I love fallout 4, the building system is my favorite part of this game
9:28 Mortismal created Benzema 💀
Funny to see a new FO4 review. I got back into it a week ago.
I have a love hate relationship with the game. It is fun to explore the world, I love the settlement building (with mods)...but the actual rpg stuff feels so weak.
One of this games where I entertain the idea of return but I know I need to suffer through horrible beginning. It really doesn't encourage repetition for me (unlike New Vegas
Hey Mort, that's great and all but while you were doing this review .."I've gotten word about another settlement that's being threatened by raiders."
Thats great mortismal but another settlement needs your help, ill mark it on your map
I had such a blast playing through survival mode. I hope bethesda makes a fallout game built around it.
Does survival make enemies less spongy
@@dangeroushandlesyes, enemies and the players alike
I'm doing a survival play through right now. The crashes are so painful.......
Truly just some tiny upgrades and it can become a grand sandbox experience. And if you add mods especially the randomizing ones, divine.
One of my favourite rpgs
Fallout 4 isn't even a real RPG though. The game isn't designed to allow for any real roleplaying. The closest it gets to being an RPG is letting you pick your stats and perks when you level up, which isn't even really what makes something an RPG.
@@asturias0267 You obviously haven't played Far Harbor
I mean, it's not a bad game but it certainly could not be defined as an "RPG".
Fallout is definitely one of the best series in gaming history despite it's faults.
Aside from the issues that had been identified, my main qualm is how inconsistent some of the plot/storylines/quests are just because of either laziness or because of poor writing. I personally want to go with poor writing.
I love the quest to turn Curie into a "human" synth, from a Mister Handy robot.
But for some stupid reason, you can't do it for other robots, even worst, not even for robobrain bots.
I'm sure there are some lame excuse for this, from either the writers or some lame reasons from the hardcore fans, but I really wished that I could have my Codsworth or Ada as a "human" synth.
At least make it a simple optional questline, otherwise, it just feels so inconsistent.
Even if it's a matter of not important enough to make it at launch, just do it over patches.
I just want Codsworth to be the Alfred to my Batman.
I loved New Vegas. But bethesdas versions of the game, after that "what's over the next hill" experience wears off, tend to fall flat for me.
I never get invested in their gameworld or care for their characters. Same happened with Skyrim, Bethesda games feel hollow to me, never making me care about anyone or anything
Fallout 4 is just a 3 way war between the BoS, Institute, and RR. The Minutemen don't give a shit and are just trying to protect the average joes. I can appreciate their mission, but unless you put in the work to gather supplies (guns, armor, building materials, etc) or use mods the MM cannot be a truly effective defense force.
Sure a random settler may pick up a "better gun" from a raider or whoever attacks the settlement, but the actual MM troops will assault the Institute with pipe guns and laser muskets at player level 100+. There is a CC pack called Gunners vs Minutemen that really does remedy this problem, but only for that particular group of friendly NPCs.
The fighting is scaled to your level so when you show up you could get your bog standard Minutemen troops with pipe guns and little to no armor, or you can rock up to troops wearing sturdy/heavy armor with proper laser guns and even the occasional suit of PA. Makes Quincy even better for farming runs bc you can get combat armor and multiple suits of PA each time the place resets
I know it’s not the same as it used to be but I do enjoy it for what it was
I tried to play this a few months ago and ran into like 5 different technical issues in the first hour before tapping out. Completely vanilla install.
Id love to see you do a modded partial play through
The story really gets in the way of this settlement building game lol
I have the GOG version, installed the super textures, and .... never saw them. It's nowhere explained if you need to take any steps whatsoever. Found nothing in the options. 40 or so Gigabytes of texture crap downloaded. Nothing used.
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Hell yeah
I have thousands of hours in Fallout 3, NV, and Skyrim. I always drop this game for some reason
If anyone still doesnt own this game i'd 100% recommend the GOG version over steam so you cnan skip the next gen update
Counterpoint, I got the gog version and wish I got the Steam version. Wabbajack lists are made for Steam, and DLC isn't transferable for Fallout VR.
This is an outlier, though. I still prefer GOG for a lot of games.
Good show sir
I've played unmodded Fallout 4 on Survival many times, and the biggest issue for me is the difficulty curve. At low levels, everything is great, but as you level up, things become easier and boring.
I was so disappointed with fallout 4 and went crazy when the initial reviews were so high now I know reviews are just advertising
When the next gen patch came out i started a new run on ps5, intending to 100% the game. Ive had so many quests break on me that i would have to do another run in order to get the achievements. Ive also had a glitch where Preston gave me 5 settlement quests in a row, and every time i complete one he just replaces it with another leading to a full quest log at all times. Its kinda disappointing how broken their games stay
I remember I once found an explosive minigun. The damage scales with both the explosive perks and the big guns one. It genuinely made the game boring because it utterly trivialised the combat, even Mirelurk Queens died in literal seconds.
You comment section. Did they fix the lag that came with the new update on console or is it still a mess?
Its by far the weakest fallout, may not buy the next one as a result. The attemp to turn it into a colony sim is not what i want from fallout. The repeat quest that make up the majority of the game are ass, and there are less than 20 actual sidequests with actual storylines. Main quest is actually kinda good. The new way they handle level progression is ass. Weapon selection is boring as hell.
Love this game.
I love the gameplay. Story is whatever but I've been playing this since release. Most other games just come across as boring in comparison.
Did mort somehow save ALL the settlements?
Still one of my favorite sandboxes. Even after all this time, Fallout 4 and Skyrim still have something that other open worlds lack. I can't put it into words, but they feel more 'real', or just pull me in deeper than any other open worlds.
You can throw vodka bottles at Maxson while he's giving his BS speech, best game ever.
I agree with the lack of consequences, but I have to admit, I HATED Nuka World. I hated being forced to be a Raider. I thought it was a cool idea, if you wanted to do it, but I never did. I also never got into the settlement DLC with the contraptions and such. But I enjoyed Automaton, but wished they would not have reused Mechanist and Antagonizer from FO3. But the story was intersting. Far Harbor was Shivering Isles and DragonBorn levels of Bethesda Quality story telling.
You are not forced to be a Raider. You can liberate Nuka World.
@theobell2002 I seem to remember being forced become a Raider to get into Nuka World, then Forced to take over atleast one settlement as a Raider as part of the main storyline for it.
But it has been around 8 years since I played any part of that DLC.
@@GeeksandGrub Nope. Just gotta speak to Mackenzie in the market.
as long as new gamers are born, there will be spoilers. doesnt matter how old the game is, spoilers are spoilers.
It's annoying that Bethesda could have fundamentally changed the entire story for the better with just one caveat. Make the player a synth. The twist being that Sean created a synth in the exact image of his father, implanted it with memories ect. and sent it out there to see if it would seek it's "child" on it's own accord and how. This would turn the story into a Blade Runner esque "what really makes us human" and would even explain some of the downright silly encounters like the infamous child in the fridge. All those things are planted by the institute to see how this advanced synth would react and if it would deviate from it's goal. Wouldn't have turned the game into a milestone in writing but would've made it way more engaging imo
Naw, that twist would be too obvious and make people like me (who strongly dislike synths) not want to ever replay it.
@@dano511 Kinda weird to hate synths when it's not really their fault that they exist..
Fallout 4 was always a sore spot for me. When it came out I was in that stage where you go from "I love videogames because videogames" to "I love videogames as an actual art and therefore feel a need to look at them critically". I was in a constant tug of war with myself trying to love it but just aware enough to recognize alot of it's huge flaws. It was like the crushing feeling as an adult realizing your favorite 99 percent sugar breakfast cereal is actually pretty crappy and bad for you.
I got so many "lost" hours in this game I gess only New Vegas has more playtime. Where you talk about numbers of synths infiltrating as a fixed number I think is not entirely correct, I did an experimennt in one of my playthrough a clear Dimond city at level 12-15 and found about 4 synth componets. Reloded and repeted it at level 50-55 and then found over 10 synths componets so I concluded that the longer you leave the Institute alone the more they infiltrate commonwealth. That said it might also just be random when you drop an none quest npc if he is synth or not.
Good on you but no way this is even enjoyable without mods, there are no playable animations for melee/unarmed there is so much missing in the perk system in order to play this for fun mods are a hard requirement.
For me, Fallout 4 is a candidate for a desert island game.
the addition of creation mods kinda annoyed me to the point that i never toughed the game again... was fun while it lasted thou
The highlight of this game for me is going heretic hunting with my brotherhood bros. Purge the mutant!
Fo4 does need to get shoutouts for being great, in relation to some other similar games. The skill system.. and Encased/underrail/age of decedance, etc. Fo4 is doing it right. you can't quite brick your character at creation. yes, it heavily influences, but its not totally bricked. like you can do in Encased, age of dec, blackgeyser, and other game with similar systems. underrail does also let you "adjust" to a limited degree. Good. Encased does NOT give you more attributes, neither does blackgeyser. Bad. realizing my character was 1 int away from the "good ending" on my encased char, was not a nice feeling. I bricked them in character creation.
Survival base/settlement builder. Conan, enshrouded, soulmask, kenshi, aska, valhiem.. to this DAY, fo4 still has one of the most robust and fleshed out settlement building of any game. even those specifically designed for it. seriously. conan and enshrouded just added "living" npcs. and fo4 is still better at it.
fallout 4 is the best game ever made so far
I'm one of the ones that had the next gen. update break the vanilla game.
I really enjoyed this game while I was playing it .. exploring finding new locations looting and fighting through the dungeons.. but once I finished everything up, all the dlc and story content, I basically uninstalled it and never looked back lol it’s weird like that .. I loved it while I was in it but once it was all said n done I look back on it like meh
Imho the building and progression system is a lot better in Fallout 4 than in Fallout 3 and New vegas and thank god they got rid of all the useless skills.
Is right to say that the main quest and the factions of the base game are really bad (but Brotherood of steel are really cool), but i also think that the main quest is bad in almost every Bethesda games (maybe only in Morrowind is a little better).
Not the best RPG that i have played, but there are a lot of RPG that are much worse tha Fallout 4.
If I were to review this game, the score would be something like 5-6/10. Simply meh. Not bad, but also not good. I prefer actual rpg elements and good storytelling to the sandbox. But to be honest I still had better time with it than with Starfield.
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Hi yes Fallout 4 I would say pretty much my a great game as was a bit of a modern classic I would say I like the gameplay more but the story is New Vegas is
Did I miss your comparisons to the other Fallouts in the review? I may have misinterpreted you early, too, but I thought you were going to discuss your thoughts on the whole series, and I didn't catch it in the review.
I wish Bethesda would quit being so damn lazy and fix the next gen version. I was having a blast putting dozens of hours into it again and I go to robco and it is completely bugged, couldn't leave, walls were see through, literally unplayable.
Still think Fallout 4 is a king of an escapist rpg
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Strange that it looks so washed out. Maybe stupid question, but do you have RGB set to full in Nvidia control panel?
I’m approaching 400h in FO4 and I have never advanced the main plot beyond rescuing Nick Valentine. It’s the Survival sandbox for me.
Prepare to catch an insane amount of flak for your takes...what makes it worse is that you made this video when people are usually off work, but engagement creates ad credits so...I guess it's great? Reminds me of how the news works, intentional baiting or going after divisive topics with just the goal to gain money...not that this is what your intent is/was...just that it's crazy how similar the process is for a lot of even small creators.
Gronk!
F3/FNV/F4 all have inherently flawed cultish or even batshit crazy factions
its very clear that they spent a lot of time and energy to make you actually not fully like any of them
sort of like the Traits that give you a buff on one hand and a debuff on the other.
I think it is deliberately confusing and off putting and create an odd "charm"
where you seem to be the only person who is fully sane
I found base building boring as hell. The game was okay, I really liked the DLC's that came out, but overall even with mods I haven't played it in years. Probably won't again either.
Unfortunately when I bought a PS5 and transfered games fallout 4 dlc,s no longer work and I've tried everything so never did finish game ,the far harbor and nuka world are great Preston Garvey crappola sucks
I like pretty much everything about FO4 save the story. I am not a parent, I have no desire to have children of my own, I, while I am capable of being compassionate towards a parent losing their child and being isekai'd 212 years into the future, I'm incapable of true empathy and understanding for such a character, and therefore unable to truly put myself in the characters shoes. So shouting about Shawn every 27.3 seconds in every other conversation really pulls me out of the world and the character.
A simple "Pragmatist"speech option everytime Shawn came up that let you focus on the whole "Isekai'd 212 years into the future" and deflect the whole "missing child" thing would have done wonders for immersion and role-play for myself and others lile me.
You're 212 years from home, in a strange world, with unknown dangers, few friends, and few resources, any sane person would worry about their own survival and establish themselves before sprinting off into a radioactive wasteland unprepared to chase after a child they don't know the location of, and that's probably not still alive seeing as *gestures broadly at irradiated hellscape*
The game the ruined my love of the fallout franchise.
Nee Vegas is also afraid to let you commit to a faction until a certain point, I don't know why people don't talk about this. Once you reach the Lucky 38, all factions forgive everything you ever did to them so the player can change their mind if they wanted.
Unusual for you to be this slow 100% a game.
Never got the chance to try this one honestly
I really don't understand the hate Fallout 4 gets. The overarching story imho is better than "looking for a water chip " or even NV and the revenge story of another chip being lost among cosplayers of cowboys and greco Romans. Fallout 4 main story was more personal , left you with questions of "are you actually a synth" , etc. Plus it was more dense than previous games in terms of exploration environments and the gunplay was leagues better than previous games. Im not a fan of base building in most games but I was really into this one. Found that island and built my base and tony stark iron man suits like shrine for all my power armors.
Out of the Bethesda owned Fallout games , NV had the best dlc , Fallout 3 has the nostalgia going for it and 4 was a better overall package imho .
Probably the best game mechanics as a fallout game.
Story is meh.