You really nailed it about the the issue around Quincy. I was excited to discover the Quincy location because of the story told by Garvey and the survivors in Concord ( I felt their pain😢). I spent hours scouting and preparing my attack on the Gunners at Quincy because I wanted to make a huge victory for Garvey and the minutemen. But, after the battle there was nothing, no payoff whatsoever, and not even a single word from Jun and Marcy. And its not even a settlement location, gunners are just respawned in. Disappointing to say the least.
What I find even more puzzling is the fact that if you have Preston with you he doesn't really react to you killing baker, while piper dance nick all will have a one liner about how baker had it comming
I usually put on my best suit of Power Armor on Sole Survivor and wipe out the Quincy "Gunners" Solo. Remember, the Gunners took Quincy with the help of a top level Minute Man, Clint. And the Raiders at Libertalia aren't really raiders, they're Minute Men led by Wire, who deserted at the Quincy Massacre and fled to Libertalia.
@L C I also stick mainly within the minuteman faction. My home base and nerve center is The Castle. It is my most well defended and most developed settlement. I keep all companions there, except for Deacon, who keeps returning to the Railroad. The shops mechanic and merchants have made me truly the most wealthy person in the commonwealth and from that perspective I enjoy the Minutemen faction very much, I have no shortage of caps $$$ But yes, I totally agree the NPC's are too 2-dimensional and it doesn't take long to hear all of their dialog and they become like backdrops on the stage. I would like a mechanic that forces raiders and gunners to surrender and the ability to convert them into minutemen and build ranks. Maybe in the next generation of AI.
Also, in regards to the Institute. It's clear they wanted to copy NV and make the Institute like the Legion, in the sense of "we're obviously the bad guys, but we have a reason for being bad". But while the Legion got a copy of Hegel to base their ideology off of, the Institute got some vintage comics starring Doctor Doom.
Institute should never have been an irredeemable bad faction. Destroying them destroys far too much human progress and it's ridiculous you can't actually make any decisions despite being the DIRECTOR.
Legion: We do this because in order to combat the brutal wasteland, we have to be just as if not more brutal to survive. Look at the ncr, it’s attempts of freedom and philanthropy have led it to ruin and crawling with corruption, infighting and violence, it’s not built to stand, it will fall under its own weight and incompetence. Institute: Lol idk (we really don’t know)
This is one thing game creators don’t seem to understand yet: nuanced choice. We should have been able to fix the Institute and truly lead the Commonwealth into a new golden age as its director, not be forced into these ridiculous binary choices that are always extreme.
Also, have you ever noticed how many places in Fallout 4 seem designed as shooting galleries, rather than places where people live? They're oddly, awkwardly even, designed from the perspective of living in them - the design only makes sense when approached from the perspective of an FPS game. Meanwhile, New Vegas has locations that feel like people actually... live there.
@@dunbass7149 The buildings look like they were designed to have people living in them, even if they ended up having to cut said people for technical reasons.
@@dunbass7149 I wasn't talking about the settlements, though. I was talking about the "dungeons". NV's "dungeons" look like buildings that had a purpose before being taken over by raiders or w/e. 4's dungeons look like they were designed from the ground up as shooting galleries, with no consideration for their pre-war use or even the people currently living in them.
One thing that infuriated me was fallout 4 has less weapons variation unlike its predecessor, the fact that New Vegas has more weapons variation than fo4 is insulting, for me. It's not justifiable to thought "oh, you can make certain guns become different since they have more modification." Even weapons in fo4 isn't that great when it comes to design
While fallout 4 is defintley lacking in weapons i don't think fallout new vegas is a good comparison. It has an *insane* amount of weapons compared to every other fallout. I counted up the ranged weapons (for modlist making reasons) in each fallout game & it has 72 non-unique weapons. The next 2 highest are 76 with 62 & 2 with 55. Tactics probably has more but with Tactics just dumping seemingly every type of weapon you could think of into the game it's certainly just, something. Like half the weapons in the whole franchise feel like they appeared once in tactics.
One more point that I would add, "The Settlement System" no matter what you do, you can't seem to avoid being forced into it in some regard. Say you don't go near Concord whatsoever. You get to a farm and they ask you for help, okay, you go do the quest and get a reward and possibly have a food vendor to purchase from, that's fine. Now these people just allow you to build on their land or if you decide not to do that you suddenly have a Spider Sense that a settlement is under attack? Then, unless you rush over there they blame you for not helping. How the hell would the player character know about the attack and what reason do they have to go back? Now, let's say you somehow avoid every settlement and just stick to other quests. If you want to get into the Institute you eventually have to use a settlement to build the transporter to get you there from either the BOS who want you to go out and help settlements eventually or the Railroad that need them as safehouses. The game doesn't really give you the option to not be involved with Settlements at all and progress through the story.
This would be less of a problem *if* the settlement system was actually fun. Instead, it's clunky when you're trying to build anything, forces you to babysit your settlers, and produces basically nothing of value.
Boston airport is the only settlement you need for BOS you can skipthe farmer quests that Teagan wants to give you. And you never need to defend boston airport.
The Settlement System was fine if it not force on you or required just 2-3 of them, it was fun in small amount. However, the Minutemen faction basically forced you to do 10+ of them. I love building settlement but in the late game its became a chore "Really? another settlement? I still didn't finish the last 2 yet!" Not to mention more settlement mean more chance for it to be under attack.
It’s also bad in the way of Vault TEC workshop, if you go to vault 88 (difficult to fight for, AND the raiders outside respawn) you will downright have the hardest fight(s) of your characters life. Then since the settlement will have 17 settlers and no food, crazy for a vault right.
dont think BoS wants you to help settlements... the radiant quests you get from Teagan are from what i understand off the record, and they're more so a way to secure resources for the brotherhood. And definitely not to help local settlements. Unless you decide to pay the full price of the produce everytime.
Man it's so funny how many people are thinking about fallout 4 right now and how it's not so excellent. I recently tried my hand at writing a big critique and it got way out of hand to the point where it became a 30 page "if I made fallout here's what I'd have liked" sort of thing. Your video is awesome, thanks for sharing!
Shame the minutemen were the only ones who got settlements. Also, why limited to farmland? The iron works, corvega and the quarrys would have been useful to both the brotherhood and the minutemen. Where the railroad would want to secure their old outpost and clear out entire roots.
the thing is, if people want a game like stalker or COD from fallout, they should play another game. Fallout has always been marketed as an RPG, and to make it into escape from tarkov kind of defeats the whole purpose
Nah you can still have milsim elements in a role playing game. That’s pretty much what STALKER is. Gutting the rpg elements from an rpg franchise defeats the whole purpose
There is a mod that lets loading screens run at whatever your system can do and with an SSD all the loading times are goofy fast. I cant understand why it wasn't setup to run this way stock.
The fact that loading times are affected by framerate in the first place is baffling enough. Bethesda not automatically disabling V-sync during loading screens - which is a quick and dirty fix for this problem - showcases a truly staggering level of incompetence on their part.
I didn't like Fallout 4 as a game but it was a great walking simulator with combat. I played it for many many hours usually to unwind after work. Most of my playthroughs I just explored the map and did some side quests. I know several people who just used the game to relax and build. Don't know anyone who played it as an RPG.
I'm the same, I'm at a very high level in both fallout 4 and Skyrim and yet I've hardly touched the main stories. I get joy when finding a new place with a potential side quest(s) in which I already took care of the problem or a quest item.
It feels like an illegitimate heir got a hold of a company who then decided to run it into the ground to make a quick buck. I hope the director of FO:NV gets his game that he wants to create.
@Connor The issue was they tried making it seem like Fallout when it wasn't. As its own game, it's actually pretty decent. But it is FAR from a Fallout Game.
@@schizoidmeme5470 that wasn’t the problem at all,as a matter of fact they told people ahead of time that it was not fallout new vegas 2. It was the fans that let themselves think it was fnv that were let down. I personally thought the game was decent but that’s just my butthole opinion
@user-ir6bw9kl2d imagine living in your own bubble with that hype and THEN blaming the devs for calling it Fallout in space Congrats soldier, you just played yourself
I feel like the story between Beantown Brewery and The Stockpile was also a hit and miss. In the story, in case people don't know, the raider gang from Beantown Brewery raided a rival raider gang, stealing some of their food and kidnapping some of the members as leverage, one of them being the gang leader's sister, Lilly. They tried to use her to receive food and whatever they needed but it eventually falls through when the sister tried to escape but was ultimately killed. To save themselves they began to send fake letters, pretending to be Lilly. I feel like there should've been a quest where Red would see you're not a raider from the Brewery and would ask you to help her sister and you could either tell Red the truth about what happened, tell her Lilly escaped, or side with the brewery and tell them that's Reds onto them. Maybe they could even have an all out war. They could've done a lot with this. And since Nuka World is close by to the stockpile and if you're the overboss, you can have special dialogue with the raider groups. They could've done a lot with this.
Right now my BIGGEST problem is that some update a couple of years ago makes the game crash constantly when you are downtown around and South of Good Neighbor.
The game has always done that. The area you are talking about is the downtown Boston crash area. It is so full of enemies, each doing his own thing, as well as general clutter, that the CPU can't handle it. At least that is what I think is going on. There is a second area in a rough oval around Greentech Genetics that is affected by a well known bug that causes the game to crash every time one enters the area, which makes the game impossible to finish. FO4 was not only a poor fallout game generally, it was also very poorly optimized (just as the launch version of FNV was,) and leaves one with the impression that it was never finished. Bethesda is never going to bother to fix any of these problems, nor are they ever going to fix the horrible state that the building mechanic is in. This is just something that one has to take into account when one considers buying one of their games. They seem to be a company that is comfortable releasing poorly designed and badly optimized games. One just never knows what he is getting with Bethesda. I don't know what system you are on, but there are a few mods that do things like reduce the number of enemies in a few affected areas and which suppress other things that reduce performance that you might try. They can make the game pretty ugly in some areas because they change or eliminate some textures as well.
@@fearlessfosdick160 There are 2 main mods on PC - the Boston FPS fix and the Previsicombine Repair Pack (PRP). PRP is newer and preferred because it improves lots of areas in the game. The high FPS physics mod might also help.
I was always confused on the Institute too. I was always confused on why they created synths, and my biggest question was always "how are they powered?" Another thing that always annoyed me was the fact that they kept letting you come back into their base despite knowing that you were actively plotting against them. Especially if you're siding with the BOS. Their stupidity is more impressive than their supposed "brilliant" minds.
@@BBBHuey That's fair, but also doesn't change the fact that the institute is bad, and deserves to be destroyed. He wasn't "betraying" his son. he was doing what was best for the commonwealth, unless you join the BOS. giving synths human like consciousness and making them completely self aware and sentient was what made their existence cruel in the first place, and also made their existence stupid lol
@@CatlitteLOL It is a lot like waking up to find out that your son grew up to be Dr. Doom. I don't find the Sole Survivor's response to that very troubling. What I do find troubling is Bethesda's ineptitude at story telling, in that the story doesn't flesh out Shaun's true actions or motivations well at all. I would have liked to have known what Shaun thought the institute was doing. Honestly, there isn't a single faction that is adequately fleshed out. The Minutemen operate like volunteer firefighters; the Gunners and the Forged are just there to provide something to shoot at; the raiders are the drugged up sadists they always were; the DC chapter of BoS have reverted to fascism under a delusional leader; the Railroad is a ham handed nod to a historical event, but they are really just hokey and delusional idealists; and the Institute is a bunch of 50's sci fi movie style mad scientists who seem to be responsible for everything bad that ever happened in the Commonwealth. If one looks at this game as if it was a bad sci fi movie, it is bearable. But if one is looking for good story telling, Fallout 4 is not where he should be.
"Unrealized Potential" is a mark in every Bethesda game. Dude, the game you propose *is an rpg.* Especially all that "tactical" stuff you mentioned, all the detail, numbers, and *realism* within the mechanics. THAT'S what makes a great rpg! Not bullet-sponges, no one in any genre likes those.
Built a new pc in 2021, that's when I played the game, cost $19.99 for the game and all the DLCs. Tons of great mods, 4K textures, fantastic gameplay fixes. Still it was sad, a weird premature ending, and so much unused potential. East City Downs, just down the street from the Mechanist Lair, you know they were thinking about you building your own robot to run the races. Instead you just walk in and shoot them all, sad. The developers were going for so much more, but the shirts upstairs just said, "we got to get it out for sale."
Sneak in, hack the computer and make all the robots turn hostile to the raiders. When the shooting stops, make them all self destruct and start running!
"...I have to begin by saying that I think the most vapid criticism to Bethesda games is the vague notion that they are being dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The fact of the matter is that these games are products that are designed to sell as many copies as possible, that being the goal, does it not make sense to appeal to what the majority of players want?" So Bethesda isn't dumbing it down, but instead they are dumbing it down. Got it. It's not a "vague notion" that Bethesda is dumbing down their games, Emil Pagliarulo himself said this on twitter. And no, developers shouldn't necessarily appeal to the majority of players, people need to understand that it is ok to have games for niche audiences, Fallout was that kind of game, it was an RPG focused on player choice, it had it's own soul, by dumbing it down, simplifying mechanics and design, they may reach a wider audience, but in detriment of the IP's identity. Just like how people asking for Souls games to have an easy mode, that would kill a part of it's soul because the difficulty is part of the identity. And Bethesda actually made it worse, by turning Fallout into an mindless FPS they created a dissonance in the community, a fandom of a role-playing game now is filled with fans of survival shooters, The games share the same name yet are completely different. Also your mod argument doesn't make any sense, so if popular mods dictate what the game should be, by that logic, half life should be like Counter-Strike, Warcraft should be like DotA and the next Arma game should be like DayZ? I'm pretty certain that the popularity of these mods just complement your argument about how the vanilla combat is not that good, yet, being somewhat better than the ones in older games, it is understandable why weapon mods would be so prevalent. Oh and how the fuck these mods being popular mean that Fallout cannot be Fallout anymore? Removing the RPG mechanics would be worst idea ever, if you want a survival shooter, go play a different game, this is not what fallout is about, why do they need to transform an RPG franchise into an FPS if they can just create a new IP?
The thing with Dark Souls is that its identity is more than just "it's hard". It's also the gothic style, the intricate levels, the lore built with hints and snippets. An easy mode would bring those features to the forefront, at the cost of a different part of the game's identity. Same goes for Fallout. In theory, a Fallout-themed non-RPG game would have the same effects - focusing on the 1950s retro aesthetics, the post-apocalyptica, etc. rather than the RPG elements.
@@anon9469 I never said DS's identity was just it being hard, but it's gameplay is a huge aspect for it's success, it's integral, down to the timing of attacks/rolls, to builds and even the player messages, players mostly go though the same challenges and hardships due to not having a difficulty slider. In fact, I have a correction to make about my previous statement, after talking to some DS players, I've came to the conclusion that DS isn't a hard game, it's just too punitive if you play it wrong. If you mindlessly make your plays on a game of chess, don't complain about it being "too hard" when your opponent has taken most of your pieces.
In that regard, someone would just have to make a game or new IP that fulfills that niche and that's no easy task - esp for the sort of truly free open world type of games that Bethesda specifically is known to be good at (although they did try to throw it away with them forcing their shitty narratives onto the player character as of recent). Most hardcore survival FPS fixate on modern shooter tropes, is not as extensive in terms of character creation (if it has that at all, which is incredibly rare) and doesn't have that player-driven RPG feel of the character being able to make genuine changes to the world as an individual and I don't think any game is yet to pull it off aside from an install of fallout that has 150+ mods. Maybe stalker or metro can do it?? especially with how Metro Exodus effectively just handed over the whole engine towards the modding community? idk. Most others would probably just turn the "player driven exploration hardcore looter-shooter" idea into some MMO so that they can make a bit more bread so the chances get even lower. Also, I have that joke of there being less actual stalker fans than there are people who try to mod Fallout into stalker - and frankly the original pure RPG fanbase of fallout is incredibly niche and I personally wouldn't have even heard of fallout if it stayed an isometric turn + roll based RPG. My main issue has always been Bethesda trying to insist on the "retrofuturistic post apocalypse" trope rather than the "post-post apocalypse" trope, but unfortunately the franchise just sort of blew up in the FPS genre (albeit Bethesda is garbage at making such a game)
A few closing notes: 1. The Triggermen should really be able to be destroyed, seeing as how they're a minor faction... but no, they just respawn endlessly. 2. How *dare* you insult Whitechapel Charlie... no really, the robots in this game are better-written and with more character than 95% of the humans. Whitechapel Charlie, a character with a simulated personality in-game and a joke personality out of it, is somehow more engaging, enjoyable, and memorable than... pretty much any human merchant. 3. Whose brilliant idea was it to make settlement building a key mechanic of the game, and then repeatedly handicap it with "...but your settlers will only gather items for a few days before stopping", "...but the system for placing objects is clunky and frustrating", "...but you need charisma and specialized training to build a stove" etc.
I bought Fallout 4 in 2016, and so far I have played it for around 2200 hours. This is one of my favorite games. However, I agree with your points, especially the fourth one where you discussed unrealized potential. Following are some of the problems with Fallout 4, in my opinion: 1) Settlement system:- Although this a great gameplay mechanic, it has been implemented poorly. First, it forces a player to defend a settlement randomly within a limited period of time, which is tolerable in non-survival difficulties. But if you are playing in survival mode, you have to drop whatever quest you are following are rush to the settlement. Furthermore, you have to reach this settlement despite the fact your missile turret system can take down all the enemies without you having to shoot a single bullet. Second, there are radiant quests that settlers or Preston give you, which usually involve clearing a location of enemies that can 'threaten' the settlement or rescuing a kidnapped settler. Why bother installing a dozen of missile turrets to protect the settlement? 2) Main quest line:- I think the main quest line is great until you meet the institute. It creates a mystery about the institute and builds suspense regarding the organization. Then, everything falls apart about the institute, mostly due to reasons you discuss in the video where the institute lacks a coherent motivation. Most technologically advanced organization issues laser pistols that shoot white lasers instead of red. 3) Assualt rifle:- The weapon with the best stats but worst visuals
One problem I do have is with the Vans perk. Why waste one of the perk slots on what is literally the clairvoyance spell from Skyrim? When I saw the perk in promos for the game, I thought it was gonna allow you to use a car like in fallout 2.
New Vegas just feels better to me without mods too, it feels a lot more wasteland like and a bit more dark, I liked all the DLCs and the combat felt meaty and effective. Fallout 4 just feels too colourful and lacks the intriguing story elements
i can agree with that. fallout 4 did to fallout 3/NV what diablo 3 did to diablo 2... added a whole lot of color at the expense of storytelling and atmosphere
@@decheeser Bethesda's developers truly have no idea what the concept of Fallout is anymore, if they ever even did, in the first place. They appear to see it as a silly, goofy theme park filled with references and wacky little events where players can go full Call of Duty.
I like the skills but don’t like attachments have crazy boost added to them like magic. When they were making fallout 4 I was hoping for 3/Nv with slightly better graphics and slightly more realistic. Nowadays I just want it to play like lou2 with skills and have a world as immersive as rdr2 with the environment of fallout and it’s lore
8:03 Specifically, the entire class of "bladed melee weapons" has a grand total of *four* attachments available, and even that's generous, since two of the attachments can only be placed on one weapon each. Also, sometimes when you click to attack with a melee weapon, the game just, doesn't register it. (This is a personal issue, but shooting always works fine for me, so it's not a mouse issue.)
I don't disagree with you. But there's so much more depth to the wrongness in some cases already. LOL Someone really needs to slap the crown off of Godd Howard and spend some time with the fans or something. We can talk for hours about everything wrong, but I can sum it up like this: Lasers have recoil and weapon spread the likes of which even ballistic weapons don't suffer from, you can build a backyard nuclear reactor from a board game and a couple of coconuts, and the most scientifically brilliant and technologically advanced faction in the game has the worst weapons and motives to ... do ... totally random things? Not a blessed thing about Fallout 4 makes a lick of sense. It has great potential, but $#!7 leadership guiding it.
I think laser weapons having recoil was a decision made on purpose to make them feel better to use. In the same way, most FPS games give rocket launchers extreme recoil to make them feel more powerful, even though there would be very little recoil in real life.
I bought an extra SSD to soley play this game. I had a SSD for OS only and it was too small to install FO4. It was 250GB and besides of 30GB of the vanilla game, I installed more than 100GB of mods. I restrained since then but some people installed over 200GB of mods. I have no idea what they have done to FO4. Now I play it on a bigger SSD, but that was my first expience with SSD.
I cannot fuckin stand how every weapon has a left sided bolt/charging handle. Every time you rack a bolt action you take your hand off the body of the rifle. It’s so weird to me. As a left handed person, I WISH left handed configurations where that common with IRL guns.
@@jharju2352 It... doesn't, though? It'd be easier to put the bolt on the *right* hand side, where it's hard for the player to see and so sloppy animations would go unnoticed.
Really? I've gone through the game about 2 or 3 times and I enjoy it every time. I don't play games with mods cause; 1: I never have had access to mods before because that requires internet, and 2: I realize that games are completely fantastical and don't need to be accurate at all for me to enjoy. If I'm playing a video game I'm doing it to escape reality for x amount of time. It's the same way when I read a good book. They don't have to be realistic in any way, shape, or form for me to enjoy them. It's different if I'm reading an autobiography, But I don't play video games for the realism. So I'm not going to complain and whine when something isn't completely realistic. I also grew up poor, so I'm grateful for any video game or movie entertainment that I can get.
@@bookworm6543 I played and have way other games like fallout new Vegas which made me see how unfun and boring fallout 4 and all the potential it could’ve had if you like the game good for you but once you start using mods going back to vanilla is impossible
@@rykerz105 I've played fallout 3 and new Vegas and I love those just as much as I love fallout 4. I also love all the BioShock games and so many people complained about 2 and infinite. In my opinion, I just hate when people complain about realism in video games. That aren't meant to be realistic, just fun. If a person is going to complain about that, then they might as well not ever watch movies or read books, unless you are trying to make something historically accurate. That I consider different. I'm sorry, I don't mean it as a jab at you. It's just frustrating when people don't seem to appreciate the basics of a game. I do think there are things that could have been improved to all the games, but all-in-all I enjoyed them all in their own way.
@@bookworm6543 it’s not the realism I’m complaining about with fallout 4, it’s that the game was meant to make the money so quality did not come first I can’t be mad about that because I would do the same thing if I was the company, they gotta make money and they succeeded. I could go on and on about what’s wrong with fallout 4 but it’s all over RUclips
@@bookworm6543 and when it comes to realism you gotta understand fallout 4 emphasis on combat is much more in that game than the other and having bullet sponge enemies ruins the fun and immersion of the game even through it markets itself as a rpg
Bethesda made Fallout 4 a mystery game, assuming that their customers were above average intelligence. No, we just wanted to stop around in Power Amour and kill every living thing. Sparky the dog? Blammo. Erickson the Supermutant? Blammo. The Sentry Bot guarding the little girl? BLAMMO! All the scientists who are surviving in prosperity? SUPER BLAMMO! And you can't tell us that the game is about ethics and moral decisions. We simply won't hear that!
imo, the triggermen feel out of place. But only because they're essentially just raiders wearing "nice" clothe. they dont feel at all like a mafia. its the same with gunners, they're just high-tech raiders. also, what the hell is up with the fact that there are more raiders in the commonwealth than settlers? same applies with gunners, and hell i think even triggermen nearly outnumber settlers.
When some talk about the game being "dumbed" down. Their talking about the RPG mechanics and the story. People also complained that the gunplay in New Vegas was clunky and it " improved" a bit in Fallout 4. By sacrificing the Storytelling and consistency with Fallouts 1 and 2. The only way im able to turn Fallout 4 into a better game is by modding it. Extended Dialogue Interface, and adding back in the perk tree from New Vegas among other story/quest mods.
Only thing I disagree is combat. Is it weird sometimes when the ghouls lunge fifteen feet, sure. But the rest of it was amazing and a big step for the franchise.
Regarding combat, speak for yourself, I love using melee with Blitz and the game is on easy mode. Just one hit sneak kill the Super Mutant suiciders and get a free mini nuke.
I always figured the institutes motivation was scientific progress at all costs. I mean sure it's cartoonish to have the main villains be a bunch of mad scientists but so is a 1950"s themed post nuclear apocalypse world where people sometimes go into orbit when shot,(which is kind of entertaining).
If the game intends me to find, and eventually run The Institute as the ideal main story line....why is there nothing for me to do as the secret Emperor of Boston? One passive aggressive radio broadcast and thats it.
Also, my favorite thing with the radiant quest is how many quests are either "radiant quests with a fixed location" or "main quests that feel like a radiant quest". For the first one, most settlements seem to have a quest they always send you on (Tenpines sends you to Corvega unless you disrupt them, Oberland to Dunwich Borers, Warwick to Wilson Automatoys, County Crossing to the National Guard Training Yard, the Slog to Breakheart Banks, and that place in the far south sends you to Suffolk County Charter School), but they're never fleshed out at all. It's "go here, kill this". The worst part is how Into the Fire (the Finch Farm quest) shows how a few added lines of dialogue and a single added scene (confronting Slag) turns a generic shooting gallery into a genuine questline. Meanwhile, both the "find Kellogg" and "find the Courser" quests have a set-up that'd allow them to take place anywhere, using in-world clues to track your target down, allowing a wide variety of confrontations... but they're always at the same location, so you just fast-travel there and ignore the search entirely.
Amen to basically all of this. Fallout 4 is only a decent game when you mod the ever-lovin' out of it. Otherwise it's incredibly boring and only worth playing through once to quickly wrap up the main story. It's indeed half-baked. The only mods I used on New Vegas were a weather mod, unlimited companion mod, and a couple of other minor tweaks. 4? My mod list is dozens deep, including huge overhaul mods. My favorite faction, The Minutemen, & my favorite character, Preston Garvey, really got the short end of the stick. They ain't just half-baked like the overall game, they were never taken out the freezer. No wonder poor Preston gets so much hate; he's a flat "good guy" that serves as a radiant quest dispenser & the Minutemen are flat as Kansas. They don't even get heavies or special forces like the others! So in comes We Are the Minutemen, to actually flesh out the faction and make it fun to be The General. In comes Sim Settlements 2, All Settlements Extended, et al to fix the busted settlement system - making it actually fun, like SimCity post-apocalypse. Which is what it should have been from the get-go. In comes Project Valkyrie *to literally fix the main questline & ending*, because even *that* makes no sense (why can't you simply capture the Institute rather than pointlessly & wastefully blowing up the only truly clean place in the wasteland full of valuable science?). I could go on and on. There's so much I have not brought up that it ain't even funny, but this is just a RUclips comment, not my own video or a blog. But the fact is, Bethesda relied on the fans to literally *finish their game*. Which is absolutely puhhhhh-thetic. 💁🏿♂️ ~ Mesyn
Preston Garvey has this really awkward charaterization where he's wedged in between "being an actual coherent character with his own backstory" and "being a guy who tells you to go help settlements on loop".
I'm in the first hours of a play through, with a heavily modded game, I've installed it from a backup. First, I've played it to Concorde without mods on Ultra with the "ultra" HD textures (but it's just a memory leak), but the game looks like shit as it looked like shit at release day. Todd: "We didn't care so much about the graphics, we cared about other things." Which things? There is literally nothing more than barely acceptable in this game, riddled with bugs, holes, and bad decisions. No function in this game works like expected: Because of bugs, because of bad decisions, because of not understanding at all how it should work, because the function was not completed, and/or because of performance issues. The workshop system is an example of it: Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of building a wall around a nice place and to start a new settlement in the apocalypse, it's very immersive. But I lost the count of how many mods, FOSE plugins, interface files, and INI tweaks I needed to complete the function. I've reworked the workshop system myself, based on the scripts from the community patch. Most people have no idea how they screwed it up, their scripts are a joke, or even malware when it comes to performance. If they're laughing about you when trying to get a job as a web developer, try it at Bethesda, they have no standards. And I'm glad that they don't let you near a nuclear plant anyway, because we would have Fallout now. No holstered weapons. No holstering possible from the fav menu. No drinking animations on most water sources. No... Goddammit, Fallout 3 had drinking animation for toilets. And you probably could holster weapons in Oblivion. Bite me, Bethesda. Bite me, Todd. My theory: Because we didn't serve them the shit storm they deserved, we got Dogshit 76.
there is a very good plot in the institute, it has been a strong organization that is on the way to collapse, this has happened in all great powers in history that have fallen, the technology has been good but there has been chaos between the various factors and that's it with. and they from the beginning when they let you out that you will later take over and fix so that everything will be fine again for them in the future. this is what they say in various dialogues in the game and they want you to see how bad man is living now in the world. I think the plot is good. on the other hand, all the bugs that make certain things not work are a big problem when it comes to extra material etc. and that you can't clean up everywhere but have to add mods, is bad.
I thought father was planning to download himself into the kid and resume living. I also have a pet theory all the humans have been replaced by synths in the institute and they just don't know it. Also one thing that bugs me is no one cleans anything. You'd think they would clean stuff up, scrap stuff. That whole robot race track is wasted. Same with the glowing sea stuff.
On PC I literally have to go into notepad to change the resolution then load the game and it’s usually still wrong. Then I get it right and load in and the fucking locks are invisible
Ok heres my 2 cents, The big idea behind the fallout games is that you get a choice. You get to dictate the fate of the game world that you find yourself in. Fallout 4 only gives the illusion of this. Essential characters, no rep. system, no traits or skills, and a fairly linear story (maybe too much so), all take away from games past, for the only reason I see being to speed up production time. Hell, the only reason I find myself coming back to the game is to muck around with the settlement building system or the gunplay / gun workshopping (They did both of theses pretty well). The game had a good base but was missing its soul, which could have easily been fixed by adding an underlying theme and actually having a choice in-game. Every location in Fallout has an ‘underlying theme’ e.g. Cowboys in FNV or FO2 being militaristic. As old mate said in the video, the triggermen could have been expanded on more, giving the game its theme, the mobster fallout game. Also I reckon adding a ‘realism’ game mode would be awesome (realism being harder than survival), where there is lowered carry weights, food and water consumption, temperature management, sleep requirements, etc,
Fallout 4 gives you a lot of choices. It just never gives you a *meaningful* choice. You have a variety of different ways you can tell Kellogg you're here to kill him. You have three different ways to reach the same ending cutscene. You can say whatever the hell you want to NPCs, even to the point of telling them directly not to give you things, and they'll just smile and hand over the pre-decided quest rewards.
@@ryszakowy "I am a completely unknown person who has arrived at your secret base out of nowhere, somehow knew the password, and told you to your face that I have no quarrel with your enemies, I ideologically disagree with you, and I am not going to help you." "Yeah ok, but look, we want to recruit you anyway."
regarding the loading times: you dont need an SSD, since the loading times are, like the physics, tied to the framerate. There are 2 mods that adress this issue by disabeling v-sync while in a loading screen. It is ludicrous how fast this game can load, even in the lawless lands of donwtown Boston. The two mods are "Load Accelerator" which only adresses the loading screens, an the "High FPS Physics Fix" which covers much more issues with the game.
8:45 I gotta disagree on that one, the "dumbing down" argument is not the worst, most vapid argument out there; the "businesses exist to make money" is the worst. A game company does *not* exist to make a profit - it exists to make a game. The money was supposed to be compensation for the resources, manpower, and time spent making the game. And whether you made a big game that appeals to everyone, or a niche game that appeals to a small group of people doesn't matter, as long as you are compensated appropriately for the work done.
You pretty much covered every issue I have with fallout 4. I like the game, but there are times when I hate it, or I'm going that's it. The triggermen are a perfect example, pretty much all of them are pre-war mobsters. There could've been triggerman owned businesses, like gambling dens, brothels, loansharking, protection racket, hitman. You could be a hitman, or debt collector for a loanshark. The triggermen could've been a more organized, profit driven gang, trying to push out the less organized, kill everything in sight, burn it to the ground, raider gangs. But no, that's too much work for Bethesda.
Fallout 4 is just THE most wasted potential in Media i have ever seen..... The Weapons and Clothing are...... The Story was really boring the second time you play it. The NPCs (Human, SupahMutants, Animals etc.) looked kind of weird? The Factions are REALLY dull (i mean look at the BoS in 3 and NV) The Combat is just not enough RPG nor Modern Shooter. The Settlements are so broken and dull. and by all that they try to crash our non Creationclub Mods, that you ABSOLUTELY need!....
I run Fallout 4 on an SSD and it's slow. I load up Skyrim's special edition (which uses Fallout 4's updated 64 bit engine) and the loading times are way better. So I think it's more of a problem with optimization that not even an SSD can fix. No this is a problem with THEM.
5:10 100 percent. I originally thought that having a laptop with a 3050 and an i7-11800h or a desktop with a 3060 12gb and an i9-10850k would mean I could play the game with zero issues. I played the game through middle and high school; first on an original xbox one and ending with the series s. I had thought the issues werent as prevalent on pc. boy, was I terribly wrong. I was still in the super-cope phase of being a bethesda gamer and didnt actually understand the scope of the problems until I saw your videos and actually experienced the issues myself.
Played it on Xbox when it came out and literally just bought it on PC finally yesterday. Looking forward to console commands and using the PS5 controller on PC.
The setting of fallout really just doesn't lend itself well into RPG mechanics - even if it is a sci-fantasy. It's one of the more grounded and rather limited sci fantasy settings, but it just so happens to start off as mostly an RPG game, to eventually get picked up by a company that specializes in 1st person open world RPGs. Unfortunately however, with the skillset Bethesda has access to and the engine that they use - it's probably way too tough of an ask for them to actually bother leaning into the hardcore shooter aspect of their fallout installments (Unless they can somehow just reel their entire id software team to help make fallout 5). That or they fear that they might end up having to compete with actual hardcore survival games like stalker (even though there are probably more people out there trying to turn Fallout into stalker than there are people who actually play stalker). And it's not like they'd have a reason to bother considering that their fanbase doesn't ask that from them and can drown out the voices of those who ask for more and aren't content with outdated shooting mechanics.
I currently have a Samsung ssd, a Ryzen 5600x, and an RTX 2070 in my PC. And the load times are still utter shyte. Running it on a 2015 machine with an hdd was abject misery
yang kutahu karena ada sistem modifikasi maka mereka tak menggunakan banyak fitur seperti FO3 dan FO New Vegas sehingga tak terlalu memakan terlalu banyak performa di awal
Load times DO suck, but never had a problem with framerate. An 8Gb video card makes a huge difference. If you're going to run off an SSD that is also your OS drive, the minimum you should have is 1Tb. Everything these days is bloated in size and will eat up your HD/SSD space in no time, even without the game. Playing this game on a game machine is a mistake IMO, even though they made it to play on several machines.
for me i think a big issue is sellement building like its honestly extremely bare bones funcational but its such a big part of the game you are borderline froced to do it even though its frusturating to use and limited and infact has little to no impact on the story it just sort of exists as an optional thing which is kind of shoved in your face and not even explained or introduced very well heck its barely introdrouced at all you are just sort of given a small tutoral and basically told to use trial and error to experiment and figure out what works and what does not.(and froced to work with a ton of limiations which can make building a base frusturatrating)
Problem with 4 plot holes 4 speech choices Vault 111 sometimes doesn't open cause you used that name before I running 132 fps it taxing my eyes Mech5 serious taxs my brain I had clean my computer too get back to normal I don't run mods I have new i5 with 5ghz of vid ram and 32ghz of ram Biggest issue g key locked too many fuction I got creation club all but skins add days to my journey Tigger men have quest but have done yet 76 where do I begin
I think chasing after realistic shooters, and appealing to mods like Horizon and Frost, defeats the point of Fallout being Fallout. Why not flock to those games in the first place: Call of Duty, Battlefield, Escape from Tarkov?
I like the combat in FO4, it stets it apart from other modern military shooters. And to be honest melee weapons are just not a viable option in a country filled with guns.
Follow MOFAM mod list guide on Nexus Mods. It helped me fix almost all performance issues. Plus: I moved FO4 installation on to an SSD and loading times are less that 10 seconds.
I think the synths should have something more to make them interesting. For example that the institute wanted to pass human conscience to a synth body. The people they are replacing is not only to have more control over the wasteland, but also they need test subjects to pass their conscience to a robot body. This would be an awesome final goal for the institute. They believe the human body has to many limitations and is too weak that's why they want all of humanity to transfer their minds to the synths. (wrote this whole comment before he said the same thing jaja)
not really a solution, but DXVK seems to fix most of the framerate and FLEX. Also I can't tell if most of the complaints are hyperbole, or if the railroad, Nick's character story, the running gag of vault-tec-esk experiments for the sake of experimenting, the fact thermodynamics has little to nothing to do with aging, and the concept of "bring a knife to a gun fight", are all completely lost on ya, because the story, even from only in-game content, is pretty solid when you actually take time to listen to the characters talk, it's kinda trash, but it's solid trash.
you say mele isnt really an option, but with the strength baseball perk that increases you mele attacks and allows you to knock off the enemies head, the luck perk that gives you a chance to make your enemies explode in a bloody mess, and with Atom's Judgement from far harbour, my mele build is kind of the most OP build ive ever made.
@KudoRedfox 100% agree. You can make mele builds in NV that are arguably, boringly OP. Like you don't even get excited for a hard fight anymore because there are no hard fights anymore. I've seen people one hit Legate Lanius, and at that point... the game gets kinda boring. I guess what I'm saying is I think fallout 4 is a little more balanced as a game. Even though you can make OP mele builds, you can't make a mele build that's so OP that every enemy becomes a rinse and repeat, just gotta get it done, boring kinda thing.
You're not wrong, just a little late to the party. Most of the performance stuff has been fixed for years now...and the gunplay is passable. But you can't fix the rest...the bad writing, the poor planning, the pointlessness of the Institute, the empty quests. I blame Emil and his KISS design philosophy.
To be honest the Institute was an absolute potentially game changing villain just turned to a oh scary robot people that have no goal lol. Like u said brother. I would have done something akin to: 1. The institute kidnaps raiders, cannibals and other humans no one will ever miss (outside their own factions [which there would be a raider faction]), and synths would take their place, becoming "raiders". 2. The kidnapped "victims" turned into super mutants. Because who hates the super mutants the most? The Brotherhood of Steel. Giving the super mutants an enemy to focus on (go to war with) would make the B.O.S focus heavily on them, and not any other faction. Giving the institute time to prepare for their end goal. 3. The institute's end goal. Is has to make sense, it NEEDS to make sense. So...genocide of the inferior human race (or survivors). Hear me out. The institute has had time to study all sorts of sciences, hell they created implants to help humans achieve super human status. They have created A.I. synths that can look absolutely human. They are a "superior" race of humans and what better way to help mankind come into a new scientific age? Wipe out the useless, inferior ones. But they need time. To build an army. Or a mega-virus? Or even a super weapon. But time is their weakness. So they stage a 2 front distraction, use synths to become raiders and scout other raiders and settlements. And kidnap more raiders
To make this even more actual world effecting... The player would run into up to 3 maybe 4 of these synth raiders, and discover they're not humans. After discovering who to talk to and picking up a trail, the institute sends some super mutants followed by pure gen 1 and 2 synths to "quiet" the player. It is then people should piece why would super mutants not attack the synths? Why ambush a single person with So many enemies. Then over time, the institute has to pick up pace and a timer starts. I'd say 2 weeks in game should be plenty to actually figure out where they are holed up, kick ass and blow up the place. If the timer hits zero, and the player has not finished off the institute, game over. They win. The player dies, the people across the wasteland die. Honestly it should be set to game over, erases saves so people have to start over. Seems mean and kind of a dick thing to do, but it is an incentive. The player actually saves the wasteland. Actions that have both consequences and/or rewards. This sadly could still work with the whole father looking for son B.S. but not really important lol
to be fair i do feel like most of fallout is magical bullshit to acomidate not just the plot but the fact that its a video game. however i think this is more obvious going from fallout 3 forward and yes even new vegas has some of these issues too.
I always choose institute because the other options are psychopath, stooge, or settlement oh I forgot nuka world which I always pick with institute, so I am science raider
I was super engrossed into FO4 until one point. This happens to every dang game I play sadly and its called simulation sickness. FO4 for me was kool until I was walking past a fridge in middle of an open lot and heard a kids voice. I opened up the fridge and out pops a mutated boy who was stuck in there for 200 years. I quit and uninstalled the game right there as I am one of the few who suffer severely from sim sickness. I can tolerate some FO4 frost as that does away with the awful writing of BGS.
Institute - dude, have you ever heard the visions of the WEF or more specifically the visions of Klaus Schwab? After this, you won't be surprised at the Institute's goals. People are weird, the rich and powerful are even weirder.
I agree theres issues with every game not just Bethesda games. But If you're a stickler for graphics, Bethesda studios isn't for you. Idk if you haven't noticed but there wasn't a real difference from fallout 3 to new Vegas as far as load times and graphics go. I'd much rather deal with long loading times than short loading times and bad/ boring gameplay like most single player RPGs. Take borderlands franchise for example. 1 step forward and multiple steps backwards.. Ps good video tho!
I somewhat agree that the combat can be a little bit clunky but the fix for that isn’t turning it into every other game out in the market right now. Fallout does not need to be the type of shooter you’re describing and I hope it never is. Also claiming that synths are “magical bs” is a really bad argument, Synths just like many other technological advancements in the game are far fetched and seem impossible to us in the real world. Fallout 4 is almost 300 years ahead of us in a nuclear society. Synths are not a crazy invention to imagine especially 300 years ahead of us. The whole game is magical bs that’s kind of the point in a fictional game. Shooting up a stimpak and healing your limbs and overall health is magical bs as well but it’s not an issue because that is fallout.
You really nailed it about the the issue around Quincy. I was excited to discover the Quincy location because of the story told by Garvey and the survivors in Concord ( I felt their pain😢). I spent hours scouting and preparing my attack on the Gunners at Quincy because I wanted to make a huge victory for Garvey and the minutemen. But, after the battle there was nothing, no payoff whatsoever, and not even a single word from Jun and Marcy. And its not even a settlement location, gunners are just respawned in. Disappointing to say the least.
What I find even more puzzling is the fact that if you have Preston with you he doesn't really react to you killing baker, while piper dance nick all will have a one liner about how baker had it comming
Preston had to be the most underdeveloped companion in the entire game. More opportunities missed than not.
I usually put on my best suit of Power Armor on Sole Survivor and wipe out the Quincy "Gunners" Solo. Remember, the Gunners took Quincy with the help of a top level Minute Man, Clint. And the Raiders at Libertalia aren't really raiders, they're Minute Men led by Wire, who deserted at the Quincy Massacre and fled to Libertalia.
@L C I also stick mainly within the minuteman faction. My home base and nerve center is The Castle. It is my most well defended and most developed settlement. I keep all companions there, except for Deacon, who keeps returning to the Railroad. The shops mechanic and merchants have made me truly the most wealthy person in the commonwealth and from that perspective I enjoy the Minutemen faction very much, I have no shortage of caps $$$
But yes, I totally agree the NPC's are too 2-dimensional and it doesn't take long to hear all of their dialog and they become like backdrops on the stage.
I would like a mechanic that forces raiders and gunners to surrender and the ability to convert them into minutemen and build ranks. Maybe in the next generation of AI.
@@newdefsys Complete with a Fulton Extraction system. 😂
Also, in regards to the Institute. It's clear they wanted to copy NV and make the Institute like the Legion, in the sense of "we're obviously the bad guys, but we have a reason for being bad".
But while the Legion got a copy of Hegel to base their ideology off of, the Institute got some vintage comics starring Doctor Doom.
legion: ancient rome goes brr
institute: you wouldn't understand
Institute should never have been an irredeemable bad faction. Destroying them destroys far too much human progress and it's ridiculous you can't actually make any decisions despite being the DIRECTOR.
@@thebreadbringer Now if only someone had told the Fallout 4 writing team that.
Legion: We do this because in order to combat the brutal wasteland, we have to be just as if not more brutal to survive. Look at the ncr, it’s attempts of freedom and philanthropy have led it to ruin and crawling with corruption, infighting and violence, it’s not built to stand, it will fall under its own weight and incompetence.
Institute: Lol idk (we really don’t know)
This is one thing game creators don’t seem to understand yet: nuanced choice. We should have been able to fix the Institute and truly lead the Commonwealth into a new golden age as its director, not be forced into these ridiculous binary choices that are always extreme.
Also, have you ever noticed how many places in Fallout 4 seem designed as shooting galleries, rather than places where people live? They're oddly, awkwardly even, designed from the perspective of living in them - the design only makes sense when approached from the perspective of an FPS game. Meanwhile, New Vegas has locations that feel like people actually... live there.
Respectfully where, new Vegas is so empty
@@dunbass7149 The buildings look like they were designed to have people living in them, even if they ended up having to cut said people for technical reasons.
@@dunbass7149 I wasn't talking about the settlements, though. I was talking about the "dungeons". NV's "dungeons" look like buildings that had a purpose before being taken over by raiders or w/e. 4's dungeons look like they were designed from the ground up as shooting galleries, with no consideration for their pre-war use or even the people currently living in them.
@@dunbass7149 found the FO4 shill
@@dunbass7149 bugthesda fanboy identified
opinion rejected
I wish the gunners were more deep. They could offer contracts or even have their own story all together. Missed opportunity for a merc faction
Plus they're far tougher than the Institute synths, the gunners would've been a solid evil character play through choice imo
Mods are your friend.
That would have been too much RPG for this FPS.
@@FredBilliards10925the point is that it should be a base game feature. mods arent an excuse for poor game design
One thing that infuriated me was fallout 4 has less weapons variation unlike its predecessor, the fact that New Vegas has more weapons variation than fo4 is insulting, for me. It's not justifiable to thought "oh, you can make certain guns become different since they have more modification." Even weapons in fo4 isn't that great when it comes to design
Then you obviously don't play with the mod called Modern Firearms (tactical edition)
@@twofarg0ne763 I'm a ps4 player, help me ;-;
While fallout 4 is defintley lacking in weapons i don't think fallout new vegas is a good comparison. It has an *insane* amount of weapons compared to every other fallout. I counted up the ranged weapons (for modlist making reasons) in each fallout game & it has 72 non-unique weapons. The next 2 highest are 76 with 62 & 2 with 55.
Tactics probably has more but with Tactics just dumping seemingly every type of weapon you could think of into the game it's certainly just, something. Like half the weapons in the whole franchise feel like they appeared once in tactics.
One more point that I would add, "The Settlement System" no matter what you do, you can't seem to avoid being forced into it in some regard. Say you don't go near Concord whatsoever. You get to a farm and they ask you for help, okay, you go do the quest and get a reward and possibly have a food vendor to purchase from, that's fine. Now these people just allow you to build on their land or if you decide not to do that you suddenly have a Spider Sense that a settlement is under attack? Then, unless you rush over there they blame you for not helping. How the hell would the player character know about the attack and what reason do they have to go back?
Now, let's say you somehow avoid every settlement and just stick to other quests. If you want to get into the Institute you eventually have to use a settlement to build the transporter to get you there from either the BOS who want you to go out and help settlements eventually or the Railroad that need them as safehouses. The game doesn't really give you the option to not be involved with Settlements at all and progress through the story.
This would be less of a problem *if* the settlement system was actually fun. Instead, it's clunky when you're trying to build anything, forces you to babysit your settlers, and produces basically nothing of value.
Boston airport is the only settlement you need for BOS you can skipthe farmer quests that Teagan wants to give you. And you never need to defend boston airport.
The Settlement System was fine if it not force on you or required just 2-3 of them, it was fun in small amount.
However, the Minutemen faction basically forced you to do 10+ of them.
I love building settlement but in the late game its became a chore "Really? another settlement? I still didn't finish the last 2 yet!"
Not to mention more settlement mean more chance for it to be under attack.
It’s also bad in the way of Vault TEC workshop, if you go to vault 88 (difficult to fight for, AND the raiders outside respawn) you will downright have the hardest fight(s) of your characters life. Then since the settlement will have 17 settlers and no food, crazy for a vault right.
dont think BoS wants you to help settlements... the radiant quests you get from Teagan are from what i understand off the record, and they're more so a way to secure resources for the brotherhood. And definitely not to help local settlements. Unless you decide to pay the full price of the produce everytime.
Man it's so funny how many people are thinking about fallout 4 right now and how it's not so excellent. I recently tried my hand at writing a big critique and it got way out of hand to the point where it became a 30 page "if I made fallout here's what I'd have liked" sort of thing. Your video is awesome, thanks for sharing!
Shame the minutemen were the only ones who got settlements. Also, why limited to farmland? The iron works, corvega and the quarrys would have been useful to both the brotherhood and the minutemen. Where the railroad would want to secure their old outpost and clear out entire roots.
Stalker got it right. fast time to kill and great ai is the key
Stalker and great AI... Pick one
the thing is, if people want a game like stalker or COD from fallout, they should play another game. Fallout has always been marketed as an RPG, and to make it into escape from tarkov kind of defeats the whole purpose
Nah you can still have milsim elements in a role playing game. That’s pretty much what STALKER is. Gutting the rpg elements from an rpg franchise defeats the whole purpose
@@codeinecowboy8607 stalker is nowhere close to an rpg
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 I literally used it as an example of something that isn't an RPG
That's not the point, the point is that you can have a rpg like game without bullet sponges which feels ridiculous to most as statistics say.
@@caiooca5793 They royally fucked up the bullet sponges but that can be fixed without turning Fallout into a CoD.
There is a mod that lets loading screens run at whatever your system can do and with an SSD all the loading times are goofy fast. I cant understand why it wasn't setup to run this way stock.
The fact that loading times are affected by framerate in the first place is baffling enough. Bethesda not automatically disabling V-sync during loading screens - which is a quick and dirty fix for this problem - showcases a truly staggering level of incompetence on their part.
What's the mod?
@@KeeganYF12 just unbind physic from rendering with an f4se plugin. Also Buffout4 helps with those engine fuckups.
What's the mod?
@@flamedramon68 High FPS Physics Fix, you can find it on Nexus mods.
I didn't like Fallout 4 as a game but it was a great walking simulator with combat. I played it for many many hours usually to unwind after work. Most of my playthroughs I just explored the map and did some side quests. I know several people who just used the game to relax and build. Don't know anyone who played it as an RPG.
I'm the same, I'm at a very high level in both fallout 4 and Skyrim and yet I've hardly touched the main stories.
I get joy when finding a new place with a potential side quest(s) in which I already took care of the problem or a quest item.
I feel this
Glad you didn't mention the speech system. No point in mentioning that in 2022 because it's clearly not a mistake that Bethesda is going to make again
It feels like an illegitimate heir got a hold of a company who then decided to run it into the ground to make a quick buck. I hope the director of FO:NV gets his game that he wants to create.
wut director lmfao clueless kid
@Connor The issue was they tried making it seem like Fallout when it wasn't.
As its own game, it's actually pretty decent.
But it is FAR from a Fallout Game.
@Connor As if fallout wasn't janky as hell.
@@schizoidmeme5470 that wasn’t the problem at all,as a matter of fact they told people ahead of time that it was not fallout new vegas 2. It was the fans that let themselves think it was fnv that were let down. I personally thought the game was decent but that’s just my butthole opinion
@user-ir6bw9kl2d imagine living in your own bubble with that hype and THEN blaming the devs for calling it Fallout in space
Congrats soldier, you just played yourself
I feel like the story between Beantown Brewery and The Stockpile was also a hit and miss. In the story, in case people don't know, the raider gang from Beantown Brewery raided a rival raider gang, stealing some of their food and kidnapping some of the members as leverage, one of them being the gang leader's sister, Lilly. They tried to use her to receive food and whatever they needed but it eventually falls through when the sister tried to escape but was ultimately killed. To save themselves they began to send fake letters, pretending to be Lilly.
I feel like there should've been a quest where Red would see you're not a raider from the Brewery and would ask you to help her sister and you could either tell Red the truth about what happened, tell her Lilly escaped, or side with the brewery and tell them that's Reds onto them. Maybe they could even have an all out war. They could've done a lot with this. And since Nuka World is close by to the stockpile and if you're the overboss, you can have special dialogue with the raider groups. They could've done a lot with this.
no excuse for not having an ssd in this day. Lightyears faster for about $50.
Right now my BIGGEST problem is that some update a couple of years ago makes the game crash constantly when you are downtown around and South of Good Neighbor.
The game has always done that. The area you are talking about is the downtown Boston crash area. It is so full of enemies, each doing his own thing, as well as general clutter, that the CPU can't handle it. At least that is what I think is going on. There is a second area in a rough oval around Greentech Genetics that is affected by a well known bug that causes the game to crash every time one enters the area, which makes the game impossible to finish. FO4 was not only a poor fallout game generally, it was also very poorly optimized (just as the launch version of FNV was,) and leaves one with the impression that it was never finished. Bethesda is never going to bother to fix any of these problems, nor are they ever going to fix the horrible state that the building mechanic is in. This is just something that one has to take into account when one considers buying one of their games. They seem to be a company that is comfortable releasing poorly designed and badly optimized games. One just never knows what he is getting with Bethesda. I don't know what system you are on, but there are a few mods that do things like reduce the number of enemies in a few affected areas and which suppress other things that reduce performance that you might try. They can make the game pretty ugly in some areas because they change or eliminate some textures as well.
@@fearlessfosdick160 There are 2 main mods on PC - the Boston FPS fix and the Previsicombine Repair Pack (PRP). PRP is newer and preferred because it improves lots of areas in the game. The high FPS physics mod might also help.
I was always confused on the Institute too. I was always confused on why they created synths, and my biggest question was always "how are they powered?"
Another thing that always annoyed me was the fact that they kept letting you come back into their base despite knowing that you were actively plotting against them. Especially if you're siding with the BOS. Their stupidity is more impressive than their supposed "brilliant" minds.
Because a father would never betray his own son.
@@BBBHuey That's fair, but also doesn't change the fact that the institute is bad, and deserves to be destroyed. He wasn't "betraying" his son. he was doing what was best for the commonwealth, unless you join the BOS. giving synths human like consciousness and making them completely self aware and sentient was what made their existence cruel in the first place, and also made their existence stupid lol
@@CatlitteLOL The Institute's goals should've been what Tinker Tom imagined; to wipe out the Commonwealth and terraform it.
@@CatlitteLOL It is a lot like waking up to find out that your son grew up to be Dr. Doom. I don't find the Sole Survivor's response to that very troubling. What I do find troubling is Bethesda's ineptitude at story telling, in that the story doesn't flesh out Shaun's true actions or motivations well at all. I would have liked to have known what Shaun thought the institute was doing. Honestly, there isn't a single faction that is adequately fleshed out. The Minutemen operate like volunteer firefighters; the Gunners and the Forged are just there to provide something to shoot at; the raiders are the drugged up sadists they always were; the DC chapter of BoS have reverted to fascism under a delusional leader; the Railroad is a ham handed nod to a historical event, but they are really just hokey and delusional idealists; and the Institute is a bunch of 50's sci fi movie style mad scientists who seem to be responsible for everything bad that ever happened in the Commonwealth. If one looks at this game as if it was a bad sci fi movie, it is bearable. But if one is looking for good story telling, Fallout 4 is not where he should be.
"Unrealized Potential" is a mark in every Bethesda game.
Dude, the game you propose *is an rpg.*
Especially all that "tactical" stuff you mentioned, all the detail, numbers, and *realism* within the mechanics. THAT'S what makes a great rpg! Not bullet-sponges, no one in any genre likes those.
Built a new pc in 2021, that's when I played the game, cost $19.99 for the game and all the DLCs. Tons of great mods, 4K textures, fantastic gameplay fixes. Still it was sad, a weird premature ending, and so much unused potential. East City Downs, just down the street from the Mechanist Lair, you know they were thinking about you building your own robot to run the races. Instead you just walk in and shoot them all, sad. The developers were going for so much more, but the shirts upstairs just said, "we got to get it out for sale."
Sneak in, hack the computer and make all the robots turn hostile to the raiders. When the shooting stops, make them all self destruct and start running!
"...I have to begin by saying that I think the most vapid criticism to Bethesda games is the vague notion that they are being dumbed down to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The fact of the matter is that these games are products that are designed to sell as many copies as possible, that being the goal, does it not make sense to appeal to what the majority of players want?"
So Bethesda isn't dumbing it down, but instead they are dumbing it down. Got it.
It's not a "vague notion" that Bethesda is dumbing down their games, Emil Pagliarulo himself said this on twitter.
And no, developers shouldn't necessarily appeal to the majority of players, people need to understand that it is ok to have games for niche audiences, Fallout was that kind of game, it was an RPG focused on player choice, it had it's own soul, by dumbing it down, simplifying mechanics and design, they may reach a wider audience, but in detriment of the IP's identity.
Just like how people asking for Souls games to have an easy mode, that would kill a part of it's soul because the difficulty is part of the identity.
And Bethesda actually made it worse, by turning Fallout into an mindless FPS they created a dissonance in the community, a fandom of a role-playing game now is filled with fans of survival shooters, The games share the same name yet are completely different.
Also your mod argument doesn't make any sense, so if popular mods dictate what the game should be, by that logic, half life should be like Counter-Strike, Warcraft should be like DotA and the next Arma game should be like DayZ?
I'm pretty certain that the popularity of these mods just complement your argument about how the vanilla combat is not that good, yet, being somewhat better than the ones in older games, it is understandable why weapon mods would be so prevalent.
Oh and how the fuck these mods being popular mean that Fallout cannot be Fallout anymore? Removing the RPG mechanics would be worst idea ever, if you want a survival shooter, go play a different game, this is not what fallout is about, why do they need to transform an RPG franchise into an FPS if they can just create a new IP?
The thing with Dark Souls is that its identity is more than just "it's hard". It's also the gothic style, the intricate levels, the lore built with hints and snippets. An easy mode would bring those features to the forefront, at the cost of a different part of the game's identity.
Same goes for Fallout. In theory, a Fallout-themed non-RPG game would have the same effects - focusing on the 1950s retro aesthetics, the post-apocalyptica, etc. rather than the RPG elements.
@@anon9469 I never said DS's identity was just it being hard, but it's gameplay is a huge aspect for it's success, it's integral, down to the timing of attacks/rolls, to builds and even the player messages, players mostly go though the same challenges and hardships due to not having a difficulty slider.
In fact, I have a correction to make about my previous statement, after talking to some DS players, I've came to the conclusion that DS isn't a hard game, it's just too punitive if you play it wrong. If you mindlessly make your plays on a game of chess, don't complain about it being "too hard" when your opponent has taken most of your pieces.
In that regard, someone would just have to make a game or new IP that fulfills that niche and that's no easy task - esp for the sort of truly free open world type of games that Bethesda specifically is known to be good at (although they did try to throw it away with them forcing their shitty narratives onto the player character as of recent). Most hardcore survival FPS fixate on modern shooter tropes, is not as extensive in terms of character creation (if it has that at all, which is incredibly rare) and doesn't have that player-driven RPG feel of the character being able to make genuine changes to the world as an individual and I don't think any game is yet to pull it off aside from an install of fallout that has 150+ mods. Maybe stalker or metro can do it?? especially with how Metro Exodus effectively just handed over the whole engine towards the modding community? idk. Most others would probably just turn the "player driven exploration hardcore looter-shooter" idea into some MMO so that they can make a bit more bread so the chances get even lower.
Also, I have that joke of there being less actual stalker fans than there are people who try to mod Fallout into stalker - and frankly the original pure RPG fanbase of fallout is incredibly niche and I personally wouldn't have even heard of fallout if it stayed an isometric turn + roll based RPG.
My main issue has always been Bethesda trying to insist on the "retrofuturistic post apocalypse" trope rather than the "post-post apocalypse" trope, but unfortunately the franchise just sort of blew up in the FPS genre (albeit Bethesda is garbage at making such a game)
One of my hates of fallout 4 is the weapon you are using disappears and dose not holster your weapon
There's a mod for that 🙂
Classic Holstered Weapons
A few closing notes:
1. The Triggermen should really be able to be destroyed, seeing as how they're a minor faction... but no, they just respawn endlessly.
2. How *dare* you insult Whitechapel Charlie... no really, the robots in this game are better-written and with more character than 95% of the humans. Whitechapel Charlie, a character with a simulated personality in-game and a joke personality out of it, is somehow more engaging, enjoyable, and memorable than... pretty much any human merchant.
3. Whose brilliant idea was it to make settlement building a key mechanic of the game, and then repeatedly handicap it with "...but your settlers will only gather items for a few days before stopping", "...but the system for placing objects is clunky and frustrating", "...but you need charisma and specialized training to build a stove" etc.
I bought Fallout 4 in 2016, and so far I have played it for around 2200 hours. This is one of my favorite games. However, I agree with your points, especially the fourth one where you discussed unrealized potential.
Following are some of the problems with Fallout 4, in my opinion:
1) Settlement system:- Although this a great gameplay mechanic, it has been implemented poorly. First, it forces a player to defend a settlement randomly within a limited period of time, which is tolerable in non-survival difficulties. But if you are playing in survival mode, you have to drop whatever quest you are following are rush to the settlement. Furthermore, you have to reach this settlement despite the fact your missile turret system can take down all the enemies without you having to shoot a single bullet. Second, there are radiant quests that settlers or Preston give you, which usually involve clearing a location of enemies that can 'threaten' the settlement or rescuing a kidnapped settler. Why bother installing a dozen of missile turrets to protect the settlement?
2) Main quest line:- I think the main quest line is great until you meet the institute. It creates a mystery about the institute and builds suspense regarding the organization. Then, everything falls apart about the institute, mostly due to reasons you discuss in the video where the institute lacks a coherent motivation. Most technologically advanced organization issues laser pistols that shoot white lasers instead of red.
3) Assualt rifle:- The weapon with the best stats but worst visuals
One problem I do have is with the Vans perk. Why waste one of the perk slots on what is literally the clairvoyance spell from Skyrim? When I saw the perk in promos for the game, I thought it was gonna allow you to use a car like in fallout 2.
Nah. In that case they would've called it CARS. 😂
New Vegas just feels better to me without mods too, it feels a lot more wasteland like and a bit more dark, I liked all the DLCs and the combat felt meaty and effective. Fallout 4 just feels too colourful and lacks the intriguing story elements
i can agree with that. fallout 4 did to fallout 3/NV what diablo 3 did to diablo 2... added a whole lot of color at the expense of storytelling and atmosphere
@@decheeser i also miss diablo 2
@@decheeser Bethesda's developers truly have no idea what the concept of Fallout is anymore, if they ever even did, in the first place. They appear to see it as a silly, goofy theme park filled with references and wacky little events where players can go full Call of Duty.
I like the skills but don’t like attachments have crazy boost added to them like magic. When they were making fallout 4 I was hoping for 3/Nv with slightly better graphics and slightly more realistic. Nowadays I just want it to play like lou2 with skills and have a world as immersive as rdr2 with the environment of fallout and it’s lore
8:03 Specifically, the entire class of "bladed melee weapons" has a grand total of *four* attachments available, and even that's generous, since two of the attachments can only be placed on one weapon each.
Also, sometimes when you click to attack with a melee weapon, the game just, doesn't register it. (This is a personal issue, but shooting always works fine for me, so it's not a mouse issue.)
I learned to save my game in doors never saving outside and that is because of the huge load times
I don't disagree with you. But there's so much more depth to the wrongness in some cases already. LOL Someone really needs to slap the crown off of Godd Howard and spend some time with the fans or something. We can talk for hours about everything wrong, but I can sum it up like this: Lasers have recoil and weapon spread the likes of which even ballistic weapons don't suffer from, you can build a backyard nuclear reactor from a board game and a couple of coconuts, and the most scientifically brilliant and technologically advanced faction in the game has the worst weapons and motives to ... do ... totally random things? Not a blessed thing about Fallout 4 makes a lick of sense. It has great potential, but $#!7 leadership guiding it.
I think laser weapons having recoil was a decision made on purpose to make them feel better to use. In the same way, most FPS games give rocket launchers extreme recoil to make them feel more powerful, even though there would be very little recoil in real life.
I bought an extra SSD to soley play this game. I had a SSD for OS only and it was too small to install FO4. It was 250GB and besides of 30GB of the vanilla game, I installed more than 100GB of mods. I restrained since then but some people installed over 200GB of mods. I have no idea what they have done to FO4. Now I play it on a bigger SSD, but that was my first expience with SSD.
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I cannot fuckin stand how every weapon has a left sided bolt/charging handle. Every time you rack a bolt action you take your hand off the body of the rifle. It’s so weird to me. As a left handed person, I WISH left handed configurations where that common with IRL guns.
It's really common in FPS games, because it adds visual interest to the guns.
@@anon9469 it adds retarded interest to the guns
thankfully gone are animations from 2006 where gun would cover entire screen during the animation
@@anon9469 And most importantly, makes animating easier. We all know that's the primary reason for Bethesda.
@@jharju2352 It... doesn't, though? It'd be easier to put the bolt on the *right* hand side, where it's hard for the player to see and so sloppy animations would go unnoticed.
@@FredBilliards10925 The review is for the base game of Fallout 4, not "Fallout 4 after fans spent years removing every problem and adding content".
Fallout 4 is very enjoyable with mods but literally unplayable without them
Really? I've gone through the game about 2 or 3 times and I enjoy it every time. I don't play games with mods cause; 1: I never have had access to mods before because that requires internet, and 2: I realize that games are completely fantastical and don't need to be accurate at all for me to enjoy. If I'm playing a video game I'm doing it to escape reality for x amount of time. It's the same way when I read a good book. They don't have to be realistic in any way, shape, or form for me to enjoy them. It's different if I'm reading an autobiography, But I don't play video games for the realism. So I'm not going to complain and whine when something isn't completely realistic. I also grew up poor, so I'm grateful for any video game or movie entertainment that I can get.
@@bookworm6543 I played and have way other games like fallout new Vegas which made me see how unfun and boring fallout 4 and all the potential it could’ve had if you like the game good for you but once you start using mods going back to vanilla is impossible
@@rykerz105 I've played fallout 3 and new Vegas and I love those just as much as I love fallout 4. I also love all the BioShock games and so many people complained about 2 and infinite. In my opinion, I just hate when people complain about realism in video games. That aren't meant to be realistic, just fun. If a person is going to complain about that, then they might as well not ever watch movies or read books, unless you are trying to make something historically accurate. That I consider different. I'm sorry, I don't mean it as a jab at you. It's just frustrating when people don't seem to appreciate the basics of a game. I do think there are things that could have been improved to all the games, but all-in-all I enjoyed them all in their own way.
@@bookworm6543 it’s not the realism I’m complaining about with fallout 4, it’s that the game was meant to make the money so quality did not come first I can’t be mad about that because I would do the same thing if I was the company, they gotta make money and they succeeded. I could go on and on about what’s wrong with fallout 4 but it’s all over RUclips
@@bookworm6543 and when it comes to realism you gotta understand fallout 4 emphasis on combat is much more in that game than the other and having bullet sponge enemies ruins the fun and immersion of the game even through it markets itself as a rpg
Bethesda made Fallout 4 a mystery game, assuming that their customers were above average intelligence. No, we just wanted to stop around in Power Amour and kill every living thing. Sparky the dog? Blammo. Erickson the Supermutant? Blammo. The Sentry Bot guarding the little girl? BLAMMO! All the scientists who are surviving in prosperity? SUPER BLAMMO!
And you can't tell us that the game is about ethics and moral decisions. We simply won't hear that!
imo, the triggermen feel out of place. But only because they're essentially just raiders wearing "nice" clothe.
they dont feel at all like a mafia.
its the same with gunners, they're just high-tech raiders.
also, what the hell is up with the fact that there are more raiders in the commonwealth than settlers? same applies with gunners, and hell i think even triggermen nearly outnumber settlers.
SOMEONE FINALLY MENTIONED QUINCY!
I cleared it WITH Preston and he says nothing.
When some talk about the game being "dumbed" down. Their talking about the RPG mechanics and the story. People also complained that the gunplay in New Vegas was clunky and it " improved" a bit in Fallout 4. By sacrificing the Storytelling and consistency with Fallouts 1 and 2. The only way im able to turn Fallout 4 into a better game is by modding it. Extended Dialogue Interface, and adding back in the perk tree from New Vegas among other story/quest mods.
Only thing I disagree is combat. Is it weird sometimes when the ghouls lunge fifteen feet, sure. But the rest of it was amazing and a big step for the franchise.
Regarding combat, speak for yourself, I love using melee with Blitz and the game is on easy mode.
Just one hit sneak kill the Super Mutant suiciders and get a free mini nuke.
I always figured the institutes motivation was scientific progress at all costs. I mean sure it's cartoonish to have the main villains be a bunch of mad scientists but so is a 1950"s themed post nuclear apocalypse world where people sometimes go into orbit when shot,(which is kind of entertaining).
If the game intends me to find, and eventually run The Institute as the ideal main story line....why is there nothing for me to do as the secret Emperor of Boston? One passive aggressive radio broadcast and thats it.
Also, my favorite thing with the radiant quest is how many quests are either "radiant quests with a fixed location" or "main quests that feel like a radiant quest".
For the first one, most settlements seem to have a quest they always send you on (Tenpines sends you to Corvega unless you disrupt them, Oberland to Dunwich Borers, Warwick to Wilson Automatoys, County Crossing to the National Guard Training Yard, the Slog to Breakheart Banks, and that place in the far south sends you to Suffolk County Charter School), but they're never fleshed out at all. It's "go here, kill this". The worst part is how Into the Fire (the Finch Farm quest) shows how a few added lines of dialogue and a single added scene (confronting Slag) turns a generic shooting gallery into a genuine questline.
Meanwhile, both the "find Kellogg" and "find the Courser" quests have a set-up that'd allow them to take place anywhere, using in-world clues to track your target down, allowing a wide variety of confrontations... but they're always at the same location, so you just fast-travel there and ignore the search entirely.
Amen to basically all of this. Fallout 4 is only a decent game when you mod the ever-lovin' out of it. Otherwise it's incredibly boring and only worth playing through once to quickly wrap up the main story. It's indeed half-baked.
The only mods I used on New Vegas were a weather mod, unlimited companion mod, and a couple of other minor tweaks.
4? My mod list is dozens deep, including huge overhaul mods.
My favorite faction, The Minutemen, & my favorite character, Preston Garvey, really got the short end of the stick. They ain't just half-baked like the overall game, they were never taken out the freezer. No wonder poor Preston gets so much hate; he's a flat "good guy" that serves as a radiant quest dispenser & the Minutemen are flat as Kansas. They don't even get heavies or special forces like the others!
So in comes We Are the Minutemen, to actually flesh out the faction and make it fun to be The General.
In comes Sim Settlements 2, All Settlements Extended, et al to fix the busted settlement system - making it actually fun, like SimCity post-apocalypse. Which is what it should have been from the get-go.
In comes Project Valkyrie *to literally fix the main questline & ending*, because even *that* makes no sense (why can't you simply capture the Institute rather than pointlessly & wastefully blowing up the only truly clean place in the wasteland full of valuable science?).
I could go on and on. There's so much I have not brought up that it ain't even funny, but this is just a RUclips comment, not my own video or a blog. But the fact is, Bethesda relied on the fans to literally *finish their game*. Which is absolutely puhhhhh-thetic. 💁🏿♂️
~ Mesyn
Preston Garvey has this really awkward charaterization where he's wedged in between "being an actual coherent character with his own backstory" and "being a guy who tells you to go help settlements on loop".
I have around 2k hours in fallout 4 and ive never heavily modded my game
I guess its just not for everyone
@@8bitblank Honestly, how? I could barely muster a full playthrough out of it.
Its a pretty good video my dude.
Fallout 4 in short is a wasted oportunity, I like the game but had so much space for improvment
This is how I fell about all of the games (except for 1) honestly.
I'm in the first hours of a play through, with a heavily modded game, I've installed it from a backup. First, I've played it to Concorde without mods on Ultra with the "ultra" HD textures (but it's just a memory leak), but the game looks like shit as it looked like shit at release day. Todd: "We didn't care so much about the graphics, we cared about other things." Which things? There is literally nothing more than barely acceptable in this game, riddled with bugs, holes, and bad decisions. No function in this game works like expected: Because of bugs, because of bad decisions, because of not understanding at all how it should work, because the function was not completed, and/or because of performance issues.
The workshop system is an example of it: Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of building a wall around a nice place and to start a new settlement in the apocalypse, it's very immersive. But I lost the count of how many mods, FOSE plugins, interface files, and INI tweaks I needed to complete the function. I've reworked the workshop system myself, based on the scripts from the community patch. Most people have no idea how they screwed it up, their scripts are a joke, or even malware when it comes to performance. If they're laughing about you when trying to get a job as a web developer, try it at Bethesda, they have no standards. And I'm glad that they don't let you near a nuclear plant anyway, because we would have Fallout now.
No holstered weapons. No holstering possible from the fav menu. No drinking animations on most water sources. No... Goddammit, Fallout 3 had drinking animation for toilets. And you probably could holster weapons in Oblivion. Bite me, Bethesda. Bite me, Todd.
My theory: Because we didn't serve them the shit storm they deserved, we got Dogshit 76.
I’m not too bothered by synths having infinite energy as there are issues that are worse and I don’t think it’s that big of a deal compared
Frost basically answers the question of what the world is like when society collapses and nukes fall. It's brutal.
there is a very good plot in the institute, it has been a strong organization that is on the way to collapse, this has happened in all great powers in history that have fallen, the technology has been good but there has been chaos between the various factors and that's it with. and they from the beginning when they let you out that you will later take over and fix so that everything will be fine again for them in the future. this is what they say in various dialogues in the game and they want you to see how bad man is living now in the world. I think the plot is good. on the other hand, all the bugs that make certain things not work are a big problem when it comes to extra material etc. and that you can't clean up everywhere but have to add mods, is bad.
No. The author is right. The Institute makes absolutely no sense. It has no strategic goals, no reason for being. It has no logic.
I thought father was planning to download himself into the kid and resume living. I also have a pet theory all the humans have been replaced by synths in the institute and they just don't know it.
Also one thing that bugs me is no one cleans anything. You'd think they would clean stuff up, scrap stuff.
That whole robot race track is wasted. Same with the glowing sea stuff.
On PC I literally have to go into notepad to change the resolution then load the game and it’s usually still wrong. Then I get it right and load in and the fucking locks are invisible
Ok heres my 2 cents,
The big idea behind the fallout games is that you get a choice. You get to dictate the fate of the game world that you find yourself in. Fallout 4 only gives the illusion of this. Essential characters, no rep. system, no traits or skills, and a fairly linear story (maybe too much so), all take away from games past, for the only reason I see being to speed up production time. Hell, the only reason I find myself coming back to the game is to muck around with the settlement building system or the gunplay / gun workshopping (They did both of theses pretty well). The game had a good base but was missing its soul, which could have easily been fixed by adding an underlying theme and actually having a choice in-game. Every location in Fallout has an ‘underlying theme’ e.g. Cowboys in FNV or FO2 being militaristic. As old mate said in the video, the triggermen could have been expanded on more, giving the game its theme, the mobster fallout game. Also I reckon adding a ‘realism’ game mode would be awesome (realism being harder than survival), where there is lowered carry weights, food and water consumption, temperature management, sleep requirements, etc,
Fallout 4 gives you a lot of choices. It just never gives you a *meaningful* choice.
You have a variety of different ways you can tell Kellogg you're here to kill him.
You have three different ways to reach the same ending cutscene.
You can say whatever the hell you want to NPCs, even to the point of telling them directly not to give you things, and they'll just smile and hand over the pre-decided quest rewards.
@@anon9469 i love failout 4's choices
- help us
- NO
*objectives updated: help them.
@@ryszakowy "I am a completely unknown person who has arrived at your secret base out of nowhere, somehow knew the password, and told you to your face that I have no quarrel with your enemies, I ideologically disagree with you, and I am not going to help you."
"Yeah ok, but look, we want to recruit you anyway."
regarding the loading times: you dont need an SSD, since the loading times are, like the physics, tied to the framerate. There are 2 mods that adress this issue by disabeling v-sync while in a loading screen. It is ludicrous how fast this game can load, even in the lawless lands of donwtown Boston. The two mods are "Load Accelerator" which only adresses the loading screens, an the "High FPS Physics Fix" which covers much more issues with the game.
10:04 - 10:32 That's literally the perfect and ideal formula for an FPS Action RPG. I just can't understand why they don't make the games like this.
You sound like you give up on life in general a long time ago. Like an energy vampire 🤣
Issues: playing dollhouse.. (settlement building,)
With how many modders that they'll hire/steal from, it amazes me that won't do that for writers.
Horizon is a hardcore survival RPG, not focused on just being an Action game
8:45 I gotta disagree on that one, the "dumbing down" argument is not the worst, most vapid argument out there; the "businesses exist to make money" is the worst.
A game company does *not* exist to make a profit - it exists to make a game. The money was supposed to be compensation for the resources, manpower, and time spent making the game. And whether you made a big game that appeals to everyone, or a niche game that appeals to a small group of people doesn't matter, as long as you are compensated appropriately for the work done.
You pretty much covered every issue I have with fallout 4. I like the game, but there are times when I hate it, or I'm going that's it. The triggermen are a perfect example, pretty much all of them are pre-war mobsters. There could've been triggerman owned businesses, like gambling dens, brothels, loansharking, protection racket, hitman. You could be a hitman, or debt collector for a loanshark. The triggermen could've been a more organized, profit driven gang, trying to push out the less organized, kill everything in sight, burn it to the ground, raider gangs. But no, that's too much work for Bethesda.
its impossible to explore all the content in this game bug free in 1 playthrough
And yet, the game has had stable player count for 7 years.
Fallout 4 is just THE most wasted potential in Media i have ever seen.....
The Weapons and Clothing are......
The Story was really boring the second time you play it.
The NPCs (Human, SupahMutants, Animals etc.) looked kind of weird?
The Factions are REALLY dull (i mean look at the BoS in 3 and NV)
The Combat is just not enough RPG nor Modern Shooter.
The Settlements are so broken and dull.
and by all that they try to crash our non Creationclub Mods, that you ABSOLUTELY need!....
This video is great you're one of the best game reviewers out there actually you are currently the best game reviewer keep it up and on this level
The aggression with which you said the game runs like dogshit... I felt that. One of the biggest reasons I never want to play FO4 again.
It's boring.
It's not a good shooter.
It's not a good RPG.
It's art design is disgusting.
I run Fallout 4 on an SSD and it's slow. I load up Skyrim's special edition (which uses Fallout 4's updated 64 bit engine) and the loading times are way better. So I think it's more of a problem with optimization that not even an SSD can fix. No this is a problem with THEM.
5:10 100 percent. I originally thought that having a laptop with a 3050 and an i7-11800h or a desktop with a 3060 12gb and an i9-10850k would mean I could play the game with zero issues. I played the game through middle and high school; first on an original xbox one and ending with the series s. I had thought the issues werent as prevalent on pc. boy, was I terribly wrong. I was still in the super-cope phase of being a bethesda gamer and didnt actually understand the scope of the problems until I saw your videos and actually experienced the issues myself.
one the whoe 10:20 point on combat..... its an rpg game.... why would they get rid of the rpg part? worst take in this, just wanted to ppoint that out
Played it on Xbox when it came out and literally just bought it on PC finally yesterday. Looking forward to console commands and using the PS5 controller on PC.
The setting of fallout really just doesn't lend itself well into RPG mechanics - even if it is a sci-fantasy. It's one of the more grounded and rather limited sci fantasy settings, but it just so happens to start off as mostly an RPG game, to eventually get picked up by a company that specializes in 1st person open world RPGs.
Unfortunately however, with the skillset Bethesda has access to and the engine that they use - it's probably way too tough of an ask for them to actually bother leaning into the hardcore shooter aspect of their fallout installments (Unless they can somehow just reel their entire id software team to help make fallout 5). That or they fear that they might end up having to compete with actual hardcore survival games like stalker (even though there are probably more people out there trying to turn Fallout into stalker than there are people who actually play stalker). And it's not like they'd have a reason to bother considering that their fanbase doesn't ask that from them and can drown out the voices of those who ask for more and aren't content with outdated shooting mechanics.
I currently have a Samsung ssd, a Ryzen 5600x, and an RTX 2070 in my PC. And the load times are still utter shyte. Running it on a 2015 machine with an hdd was abject misery
yang kutahu karena ada sistem modifikasi maka mereka tak menggunakan banyak fitur seperti FO3 dan FO New Vegas sehingga tak terlalu memakan terlalu banyak performa di awal
Load times DO suck, but never had a problem with framerate. An 8Gb video card makes a huge difference. If you're going to run off an SSD that is also your OS drive, the minimum you should have is 1Tb. Everything these days is bloated in size and will eat up your HD/SSD space in no time, even without the game. Playing this game on a game machine is a mistake IMO, even though they made it to play on several machines.
for me i think a big issue is sellement building like its honestly extremely bare bones funcational but its such a big part of the game you are borderline froced to do it even though its frusturating to use and limited and infact has little to no impact on the story it just sort of exists as an optional thing which is kind of shoved in your face and not even explained or introduced very well heck its barely introdrouced at all you are just sort of given a small tutoral and basically told to use trial and error to experiment and figure out what works and what does not.(and froced to work with a ton of limiations which can make building a base frusturatrating)
Problem with 4 plot holes
4 speech choices
Vault 111 sometimes doesn't open cause you used that name before
I running 132 fps it taxing my eyes Mech5 serious taxs my brain
I had clean my computer too get back to normal
I don't run mods
I have new i5 with 5ghz of vid ram and 32ghz of ram
Biggest issue g key locked too many fuction
I got creation club all but skins add days to my journey
Tigger men have quest but have done yet
76 where do I begin
Hey man, great video. I'm curious to what the track ID is when you start talking about the institute. around @11:30
The track is called "Science & Secrecy"; it's from the Fallout 4 OST.
I think chasing after realistic shooters, and appealing to mods like Horizon and Frost, defeats the point of Fallout being Fallout. Why not flock to those games in the first place: Call of Duty, Battlefield, Escape from Tarkov?
They're not open world and don't have any RPG elements, that's the problem for me.
I like the combat in FO4, it stets it apart from other modern military shooters. And to be honest melee weapons are just not a viable option in a country filled with guns.
Survival mode with no VATS and any mod that removes XP from crafting makes the combat more fun and challenging. Also a few gun mods.
Follow MOFAM mod list guide on Nexus Mods.
It helped me fix almost all performance issues.
Plus: I moved FO4 installation on to an SSD and loading times are less that 10 seconds.
was running almost out of enemies. at some point.
I think the synths should have something more to make them interesting. For example that the institute wanted to pass human conscience to a synth body. The people they are replacing is not only to have more control over the wasteland, but also they need test subjects to pass their conscience to a robot body. This would be an awesome final goal for the institute. They believe the human body has to many limitations and is too weak that's why they want all of humanity to transfer their minds to the synths. (wrote this whole comment before he said the same thing jaja)
Great video my dude.
not really a solution, but DXVK seems to fix most of the framerate and FLEX.
Also I can't tell if most of the complaints are hyperbole, or if the railroad, Nick's character story, the running gag of vault-tec-esk experiments for the sake of experimenting, the fact thermodynamics has little to nothing to do with aging, and the concept of "bring a knife to a gun fight", are all completely lost on ya, because the story, even from only in-game content, is pretty solid when you actually take time to listen to the characters talk, it's kinda trash, but it's solid trash.
Make part 2 you legend
Soon...
10:00 yup nailed it, that's certainly what I want(ed) from the game. Tactical, light survival, strong story.
you say mele isnt really an option, but with the strength baseball perk that increases you mele attacks and allows you to knock off the enemies head, the luck perk that gives you a chance to make your enemies explode in a bloody mess, and with Atom's Judgement from far harbour, my mele build is kind of the most OP build ive ever made.
Unarmed and melee builds in 3 and
NV shits on 4 any day
@KudoRedfox 100% agree. You can make mele builds in NV that are arguably, boringly OP. Like you don't even get excited for a hard fight anymore because there are no hard fights anymore. I've seen people one hit Legate Lanius, and at that point... the game gets kinda boring. I guess what I'm saying is I think fallout 4 is a little more balanced as a game. Even though you can make OP mele builds, you can't make a mele build that's so OP that every enemy becomes a rinse and repeat, just gotta get it done, boring kinda thing.
"200 views", my man you got 7.2 Thousand views. Congrats!
Fallout tactics would be a great resource for the actual recreation of "realistic" Fallout combat.
You're not wrong, just a little late to the party. Most of the performance stuff has been fixed for years now...and the gunplay is passable. But you can't fix the rest...the bad writing, the poor planning, the pointlessness of the Institute, the empty quests. I blame Emil and his KISS design philosophy.
To be honest the Institute was an absolute potentially game changing villain just turned to a oh scary robot people that have no goal lol. Like u said brother.
I would have done something akin to: 1. The institute kidnaps raiders, cannibals and other humans no one will ever miss (outside their own factions [which there would be a raider faction]), and synths would take their place, becoming "raiders".
2. The kidnapped "victims" turned into super mutants. Because who hates the super mutants the most? The Brotherhood of Steel. Giving the super mutants an enemy to focus on (go to war with) would make the B.O.S focus heavily on them, and not any other faction. Giving the institute time to prepare for their end goal.
3. The institute's end goal. Is has to make sense, it NEEDS to make sense. So...genocide of the inferior human race (or survivors). Hear me out. The institute has had time to study all sorts of sciences, hell they created implants to help humans achieve super human status. They have created A.I. synths that can look absolutely human. They are a "superior" race of humans and what better way to help mankind come into a new scientific age? Wipe out the useless, inferior ones. But they need time. To build an army. Or a mega-virus? Or even a super weapon. But time is their weakness. So they stage a 2 front distraction, use synths to become raiders and scout other raiders and settlements. And kidnap more raiders
To make this even more actual world effecting... The player would run into up to 3 maybe 4 of these synth raiders, and discover they're not humans. After discovering who to talk to and picking up a trail, the institute sends some super mutants followed by pure gen 1 and 2 synths to "quiet" the player. It is then people should piece why would super mutants not attack the synths? Why ambush a single person with So many enemies. Then over time, the institute has to pick up pace and a timer starts. I'd say 2 weeks in game should be plenty to actually figure out where they are holed up, kick ass and blow up the place.
If the timer hits zero, and the player has not finished off the institute, game over. They win. The player dies, the people across the wasteland die. Honestly it should be set to game over, erases saves so people have to start over. Seems mean and kind of a dick thing to do, but it is an incentive. The player actually saves the wasteland. Actions that have both consequences and/or rewards. This sadly could still work with the whole father looking for son B.S. but not really important lol
"hey hey people from planet earth" you assume I'm from earth?
why Tod lie ?
tod: why earth is flat ?
bro, fallout series is a testing ground for next tes and what they can get away with, they test the market with it
to be fair i do feel like most of fallout is magical bullshit to acomidate not just the plot but the fact that its a video game. however i think this is more obvious going from fallout 3 forward and yes even new vegas has some of these issues too.
I always choose institute because the other options are psychopath, stooge, or settlement oh I forgot nuka world which I always pick with institute, so I am science raider
I was super engrossed into FO4 until one point. This happens to every dang game I play sadly and its called simulation sickness. FO4 for me was kool until I was walking past a fridge in middle of an open lot and heard a kids voice. I opened up the fridge and out pops a mutated boy who was stuck in there for 200 years. I quit and uninstalled the game right there as I am one of the few who suffer severely from sim sickness. I can tolerate some FO4 frost as that does away with the awful writing of BGS.
Institute - dude, have you ever heard the visions of the WEF or more specifically the visions of Klaus Schwab? After this, you won't be surprised at the Institute's goals. People are weird, the rich and powerful are even weirder.
I agree theres issues with every game not just Bethesda games. But If you're a stickler for graphics, Bethesda studios isn't for you. Idk if you haven't noticed but there wasn't a real difference from fallout 3 to new Vegas as far as load times and graphics go. I'd much rather deal with long loading times than short loading times and bad/ boring gameplay like most single player RPGs. Take borderlands franchise for example. 1 step forward and multiple steps backwards..
Ps good video tho!
I somewhat agree that the combat can be a little bit clunky but the fix for that isn’t turning it into every other game out in the market right now. Fallout does not need to be the type of shooter you’re describing and I hope it never is.
Also claiming that synths are “magical bs” is a really bad argument, Synths just like many other technological advancements in the game are far fetched and seem impossible to us in the real world. Fallout 4 is almost 300 years ahead of us in a nuclear society. Synths are not a crazy invention to imagine especially 300 years ahead of us. The whole game is magical bs that’s kind of the point in a fictional game. Shooting up a stimpak and healing your limbs and overall health is magical bs as well but it’s not an issue because that is fallout.
Great video man. You should have a lot more subs than you do, but they'll come soon!