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Fallout 4 (PS4)

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Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Game Details: As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a
As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Genre(s): General Role-Playing Western-Style
Number of players: No Online Multiplayer
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Critic Reviews
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87
Metascore Generally favorable reviews
52 Positive Ratings 89%
6 Mixed Ratings 10%
0 Negative Ratings 0%
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Slant Magazine
Nov 10, 2015
"If traveling through Bethesda's version of Boston for 60 hours has taught me anything, it's that the little things are what matter." ... Read full review
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3DJuegos
Nov 9, 2015
"With its vast open world and its endless possibilities, Fallout 4 is a must have for RPG fans." ... Read full review
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Vandal
Nov 9, 2015
"Fallout 4 makes you say goodbye to the rest of the world and immerse yourself in its universe for hours and hours. Its powerful virtues compensate for its obvious shortcomings." ... Read full review
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Game Revolution
Nov 9, 2015
"Fallout 4 is a roaring response to criticism that the series has ignored its qualities as a shooter in favor of its deeper and stronger RPG roots. Nearly every design change in Fallout 4 poises the game as a more streamlined modern shooter with high production value across the truly open-world Commonwealth wasteland." ... Read full review
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Atomix
Nov 18, 2015
"A thrilling, engaging, post-apocalyptic Boston awaits. Dark humor combines with a serious narrative that makes us think about the value of human life in this huge glitchy world that is barely contained within a game disc. " ... Read full review
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Playstation Official Magazine UK
Dec 16, 2015
"A strong return for the franchise, boasting incredible customisation, a fascinating world and brutal yet brainy shooting, slightly tarnished by lacklustre AI and tedious inventory management. [Christmas 2015, p.88]"
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RPGamer
Nov 9, 2015
"The problem comes from the fact that this feels like more of the same, not a step forward. Fallout 4 doesn't break the same new ground Fallout 3 did with its jump to 3D, and its storytelling and intricacy of choice falls short of what New Vegas offered...Fallout 4 just feels safe, even when trying new things." ... Read full review
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1,141 Mixed Ratings 19%
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rewwex
Jun 5, 2017
I'm a PC gamer and this was one of the first console shooters I tried. I had hard time taking over the controls but otherwise the game isI'm a PC gamer and this was one of the first console shooters I tried. I had hard time taking over the controls but otherwise the game is solid. No crashes and load times are manageable. If you love Fallout, you love this one too.… Expand
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Dal_ReviewedDat
Nov 12, 2015
45 hours in:

I won't lie, I am a huge fan of Fallout 3 and since the announcement I've had the count-down clock on my mobile, and I've45 hours in:

I won't lie, I am a huge fan of Fallout 3 and since the announcement I've had the count-down clock on my mobile, and I've tried to realistically manage my own expectations as I did fear that they'd ruin a great franchise. So, as you can see I'm giving it a 10 and this is for numerous reasons.

If you are a hardcore Fallout 1 and 2 or Tactics fan, and FO3 was a huge disappointment for you, this is not the game for you.
The game feels like a natural progression from FO3, with most of the structure unchanged and changes that have been made have been done so to make the game more fluent, perhaps in this it's lost a little of it's tactical strategy. For instance, v.a.t.s is still used in the game, but the game no longer freezers still. This means in effect you no longer get to pause the game when in combat and assess each and every enemy and think of your way in or way out of the current scenario. Instead, the enemies continue to pursue or aim/fire at you but in slow-mo, this adds a whole heap of pressure onto your decision making and it will probably see you hip-firing like mad once your AP points are out - but is this a flaw in the game? No, not at all in my opinion. Fallout 4 is hard. Most encounters before reaching level 25 feel like stacked odds against you, and dying becomes a regular event (top tip - quicksave, a lot!)

I read a review (Guardian I think) that mentioned that FO4 feels more like Fallout 3.75 - and I get this. The world itself, although stunning and vibrant, feels like FO3. If you've not seen the comparison screenshots of say Dogmeat from PS3 to PS4, you can see the graphics have been updated 'just enough' to get away with being new gen. While the map is bigger than that in FO3, it is remarkably more vertical (!) and you will find many buildings taller than ten-penny tower, and you will find more caves deeper than FO3 vaults.

As an RPG, the levelling is a lot more straight forward and directly mixes perks with SPECIAL stats. Choosing wisely early on and pre-planning your character goes a long way. To be a jack-of-all-trades doesn't work as your damage will be to low against harder enemies. This means a lot of thought is worth putting in to your development from level 5 onwards!

It's all about that Base:

Hell yeah. The base building option in FO4 is a great addition. It means you can build an entire town from scratch, if you've the resources. Unlike FO3, everything you pick up can become useful. To be able to scrap anything into its basic form ie wood, steel, ceramics etc; means that scavenging is far more rewarding and becomes a task to perform ritually if you are focused on developing your new town (!). 45hours in, I can honestly say at least 8 hours play was building and scavenging. I really enjoyed this, as occasionally frustrating as it is when fences etc dont snap into place, you can pick it up and remove it so easily you can end up, as I have, with a base looking as good as anything already standing in the world. It's also really fun defending the bases once the raiders come charging in. Remember though, this is totally optional and you don't have to make bases.

I do feel reading reviews on here though (ridiculous to score this game a 3 or below!) and most of the haters seem to have lost what RPG means. As a gamer who's played decades of RPGs, I find this style a joy to play as it has the right mix of action, adventure and exploration that sucks me deeply into the world Bethesda have created. I think people like the ability to freeze the game and play it almost turn-based still like a strategy game, perhaps players that don't like the frantic moments. But evading death has sometimes been the best moments in the game for me, and yes, sometimes I've taken advantage of flawed AI, but I did so in F3 also and I think it's part of using the environment to favour you.

Glitches. Glitches everywhere. One thing I did notice from my first few hours is seeing a graphical glitch is going to be part of the experience, end of. Most of the glitches I've noticed are within chats with NCPs, the most common of which is when you start talking a little to close to someone they lean in and their face disappears. No glitch in 45hrs though as prevented me completing a quest or made an enemy impossible to kill. So, I've overlooked them and just hope they patch them up for the future.

Overall, FO4 offers much the same as FO3. Don't buy if you expect a whole new game, it really isn't - but in my opinion, FO3 is one of the greatest games ever made. Had they took the model and changed it radically, people would complain and hardcore fans would cryout. Instead they built on what they do best, and have offered a potential unlimited experience in FO4. With DLC and future modding being available (and free) for PS4, this game I maybe still playing in 1000hrs+ time.

I don't say it often, but I love this game & perhaps it's nostalgia, but I missed Fallout!… Expand
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tdsmith5556
Nov 10, 2015
Bought the game a five hours ago and I'm going to give a 100% honest review about it.

Fallout 4 is a massive game. In the strategy guideBought the game a five hours ago and I'm going to give a 100% honest review about it.

Fallout 4 is a massive game. In the strategy guide there's roughly 150 quests and I estimate the map is about as big as skyrim's, but there seems to be a higher density of areas to explore with fewer mountains and whatnot in the way to make the map feel bigger than it actually is.

In comparison to previous Fallouts people keep saying it isn't a big step up. I disagree with them, but I will admit the facial expression are a bit stiff and lip syncing is a tiny bit off. Some people dislike the aesthetics of the game because they went with a much more punchy and bright color pallet rather than just make everything poop brown and puke green like Fallout 3. I actually enjoyed the more colorful environments.

Looking at the pc specs this game is technically graphically superior to any other game out right now even if some people are saying the graphics are not very good. I honestly thought the graphics looked amazing, but I'm just putting it out there that not everybody shares my opinion and some people think games like Witcher 3 actually have better graphics. Personally, I don't think it should matter all that much because it's really about gameplay, not graphics.

Gameplay wise what Fallout 4 brings to the table over previous games is a vastly improved combat system, much better balance regarding things like stimpacks and perks, and overall more challenge on higher difficulties. Gun play feels almost exactly like Call of Duty instead of very stiff and clunky like New Vegas. You definitely will feel noticeable improvements on how guns and things handle regarding sight clarity, draw animations, sway, recoil, and smoothness adjusting aim. Movement also feels more in line with Call of Duty. Sprint is in the game and is balanced by taking away action points to use in vats, a great mechanic imo that adds more fluidity and better pacing to everything. In other words you no longer have to worry about slowly plodding from one area to the next making for less overall downtime to deal with.

What this game offers over Destiny, which probably it's main competition atm is a much more engaging story and much much more content than Destiny could ever hope to deliver. I mean in comparison I finished Destiny including all story missions, all strikes, and the two raids in about 20 hours. The story missions in the vanilla game itself you could easily get through in about 5 hours. Even if all 150 quests take a half hour each you are still talking about 75 hours of content to go through so even the most viscous haters on here would have to admit at minimum this game at least offers a lot in quantity of content even if one could make an argument about the quality of it.

Sound wise Fallout 4 offers MUCH more voice actors than previous games leading to much more variations in how npcs interact. Games like Elder Scrolls online will recycle the same voice actors. It's not like that in this game. I also enjoyed how gun sounds have much more "oomph" than Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Everything sounded like it really had impact and the blood splatter in response seemed really satisfying. Unfortunately, didn't like the music track in the game so far, but oh well.

People on here are complaining about very specific nitpicky issues with the game like for instance the facial expression/lip syncing issue, a few specific non game breaking bugs, color aestetics, and blah, blah, blah.

All I got to say is please examine the facts for yourself. I encourage anybody reading this to just look at the amount of content and all the customization and what you are getting here and then decide based on that rather than some extremely specific little thing somebody is complaining about.

I assure you this game has a lot of bang to offer for your 60 bucks and well deserves 10/10 in my very honest opinion.… Expand
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GoucaX
Nov 23, 2015
After thousands of hours of previous Fallouts on PC I decided to give the console version of Fallout 4 a try. I'm impressed once again. TheAfter thousands of hours of previous Fallouts on PC I decided to give the console version of Fallout 4 a try. I'm impressed once again. The story is beautiful, well written and full of permanent choices that change the script dramatically, so you'll want to play this through a few times. Game mechanics simply work with a couple of exceptions:

- Quests are bugging, so expect to reload the last save very often
- Companions are bugging and disappearing

The major problem that lowers the grade to 8 (this would be a clear 10 otherwise) is the unbearable time that the engine takes to load the environment. Right now I'm at level 40, having progressed about half of the game so far. The loading screens with the standard 500GB HDD take about 3-5 mins each, lasting longer every level.

Overall, a very solid game. Probably gets the GOTY-award hands down.… Expand
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Lightningpaper
Nov 13, 2015
This game does not deserve the negative reviews it's been getting. Half of the issues seem to be about the graphics, which when you considerThis game does not deserve the negative reviews it's been getting. Half of the issues seem to be about the graphics, which when you consider the amount of individual objects you're able to pick up (NO other games but those made by Bethesda do this with such detail), the graphics aren't all that bad. The game excels at allowing you to explore and collect and settlement creation is usually awesome.

But here are my gripes:

- TERRIBLE voice acting and facial animations. It's so bad that it takes you right out of the game.

- Menus and UI need a lot more polish, as comparing weapons and armor and crafting mods is extremely cumbersome.

- Load screens for entering buildings have been done away with for years in other games. Why is it so prevalent, even for tiny spaces in some cases?

- settlements are great but it's a bummer that existing structures can't be modified or improved within them. The mechanics and opaque UI detract significantly from my experience.

- so many mechanics, so few explanations. I've never had to google how to do things in a game as much as I have this one (running wires, comparing stats, settlers, etc.)

I'd still recommend the game though, issues notwithstanding.… Expand
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PatMc1896
Aug 1, 2020
Had good enough fun playing it for a while however the fact there is not much meaningful choices throughout the game bar at the end isHad good enough fun playing it for a while however the fact there is not much meaningful choices throughout the game bar at the end is frustrating. Far harbour dlc was interesting however the other ones I felt weren’t particularly great and can’t remember many things from them .… Expand
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jefferz
Apr 2, 2020
I'm going to be honest and say that I way so hyped when this game came out at first because I was a starved Fallout fan, but honestly, if youI'm going to be honest and say that I way so hyped when this game came out at first because I was a starved Fallout fan, but honestly, if you enjoy this game or even outright call it a fallout game, then the underlying concept of the fallout series obviously has gone over your head.

The only reason this game isn't considered **** is due to alot of ignorant gamers only having played Fallout 4 and not any other games.

It's a mediocre AAA game at best, probably why so many ignorant gamers enjoy it, because they've never explored anything else.

As a fallout game this just totally fails, don't buy it, and if you like the Fallout Franchise you shouldn't support this game at all… Expand
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