Fallout 4 - 2024 Impressions

[@Henderburn2]

The Storywealth mod collection from the Nexus basically solves the biggest problem I had with Fallout 4, adding reactive quests and emergent stories throughout the world. Started playing it this summer, I’m level 75 and I haven’t even recruited Nick yet.

[@dikamusic5475]

This sound very promising, can you please share your experience about added mods, just to know what mods are making difference so i can add them to my Magnum Opus list? tnx

[@Henderburn2]

@ there are more than 500 mods included in the Storywealth collection. So, no, take a look yourself at all the changes. To list the different mods and how I feel about them would be an hour-long KZbin video in itself.

[@dikamusic5475]

@ I am aware of that, and I already look at list. I just wanted to know if you have some specific quests in mind, that stands out. Thanks anyway

[@Henderburn2]

@ Tales From the Commonwealth is probably the one group that’s mandatory.

[@FluffyThieves]

Fallout 2 has been my favorite game since I was a kid, but this one is my favorite of the modern ones. Its just fun to pop an edible and just explore the world, do settlement stuff, and get extremely OP. I enjoy those aspects of it.

[@eliottdewitt893]

I did survival mode recently and it was hella fun, I decided to play it by going from place to the next nearest place, clearing the map, instead of beelineing quests and it was so much more fun I love it, playing it on survival actually made me afraid of the dangers, most things insta kill you so you have to be extra sneaky and wear power armour

[@daniel.holbrook]

Trying to replay this game recently, the first few hours of more or less treating the game as an immersive sim on survival difficulty were a blast and places like Corvega and the whole town surrounding it have what feels like cohesive level design (!!!) it was scratching a specific itch that I usually get from games like Far Cry 2 But it still didn't take long for me to get tired of all the walking and all the procgen filler quests and bad writing and I gave up, sadly

[@pizzaman11]

I loved survival mode but unfortunately the low stability of the game made it aweful to play because of random crashes.

[@eliottdewitt893]

That's why I ignored the writing, the quests suck, but combat is fun, hunting wildlife for food was an aspect of fallout I never did before survival mode, the environment is cool enough and the combat was fun, focusing on that, it's a good game, settlment building is fun too, rebuilding the fort, we all wish fallout 4 was better in alot of ways but I don't think there's any other game hat scratches the itch that fallout 4 can

[@anarchistica]

Have you tried the Horizon mod? It expands many parts of the game, including making survival more interesting. Definitely would recommend it.

[@daniel.holbrook]

@@anarchistica I couldn't get into horizon when i tried it, felt like too much complexity and tedium

[@leestanford2452]

Fallout 4 is a crafting and gathering game, and when you embrace that and make it your primary driver, it’s quite good.

[@rattlehead999]

It's an action-fps first RPG game instead of an RPG first action-fps game and yes crafting, gethering and base building are great.

[@R-YR29]

It's a great map to explore the first time. Too bad most random encounters were ruined by a dlc for robots

[@SpecShadow]

this also it's weak RPG (dialogues are skippable - how such big, experienced company can have so terrible writers?) and weak Fallout

[@MerrillDragonAge]

Crafting gathering and exploration

[@MrMich1lol]

Nah, never crafted anything in f4 nor gathered that much, apart from regular normal loot.

[@nwahally]

What sold F4 for were 2 things. One: It is, to this day, the iteration where one of Bethesda's greatest strength, was stongest. Environmental storytelling. Rummaging through the wasteland and finding clues to the fates of its former inhabitants did more to me emotionally than 99% of all videogame quests. Finding the torn apart remnants of the Minutemen detatchment in the supermarket and listen to their struggle; a lone Raider grieving at the grave of his comrade-at-arms; learning how the Libertalia Raiders emerged; finding the mementos of a serial killer that's been dead 200 years; the runaway's holotape, detailing her being kicked out by her parents for getting pregnant on the eve of the nukes dropping. All of that, and so much more, is the masterclass for environmental storytelling in my book. Two: The rebuilding fantasy of the post-post-apocalypse. I played (and still play) F4 goin all-in to the Minutemen. Building prosperous, well-fortified settlements with numerous amenities, connecting them through trade and interdependence, welcoming all of Humanity, no matter if Synth, Ghoul or Vanilla. Everything I do a way to advance and protect the reemergence of secular, humanist civilization, pacifying the land as good as possible, founding colonies in Far Harbour & Nuka-World. I even continued one of my F4 campaignin Stellaris, as the "MinuteMan Concord", bringing the lessons learned from surviving the atomic auto-genocide to the galaxy and fouding an interstellar civilization of universal prosperity. Having a benevolent roleplay campaign of several hundred hours lead into a Grand Strategy campaign of another 100h is one of the most awesome gaming stories I ever got to tell. Finishing that was almost uniquely satisfying.

[@UlissesSampaio]

One: this! ❤

[@ferretmann3000]

Based

[@DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

I still love this game flaws an all, replayed recently and it still devoured hours of my day without me even realizing. Say whatever you will about Bethesda but they know how to create addicting gameplay loop.

[@user-jn3xv9qy9v]

Addicting game loop😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@aries4378]

Fallout 4 is great, if you haven't played a lot of games.

[@rp2974]

Fallout 4 is good if you haven’t played a good fallout game

[@DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

@ Being able to judge a piece of media by its own merits comes with maturity and a good dose of common sense, as opposed to taking stuff for granted and being an arrogant little sht about it...

[@realbillyb]

Fallout 4 is great when you don’t have someone in your ear telling you not to like it

[@Just-a-guy-187]

I had a blast with FO4. Gameplaywise the title was superb thanks to exploration, fighting, weapons, mods, settlements, DLCs - just to mention few. I even dare to say that story had some really good moments. Great sandbox game for sure - I still play it sometimes.

[@demonbox7780]

Probably the project (out of the 50-60 I'm credited on) I worked on for the longest, something like 16 months non-stop, by the end of it I promised myself I'd never play it, despite getting a free copy. How wrong I was, sure I still consdier it worse than the previous Fallout games (but I'm also an old gamer), but still ended up spending hundreds of hours in it over the years. No matter how simpler, streamlined BGS's games were becoming with each new release, until that point they still all had that something that kept me glued.

[@clarkmichaels822]

I got back to Fallout 4 with one of those overhaul mods one week before they dropped the patch which broke the mod and that's when I stopped playing Fallout 4 again. Standard Fallout 4 is a very generic action RPG in a cool setting.

[@AlexNV75]

Fallout 4 is my most played game of all time (1300hr) and I refuse to go back after they broke my 80 or so mod list…

[@paulharrison8379]

You could do as I did and buy the Fallout 4 game for £14.99 from GOG to easily install the old release before the most recent updates. I did this to allow me to install Fallout London. Your overhaul mod would also work.

[@DIAT0NIX_16]

Survival mode unlocks the brilliance of this game. It turns the exploration and crafting and inventory management and suspense up to 11.

[@Choteron3]

It was my first fallout. The exploration in this game is a blast.

[@randomusernameCallin]

For me a good RPG is about how you build your character and have it matter in the gameplay. In Fallout 4 and Skyrim it is so easy to change your character role in the game player and that they are not good in a RPG.

[@CurtOntheRadio]

I wish VATS was in all shooters. It's the thing I love most about FO 3/4.

[@BarendCombrink]

Same here. I was disappointed when I heard that it (or something like it) wouldn't be in Starfield.

[@AraneaPatiens]

I’m going to have to go play fallout 4 now. Played Fallout 3 and New Vegas a long time ago but never this one. I’m glad you let us see your triumph over that death claw at the end. This comment is primarily to boost engagement. Love your work, Mort!

[@Moosenthusiast]

Mort your here, great! Another settlement needs your help

[@MerrillDragonAge]

Survival mode makes it so much more fun. Even without making any progress storywise I found myself breaking down my playtime into sessions in which I would venture out into a previously unexplored part of the map and make a trip back to finish the session.

[@Odisseia-hh2td]

My main gripe with FO4 is that it takes so long to get a jet pack. Imagine zipping on the rooftops sooner. I had such a bast doing it.

[@billiammenzies3550]

This must have been interesting coming off of the back of the STALKER 2 review.

[@dedrinkc]

Thank you for the slightly longer outro. Already watched the video but still :)

[@thirtyeighteen]

I think what makes F4 great is the soundtrack. Really adds a lot to the general feeling.

[@FernandoIncetta]

I can remember my characters from the other fallout games in terms of builds and how they interacted with the world. But Fallout 4 is a blur, feels that a character that can do everything and can say nothing.

[@jamesbarksdale6537]

Do you know if the next gen graphics are a must have for this do they really change anything.

[@kylewatson4193]

​@jamesbarksdale6537 No, no they do next to nothing. Play what you can run a dn you'll have fun

[@KvDOLPHIN16]

Just watched the OG video. Definitely came a long way, but still a pleasure to watch

[@mrklogi]

I hate the settlement system so much and we'll never get another fallout without it...

[@looneypersoney]

For me, not the settlement It's Preston Garvey with his annoying repeating settlement trouble quest

[@zentun544]

I love the settlement system and i hope the next Fallout and Elder Scrolls have it lol

[@MrMich1lol]

It's a good thing it can be completely ignored apart from like 10 min mission where it's needed.

[@mrhypnagogia]

I like it

[@johnnycandles8675]

@@looneypersoney at the very start of the game when Preston calls to you from the top of the building just grab the musket outside and leave. You'll never have to hear from Preston for the rest of the game. Easily one of the best choices I made in Fallout 4.

[@Andrew-ey4ti]

I just finished playing Fallout 4 (PS5) for the first time. And it was amazing. Very much enjoyed it. The only problem I had was with the mission with Paladin Danse called Shadow of Steel where there is no option to get on the Vertibird. ( I have been told that this has been a bug since day 1)

[@HeavyMetalDuder]

man time flies... hard to believe that this came out 9 years ago

[@theodisius1]

Have you tried Survival mode? It's like night and day compared to normal difficulty. At least early on (levels 1-20), every fight is dangerous so must be approached with care (or avoided). And every power up (gear, perks) is so appreciated as you need every edge you can get. Survival also makes the settlement system meaningful, as these become little oases where you can sleep and replenish. On normal, Fallout 4 is ok - but its like being on a theme park roller coaster, where you charge through fights recklessly and quickly accumulate unwanted loot. On Survival, it's my favourite Fallout because it's so immersive.

[@MortismalGaming]

I have yeah

[@Zero_Zone.]

The sound of your voice is absolutely why I'm here. 😂

[@michaely6665]

Fallout 4 was maybe the first RPG where not been able to kill protected or essential characters really became obvious, as there were far too many protected characters, that were not essential to major quests.

[@oldben5363]

Its a great game, its just that the institute writer should be fired and that you should have met the minute men at their low in Quincy and not with a suit of power armor in a demo

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

This game was very disappointing for me, though not due to the hype people were riding before release. My expectation was for something between 3 and NV. Nothing groundbreaking but at least an improvement. But when I saw a crafting bench slowly revolve on the loading page like in Skyrim, my heart sank. I knew then and there that the RPG elements would be reductive and not expansive. Seeing the removal of skill points, bland perks, Yes and No dialogue options, and lack of choice only solidified my misgivings. I did give the game multiple tries, even enjoying the settlement building and exploration [The first time, as least]. The endings are lazy, and the factions undercooked. There are far too many radiant quests. Far Harbor is the game's saving grace. It felt like those who worked on it dearly wanted RPG moments, to have grayer storytelling, and impactful choices. I would start a new game just to play that DLC. All that being said, I won't begrudge anyone who likes 4. At the end of the day, these are only games and nothing more.

[@j.b.7813]

Very nice comments! I am still playing Fallout 4 and there are quite a few things that I discover each playthrough. As you said the story is not a strong side of the game and I don't like it too. However the combat system is quite good and side quests can be quite entertaining. The next gen update is a huge minus to me as some of the best mods don't work well with it but there is a mod called downgrader which fixes that :) . With a few mods the game can look as good as modern games and even a budget GPU (mine is 6600) can run even in the most density areas like the center of Boston with 80-100 fps + with almost everything except shadows set to ultra.

[@tjbrody]

I still play it. Survival mode is such a game changer. It makes the game feel more alive

[@Gamerznation704]

Love this game, Survival really did change things for me. I was a bit embarrassed when I had a FB memory when I ranted about this game when It came out. I also remember that I apologized to myself after playing through a few storylines. I loved this game, low key liked the story more than skyrims. So many cool set pieces that really made things feel great.

[@rustybushel6220]

Found you within the past week and I've watched close to 10 hours of your content. Mostly your 100% reviews. I think they're fantastic, and i need to beat some of those games so can watch them after. Im here to stay for great content. Thank you and one last thing. Have you ever played The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age? 🎉

[@MortismalGaming]

Cant say I have

[@cbear3476]

The sprint button returns to the game ❤🎉

[@cyh6092]

Far Harbor is one of my favorite DLCs of any game. The mods for FO4 are incredible, take fo London or Sim Settlements for instance.

[@christophertheofilos1063]

First Mortim video I've ever heard him lie in; "Going to play it leisurely". I don't think you can, man

[@Mr._Anderpson]

How to Fallout 4. Play on survival. Advance the story far enough to get vertibirds & the Institute transporter. Ignore the story & enjoy exploring. Not a fan of the Next Gen update throwing the Enclave onto the map for no good reason. I wouldn't say they're part of the story, because they don't affect it whatsoever. They're just more Nuka World...a shooting gallery with not much thought put behind it. Settlement building is what kept me playing for many hours, but I get that not everyone enjoys playing with digital Lincoln Logs.

[@O-D-X]

I don't think I ever fully built out one settlement, even on my minuteman playthrough, I just dropped a bunch of turrets at each new settlement and called it a day. The gunplay is the only redeemable aspect of the game. Also if I want to play a survival game, there are tons of better survival games that were made to be just that. That is not why I want to play a Fallout game.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

@@O-D-X Umm, good for you? Thanks for the update. Keep us informed. Its like the people who say they never learned to do lockpicking in Oblivion. Ah, current year. Not picking up on something is a flex of sorts.

[@O-D-X]

@@Mr._Anderpson It is not that I didn't pick up on settlement building, but I found it boring and meaningless in an action RPG. I mean in an action game who really wants to spend countless hours doing basically nothing. And it is a shitty survival game if that is what you want to call it, so either bad is bad. It's not that I can't do it, I just find it out of place and boring as watching paint dry.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

@@O-D-X Who wants to do it? Me. Plenty of others. So it isn't as if is a universally-hated system. And the people who want to have a tantrum about it can just throw down turrets & walk away, just as you said. Not sure why you're so salty over a nine year old game, but I do find it amusing. There's always that guy who has to tell everyone he isn't enjoying the barbecue. Boredom is often a fault in ourselves rather than our surroundings. Full points for calling it an RPG, though. That's a more generous description than I would use.

[@petros-v4w]

It is a kind of game that was made for mods to be able to fully enjoy it

[@lopezcarlos24]

Currently replaying it with a ton of mods, loved it when it first came out. Love it now because I can mod it, its a toybox with a game wrapped around it.

[@bartekbard]

You are ALPHA!

[@kesagatame]

Been watching the Fallout series on Amazon and it’s stirring the need to replay this great game. This vid is well timed!

[@O-D-X]

Play FNV instead, at least it has a good story and is going to tie into season 2 of the series.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

@@O-D-X Ugh, the tv series. Not looking forward to Bethesdazon curb-stomping New Vegas. Their poor treatment of LA/Shady Sands was bad enough.

[@kesagatame]

@@O-D-X thanks. It does go on sale frequently on Steam. I’ll keep my eyes open for it.

[@kesagatame]

@@Mr._Anderpson I agree that this TV series may not always convey the best aspects of the original intention within the game, but in my view I’m finding the series to be enjoyable as a standalone project loosely based on Fallout IP.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

@@kesagatame I could probably see that if the show wasn't considered canon. A loose standalone project wouldn't damage the lore of the franchise. The series does. The "ghoul juice" which needs to be injected daily, the erasure of Shady Sands, & the portrayal (retcon) of Robert House are examples. This isn't said to insult anyone who enjoys the show. People will like what they like and I stopped melding well with pop culture when things like the Real Housewives became popular to watch. By no means am I suggesting my perspective is that of the average media consumer. Bethesda's marketing strategy has been to disregard fans of previous entries in favor of mass appeal for at least a decade or two. Daggerfall fans were shafted by Morrowind, whose fans were let down by Oblivion, and so on.

[@richard_n]

I got Fallout New Vegas for $3 on Cyber Monday. Looking forward to it since it's the only Fallout I haven't played.

[@NothingCoherent]

Play it with Survival Mode. It transforms the game. Every situation must be handled differently and traveling the map becomes dangerous and requires commitment. I disliked vanilla FO4 but tried again a while ago with Survival Mode on and it was AMAZING.

[@ErosXCaos]

Pushing back on the dialogue wheel critique, as I see it, Fo4 is mainly a _Companion_ RPG, and the wheel choices are very dynamic, since each Companion will react in their own way. It’s not traditional. Players expected choices that impact _the World, and the people they talk to,_ and Companions might reset new dialogue only at main story beats. Fo4’s companions react in real time, sharing in the conversation, growing closer or farther apart dynamically with each wheel selection. There’s 130,000 lines of dialogue. Companions make up a giant chunk. All in response to the dialogue wheel. Besides that, it’s nice to play a thief drug addict, and not turn the world completely against me. My companion loves it. Your choices are _relative to whom your companion is._ No overbearing karma system watching you like Big Brother, and magically updating the entire world with your deeds, so they can act accordingly. Don’t get me wrong. Karma systems are fun. But it’s nice to have the freedom to not spoil things just by being bad. Hey, if no one saw you steal, did it really happen?

[@brettnelson6710]

Thank you for making your sole survivor a look a like to the one i make every single time lol 😆

[@YorkGod1]

Fallout 4 is still a great Game. The Different mods on offer always offer different play styles and in turn many different playthroughs.

[@jmalonemyth]

I loved fallout 4 but Mods were needed. I played through once without modding and loved it but the base building was so much better with mods. Being able to break down items everywhere. Being able to 100% clear every broken down building at a settlement. Every piece of trash or brush. Building on a pristine clean slate. That made it next level. Also the whole linked traders was a bit of a mess without mod help. I don't know if they ever fixed the bug that when a base is attacked, if you kill the invaders too fast, the game would consider it a failure. So even though my bases were all 100% protected without me being there. I would have to go to every attack and bring a corpse back to life and kill them again for the base attack to clear correctly so my settlement didn't get destroyed. That bug lingered multiple years after the game came out. Even with that, I loved the game.

[@jmalonemyth]

Oh. The story was terrible. All of the factions were dicks and didn't want you helping anyone else and there is no character more annoying than Preston. But as a base building exploration sandbox, I loved it.

[@drpuffington_]

Love this game. Still play with the settlements and non stop questing, idk I love it

[@kaylee42900]

The back path issue has been going on since Oblivion. They're so afraid to let you break the game. Morrowind was the last time they let you do that (and it straight up told you the game wouldn't be completable). I always found it frustrating.

[@christuusgnosis]

I've played every fallout and every faction really seems to be a messed up cult I would never side with or has some glaring stupidity about its mission on maybe my 3rd playthrough of f4 I suddenly realized I didn't have to do any of it I started a new game and I ignored concord and just set out into the wasteland I didn't save preston and his ppl, I didn't help out the brotherhood ppl, ignored the kellog quest with nick and just wandered for a very long time.

[@giacomomallia953]

Trying to complete this game would take 300 hours. That's what it took me the first time back then

[@O-D-X]

Nah, if you stick to the crappy story, it can be completed in about 40 hours, but then you miss the only good content, because the story is a dog turd.

[@giacomomallia953]

@@O-D-X the story is not bad, it is 10 times better then the one of BG3

[@O-D-X]

@@giacomomallia953 The story is so simplistic it is obnoxious. FO4 was like hum... In F03 we had the protagonist go looking for their dad, dad is the bad guy. FO4, they were like, let's just switch the roles, now it is the father looking for his son and son is the bad guy.

[@giacomomallia953]

@@O-D-X so superficial... It is so clear you didn't play the game at all. All the quests and dialogues of f4 cover an incredible amount of topics and today the dilemma on artificial life is in that game is touched at the same level of the best philosophical operas. You are all the same, sad people talking about things they don't know because lazy.

[@smonkponk]

I never really understood why developers seem so afraid to let players commit to things and have them deal with proper tangible consequences. Bethesda has been particularly guilty of this (to varying degrees) in a number of titles now, but it's far from being isolated to just them. It honestly feels like we've been in an era of 'over-conveniencing' the player for a while now, and this is just another symptom of that. Maybe I'm just weird, I dunno. I think you really nailed it when you talked about the consequences this had on the story for the game. I still think it's a great game, it's just a shame that these philosophies get in the way of making it better.

[@kanarokan6060]

Like most Bethesda games, Fallout 4 is fun when you're messing around in the world and creating your own fun. However, everything starts to go downhill when you engage with anything related to the main quest or factions.

[@sieda666]

I really enjoy Fallout 4, I think the explore/shoot/loot/build gameplay loop works fantastically with Bethesda's open world design and the survival mechanics implemented. However, for all the fundamental strengths of the game my biggest problems with it lie in minor details like annoying bugs, combat balancing, the legendaries system, and some short-comings in their random encounter system at certain points of interest. Even back on launch like 10 years ago, I wasn't more than 2 - 3 hours in before I had to go to the nexus in search of a mod that increased all damage values across the game by 150%. Seems like whoever makes these balancing calls at Bethesda likes tanky/damage sponge combat b/c it's a common issue I have from Skyrim to Starfield. Also I'm personally not a fan of the legendary enemies or the diablo style random loot with "fun" random modifiers, but again, luckily you can mod all of that out fairly effortlessly.

[@badrhetoric5637]

Personally i didn't mind the factions, waiting till the end for things to come together. It let me explore them and make a decision. What did bother we was the factions being very linear and not really changing the world much. Also, the petrk system is really stingy. It wasnt until level 25 or something until i felt like what i was trying to build.

[@AAS1-kp9cs]

I liked Fallout 3 a lot more than 4. Maybe it was the time in my life I played it, not sure. Fallout 4 felt more like a fps with a crafting system to me than an rpg. Not a bad game, just not what I wanted.

[@KoongYe]

I enjoyed it when it came out but I can't bring myself to play it anymore.

[@JohnBradyIRL]

i've been doing a full playthrough of main and dlc the last few weeks too. i really like FO4, but it makes me want to go back to 3 and NV too

[@quillerszasza]

I've played Fallout 4 first and also 100%-ed it in this February. I liked it but New Vegas is still my favourite ... the combat system was great, although I almost never use power armor, since I'm a stealth guy. I hated the story and the perk system, and I most definitely hated some of the stupid achievements. Thanks for your video, I'm looking forward to the next one! :)

[@TechnoLawyer]

Overall, New Vegas was my favorite of the first person fallout games. But Fallout 4 had the best combat. Someday when I get time, I want to go back through it.

[@O-D-X]

I tried to go back and the story is just so bad that I would say only go back if you want to play it as a survival crafting game and never even touch the main story.

[@occularmalice]

I agree. The game started great but then your main goal is to find your son but you're going all over the place doing whatever happens as you go along. Hey, can you do the unending mission for the minutemen again? Don't worry about your son, he'll be there later. The dialog wheel is ridiculous and everything has been dumbed down. We need a Fallout 5 done by Obsidian. A new game the level of New Vegas done in an updated version of Fallout 4 set somewhere new would be the best, but we all know Bethesda isn't going to do the right thing. Overall I like the game but go back to NV (and even Fallout 3) for a better gaming experience.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

Dialog wheel. Ah Oblivion, you are a wonky gem.

[@AliasAerius]

I wish they had done more with the Minutemen. It just feels like the cut all the funding from the Minutemen and gave it to the Brotherhood, the worst of the factions.

[@jasonwelsh417]

It still fucking rules, but to be fair I have been playing with the Welcome to Paradise modlist.

[@brettbunke9096]

Fantastic game with mods you can play it forever. So like Ghost Recon Wildlands is still in my regular rotation

[@O-D-X]

Except now you can't, the mods really got borked by the latest update. In order to play with mods you have to revert to an older version of the game.

[@cyrylkowalczyk9392]

I bounced off Fallout 4. I even tried it in VR for better experience. After dropping it in the middle of the game, I installed Cyberpunk 2077 - and it beacame one of my favourite games of all time. If you played neither and want a dystopian FPP RPG, choose Cyberpunk. Better story, better combat, better dialogs, better voice acting. And it's beautiful.

[@Saved-by-Grace]

Cyberpunk is as much an RPG as Animal Crossing is an FPS

[@cyrylkowalczyk9392]

@@Saved-by-Grace RPG is a blurry definition indeed. For me it's about choices - and there are plenty to make there. However you define the genre - it is definetly in the same box FO4 is, so comparing them seems fair.

[@O-D-X]

@@cyrylkowalczyk9392 Agreed and CP2077 is at this point fixed unlike FO4.

[@Kenzirs]

You don't see anything wrong with comparing two games that are 5 years apart? Not only that, but in arguably different genres. Really the only thing these two games have in common is that you can shoot things. Fallout setting is closer to post apocalypse, which has an emphasis in survival. Some would even argue post post apocalypse. Seems a bit disingenuous comparing the two.

[@cyrylkowalczyk9392]

@@Kenzirs 5 years apart is valid excuse for graphics, less so for combat. And no excuse for story. In terms of what the games are trying to acomplish they have a lot in common - other than shooting things you have choices, builds, quests, open world, partially defined voiced protagonist. The main difference is setting and - sadly - quality.

[@Raganui]

I don't care for the Legendaries in Fallout 4 because it makes the Unqiues be, well, not for the most part. Cause you can find another of that weapon with the same legendary effect and all. I think the freaky machete Krev-something's Tooth is the only Unique that has something unique about it.

[@TapiocaSS]

Hate the story and factions are dumb... but OMG i cant stop thinking of playing again. I'm really hooked by the gameplay and survival and settlement building, and legendary hunting, and enviroment with fog, good light, rain, and music, all just make it worth.

[@eblingus]

I just finished it myself for the first time

[@munehauzen]

I enjoyed some time with the game, but after one playthrough it's pretty much done. Other Fallout games I usually find interest in doing new playthroughs. There just isn't that much variety in how you can play Fallout 4.

[@Rachenviel]

While F4's main story is quite mediocre, it has the best small world story telling and exploring out of all FO games (outside of 76 which keeps updating). Just walking in any direction you will find something interesting.

[@coconutologist]

This is a nitpick, but the power armor requiring batteries killed it for me. Maybe it's part of my irrational disdain of timers in games, or maybe it was an immersion element in a game that didn't feel immersive. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

[@noterrormanagement]

Making power armors feel like armored walking tanks made it the best aspect of the game for me. Walking back to your settlement with your battered power armor and fixing it and replacing its core just feels so good

[@poekelseele]

This is the game that I keep coming back to. First it was skyrim, now Fallout 4 - Settlement building is just really addicting. All in all it's just a really nice comfort game. Literally just downloaded the game again like 2 days before this video was uploaded lol.

[@O-D-X]

See to me, settlement building is the absolute worst thing Bethesda ever introduced. I feel it is nothing but a cover for a piss poor story, that could have been better with more attention to that than wasting time on settlement building and crafting. Fallout has never been a survival game, and yet that is all people really seem to like about this one, the shit it shouldn't be.

[@Mr._Anderpson]

Agreed. I overlook the story and just chill out building unique settlements. I would have preferred something along those lines in Skyrim as compared to the Hearthfire DLC. I wish there was a point which could be reached when the settlers learn to take care of themselves, repairing things as needed after an attack and the like. I don't enjoy the radiant quest system, but it becomes a necessary evil if playing on survival mode. Legendary gear is also puzzling. Why does this combat rifle freeze opponents? Why does this armor make me stronger when irradiated? It seemed like a way to avoid making unique gear to be found in the game. Given the advances with AI and mods, we might one day get a Fallout 4 with a story and skill/perk checks.

[@rulbiem]

Lets go there to watch young Morty before he deletes the old review guys.

[@razzorj9899]

Anyone know if they ever fixed ultrawide support they added with the "next gen update"

[@FunkStyles]

I unfortunately have a bug with Survival mode where the higher in levels I go, the more my game freezes, especially in VATS. To the point that when I got to 50+ freezing in VATS was damn near 50/50. So I have to, at some point, move down in difficulty, which feels bad.

[@Koji44-]

I would play fallout 4 but i haven't found motivation to go fix the game after there update broke my heavily mod game its crazy how they can see how big of a mod community they have then not have a easy pre patch version in steam launcher settings. Games like rimworld will have normal betas prelease branches and some mods can be updated before the patch even drops ( Also love how the update auto installed was unaware of patch coming out and also was away from home when it dropped i was forced to take there pathetic attempt at a patch)

[@zekapeka1176]

The post netflix patch broke VATS. Did they fix this, and other bugs they introduced in 2024?

[@ionelscutaru8687]

Fallout 4 should be online like Fallout 76!

[@JamesEarlCash]

Bethseda really need to hire better writers and people working on story (and maybe meaningful choice and consequences and other stuff for their games)

[@tom2gunzbombadil689]

Personally I love FO4.. sure the story has holes. But the Game itself is alot of fun. Great game imo.

[@dzill95]

Haha I just started to replay it last night

[@battlericky17]

My first game for fallout was 3 and i never played 4 because i only liked 3 for specific reasons. The setting and story, although i am a dc native, the last thing i wanted to do was be anywhere near DC 😂

[@henrychurch6062]

Is this a fair review? 1 - Yes 2 - Yes 3 - Yes 4 - Yes (Sarcastic)

[@Nostromo2144]

Not my Fallout! ;)

[@Dryblas002]

One of my favourite games of all times. Sure, it has flaws but I love postapo and this game allows one of the best postapo experiences

[@jamesschmames6416]

As someone that cut their teeth on Morrowind, I really feel like mods are an integral part of the experience. What broke me with Fallout4 was the stunningly bad interface. As a PC gamer, I couldn't imagine what a worse UI/UX would feel like.

[@clifcorcoran9917]

Fourth Radical KZbin Jazz 🎶

[@mateusz73]

Played this game all the way through back in 2015 and never again, played a bit here and there with survival mode but idk, I still feel incredibly disappointed in the game whenever I play it and cant seem to stick with it

[@brianolsen396]

Awesome! Love fallout content

[@Northwind82]

Fallin 4 fallout 4

[@globalelite3042]

The game takes on a different appearance after almost a decade of games that suffered from feature creep, overemphasis on graphics and lacking amount of content. There might be a dozen games since its release I would consider on par or better across different genres

[@RohitMeerchandani]

Can anyone help me I want to play this game but I hate base building so can I play without base building

[@CurtOntheRadio]

yes, ignore it if you want

[@tyguy3876]

Same. Frig base building.

[@Csnap98]

Can you review Rise of the Ronin? I LOVED that game. One of the few games I actually 100%

[@MortismalGaming]

PC channel so not for a while I imagine

[@Pedone_Rosso]

Am I allowed to be anticipating a legacy and/or a modern call back to the classic "I liked it!", in the new and improved Fallout 4 Review? (LOL!) Thanks for your videos!

[@jvshotta8845]

I was initially interested in Fallout 4 before it released, but when I found out how the progression system worked in Fallout 4, I was completely turned off by the game.

[@mariozimmermann7307]

How many clones of Mortismal are there to play all these games? ;)

[@ChoppedCheeese]

So cool to see an indie spotlight on an underrated game 🎉

[@O-D-X]

So cool to see an indie spotlight on an *overrated* game There fixed it for you!

[@Odisseia-hh2td]

​@@O-D-X: "st... stop having fun 😭"

[@AM-uo2kf]

I played it in 2024 put a good 60+ hours in and I finally finished a play of the game. Honestly by the end I was happy it was over. It just doesn’t have the same kind of spark as earlier entries in the series, the roleplaying sucks and the creation engine was tired even by 2015.

[@galaxy_brain]

good morning!!