Hark, a new year, and still the same shitty opinions of a teenager sat in his bedroom.
Fallout 4... (acquired from questionably legal means).
So yeah, back to the wasteland, that one in Boston. The premise is good. Totally not been done before... but it has. You know, in Fallout 3. With the whole missing parent thing. oh and the Brotherhood of steel shows up. like in Fallout 3, and there are other factions, like in Fallout 3, and there is a giant junk city, like in Fallout 3.The main plot is like Fallout 3 up until you find your father. You emerge from the vault journey across the wastes help/pissing on people to find your son/father, then you do shit with them, and then the game kicks off and throws some various spanners in the works.
By no means it the same, but its similar. Bethesda have expanded on the brilliant weapon modification system from New Vegas to levels of insanity, meaning that all weapons can now be modified to extreme levels, and all weapons are now viable into late game. For example , the 10mm pistol I first used has carried me safely to level 14 with few deaths. The modification system also works well as any mods you craft are attached to weapon, but you can remove them. and you can find weapons with random mods on. meaning you can access mods you cant currently craft by swapping them out with less powerful mods.
One thing that pisses me off about the game is the fact that everything can be used. So now looting buildings takes ages, and I end up carrying around more crap than an incontinent baby. In the early levels you need literally everything to progress, weapons, armour and junk. It takes the piss. Also the changes to the ghouls that make them zombie like is amazing, as they are much much more terrifying than they were in the past.
Settlement building is fairly easy. Within my first 8hrs, after saving the last minuteman and nearly being cleft in twain by a deathclaw, I had transformed sanctuary into walled and easily defendable place with a ton of food and water, power and other amenities. Then I just could not be arsed with the poxy other settlements. all I wanted to do in the end was just move everyone to sanctuary, but due to my computer having the processing power of the average potato, it was going to lag my game.
The new power armour system is what the fallout games has needed for ever. It makes power armour expensive to use, but also makes it worth it, as it massively boosts all your stats. However my all time favourite combo of Power armour and fist is now not viable. However being able to fly and not take fall damage is fun, you become more like a space marine from warhammer than a survivor of a post apocalyptic event. (GET ON MAKING THIS A THING). The graphics are certainly an upgrade and the atmosphere is still there, so not all bad.
I cant help feeling too with the insane shitestorm of mechanics and factions that they throw your way, right from the start, kinda means that you pust finding your kid off, and the excellent "Yes, Yes, Sarcastic Yes, Yes" dialogue makes it even harder to stick to the main story. The whole game for me is just a bunch of side quests, some that effect the world more than other.
In short, its abit disappointing, or its too different, I don't know which. it took what made Fallout great and kinda when , "yeah that was good, but look, we expanded on the Hearthfire DLC and made it better, then added zombies and nukes". Now that's not to say its not enjoyable, Fallout 4 is a good game, but it isn't a good Fallout game.
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/377160/
Level: 8/10
Dan
