Recent reviews by Farxin

Are you a die-hard Mount&Blade fan that would pay 40 euros for Warband again just so the community could liven up a bit and for your favourite servers/mods to be popular again? If your answer is "yes," then you don't really need this review, you've bought the game anyway.

If your answer is "no"... Wait for the full release. As it stands the game is an extremely fun foundation for what Bannerlord will be, but that's all it is. Poor optimization, lack of content/features, bugs and crashes, awful balance, lackluster multiplayer, the list goes on. Save yourself the growing pains of any early access game, Come back in a year.

I couldn't make my mind whether to recommend Fallout 4 or not, and this review is propably the closest to how I feel about the game. I finally decided to recommend it, because it's a good game, you can't take that away, but it's a tragical victim to high expectations and deadly rival-The Witcher 3.

Let's begin with the good stuff:

• Gunplay: Shooting in Fallout 4 is great, no matter what weapon you use. Gunfights are more dynamic, enemies' behaviour is more realistic. Great improvement over Fallout:New Vegas and Fallout 3.
  
• Weapon and armor customization: Replacing expensive gun modifications with smart and cheap-ish modification system. You can change most important parts of your weapon, name it, make it more personal and in some cases alter the way you use it. Without a doubt great addition to the series.
  
• Legendary loot: Basically overpowered, extremely rare weapons and armor. Love it.
  
• VATS: They did a few changes that I really like. VATS no longer stops time, just slows it down, which gives you limited time to react, what works great with more dynamic combat. Also, crits are no longer random, you full up a crit bar by successfully hitting enemies, then use stored crit whenever you please. I can finally crit when I really need to.
  
• Sprint: Further improvement to dynamics of the game.
  
• Dog: I love Dogmeat. So do you.
  
• Cooking: The odd one on this list but I really like how they made food a really viable way of healing.

Now things that are bad:

• Textures: They're just ugly in most cases. I've got textures set to ultra and they still look pretty bad. I'd expect more in 2015. Overall visual experience isn't that bad though.
  
• Story: I really don't like it. I don't want to put any spoiler here, but main character's aim simply kills all roleplay.
  
• Technical issues: There's a ton of examples: cannot change FOV, supports only 16:9 and 16:10 monitors, invisible locks and so on...
  
• UI: No improvement at all, might have gotten worse actually :(
  
• Settlement building: I was really hyped about that one but Bethesda totally let me down. No real tutorial, it's obligatory though, clunky, doesn't feel that great at all. Too bad. That's a really cool concept, but it could have been implemented way better.
  
  There's also some things I can't tell if are good or not.
  
• Power Armor: You get it too early, although it remains a luxury item as you need expensive power cores.
  
• Voice acting of main character: It's really well done, but it rips off another part of roleplay - the voice usually doesn't fit the character and limits dialogue options.

Finally, why I wasn't so sure about recommending it. I played Witcher 3. The Witcher 3 is without a doubt a better game and you can't avoid comparing them when both are 2015 RPG's. Fallout 4 can't even pick a fight with Polish beast at the moment, but I hope it will change with some fixes and mods.
TL;DR
I recommend this game, but unless you're a Fallout fanboy, this game isn't worth 60$. If you really want to spend 60$ on a game buy The Witcher 3. Otherwise wait for a big sale. Despite all its disadvantages Fallout is a ♥♥♥♥ ton of fun to play and I know I'll keep coming back, but I realise I'm not picky. If technical issues, clunky UI and bad story don't scare you - give it a try.