Fallout 4 may feel overly familiar to some, but there are plenty of places to go, people to see, and mutants to shoot, and most of those things are still exciting to visit, look at, and murder (though not necessarily in that order).

Buggy, yet beautiful. Occasionally broken, but robust in a way that few games attempt, let alone achieve. This has always been the push and pull of Bethesda's action/adventure/role-playing games.

Let's begin shall we, First of all the hate this game is catching is completely unwarranted. Is it a 10/10, absolutely not but its not a 0/10, that's for damn sure. Just the internet hate echo chamber in action.

Anyway, ill start with:

The Cons.

- The dialogue is terrible compared to FO3 and tying into this the karma system as well. It was awesome all the different dialogue options they had and I dont think they needed to "optimize" this aspect for console. I played FO3 on the 360 and it was just as easy in terms of dialogue...pretty pissed about this

- I guess the graphics aren't very good, but I don't really give a **** to be honest. The people whining about that are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Awesome graphics are something I appreciate when I first step into a gameworld and then forget about.

The Pros:

- Tons of fun to fight, gunplay is way better and the VATS is still awesome and slightly improved by the crit meter

- Looting system is way better and helps to keep the game immersive

- Quests are quite fun, people saying they're all fetch quests must have played like 2 hours and went looking for fetch quests. A quest to rescue someone /= a fetch quest. A lot of the quests revolve around going and clearing places out which means killing. This is like half the point of this game, killing everything...Anyway, I'd say the quests are on par with FO3.

- Crafting and modding system, awesome, simply put. House building...pretty fun, never played the mod everyone talks about but I enjoy this aspect for maybe 30 minutes at a time then I get bored, move on and come back later.

- New enemies, holy **** so much fun. Legendary enemies were a great edition. Also the degrees of enemies is awesome, like ranks and whatnot.

- Power armor is way better in this game, finding really good power armor seems pretty hard to do (good) so you work for it. Also new guns that are awesome, junk jet is okay, syringer is pretty cool, but the variety of weapons is just awesome.

- Tons of new songs and things to listen to on the radio, ****s my jam, that fiddle is awesome.

- Weird little side quests that show up are cool so far, my guess is that they'll get boring but so far they're fun.

I think I've touched upon everything I wanted to. For reference, I'm about 75 hours into the game at present. I've tried to be as critical as possible, I'd realistically rank this at an 7.5/10 if they let me but i settled on 9 because I think the game is just tons of fun.

This review may be edited, when I have completed a 100% full exploration of fallout 4 & litterly everything this game truly has to offer, want to join my adventures and really know more of what I think, check me out daily on twitch under the name AndriOdPanda

Fallout 4 may feel overly familiar to some, but there are plenty of places to go, people to see, and mutants to shoot, and most of those things are still exciting to visit, look at, and murder (though not necessarily in that order). Buggy, yet beautiful. Occasionally broken, but robust in a way that few games attempt, let alone achieve. This has always been the push and pull of Bethesda's action/adventure/role-playing games. Let's begin shall we, First of all the hate this game is catching is completely unwarranted. Is it a 10/10, absolutely not but its not a 0/10, that's for damn sure. Just the internet hate echo chamber in action. Anyway, ill start with: The Cons. - The dialogue is terrible compared to FO3 and tying into this the karma system as well. It was awesome all the different dialogue options they had and I dont think they needed to "optimize" this aspect for console. I played FO3 on the 360 and it was just as easy in terms of dialogue...pretty pissed about this - I guess the graphics aren't very good, but I don't really give a **** to be honest. The people whining about that are just dickheads. Awesome graphics are something I appreciate when I first step into a gameworld and then forget about. The Pros: - Tons of fun to fight, gunplay is way better and the VATS is still awesome and slightly improved by the crit meter - Looting system is way better and helps to keep the game immersive - Quests are quite fun, people saying they're all fetch quests must have played like 2 hours and went looking for fetch quests. A quest to rescue someone /= a fetch quest. A lot of the quests revolve around going and clearing places out which means killing. This is like half the point of this game, killing everything...Anyway, I'd say the quests are on par with FO3. - Crafting and modding system, awesome, simply put. House building...pretty fun, never played the mod everyone talks about but I enjoy this aspect for maybe 30 minutes at a time then I get bored, move on and come back later. - New enemies, holy **** so much fun. Legendary enemies were a great edition. Also the degrees of enemies is awesome, like ranks and whatnot. - Power armor is way better in this game, finding really good power armor seems pretty hard to do (good) so you work for it. Also new guns that are awesome, junk jet is okay, syringer is pretty cool, but the variety of weapons is just awesome. - Tons of new songs and things to listen to on the radio, ****s my jam, that fiddle is awesome. - Weird little side quests that show up are cool so far, my guess is that they'll get boring but so far they're fun. I think I've touched upon everything I wanted to. For reference, I'm about 75 hours into the game at present. I've tried to be as critical as possible, I'd realistically rank this at an 7.5/10 if they let me but i settled on 9 because I think the game is just tons of fun. This review may be edited, when I have completed a 100% full exploration of fallout 4 & litterly everything this game truly has to offer, want to join my adventures and really know more of what I think, check me out daily on twitch under the name AndriOdPanda