Neue Rezensionen von The Lek of Many Things

OLD:An excellent game, or rather, the bones of an excellent game. I will be playing it extensively for the foreseeable future, but I can not in good conscience recommend it. I would only purchase this game if you have a group of friends you are interested in playing with, or if you want to support the dev on their journey to actually finishing the game. Many of the crafting systems are not yet implemented, many enemies are unpleasantly janky, and the map selection method means you can never target specific missions you want to do, but rather have to RNG it. Still, the core systems are just as satisfying as they were in Vermintide, and the shooting while occasionally buggy in terms of hitreg and input buffering is solid and satisfying. Give it a year to be done.


EDIT: Leaving the old review as some people don't like supporting Devs who release unfinished work. With the advent of the 2.0 Patch (and intervening patches throughout the past year) the game is now in a thoroughly enjoyable state. Crafting systems and account wallet/shop overhauls mean that getting the weapons you want is now significantly less tedious even if certain materials are still something of a grind to obtain. Additionally, bug fixes and polish mean that enemies are significantly less janky and better to respond to, and weapon balance seems in a far better state. Classes are more varied and interesting, and the new abilities mean that constructing a team that works together well is both easier and more fun. Solid recommendation, particularly if on sale.

If you've never played a fallout game and don't like RPGs, then this is the RPG for you!

This game is evil, it was programmed by evil people, it drip feeds you wonderful little bits to get you interested, it gives you glimpses of what an amazing game it could be, then it drags on for another 12 hours of frustration.

If you're a fan of RPGs with varied interesting stories with significant choices, sorry, it's ♥♥♥♥ tier conversation options and conversation flowcharts that are just a line, barring a few of them.

If you like the idea of managing your own network of settlements and helping them thrive, you'll get it a kick out of it but ultimately the uneven terrain will frustrate you since if you want to build something flat on the ground it'll have to be on stilts or have half of it floating even if it's on stilts the pathfinding AI will cause you to tear your own hair out.

Gunplay is solid even if most of the new additions were added in by Project Nevada for New Vegas ages ago

The most interesting characters seem to have been given the most boring quests, with some getting nothing at all, mild spoilers, but, how do you get your robot companion a human body? You take her to a doctor and wait for 24 hours, how do you settle a 200 year old grudge between an ex cop and his last uncracked case? You find 8 discs in what is a blatant fetch quest requiring 0 puzzle solving and take him to a little room whereupon he shoots a guy in the face. The first companion most people meet doesn't even have a questline associated with her despite an intrigue set up with the mayor of the starting town, there are 2 companions whose quests were interesting and worthwhile. Story wise it just screams wasted potential from every orifice. The only redeeming features of the story are the ending sequence when you first access the institute and a few sidequests that could be counted on one hand, not necessarily an intact hand either.

Your character perks and SPECIAL stats make no difference in quests, except once, just once, when I was rebuilding a ship, once in 140 hours of playtime, in an RPG. Even the secret science lab full of brilliant scientists allows you to contribute nothing even with 11 Intelligence and maxed out science perks.

And as a final mark of shame they're selling a 30 dollar season pass with no idea when/what DLCs are being released.

In short, Fallout 4 is an experience I would compare to having a long lost friend show up after several years and piss into your upturned face, then ask you pay him for a possible return visit where he will most likely piss into your face again for a little bit.

The game makes you feel like a monster and an abject failure by episode two if you don't listen to people, there's no big "Save X or Y" at the end of every episode, instead the choices are far more subtle in how they affect certain outcomes, overall 9/10 because of some truely horrible dialogue in episode one, sounding like it was written by a someone who's never spent more than 10 minutes with anyone under 30, it does significantly improve however, and maybe that's just an effort to lul you into some sort or pre-judgement before the game starts tossing curve balls.

TL;DR: Just get the damn thing.

Okay, listen, you want to preform eye surgery with pencils? cool
You want to swap around his liver and lungs in a heart transplant? Done
YOU WANT TO DO BRAINSURGERY IN A MOVING AMBULANCE WITH A TOMOHAWK?! Meh, why not
(though the eye surgery requires the AE DLC I believe)

Do you really need more recommendation for this game? buy it you horrible human being.