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This game sucks

The best one

Fun as heck

I saw a mudcrab the other day.

bad gamer game

v i r g i n g a m e

why the ♥♥♥♥ they make it not buyable

Challenging and Fun

The best game. Not only the best Fallout game. The best game.

Fallout 4, a game that I really wish I could like. This game turns New Vegas, the prior installment to the Fallout series on its head, and innovates in what that game could not. However, in exchange for this, many of New Vegas's features that made it such a good game, a Fallout game, is missing. For example, one of the first things you do in the game is create your character, which seems very simple, but was vastly overhauled for Fallout 4. Characters looked like actual people without the use of mods, and visually, the game is astounding. However, when selecting your S.P.E.C.I.A.L attributes, everything starts at one instead of 5. To combat this, you get much more points to put towards your attributes, but still you will find your character extremely lackluster in certain areas. And this is where the first red flag comes into play, after character creation, you are able to increase your attributes after every level. While this may seem appealing to some, this defeats the purpose of a game advertised in the genre of role playing, as now, overtime you can have no flaws. Along with that, the game does not offer the amount of play styles New Vegas supported, which was a flaw not only in this installment, but in my opinion, as well as Fallout 3. Ironically, Fallout New Vegas shines much brighter than the other two installments because it was made by Obsidian, which had people who worked on the original Fallout games from the 90s. Alas, all the innovations Obsidian made in their two year development period were scrapped for a more, Skyrim like experience.
The biggest flaw in this game is arguably the one thing that should not have been flawed. That is the main story. The main story feels like a mundane 20 hour fetch quest, where you simply continue walking throughout the commonwealth until you get to the institute, the "bad guys," of the story. While the institute is quite a cool concept, they're painted as villains for the entire game, and the only real justification for siding with them is, "my son works there!" Compare this once again to New Vegas, in which every faction had things to bring to the table, as well as their own sins that make you see them as the villain of the story. It causes the world of Fallout 4 to not feel like a world. It feels like a sci-fi 1950s apocalypse shooting gallery with optional exploration, and that is why I don't like the game. I feel like I'm playing a game. I don't feel like I'm bringing justice to the commonwealth. Hell, its been 200 years since the bombs dropped and there's still debris wherever you go, there's still skeletons lying around as if the vault dwellers who survived the bombs had just exited their vaults. There's nothing to care for! New Vegas shines in the sense that you can forget that it's a wasteland. In this game, it's the only special attribute.
One more thing, this game introduced creation club, and ♥♥♥♥ creation club. This game was the beginning of Bethesda's downfall.