You should do what I do: every time he tells you to do something, take him with you, and order him to attack while you sit back and snipe. It gets even more amusing once you unlock the artillery and can call in a barrage on his head 🤣
i never had a problem with him, you might say why. because i don't mind helping out settlements, now i get their not exactly soldiers, but that's what makes it more rewarding. it's the idea of helping people, who couldn't help themselves. plenty of people like that exist in real life. of course a few can fight, but most settlers don't have experience fighting. so what you're mainly doing is, giving people hope that, what you're really trying to do, isn't so much create an army, but by banding common people together, the idea is to retake back the commonwealth. but to do that is going to take some work, and courage. now the common complaint is why don't Preston do anything, well he does have a personal quest that involves the castle. but if you're not into the whole minute men thing, you don't have to go back to Sanctuary. i know it's kinda hard not to, but Fallout is a open world game, so you might as well take as much of the game as you can.
@@Jeymezproblem is that minuetman progress is shown really badly, also you HAVE to build every SINGLE settlement by YOURSELF. I usually just lock Garvey in one place making him stand in one place like Maxon and Desdemona making him quest giver. Minuetman is my fav faction in 4 but they have a lot of missed opportunities in their storyline.
I played all of 3. Never picked up 4. Started playing it 4 weeks ago. Single playthrough and just hit 200 hours. The games amazing. I had to add some mods. I added inventory hud and settlement workshop mods for easy building. The games amazing. Wish I didn't listen to people and just played it.
@@brentonherbert7775 idk I finished the game and now done with it. I really enjoyed it. Compaired to games that come out now this was really good imo. Found my self exploring so much
Im 44. I played the OGs when they were new. Fallout 4 is my favorite. Absolute peak environmental story telling. Being older, the hate rhat got dumped on it seemed like a fad. So glad people realize what a great game it is.
I never played the originals, but I know their story. I played NV, 3, and 4 blind. FO4 was a fun game. But it was not worth a replay without major mods. The Far Harbor DLC was great.
It's ok that it's your favourite, but surely you must recognise people's issues with the decline in RPG elements and writing if you played the preceding games. I wouldn't call that a fad.
It's weird hearing someone praise the environmental story telling. It's 200 years later and there are still skeletons in people's living areas. Environmental story telling feels like something they intentionally ignored in favor of aesthetic (a fair trade off, admittedly).
It's the last good game they made. Nearly a decade and they haven't made another game worth playing. As someone that used to consider BGS the best studio out there it breaks my heart.
I don't necessarily agree but you got a relatively good point. It wasn't necessarily a bad game but there were some flaws that were outright impossible to ignore. One of those being bad gun designs. If there is one thing I will always roast Bethesda for, it's not using previous assets from previous games like 3 and New Vegas. Before Fallout 4, there were already many guns from previous games they could have easily brought back with relatively minimal effort on their part. But no, they had to waste valuable effort in making guns that don't make sense from a design perspective.
Like you mentioned, the trailer pointed out things that they didn't do before. The settlement system was a bold direction for the game. It was dramatically different from the other games. The cool part was, you didn't really have to do it, you can choose to build or choose to not build up settlements. When I started playing Fallout 4, I kept an open mind about it myself, wasn't real crazy with the settlement building at first but it grew on me. There was that challenge to build things up. Lets face it, games fill the hours in a day and when you get to crafting, settlement building and then exploring, those hours disappear quickly.
I disagree about perk and skill progression. One disadvantage being that skill checks aren’t what they used to be with a boring tier 1-5 system, among other issues. Other than that I agree with all your gameplay praise. The junk economy felt like the natural progression of New Vegas’ crafting system. Ammo types being sorely missed. Settlements were the logical conclusion of the Hearthfire dlc, powered by the junk economy for bonus wasteland points. They went hard on verticality which was novel. My real criticism of 4 sits with the narrative, something I’m sure many can agree with. Also, whoever designed that assault rifle needs to be locked up.
I liked the junk and crafting system right away. going into a location, looking for screws etc while doing your quest. I think that’s why I’m one of the few that actually plays fallout 76. All that busy work is something I enjoy, it’s relaxing.
I was disappointed with 76 because other people ruined it. I hate playing multiplayer games because jerks inevitably ruin it and there’s not much you can do about it. It’s like getting bullied in school and not being able to throat punch them.
Man - I agree with you so much on this that it's hard to not right a novel of a comment here. Just a few notes - tenhats has mods for new settlements, as does Ragoda (his Fairline Hill is a must have in my book), LarannKiar gives you new settlers to recruit (Jenny, Trader Rylee, Kat and Gus, Charlie and Clinton, Shelly Tiller, the wounded dog -- even a mod that makes it possible to recruit the survivors of the Institute - enough to fill an entire settlement) Orphans of the Commonwealth gives you kids, other mods get you furniture kids can actually use, let you set up a school - the works). For settlement building, the best Creation Club items to get are the Coffee and Donuts (Slocums Joe), Modern Furniture, Christmas pack, and Arcade Cabinets - you get new walls (scrap wall height, not barn and warehouse) with INTACT windows, floors, ceilings (one pre-lighted) and furniture, Arcade Cabinets (obviously), Working Fireplaces, and lots of decorations. Captain Cosmos gives 2 new power armor sets WITH jet packs... Darn, I did it again.....
@@charlietownsend2826 Sure, but first some cautions: Scrap everything -- yes, it comes very close to scrapping everything, including parts of the environment. I scrapped the wrong wall in Home Plate and opened the great white portal to nothingness. Also, selection expands to include almost everything, making it difficult to use popular glitches to place pieces which leads to..... Place anywhere (or everywhere, I don't remember): I does let you place things just about anywhere. You can move the doors on the ground back to their frames in The Coop and at Egret Tours. I can also break pathing for the NPCs. Use both with extreme caution. Settlement Object Expansion Pack - you get a lot of the toys the devs had when they were laying things out. I use it mostly for the Far Harbor style wind turbines - 15 units of power, and a great big arrow guiding you to your settlements (I'm going to see if I can add one of those flashing lights to the top un this playthrough). Northland Diggers - gives you a number of workstation for your settler raising settlement happiness, caps, different types of scrap, and food items, You get LARGE mutfruit trees - 2 food and a nice looking tree to decorate. You can buy a brahmin with the mod. Lot's of different trees - including pre-war trees and the hero tree in the Sanctuary roundabout. Copyright free Diamond City radio replacer -- Recording playthrough videos? No more need to worry about a radio playing. The music sounds right, and you get a second DJ. Boston Airport Workbench Fix - Lets you make a full settlement at the Airport - but don't use the hand pump replacer (nano tech water pump) - it's literally a replacement for the basic handpump that also produces food, and can trigger more settlement attacks (excess food attracts raiders) Do your damn job Codsworth -- What would Sanctuary look like if Codsworth actually kept up with maintenance in Sanctuary? Like this - buildings are run down, but intact. It is a little bit of a cheat - you get a lot of scrap from some of the interiors, but it does what the title says. Essential Slog npcs - The Slog is a bit bugged, the residents lack the protection your other settlers do - this fixes it. No more seeing Dierdre dead on the ground... Sim Settlements - Lets you settlers build their own houses, businesses and farm plots. There was a great add-on to that that gave you better looking houses, but the authors gone and hidden it. Sim Settlements 2 is pretty much the same PLUS a whole bunch of story content too. More than I want. There are other missing mods I still use - CWSS, Craftable Working Sinks and Showers does what it says, makes sink toilets, and showers your settlers will actually use. You can get much of the same ability with Build Your Own Pool. The childrens school mod I prefer is also missing, but there are replacements for that as well. Plucky little trailer - gives you 1 trailer player home you can drop anywhere. I dropped it near the downed vertibird overpass near Greygarden in one playthrough, and next to Evan's trailer in Nuka World in another. But you only get ONE shot - make it count. I think this is enough for now. A lot of this I saw in Oxhorn's Mod Roundup videos if you'd like more ideas.
I think a lot of the initial reaction was nerd rage. I am a new fallout player coming to FO4 after the Tv show and I am just amazed at what passes for “disappointing” in the world of FO nerds.
I know I'm surprised the Fallout community is this picky, I grew up playing both fallout 3 and New Vegas. Both are amazing games but like, After fallout 4 released I found myself enjoying it more than NV or 3, it had more features, better graphics, real life dialog system with your actual character talking, and it's lore really hooked me. You start in prewar before the bombs fell, other fallouts didn't do that (I think anyways) and it was just a better experience than 3 or NV. But still in my opinion The fallout 3 and new Vegas guns look more cooler than the ones in fallout 4, even the dlc ones. But thanks the Cc they added some f3 guns back and it honestly made me feel better and nostalgic. Cost money which sucks but it's whatever, the building and mods really made me look down upon the older fallouts. It was nice, kept the original aspect of fallout and added more cooler features than what previously games had. I loved it
@@DefinitelyNotAroundFallout 4 was my first FO game. I’ve since placed New Vegas and couldn’t get into it nearly as much as FO4. It felt more like a Western than a post-apocalyptic game. Nothing in it made me think of radiation. So I agree with you that New Vegas is good, but FO4 is better, at least IMO.
@@DefinitelyNotAround I think part of the problem for the hard-core fans who have played the older games is that while some of the mechanics have improved the stories themselves have declined in quality. Don't get me wrong, I do love the game spending over 2000 hrs with it but... IMHO it shouldn't have been a mainline game
WOW Its almost like... LONG TIME FANS WERE SHAFTED.... For the kicks of more tasteless mainstream players... Im not surprised you think you like fallout 4 if the FALLOUT SHOW of all things was your introduction to it...
@@tarabooartarmy3654 It was also made in only 18 months because bethesda being greedy, uncaring plebs that they are tried to set it up to fail from the start.... And yet it remains universally the best fallout game... with fallout 4 being the second worst... "fallout" was never really about nuclear fallout. You want that? Go play metro... Fallout was about the characters, the world, the player changed on their journey and the world changed with them... Fallout 4 remains exactly the same at the end of the game as it does at the start.
This video (which randomly appeared in my recommended) has caused me to subscribe to your channel. You have a great voice and your quiet honesty is refreshing. I have well over 1000 hours into this game and I still love it. It's still surprising with different stuff... and then there are a ton of great mods out there that make things fresh with each new run I do. I experienced the huge crashing issues on the Xbox One, but the issue essentially disappeared once I moved onto the Xbox Series X. My theory is that the game was really pushing the capacity of the Xbox One and the moment a little too much started happening the game would "spike" into a crash. With the greater capacity of the Xbox X, the issue disappeared even before they did the "Next Gen" update to the game. I'm so glad you decided to give the game a chance after experiencing the crashing issue on the Xbox One. I'm looking forward to your playthrough.
The only thing i hate, is that the way snapping works in that building base part. But yeah. After 5 years i finally got into it. Spend 6 hours making my huge underground settlement in vault 81 😂
As a power armor user, I wish for the next fallout 5 installment, if they had only one or maybe up to three power armors, kinda like F3 or the prawn suit from Subnautica, the way you can upgrade your prawn suit and you can actually see it transform is mental. I have an issue with the power armor in fallout, looks different in the outside but as you jump in one, they all look the same, no difference in hud display of letters or information display, like a different airplane cockpits..hope they address this in the next fallout, cheers
Josh, you weren't completely wrong. FO4 is such a different animal from what came before, and it feels sparse at first on the RPG side. It's a mash-up of Action-RPG, adventure, crafting, survival, and 4X...and especially in the beginning, it doesn't always work. But it pays off, in buckets, if you let it. There are still things about 4 that piss me off, but at close to 400 hours, it's the Fallout game I've committed the most blood, sweat, and tears to. And since we're post-election in the US and UK (and both were crap), "Keep Calm and Carry On!"
I only played 76 for a couple of days so it was a waste of money and time for me. Hated it. Other people ruined it. I want to play alone unless I have the ability to reach through the computer screen and punch some jerk in the mouth for bothering me.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 the Fallout 76 Community IS usually very nice and helpfull that Guy probably Just wanted to Help Out with some goodies beginners For example often need stimpacks and ammo since they cant craft them Thats why High Level Players usually dump their Not needed stuff to new Players due to storage capacity in their bases If they really annoy you Just Switch Servers
Completely different thing all together. People who like MMO love 76, nothing wrong with that really, if you're into such a thing. I prefer single player & modding to limits MMO require to function, but there's all sorts of people so there's plenty of room for both.
We are at a point where the current output of dev studios is so bad, and the game devs hate us so much we are left with no choice but to go back and appreciate the games that at the time of their release were not received so well. Truly a dire time for gaming.
I loved playing vanilla Fallout 4. But the real magic is in modding. Overhauling the whole game, from role-playing with new quests that add to or replace the main story. To adding to and replace the weapons. Adding new creatures, a new hunting mechanic. New locations to explore. Retexture and remodeling every item in the game. I am at the point where I really am playing more mod than game. Also Fallout London. A brilliant experience, I've tweaked that as well with some extra mods to make it even more distinct from the base game.
Tip for you, you can one piece faze roofs into your Sanctuary homes fixing the roofs in the process honestly to me at least it is very fun to restore and repair Sanctuary hills as close to pre-war standards as possible.
The problems in this game didn't have to do with the perk system (it had a lot of problems, there were a lot of useless perks, but it didn't really hurt the game) They also didn't have to do with the settlement system, well, actually in a way they did... I loved building "settlements", but they were used as substitutes for actual settlements in the game and that was a BIG problem. The game needed actual towns... with actual stories... that was the games main problem. This game was fun, I loved building settlements, and tinkering with gunz, and power armor and collecting shit, and killing stuff... the game is fun... The you get into the story... and of the stories, the main story, the side stories, ANY OF THE STORIES, and they are all FUCKING TERRIBLE. Your choices never matter, nothing happens without you... the writing in this game is abysmal... I love fallout 4, I really do, in many ways it's fun... It's also one of the worst written games I've ever played, the plots are terrible, the world building is terrible, the characters are terrible... The writing has no redeeming qualities... I love Fallout 4, but as a turn my brain off walk around and shoot stuff, so I can collect shit to mod a new gun kinda way, and that's not what I want from a fallout game. I liked the interesting stories of Fallout 1 and 2... We had Red Terrets raiders, and if you read their stuff a rival gang kidnapped her sister to force Terrets into giving them food from the National Guard depo, only they killed her sister... It's the start to what might have been an interesting little story, maybe we could join Terret's gang and figure out what happened to her sister, maybe punish the ones who killed her and reconcile the gangs and then civilize them, turn them away from raiding... Wouldn't that have been more interesting than just going in and murdering all of them... It was the writing that fell on its face here. Emil Pagliarulo talks about in his infamous interview writing the "Great American Novel" and players ripping out the pages and making paper airplanes, and we do, cuz his "Great American Novel" was worse than reading Cosmo... The gameplay here was so good that the writing couldn't ruin it, but it changed this game from a compelling RPG to a brainless shooter. This isn't fallout anymore... When I want to just zone out and not think I love Fallout 4, but Every time I talk to an NPC I am reminded of just how bad this games narrative is... I'm torn, I hate what Bethesda has done to Fallout, I hate that they have ripped out all the RPG, all the depth, all the stories, the very tone that made Fallout what it used to be... I loved the original Fallout, but I also love Fallout 4... I guess the truth is that to me this isn't fallout anymore, its Skyrim with guns, and I like that. I wish Bethesda hadn't done this to Fallout, I wish it was still dark humor, intelligent writing, thoughtful stories, well-crafted worlds with well-realized characters, I miss what it used to be, and I hate what Fallout has become, but I don't hate Fallout 4...
Great comment, man I feel the same for many things about F4. Actually I am modding Fallout 4 on xbox to focus on the goods and to erase the worst I am willing to try to add things like the classic weapon degradation and ammo crafting. Then I will need probably some city and characters mods, because I will totally ignore the main plot (and most of the companions related, sadly) because thinking to the main plot make my brain actually hurts.
@@TiomesTheOne I love modding this game, truth is you can make the good parts better, the base building the weapon modifying, the power armor... problem is that there is nothing you can do to fix the story, to enjoy this game you need to turn off your brain just skip ANY dialogue with ANY npc and just... pretend that its... I dunno, doom with essentially no story at all... If you do it is fun to collect stuff and mod stuff and build stuff... problem is as fun as that can be its not what I wanted in a fallout game...
@Jkend199 agreed, buddy. I am trying to make peace with Fallout 4. Because there are some aspects I really like and I finally want to see everything (I dropped Fallout 4 so many times, modded and not, I have like 150 h of failed attempts) but most of the narrative feels like a joke... maybe that's the point. It was made for a different demographic. So maybe we need to embrace the silly humor and just laugh of the game? For a person that feels deeply attached to Fallout world and profound storytelling is VERY hard to do. Even Far Harbor feels like a punch in the gut, because 1) It shows Bethesda could have written the main plot that way, they just couldn't bother 2) I feel neutral about swamps I am trying to do a modded playtrough fixing my gripes. So Fallout 3 atmosphere, silent protag and just discovered this AMAZING 76 crafting mod which reintroduces weapon condition, ammo jamming, ammo craft, things that make that chunky metal pieces more alive Do you have any mod (especially city/character/dlc size mod)8 you recommend?
@@TiomesTheOne If you want something like that try Fallout London, the mods I run are balance mods and of course cosmetic. I love one of the balance mods from years ago, it makes the pipe guns viable without making them OP, there are also mods for the Legendary effects that make the terrible ones better. There are perk mods that make the terrible perks worth taking... To me modding Diamond city is... worthless... I don't like the "towns" now if you mean "Settlements" the place anywhere and the unlimited settlement budget are the way to go, so you can build whatever you want. For me it's a lot of fun to go through Corvega collecting up everything that isn't nailed down and hauling it all back to a settlement so I can build my own town. I guess I like building, not cuz there's a point really, the settlement isn't useful or interesting when I'm done... I just liked building it...
Fallout 4 is def one of those games you have to ignore modern reviews to enjoy. Luckily, I experienced it before it got picked apart. I ignored the base building (just not for me) but I know others that enjoyed it. The dialogue system was crap but again, I didn’t care about the whole speech check thing until I started watching new Vegas reviews in like 2020. I was more interested in going from place to place, exploring new dungeons and finding loot to make my build better. The perk system imo does work. It isn’t as good as skills, but you can still make builds. I remember my first build was melee weapons and I was able to off a behemoth with one sneaky hit to the back. Now, I appreciate new Vegas the most with it being a true rpg. But 4 still holds some good memories.
My only serious problem with Fallout 4 (PS4) is there's more glitches in the game after I updated it, including many original glitches were never fixed. As for gameplay (my first ever Fallout experience was F3, and I played that for 3 years), I'm still enjoying 3+ years of playing it, without ever having finished it...I actually have zero interest in finishing such games. I still enjoy immersing myself in that realm...fighting, scavenging, settlement building...and looking for all the hidden things not shown on the map or eluded to in conversations or clues. One of the primary elements of enjoying open world games for me, is exploration. Exploring a new realm with zero knowledge of where to go or what to do. Learning how to be effective and efficient. Learning how to play, by playing. Without ever having finished it, I've restarted about 20-30 times, whenever I've learnt something important enough to start afresh. And I have minimal interest in the story or characters, jsut enough to initiate new missions. FFS, one of the most ridiculous story elements of F4 is how Bethesda doesn't give a toss about your character's story experiences. In my case, of losing his wife, for part of obtaining special perks is to develop a love omance relationship with several female AND male charceters...yep, if your a hetero male, you have to declare your love for a male character to obtain that perk, and every time you have sex with them (not visually shown), you get an XP boost for a few hours after you both awaken from your bed. The lesser of this is to be in love with a female character, but as soon as you get the perk, you can dump them and find another lover to obtian another perk, but you can come back to any previous lover where they reside, got bed with them, and recieve the XP boost, and none of them show any distress you've dumped them and left them at a settlement, and as you still sexually hook up with them whenever it suits you. So much for the character grieving for his murdered wife, who, in his previosuly frozen mind, the event just happened. That's one reason I have minimal interest in the story aspect. In real life I'm hetero, though having no issues with homosexuality, I would never hook up with a guy as I have zero sexual arousal for such a thing. I'm not attracted to males, but I'll hook up with any bloke in the game for the game perk. But what a ridiculous proposition to put to gamers. Anyways, back to the fun of F4...three years playing and I recently restarted because I, hindsight, made the huge mistake of hoarding Power Armour. I had about 60 suits of all models, and that hoarding obsession resulted in severe game freezing whenever I came to my homebase. Now I just have one maxed out PA in every settlement, and I sell any others I get. F4 is very different from F3, and it took me a while to adjust to the new elements. One of many things I like in F4 is the much improved perk system. F3 perk system was crap. I was so disappointed in F3 when I realised one can only level up 20 perks, even though that's only a small amount of the perks...and, only if you bought the expansion packs, did Bethesda provide another 10 times one can perk up..but that still wasn't all of the perks...wtf? The perk system in F4 is well balanced and allows you to slowly fully perk up, though I've never done so as many perks, in relation to how I play, I simply have no use for them. And though I enjoy the Legendary Weapons and Armour, I find, again, due to how I play (lone wolf slealth sniper mode), I have little use for the majority of them, so I just cash them in or give them to settlement folks to use and wear. No such thing as a perfect game. But three years and counting and till enjoying my time in Fallout land...that equates to a fav game, despite the glitches and things I don't rez with.
You got to try modding the game. It allows you to make the game what you want it to be. Me personally? I could not stand the firearms that were designed by people who had never actually held one, and the " Jetsons with a drug habit" cars. Most of the profiles I'm running have anywhere from 900 to 1100 mods. I've been playing the games steadily for about 7 years as a result
@tarabooartarmy3654 bruv.. there is literally tens of thousands of mods. On Nexus. There is over 2,000 collections of mods, many of which are hundreds a piece
You're not wrong about Fallout 4. Maybe you've come to enjoy it more than you initially did, but the criticisms that made you dislike it in the first place are still completely valid. You're absolutely right about the Brotherhood of Steel being off in Fallout 4; their decision to nuke the Institute makes no sense. The story is one-dimensional, and the role-playing elements are virtually nonexistent. Everything is linear, with no real choices. When a game gives you the illusion of choice-where no matter what you decide, the outcome is the same-that's not actual choice. Overall, Fallout 4 (and most recent Bethesda games) doesn't truly qualify as a role-playing game, nor does it live up to the way it's advertised. The criticisms people have of it are justified.
Same with 3, New Vegas to a point etc truth be told Fallout 4 was the same as the others just watered down a bit yet all Fallout games are great they just have their own flaws.
"When a game gives you the illusion of choice-where no matter what you decide, the outcome is the same-that's not actual choice." - Starfield called...and so did it's terrible DLC.
It’s because Emil infests the offices of Bethesda. With _different_ and _better_ writers, they could craft something exceptional…. But it won’t happen due to DEI/ESG unfortunately. Bethesda’s days are numbered.
Fallout 4 Settlement Building; addictive isn't it? :) Settlement building is what has kept me going in Fallout 4. That and the thousands of mods out there. I've been playing Fallout since the original first launched and I have played every version of it. Fallout 4, to me, is way better than FO3 and FONV. I know that statement is going to get me a lot of hate! LOL I find it interesting that back in 2015 you weren't interested in the settlement system. These days, players rank base building as one of the features they want a game to have. I've been playing Elite Dangerous for 6 of its 10 years and every time they announced impending new gameplay, the forums would light up with people hoping it would be base building. Which it never was, until just now. Respect to you for being willing to make a video telling people that you've changed your mind. I will point out that you weren't necessarily wrong about FO4, just that you've changed your mind.
I also thought the base building and settlement creation was a gimmick but being a fallout fan i figured the wondering around and the fighting would still be pretty good. I quickly changed my mind. I love the base building just as much or more than fighting and even though i don't wear power armour i love finding them and creating them too. Fallout 4 has become my favorite Fallout4. Oh yeah i have 859 hours on this game on ps5
I had to come back myself. I just started playing it again and i just pushed through to the end. Now im on my second playthrough and had to go back to beat the dlcs on my first save. Im not a fan at the crafting mechanics tbh. How is it they dont have a way to scrap all my junk without throwing it onto the floor and searching for it. I do also with there was a better build system, i wanted to make hangmans alley a tower style base and cant do it because nothing sits together easily and some parts wont even connect, with plenty of room around the entire object im trying to place.
Throwing on the floor and dismantling it is due to the limits Bethesda put onto each settlement. By dismantling pieces, you’re lowering the fullness of the bar so you can build more stuff. Once the bar is filled, you can’t place stuff. One trick is to throw expensive weapons on the floor, open the settlement building system and _store_ the weapons. The more expensive, the more points are withdrawn from the bar. I think the original plan was so the Xbox or PC wouldn’t lag due to how much stuff you’ve built, so use your best judgement when enough is enough.
There is a number of "workshop grinder" mods that make scrapping junk items into components a snap. The one I use looks like a washing machine and I won't play without it now. To get build objects to snap, all it often takes is changing the order in which you're trying to place them. Learning tricks like the "rug glitch" or the "pillar glitch" also helps (there are a number of UA-camrs who have made videos about such techniques that can help a lot.
@ i would love to use mods but im still waiting for the settlements achievement to pop and trying to get the dlc achievements. I broke my tv so its taking even longer.
@@codylemme4154 You'll get there. I played FO4 vanilla for many hundreds of hours and enjoyed each one - making different builds in different settlements, doing different challenges like starting Nuka-World and Far Harbor at Level 1 and playing around with different builds. There are really a lot of different things to do to keep one's interest up. The easiest way to get to 100% happiness is to 1) start with a settlement you can completely clear out (e.g. Red Rocket) since the ones with game-assigned settlers (like Tenpines Bluff) tend to stall out at around 80 since the beds for those settlers generally can't be moved and they stay a little unhappy over it. 2) Then it's just a matter moving a settler to it (keeping the settlement as small as possible) and providing a sheltered bed, water pump, a small farm, and some turrets. 3) Then trap cats since you don't need Local Leader 2 to get them like you do to set up bars and shops and they don't need anything in the way of more food, water or defence. Then - to minimize settlement attacks, empty the workbench completely and keep it empty (stopping by to remove water and veggies occasionally). Since your settler has no buddy to get kidnapped or killed, he'll just keep getting happier. If you haven't gotten Preston out of the Museum yet, he might mention another settlement to clear out at some point just like Preston does, but it's very rare.
Fo4 was so good it made me binge FO1&2 for the first time, back to back; two play throughs each (standard, and low-intel unarmed). And man I LOVE Fallout 1&2. Ended up being two of the best games ive ever played. Going back to 4 just to finish it annoyed me by the end.
Then you discover modding the game. Different ENB, new clothes/armor/weapons, playing in Survival-mode were you’ll have to keep thirst and hunger plus sleep deprivation under control. Ohh, and you might contract disease that needs either a doctor, or you can craft the antibiotics by yourself. Hey, if the main story is getting to you, there’s _Fallout London,_ a mod released this year that’s an entire new game by itself!
I agree, so many places to explore. Bethesda did a really good job with Fallout 4. I was so excited to explore the universe in Starfield to find out that someone's already been everywhere that you go and if you have explored a handful of places, you've seen it all. I should have known better than to expect a good game from them after their money grabbing stunt with Fallout 76. Trash for cash is what they've become. Fallout 4 was great though.
I think the biggest reason people misunderstood FO4 is because 3 & NV played so similar to one another people were hoping & expecting more of the same. There’s definitely overlap in 4 but you have go into it expecting a new experience. A lot of people’s complaints about it in not about what it is it’s about what it is not. Sure there’s some aspects of the previous games that was left out that woulda been nice to include but in my opinion 4 is the funnest to play.
I wish more people could see fallout 4’s beauty like you. I always loved it and it’s by far my second favorite fallout with 3 being my first. New Vegas elitists really drag everyone’s enjoyment down for liking this game but it’s a damn good fallout game. Not just a good game but a good fallout game. All the games have there flaws even new Vegas. Keep up the positivity I’m looking forward to seeing more from you and your new prospective
I still don’t understand why people like New Vegas so much. It feels more like a Western game to me than post-apocalyptic. I see very little in it that reminds me of radiation and I can’t remember the name of a single character like I can with 4. It was all so forgettable to me. The coolest thing I can remember from NV was the greenhouses.
I enjoyed my very first playthrough but enjoyed it even more with mods. As far as my playthroughs go now the game is boring without mods, hence the reason I play on PC. When it comes to power armor this is the feature I dislike. I don't like wearing it so I don't, it takes away the immersion in my opinion, playing in survival mode with PANC and Leveled NPC mods, the more the challenge the better. I use Combat Armor, Ballistic Weave and with the right perks I found that Power Armor is not needed and lets not leave out that I use Cross personal jetpack mod, that comes in handy. After playing Starfield I found myself back on FO4.
im gonna say that base game fallout 4 is just alright but if you add some mods it changes everything the game and building becomes a whole different kinda of game.
There are a lot of things that I hate and find objective downgrades form previous fallouts or bethesda games for that matter....But still even then FO4 is a God damn good game.
It depends what you like. I loved the junk system and collecting resources to improve my character. It is not an rpg it is a 3rd person adventure. As soon as I treated it like that I enjoyed it sooooo much. I am on my like 10th playthrough and I am not gonna stop
The settlement system would be much better if attacks only happned when you are nearby or in a settlement. Running to Sactuary Hills from The Castle in survival is just not worth the time spent. Attacks become population control after a while.
This is my first time playing fallout 4 without mods since they came out and man. I’m having a blast this game does have its flaws but if you can get past them it’s a good time. The dlcs are fun and interesting and you have a lot to do and many choices with the main story.
@@JumptheTrench cause you don’t know how to play the game or how the perks system works? I just started my play through with a decent build and can kill an enemy in a couple shots and I don’t die in 3.
I played Fallout before Last year i finished everything in Fallout 76 and somehow i was able to enjoy that Game despite its flaws i Loved the survival Aspect of 76 and building Camps and collecting Junk For crafting those Things Made me Fall in Love with Fallout again so much that i started a new Fallout 4 survival save with mods that adds stuff from Fallout 76 Like the Mutation system crafting a survival tent and so on Fallout 4 aint perfect either but damn im having a good time i would even Go as far and say im having more fun with fo4 than with newer Games👀
Mate i have only just found this after just not bothering with it, now im hooked on this game, hours of fun. I feel pretty much all the things you describe in this video....also Fallout London to visit🤤
Fallout 4 is most definitely a great game. I still don't know if I would say it is my favorite Fallout game, that might still be New Vegas, but it is certainly a contender. My problem is, like many have said, it is a GREAT game, but NOT a good Fallout game; to an extent, I agree with said statement. That partly being because the game doesn't have the same feel/vibe/atmosphere that the others do. It feels less serious, dangerous, eerie, "depressing", etc. (which you want in a post-apocalyptic game). Don't get me wrong, though, it is still a great game and does deliver on those points to a degree; it just doesn't do it as well (among other issues as well, but they all have their own issues, of course). Furthermore, the base building is definitely a nice addition. I'm not super into it, but I do use the system a little. I really wish they fleshed everything out more, so that you felt like it was more of a necessity rather than a side feature made more for builders. I would of liked for the raids on settlements to be more interesting and fleshed out, so that there was more strategy and earned advancement, and maybe felt a little more "realistic" in how it worked. I'm a fan of tower defense games, so I do like the mechanic a lot, I just wish it was better implemented because besides that I don't really feel a need to build a mega settlement. I do need to force myself to do it more because there are some things settlement wise that I have barely used or not at all. When it comes to Fallout 4 though I'm usually working on my mod, rather than actually playing it (nowadays, that is), but I want to do more playthroughs in the future. As for the power armor.. yeah, that was 100% a gimmick to "wow" non-Fallout fans into trying the game. A very cheap gimmick at that. I hate that you get the armor and minigun so early, where as in the old games it was truly earned with time and effort, which then made it feel more rewarding. The whole mechanic and animations where you get into the power armor is pretty cool, though, I must say. I feel like that addition was fine, it was just how early on you got it that irked me, and still does to this day. Moreover, I LOVE the scraping mechanics. I like being able to pick up something random and getting some use out of it other than just caps, and that use can be a whole a** settlement if you want it to be. You really nailed that point on the head though, where you said it makes you feel more like how you would in real life. Basically, to an extent, being a scavenger; trying to get by with what you can. Now, the perk tree.. I have mixed feelings about. I both like it and dislike it. It is a cool feature and does work decently, but I did like the older games system too and they had some unique perks that I wish translated over to F4. My biggest problem isn't even like the layout/visuals or anything, it's how you can become a jack-of-all-trades. I want to say they should of limited what perks you can get depending on what perks you choose to get beforehand, but then again there isn't a massive amount of perks to choose from.. so that could of made it even worse. Really, once again, I just wished they fleshed it out even more. With how Bethesda is, though, that was never going to happen. Still, a fantastic game in its own right. Definitely still has its flaws, but nothing big that makes me regret buying the game or anything. Fallout 5 SHOULD be the end all be all for the Fallout franchise. It should be everyone's favorite, but I can't say I have the utmost confidence in their ability to deliver, sadly. One can only hope.
Do your self a favor and install Old Word Radio. Its has many times the content and is less annoying than the base game radio.
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its a great game, but a mediocre fallout. the shoehorned in settlement system felt like it took away from environmental storytelling with a soulless "DIY" mentality. it didnt replace it i know, but i feel like the settlement building is how we got those god-awful generic POIs in starfield. its a natural logical conclusion, replacing handmade storytelling with lazy generated slop
I was pretty much the same. I first played FO4 on a console initially and the building was really janky at the time. This was back when the game had pretty much just came out so the game was fairly janky, lol. I played through on the X-box and got pissed about Father. Finished it because I was almost done, then went on a killing spree after taking out the institute and was absolutely done, lol. Years later I picked it up on PC and fell in love with the settlement system and the Minutemen. Funny thing... I have not played through to the end even once on PC. I literally just don't care. I'll think this play through I might as well finish the main quest, but then I get half way there and am have those stupid vertibirds from the brotherhood flying around killing my targets and being annoying as heck and I loose interest. I already know the story and I don't like it... so I gave up and now I just enjoy all the other content and try not to bring the stupid brotherhood in until I absolutely have too. I've tried doing a Brotherhood play through... yeah no. I can see the appeal for some, but I'm not a fan of the FO4 Brotherhood.
Story-wise, the game is kind of meh, but the gameplay itself is truly amazing. I recently got every achievement for the PlayStation 4 version and the hardest ones to get were the Benevolent Leader achievement for the main game and the Eyes on the Prize achievement for the Nuka Cola World DLC.
I've bought a new PC especially for Fallout 4 back in 2015 and after couple of hours i lied my self that i like it. I don't consider fallout 4 and 76 to be part of the fallout universe they looks like replica to me . They don't have that vibe mix of retro cyberpunk mad max survivor post-apocalyptic nuclear game (I don't even know how to define this unique genre that bethesda killed) quest,guns,characters,creatures,atmosphere,sounds,effects,music,voice acting all sucks
I dont hate fallout 4. With some choice mods you could even make it a masterpiece but I wouldn't consider Vanilla 4 good. After 3 and New Vegas it's obvious that 4 was a lazily dumbed down version of those games. It appealed to a wider audience sure but for me personally that change made the game mind numbingly dull. Radiant quests are a joke and they are only used as padding which led to quicker burnout for me. Vanilla weapons were horrifyingly non-sensical, and super bland. Factions were ok but the minutemen were the only ones that had an interesting arch. The railroad was cool because it puts you at direct odds with the ending. The Brotherhood was just too standard. All that said I can totally understand why someone who isn't familiar with earlier games might love this one. Also, weapons were bland sure but the gun play was greatly improved.
Fallout 4 is a great game it will crash out once you over load buffer from to much stuff going on such as expanding settlement way beyond the original size. I got 1350 hrs on not stop entertainment. Have play around with what it has to offer you’ll be even more surprised!!!!! Have fun all.
Its main story is pretty bad & the settlements are related to stupid preston but other than that the game is all around pretty good. Bar its horrific gun designs that just don't look cool to use.
Bro get in touch with me I have a mod list that’ll knock your socks off it’s the ultimate post apocalypse sim literally my game is like dayz mixed with tarkov and had some cod elements and a lot more but with an Xbox I only have 150 mods with a pc I know I’d be able to make the best game in existence
The problem on why Fallout 4 may have turned off people in the beginning is because Bethesda didn't actually explain the settlement building and crafting very well. There is no tutorials. So, not knowing what to do or what the random junk in the wasteland was for made it very confusing. For example, people to this day didn't realize you could pick up dead bodies. Bethesda did a poor job with no tutorials. I had to learn from watching UA-cam creators.
The legendary went to far but it is okay. Perks too went to far and I miss skills. All the factions are written as reflections of who leads them. 4s BoS is not Fallout 3s etc. Railroad is very much Desdemona's Institute is about Father, Minuteman is Preston's vision. The game aint perfect but it's still fun in 2024. New Vegas just crashes too much for me. 3 is okay except for some reason Point Lookout which glitches. Cool video.
What? I hated about it. Was You have to go online to get All the Extension Pack, I bought an entirely new game thinking. I was buying the expansion pack. No, you have to go online to get it. I am not online and I cannot get it. All the other games you bought a new game and the new game have the expansion pack. But no expansion pack for me.😢
Wow , I don't care what this guy thinks because why should I care what some rando thinks about a game I do like and replay alot. But I did give him two minutes and nine seconds of my life to explain but he failed. bye bye.
Yeah. I never understood what everyone's deal with Fallout 4 was. I played it in 2019. With a controller on a PS4 Pro and thought it was engaging and fun. I am a very casual Dad gamer and thought it was fun as Fallout 3. Have been playing ever since. Maybe on my 3rd playthrough? I rarely get heavily in involved with base crafting. Stink at crafting weapons I actually use. Mods don't work for crud anymore..and I still give it an hour a week of my time. Granted. I don't think I have spent more than 20 dollars to have a copy on both my PC and PS4. Not sure how I would have felt paying full price and dealing with the first year of jank You had your reasons for your original dislike. And explain much of it in this video. But in 2024 gamers with keyboards, internet access and very few opinions they actually believe are just looking for reasons to hate everything. Balders Gate and Eldenring are the only games worth playing?
I agree that both Fallout 4 and Fallout 3 are enjoyable to play. Personally, I got into the series with Fallout 3, and I loved it then, and still enjoy playing it now. However, the criticisms people have of both Fallout 4 and Fallout 3 are very valid. These games fail to be role-playing games, despite being marketed as such. The stories are often nonsensical and overly linear. There are numerous video essays on UA-cam, some spanning multiple hours, that extensively explain why these games are objectively poorly written-story-wise, character-wise, and in terms of world-building. The blame lies with Bethesda, as Fallout: New Vegas doesn’t suffer from these issues. It’s well-written, succeeds as a role-playing game, and presents real moral dilemmas-something absent from Bethesda’s recent titles.
nah. Fallout london is the best rendition of fallout 4 so far and that should say something. FO4 has some good ideas sure, like Nick Valentine, but the tedious crafting and horrid storywriting can't be overlooked.
the BoS primary objective is to hoard dangerous tech, yet they nuke the Institute in fo4? lol, the only time Bethesda wrote the BoS how they actually should be is with the fo3 BoS Outcast, that's literally how the BoS acts.
Nah they changed too much about Fallout. Fallout 4 is not a good fallout game and thats my opinion because they changed SOO MUCH. Anyone who enjoys this game and 76 i sincerally hope you guys stay away from the franchise because we dont need fans like this changing fallout forever.
you sound like the type of person to cry that someones a "fake fan and is going to ruin the franchise" because they said a single good thing about the show
Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game, and I enjoyed it This lead me to play the other games, so I appreciate the franchise without the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia soo I can say that F4 is certainly not the strongest in the franchise but it's definitely not the worst that title is for Brotherhood (I played all of the games)
My problem with FO4 is Preston Garvey
@@GalacticBike552 most definitely lol 😂
You can completely skip him and his bunch of useless peasants in Concord, and still get access to settlement building.
You should do what I do: every time he tells you to do something, take him with you, and order him to attack while you sit back and snipe.
It gets even more amusing once you unlock the artillery and can call in a barrage on his head 🤣
i never had a problem with him,
you might say why.
because i don't mind helping out settlements,
now i get their not exactly soldiers, but that's what makes it more rewarding.
it's the idea of helping people, who couldn't help themselves. plenty of people like that exist in real life.
of course a few can fight,
but most settlers don't have experience fighting.
so what you're mainly doing is, giving people hope that, what you're really trying to do, isn't so much create an army,
but by banding common people together, the idea is to retake back the commonwealth.
but to do that is going to take some work, and courage.
now the common complaint is why don't Preston do anything,
well he does have a personal quest that involves the castle.
but if you're not into the whole minute men thing, you don't have to go back to Sanctuary.
i know it's kinda hard not to, but Fallout is a open world game, so you might as well take as much of the game as you can.
@@Jeymezproblem is that minuetman progress is shown really badly, also you HAVE to build every SINGLE settlement by YOURSELF. I usually just lock Garvey in one place making him stand in one place like Maxon and Desdemona making him quest giver. Minuetman is my fav faction in 4 but they have a lot of missed opportunities in their storyline.
Fallout 4 - survival mode is a bloody masterpiece to play.
No it’s not, games barely immersive
@JumptheTrench who cares if it's immersive.
It's one flaw is not having a level or stat cap to go with it. At higher levels everyone is a bullet sponge again, it's lame.
@@JumptheTrench idk what he's talking about 😂 every 5 min you lose a chunk of stamina
@@JumptheTrench every time i hear "immersive" i cringe
I played all of 3. Never picked up 4. Started playing it 4 weeks ago. Single playthrough and just hit 200 hours. The games amazing. I had to add some mods. I added inventory hud and settlement workshop mods for easy building. The games amazing. Wish I didn't listen to people and just played it.
Yeah... Just wait until you're past that "wow this is amazing" stage and you realise just how little of the game there is.
@@brentonherbert7775 idk I finished the game and now done with it. I really enjoyed it. Compaired to games that come out now this was really good imo. Found my self exploring so much
Im 44. I played the OGs when they were new.
Fallout 4 is my favorite. Absolute peak environmental story telling. Being older, the hate rhat got dumped on it seemed like a fad. So glad people realize what a great game it is.
Based. Todd would be proud (and so am I)
I never played the originals, but I know their story. I played NV, 3, and 4 blind. FO4 was a fun game. But it was not worth a replay without major mods. The Far Harbor DLC was great.
It's ok that it's your favourite, but surely you must recognise people's issues with the decline in RPG elements and writing if you played the preceding games. I wouldn't call that a fad.
It's weird hearing someone praise the environmental story telling. It's 200 years later and there are still skeletons in people's living areas.
Environmental story telling feels like something they intentionally ignored in favor of aesthetic (a fair trade off, admittedly).
It's the last good game they made. Nearly a decade and they haven't made another game worth playing. As someone that used to consider BGS the best studio out there it breaks my heart.
Sadly true
I don't necessarily agree but you got a relatively good point. It wasn't necessarily a bad game but there were some flaws that were outright impossible to ignore. One of those being bad gun designs. If there is one thing I will always roast Bethesda for, it's not using previous assets from previous games like 3 and New Vegas. Before Fallout 4, there were already many guns from previous games they could have easily brought back with relatively minimal effort on their part. But no, they had to waste valuable effort in making guns that don't make sense from a design perspective.
Like you mentioned, the trailer pointed out things that they didn't do before. The settlement system was a bold direction for the game. It was dramatically different from the other games. The cool part was, you didn't really have to do it, you can choose to build or choose to not build up settlements. When I started playing Fallout 4, I kept an open mind about it myself, wasn't real crazy with the settlement building at first but it grew on me. There was that challenge to build things up. Lets face it, games fill the hours in a day and when you get to crafting, settlement building and then exploring, those hours disappear quickly.
I disagree about perk and skill progression. One disadvantage being that skill checks aren’t what they used to be with a boring tier 1-5 system, among other issues. Other than that I agree with all your gameplay praise. The junk economy felt like the natural progression of New Vegas’ crafting system. Ammo types being sorely missed. Settlements were the logical conclusion of the Hearthfire dlc, powered by the junk economy for bonus wasteland points. They went hard on verticality which was novel. My real criticism of 4 sits with the narrative, something I’m sure many can agree with. Also, whoever designed that assault rifle needs to be locked up.
I was wrong about Fallout 4...
Yes, yes you were ...and at the time we all knew it.
I liked the junk and crafting system right away. going into a location, looking for screws etc while doing your quest. I think that’s why I’m one of the few that actually plays fallout 76. All that busy work is something I enjoy, it’s relaxing.
I was disappointed with 76 because other people ruined it. I hate playing multiplayer games because jerks inevitably ruin it and there’s not much you can do about it. It’s like getting bullied in school and not being able to throat punch them.
Todd rn: < guy nod of approval at the forest during winter.gif>
Man - I agree with you so much on this that it's hard to not right a novel of a comment here. Just a few notes - tenhats has mods for new settlements, as does Ragoda (his Fairline Hill is a must have in my book), LarannKiar gives you new settlers to recruit (Jenny, Trader Rylee, Kat and Gus, Charlie and Clinton, Shelly Tiller, the wounded dog -- even a mod that makes it possible to recruit the survivors of the Institute - enough to fill an entire settlement) Orphans of the Commonwealth gives you kids, other mods get you furniture kids can actually use, let you set up a school - the works). For settlement building, the best Creation Club items to get are the Coffee and Donuts (Slocums Joe), Modern Furniture, Christmas pack, and Arcade Cabinets - you get new walls (scrap wall height, not barn and warehouse) with INTACT windows, floors, ceilings (one pre-lighted) and furniture, Arcade Cabinets (obviously), Working Fireplaces, and lots of decorations. Captain Cosmos gives 2 new power armor sets WITH jet packs...
Darn, I did it again.....
Damn. I’m saving that comment somewhere to update my modlist. Any other suggestions?
@@charlietownsend2826 Sure, but first some cautions: Scrap everything -- yes, it comes very close to scrapping everything, including parts of the environment. I scrapped the wrong wall in Home Plate and opened the great white portal to nothingness. Also, selection expands to include almost everything, making it difficult to use popular glitches to place pieces which leads to.....
Place anywhere (or everywhere, I don't remember): I does let you place things just about anywhere. You can move the doors on the ground back to their frames in The Coop and at Egret Tours. I can also break pathing for the NPCs. Use both with extreme caution.
Settlement Object Expansion Pack - you get a lot of the toys the devs had when they were laying things out. I use it mostly for the Far Harbor style wind turbines - 15 units of power, and a great big arrow guiding you to your settlements (I'm going to see if I can add one of those flashing lights to the top un this playthrough).
Northland Diggers - gives you a number of workstation for your settler raising settlement happiness, caps, different types of scrap, and food items, You get LARGE mutfruit trees - 2 food and a nice looking tree to decorate. You can buy a brahmin with the mod. Lot's of different trees - including pre-war trees and the hero tree in the Sanctuary roundabout.
Copyright free Diamond City radio replacer -- Recording playthrough videos? No more need to worry about a radio playing. The music sounds right, and you get a second DJ.
Boston Airport Workbench Fix - Lets you make a full settlement at the Airport - but don't use the hand pump replacer (nano tech water pump) - it's literally a replacement for the basic handpump that also produces food, and can trigger more settlement attacks (excess food attracts raiders)
Do your damn job Codsworth -- What would Sanctuary look like if Codsworth actually kept up with maintenance in Sanctuary? Like this - buildings are run down, but intact. It is a little bit of a cheat - you get a lot of scrap from some of the interiors, but it does what the title says.
Essential Slog npcs - The Slog is a bit bugged, the residents lack the protection your other settlers do - this fixes it. No more seeing Dierdre dead on the ground...
Sim Settlements - Lets you settlers build their own houses, businesses and farm plots. There was a great add-on to that that gave you better looking houses, but the authors gone and hidden it. Sim Settlements 2 is pretty much the same PLUS a whole bunch of story content too. More than I want.
There are other missing mods I still use - CWSS, Craftable Working Sinks and Showers does what it says, makes sink toilets, and showers your settlers will actually use. You can get much of the same ability with Build Your Own Pool. The childrens school mod I prefer is also missing, but there are replacements for that as well.
Plucky little trailer - gives you 1 trailer player home you can drop anywhere. I dropped it near the downed vertibird overpass near Greygarden in one playthrough, and next to Evan's trailer in Nuka World in another. But you only get ONE shot - make it count.
I think this is enough for now. A lot of this I saw in Oxhorn's Mod Roundup videos if you'd like more ideas.
I think a lot of the initial reaction was nerd rage. I am a new fallout player coming to FO4 after the Tv show and I am just amazed at what passes for “disappointing” in the world of FO nerds.
I know I'm surprised the Fallout community is this picky, I grew up playing both fallout 3 and New Vegas. Both are amazing games but like, After fallout 4 released I found myself enjoying it more than NV or 3, it had more features, better graphics, real life dialog system with your actual character talking, and it's lore really hooked me. You start in prewar before the bombs fell, other fallouts didn't do that (I think anyways) and it was just a better experience than 3 or NV. But still in my opinion The fallout 3 and new Vegas guns look more cooler than the ones in fallout 4, even the dlc ones. But thanks the Cc they added some f3 guns back and it honestly made me feel better and nostalgic. Cost money which sucks but it's whatever, the building and mods really made me look down upon the older fallouts. It was nice, kept the original aspect of fallout and added more cooler features than what previously games had. I loved it
@@DefinitelyNotAroundFallout 4 was my first FO game. I’ve since placed New Vegas and couldn’t get into it nearly as much as FO4. It felt more like a Western than a post-apocalyptic game. Nothing in it made me think of radiation. So I agree with you that New Vegas is good, but FO4 is better, at least IMO.
@@DefinitelyNotAround I think part of the problem for the hard-core fans who have played the older games is that while some of the mechanics have improved the stories themselves have declined in quality. Don't get me wrong, I do love the game spending over 2000 hrs with it but... IMHO it shouldn't have been a mainline game
WOW
Its almost like... LONG TIME FANS WERE SHAFTED.... For the kicks of more tasteless mainstream players...
Im not surprised you think you like fallout 4 if the FALLOUT SHOW of all things was your introduction to it...
@@tarabooartarmy3654 It was also made in only 18 months because bethesda being greedy, uncaring plebs that they are tried to set it up to fail from the start.... And yet it remains universally the best fallout game... with fallout 4 being the second worst... "fallout" was never really about nuclear fallout. You want that? Go play metro... Fallout was about the characters, the world, the player changed on their journey and the world changed with them... Fallout 4 remains exactly the same at the end of the game as it does at the start.
This video (which randomly appeared in my recommended) has caused me to subscribe to your channel. You have a great voice and your quiet honesty is refreshing. I have well over 1000 hours into this game and I still love it. It's still surprising with different stuff... and then there are a ton of great mods out there that make things fresh with each new run I do.
I experienced the huge crashing issues on the Xbox One, but the issue essentially disappeared once I moved onto the Xbox Series X. My theory is that the game was really pushing the capacity of the Xbox One and the moment a little too much started happening the game would "spike" into a crash. With the greater capacity of the Xbox X, the issue disappeared even before they did the "Next Gen" update to the game. I'm so glad you decided to give the game a chance after experiencing the crashing issue on the Xbox One.
I'm looking forward to your playthrough.
The plot is terrible but I adore building and just running around.
Jetpacking around in FO4 was a frigging blast. Shame you could only do it quite late in the game.
Bethesda didn’t talk about Fallout 76 at E3 2015?
The only thing i hate, is that the way snapping works in that building base part. But yeah. After 5 years i finally got into it. Spend 6 hours making my huge underground settlement in vault 81 😂
Vault 88. Vault 81 is the medical experiment where you’ll find Curie.
Yeah, it’s 88.
As a power armor user, I wish for the next fallout 5 installment, if they had only one or maybe up to three power armors, kinda like F3 or the prawn suit from Subnautica, the way you can upgrade your prawn suit and you can actually see it transform is mental.
I have an issue with the power armor in fallout, looks different in the outside but as you jump in one, they all look the same, no difference in hud display of letters or information display, like a different airplane cockpits..hope they address this in the next fallout, cheers
Josh, you weren't completely wrong. FO4 is such a different animal from what came before, and it feels sparse at first on the RPG side. It's a mash-up of Action-RPG, adventure, crafting, survival, and 4X...and especially in the beginning, it doesn't always work. But it pays off, in buckets, if you let it. There are still things about 4 that piss me off, but at close to 400 hours, it's the Fallout game I've committed the most blood, sweat, and tears to. And since we're post-election in the US and UK (and both were crap), "Keep Calm and Carry On!"
3:48 bethesta did this to introduce you to the new power armor mechanic. It used to equip like basic apparel.
I'm super sad 76 isn't nearly as good as fall out 4
What are you talking about? Fallout 76 is an improvement to Fallout 4.
I added stuff from Fallout 76 via mods Like the Mutation system crafting and a survival tent 👍🏼
I only played 76 for a couple of days so it was a waste of money and time for me. Hated it. Other people ruined it. I want to play alone unless I have the ability to reach through the computer screen and punch some jerk in the mouth for bothering me.
@@tarabooartarmy3654 the Fallout 76 Community IS usually very nice and helpfull that Guy probably Just wanted to Help Out with some goodies beginners For example often need stimpacks and ammo since they cant craft them
Thats why High Level Players usually dump their Not needed stuff to new Players due to storage capacity in their bases
If they really annoy you Just Switch Servers
Completely different thing all together. People who like MMO love 76, nothing wrong with that really, if you're into such a thing. I prefer single player & modding to limits MMO require to function, but there's all sorts of people so there's plenty of room for both.
We are at a point where the current output of dev studios is so bad, and the game devs hate us so much we are left with no choice but to go back and appreciate the games that at the time of their release were not received so well. Truly a dire time for gaming.
I loved playing vanilla Fallout 4. But the real magic is in modding. Overhauling the whole game, from role-playing with new quests that add to or replace the main story. To adding to and replace the weapons. Adding new creatures, a new hunting mechanic. New locations to explore. Retexture and remodeling every item in the game. I am at the point where I really am playing more mod than game. Also Fallout London. A brilliant experience, I've tweaked that as well with some extra mods to make it even more distinct from the base game.
Not the best fallout game, but super fun and consistently entertaining.
Tip for you, you can one piece faze roofs into your Sanctuary homes fixing the roofs in the process honestly to me at least it is very fun to restore and repair Sanctuary hills as close to pre-war standards as possible.
The problems in this game didn't have to do with the perk system (it had a lot of problems, there were a lot of useless perks, but it didn't really hurt the game) They also didn't have to do with the settlement system, well, actually in a way they did... I loved building "settlements", but they were used as substitutes for actual settlements in the game and that was a BIG problem. The game needed actual towns... with actual stories... that was the games main problem. This game was fun, I loved building settlements, and tinkering with gunz, and power armor and collecting shit, and killing stuff... the game is fun... The you get into the story... and of the stories, the main story, the side stories, ANY OF THE STORIES, and they are all FUCKING TERRIBLE. Your choices never matter, nothing happens without you... the writing in this game is abysmal... I love fallout 4, I really do, in many ways it's fun... It's also one of the worst written games I've ever played, the plots are terrible, the world building is terrible, the characters are terrible... The writing has no redeeming qualities... I love Fallout 4, but as a turn my brain off walk around and shoot stuff, so I can collect shit to mod a new gun kinda way, and that's not what I want from a fallout game. I liked the interesting stories of Fallout 1 and 2...
We had Red Terrets raiders, and if you read their stuff a rival gang kidnapped her sister to force Terrets into giving them food from the National Guard depo, only they killed her sister... It's the start to what might have been an interesting little story, maybe we could join Terret's gang and figure out what happened to her sister, maybe punish the ones who killed her and reconcile the gangs and then civilize them, turn them away from raiding... Wouldn't that have been more interesting than just going in and murdering all of them... It was the writing that fell on its face here. Emil Pagliarulo talks about in his infamous interview writing the "Great American Novel" and players ripping out the pages and making paper airplanes, and we do, cuz his "Great American Novel" was worse than reading Cosmo... The gameplay here was so good that the writing couldn't ruin it, but it changed this game from a compelling RPG to a brainless shooter. This isn't fallout anymore... When I want to just zone out and not think I love Fallout 4, but Every time I talk to an NPC I am reminded of just how bad this games narrative is... I'm torn, I hate what Bethesda has done to Fallout, I hate that they have ripped out all the RPG, all the depth, all the stories, the very tone that made Fallout what it used to be... I loved the original Fallout, but I also love Fallout 4... I guess the truth is that to me this isn't fallout anymore, its Skyrim with guns, and I like that. I wish Bethesda hadn't done this to Fallout, I wish it was still dark humor, intelligent writing, thoughtful stories, well-crafted worlds with well-realized characters, I miss what it used to be, and I hate what Fallout has become, but I don't hate Fallout 4...
Great comment, man
I feel the same for many things about F4.
Actually I am modding Fallout 4 on xbox to focus on the goods and to erase the worst
I am willing to try to add things like the classic weapon degradation and ammo crafting. Then I will need probably some city and characters mods, because I will totally ignore the main plot (and most of the companions related, sadly) because thinking to the main plot make my brain actually hurts.
@@TiomesTheOne I love modding this game, truth is you can make the good parts better, the base building the weapon modifying, the power armor... problem is that there is nothing you can do to fix the story, to enjoy this game you need to turn off your brain just skip ANY dialogue with ANY npc and just... pretend that its... I dunno, doom with essentially no story at all... If you do it is fun to collect stuff and mod stuff and build stuff... problem is as fun as that can be its not what I wanted in a fallout game...
@Jkend199 agreed, buddy.
I am trying to make peace with Fallout 4. Because there are some aspects I really like and I finally want to see everything (I dropped Fallout 4 so many times, modded and not, I have like 150 h of failed attempts) but most of the narrative feels like a joke... maybe that's the point.
It was made for a different demographic. So maybe we need to embrace the silly humor and just laugh of the game?
For a person that feels deeply attached to Fallout world and profound storytelling is VERY hard to do.
Even Far Harbor feels like a punch in the gut, because 1) It shows Bethesda could have written the main plot that way, they just couldn't bother
2) I feel neutral about swamps
I am trying to do a modded playtrough fixing my gripes. So Fallout 3 atmosphere, silent protag and just discovered this AMAZING 76 crafting mod which reintroduces weapon condition, ammo jamming, ammo craft, things that make that chunky metal pieces more alive
Do you have any mod (especially city/character/dlc size mod)8 you recommend?
@@TiomesTheOne If you want something like that try Fallout London, the mods I run are balance mods and of course cosmetic. I love one of the balance mods from years ago, it makes the pipe guns viable without making them OP, there are also mods for the Legendary effects that make the terrible ones better. There are perk mods that make the terrible perks worth taking... To me modding Diamond city is... worthless... I don't like the "towns" now if you mean "Settlements" the place anywhere and the unlimited settlement budget are the way to go, so you can build whatever you want. For me it's a lot of fun to go through Corvega collecting up everything that isn't nailed down and hauling it all back to a settlement so I can build my own town. I guess I like building, not cuz there's a point really, the settlement isn't useful or interesting when I'm done... I just liked building it...
Fallout 4 is def one of those games you have to ignore modern reviews to enjoy. Luckily, I experienced it before it got picked apart. I ignored the base building (just not for me) but I know others that enjoyed it. The dialogue system was crap but again, I didn’t care about the whole speech check thing until I started watching new Vegas reviews in like 2020. I was more interested in going from place to place, exploring new dungeons and finding loot to make my build better. The perk system imo does work. It isn’t as good as skills, but you can still make builds. I remember my first build was melee weapons and I was able to off a behemoth with one sneaky hit to the back.
Now, I appreciate new Vegas the most with it being a true rpg. But 4 still holds some good memories.
My only serious problem with Fallout 4 (PS4) is there's more glitches in the game after I updated it, including many original glitches were never fixed.
As for gameplay (my first ever Fallout experience was F3, and I played that for 3 years), I'm still enjoying 3+ years of playing it, without ever having finished it...I actually have zero interest in finishing such games. I still enjoy immersing myself in that realm...fighting, scavenging, settlement building...and looking for all the hidden things not shown on the map or eluded to in conversations or clues.
One of the primary elements of enjoying open world games for me, is exploration. Exploring a new realm with zero knowledge of where to go or what to do. Learning how to be effective and efficient. Learning how to play, by playing. Without ever having finished it, I've restarted about 20-30 times, whenever I've learnt something important enough to start afresh. And I have minimal interest in the story or characters, jsut enough to initiate new missions.
FFS, one of the most ridiculous story elements of F4 is how Bethesda doesn't give a toss about your character's story experiences. In my case, of losing his wife, for part of obtaining special perks is to develop a love
omance relationship with several female AND male charceters...yep, if your a hetero male, you have to declare your love for a male character to obtain that perk, and every time you have sex with them (not visually shown), you get an XP boost for a few hours after you both awaken from your bed.
The lesser of this is to be in love with a female character, but as soon as you get the perk, you can dump them and find another lover to obtian another perk, but you can come back to any previous lover where they reside, got bed with them, and recieve the XP boost, and none of them show any distress you've dumped them and left them at a settlement, and as you still sexually hook up with them whenever it suits you. So much for the character grieving for his murdered wife, who, in his previosuly frozen mind, the event just happened.
That's one reason I have minimal interest in the story aspect. In real life I'm hetero, though having no issues with homosexuality, I would never hook up with a guy as I have zero sexual arousal for such a thing. I'm not attracted to males, but I'll hook up with any bloke in the game for the game perk. But what a ridiculous proposition to put to gamers.
Anyways, back to the fun of F4...three years playing and I recently restarted because I, hindsight, made the huge mistake of hoarding Power Armour. I had about 60 suits of all models, and that hoarding obsession resulted in severe game freezing whenever I came to my homebase. Now I just have one maxed out PA in every settlement, and I sell any others I get.
F4 is very different from F3, and it took me a while to adjust to the new elements. One of many things I like in F4 is the much improved perk system. F3 perk system was crap. I was so disappointed in F3 when I realised one can only level up 20 perks, even though that's only a small amount of the perks...and, only if you bought the expansion packs, did Bethesda provide another 10 times one can perk up..but that still wasn't all of the perks...wtf?
The perk system in F4 is well balanced and allows you to slowly fully perk up, though I've never done so as many perks, in relation to how I play, I simply have no use for them.
And though I enjoy the Legendary Weapons and Armour, I find, again, due to how I play (lone wolf slealth sniper mode), I have little use for the majority of them, so I just cash them in or give them to settlement folks to use and wear.
No such thing as a perfect game. But three years and counting and till enjoying my time in Fallout land...that equates to a fav game, despite the glitches and things I don't rez with.
You got to try modding the game. It allows you to make the game what you want it to be.
Me personally? I could not stand the firearms that were designed by people who had never actually held one, and the " Jetsons with a drug habit" cars.
Most of the profiles I'm running have anywhere from 900 to 1100 mods.
I've been playing the games steadily for about 7 years as a result
I didn’t even know that many mods existed! 😮
@tarabooartarmy3654 bruv.. there is literally tens of thousands of mods. On Nexus. There is over 2,000 collections of mods, many of which are hundreds a piece
You're not wrong about Fallout 4. Maybe you've come to enjoy it more than you initially did, but the criticisms that made you dislike it in the first place are still completely valid. You're absolutely right about the Brotherhood of Steel being off in Fallout 4; their decision to nuke the Institute makes no sense. The story is one-dimensional, and the role-playing elements are virtually nonexistent. Everything is linear, with no real choices. When a game gives you the illusion of choice-where no matter what you decide, the outcome is the same-that's not actual choice. Overall, Fallout 4 (and most recent Bethesda games) doesn't truly qualify as a role-playing game, nor does it live up to the way it's advertised. The criticisms people have of it are justified.
Same with 3, New Vegas to a point etc truth be told Fallout 4 was the same as the others just watered down a bit yet all Fallout games are great they just have their own flaws.
"When a game gives you the illusion of choice-where no matter what you decide, the outcome is the same-that's not actual choice." - Starfield called...and so did it's terrible DLC.
It’s because Emil infests the offices of Bethesda. With _different_ and _better_ writers, they could craft something exceptional…. But it won’t happen due to DEI/ESG unfortunately. Bethesda’s days are numbered.
@@NorseGraphic you really pulled the DEI card? What's it like being that fragile ?
@@DJMarcO138 What’s it like being retarded?
Fallout 4 Settlement Building; addictive isn't it? :)
Settlement building is what has kept me going in Fallout 4. That and the thousands of mods out there. I've been playing Fallout since the original first launched and I have played every version of it. Fallout 4, to me, is way better than FO3 and FONV. I know that statement is going to get me a lot of hate! LOL
I find it interesting that back in 2015 you weren't interested in the settlement system. These days, players rank base building as one of the features they want a game to have. I've been playing Elite Dangerous for 6 of its 10 years and every time they announced impending new gameplay, the forums would light up with people hoping it would be base building. Which it never was, until just now.
Respect to you for being willing to make a video telling people that you've changed your mind. I will point out that you weren't necessarily wrong about FO4, just that you've changed your mind.
I also thought the base building and settlement creation was a gimmick but being a fallout fan i figured the wondering around and the fighting would still be pretty good. I quickly changed my mind. I love the base building just as much or more than fighting and even though i don't wear power armour i love finding them and creating them too. Fallout 4 has become my favorite Fallout4. Oh yeah i have 859 hours on this game on ps5
I had to come back myself. I just started playing it again and i just pushed through to the end. Now im on my second playthrough and had to go back to beat the dlcs on my first save.
Im not a fan at the crafting mechanics tbh. How is it they dont have a way to scrap all my junk without throwing it onto the floor and searching for it. I do also with there was a better build system, i wanted to make hangmans alley a tower style base and cant do it because nothing sits together easily and some parts wont even connect, with plenty of room around the entire object im trying to place.
Throwing on the floor and dismantling it is due to the limits Bethesda put onto each settlement. By dismantling pieces, you’re lowering the fullness of the bar so you can build more stuff. Once the bar is filled, you can’t place stuff. One trick is to throw expensive weapons on the floor, open the settlement building system and _store_ the weapons. The more expensive, the more points are withdrawn from the bar. I think the original plan was so the Xbox or PC wouldn’t lag due to how much stuff you’ve built, so use your best judgement when enough is enough.
There is a number of "workshop grinder" mods that make scrapping junk items into components a snap. The one I use looks like a washing machine and I won't play without it now. To get build objects to snap, all it often takes is changing the order in which you're trying to place them. Learning tricks like the "rug glitch" or the "pillar glitch" also helps (there are a number of UA-camrs who have made videos about such techniques that can help a lot.
@ i would love to use mods but im still waiting for the settlements achievement to pop and trying to get the dlc achievements. I broke my tv so its taking even longer.
@@codylemme4154 You'll get there. I played FO4 vanilla for many hundreds of hours and enjoyed each one - making different builds in different settlements, doing different challenges like starting Nuka-World and Far Harbor at Level 1 and playing around with different builds. There are really a lot of different things to do to keep one's interest up.
The easiest way to get to 100% happiness is to 1) start with a settlement you can completely clear out (e.g. Red Rocket) since the ones with game-assigned settlers (like Tenpines Bluff) tend to stall out at around 80 since the beds for those settlers generally can't be moved and they stay a little unhappy over it. 2) Then it's just a matter moving a settler to it (keeping the settlement as small as possible) and providing a sheltered bed, water pump, a small farm, and some turrets. 3) Then trap cats since you don't need Local Leader 2 to get them like you do to set up bars and shops and they don't need anything in the way of more food, water or defence.
Then - to minimize settlement attacks, empty the workbench completely and keep it empty (stopping by to remove water and veggies occasionally). Since your settler has no buddy to get kidnapped or killed, he'll just keep getting happier. If you haven't gotten Preston out of the Museum yet, he might mention another settlement to clear out at some point just like Preston does, but it's very rare.
It's actually one of the most stable Fallouts to mod as well. If you do it correctly.
You can up your settlement space by breaking down/scrapping guns. Just drop em n scrap em and that meter in the top right will go down.
Fo4 was my first Fallout game and I'm so glad it was, Far Harbor and Nuka Cola DLC's were great too, what a fun ride that game was.
Fo4 was so good it made me binge FO1&2 for the first time, back to back; two play throughs each (standard, and low-intel unarmed).
And man I LOVE Fallout 1&2. Ended up being two of the best games ive ever played.
Going back to 4 just to finish it annoyed me by the end.
Then you discover modding the game. Different ENB, new clothes/armor/weapons, playing in Survival-mode were you’ll have to keep thirst and hunger plus sleep deprivation under control. Ohh, and you might contract disease that needs either a doctor, or you can craft the antibiotics by yourself.
Hey, if the main story is getting to you, there’s _Fallout London,_ a mod released this year that’s an entire new game by itself!
Shouldn't have to mod the game, Bethesda should just be better
wait so in a year the last Fallout game is 10 years old too?!
When I want to switch off, relax and forget my troubles I play Fallout 4. 4000 hours. I guess I got my money’s worth.
There is so many interesting locations to explore, is a great game imo.
I agree, so many places to explore. Bethesda did a really good job with Fallout 4. I was so excited to explore the universe in Starfield to find out that someone's already been everywhere that you go and if you have explored a handful of places, you've seen it all. I should have known better than to expect a good game from them after their money grabbing stunt with Fallout 76. Trash for cash is what they've become. Fallout 4 was great though.
I think the biggest reason people misunderstood FO4 is because 3 & NV played so similar to one another people were hoping & expecting more of the same. There’s definitely overlap in 4 but you have go into it expecting a new experience. A lot of people’s complaints about it in not about what it is it’s about what it is not. Sure there’s some aspects of the previous games that was left out that woulda been nice to include but in my opinion 4 is the funnest to play.
I wish more people could see fallout 4’s beauty like you. I always loved it and it’s by far my second favorite fallout with 3 being my first. New Vegas elitists really drag everyone’s enjoyment down for liking this game but it’s a damn good fallout game. Not just a good game but a good fallout game. All the games have there flaws even new Vegas. Keep up the positivity I’m looking forward to seeing more from you and your new prospective
I still don’t understand why people like New Vegas so much. It feels more like a Western game to me than post-apocalyptic. I see very little in it that reminds me of radiation and I can’t remember the name of a single character like I can with 4. It was all so forgettable to me. The coolest thing I can remember from NV was the greenhouses.
You should try out America rising 2 mod you get to play with the enclave it’s really good
I enjoyed my very first playthrough but enjoyed it even more with mods. As far as my playthroughs go now the game is boring without mods, hence the reason I play on PC. When it comes to power armor this is the feature I dislike. I don't like wearing it so I don't, it takes away the immersion in my opinion, playing in survival mode with PANC and Leveled NPC mods, the more the challenge the better. I use Combat Armor, Ballistic Weave and with the right perks I found that Power Armor is not needed and lets not leave out that I use Cross personal jetpack mod, that comes in handy.
After playing Starfield I found myself back on FO4.
im gonna say that base game fallout 4 is just alright but if you add some mods it changes everything the game and building becomes a whole different kinda of game.
There are a lot of things that I hate and find objective downgrades form previous fallouts or bethesda games for that matter....But still even then FO4 is a God damn good game.
It really does give me hope tho that this comment section is split, maybe theres hope for fallout after all 😊
It depends what you like. I loved the junk system and collecting resources to improve my character. It is not an rpg it is a 3rd person adventure. As soon as I treated it like that I enjoyed it sooooo much.
I am on my like 10th playthrough and I am not gonna stop
The settlement system would be much better if attacks only happned when you are nearby or in a settlement. Running to Sactuary Hills from The Castle in survival is just not worth the time spent. Attacks become population control after a while.
Welcome to the fold! Have you done Nuka World yet?
How do you feel about the next gen "content"? IDK how many hours you had on XBOX but 60 hours on FO4 is light work.
The only real and absolutely, undeniably bad thing about fallout 4 is creation club. Bethesda skimming off community made content is disgusting.
This is my first time playing fallout 4 without mods since they came out and man. I’m having a blast this game does have its flaws but if you can get past them it’s a good time. The dlcs are fun and interesting and you have a lot to do and many choices with the main story.
You’re fr tripping bro, hames unplayable without mods
@@JumptheTrench it’s not that bad it is absolutely playable if your just bad at the game then that’s okay. You can play on the easiest difficulty.
@@pimpnamedkane bullet sponges aren’t fun, if I die in two to three shots, why does it take 70 bullets to take down one enemy
@@JumptheTrench cause you don’t know how to play the game or how the perks system works? I just started my play through with a decent build and can kill an enemy in a couple shots and I don’t die in 3.
I played Fallout before
Last year i finished everything in Fallout 76 and somehow i was able to enjoy that Game despite its flaws i Loved the survival Aspect of 76 and building Camps and collecting Junk For crafting those Things Made me Fall in Love with Fallout again so much that i started a new Fallout 4 survival save with mods that adds stuff from Fallout 76 Like the Mutation system crafting a survival tent and so on
Fallout 4 aint perfect either but damn im having a good time i would even Go as far and say im having more fun with fo4 than with newer Games👀
-It's actually great
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(it always has been)
Mate i have only just found this after just not bothering with it, now im hooked on this game, hours of fun. I feel pretty much all the things you describe in this video....also Fallout London to visit🤤
be happy man do what you like
Fallout 4 is most definitely a great game. I still don't know if I would say it is my favorite Fallout game, that might still be New Vegas, but it is certainly a contender. My problem is, like many have said, it is a GREAT game, but NOT a good Fallout game; to an extent, I agree with said statement. That partly being because the game doesn't have the same feel/vibe/atmosphere that the others do. It feels less serious, dangerous, eerie, "depressing", etc. (which you want in a post-apocalyptic game). Don't get me wrong, though, it is still a great game and does deliver on those points to a degree; it just doesn't do it as well (among other issues as well, but they all have their own issues, of course).
Furthermore, the base building is definitely a nice addition. I'm not super into it, but I do use the system a little. I really wish they fleshed everything out more, so that you felt like it was more of a necessity rather than a side feature made more for builders. I would of liked for the raids on settlements to be more interesting and fleshed out, so that there was more strategy and earned advancement, and maybe felt a little more "realistic" in how it worked. I'm a fan of tower defense games, so I do like the mechanic a lot, I just wish it was better implemented because besides that I don't really feel a need to build a mega settlement. I do need to force myself to do it more because there are some things settlement wise that I have barely used or not at all. When it comes to Fallout 4 though I'm usually working on my mod, rather than actually playing it (nowadays, that is), but I want to do more playthroughs in the future. As for the power armor.. yeah, that was 100% a gimmick to "wow" non-Fallout fans into trying the game. A very cheap gimmick at that. I hate that you get the armor and minigun so early, where as in the old games it was truly earned with time and effort, which then made it feel more rewarding. The whole mechanic and animations where you get into the power armor is pretty cool, though, I must say. I feel like that addition was fine, it was just how early on you got it that irked me, and still does to this day.
Moreover, I LOVE the scraping mechanics. I like being able to pick up something random and getting some use out of it other than just caps, and that use can be a whole a** settlement if you want it to be. You really nailed that point on the head though, where you said it makes you feel more like how you would in real life. Basically, to an extent, being a scavenger; trying to get by with what you can. Now, the perk tree.. I have mixed feelings about. I both like it and dislike it. It is a cool feature and does work decently, but I did like the older games system too and they had some unique perks that I wish translated over to F4. My biggest problem isn't even like the layout/visuals or anything, it's how you can become a jack-of-all-trades. I want to say they should of limited what perks you can get depending on what perks you choose to get beforehand, but then again there isn't a massive amount of perks to choose from.. so that could of made it even worse. Really, once again, I just wished they fleshed it out even more. With how Bethesda is, though, that was never going to happen. Still, a fantastic game in its own right. Definitely still has its flaws, but nothing big that makes me regret buying the game or anything. Fallout 5 SHOULD be the end all be all for the Fallout franchise. It should be everyone's favorite, but I can't say I have the utmost confidence in their ability to deliver, sadly. One can only hope.
Do your self a favor and install Old Word Radio. Its has many times the content and is less annoying than the base game radio.
its a great game, but a mediocre fallout. the shoehorned in settlement system felt like it took away from environmental storytelling with a soulless "DIY" mentality. it didnt replace it i know, but i feel like the settlement building is how we got those god-awful generic POIs in starfield. its a natural logical conclusion, replacing handmade storytelling with lazy generated slop
Little correction there you are not a fallout fan you are a bethesda fan and it make a huge difference.
I was pretty much the same. I first played FO4 on a console initially and the building was really janky at the time. This was back when the game had pretty much just came out so the game was fairly janky, lol. I played through on the X-box and got pissed about Father. Finished it because I was almost done, then went on a killing spree after taking out the institute and was absolutely done, lol. Years later I picked it up on PC and fell in love with the settlement system and the Minutemen. Funny thing... I have not played through to the end even once on PC. I literally just don't care. I'll think this play through I might as well finish the main quest, but then I get half way there and am have those stupid vertibirds from the brotherhood flying around killing my targets and being annoying as heck and I loose interest. I already know the story and I don't like it... so I gave up and now I just enjoy all the other content and try not to bring the stupid brotherhood in until I absolutely have too. I've tried doing a Brotherhood play through... yeah no. I can see the appeal for some, but I'm not a fan of the FO4 Brotherhood.
Only survival ! Have Fun
Story-wise, the game is kind of meh, but the gameplay itself is truly amazing. I recently got every achievement for the PlayStation 4 version and the hardest ones to get were the Benevolent Leader achievement for the main game and the Eyes on the Prize achievement for the Nuka Cola World DLC.
I've bought a new PC especially for Fallout 4 back in 2015 and after couple of hours i lied my self that i like it. I don't consider fallout 4 and 76 to be part of the fallout universe they looks like replica to me . They don't have that vibe mix of retro cyberpunk mad max survivor post-apocalyptic nuclear game (I don't even know how to define this unique genre that bethesda killed) quest,guns,characters,creatures,atmosphere,sounds,effects,music,voice acting all sucks
I love the game I'm still rockin it
I dont hate fallout 4. With some choice mods you could even make it a masterpiece but I wouldn't consider Vanilla 4 good. After 3 and New Vegas it's obvious that 4 was a lazily dumbed down version of those games. It appealed to a wider audience sure but for me personally that change made the game mind numbingly dull. Radiant quests are a joke and they are only used as padding which led to quicker burnout for me. Vanilla weapons were horrifyingly non-sensical, and super bland. Factions were ok but the minutemen were the only ones that had an interesting arch. The railroad was cool because it puts you at direct odds with the ending. The Brotherhood was just too standard. All that said I can totally understand why someone who isn't familiar with earlier games might love this one. Also, weapons were bland sure but the gun play was greatly improved.
Fallout 4 is a great game it will crash out once you over load buffer from to much stuff going on such as expanding settlement way beyond the original size. I got 1350 hrs on not stop entertainment. Have play around with what it has to offer you’ll be even more surprised!!!!! Have fun all.
Its main story is pretty bad & the settlements are related to stupid preston but other than that the game is all around pretty good. Bar its horrific gun designs that just don't look cool to use.
I beat 3 & NV 2 times each. I beat 4 over 10 times.
How Guns Look like in fallout 4 is in my opinion the most worst looking all all games
It's a 10 year old game basically, what's there left to be "wrong" or "right" about 🤦
Terrible opinion, most of the top active games today are over 10 years old.
Bro get in touch with me I have a mod list that’ll knock your socks off it’s the ultimate post apocalypse sim literally my game is like dayz mixed with tarkov and had some cod elements and a lot more but with an Xbox I only have 150 mods with a pc I know I’d be able to make the best game in existence
Wow how did you get 150 mods on an Xbox? The space you get given is so small 😢
The problem on why Fallout 4 may have turned off people in the beginning is because Bethesda didn't actually explain the settlement building and crafting very well. There is no tutorials. So, not knowing what to do or what the random junk in the wasteland was for made it very confusing. For example, people to this day didn't realize you could pick up dead bodies. Bethesda did a poor job with no tutorials. I had to learn from watching UA-cam creators.
The legendary went to far but it is okay. Perks too went to far and I miss skills. All the factions are written as reflections of who leads them. 4s BoS is not Fallout 3s etc. Railroad is very much Desdemona's Institute is about Father, Minuteman is Preston's vision. The game aint perfect but it's still fun in 2024. New Vegas just crashes too much for me. 3 is okay except for some reason Point Lookout which glitches. Cool video.
You give Bethesda too much credit; most aspects and mechanics of the game (including the economy) came from the very first Fallout game back in 1997.
load 400 mods and see how stable it remains lol My game is so broken.
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Story is shit but yeah its mechanics and gameplay is always addictive
What? I hated about it. Was You have to go online to get All the Extension Pack, I bought an entirely new game thinking. I was buying the expansion pack. No, you have to go online to get it. I am not online and I cannot get it. All the other games you bought a new game and the new game have the expansion pack. But no expansion pack for me.😢
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Fallout 4 and 76 are not fallout games they are both boring and pathetic and they have nothing to do with the unique genre of Fallout universe
Wow , I don't care what this guy thinks because why should I care what some rando thinks about a game I do like and replay alot.
But I did give him two minutes and nine seconds of my life to explain but he failed. bye bye.
you cared enough to comment and cared enough to watch
@@Grayson-tk5hn I gave him 2 minutes and nine seconds to make his case and he failed, just like your doing now sweetheart.
@@richknudsen5781 what??
@@Grayson-tk5hn Put down the doobie and the cheez wiz pal, your losing control.
@@richknudsen5781 whats a "doobie" and "cheez wiz pal" are you ok? there is help if you need it
It is a boring game lets be realistic here, the gunplay isnt even good
Yeah. I never understood what everyone's deal with Fallout 4 was. I played it in 2019. With a controller on a PS4 Pro and thought it was engaging and fun. I am a very casual Dad gamer and thought it was fun as Fallout 3. Have been playing ever since.
Maybe on my 3rd playthrough? I rarely get heavily in involved with base crafting. Stink at crafting weapons I actually use. Mods don't work for crud anymore..and I still give it an hour a week of my time.
Granted. I don't think I have spent more than 20 dollars to have a copy on both my PC and PS4. Not sure how I would have felt paying full price and dealing with the first year of jank
You had your reasons for your original dislike. And explain much of it in this video.
But in 2024 gamers with keyboards, internet access and very few opinions they actually believe are just looking for reasons to hate everything.
Balders Gate and Eldenring are the only games worth playing?
I agree that both Fallout 4 and Fallout 3 are enjoyable to play. Personally, I got into the series with Fallout 3, and I loved it then, and still enjoy playing it now. However, the criticisms people have of both Fallout 4 and Fallout 3 are very valid. These games fail to be role-playing games, despite being marketed as such. The stories are often nonsensical and overly linear. There are numerous video essays on UA-cam, some spanning multiple hours, that extensively explain why these games are objectively poorly written-story-wise, character-wise, and in terms of world-building. The blame lies with Bethesda, as Fallout: New Vegas doesn’t suffer from these issues. It’s well-written, succeeds as a role-playing game, and presents real moral dilemmas-something absent from Bethesda’s recent titles.
@@MarkoGhIt’s because Emil think we’re not very intelligent, and dumbs down the story for us. He should have been fired a long time ago.
nah. Fallout london is the best rendition of fallout 4 so far and that should say something. FO4 has some good ideas sure, like Nick Valentine, but the tedious crafting and horrid storywriting can't be overlooked.
Story was good and crafting was great better then NewVegas andm any agree about that aspect however the story at times is watered down.
@@jonathancunningham8739 nah, story was horrid and if you don't agree you need to read more books lol
the story isnt THAT bad and crafting is light years ahead of nv
@@Grayson-tk5hn It really is and NV wasn't supposed to have crafting. It's an RPG, not a survival sandbox with action adventure elements.
@@Adrian2140 care to explain how the story was bad beside "NOOO IT BAD BECAUSE ME SAID SO" and that doesnt mean the crafting isnt light years ahead
The Brotherhood of Steel was always right-leaning organisation. They just happened to have a left-wing leader in Fallout 3.
the BoS primary objective is to hoard dangerous tech, yet they nuke the Institute in fo4? lol, the only time Bethesda wrote the BoS how they actually should be is with the fo3 BoS Outcast, that's literally how the BoS acts.
Nah they changed too much about Fallout. Fallout 4 is not a good fallout game and thats my opinion because they changed SOO MUCH. Anyone who enjoys this game and 76 i sincerally hope you guys stay away from the franchise because we dont need fans like this changing fallout forever.
you sound like the type of person to cry that someones a "fake fan and is going to ruin the franchise" because they said a single good thing about the show
No offense but what you said was pretty dumb.
Brain rot
Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game, and I enjoyed it
This lead me to play the other games, so I appreciate the franchise without the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia soo I can say that F4 is certainly not the strongest in the franchise but it's definitely not the worst that title is for Brotherhood (I played all of the games)
Do us all a favor and stop making videos.