I Tried Fallout 4 Again...
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Fallout 4 is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fourth main game in the Fallout series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.
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10:21 you gotta play on Survival, enemies are less bullet spongy and way more fun to play.
No thanks
Recommended mods:
This Settlement Does Not Need Your Help - BS Defence Redone = makes the defenses you've built ACTUALLY MATTER.
SWIFT (Settlement Workshop Integrated Fallout Teleporters) = made travelling between DLC maps more tolerable.
Banana peel mine = HOURS of mindless FUN with the ragdoll physics of the game.
I'm a fallout fan that loves fallout 4. I didn't play it until after the bugs were ironed out and I've put in 100s of hours. I love the game. That said, I'm on Xbox one and before I installed the dlc my game barely crashed at all. Now that I have installed the dlc downtown Boston is a game crash minefield. I don't care about frame rates and all that but having to restart my game? That's where I draw the line. Before I installed the dlc game barely crashed. Now.. I'm scared of Boston. (There's a small possibility it's an unofficial patch problem. I'll try uninstalling it)
What’s up luke/everyone!!
The mod "Alternate Start" is fantastic for this. While exploring you hear a distress call from vault 111 saying life support has failed. You go to investigate and find both Nate and Nora dead. One was murdered, and the other died in the pod. You find a recording of what went down and your playthrough becomes solving a murder as well as finding a missing person (Shawn). This completely eliminates the urgency, and you can roleplay as just another wastelander who is working with Nick Valentine to find the person from the recording. It's perfect.
That sounds awesome! I gotta give that one a shot, this seems to be a good solution for this Story problem^^
That sounds excellent.
OOooh I like that, I like that a lot! Thanks!😁
As someone who's a huge Skyrim fan, Fallout 4 was my first Fallout game but I immediately modded it before having a vanilla run. The Alternate Start and survival mode options make it much more fun than the few hours of vanilla story I played. The wasteland is such a fun place to explore and try to survive when you play it outside of the main storyline
So is that in the mods creation club?
As a beta tester for Wolfenstein 3D in 1991/92 and then through the rest of the Wolfenstein series, the Dooms, the Quakes, etc. I began playing Fallout 4 the day it came out, and I'm still enjoying it now at my age of 81. I love the action, the various levels of difficulty, survival, the weapons, building settlements and Nick Valentine. Mostly, I'm just glad it's not raining.
That’s actually so cool haha. I just started wolfenstein new order the other day. Amazing game.
If you're legit you're an actual legend nice finding you in the comments
Games, its not a hobby, its a passion, God Bless! Catching up on my games is my retirement plan lol
One of the interesting things I noticed about games, especially as a person that played D&D dice and paper and was there when gaming first started, buldars gate, kings quest.. ect. The more of an imagination you have the more fun and enjoyment you get out of games, and the less you rely on graphics. The worse of an imagination you have the more graphics dependant you are.. many of my friends can't touch an indie game because of the subpar graphics.. smh 🤦 I even had Zaxon on cassette tape lol not many remember cassette based games.
@@mexre Ha! Thanks! If by legit you mean that what I wrote is true, I guess I am.
8.5 years later, still haven't looked for Shaun
Who's Shaun? ;)
hahah so I should not even go to diamond city???? first time playing.
@8bitbeardco Yea you can to Diamond Ciry & still avoid looking for Shaun. You'll probably want to go there and Goodneighbor to buy & sell stuff
@@8bitbeardcothe games shallow, diamond city has like 2 quests that both suck outside of thr main story quests shoved into it.
Megaton was the worst aspect of Fallout 3 especially on multiple playthroughs, and then they made a 2nd Megaton.
Who dat?
I'm actually very impressed with their map design in FO4. The glowing sea was a pretty cool moment when you realize the map extends what seems to be it's square bounds, and the downtown area is incredibly dense with lots of paths above and below street level and winding paths that take you all over the place. Gunplay is top notch and just feels super tight and responsive. I'm actually gonna finally get around to playing Far Harbor. I beat most of the base game but never touched any of the DLC and have heard so much glowing praise about Far Harbor.
Fo4 is a great game for what it is it’s still a rpg but it’s not a great rpg I’ve always thought fo4 had a decent based storyline and the side quests were great but one thing that the side quests lacked was choice from what I remember only like 3 side quests had a serious impact on the world around you highly recommend anyone that is playing the fallout series to play fo4 Far harbor is a great dlc
I've played Fallout 4 more than any other game I've ever owned lol. Far Harbor was pretty good, but I actually enjoyed Nuka-World the most
I don’t think I ever fully explored the downtown area, my Xbox kept freezing up down there. I remember walking real slow and keeping the camera to the ground to avoid a crash.
They used to be proper RPGs too
I had high expectations for far harbor but I was let down. Story was underwhelming. I then did nuka-world and I thought it was awesome. The theme park was cool. Characters are way better, the raider radio was fun for the short amount they recorded. Get Nuka world!!!!
Me every fallout 4 playthrough: not going to mess with the settlements this time.
Five minutes later: building massive city in sanctuary.
I always go the other way somehow. I go in to play post-apocalyptic house flipper, and suddenly, I am neck deep in gun mods, playing Tarkov in the Commonwealth.
I always say I wont use the gun mod system and always end up doing exactly that
As it should be! Im proud of you general!
VICE CITY DOESNT LET U BUILD MASSIVE CITIES
BUT VICE CITY IS STILL BETTER
@@NigerianCrusaderI say ur right bc of the stock car cheat lol. Fastest car in the game.
the part of fallout 4 like all bethesda games that i really love is... that it's absolutely impossible to focus on the main story no matter how laser focused of a person you are... you are bound to get stuck into one branching side quest or another through no fault or intent of your own.
I'd disagree, any new game I play, my first playthrough I always focus on the main story only, second I do EVERYTHING that isn't a repeatable quest, then the story, third and on, I do whatever I want. Only time I don't focus on the main story, is if they don't even let you know which quest is which, just give you a quest, you do it, if it progress the story, who knows unless they do something to let you know.
@@WinegedDragoon let me paint a picture... imagine you're walking down a skyrim street... and suddenly a talking dog comes up to you and asks you to follow it.. and you are on your main story quest.. do you abandon your quest and follow the dog? or you ignore the "Talking Dog" and get on with your main quest?
@@JustAPakistaniGamer personally ignore the dog
@@pajo5014 Until I beat the game my first time, same.
@@JustAPakistaniGamer As I said, my first playthrough of any game I play is always focused on the main story. Unless they don't give a clear idea of what the main story is my focus is the main story.
I probably spent 600+ hours across 3 or 4 different play throughs and never even came close to finishing the main story line but I loved every minute of that buggy stress fest.
Same with Skyrim, 150 hours, never got past the main story after meeting Paarthurnax.
Every time my game crashes I literally hear Todd Howard in my head saying "everything just works".
It's nice spending so many hours on a game and never reaching the end. The world still lives on, and there are still things in the world you never experienced.
This is why I'm kind of against people who complain about the main story in Bethesda game, or want them to put more effort into it. That shit should be entirely optional. If it's too good or rewards you too much, we'd actually have to play it.
I've around 2k hours in Skyrim and only completed the main quest once, and that's how I like it.
How can anyone spend that much time in fallout 4 is beyond me. The game is literally the most boring game I've ever tried.
My favourite thing about FO4 is that it's so incredibly dense with locations that really reward you with little stories of what went down before the war started or sometimes more recently
Can’t wait to play this in real life soon
😂😅😢
@@Vlad_Shv why you gotta play on that survival difficulty
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China be like
Stacking dog food up just incase I find dog meat
Maybe I'm just really out of touch with the way most people play RPG's, but I've never been so completely immersed that I felt the need to rush the story, even if the story is clear something I have to do is time sensitive, I'm still aware that, in real time I don't actually have to play it as if that's the case. I've honestly never even heard of people doing this, so that's fascinating to me. If the main character is an insomniac do you not sleep for days to really get into the role prior to playing it? I mean, I take the story seriously, but _to a point_ but I'm still going to play the game the same way I play any RPG, which is prioritizing side content.
i was about to comment something similar but you have pretty much hit what i was going to say.
Exactly this!
It’s an open world. You’re supposed to wander and run into crap. I’m with you. I can’t relate to people who came and tried to ram rod the main story like they were playing The Last of Us or something.
Same here. I love immediately putting the main quest line aside to explore the world and find random things to do. In RDR2 I literally never finished the story because I just ended up playing it as a wild west cowboy simulator lol
@@iiiiiiiiiiii90000000 Me too! Once I had the freedom to roam in RDR2 I went straight back to the mountains, killed some animals, and eventually died because I fell off of something. The gang was fleeing the mountains because the authorities were chasing them, but I still went straight back there. Not long after that, I found myself getting eaten by a gator many hours before the story lead to Saint Denis.
I like the way NV handles what you're talking about with Main Quest vs. Side Content. NV keeps throwing side content at you, putting it in your path as optional things you can do along the path of the main quest. And if you do all the side content, a lot of it actually ends up significantly affecting the main quest ending.
Never played any fallout before. But what I enjoy the most in rpg's are how the decisions affect the story, besides gameplay and overall world environment. Should I play NV or 4? I play on console btw.
@edulohay956 if choice is most important to you then you want to play NV hands down and it's not even close. Fallout 4 is a really fun survival RPG with a couple of simple mods but it doesn't have much in the way of choice compared to the other games
@@edulohay956 For story elements, NV. For gameplay, 4.
A survival playtrough with a few mods is definitely the best way to properly enjoy the game.
Do you recommend any?
There's a mod I sometimes use that gives you infinite vertibird summons for fast travel. You can get it when you join the brotherhood.
It's a nice change to the fast travel system.
@@cypher5009 If you want something comprehensive then I would recommend the Horizon mod. It's basically a full rebalance of the game that tunes it way more towards exploration and survival. It does make the game a bit harder, but you can tweak some difficulty settings within the mod itself.
Survival mode makes the game SO MUCH better. The changes aren't that huge, but they have a drastic impact on the gameplay and the feeling of the world.
Like the question why don't you just concentrate all your energy on rescuing your son? You can't. Getting around is hard, you need to build bases to survive, improve your gear, and keep on exploring. Exclusively focussing on your search is just not feasible. You'll die on your way to Fort Hagen, with a half-empty gun and a belly full of parasites from eating raw meat to stay alive. Doesn't solve the lackluster story problem completely, but makes going slow on the story much easier to justify if you are roleplaying.
Or the fact hat you have to walk everywhere. Running the same ways multiple times gave me a whole new understanding of Boston's layout. I never got that with fast travel, I just clicked where I wanted to go, never had to walk anywhere twice. Now you can't just drop in to Diamond City, sell your stuff, and be away. Now it's an actual trip you need to plan.
Or how about the Institute teleporter and the Brotherhood vertibirds? You can use them in normal mode, but nobody does, because fast travel is so much quicker. But in survival mode? There is no fast travel. So these useless features suddenly become major benefits, making you think very carefully if and when you want to part with those factions.
In conclusion: I can only recommend trying survival mode.
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Nice thing about Fallout 4 is that when you finish the game It allows you to keep going with exploration and building
And helping new settlements you haven't discovered
@@sgt_courier220 Don’t forget to mark it on the map!
No, i don't like that. The story must have beginning as well as the end with points of no return. Yes, i'm all F1, F2, even FT and FNV.
@@user-ly6pl5ot9m, except FNV, all are crap. story have and ending.
after that is just another story. and you can keep playing a story without a scripted ending.
i also like the story the most in everything, mostly in videogames, but Fallout 1 and anything before Fallout 3 is just awful. looks horrible and immersion is zero. almost as bad as Fallout 76.
Fallout 3 is probably the best game ever...in every way.
Edit: i`ve spent over ten thousand hours in Fallout 3 and almost three thousand in Fallout 4. FNV, roughly two thousand. so, i know the games perfectly. probably better than their creators. every single one heavily modded. +300 mods FO4, 3 & NV lighter: 90-100 mods each.
@@UmbraFulgur
You are no old gamer then.
Bright shell or quality of what's inside?
The game doesn't end when the main story is resolved. You can speed through that, then spend as much as you time exploring and playing through the side content. My problem is that I tend to feel my character is so absorbed in the main story that I have a hard time finding their identity after it ends.
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Exactly. I love Fallout 4, but if/when I complete the main quest, I feel like the playthrough is "over" and there isn't really a drive to continue exploring
@@Nick94MIyour supposed to do endless missions forever with Preston :)
That’s how the RDR series feels
If you take the story seriously, you miss out on the best parts of the game. Also true in life.
If you take the story seriously, you will be a fallout lore nut who throws a piss-baby temper tantrum when they find jet in a supposed pre-war container
@@RPbirdzz”NOoOOoOo jet is frocking post war guys😭😭😭😭”
Th difference I've heard from friends who love New Vegas is that the problem is motivation. In Fallout 4 your motivation is to find you're missing newborn; something that requires haste and all of your attention. In New Vegas, your motivation is Revenge, something that gets better the more work and time you put into it. In Fallout 4 they demand your haste for no reason, but in New Vegas they want you to play the long game.
Learning that many developers at Obsidian at the time of New Vegas' development were actually big fans of the original 2 Fallout games, it's shining mastery starts to make a lot more sense. I've never played the originals, but I do understand their stories and what you can do in them, and oh boy do we really need something so inspired like New Vegas to happen again for Fallout.
The first fallout actually had a time limit..but it was pretty generous
@@yume5338 weren't some obsidians are the original interplay developers?
I do not agree. There is no more important reason to do all the things like trying to find your son. This argument for the story is very strong. All makes sense in the game. New vegas is too much... new vegas.
@@vinniciusrosa8284 I think that you misread the original comment. They were never stating that saving your newborn was less urgent than revenge?
It gives me hope that the lead writer for Far Harbor (William Shen) is now the lead quest designer for Starfield.
Don’t get your hopes up too high. Writers don’t have a say on the game design. Bethesda has shown to be bankrupt of ideas and effort. Radial quests look like they are going to be even more involved in Starfield
Well, he's already confirmed to be the lead quest designer for Starfield. With Far Harbor Shen has already proved that he knows his stuff in terms of videogame writing and that was only a dlc - imagine how much potential this guy has if he is given an entire new IP.
If Fallout 4 was basically Far Harbor entirely but bigger, it would have been received a lot better for sure. That DLC has an amazing atmosphere and even touches on some philosophical questions I can dig. So Chen absolutely deserves his chance.
If Bethesda can get a good marriage between player freedom and narrative/atmosphere going, Starfield's gonna be golden. In that sense it's looking good so far and we'll see about the rest.
I love my modded F4 but it's time for them to kick into higher gear. The usual shenanigans of the past are successful but they won't be forgiven forever.
@@ryanglacier30 Sure, but part of the reception is those TH-camrs who say it sucks.
As someone playing and modding the game, I too have my issues with it. Nothing deal breaking though. As is the case with every Bethesda game.
@@youarealwayscorrect much potential to fail lol. Bethesda hasn't made a good game since I was a teenager man. Prepare for fallout 76 in space , obsidian couldn't even pull it off and they made the last good fallout game.
I always play the “find Shaun” arc as just a really long opening quest. I go scorched earth and burn through everything, kill Kellogg, etc until I get to the point where I need to enter the Glowing Sea.
Then I go exploration mode as I need to work to save up enough for either a hazmat suit or power armor (or I just join the Brotherhood).
Once I get what I need, I go scorched earth again until I find Shaun. After that, I play it like my character has been mentally and emotionally broken and I return to the wastes to explore and work more.
I honestly don't give a shit what other people think. I LOVEE Fallout 4, it's a masterpiece. The fact that you're making a video about it 15+ years after it launched is a testament to that.
9 years after
@@jimannothedamn it’s almost a decade old already since release :/
@@GalacticExplorer83Age catching our asses.
I'm old, I still call it the new Fallout game. I don't consider 76 A fallout game myself.
@@Semi_Successfulit’s a good game idk why yall say this sounds like you haven’t gave it a real try
Kind of scary that in comparison to more recent games, this game is an absolute gem
Its not its horrible
@@jeeseninala No its the best
@@jeeseninala it's actually brilliant if you give it a chance, especially with the dlc.
@@christophercarlisle7887
Yea sure lol
@@jeeseninala it is....
Fallout 4 is a pretty great game if you look at it as an open world survival crafting game. Survival mode really adds to the immersion.
I'm very immersed by the robot like NPC's and bugs
True. I wasn’t sure what I ever thought of FO4 until I reevaluated how I approached playing it and then it clicked.
@@hiphopefx if that is what it takes to enjoy a game, then it's a bad game. Why should I have to "reevaluate" how I play a game to enjoy it? That's fucking dumb and you know it.
@@theincrediblefella7984 because I played it like the old games and I wasn’t seeing what Bethesda was trying to do until I approached it from a different playstyle. It pretty much says this in he video. Keep up.
@@hughjaenus2235 Bethesda NPCs are way more interesting than every static-ass NPCs in other open world games
I will never forget the first time I started Fallout. (Fallout 3) Everything was fine at first... but when I exited the Vault, I was more scared than I've ever been in a game. This uncertainty that a creature could already see me, or that I would enter the wrong area and die miserably, it was terrifying and yet I couldn't stop playing it. The worst were the subways, where the ghouls screamed in the dark and ran at me in hordes. After all, they were the worst until I met the first super mutant Centaur xD
Nights in Fallout were even worse. I've always gone to the cities at night to sleep. (I mean I was 11 years old when). That's how I felt in real life too. Whenever the evening came, I didn't dare to start Fallout anymore, even though I watched the most violent horror films at that age. When you really are in that other world, it's an even more intense experience.
After playing through the second time, I had completely overcome my fear and since then I have been playing almost exclusively with melee weapons to be able to see the faces of my victims, whom I erase from existence. My favorite game, right after Elder Scrolls.
You mean Skyrim, correct???
@@M0RGAT0RY To be honest yes. But I love the entire Elders Scrolls series, so I don't usually name the individual title. Skyrim is still a grandiose masterpiece. I felt more at home in this virtual world than in real life. The beauty, adventure and immense peace of this game was simply intoxicating. Skyrim probably saved my life back then because I had no other reason to want to continue living. So I feel nothing but love for this game.
You nailed it, explore and settlements building is where fallout 4 shine, playing it for the last 5 years ,not tired of it
I’ve played fallout four three times and this final time I actually explored the game and actually leveled up. When you do that and pick a good faction, it becomes a real good experience. You can get more armors the more you explore, as you level up you could come across far more powerful power armors such as the X-01. That I think, is where this game shines.
You nailed it with the key problem people had. It wasn't the bugs; it was the fact that Fallout 4 was such a departure from the more story driven RPG that they implied it was going to be.
I never touched the main quest, still loved it.
@@BanjoPixelSnackmissed out on some juicy conspiracies, but all in all I hope you thoroughly enjoyed your playthrough.
I dont get the criticism about the main story of fallout 4.
Spoilers, but you find your kid half way through. So the initial big issue is resolved. Then you can explore, and eventually pick your side regarding the Institute. And even when that is resolved, the side quests remain. Most of my hours are after the 'end' and I am still finding people to help. IMO, Bethesda did this perfectly.
@@RandomWandrerif that’s your opinion then yeah, we can disregard your nonsense 😂😂
A doctor and hobo can both give your their opinion on strange mole you have, but one is worth more than the other..
@@RandomWandrer The exploration in the game is absolute trash tier, One building full of generic raiders is not going to be any different from the 500 other buildings full of generic raiders. Although sometimes you will encounter a building full of green raiders.
Over 1400 hours ingame for Fallout4....One of my all time favorite games.
Finally, thank you for not being another person shitting on the game for not being like the older games. F4 is one of my favorites too
It's quite a good game on it's own, but certainly an awful Fallout game. I've played it myself for so many hours and I like playing it if I think to myself that it's not Fallout. Them putting in a voiced main character was a bad choice, the storyline is awful, side stories are rather fun, exploration is very bland the locations themselves are good but there is no depth to them, nothing of note for each location. The game itself is good and enjoyable to play but a failure of a Fallout game.
@joceja23 who gives a fuck, don’t use the mechanic
Oh boy just wait until you play an actually good game. You're gonna be blown away.
My condolences to your taste.
I just started replaying this. I love this game. Even if you follow the story, you can't go straight to the mission of tracking down your missing son until you raise a few levels and collect some proper weapons. The 1st mirelurk you find will teach you quickly that you need to slow down. Side missions are the way to get there.
I wish the building aspect was better. I'd like to have cleaner build pieces so my bases don't look like shacks, and give me the option to expand my base perimeter so I can collect wood and steel that I can see from the edge of it. I love that I can create trade routes between my bases. It's a logical explanation for having access to the resources between bases. With skyrim for instance, I fill a storage container will steel plates, then build that container in every base. It works, but how? Teleportation?
The base building was super fun but it was bothersome that they thought people would just keep thing building materials looking like shit for no reason
I personally liked the mod where you got the option to save Nora in the beginning because it helps ground your character into that married pre war roll. And the ability to to actually step into the characters past life like fallout NV I always thought was cool.
I gave it another shot last week, and idk what finally clicked for me, but I'm having a blast.
It took about 7 years, but I can finally say that I like the game now. I stopped looking at it with the high expectations I had at launch, and I'm growing to love it.
I was low level in downtown Boston and had Rust Devils, Gunners, Super Mutants, and Raiders all fighting each other because they spawned in, and then fighting me, too. It was a goddamned war zone, and I died plenty of times before I was the last man standing, I think that was the turning point for me, personally, and not the first time I was caught in that situation, either.
Same. I tried it years ago and got bored but popped it back in and love it
Same here in Texas. Level 21 right now
@@alfonsocarranza4852 I just hit level 11 again😁
In my playthrough, legendary bloatfly, aggressive Mr gutsy, assaultron and deathclaw spawn right next to each other with me in the middle. It's was a warzone.
There comes a time in the main story line where after discovering a few things about your son and where he is, that you *HAVE* to explore and recruit more settlements into the Minute Men faction, which is a good spot to break off and explore and do all you said was rather fun. At least... that's where all my decisions lead me, rolling with the Minute Men all the way, with some minor interactions with the Rail Road and Brotherhood.
However the story line is played out, there comes a time where it's logical to say, "Ok, now I know where Shawn is. Now it's time to focus on building up resources, fortifying settlements, making friends, gaining support and manpower to get to finally get to him." For which, the time doing all that would be justified as necessary to achieve the goal: Make it to my son.
I actually really like Sim settlements 2 and a variety of survival focused mods for this. Because while I feel like Bethesda _wanted_ you to need to build things up to go after Shawn... You really didn't need to. They make you build _one_ settlement for some faction, and put _one_ unique item in it.
But with the right additions, you suddenly need medical supplies, more complex gear, tools, etc. And the best way to get all of that is through building up settlements.
same here, after i killed kellog and went into his brain and found out that shawn is much older and he's inside the institute, at that point i started focusing on completing more factions quests for the minutemen and railroad, recruiting more settlements, etc. it makes sense to me since the institute is clearly quite powerful
I was kind of the same, I was enjoying the story until Shawn suggested it was time to choose between factions and thought it would be great for me to lead the institute. Felt everyone was trying to use me for their benefit when actuality it was more beneficial for me to have the random patrols from the Institue and Brotherhood in the open world… especially being at lowers levels so I never finished the main mission and 5 years later I’m still not an enemy to any of the factions.
Fallout 1 and 2 were amazing regarding that Open world feeling and main quests. You did side quests as it was needed to survive and often to make progress to the story you had to travel the whole map.
The most important thing to know about F4 is that the highest difficulty survival mode is the real base game with the correct difficulty and everything for a true normal experience. All lower are easy modes. The issue is they only give one save. Which makes no sense because tons of games offer one save as a separate option from difficulty. But it's not a problem to manually back up saves for this game.
I installed a bunch of mods and played survival mode with no healing items. It was the most fun I’d had with any game in years
Have a list of mods/collection? 😊
Try with more Enemies mod u will hate it
@@retr0JT SKK random enemy mod is really good. I have found it to be the most stable extra enemy mod to make the game world seem more alive. WotC and another similar mod I can't remember the name of tend to make the game COD a lot more.
Masochist, ain't cha?
How do you even survive with no healing items
I have been replaying it for the last 9-10 days and I’ve been getting really nostalgic. I did put in a tremendous amount of time in my original play through but this time feels just as good if not better.
Me too! Never actually beat it though.. barely got into the main story as I was enjoying exploration and maxing companion affinities. I've been enjoying it
The fact it's even possible to experience nostalgia when playing Fallout 4 is crazy. I swear it came out like 2 years ago..
@@Th3Downz 2015… time flies!
Same man, 500+ hours back on release, it's all I played for the first year it was out. It was the second ps4 game I got. Real life prevented me from playing nuka world past the first hour or 2. I reinstalled it yesterday, starting a new save file with a few graphical mods, might also add a few quality of life ones. I feels so sad, happy and nostalgic, I know this wasn't exactly what people wanted for fall out but I love this game. Elden ring, witcher 3 and a few other games might be "the best games ever created" (and both of those games are in my top 5 fav's) but fo4 really is my fav game if all time just becasue of how I felt playing it when it came out. I cannot wait to sink another 100-200 hours into it with the dlc, exploring again, experiencing it again because I've forgotten alot about it and doing the occasional legendary weapon grind for stupid fun stuff like explosive mini guns, shotguns and furious rippers.
This game is like supermarket pizza compared to 5 star restaurant salad; yea the salad is amazing and overall it's the best for you, best made, and most well polished, but God damn I love a shitty, greasy supermarket, oven cooked pizza
your reviews are always logical
and you almost always have valid points..
keep it up mate!
Great breakdown Luke!!! First time playing a Fallout game and picked up FO4 and absolutely love it!!!!! Just took down the Super Humans in the tower radio scenario.....minigun for the win!! (Plus 5 cores for the Power suit picked up) haha. Talk about super creepy visiting these towns late at night and the haze that drops while playing at night sends a shiver up your spine for sure.....waiting for a ghoul herd to come get you. I would agree there is a ton of exploring to do and adds so much more fun to the game.
Also nice looking beard there! Let me know if you need a care package!
I was convinced that Shawn had been taken from 111 shortly after the war (read the terminal in the security office), so I had NO urgency and basically forgot about him for several hundred hours.
I had a lot of fun just roaming the wasteland like Mad Max, learning how gaming had changed in the 20 years I had been away. (1998 to 2018, no gaming at all.)
Did you get arrested or something, why would you stop playing video games for 20 years
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He had his own Shawn.
what happened with the no gaming thing
Agreed. When I saw I was refrozen after Nora's death it was pretty obvious that any amount of time could pass. Even if you pushed real hard, it isn't that far in that you see that Sean is 8-10 with Kellog... the urgency falls quite quickly from that quest... it is more a background motivation that will always be there. The radiant quests to help settlers felt more urgent in most cases... so I had to pull away and do those, grumbling that I wanted to look for my kid. It felt like a good balance to me, I liked it.
I played it after 10 years away from games in school. Also loved it as a way to see what games could do nowadays!
You should try fallout 4 survival mode with a couple proper tweaks it can be amazing. It completely fixes the bullet sponges
Why is survival mode the only one to fix bullet sponges?
@@detrik01 its not the only one but its readily available vanilla so no need for mod headaches. Basically enemies deal more damage but so do you. Also, you can only save if you sleep but you get a stacking damage buff if you don't sleep.
@@Watchful049 imo the cant save feature sucks but can be easily adjusted with 1 mod. I think the best way to play survival mode is get Survival config menu and just adjust anything you dont like
@@Watchful049 I just don't think it's good game design to outsource gameplay fixes to player-made mods. Fixing the issue of bullet sponges should have been applied to all modes by the devs, not one mode most people won't even play on
@@Watchful049 can you fast travel?
I think something that could help with this kinda issue is having the player stumble into a chunk of story.
For example... you stumble into a story thing and then instead of leading you to the next part of the story the game just leaves you there.
Forcing the player to explore and find the next part of the story, that would make it so you'd stumble into quests and interesting things more often.
I always saw cyberpunk as knowing you have limited time left, so you are motivated to make the most of the time you have left
RDR executed this better
@@hughjaenus2235 it was just as bad but go on
@@yaboirichard591 pretty much any game with a narrative timer, hard to fix in CPunk, in TW3, by using a couple of dialogs, in RDR2 maybe you are trying to go the path of redemption and fix the wrold before you go to hell?
Going through the game again after a few years, super excited to get back into exploring and settlement building! Only one thing I'm dreading in Far Harbor...Dima's memories 😵💫
Indeed. Although you can get away with only solving the first puzzle if you want the pacific solution for Far Harbpr ")
There's a mod I used a while back that enables all those puzzles to be bypassed.
I know probably the worst quest in any fallout game
The thing I like about fallout 4 is that they encourage you to blast through the story, but they added tons of things to do outside of the story for people who want to play the game their way.
Agreed. A lot of these stories now a days too are getting way too involved, if I want to watch a f*cking movie I will watch a movie, some story and comedy is good in games but it's getting out of hand. I want good gameplay and quite frankly.... a game. Fallout 4 does this well.
@@figureitoutpunktrue, so much clever comedy mixed with gripping action and character drama.
After playing many RPG games, I discovered that it's easier to fight the end boss when you're at a higher level and in order to reach a higher level you have to finish as many side quests as possible. So you can either take the story seriously and finish just that, or you can take the story very very seriously and become a demi god, collect the best gear and then absolutely annhilate the final boss.
I agree Luke. I lately just modded the shit out of my game to fix all the issues I had with this game. Modifying damage modifiers in difficulties to make it so I deal the same amount of damage enemies do to me, being able to save the game anytime I wish in survival difficulty cause, well Bethesda games do love to crash so fuck only saving when I sleep. The biggest issue I had was the narrative kinda pushing me forward.
But now I just use an alternate start mod that just lets me create a character and formulate my own backstory selecting my starting place of choice, etc. etc. Like right now, my character is an drifter, a deserter of the Enclave from way back who was forcibly conscripted to join as an orphan after the Enclave MADE him an orphan during a strike that resulted in civilian casualties, taking his parents in the crossfire, he came to resent the Enclave once he discovered it was their fault, and the way they approached combat situations, and during the events of Fallout 3, after the Enclave falls, he slaughters his CO and his former comrades then hides out in a settlement somewhere outside the capital wasteland. Groups of bounty hunters look for surviving members of the enclave for a lump sum of caps. So he was forced to move with little to carry, being pushed further north along the shore with a rather wrecked hazmat suit he used often in places of really terrible radioactive fallout, until he finds himself scouring an old plane wreckage in what he now knows was called the Glowing Sea of the Commonwealth. And that's where my story takes form.
Yes I start as a little level 1 in a survival difficulty run in the glowing sea... we gamers man :)
Yup, Fallout 4 is like Fallout 3. You need to mod the shit out of it and avoid (or remove pieces of) the main quest written by bethesda.
Great backstory! I might create a character with a similar one
No amount of mods will ever going to fix that dialogue system
Fallout 4 Survival Mode is what keeps me coming back even after all these years
Did you find the Bratwurst Easteregg?
Eastermeat
I thought fallout 4 had an amazing story. the fact he says this basically means he hates the game. i can only enjoy games if they have a good story. god why did the game so close to my heart have to be objectively bad
IM SO glad you mentioned cyberpunk. literally, the only problem I had was the dissonance between go out and explore vs you are LITTERALY DYING!
This was the game that made me completely fall in love with fallout. Loved the story, loved the settlements, loved it.
Years later I'd try 76, enjoyed it somewhat
Then I got to play fallout 3 and new Vegas. New Vegas shook me to my core. That was one disturbing game. Loved the hell out of it.
the good thing that made 76 work better for me than 4 was that it was more of just exploring and making your own character
This game made me love Fallout as well. Never played it before. I haven't played Fallout 3 yet. I did get Fallout 1 and 2 and I couldn't stand to play them. I'm sure back in the day they rocked, but now they are just frustrating to no end.
@@DaisukeFlamedramon My first was FO3; that moment when you first leave the vault into an open world is the greatest video moment I've ever had.
@@DaisukeFlamedramonif you haven’t played the proper ones then you don’t love fallout.
Fallout 4 isn’t fallout. It’s like the last Jedi. Just because you put the name fallout or Star Wars on it, doesn’t make it part of the club.
You’ll probably hate fallout 3 and nv then, they’re nothing like fo4. They’re actually good games with amazing atmosphere and story telling.
@Burner-td4cu aw come on that's so gatekeepy. I love them all, even though fo4 is different
With over 2k hours in Fallout 4, I'm eager to return for another modded playthrough
Lol same. I reinstall it every 6-8 months with a new list of mods.
When I hit the endgame I couldn't come back. I was so frustrated that all my settlement building meant absolutely nothing, there were no end-game systems designed for the settlements to continue growing or trading or interacting in any meaningful way. Do mods fix that?
@@kirktown2046 yes
@@milesrowe2263 Got some recommendations?
@@kirktown2046 sims settlements 2 and sub mods for that
After beating the game, I have probably spent 200 hours or so just building settlements. Got some mods for more stuff to build and remove the build limit and you can do some really cool stuff. I have some going up into the clouds, some built on the water, etc.
I've recently started another character in F4 after not playing it since completing Nuka World when it came out. I'm enjoying it so much, much more than when I first played it. Really a fantastic game.
Damn I am going to get this game because I am PlayStation and I can’t get starfield so I’ll get this
great points! I never thought about that but its 100% true for both fallout 4 and cyberpunk. That is quite the development conundrum, make the main story so compelling you have a narrow path that diminishes the entire RPG world! Damn!
Funny enough I m playing Fallout 4 atm! Perfect video to release right now hahaha Tbh I got it since the start that you were supposed to explore and not rush the storyline! But mostly because of the acting of the main character, he s looking for his son yes but he never actually feels « emotionally connected » to the search. It just feels like it s the only thing he can do since he s a person out of time. But the more you meet people and create new relationships, the less you feel the urgency of the main plot line!
They dropped the ball on the tone of the main character. He's just so ho-hum about everything. Missed a real opportunity to play on the '200 year old man' thing. That's a giant misstep, but I still love the game, playing it again now.
Imo the main story is very good, but just not WILD enough compared to other mainline fallout.
@@taufikrahman8479 The story is awesome, but it could have been presented and delivered in a more convincing way. Having more meaningful RPG elements would have helped to further immerse the player in the story. None of that has stopped me from putting in over 500 hours though.
I started a new game just a month ago, playstation gave me the 76 version through their premium stuff. I was so dissapointed with 76 I booted fo4 again lol.
LOVING it, playing on a higher difficulty and picking EVERYTHING different from my playthrough 7 years ago(as far as I can remember)
I usually don't play singleplayer games......so my opinion on story is useless.
You can do pretty much whatever you want in this game. You don't have to rush the main story. I have all dlc in the game and other than Nuka World. I absolutely love it.
You are not supposed to stray off. You will glitch the narrative. For example, if you stray into subway, you will meet Nick, therefore you will missed the conversation with his secretary and her suspense.
I always assumed that I would need to improve my skills/weapons/armor and generally be more established within the world to be capable to saving Shaun so I did a good deal of exploring and side quests before completing the main story and didn't really feel super rushed. My biggest complaint was some of the faction's just didn't make much sense like the railroad wiping synth's memories and the institute insisting that the synths were not people while simultaneously tying to make them as human-like as possible.
I never had the chance to play Fallout 4, even tho I always wanted to, but I've played Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I really don't understand his view of "RPG players will run for the main quest and miss the exploration", and I love RPG's exactly because I always liked to screw around in the world, doing all kinds of stuff and becoming powerful, knowing interesting and wacky characters, are we the weird ones?
@@azazel8700 let me see of i can clarify this, what he means by "RPG player" is a player of role playing games, traditional role playing requires you take on the character you play, so you play the game like how the character would progress through the world.
Now thats not to say how you play is wrong, but at the core of RPGs is playing the character not the mechanics
@@rileyevans2989 And you can justify exploration to almost any character like the original comment said, even if less so than just playing like any non-RPG character, so I still don't see this the same way as he did
I mean.... Yes you can justify exploration, but when you are playing the role of the character, if the plot, using fallout 4 as an example, gives you a sense of urgency (saving Shaun), you have to justify making the choice to explore versus saving your son, which makes it so player who are trying to get immersed in the plot don't find the best parts of fallout 4.
@@rileyevans2989 Yeah I can see people missing out, but it isn't clear to me how many of the RPG players would or how many would do that and not replay it to find more things, it is a bit foreigner the thought of not exploring to me since I always did it a lot. That aside, can I make a question? Is English your first language?
Thanks for this video!!! It totally revealed the reason why I love Fallout 4 and Skyrim sooo much. My favorite thing to do in games is explore and get distracted by the side quests, so these games are a perfect fit for me. I am thrilled that you gave Fallout a second chance and found the charm within the glitches!!! 😃🥰🤪
"I have to find my son! But first let me build a base and f*ck around a bit."
Fun fact the lead quest designer of Starfield is the same guy who made the Far Harbor DLC so hopefully the story is just as good.
I'm pushing 40 and the best thing for me in the past 8 yrs are playing games today that were "ehh" when they flopped on release.
I'm itching to pick back up on my 30-ish hours save file of FO4.
You're doing God's work my dude!
"im pushing 40"😭 😭
fallout 4 for sure didn't flop on release, it sold 12mln copies in the first week.
@Guts I don't understand what it's got to do with fo4, but even with its controversial launch cp77 already sold more than 20mln copies, so it's not doing poorly by any means.
@Guts It wasn't a flop commercially, that's for sure.
Fo4 wasn't a flop by any metric.
@Guts @Guts there was a single game breaking bug that prevented progress on the main quest and it was fixed within a few days.
I logged 500 hours and most bugs came from mods.
If you didn't like the game why are commenting on a video about said game?
I have been replaying fallout 4 and it's been an absolute blast of a time, survival mode is the way to go imo, it was weird to initially adapt but now I love it, one of my best gaming experiences yet
Did you do no VATS as well?
Bro I would love to try survival, but I’m not that brave, considering that the game crashes everytime
@@bubbagrayer4283 I have begun it, idk if there's a mod for it but damn it's good-intense though. Getting Nick Valentine was absolutely bonkers lmfao
@@Yobama862 If you're ever able to give it a shot I would, it's insane I love it so much
@@monsieurmearoni1977 maybe in some next gen version, then maybe the game doesn’t crash everytime.I personally like to build in every single settlement, so maybe that makes the game havier and makes him crashes even more, it’s literally 2-3 times a day (playing on Xbox one), and playing like that, it would be impossible to save progress. So I’ll have to stick with very hard difficulty
But considering that you like survival, have you ever tried older games like fallout 1-2 or Morrowind? Morrowind it’s kinda similar to fallout survival but do a deeper experience
When i really got back into bethesda RPGs about a year or so ago i noticed that i felt like i played them wrong before too. I was always just randomly running and gunning or spamming destruction spells depending on fallout or elderscrolls. Now I've replayed Skyrim and Fallout 4 on ps5 and I'm realizing how good the stealth can really feel and how much you can tweak your gear to fit your style. Now I'm rocking my .38 Pipe assault rifle and just clearing out bases in a tactical kinda approach and i feel so good. Or I'm charging in with my double order projectile shotgun with jet and run into a room turning it almost one of the breach slow motion moments from other shooters but its all just creatively using chems and planning it out. Feels like I'm only just now really soaking it all in even though it's like my 3rd or 4th playthrough.
Just started another replay. I completely ignore the main story “rush” and enjoy the heck out of damage multiplier mod and see through scopes. Love the junk food analogy 😂
Yes!! This has been my biggest issue with the game is the narrative. How can I just run around when my son was kidnapped. It really made the story hard to sort out.
But that's every open world game pretty much.. Theres always a huge world ending plot you are involved in yet you kill time doing side quests. Who cares
Because it is a story with mass appeal, and lots of people, maybe most, prefer some a narrative they can identify with, as opposed to a blank avatar. If you expect major game developers to err towards satisfying the small, hardcore demographic at every turn, you'll be perennially disappointed. Moreover, its strange to me how gamers just want the same experience over and over again. For BGS, ES are the blank-face avatar games, Fallout are the character-with-a-backstory games.
@@johnnyflannigan136 Nope Red dead 2 was a game that had a good narrative while doing open world. The problem is picking which story to tell in open world. An ensemble story works for a open world setting
I'm playing fallout 4 now... "What son?" Just ignore the main storyline and so all side quests...That's what i do.
this game has one of the most boring ending to a video game.
Your Apple example explains the car industry perfectly. A lot of new vehicle have radio problem and need to be updated, or fixed. The radio being the entire hub for the vehicle. We’re thanking about $50-$100k+ vehicles that often don’t work right, or at all, when you get it and need to take them into the dealers to be fixed in the first few weeks.
Lol, how little people know about industry. An automotive parts manufactuer I worked at for a year produced the wastegate actuator for a car that was sold as being particularly high-revving. Way too far into development, the car manufacturer found that the actuator mount resonated at frequencies within the range it was supposed to operate. They sold the car as it was with the revs limited to a safe range and threw in a free first service at an official dealership. They then worked on a solution that was installed at that first service, where they also removed the limiter. This was all kept from the customers who, to this day, still have no idea that this happened. I only spent a year in the automotive industry and assumed this to be quite remarkable, but have since been told that this kind of story is very common.
Just meandering around the world in Survival Mode is where I found the game at its best. Suddenly, the settlements matter because you actually need a safe place to go. The map becomes an obstacle course, where you have to plan your route if you want to achieve something. The random crafting stations out in the wild can literally keep you alive. Working with the Brotherhood becomes incentivized because it’s suddenly an asset to summon transportation to fly you around. A random event can easily get you killed and cost you an hour of progress, which has you breathing a sigh of relief if you survive something random.
Still very flawed, and the main story is still unforgivably misguided, but wasn’t it the same in Skyrim? I enjoyed the Dragonborn lore journey, but most players spent more time farting around with the Dark Brotherhood and whatnot.
I loved the game tbf. The random, dynamic nature of the open world, where it felt like nothing that happened was ‘scripted’, made it so much fun to explore. The settlement system was really cool - building houses, recruiting people, giving everyone jobs, setting up trade routes (that the AI literally walked lol) etc. was a great addition.
Can barely remember the main story but it’s still one of my favourite games of all time 😅
The whole settlements getting attacked is annoying though
Settlements were a buggy tedious mess you were forced to do.
It was awful. Horrific gameplay making those bases. The worst base building on the market, even at the time.
Every single time I tried playing that game, that shit bugged out. Every single time.
It is legitimately their worst game.
Fallout 4 is 10 more scripted than Fallout 3 & NV
@@Quad373 I swear people just say stuff that sounds good about games they like, true or not.
Sim Settlement 2 made the Settlement system great for me. It gave it kind of a sense, managing not one but a bunch of settlements wich are kind of able to develop by it's own and the last update even gives you an HQ to manage. Everything is kind of clunky of cause. It's a mod =D
But I enjoyed my rerun.
Such a good point about the main story imperative. It's sort of at the point for me where I just wink and nod at the main story of games. I recently tried this with Oblivion -- gotta shut the gates of Oblivion and get the Amulet of Kings...except if you try to do this exclusively you won't level fast enough. The difficulty of the main quest encounters becomes nearly unwinnable.
Now I'm playing BG 3, and the same sort of main quest imperative happens at the beginning, but then there's an interlude where it's suggested you won't die horribly so forget about the main quest...I'm so confused! lol.
I think the point of the story is that you are supposed to put off the side stuff until you find Shaun, which is only about a little more than half way through the main story. Once you get to the third act the game asks you to choose a faction to side with to permanently change the future of the commonwealth. To me this seems like the exact time to do side content and interact with the factions. not only is it fun but it also makes sense in the context of the story to go out and see what you think about each faction before finally picking one to side with. To me this seems pretty well done. the first two acts lead you around the commonwealth and introduce you to each faction, and then the 3rd act allows you to pick one and fallow through while also collecting gear and gaining strength to defeat the apposing faction/factions. So I fill like playing it like and RPG is completely fine since you still get a large stretch where it makes sense both irl and in game to go and explore.
The vertibird encounter with the Brotherhood that you showed wasn't because Raiders shot them. It happened to me all the time. They are just very bad at flying or bugged because every time you see them they just crash like they were drunk.
The fact that he doesn't know this makes me wonder if he has even played FO4 for any length of time. Once the Brotherhood are activated and start conducting air operations in the Commonwealth, they get shot down all the time. It seems like their mission in life is to stir shit up and get shot down. It is great for scavenging combat armor and laser weapons from their crashes though. Thanks BoS!
@@HuskyOffset he hasn't, just a toxic bait vlogger who churns out shit reviews after doing 10% of games and spends a good hour repeating the same clichés. His review on horizon fw speaks for itself. Said he spent 30 hours in the daunt and thought it was part of the map from first game 😂😂
Thanks for your video. I think you might be missing something though. I followed the fallout 4 story completely, and I also explored completely. One does not prevent the other from happening. I love the story, and I love exploring a lot! You can just simply do both. There’s not a clock ticking on the story. I just did the whole thing really laid-back and enjoyed all aspects.
I agree with you. Loved this game. One of my faves. But what I think he means is that if you go into this game from a pure RPG perspective (ie: you follow the main questline exclusively) you miss out on a lot. But I believe its a naïve position. Games like this are meant to have multiple play throughs. Which is what i did. My 1st playthrough was 100% RPG quest line. Then I installed a bunch of mods and had a great time conquering the commonwealth.
Exactly, I did the same thing. I'm kinda confused by him saying he didn't explore because he played the campaign.
TBH, im not even thinking of the main story. I love exploring and looting to develop my community and i totally enjoy playing this game that i owned for so many years but never end up playing.
Yeah I really do love the story for fallout 4. I like the mix of the Captain America origin story with this terminator feeling when it comes to the institute. I liked the reputation system when it comes to factions in NV but sometimes it really really annoyed me. I’m actually glad that it wasn’t in the 4th game(that way I could do whatever I wanted with a lot of side quests for different factions). All you have to do is know which quest is the point of no return. I just wish that the institute explained their goals a little better and I wish the Minutemen had more content.
Finally someone who manages to get it. You are indeed searching for your son...but in a completely unfamiliar and hostile environment. That basically allows for all the RPG potential you want. You gotta survive and learn about the world first to find the person you're looking for.
I've played the main story line as two of the factions, and that was enough. I really enjoy just wandering around exploring. I wish they had a reset button for each building so I could play through the interesting parts over and over. It's a fun game just to wander. I do the same with Skyrim. I've never finished the main story, but I have over 600 hours of play time and I still love it. That one also needs a dungeon reset button.
I played it last year on Xbone. I enjoyed it, but the constant crashes were very frustrating. Make sure you save often!
Played almost 1000 hours total, will likely not go back but it used to be my goto daily game for years. Will forever cherish it.
I was like that with 500 hours played, last time I played was early 2017. But something made me reinstall today and I can't wait to dump another couple of hundred in it over the next few months on arvos after work and weekends
@@kennyhigh7426 how was it?
@@apocro. beautiful 🥲
@@kennyhigh7426 wholesome
I go back atleast once a year and do a survival run.
I still play this game daily. This is why I don’t read reviews and make my own decisions. It still has a few bugs in it but I still love this game.
I dropped it for a year or so, then mods happened. I run across a video practically every week that has something I've missed over the course of nearly 100 playthroughs and three game systems (2 Xbox Ones and now Xbox X).
HA! I also have it for my Xbox X, PS4, and PC. Great to see a real fan still playing.@@brettbaxter7882
BTW I dropped it for about a year also. Wanted a game to spend hours on due to becoming unemployed and came right to this. The mods make it even better.@@brettbaxter7882
Same here, this one and new vegas
Thats a bgs game for you and why we accept bugs, because their games are long lasting.
Coming back to this video and enjoying FO4, Starfield has had so few bugs for me it’s surprising. However, the “building” systems are scaled way back as far functionality. You can build ships but it doesn’t change a lot regarding crew or storage. You can build outposts but they aren’t nearly as interactive and populated and you really don’t gain much because late into the game money is easy. It makes me wonder if the more extensive settlements in FA4 may be why there is still a lot of bugs.
The writer for Far Harbor is now the lead writer for Starfield
hopium
@@Mattznick I literally stated a fact but okay if you want to be braindead then go right ahead
I also love how he says you’re just gonna have a bad time if you follow the story rather than wandering around the map. Dude you could choose to complete the main story and afterwards still have hundreds of side quest and tasks. With Fallout 4 you can literally choose your own path. Wanna melee build? Do it. Wanna stealth build? Do it. Explosives? High tech mods? Power armor? Minutemen build? Anything. All those little choices you make have a drastic affect on how your game is going to look in the “end”.
i thought the story was pretty fun for me especially at the end if u go with BOS. but the most fun one for me was finding that perfect settlement. i found it on covenant and there's a dirty secret behind that very preserved housing complex. and i even build like a second floor in that settlement and just building turrets, bring strong, nick, cait, codsworth in covenant. it was super fun. the minuteman missions was pretty fun too especially fighting againts the mirelurk queen.
I'm glad you went back to it. You are right though, following the main quest is not the way to go, after my first play I always went back and just dicked around lol which is way better
Man I remember back in June 2015 when the Fallout social media accounts posted the please stand by image, I was super hyped, I knew an announcement of Fallout 4 was imminent and man that reveal trailer was so good, the soundtrack by Inon Zur, still gives me chills 🙌 I must have re watched it at least 30 times!! Fallout 4 was so good, so many memories! Happy 25th anniversary Fallout 👏👏👏👏👏😊
Bruh no. The game suckedz
I just love it. Sure I have a dozen mods to fix problems with it but there's just so much content and the world is so fun. I keep going back to it again and again.
I recently learned of the Grounded Commonwealth mod and decided to play through the game as the Minutemen with some basic mods installed like:
Sim Settlements 2
Alternate Start
Grounded Commonwealth
Militarized Minutemen
Silent Protagonist
I decided to play on Survival Difficulty and honestly it was super enjoyable to experience this game in that manner for the first time.
I never mod games to be easier and instead went for a Vanilla +++ experience by adding mods that built onto the mechanics of the game, along with adding 80 new weapons to the game and replacing the badly designed ones like the Assault Rifle, Combat Rifles and Pipe Weapons.
I loved it.
I always held to the main quest points when everything it's transitioning to the other story arc to do all of the side content. For ex in Fallout 3 when you find out your father is alive you are basically done with your main objective. If i don't do that i feel like im not immersed anymore, i can't role play my character which was the thing that i wanted.
The best one from bethesda doing it right is in Morrowind when they literally tell you to go do whatever side stuff you please to gain experience and become stronger. Not until the very end of the game it starts to give you a little bit of rush.
There are several mods that give you your own vertibird. You can also drive a motorcycle, or even a ridable Giddyup Buttercup. You should also take Nick Valentine with you when you got to Far Harbor and encounter the synths for the 1st time. Also, wearing the Silver Shroud outfit gives different dialogue during encounters (especially with the Mechanist DLC). Oh, and there are dozens of huge, amazingly well-done quests mods available that add TONS of content and new world-spaces. Enjoy.
One of the main things that makes the game more enjoyable to me is the mod where you keep dogmeat alongside a companion.
Grt summary!! You are so right... did that exactly with Cyberpunk 2077 after they fixed it... if u stick to the main story you don't get to see so much of what these games can offer.... gonna give this sandbox style in Fallout 4 a try after these years.. Would you believe Luke that I never got to bloody finish Fallout 4 coz i got so bored with the story!!! thanks for this video and keep it up..
It wasn’t until I started thinking of the “story” and tone of this game as a comedy that I fell in love with Fallout 4.
I just started playing Fallout 4 for the first time at the beginning of this month. I'm always a few years behind, lol. I am enjoying the hell out of it, but I went in knowing it was glitchy as hell. Watching a brahmin randomly fly perfectly vertical in the background while I was talking to a settler almost made me fall down laughing. Story wise, I love learning about the companions way more than caring about the main story.
Brooooo same I started fallout 4 years ago the brahmin randomly spawned in right in front of me and flown of like merry poppins It was so funny bro
A glitch is it changes subtitles to Russian on Xbox to no fix
I played it for 4 hours on launch night my freshman year, and never beat it, maybe 20 percent. And I've recently started playing it and man, 200 hours of pure fun. Gameplay wise the best fallout.
wait for some giant boss mob flying through the air like team rocket, when you just killed it with a fkn pipe riffle 😎👉🏻👉🏻 pow pow... 😂 (Love it anyway)
@@devincarter7020 yep, maybe is not the best in writing, but I finally have fun with the shooter part of the game, you can feel that ID software helped with that part
I played this as a RPG. I just played it as if my character kinda knew or assumed we were refrozen for a long period after our son was taken, made it still worth searching for answers but not immediately necessary compared to learning to live in the shattered world we woke up to. Allowed me to stay immersed while exploring and slowly learning about our son's whereabouts and whether he was even still alive and only pushing farther once the story gave more info on such. But I do see your points on why you feel it is not what you were looking for in a RPG.
Good point. I think Fallout 3 does this a little better though, even if they do provide a set background for the character there too. But there you're a teenager who's having to adapt to the harsh wasteland, and you know that your dad is probably capable of handling himself somewhat better than you, so you can take time getting used to the world and not rush the main quest.
@@Undivided_X I agree, Fallout 3 did a better job but the gameplay hasn't aged as well with that game. I was kinda hoping at the end of 4 we would find out that the sole survivor actually died in the vault due to the malfunction and we were a Synth experiment on memory transfer or seeing if Synths could have humanity or something. Would explain the ability to craft or modify anything without prior engineering and architecture knowledge and would've given us a ship of Theseus type story. Oh well, still find the story above average, which is still good imo.
While I agree that that assumption (and later knowledge) is the right way to approach it for the best experience of it, I feel like the early dialog is conveying a sense of urgency with the writing and voice acting, especially the distress in the player character in the meeting with Codsworth if choosing lines that don't make you sound like you don't care about your child's kidnapping.
@@3ventic I suppose so, though I think a longer prewar sequence with quest helping neighbors and doing stuff with your family would have helped make you care more, I mean we knew our spouse and child for all of maybe 3 to 5 minutes before everything went down. Didn't help myself much when trying to feel for the loss truthfully. Also reading terminals inside the vault during escape also shows you that timescale could be way off as you had been cryogenically frozen twice and then you go out and Codsworth literally states 200 to 210 years have gone by. My sense of chasing a potentially dead child would drop to a side venture compared to surviving in a hostile environment. Just how I felt, not saying your completely wrong but everyone takes things differently. And no I'm not a father in real life, sure that might change my perspective a bit.
This is how I played it aswell when I first got the game a year ago. Bethesda really made that story urgent so it made it tough to explain it away but I still enjoyed the experience in general.
also another thing is you can completet these games instantly if wanted disregarding the MAIN and side story quest
The mods though definitely can take it from a looter shooter to a true RPG. The storyline and mechanics of mods like my favorite, Sim Settlements 2, are just absolutely AWESOME!!! Kinggath and his crew knocked this one out of the park! The problem with Vertibirds is they are literally paper tigers. The one you saw shot down and thought was weird probably took fire from the Super Mutants in that scrapyard and the Gunners at the South Boston Check point that is really close to the scrapyard.
The big twist for Fallout 4 not only didn't surprise me, I expected it and didn't even realize it was supposed to be a twist. You literally go under cryosleep for a second time after your son is taken and I literally thought "gee, I wonder if when I wake up again, my son will be all grown up?"
And then my character kept saying "I'm looking for my young son" over and over and over. And I'm like "how do you even know he's still young?". It wasn't even a twist and honestly I feel like I missed something that was supposed to make me think not much time had passed.
Yeah, but consider the gameplay.
You're just smart?
@@smartalex22 Your comment makes more sense than mine. What the hell was I even talking about? Past me was an idiot.
I was the same. The game literally shows us going back into cryosleep, how tf could anyone think no time had passed?! Even on the first play through. It can’t be considered a twist.
@@BrickDaniels-qu7bz I mean, the gameplay is why I keep going back to the game, so you weren't _wrong._ Be kind to yourself. :)
This is what I call, trying to get on Bethesda’s good side to get that review code for star field
downloading again now. Have 300 hours in game from before I loved it. Now im gonna go through like you said and explore
Fo4 was my very first experience with the series (and 😮 as a whole) and I was so engaged. I’m not saying it’s the best one in the series because I am certain I am looking at it with rose tinted glasses. However, I was able to take it seriously and I spent over a year just playing by wandering around doing side quests as I traveled to the next story quest. On top of that, I slowly added dlc as time went on which added new locations one at a time to explore. I was initially drawn in with the story driven choices. I’m not a big shooter gamer so I actually stick to melee most of the time and I’ve enjoyed having the flexibility to do just that. Even though I understand why some weren’t happy with it, I personally would recommend it. 😊
When I first played Fallout 4, I really felt the pressure to persue the main quest. After all, my son had been kidnapped. The problem was, I got sucked into the Minutemen story line, which became the needy girlfriend that jealously kept pulling me away from anything not involving them. This lead me to throwing in the towel, and starting over with a different character a few times. Eventually I found a sweet spot where I would just ignore most of the Minute men "emergencies", and played like a free form RPG where I had no annoying son to rescue. I leave the game for a year or so, but then miss the fun of exploration, and start it up again. Lots of replayabliity.
Im playing it as a "looter- shooter" where the story takes a backseat a d the guns are the star. I'm enjoying much more with that thought process
for several playthroughs i thought minute men questline was a part of the main story questline
Man, you brought up one of my biggest pet peeves that no one talks about which is these open world games that want you to explore but give you a main quest that feels unrealistic to ignore. It drives me crazy. Subscribed immediately.
Yeah, that's why I'm playing with the Start Me Up mod, completely changes the experience because I don't feel like my character is being a terrible parent by meandering around when they should be looking for their son.
I think ideally the first few main story quests in an open world game would give you a goal but one without any sense of urgency, then have the urgent feel of the quests ramp up as you go along but also have natural "Okay we need to do x but you need to make sure you're prepared." breakpoints
Yup. Its why main stories that are about the setting affecting the people in it rather than the main character's problems is best for an open world game that has tons of content to do in it.
The NCR-Legion war in the Mojave.
The Tribunal-Sixth House condlict in Morrowind.
The socio economic and nutritional collapse of the Halcyon system.
Even Skyrim with the Imperial-Stormcloak civil war.
I just complete the main quest because it feels right and then play the sidequests after I'm done
I hear what you’re saying & people I know personally have said the same thing. But I disagree. If it’s an open world game exploration & side content is a given. But I think there’s a sort of gamer OCD in which people get obsessed with completing the man quest as it’s presented on the quest menu screen they interpret that as a bad game design.
But at no time ever have I played an open world game & just focused on the main quest. It’s because if you start out with the main quest getting from one point to another you’ll stumble upon a side quest. Then you’ll see or hear about another location & explore it. But I think some people get fixated on that main quest menu then interpret the game to being a limited experience.
There’s plenty of linear games out there but people go into open world games as if they are linear which they are not & were never meant to be.
@@Thatdeal79 To clarify, they're not complaining about the existence of side quests. The complaint is that, from a narrative standpoint, we're often given quest objectives that make undertaking side quests when what we're meant to be doing should realistically be extremely urgent ruins immersion, so the choice becomes "ignore sidequest and focus on the main story for immersion" or "destroy immersion to do side content" while the game itself could be designed in a way that allows for noth methods without breaking immersion.
Fallout New Vegas is a food example of this, where following the main quest leads you into side content while also not feeling immediately urgent and thus allowing someone to do the side content (or even ignore the recommended path entirely) without feeling like they're acting a way that causes dissonance with the narrative.
tl;dr side content is fine, but having a main story quest that feels like it should be urgent - such as tracking down unknown murderers that have kidnapped your child makes doing things at a leisurely pace feel disconnected from the narrative.
Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 are by far masterpieces in my mind. Theyre all really well done.
Fallout New Vegas is a masterpiece the other two are trash
@@ColonelBragg they aren't trash just not as good
Never played 3 but agree with nv and 4 fantastic games and 4 has tons of replay value with mods survival mode is addicting and i love settlement building
@@ColonelBragg NV is just fallout 3.5 with slightly better missions and far more people have more playtime on fl4 than any other fallout title so it's just shows that it isn't just about story and is about having fun
Fallout New Vegas is a good game but not a good Vegas game.