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[Rendered Tangent]

Just a quick heads up for my fellow gaffers, Fallout 4 GoTY edition is on sale over on Steam.

The Game of the Year edition features the Far Harbor and Nuka World DLC, as well as a ton of other stuff, and it's listed at £8:74, and the individual DLC content is also reduced by quite a bit.

That's a phenomenal price for such a large amount of content.

So, if you still haven't played the game yet, or have it but want to get the DLC dirt cheap, there's never been a better time.

It's too good a deal to ignore.

(23rd Oct) Edit: FO4 GOTY is also available on the ps store and Xbox marketplace for a similar price as part of a Halloween sale.

IDKFA and AdamsApple brought this to my attention so I've amended to thread.

 

[poodaddy]

Great game that got poo poo'ed by babies, and at that price it's an absolute steal.

 

[adamsapple]

It was on sale for $9.99 earlier on Xbox as well, got it then even thought the base game is already on GP, cause Far Harbor DLC alone is $14.99 lol

 

[Soodanim]

Hell of a bargain.

Don't sleep on the modding community, either. It's still going, and Nexus Mods has some good stuff that can alleviate many concerns about the gameplay or UI. You can remove the protag voice and turn it back into 3 style dialogue selection and replace the levelling system with 3's stats and perks.

 

[yet_another_alt]

I'm quite sure it was part of a bundle in Fanatical where it was like $7.50. Key sellers probably still have it cheaper than Steam.

 

[MikeM]

I picked it up on PC earlier this morning. Holding out for the next gen upgrade. Got the platinum for it on PS5 back in the day.

 

[K2D]

Great game that got poo poo'ed by babies, and at that price it's an absolute steal.

Was about to reprimand you, but then I saw your handle and I realized the futility of it all.

Fallout 4 is an ok game.

It's also a bad rpg and a terrible Fallout title.

 

[TVexperto]

i wonder when the next gen update is coming?

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

It's also a bad rpg and a terrible Fallout title.

Kinda. But still an absolutely amazing action adventure with fantastic worldbuilding and replay value.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Never did try the DLC. How is it?

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Insane value for money. Here's the one and only modding guide you'll need:

The Midnight Ride

A fully modular, comprehensive and regularly updated Fallout 4 modding guide that allows for any personal preference to be satisfied.

themidnightride.moddinglinked.com

You're welcome.

Never did try the DLC. How is it?

Huge expansions with lots of fun to be had

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Great game that got poo poo'ed by babies, and at that price it's an absolute steal.

100%, it's an absolute must have at that price.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Hell of a bargain.

Don't sleep on the modding community, either. It's still going, and Nexus Mods has some good stuff that can alleviate many concerns about the gameplay or UI. You can remove the protag voice and turn it back into 3 style dialogue selection and replace the levelling system with 3's stats and perks.

Definitely, it has some great mods and is still thriving 7 or so years later.

 

[rofif]

Yuck. Just don’t do the main quest. Everything sucks as soon as institute appears

 

[Rendered Tangent]

I picked it up on PC earlier this morning. Holding out for the next gen upgrade. Got the platinum for it on PS5 back in the day.

Yeah, I'm kinda looking forward to the ps5 upgrade too.

But, for those on pc as well it's worth a look.

 

[MrMephistoX]

Perfect time to get into it if you have a Steam Deck thanks for the heads up.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

i wonder when the next gen update is coming?

Well, I feel like it's got to be soon or Starfield will be out and they won't want anything taking potential players away.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Never did try the DLC. How is it?

Far Harbour is great, I haven't tried Nuka World yet, but it's supposed to be good.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Perfect time to get into it if you have a Steam Deck thanks for the heads up.

No problem.

The way I see it, if one person who wasn't aware gets to experience this great game at such a good price it's worth me taking a few minutes to start a quick thread.

 

[German Hops]

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Yuck. Just don’t do the main quest. Everything sucks as soon as institute appears

I actually quite enjoyed the main story.

Yes, it had some issues, but on the whole I quite liked the twists and turns it took.

Remember, a lot of people will still be going in blind with no awareness of the big reveal etc...

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Insane value for money. Here's the one and only modding guide you'll need:

The Midnight Ride

A fully modular, comprehensive and regularly updated Fallout 4 modding guide that allows for any personal preference to be satisfied.

themidnightride.moddinglinked.com

You're welcome.

Huge expansions with lots of fun to be had

Nice one, for linking that.

 

[JOEVIAL]

Great game! Definitely Bethesdas most detailed and enthralling world. Incredibly fun to explore and see all the attention to detail in nearly every corner of the map.

I personally enjoy games that reward exploration, and Fallout 4 is one of the best in this category. Bethesda Softworks are masters at world building

From a story standpoint, I only play as the good guy/paragon. So I didn’t care that about the lack of branching choices, and moral ambiguity.

With that said, I really like the sarcastic dialogue options in Fallout 4 because you’re still pretty much the good guy with those dialogue options.

Anywho… play Fallout 4 if you want a comfy type of game

 

[semiconscious]

Anywho… play Fallout 4 if you want a comfy type of game

agree! just getting to hang out in fenway park made it worth the price of admission to me. also, loved nuka world. much fun...

 

[Puscifer]

Great game that got poo poo'ed by babies, and at that price it's an absolute steal.

I was fine with it till suddenly the game said "lol now you have to grind the game for materials to teleport to your dad!" They can seriously fuck off with that.

It's like with Assassin's Creed 2 told me to go build a map to finish the story, I quit an hour into it because screw wasting my time. Figure out how to pace your story without forcing me into a collectathon.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Good price, but goddamn this game gets boring. The base building was shit, constantly having to micro manage settlements with no real payoff. The switch to voice acting for the playable character was so bad too.
The game is a mess on so many levels (obviously).

 

[yet_another_alt]

Good price, but goddamn this game gets boring. The base building was shit, constantly having to micro manage settlements with no real payoff.

Sim Settlements

Settlers should build their own damn houses (and farms, and shops, and...), you've got a Commonwealth to explore!

www.nexusmods.com

Probably the only mod that I could not do without. Well, unofficial patch too but that's a given in any Bethesda RPG.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

http://h

Oh cool, i can download mods to make the game slightly less worse? Awesome! Totally worth the time investment.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Good price, but goddamn this game gets boring. The base building was shit, constantly having to micro manage settlements with no real payoff. The switch to voice acting for the playable character was so bad too.
The game is a mess on so many levels (obviously).

I mean, you don't really have to get involved in the base building aspect if you don't want to.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Great game! Definitely Bethesdas most detailed and enthralling world. Incredibly fun to explore and see all the attention to detail in nearly every corner of the map.

I personally enjoy games that reward exploration, and Fallout 4 is one of the best in this category. Bethesda Softworks are masters at world building

From a story standpoint, I only play as the good guy/paragon. So I didn’t care that about the lack of branching choices, and moral ambiguity.

With that said, I really like the sarcastic dialogue options in Fallout 4 because you’re still pretty much the good guy with those dialogue options.

Anywho… play Fallout 4 if you want a comfy type of game

I agree, I think it's great fun to just wander the wasteland and see who you bump into.

Remember, the boy in the fridge?

 

[LaughingStock]

Was about to reprimand you, but then I saw your handle and I realized the futility of it all.

Fallout 4 is an ok game.

It's also a bad rpg and a terrible Fallout title.

I agree with you but...

My playtime:

Fallout New Vegas: 166 hours
Fallout 4: 623 hours

New vegas may be the better RPG. But the open world sandbox in fallout 4 is more fun. And that's what Bethesda is good at.

 

[phant0m]

game is actually good as hell with mods on PC

 

[bender]

Fallout 4: 623 hours

 

[Elbereth]

I liked F4, but it just didn’t quite capture the magic of F3 for me. I always wanted to try Far Harbor though. Hopefully its as good as Point Lookout.

 

[BlueLyria]

A warning for any of you who decide to get this game to play around with mods.
Modding F4 is messy. Messier than Skyrim, the base game quality is also lower than base Skyrim.

 

[StereoVsn]

It's an Ok game that is significantly better with some mods. As nd by some I mean like 200-300 mod modlist collections from Wabberjack or Nexus.

 

[yet_another_alt]

Oh cool, i can download mods to make the game slightly less worse? Awesome! Totally worth the time investment.

I wouldn't expect anything else from Bethesda.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Maybe the patch is finally coming

 

[StereoVsn]

A warning for any of you who decide to get this game to play around with mods.
Modding F4 is messy. Messier than Skyrim, the base game quality is also lower than base Skyrim.

It's worse vs Skyrim SE but better vs OG Skyrim. Wabberjack also solves a lot of hard work in modding now days. So do Nexus collections.

Unless you have to have some mods not in a particular collection and even then you can usually take out stuff you don't want and can add other mods (as long as you know what you are doing with Bethesda modding).

 

[CatLady]

I liked F4, but it just didn’t quite capture the magic of F3 for me. I always wanted to try Far Harbor though. Hopefully its as good as Point Lookout.

I thought Far Harbor was really good.

 

[adamsapple]

Maybe the patch is finally coming

FO 76 got a shadow dropped patch, hoping FO4's comes sooner rather than later.

I thought Far Harbor was really good.

I've never played it but now with the GoTY version I have it, just waiting for the patch to drop.

 

[BlueLyria]

It's worse vs Skyrim SE but better vs OG Skyrim. Wabberjack also solves a lot of hard work in modding now days. So do Nexus collections.

Unless you have to have some mods not in a particular collection and even then you can usually take out stuff you don't want and can add other mods (as long as you know what you are doing with Bethesda modding).

Oh absolutely, Skyrim OG is probably one of the worst modding experiences.
F4's issues come down to mostly it being less popular, with means there's less resources to get into it, and as I didn't start modding it until way later in it's life, I really don't know about a lot of the staple mods, like the keyword collections (that's a me problem tbh), but also the creation engine was pushed a lot in F4 so it feels less stable than Skyrim SE

 

[cash_longfellow]

Played through the bugs at launch 5/10. Played through again a couple of years later after the fixes, 7/10. Just not a very good game. It’s cool if you want to just zone out and get lost in an empty world and pick everything up, but the game is just not good….and especially as a Fallout title.

Edit - To add though, nothing wrong with jumping in at that price point at all!

 

[Sleepwalker]

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[MidGenRefresh]

I’ve started a new character 2 months ago and sunken another 70+ hours into this game. Like others have said, it’s not really an RPG. It’s an exploration game.

For maximum enjoyment make sure to play at survival difficulty. A lot of game mechanics that are useless on normal settings become critical in this mode. Also, don’t fast travel. Map is actually not that big and some of the best moments happen when you’re just wandering around. I always wear gear that increases your speed. Stack 4-5 pieces of gear with legendary effect of 10% speed increase and you’ll be running like Flash.

 

[Fools idol]

just play new vegas instead and savour the last good fallout game

 

[MidGenRefresh]

just play new vegas instead and savour the last good fallout game

I love New Vegas buts seriously stop with that talking point. Both games are worth playing, just for very different reasons.

 

[Zathalus]

Pick it up, mod the shit out of it and enjoy.

 

[Soodanim]

It's worse vs Skyrim SE but better vs OG Skyrim. Wabberjack also solves a lot of hard work in modding now days. So do Nexus collections.

Unless you have to have some mods not in a particular collection and even then you can usually take out stuff you don't want and can add other mods (as long as you know what you are doing with Bethesda modding).

QFT as I doubt too many know about this.

Wabbajack, and more recently Nexus Mods' Collections feature, are pre-made mod packs. Wabbajack in particular being full of fully maintained and tested mod lists. The result is that the user doesn't have to do anything but install the Wabbajack pack and follow instructions. All of the hard work is done for you.

https://www.wabbajack.org/gallery?selectedGame=Fallout%204

Something like FUSION would be recommended for newcomers, but look around for yourselves.

 

[Rendered Tangent]

Played through the bugs at launch 5/10. Played through again a couple of years later after the fixes, 7/10. Just not a very good game. It’s cool if you want to just zone out and get lost in an empty world and pick everything up, but the game is just not good….and especially as a Fallout title.

Edit - To add though, nothing wrong with jumping in at that price point at all!

I agree it was quite buggy for a time, but I don't necessarily agree it's an "empty world".

It's full of random incidents, hidden areas, combat scenarios etc...