So I just got finished with Fallout 4, when I say finished I mean I chose a faction and saw the entire faction quest list play out. I have.... mixed feelings about the game. Beyond this I'll be talking spoiler stuff so if you haven't played and intend to play you have been warned.
I ended up aligning myself with the institution, it made sense to me. I had no really connection to the commonwealth, it's people or any of their problems. I pretty much main lined the story as much as I could because if I was a guy looking for my son I wouldn't go getting side tracked on errands for people unless I saw a chance to further my own cause.
Initially I didn't believe that 'father' was actually Shaun so I was tempted to kill him early on but I'm glad I didn't. Around this time I was still deciding who to align with either the Brotherhood or the institute. The brotherhood pissed me off because they were too military focused and treated me (the character) kinda like shit.
I was very happy to kill the railroad woman she was rude from day #1 and all her little cronies were a pain in my ass. Felt nice lighting her up with knuckle dusters. The last main quest to take down the blimp was fun. I ended up smoking Danse and Maxson both with Fatman nukes. Maxson took 2 which was fitting if he was meant to be the baddest guy in the brotherhood. Danse went down like a bitch though.
Onto the issues I had with the game itself.
The whole partner/buddy system didn't work well in my opinion, far too often I was getting blocked in door ways by the AI, when I would sneak they would give me away. Honestly I'd have rather gone alone.
I built my character to be a boxer. Melee only with maximum Strength luck and endurance. It was actually a lot of fun but too many sequences in the game forced me to use a weapon so even though I specced for hand to hand I still had to have a gun at the ready. I know people complained about not wanting to kill everything, and I could understand that if I had made a charismatic character then I would want to role play as intended. Those complaints, while I wasn't affected are still valid.
God the performance on PS4 was atrocious..... Anytime I had a mission with a firefight between 2 factions the frame rate went to a god damn crawl. It was actually laughable how bad it was at times. Sometimes I was getting frame rate issues without any AI on screen it was just loading in assets -_-
I can say that throughout the ~18 or so hours I played I didn't get a single crash. As far as bugs go I would say I was pretty lucky the only bug I suffered was killing a guy in V.A.T.S only to fall through the floor and end up on the level below. It was easily fixed by just calling the elevator and heading back up.
One of my favourite sequences was recording the message to send to the rest of the commonwealth. I went full evil and told them all to basically go f*ck themselves and to fear me their new ruler. Felt good ^^
Lastly the base building.... I avoided this shoe horned piece of sh*t mechanic as much as I possibly could. The biggest issues I have were the following: Encumbrance, sure it makes sense in Elder Scrolls but in a game that wants to encourage hoarding supplies to make stuff, I was constantly told I couldn't run because I was carrying around all this garbage.
The second issue I have with base building was how glitchy and buggy the whole process felt. Building the teleporter was so frustrating because I neglected to remove the f*cking rugs. It was only when I went online to read a post from someone having the same issue as me that I saw the solution. Oh and don't get me started on making sure everything has power. Each to their own, but this particular mechanic was something I actively avoided and actually almost made me want to stop playing when I was forced to partake.
So overall I had some fun but the game has issues. Thinking on it now... I don't really know if there was a character that I actually liked... maybe only Nick Valentine. Oh and at some point in the game I sent him away to make room for Danse and forgot where I sent him. So I never used him for the rest of the game. I think Bethesda should have made it a little easier to swap out companions.
I ended up aligning myself with the institution, it made sense to me. I had no really connection to the commonwealth, it's people or any of their problems. I pretty much main lined the story as much as I could because if I was a guy looking for my son I wouldn't go getting side tracked on errands for people unless I saw a chance to further my own cause.
Initially I didn't believe that 'father' was actually Shaun so I was tempted to kill him early on but I'm glad I didn't. Around this time I was still deciding who to align with either the Brotherhood or the institute. The brotherhood pissed me off because they were too military focused and treated me (the character) kinda like shit.
I was very happy to kill the railroad woman she was rude from day #1 and all her little cronies were a pain in my ass. Felt nice lighting her up with knuckle dusters. The last main quest to take down the blimp was fun. I ended up smoking Danse and Maxson both with Fatman nukes. Maxson took 2 which was fitting if he was meant to be the baddest guy in the brotherhood. Danse went down like a bitch though.
Onto the issues I had with the game itself.
The whole partner/buddy system didn't work well in my opinion, far too often I was getting blocked in door ways by the AI, when I would sneak they would give me away. Honestly I'd have rather gone alone.
I built my character to be a boxer. Melee only with maximum Strength luck and endurance. It was actually a lot of fun but too many sequences in the game forced me to use a weapon so even though I specced for hand to hand I still had to have a gun at the ready. I know people complained about not wanting to kill everything, and I could understand that if I had made a charismatic character then I would want to role play as intended. Those complaints, while I wasn't affected are still valid.
God the performance on PS4 was atrocious..... Anytime I had a mission with a firefight between 2 factions the frame rate went to a god damn crawl. It was actually laughable how bad it was at times. Sometimes I was getting frame rate issues without any AI on screen it was just loading in assets -_-
I can say that throughout the ~18 or so hours I played I didn't get a single crash. As far as bugs go I would say I was pretty lucky the only bug I suffered was killing a guy in V.A.T.S only to fall through the floor and end up on the level below. It was easily fixed by just calling the elevator and heading back up.
One of my favourite sequences was recording the message to send to the rest of the commonwealth. I went full evil and told them all to basically go f*ck themselves and to fear me their new ruler. Felt good ^^
Lastly the base building.... I avoided this shoe horned piece of sh*t mechanic as much as I possibly could. The biggest issues I have were the following: Encumbrance, sure it makes sense in Elder Scrolls but in a game that wants to encourage hoarding supplies to make stuff, I was constantly told I couldn't run because I was carrying around all this garbage.
The second issue I have with base building was how glitchy and buggy the whole process felt. Building the teleporter was so frustrating because I neglected to remove the f*cking rugs. It was only when I went online to read a post from someone having the same issue as me that I saw the solution. Oh and don't get me started on making sure everything has power. Each to their own, but this particular mechanic was something I actively avoided and actually almost made me want to stop playing when I was forced to partake.
So overall I had some fun but the game has issues. Thinking on it now... I don't really know if there was a character that I actually liked... maybe only Nick Valentine. Oh and at some point in the game I sent him away to make room for Danse and forgot where I sent him. So I never used him for the rest of the game. I think Bethesda should have made it a little easier to swap out companions.
