DaRmaZat It looked nice. Maybe it was the first bug-free installment of the series? And it was Fallout after all, Fallout 4, after the great New Vegas.
So hopes were highly set. While escaping my house when the nuclear bombs started coming down, I should have known already when arriving really over-rushed into the Vault. Still, I could not wait for starting to explore the vast but hostile Wasteland.
Unfortunately, that ended up to be a plain boring experience. With no added value to my life, filled with much better gaming epics than this big failure.
The game looks awesome in 4K. Fallout 4 offers solid shooting mechanics next to tons of beautiful views, but for the real RPG fan it delivers nothing, seriously, really nothing of any value.
No interesting characters, no relevant choices, no story development, just exploring, shooting, looting and upgrading your skills. The biggest fun part was too often just trying to discover one of the numerous bugs and capture it for display onto this website.
The game is developed by Bethesda, so it hád to have glitches. Luckily, these are not as serious, game-breaking bugs as these which I f.i. encountered while playing TES Skyrim. In Fallout 4, enemies sometimes lack the necessary AI to go around environmental objects. Or they get looped in an endless respawn clipping festival. Can be kind of amusing in a world where all the rest is just a lifeless, emo-dead wasteland eh…
After 15 hours in-game, I was forced to choose a faction. In Fallout terms, this means you need to prepare yourself for the Grand Finale.
I went for the Railroad faction, as it seemed such a brave, exciting mission to liberate all the synths from their ‘Institutional’ suppressors…
But it turned out to be a big fat disappointment, because of the game’s non-existing attempt to create a feeling of personal involvement and immersion around that should-have-been-great Finale.
SPOILER ALERT BELOW
A poorly written story, lots of cut scenes and totally not interesting side characters, who looked like programmed by a synth with no soul nor taste for immersive storylines at all, made me uninstall the game, upon which I installed Yakuza 0.
Oh boy, what a difference.
