Played for 40 hours and completed the main quest on the base version that’s available on PC Game Pass. Didn’t try any mods
I was excited to play Fallout 4, it’s one of the few games that made me want to upgrade from my Xbox 360 back in the day when I didn’t have a PC.
Sadly tho, I ended up being disappointing and mostly annoyed with this game mostly because of two main things: how Bethesda Softworks has curated quests in this game and how the story just ends abruptly.
I like the promise of a journey to find your missing son but as soon as that plot twist in the Institute comes, the game just sort of…dies. Not a lot of story after that point as I did like only two more quests after that in the Minutemen faction. All of that felt very abrupt and anti-climatic and I hate that I saved the robot version of my son only for him to disappear?!
But what really ruined my experience were the quests…the infinite quests. You see, I had finish the Next-Gen update quests at the start of the game without knowing anything and was very over-powered and that coupled with the extremely insulting way those quests just kept sending me to the same locations again again just made the game feel so mechanical and soulless and then you had to do them a bunch more times for the Minutemen to unlock the final quest?! why and not to mention that near the end my quest log was half full of these fake quests
I enjoyed how fluid the shooting is, it’s easily the best improvement over the previous games but hate that the dialogue wheel is just now a dialogue flavor wheel. You get four options to choose from and most of the time they just say stuff like "Go on. or “Okay” which is needless and lazy
Overall: 6/10 I did have some fun with it and I liked the premise of the story at first but for someone who doesn’t do mods a lot and is interested in experiencing the story and hand-crafted quests…this game just feels shallow. I’m ready to be over this game and go back to playing something indie and much more compelling
They’re notorious for publishing half assed games with great potential, but tend to be fairly open to the modding community patching things up and enhancing the experience.
I would definitely get into it again if I ended up owning it on another store. Xbox App version PC straight up won’t let me download some of the mods in-game and has write protection all over the actual files so I didn’t bother
PC Game Pass so I don’t technically own it 🤣 but yeah even if I owned it on the Xbox App it would behave the same as I described which is why I would never buy my games other if I could pick any other store
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Not modding a Bethesda game is a mistake though.
They’re notorious for publishing half assed games with great potential, but tend to be fairly open to the modding community patching things up and enhancing the experience.
If you ever would consider replaying it,
look into TheMidnightRide,
which is a great quality of life modpack for Fallout 4: https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com/
I would definitely get into it again if I ended up owning it on another store. Xbox App version PC straight up won’t let me download some of the mods in-game and has write protection all over the actual files so I didn’t bother
Sounds like Microsoft owns your copy of the game
PC Game Pass so I don’t technically own it 🤣 but yeah even if I owned it on the Xbox App it would behave the same as I described which is why I would never buy my games other if I could pick any other store