Fallout 4 (2015)

Just spent a good 8 hours gaming with a college friend. He came over with his PS4. We played a pretty eclectic assortment of games on 4 systems. We played:

- Super Meat Boy

- Hotline Miami

- Transistor

- River City Ransom

- Raiden Trad (This game is awesome. Just wish my SNES controller was more responsive)

- Fallout 4 (Spent the majority of the time playing this one. Suddenly got very difficult as we became tired)

- Far Cry 4 (Difficult starting at 1am)

- Contra (for a few minutes, just to show my buddy his new and improved NES that I revived)

- The Last of Us

We ordered chinese food to top it off. Pretty nice little Saturday night.

Oh Fallout, a gaming experience that starts with excitement and love and gradually turns into annoyance and desperation for it to be over.

Fallout 4 doesn't do a whole lot that 3 or NV didn't do. The base building is new, and while I'm sure it will appeal to those who like to build, it wasn't my cup of tea. Also, the interface for it is terrible. Exploration in the game is great, at least for a while. There's always some new place to explore, some secret to discover, a little story told over computer terminals. That's my favourite part of the game. The companions this time around were interesting and varied for the most part, and some sidequests were a lot of fun.

Eventually things get repetitive. Getting sent to areas I'd already cleared always bothered me, and the introduction of repeatable quests for the Minutemen was a huge misstep. I cringed every time Preston said he has something "new" for me.

In terms of the story, it starts out a bit weak, gets stronger in the middle, then takes a nosedive at the end. The last dozen or so quests in the main quest line were horribly tedious, and the conclusion of the game goes against everything I had been doing for the rest of it.

It was fun for a time, but I'm glad it's finished.

NOPE! I refuse to hop on this gravy train. I'm not going to play it. Nope.

I'm off to play Pathologic (2005). Just try and stop me! I love you Bethesda, and I'm sure your game is very nice and fun and pretty. But I'm a patient man and I have plenty of other cool games to play. I don't see what the big rush is all about. Maybe I'll play it next year or something. I'm sure it's a wonderful game, but yeah, what's the big rush? By the way if I see any spoilers I will be very cranky! I'm going to put cotton in my ears and wear a blindfold until the crazed excitement has boiled down a bit to a simmer.

EDIT: Also if there's not an option to have a cat companion, I'm not playing it at all. I love Dogmeat, but it's time that kitties are introduced to the Fallout universe. Maybe when I see the kitty cat companion mod on the steam workshop then PERHAPS I'll consider playing the game. This game is racist against cats. :<

EDIT2: Don't be doubtful of my patience. Have you ever heard of a little game called GTA V? Well, I haven't even seen gameplay footage, let alone played the thing. I sit back quietly playing ancient dos games and cheesy indie games and wait quietly until the right sale comes along. GTA V was released in 2013, and I'm still patiently waiting, that's two years. And I'll happily wait another 2 years, or another 4 years. Am I weird, or am I Yoda or something? I never understood why t's so important to rush out and go nuts for something on day one (unless its Obduction, which I will be goings nuts for one day 1, but don't tell anyone, shhhh!..).