Fallout 4 (2015)

The scale of the Fallout London mod is immense... it's equivalent to the Fallout 4 base game and the Far Harbour DLC combined! Also includes 337 interior locations which is insane. Really happy for the team and it's nice to see how much support they've recieved over the last few years.

Considering it's effecitvely a spin-off similar to what New Vegas was to F3, I'm surprised Bethesda haven't let Obsidian do something similar in recent years. Then again it looks like Bethesda hate the fact that Obsidian do Bethesda games better than Bethesda and keep turning down offers.

Any Fallout fans here catch the trailer for the Fallout TV show? I think it looks great! I just really, really hope that they get the tone right. The seemingly clean / neutral colour grading thew me a bit although I guess it's just F3 and NV that have distinctive green and brown hues.

I'm still playing through Fallout 4 with a few light mods. I haven't played through the main quests since the game launched in 2015 so i'm slowly going back through it on very hard difficulty to see if there's any noticeable patches or added content. Also haven't played through the DLC yet which i'm excited to do (I seem to leave it 5-10 years until I get around to Fallout DLCs for some reason).

Fallouts always been one of the few games where I really do feel compelled to take the time to slow down and soak up the atmosphere. Bethesda gets a lot of flack, but one thing i've always enjoyed is their environmental story telling. Currently crawling through the subway lines and found this poor sucka in the bathroom.

I've played Fallout 4 for well over 500 hours. Last time I played I was convinced I had seen every part of the map but this time I've been walking the very edges of the map and discovering all kinds of things. Love it when that happens!

Anyone had a similar experience with a game that they've replayed a lot?

I've been getting back into Fallout 4 recently and it's made me think about the decisions we make in games and the roles that we assume. In almost every single RPG game my first playthrough is one where I act as I would in the real world. I saved Megaton and gave the ghouls a home in ten penny towers in fallout 3, I helped the synthetics escape and gain freedom in fallout 4, and I always returned stolen goods to NPCs in Skyrim instead of stealing them.

In my second playthroughs I sometimes try to do the opposite, in Red Dead Redemption 2 I shot and robbed a lot of civilians the second time around, in Skyrim I tried to be a dark elf that stole from everyone I came across, in other games I simply switched up my playstyle and went for long range instead of close range weapons etc.

Despite these second playthroughs I always felt a bit... lost? These "mischievous" acts, for want of a better word, didn't come naturally to me and although I enjoyed exploring new playstyles with different weapons etc. I always felt most at home returning to what I did the first time around. That being said, I do enjoy doing a bit of light role play, usually in the goofy sense, being someone that I would never usually be.

With Baldurs Gate 3s release I wonder how others go about creating characters for themselves and the worlds that they create?

Just finished my first playthrough! While I had fun, it's a bit flat, once you get over the improved shooting mechanics and new settlement gameplay. The story itself while has potential, just fell flat. I appreciate that they tried to make more choices matter, but it felt too black and white, very much like Fallout 3, but improved in the fact that you can at least join different factions.

Comparing it a lot to my previous experience with Fallout 1, and Fallout New Vegas unfortunately haha. It doesn't hit the same moral conflicts so far.

Continuing and will explore the DLC and other factions!

3.7/5

Without comparing it with the other entries in the series, it's a good and fun game to play. This game needs to be played on "Survival Mode" to get the full experience.

My big complain: unforgivable high amounts of bugs. Also, too many payed DLCs (some of them could have easily been included in the original game or added later for free).