The problem is that it’s rare to see two people agree with one another, let alone everyone else. There are people out there who genuinely care about carving out a bright future for posterity.

There’s hope flickering in every corner of its barren world. But mostly people are a bit shit to each other, and if you can scrounge a few extra bottle caps by throwing someone to the dogs, you probably will.įallout isn’t just some pessimistic steampunk dystopia either. There are some good’uns knocking about, too. The world has been ravaged by atomic bombs and the few remaining survivors that roam the hell-scorched Capital Wasteland are generally awful people who are only out for themselves. Let’s look at the premise of Fallout from a bird’s eye perspective. But ultimately, Fallout 4 is emphatically a Fallout game, and a particularly good one at that. It was clunky in a lot of ways, and Preston Garvey is still an irritating dipshit. There was no Megaton, granted, and it lacked the boundless freedom of an Obsidian RPG. I’d like to think I’ve grown up enough in the last five years that my impressions of video games are no longer steered by the thoughts of my friends - and, somewhat more baselessly, the internet.

I’ve purged that immensely embarrassing article from the face of the earth. Fallout 4 is a load of shite.” I think I actually wrote a blog post when I was 19 called, “Fallout 4: The Death Of A Franchise.” You won’t find it anywhere, don’t bother looking. “I know,” I replied, “and Fallout 3 had a much better story. “It doesn’t have the freedom of New Vegas,” a friend of mine told me back in November 2015. To say people were unhappy when Fallout 4 came out is an understatement.

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