I'm a fan of this game but the last one made me soooo mad due to the poor quality of the game and the constant crash. I felt like all i did was saving the game. So basically what i like to know is how stable is the game ? have Bethesda tested the game properly this time or are we going to be Guinea pigs once more???

I've played it for 40 hours so far with only 1 crash.

My game is pretty stable, yeah I would get it if you had an xbox one

The engine is fantastically optimized. The game opens almost instantly and loads in less than 10 seconds. I too have yet to experience a single crash in days of gaming, some sessions for 8+ hours (with breaks to stretch of course).

I've played it for 8 hours and the game hasn't crashed.

60h in, not even one crash. This is the most stable game they have released... ever? Performance are waaayyy higher than what I was expecting for my setup (others might have a different experience depending on their hardwares).

14 hours on pc and no crashes yet.

While I meet the minimum requirements to play the game, I fall just short of recommended settings (CPU), and yet I still run most everything maxed out at 1920 x 1080

70 hours and no crash or glitches or anything bad. Im on ps4 though. Really happy with it.

The game is extremely stable on my ps4. Loading screens are a little boring, and there are too many. By any other point of view the game is awesome.

I'm on Xbox with no crashes so far. Have no clue how the PC version is working out.

I am 25 hours in and no crashes or noticeable bugs(other than with settlements, like the annoying snap function but I do love the new feature and have spent a few hours on it already lol). Smooth sailing so far, and definately I believe one of Bethesda's most polished releases to date(I remember crashing a lot on TES series and earlier Fallout games). I am on the Xbox One BTW.

10 hours and not a crash, freeze, stutter or anything.

Same experience regarding crashes. It's rock stable. Also performs well. Graphics - some users complain they aren't as detailed as the Witcher 3, but they are a huge visual upgrade over the graphics of the last game.

So it's better written and has better graphics. The gameplay is also improved.

The bad parts :

1. It has a few "Bethesda cliches" that many gamers dislike, such as bullet sponge enemies, armor that doesn't work like armor, and the game is too easy, especially on Normal difficulty, once you play for more than a few hours. There is also an enormous pile of stuff all throughout the world, and this time around almost all of it is useful, and so you end up exploring about 1 indoor area before you are forced to sell your loot. I don't like this - I find the repetitive sale trips boring, and I don't like "you are over-encumbered and cannot run!" happening every few minutes. You dump some stuff, but then a few minutes later, you find better stuff and grab it, and then dump what you have, and so forth.

The inventory and gui for character data has always been bad. It's supposed to be because you are using a Pip boy, a shoddy wrist computer, but really you spend so much time using it, it would be nice if the interface were more efficient.

The controls reuse the same small number of buttons too often. This is especially problematic when using the build interface. I think even console controllers have more buttons than the game takes advantage of. The grenade key and bash key are the same key. Various other control flaws that lead to mishaps.

Finally, they introduced a new dialogue system. This was a failure. Several reasons :

1. There's only ever 4 conversation choices, and the developers did not have the discipline to use less than 4 options in cases when it doesn't make sense to say more than yes or no.

2. It's often unclear what a dialogue choice will do - simply failing a persuasion check can result in violence, for example.

3. A single perk tree and a single stat seems to govern whether your character ever has a chance to talk their way out of violence. Also, the stat points you need for charisma - all 8 or so to get your charisma high enough and get Local Leader - are extremely costly, as this is about 40% your initial starting points, cutting into combat capabilities. The last game, getting a high enough speech skill was a lot less costly.

4. There's not any kind of interesting choices to make in dialogue, and it seems to rarely matter if you try to be clever or not.

I am playing on the PS4. I have put 26hrs in without a single crash.

I have encountered minor framerate/stutter issues which are easy to overlook given the detail/scope of the game.

playing on an Xbox one & have had no issues so far a welcomed surprise considering the many many crashes & lockups I encountered on the 360 with FO 3 & NV

PS4, 40hrs in, no crashes and only one or two ( very minor) frame rate issues

i took a week off work and arranged a daily spa ladies thing for my wife and her girlfriends for the next few days. At this point I could probably be a double for Tom Hanks in Castaway 2. Maybe next week I'll jump back into my suit - not sure yet... I've been living off beer and costco pizza.

PC, I5 and a 960 GTX 4gb. Been playing all the way on ultra only see 1 crash and the FPS been stable.

The game is super fun, it improve over alot of weak points on F3. I agree new dialogue system isnt the best but isnt the worst either. For me the voice is a huge improve and is super fun sometimes (more if u use chems)

i find it annoying people keep bashing the xbox, i've played the game since it came out and my xbox is performing well, i've played prob 50 hrs so far, been in the middle of city, big battles inside big buildings and nothing gamebreaking, i'm having a blast, people on pcs have issues also,i more so because a lot of people pc's are inadequate, consoles are all the same so there's very little variation from console to console so they're actually more stable.

40 or so hours on PS4. No performance issues.

Oh, and the game is extraordinary.

I found the game more than stable. My computer has not been running the game only when I exit to check messages or sleep. I would say I have been playing 8-14 hours a day since release (took vacation). I'm running in offline mode because it is so stable I don't want an incremental patch to screw things up (did this with Skyrim too). Basically I can only guess that I have around 68-70 hours in right now. I have crashed twice and I have encountered a bug with the community building menus. Three times now, I cannot pull up my Pip Boy after using the community management function. A simple Quick Save/Restore returns that functionality.

My son has less than the minimum requirements and is playing at Medium settings without a hitch. I'd say that they official requirements are probably too steep for practical use. I'm guessing they were published that way to error on the safe side.

I love the game and almost everything about it. The one thing that I cannot stand is the User Interface (UI). I'm not sure what [censored] crack monkey designed the UI for the community management functions but I have nearly deleted carefully placed buildings because I'm pointing at them and trying to select a menu option. In this one area, Bethesda could really, really, really stand to have a three year old come in and help them design the UI. Seriously, I have never seen such an idiotic UI in my entire life. Get the idea that I have problems with it? While I am not directly affected (aside from the asinine placement of the Hold Breath key), the key bindings are barely able to be remapped. My left handed friends are having some issues with that. For a product that was so obviously crafted with a lot of love and attention, this is such a glaring case of laziness/poor decision making that I cannot comprehend it.

That said, I would count it among the top five games I've ever played. It is neck and neck with Skyrim, which is number 1.

Over 40 hours put into the game, and it has only froze once on Xbox One. As to how it runs with the frame rate, about as well as you would expect on a console. Some very minor stuttering that last only a second or two. But besides that, game has played fine.

In my 50 hours, i've run into massive frame rate drops, graphical anomalies, glitched NPCs, and bizarre physics but the game has never crashed on me. I do think you'll still be saving a lot though. I think Bethesda intentionally made "Quick Save" the first item on the menu because of people's saving habits.

The quality of this game, is as if they started it a week before they released it. The bugs, bad AI, and half-wit dialogue is enough to make you wish you didn't waste your money on this game.

Dude seriously, buy a sshd for your ps4. I have one for mine and it makes fallout 4 so much more enjoyable, i hardly have any loading screens anymore and the game feels so much better and smoother.