The female voice is nice, has not played as an maie.

Its an budget issue, but also an issue that TES is way harder than Fallout to handle because of the 10 races. Imagine an orc or Khajiit with the female voice in Fallout 4.

it would sound weird more so if the other of your race sounds very different from you.

The dialoge system and the secondary damage from it is my only major complain about fallout 4.

it can be done, isnt impossible, and they probably will do it, just look as DA Inquisition with each race having referents voices.

I am really liking the game, and don't regret buying it. For the past month, I come home from work, pull up a chair, and play for upwards of two hours, and having a personal TV in my room as well as being able to plug headphones into my PS4 controller makes the experience more enjoyable and immersive. Sure, I can't do any modding since I have a PS4 copy, but I am pretty happy with what I have. I have not beaten the game yet, even though I have one character at level 45, and a newer level 26 character. It's easy to get carried away in the game, since you can essentially do whatever you want as long as you are the right level for a specific location. Sure, the game has a few areas where I personally wish more content could be (such as companion interaction and romance, specific quest lines) but I know that no game is perfect. And I have only had the game freeze once on a load screen, so I'm very pleased with the performance so far. The prospect of choosing among the factions for the endgame, however, gives me pause and makes me want to postpone the end for as long as possible...

Good idea, that's what I'm doing too. From what I hear, they are mostly underwhelming, and limit what you can do afterwards. I'm enjoying being able to do quests for each faction still.

Yeah, I'd rather milk as much as I can from the different factions before choosing a side. One character will do MM ending with BoS and RR still alive, and another will do BoS. I'm sure all of the normal side quests (not related to a faction) don't change even after the end-game.

Love it. Am having fun. Is it perfect? Of course not.

My only real criticisms are:

1) The Glowing Sea - BORING! Sorry all you folks that love it, but there's only so many Deathclaws, Glowing "Whatevers" and ghouls I want to deal with and the yellow/orange landscape gets on my nerves. So far I really haven't found anything interesting and it got old real quick to either have to wear your PA, take your chances with no protection in a Hazmat suit or pop Radx & Radaway like a fiend.

2) I hate to say this since it was one of my initial favorite things, but, the whole Settlement thing is getting on my nerves. I just don't have the resources or patience to manage all these settlements. I have so many that need built up now, I'm not even sure where to begin. They just interfere with my actual adventuring and I never have enough wood.

3) The whole buy/sell thing. I'm sorry, but I am tired of trekking all over the map selling stuff to build up caps to be able to buy shipments. Actually coming up with items to sell isn't the issue, there's always water & drugs & melons & gourds, but nobody every has enough caps to sell everything to. Next runthrough I'll get the strong back and fast travel while overburdened thing.

4) Constant scrapping. ENOUGH ALREADY! I am so tired of this. Since you can never get enough in shipments you constantly have to scrap. I have to much friggin' steel now I don't know what to do with all of it, but wood? Of course not. There's never enough of that (and it's supposed to be common).

I think I just need to start a playthrough with minimum settlement stuff just to get through the whole game and move on to something else.

Sheesh.

Try it. You'll immediately have a Martin Luther King moment on the mountaintop- "Free at last! Free at last! Praise the lord, free at last!"

You're welcome.

Agreed. At level 58, I've kind of stopped collecting things (except caps!) and barely do anything with my settlements except drop stuff off. At this point, it's just fluff. I suppose I'll need to build up the 7 or so I have sitting there though. On the plus side, 5 of them have nobody in them at all, 1 has only 1 and, of course there's the obligatory Finch family, but, they were fine before I got there so I'm not really worried about them.

Well, it's good. After 300 hours still, but annoying bugs...

I finished with Minuteman.

The institute destroyed, but the Railroad still want to destroy the BOS.

Saved synths referring to Z1 (he almost killed).

Vertibirds flying thru everything (buildings, power lines) massive fps drop.

Old engine ==> bad optimisation.

It's still ok, but it feels no one tested the gameplay, just scripted and released.

The 4 way conversations choices makes me cry (Yes, No, Maybe, sarcasm) Full dialogs pls.

Locked keys also.

Build mode is a joke. Is there no keyboard and mouse at Bethesda?

The story is ok, but it's just a "full" copy from a 1940 novel.

Almost missed. Referring to the "Entering Vault 111" abomb detonation sequence Diamond City and the rest of Boston...well Glowing sea?

Peace

Ps: I want my own vertibird parked at my house. On a landing pad.

And please fix the raining outside raining inside bug. Everything wet in my house during rain.

Sure, you could start a new game with minimum settlement stuff and it would be fun, but there are ways to "salvage" your existing game.

Don't worry about *all* of your settlements. Pick one or two on which to focus and just do stuff for them until you have the the way you want them. If you want to slowly add settlements as you "complete" them, that's fine, but it's not necessary. So what if the others get attacked or need help in some way. Let them fend for themselves, and if stuff gets destroyed there, it will slowly repair itself anyway.

I think too many people believe that just because they've discovered a settlement, then they are eternally responsible for it. That's only true if you think that way in your own mind. I just focus on the settlements I like at the moment and ignoring the others has done no damage whatsoever to my game. Preston' and radio quests will eventually fail on their own too, but there are no negative consequences for allowing them to run out of time and fail.

Concerning scrapping...why are you scrapping *everything*? I just throw all my junk in the workbench after I get back from a mission and it scraps automatically whenever I build something from the workbench. My first character also has all of the supply lines linked together so I can use the same stuff from anywhere. For armor and weapons, I use their respective workbenches to break things down which is only a bunch of easy button presses. Still not nearly as bad as tossing everything on the floor and then scrapping it. Plus it's mostly already done by the time I get back "home" because there's usually workbenches in the various places I go for quests and I can carry more if I just break things down as I go along. (Strong back is a great perk sequence in any case, particularly after you can fast travel while encumbered!)

Good advice.

By "scrapping everything", I don't mean junk, I mean weapons and armor and clothing, helmets, goggles, etc...

I'm going to keep the strong back perk in mind for future, but I just want to get finished with the playthrough and move on to some other games.

I'm burning out on F4.

While I may break down armor and weapons because it's pretty easy at their workbenches, I don't bother to scrap helmets and goggles and such unless I feel like it and/or need them for something. I usually just sell them to Trashcan Carla or some other trader. At level 58, you probably don't need to bother messing with these either since you already have a workbench loaded with junk or you have enough caps to just buy a shipment if you need it.

Edit: Getting really caught up in a Skyrim game has kept me from playing Fallout 4 too much and getting burned out.

It's a good game, but I'm disappointed by the side quests.

It's a little bittersweet for me. It's a fantastic game to be sure, but highly disappointed by the things that have been removed, and things they should have put in it.

Still, there's mods, patches and DLC's to come. And I'm impressed by how stable it is, considering.

It's probably a crow (well, definitely not a raven), but I don't know what kind

I'm on my second run as the female protagonist with high Charisma. I took a very different approach to the factions, where I went to first, when I start quests and I am having much more fun this time around. I like Courtney Taylor voice acting so much more and probably will never do another male character in the future.

I hope BGS release the CK next month. Imagine what this game will be like a year from now...

For this being my first fallout game I've played (actually it my first Bethesda game ever) I'm digging it, its a very addicting game. There is so much to do its a bit overwhelming but in a good way, because I was looking for a game that would take a long time to beat and this one appears to be the game I was searching for.

looks to me like a common european seed crow* with a higher education in practical cubism

(* which are becoming a pretty rare sight since they're slowly but steadily superseded by their bigger russian relatives, due to temperature average increase)

on a side note, i say they, the cats and dogmeat are synths.

why else should they be the only non-vault creatures with apparently intact dna

I loves it

I understand your thought here. And respect it. To me though, being that fallout franchise is a RPG first and foremost, it failed this time, in this regard. Something we the players can most assuredly fix. But in terms of rating I have to look at what Bethesda put out. Things like immortal NPC's with poor AI packages, hurts in more then just the RP element but. It does in fact kill the RP element. Things such as no ability to just be vile and go against factions such as the Minutemen. And are forced to go with them Kill RP aspects. For me. And i assure you I am not alone with these thoughts. So for me, and a good chunk of like minded other players, fallout 4 does not deserve a 10 for a score.

Now, if it where a different franchise. Meaning not named Fallout. If it where. "Vault 111" and marketed as a Action game. it would most definitely get a 10/10 or 100/100 from me, as it is a excellent game. Fallout 4 Does a lot more good then it does bad. Just when it's core is not there. It shows.

I would go one up though, if this where a Action FPS, I would say it would revive more accolades then that of GTA V, it was that well done to me.

Anyways, I do not want to make another post of all my negatives of Fo4, so I am going to stop here.

My Personal verdict is 8.9 out of 10

Oh the irony.

Just in case nobody knows what I mean, someone saying about how nostalgia makes a person blind, but then says in the same sentence that he needed a visual improvement for the game to be playable.

If this is the contexts of this sentence, are you saying that graphics are more important than game play? I don't know how old you are, I don't know when you started playing Morrowind, but me on my original Xbox playing Morrowind had no problem with the graphics. So unless you have started Morrowind after the fact and are use to current graphics your sentence would make sense. If you started Morrowind when it came out and couldn't play it because of graphics, I don't know what you mean since Morrowind at it's time had the best graphics ever.

Just curious what you mean by that. Also you prefer graphics over game play? If that is what you mean, I rather have Skyrim's and Fallout 4's adequate graphics and great game play over awesome graphics and poor game play.

Sometimes I love it.

Sometimes, I want to find Todd Howard so I can kick him in the nuts and scream "YOU LYING SACK OF [censored]"

Agreed.

But Morrowind with MGE XE and lots of eye candy and other improvements is amazing to revisit though.

why? they dont need, Fallout is just a name tide to a background for a story. That is all, Fallout dont mean RPG. Tactics is a excellent game and a excellent Fallout game and isnt a RPG game.

When Bethesda buy the IP of Fallout they can make whatever they want with it, lol they could go and make it a card game and be done with it.

Fallout 4 like it or no is a Action/RPG game, something that Bethesda show that was aiming to it when they make Fallout 3.

Biggest mistake Bethesda made probabbly was allow Obsidian to make FNV, no bc i didnt like, if not bc of a marketing comparison. But looking at the number of ppl playing each day on Steam and the number of sells the game didnt suffer much from it.

=P like ppl that complain about the direction of the game, is similar to the complain Skyrim got, and that game is 2 year old, so that mean ppl buy the game anyway.

Actually i think Side quest are good, there are some that are the best i saw, like the Covenant , the shrub.