The forum is starting to depress me - I thought it was time for a positive post.

I concede there are flaws, and bugs, and glitches. And there are things I hate about it.

But the fact is you can't please everyone because we all want different things.

We may not like everything they've done but it's still a great game so I say hats off to Bethesda for trying something new.

Agreed. It seems half the posts I see are along the lines of "Beth didn't put in exactly what I like, and how and when I like it, game suxors". Overall, whilst I wouldn't say some things couldn't be improved to my personal liking, I'm enjoying it a lot (and can see the rationale behind some of the "missing things", like item deg.

Thank you Beth. Thank you for stealing my sleeping hours. I have often wondered what I would do with sleep deprivation.

I'm enjoying it, the only thing that is bugging me a little is the settlement system seems not to be working very well as I'm having only very small numbers of settlers joining settlements and in one case (Red Rocket) it seems to be counting my two settlers as four settlers........still I just found my self spending two hours building a vertical settlement in an alley, which was surprisingly enjoyable. So yeah, very good game for me despite the loss of the item degradation (which I miss a little), the rolling into the perks of the skills (which I actually don't mind that much) and the loss of the kamra system (which made no sense in F3 & NV).

Actually, I love Fallout 4. I see it largely improving upon Fallout 3 in almost every aspect. I think BGS did a phenomenal job overhauling the shooting mechanics, revamping crafting, implementing settlements, redesigning power armor, and especially building the world. Never has a BGS game been so dense with places to explore in the environment. It truly is so immersive to really believe you are exploring an actual city when you can enter most of the buildings (and they have verticality) rather than Fallout 3 where you could only enter a couple buildings in DC. I even like the voiced protagonist, even if the voice acting is inconsistent at times and not as smooth as a BioWare title. Regardless, BGS did a lot right, in this game.

I also think BGS largely did what they set out to accomplish, and that is improve on the main story. Never have I played so much of the main story in any BGS game so soon after release. Generally they are never compelling and they are one of the last things I do, years after release. However, with Fallout 4, beating the main quest may be one of the first things I do. For whatever reason, it just seems more appealing to me than main stories were in previous BGS games. My only criticism is I have a game breaking bug preventing me from continuing the main quest, so I literally couldn't finish it even if I wanted. That's not stopping me from enjoying the rest of the game though. Either way, with BGS selling over 12 million units within a brief period and having the highest number of simultaneous Steam users playing Fallout 4 in Steam history (over 470,000), BGS has a lot to be proud of.

Without a doubt, I'm sure Fallout 4 is going to be BGS' most successful title to date as Skyrim was before it. Todd and team just knows how to make games people will enjoy and love. It's certainly not perfect, but I've been having a blast playing it the entire time. The only other game I'd argue that would give Fallout 4 a run for its money this year would be The Witcher 3. Otherwise, I think Fallout 4, to no one's surprise, is in a league of its own.

I'm enjoying it so far. I've always been quick to point out flaws, but overall it kicks 3's ass in a lot of ways, and I liked 3.

Forums are always skewed a bit - especially immediately following a release. Those who are enjoying the game are playing it, and negative emotions tend to be more motivating in these cases than positive ones (people are more likely to feel the need to post their feelings if it's negative versus positive.)

Honestly, thus far this is my favorite Fallout game since 1997. But... Bethesda made a lot of controversial changes that those of us who've been around here for some time could tell from the get-go not everyone was necessarily going to be on board with. At the end of the day, if I'm having fun with a game I'm not generally particularly worried if others don't agree with me about it. Glad to hear you're enjoying it though!

Agreed, except for CDPR's unfortunate skill at introducing game braking bugs with every patch.

Yey - I am not alone

I'm enjoying the game. It's Bethseda best game imo.

Well they could please a whole bunch of us by using the food water system in a higher difficulty or any difficulty other than normal. Why bother putting food in the game or water if there is no purpose to it? People worked hard making all those assets, would be nice to honor their hard work by making those things usable instead of just trash which is what its all sold as now since its useless like trash.

The food water system is used for the settlement building. And I use food/water almost exclusively for healing and crafting (yay vegetable starch), I love hoarding my stimpaks.

This is my favourite Bethesda game since Morrowind, and well Skyrim. I think its very polished for such a huge open world. Yes there are a few glitches and bugs, but nothing game breaking. I've had 1 crash in 70 hours. That would happen to any game at release, doesn't matter from what developer. My only gripe is the dialog, not knowing what i am going to say.

I'm in agreement. Knowing it was Bethesda, I figured it would be riddled with bugs. I ran into a couple quest-breaking ones but nothing major, at least.

Well for me this is my favorite one rigth now next to Oblivion, it's a great game, ahve some glitches wich is spected but the history, the main characters facila expresion, the new construction and mod system, also the more quick paste combat keep me all hyped about the game, for me its a 9 out of 10 (because of some bugs).

I love the game its stolen my life from me....well i say stole its not like i put up a fight or anything!!

Best thing for me so far is i started same day as my brother i have had a few more hours so there is about 2-3 levels between our guys but when we play and talk over the mic its like we are playing different games, even when we are doing the same damn missions its different as even the side quests seem to be affected by previous choices or the companion you have or a NPC you have spoke to in the past.

Great stuff from Bethesda, its fallout 4 but can be so many different games depending on your playstyle and choices and its all on one disk!!

I'm about 20 hours in and having a blast so far. Sure, there are some things I could critique or that don't fit how I like to play (but that was true for FO3/NV as well - yay for mods!) and a couple things I could even say I hate. Mostly involving the dialogue... I love the voiced protag, to my own surprise - Courtenay is just WOW - but the system itself is very limiting RP-wise. And I'm not a huge fan of the simplified leveling and lack of skills, but it is what it is and it's hardly a game breaker.

But there is so much that I love. The detailed world design, the companions (I only hate that I can only have one at a time!), the factions, the settlement building (which I had zero interest in before playing but it's actually really fun), all those notes and terminals to read which the lore nerd in me adores. I really like the main quest as well. Granted, my character's main motivation isn't all that interesting, but all the sub-quests involved have been really cool so far. Love the combat (even if the mechanics could use some tweaking), the weather system, the character creator, the cinematics, that there's SO MUCH to explore. I could go on.

So while the game has it's flaws (and bugs, I'm sure, though I've been lucky not to run into anything major so far) and many of the critiques out there are valid, I think Bethesda did an incredible job overall. It's unfortunate that the majority of 'reviewers' seem to be in the 'I played the game for an hour and that was enough for me to decide it was garbage' camp.

Yes, the food and water can be used to make really useful items that do everything from remove rads to increase xp.