I started playing last night at 8pm after putting my 3 year old daughter to bed. I poked around Sanctuary, went to concord, got my power armor and went back to Sanct. and started building it up. A few side missions too. A short time in to my playing my wife came in the office and asked me if I could make a bottle for our infant son. I said sure, I needed to grab a beer anyway. I went to the kitchen and started making the bottle, I glanced at the clock. It was 2:45AM.

Fifteen to Three in the morning. It felt like it might be 10:30pm.

This game causes serious time dilation, Needless to say I'm tired as [censored] at work this morning lol.

And that is why I love Fallout, of all the other games I have played, nothing has ever grabbed and pulled me in like the Fallout series and this iteration has been no different. I'm loving every second of it.

Yep it's a time sink, a similar (missing time) scenario happened to me. Started playing just after midnight & boom its 11am already!

i agree

i love the new modern fallouts more than i love tes. and ive played all tes games from the very start.

Love it, man.

I have 3 boys, all of which get time on my computer before I do, so I don't normally get to sit my ass down to play until 10pm or so. Before I know it, it's 2:30am and I have to be up at 6:30am to get them ready for school.

Only played for 4 hrs, and this is my review so far...

FO4 has seriously dumbed down the FO franchise - to the point where it feels a little pointless. I have to see a lot more to be sure, but there are gaping holes left out that make the whole thing feel like just another shooter when the FO franchise was never about just being a shooter.

When Todd Howard (lead designer of FO4) stated earlier in the year that they wanted to make FO4 'more accessible to people', I had a slippery slinky feeling that we weren't going to see a great deal of ambition in the new game. If we sat in one of the dev meetings at Bethesda when they were discussing how to present the first half hour of the game - it would have gone a little like this:

Dev Bloke 1 "Right the boss says we’ve got to make it 'more accessible'. What are we going to do?

Dev Bloke 2 "Give them all the guns and amour and everything in the first 15 mins so they don't get bored and go and play GTA or Halo 16".

Dev Bloke 3 "Agreed. Let’s just give them everything, so ‘survival’ won’t be too hard in a 'survival' game. Oh and take most of the complicated RPG management out of it cos that involves too much thought, and just let them shoot everything. That way we can have pretty graphics and explosions really early on and that’ll stop them running away and playing Call Of Duty!"

Dev Bloke 1 "Right that's settled then. We also need to stop them running away and playing Minecraft, so let’s allow them to build pointless things too!"

Dev Bloke 2 "Don't forget we need to stop them running away and playing Fifa 16 as well…”

I just know I’m going to come across a football game built in to this soon.

Well, i also have 3 boys....and I have to say, being able to create my wife, as well as myself with a son...this dynamic really struck home to me. The beginning with the bombs falling and what happens after that really killed me. Absolutely horrifying.....they nailed the atmosphere and left me longing to continue the story full tilt.

Yeah, it has a particular flavor for Moms and Dads who play it. Killing anything maliciously standing between you and your child is pretty much the natural and favored approach...well, it is for me at least. Revenge comes to mind as well.

I remember I spent almost 20h playing F3 when it launched, puked after stopped playing it. Any really good game with seriously immersion does that to you.

Civilization is another game that can make hours pass and make you think it were minutes, I really felt like a junkie-addict-low-life when I used to play that and taking Ritalin.

This is me to the T.

#Falloutislife

Love the game so far. I had to work till 10 last night so only got to escape from the vault, and just played for another two hours. So far I don't like that they removed weapon degradation, but that's all I've noticed. I don't understand the complaints about the graphics. To me they look better than FO3 and Skyrim. Watching vids on youtube doesn't do it justice. The story is intriguing, and yes, being a husband/father the beginning grabbed me. I like the new stuff like being able to upgrade your weapons and building. So far, so good.

On a side note, anyone else almost shoot the dog by accident because you thought it was coming to attack you?