Look, if the game had replayability inherently, a DLC for a big side quest would be welcomed. With the game being what it is, lacking side-quests in a major way, and lacking choice in a major way, it needs online play to have some replay value, hands down.

Online play. This game has nothing to do when it ends and online gameplay would greatly extend what is possible to get out of your experience with the game.

Fallout 4 misses the mark, by the tiniest bit. Don't get me wrong, the game provides a lot of fun gameplay for your money. It's just that with a few tweaks, it could have been a much more massive game. Perhaps Skyrim left people expecting a world with more quests, or perhaps Fallout New Vegas left people expecting a world with more choices, but I think by the nature of the game, it lacks depth in the settlements and radiant quests - which would have been perfect for online play.

Hear me out. Let's just look at settlements. So half the areas on the map are settlements. Unfortunately, these are just off the mark as well. So you're supposed to design your own towns. Here's some questions:

Now answer these questions, and then Imagine radiant quests, where you and up to 3 others have to defend a town from 50 waves of synths. Imagine a radiant quest where you invade someone else's world and you really destroy their settlements, and can have the same happen to you? Would you be willing to defend your town then?

There's limitless potential here with the introduction of settlements, and it all just falls so slightly short, that a DLC or a fantastic modding team could fix.

Thoughts, opinions, ideas?

You have just described my worst nightmare, multi-player Fallout.

With the direction the game is heading, it seems likely. I'd like a multiplayer Fallout, just not a cash grab MMO Fallout.

The last thing we need are more multiplayer games, where multiplayer is thrown in when the franchise never had multiplayer functionality from the beginning. :/ Hell, Witcher 3 got GOTY and it didn't have multiplayer. But then you have games like Halo 5, where everyone talks about multiplayer being the main reason to even bother playing it. Sometimes I feel like there are games out there where multiplayer is put in and the single player experience suffers as a result (gameplay in Halo 5 apparently is great...but the single player Campaign plot is much to be desired).

On-line play is so open to cheating, at least we can do it in our own privacy... in our own home

Fallout 4 made more money than the movie and music industry combined. GOY is a given.

No, please no... there are tons of MMOs and COOP games around, some games just need to stay in Single Player mode! I don't want to run around Boston with 10,000 other players... streets would be too crowded. Plus, the whole game dynamic and engine is going to change. It breaks immersion. Fallout is a game that I want to totally be part of, a world where I don't have to worry about stuff being nerfed or items I have to buy via credits to be a good player. Fallout is one world that I want to have just for myself and my character and where my actions affect the outcome and the outcome will stay and be visible and people comment on it. Sure, it's been done in MMOs, but when you join a new one, and you see 50 new player sit around a boss and waiting for it to re-spawn to complete quest... yea no.

I don't want to read the ridiculous lvl 1-20 chat, which consists mostly of cursing kiddies... I don't want to look for a group in order to enter xyz dungeon/ruin.

No, leave the Fallout world alone!

The Witcher 3 not beeing released in 2015.

I feel like you aren't reading my post. I'm not suggesting an MMO.

Fallout 4 would win GOTY if they delayed release until 2016.

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I know. And I'm still against it. I'd rather have an MMO than a multiplayer/coop mode in what should remain a single player game.

Have you played through the whole game yet?

Yep. And adding multiplayer wouldn't have made Fallout 4 any closer to my game of the year. It's missing far too many other things and adding more people shooting at things would have put even more focus on combat than the game already has.

Fallout 4 is GOTY in my opinion.

And multiplayer? Ew. No.

This.

With the focus on combat, settlements and radiant, it would add replayability to the game. Why would you have anything against having some more gameplay added to a game you've already exhausted?

As evidenced by the forums, plenty of people seem fed up with having to defend settlements at all, as well as engaging in (MM) radiant quests. I don't think adding coop would make it any more appealing to most folks. It just would make them absolutely have to find other players to team up with to even succeed.

People aren't fed up with it, they're upset that they can't be bothered to defend them. This would make people bothered to.

Because being a combat den is exactly what made me finish with Fallout 4 so quickly. If you want to shoot things, the game's got you covered. Want long conversations, peaceful resolutions to quests, and quests that aren't essentially Mad Libs level of "Go to X and kill the Ys"? Not so much.

FO4 would have probably won GOTY if they would have developed it and tested it for a couple more months before releasing it...the game kinda felt like it was rushed, and somewhat incomplete in a few areas...

and I would say no to any sort of online multiplayer for fallout...

I had some stuff queued to quote, but the list just kept growing, so I'll just say put me on the side of wanting single player only. I cherish games like Fallout and Skyrim exactly because they are NOT multi-player. I'm a 44 year-old man with a job, wife, kids - a life. Except for a short honeymoon period after the game is released, I can't afford to dedicate hours per day playing a game. It's awesome that I get the whole world to myself to play at my own pace and not have to compete with kids who have nothing else to do but play (or Koreans running the game as their job to sell characters.)

The people who say no without giving explanations are the same people who would try multiplayer and probably enjoy it. Online is the new fad in games, and Fallout could benefit from it, whether you like it or not, you'd end up playing it and enjoying it.

This.

And probably a better handling of the Dialogue wheel.

I agree! Multiplayer games are what I do on the weekends, but there's no time for that after work, so Fallout 4 is perfect for that.

I guess it could be kool to have Multiplayer coop or deathmatches in certain parts of the map, but completely original maps of non-settlement areas. I don't want to wait 15 minutes to load someone else's Taj Mahal just to shoot someone else in the face.

But might be fun to bring my character with my weapons to the fight!

How many Strong's and Curie's and Dogmeat's would be set loose! LOL