Why FO4 is GOTY and arguably the best game of the 2010’s.

- Map looks and feel like it was hit with a bomb adding to immersion

- 200+ hours of content

- Non-linear, doesn’t hold your hand as much as other games

- Parts of the game you feel you really shouldn’t be there, consequences of alarming hostile NPC’s

- Player can do pretty much anything he wants his way

- Graphics look spectacular unless you have bad eyesight

- Music is sublime

- Actually HARD on harder difficulties – do NOT play on Normal

Actually some of the worst parts of the game are still better than other triple A titles best moments on my Xbox One. The other game which comes close is Far Cry 4 but it was too linear and story was terrible, with crazy mechanics such as throwing meat instantly spawning big animal NPC's out of nowhere. Actually, this is the first game I've played on my console which made me feel like "holy crap, this is next-gen!".

If you could play online co-op with this, I think it would be the best game of all time.

Online coop would be the ultimate!

I'm actually leaning toward best game evah.

i agree its my favorite game of the decade

Possibly the best game of this decade? You do realise there's another five years to go don't you?

Love fallout 4, but the game of the year is the witcher 3.

Not even close. In fact it's garbage in so many ways it's not funny, considering a 6-7 year development cycle.

Between this and Bloodborne

Heh. Even gaming journalists aren't buying that nonsense. In this year alone of big name cRPG releases you've got The Witcher III which stomps all over Fallout 4 in terms of quality.

Sorry but Far Cry 3 and 4 along with GTA V have it beat for the simple reason is that they bring a more complete, bug free experience from the start without relying on modders to finish the job for them. Great game but they make a lot of money while modders put in a ton of work without getting much money from it, more of a labor of love for them. Also the Witcher 3...

Just Cause 3 is around the corner... as far as sandbox games with large worlds I'm sure that's gonna be fun...

well.... for me it is not even close to being the best game of the year. witcher 3 is better on allmost all parameters you listed. MGS5 is for allso a better game.

But i still like the game, it′s good... just not that good

I still think that FO3 was a better game, than FO4.

It's not even game of the year, much less the decade. Skyrim is better in every regard, so if it's a bethesda title at all, that's the one.

I like Fallout 4 a whole lot, but GOTY\GOTD it is not. It's a good exercise that will fund the next installment which we all hope Bethesda will take our feedback and work on making it so much better next time around. You can't just hand a title to a game that has the level of issues this one does, because that lowers the bar and before you know it, everyone will just recycle their limited last-gen engines instead of creating one to take advantage of new hardware and we'll all have spent money on next-gen consoles for nothing.

That doesn't even take into account the copy pasta from BioWare. You can't take another company's dialogue style, make it worse in every way, and then be handed GOTY.

I could only play W3 for about 20mins. Bored to tears with Geralt. Also W3 made 6 million in 6 weeks while F4 made 750 million in one day.

do u realise Witcher 3 is a really bad game, when u take out the quest writing??? right, actually main quest is horrible, side quest are good.

What is peoples obsession with the witcher 3? Yes I played it and literally went to every point on the map and beat the main story and all side quests.

The ONLY thing better about witcher 3 was the graphics. Otherwise fallout 4 blows it out of the water.

I have it right now neck-and-neck with GTA V. It'll be a couple of years to see where this title goes and where GTA ends up to make that call.

I will say right now, it has pulled me away from GTA V....then again, that's also a title that is two years old.


EDIT: Also I have not played MGS5 yet, and I'm an avid Metal Gear fan since the third title on the original Playstation (and went back and played the original 2 from the Nintendo years). Actually the first main series Metal Gear since MGS that I haven't gotten on release day. I'll probably pick it up in the spring, maybe sooner if I hear that MGSO is getting better reviews than it's predecessor.

You mean 6M sold unit vs 12M sold but if that is your basics for a comparrison. then CoD/GTA and Fifa are the contenders for GOTY. The storry and characters in Witcher 3 and miles better than anything FO4 has to offer in′my mind.

i respectfully dissagree with you

anyone speaking about creating a new game engine have 0 clue what that mean.

Love FO4. Tried Witcher 2, couldn't stomach the weird combat mechanic. Does Witcher 3 use the same mechanic? If so, forget it.

The true open world, do what-ever you want games are the only ones I am really interested in, anymore. Oblivion was my first taste. Since then, I have never looked back. Oblivion, FO3, FONV, Skyrim, FO4 are the only games that I want to play over and over and over and over....

GTA is not a 2015 game, technically. It's from 2013, remade in 2014 for next-gen consoles. I know the PC version came out in 2015, but it's essentially the same game from 2014 that was ported over, wasn't like it was really overhauled again.

hahahaha in other words...if you don′t agree then don′t post. thumbs up for creating a post which can′t be debated. Then what is the point of it?

is cool, and i respect it, but for me Witcher 3 just sell me something that was real. Big maps with alot of nothing on it. (love huge forest with just trees) horrible combat. A unbalance Item system that allow me to become God like at low levels. Op horse combat where i was god since i 1 shoot everyone from my horse. Ai on enemies was not that great, Monster getting stuck, Wolf are the better doing this.

Actually I have no problem putting GTA5 next gen in there. GTA5 is still a great game.

FO4 hasn't come close to the magic Skyrim had to me yet. In fact the more I play the more I like Skyrim.

I see it kinda like GTA. The Witcher 3 is like GTA SA. It's a good game but massively overhype and will lead to big disappointment with Witcher 4 because it won't live up to unrealistic hype.

Fallout 4 is like GTA 4. It's just as good if not better then the previous game but it had unrealistic hype to live up to so it gets a ton of heat.