I'm 25, I like it in spite of my strong dislike of a few of it's parts.

36 and having a blast.

I have my complaints but overall I think it is a great game. I am not going to debate whether it is a Fallout game or not as you ask ten people on these boards what makes a Fallout game and you get a dozen answers. What I will say is that it is a stellar example of open world, sandboxing governed by a thin veneer of multiple plots so that you feel like you have a purpose. In short, this is exactly the kind of game that I love to play. There are things that could be better about it. Some of them are "game fiction" related but the biggest one is UI related.

EDIT: 43 pushing 44 real close (to answer Summer's question).

I would have liked this poll to be further broken down to include 13-17 and to have the over 31 section to be broken down into 30-40, 40-50 and 60 and over. I find it interesting that most who have voted are over 31. And I'd like to know how many are in my crowd of over 60.

26 - Love the game. While waiting for the release I played through 1, 2, Tactics, 3 GotY and NV Ultimate Edition. I can see some peoples complaints (the skill system being replaced) but I like the new system, seems to put more emphasis on character progression via levels so that I am not maxed in the 3-4 skills I want to use in a playthrough by level 10 and spend the rest of the game just dumping points wherever and waiting for that next perk.

Wow, I just cannot get over how lopsided the poll is. No more making fun of us old folks!

Why people bash this game is beyond me. I haven't played anything else since I got it besides gta with a friend for about an hour. But I've put over 35 hours into it since release and I have yet to find one thing I dislike. This game is absolutely amazing. I'll start playing it after I get off work and look at the clock and its time to go to bed like wtf! No other game has me this involved.

23 yrs old btw.

26 yrs old. Level 18 and just having fun doing Minutemen quests, building settlements. 20 hours, 6 settlements and having a lot of fun. Stopped playing GTA5 online and WOW now.

There is no 'meh' option.. I am going to finish playing the game, but at this moment I highly doubt it will consume any of my time after that. I will list my reasons.

!. armor, legendary drops of armor, guns ect. It feels way to much like a crappy MMO. Leg and Arm armor with +perception on it? How the heck does this bracer make me see better? Arbitrary stats on gear that makes no sense. Feels more like an MMO then Fallout.

2. Most the scripted combat areas, which so far is almost all of them. Ghouls climbing through windows, the molerats, OMG the molerats! It removes any covert tactical play at all. You walk into a room you can see the window shape and everything and think, Yep a ghoul is going to climb through that window as soon as I trigger this door on the other side and.... yep. It feels a bit like Doom 3 where you could just point out all the redundantly stupid places a demon woudl spawn as soon as you walked past it, so you would walk backward and shoot it in the face as you literally watched it spawn. This also removes a huge portion of tactical play of scouting out areas, because some of the crap doesn't spwan till your in it, This has a very console gammy campy feel to it.

3. Difficulty settings. They are generic as crap. Survivor setting just ramps up enemy damage till bloatflies fill you in two hits. No hardcoe setting like New Vegas with eat, drink, sleep, bullet weight. Its almost a copy paste of some horrible FPS games like Destriny and even some decent ones like Borderlands were the difficulty just makes you do less damage, gives enemies more health, and makes enemies do more damage. Kind of expected a bit more from the difficulty slider.

4. That E3 gameplay we all seen, and played at the Museum. Okay seriously tell me. Why the heck is a deathclaw even going to turn up in the middle of a firefight just to fight me? What is it starving so much its going to ignore all the potential hazards just to show up and attack me cause it thinks i'm some kind of super threat to its lair, rather then murder all the poorly armored and virtually helpess raiders and eat them cause they are food? Again this is some pretty campy scripted combat, not aimed at immersing you in the Fallout feeling, but as a poorly written joy ride of combat.

5. The Combat itself just doesn't feel like Fallout to me. The melee feels a bit like Dead Island, which isn't a bad thing, that was an insanely fun game, well the first one was, side stepping a charging zombie and decapitating it with one well aimed swing was super thrilling everytime. Can you do that here in Fallout 4? yeah, sure, as long as its a weak generic one, but not anything tougher then that because of the way they arbitrarly assign massive amounts to hit points to 'mini bosses' like glowing ghouls whom you can litteraly hack off both their arms and they aren't even phased in the slightest, other then that they don't have no arms they still bite you, a lot.

- The combat icon on the HUD, in previous games it showed up as a red dot when you could clearly identify they were an enemy and you could actually see them. In this game. Nope.. Nothing shows up on your Hud until your actually in combat with it, my character must be completely blind, the issues with this, is that is majorly detracts from your experience of being aware of your surroundings. In 3, and New Vegas this is how you the player compensated for not having panaromic vision like you would in the real world, tracking and trying to keep an eye on multiple enemies at once. With this you can just walk right up to them and no radar blip until they started shooting at you.

The molerats.. The @#$@#%@# molerats.. These things don't just burrow and ambush, They @#$@#@ teleport! They burrow and ambush from different floors! The only limit to their area is if there is any exposed dirt, it feels like i'm fighting that character from the Bleach series who teleports in and out of your shadow, or they are obsessed with trying to climb up my butt thinking its another burrow. More arbitraty game mechanics aimed at twitch play, rather then the immersion of Fallout.

6. The lack of weapons. Hear me out here. There is a lot of mods for the weapons, but there is like 2 or 3 weapons per ammo types, thats it. You like to play with a handgun? Want options? Good luck, its either this 10mm, or its a pipe revolver. You can turn a laser rifle into a laser pistol if you want, but its still the same basic weapon core your just changing the handle on it. Which means everyone is just going to configure it to the maximum stats and thats that. Fallout was set in the 1950's mindset of the future, so it included a lot of 1950's era weapons, some with a futuristic twist on them. What happened to all the weapons we loved in Fallout? Where is the Assault Rifles, the AK's the M16's, the generic military sniper rifle (not the bolt action, or pipe version, but the semi automatic ones) Where is the SMG's, or the Gauss Rifle? Most of these are lore weapons used by the Unite States Army during the war, but they are all magically disappeared from the Boston area?

Sure you can turn your pipe rifle into an automatic weapon, swap the barrel and grip and make it an SMG, but it still isn't the 10mm SMG, You can make the 10mm pistol an automatic weapon, but even then its still NOT the 10mm SMG, Then its just an automatic pistol with a extended magazine that goes pprrrrrrppp, and your empty, cause it doesn't have the ammo capacity to make automatic viable.

If you wanted an M16 or AK47, you got to settle with a combat rifle, thats it. that's your options, why is this our only option? Wasn't their a huge war with China, we kind of got use to their being Ak47's around here..

7. The male actors voice. Sure it was a big thing to finally voice the actor, but was it really a good idea? He sounds like a pansy half the time, like he just got a degree in pyschologically and wants to comfort everyone with cupcakes. zero assertiveness in his tone, like ever, and this is suppose to be someone on a mission, whos been shot and chased since he/she left the vault and yet they still seem to want to make everyone get along and hug it out...

There was one quest where I talked the guy into doing the non combat option just for the xp reward, and what did I do afterwards? I SHOT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AS HE WALKED AWAY! But my voiced character? He was quite a gullible sissy while 'negotiating' with the npcs who was a total dbag, and you knew he was a dirt bag but your character still talks to him like your talking to a neighbor you run into at the grocery store. I'm just not feeling like hes in the right mind set for surviving the nuclear wasteland, thank god his primal instincts (me the player) are prepared to survive the wasteland... This is what the Incredible Hulk must feel like when hes trapped in Bruce Banner's body, watching and listening to him be a complete sissy until he gets to take over and fix it, with violence cause that's the only option the weaker persona has left them.

8. Power Armor, I'm a huge lore fan here if you can't tell. I been playing Fallout since Fallout 1 came out, Yeah i'm an older gamer. Can someone please explain to me how a fusion cell, fully charged lasts for about a day? Correct me if i'm wrong, and I know i'm not here.. But the Brotherhood of Steel has marched power armor clear across the damn United States, and go on long extended patrols, as well as travel for months to setup outposts near large cities. They would have had to transport a Crates and Crates of Fusion Cells to travel from California to DC. one cell a day, per power armor, 365 cells for the year, there was an entire group that went so lets say 20 or 30 power armors, which it was realisticlly way more. thats like 7,500 Fusion Cells and thats low balling it, not including all the cells they would need to continue functioning after they setup a base. So what the heck is the deal with these fusion cells? Its another arbitrary game mechanic is what it is. So you don't go plowing around through every quest in power armor like a walking tank. Okay I can get that, but still their duration is just garbage, where you need 2 cells per quest just to get in and out, and fast travel back home running on nearly empty...

Screw it, I just hack every robot I can find and then crouch behind it and push it forward into the overly obvious scripted combat area,, guess what? Its actually way more effective and cheap then running around in power armor all day.

9. Companions. Especially that damn dog. Stupid dog, Bad Dog! Sneaking? Not on this dogs watch! It's gonna break sneaking and run over their and attack that ghoul Thats what its gonna do! Trying to sneak up on stuff and take it out quietly with a machete? lol good luck with a companion... Just leaving them at home and taknig the Wanderer Perk... Nothing but a headache, they weren't exactly amazing in Fallout 3 or New Vegas either, but they weren't this stupid... Every time I come home my dog gets all excited runs into my house and spams with me how hes found something. Yes I know! The chest is full of guns you stupid dog, I put them there!

While I am playing the game, and its okay at best. It just doesn't feel like Fallout to me. It feels like Bethesda is trying to make it more like any other Generic FPS game out there, only thing thats really missing is a generic and quirky often buggy Cover System, then you might as well be playing Mass Effect, Gears of War, Borderlands or something. Bethesda is losing sight of what Fallout is, and it isn't a generic FPS game.

I wont be preordering their next release, that's for sure. I will wait to see actual reviews before I choose if I will buy it or not, that's what Fallout 4 has done for me. Makes me hope the guys who made New Vegas get to make a more Fallout game on F4's Engine..

Force me to choose between a binary I like it/I don't like it and I have to fall in the I like it camp. But that's not a clear representation of my feelings on the matter. As a game in isolation it's good, there's no doubt about that. But it's more of an action/adventure game than a roleplaying game now and frankly there are loads of companies that make good action/adventure games (with arguably better plots and overall polish) and very few (or indeed only one) that make proper open ended role playing games. So I like it but I'm disappointed with it all the same and I doubt if future Bethesda games will be automatic purchases for me after Fallout 4. We'll have to see what they do with the next TES game but if they're going to be no different from the crowd then there are probably better games of that type out there.

I'm 31 and I like it.

26 and I like he game so far. It's so far so good not many noticeable issues yet just one crash. I am very satisfied with the game it's ripe for role playing and that is why I play Beth games.

I like the game but I gotta point out its flaws... Its unfinished and they expect modders to finish it for em.

I had to think for a moment about whether or not I'd turned 31 yet.

But yeah, I like it a lot. Can't wait to mod it.

Loved Fallout 1 & 2.

Didn't like Fallout 3 and NV.

I like the game so far. It wasn't what I expected really, I had expected a lot more RP elements and I would have prefered a better dialogue system.

I don't mind the voice acting for the PC as many others do.

33...I like it, hell I love it. I've been playing Bethesda games since the first TES and I've been playing fallout since the first one so I'm a long time fan. Sure there's nit picky stuff I don't like but I'm just happy to have a new fallout game.

Once again I apologize for not including older ages. I didn′t expect it. My bad and shame on me. I won′t change the poll. It would compromise it. But thank you all for voting and posting so far !

Interesting that like 10% of the participants of this poll don't like the game, but the forum is full of hate threads and rants...seems the butthurt people are the ones, who yell the loudest^^

I almost spit my coffee at my computer screen, you win the Internets for the day!

I'd be lying if I said I did not ''like'' the game. I am having fun but there are glaring issues. a lot of missed opportunities and lack of roleplaying options. It has more issues then that but these are the most important to me.

The thing that is making me coming back to fallout 4 is basically my need to explore, build my settlement and seeing what the faction quests have too offer.

I'm 57 today and love the game. I'm glad to see the majority of the votes were from "older" folks and that would make sense with the rating. I'm confused by what you posted above and was wondering if you could explain? You "somehow like it as a game". What does this mean, I mean, it is a game, why else would you like it or not? You also said, "...but I am not looking at is as Fallout". Please explain how else you'd look at Fallout, a game, if you aren't looking at it "as a game"?

Cheers

Well happy Birthday.

I imagine the game can be fun but at the same time not follow the genre that you were expecting. Like the move from FO2 to FO3 for example. If you have it in your mind that FO2 is a Fallout game, then FO3 might be a fun game ... but not really a Fallout game in your mind. I had the same issue when TES3 went to TES4, it felt like it changed to a pure action RPG and just wasn't a TES game anymore.

i'm 25, love Fallourt 3 & New vegas & i love Fallout 4. my game of the year for sure.

40 year old female here and so far I'm loving the game.