First round of Fallout 4 Reviews

Obsidian missed out on their bonus because their ratings were too low right? And the reasons for why they got a lower Metacritic rating was because it was too similar to Fallout 3 and because it was very buggy and crashed a lot, right?

Now here's Fallout 4, which a lot of actual reviewers themselves are describing as Skyrim-with-guns and very similar to Fallout 3, and reviewers all over are saying how they experienced numerous bugs and glitches, with very powerful computers that can handle the game's specs crashing? And the game gets 9/10 scores?

All I can say is, I smell a rat.
 
D Borous said:
RangerBoo said:
D Borous said:
RangerBoo said:
Earth said:
GlowHound said:
you can pursue multiple romantic partnerships and the game totally allows it. You’re not locked into a single relationship, and can actually maintain more than one without getting judged or upsetting anybody.
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So basically, you can hook up with whoever you want whenever you want and the writing's so bad that nobody responds to this? There's no jealousy between people? No emotion of any kind? Polyamorous relationships are fine by me but if they work exactly the same as that emotionally void system used in Skyrim, what is the point?

Good to know you've totally changed Bethesda. GG, Game of the Year.
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10/10 GAME OF THE YEAR! THE MOST DEFINING GAME OF THE DECADE!
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You are obviously disposed against Fallout 4, but you can scour the web and find all the reviews that are more critical of it and thus align with your own views so you feel better about yourself and the review system. But at the end of the day, you may never be fully satsified until you get the game yourself, sit down with it, play it thoroughly and then say: this is what I liked, this is what I didn't like. So you should really seek to do that, before you jump to such conclusions.
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Umm... No. The thing I am railing against is the fact that, like Skyrim, the game is a bug fest. Many reviews have highlighted more negatives then positives but still give the game a perfect score. Doesn't that seem a little suspicious to you? To me a game that is borked on launch has no right to be contender for GOTY.
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Perhaps these reviewers are a little forgiving of some potentially grevious system faults, but on the other hand, I get the impression that you are magnifying the faults to an extent that you seem to want to ignore the strengths, ore dicredit them because you despise this game obviously.

Fallout 4 will not be the only game contending for GOTY, there are others too, with their own such faults. Metal Gear Solid V was great, but it was unfinished and suffered greatly under Konami's managing, but it can still be up for that title. Bloodbourne was great, but its loading screens were too long, a technical mishap similar to Fallout 4's bugs, maybe, considering how often one dies in that game, they had to have felt it right?

Perhaps the GOTY title is only reserved for completely flawless games which do everything right and have no faults, gameplay, story or technical wise. But that's a fantasy, and while you are always free to dislike whatever you choose, you can't assume that others have the same views as you.
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Again, no. I don't hate out of ignorance. For the longest time I have stated that Fallout 4 will be like Skyrim. A dumb but fun game with very, very watered downed RPG mechanics with tons of bugs on launch and right know it looks like my predictions were correct. Not only that but we have reviewers praising the game for its glitches. That is just wrong. "Hey people. Go and waste money on this broken product that may break your computer! Its worth every cent!"
 
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All reviewers should get fired! They obviously know nothing about games in general and RPG:s in particular. If you give Fo4 more than 6/10 you are an idiot and clearly show how little you know about what defines a good game.
 
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Again, no. I don't hate out of ignorance. For the longest time I have stated that Fallout 4 will be like Skyrim. A dumb but fun game with very, very watered downed RPG mechanics with tons of bugs on launch and right know it looks like my predictions were correct. Not only that but we have reviewers praising the game for its glitches. That is just wrong. "Hey people. Go and waste money on this broken product! Its worth every cent!"
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Depressingly, I've met some people who've pre-ordered the game because they want to experience the Wild West of bugs and glitches on day one before patches start fixing it.
 
Earth said:
RangerBoo said:
Again, no. I don't hate out of ignorance. For the longest time I have stated that Fallout 4 will be like Skyrim. A dumb but fun game with very, very watered downed RPG mechanics with tons of bugs on launch and right know it looks like my predictions were correct. Not only that but we have reviewers praising the game for its glitches. That is just wrong. "Hey people. Go and waste money on this broken product! Its worth every cent!"
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Depressingly, I've met some people who've pre-ordered the game because they want to experience the Wild West of bugs and glitches on day one before patches start fixing it.
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Well if they're studying game design for college then it would be a good lesson on how NOT to release a game on launch.
 
So basically just as expected. Now it's just a waiting game to see just how dumb the game actually is.
 
RangerBoo said:
Again, no. I don't hate out of ignorance. For the longest time I have stated that Fallout 4 will be like Skyrim. A dumb but fun game with very, very watered downed RPG mechanics with tons of bugs on launch and right know it looks like my predictions were correct. Not only that but we have reviewers praising the game for its glitches. That is just wrong. "Hey people. Go and waste money on this broken product that may break your computer! Its worth every cent!"
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For the record, my worst experience with the bugs in a game happened with none other than... Fallout; New Vegas. My first playthrough with that game was horrible on account of the bugs;at one point I to reload an eariler save and lost a considerable amount of hours. And yet despite that, over the years and subsequent playthroughs, it's become one of my most cherished experiences game.

Could a similar thing happen here; could Fallout 4 have some very unforgiving bugs and crashes, but could its positives actually be worthy enough for it to be considered a great game, in spite of such faults.
 
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RangerBoo said:
Again, no. I don't hate out of ignorance. For the longest time I have stated that Fallout 4 will be like Skyrim. A dumb but fun game with very, very watered downed RPG mechanics with tons of bugs on launch and right know it looks like my predictions were correct. Not only that but we have reviewers praising the game for its glitches. That is just wrong. "Hey people. Go and waste money on this broken product that may break your computer! Its worth every cent!"
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For the record, my worst experience with the bugs in a game happened with none other than... Fallout; New Vegas. My first playthrough with that game was horrible on account of the bugs;at one point I to reload an eariler save and lost a considerable amount of hours. And yet despite that, over the years and subsequent playthroughs, it's become one of my most cherished experiences game.

Could a similar thing happen here; could Fallout 4 have some very unforgiving bugs and crashes, but could its positives actually be worthy enough for it to be considered a great game, in spite of such faults.
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It is true that a game can be amazing, in spite of its bugs and crashes. I certainly agree with you about that over New Vegas.

However its still odd how many of the reviewers mention all of the faults and bugs, but without it seeming to affect their scoring of the game. Its hard to find, in the reviewers, the sort of reasoning that you suggest e.g. "it crashes a lot, but its worth it for x, y and z".
 
What's funny is that he brings up an actual gripe I have with the opening.

You spend like five minutes with your family, you don't gain any actual connection to your wife/husband or son.

Then you're a popsicle and all of a sudden the game wants you to be all like "MY KID, MY KID! I'LL KILL YOU FOR MY KID!"

But then it goes downhill pretty damn quickly.
 
The complete lack of integrity of the main gaming publications is hardly surprising.

What I would like to know, though, is if it is true that the game's EULA specifically prohibits the use of script extenders and such. I've read rumors about it in some places, but I haven't seen any hard confirmation. Is it true? If so, it would be a further measure taken by Bethesda to stick it to the existing modding scene in an attempt to make their coming payed modding more successful. Basically all the major popular mods for FO3, FNV and Skyrim uses script extenders, but since Bethesda's vision is selling simple mods that are installed with a single mouse click, it's easy to see why they actively would try to stop more involved mods, which you won't be able to get from Bethesda.net or wherever, from becoming big and popular.
 
AskWazzup said:
I feel that RangeBoo and Walpknut need yoga and meditation in their lives.
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Haha! I do actually do meditation! It just I can't stand the double standards that is seen with so many game "critics". That and that this week is going to be rough with the fanboys and critics giving them the fuel they need for their fire. Need to mentally prepare myself. Its funny that these critics praise Skyrim and Fallout 4 for being a bugfest but with New Vegas they then suddenly cared about bugs and glitches.
 
The Gamespot review at least brought up the gripe with the dialogue that the 1-2 word options left the reviewer surprised with what the character said, and he didn't like that. Sang its praises otherwise though. I don't know, he brought up a fair amount of the problems he had with the game but went with the idea it didn't bring the game as a whole down that much. With his tone, it even felt like he wanted to give it a lower score than he did at the end.
 
Earth said:
Obsidian missed out on their bonus because their ratings were too low right? And the reasons for why they got a lower Metacritic rating was because it was too similar to Fallout 3 and because it was very buggy and crashed a lot, right?

Now here's Fallout 4, which a lot of actual reviewers themselves are describing as Skyrim-with-guns and very similar to Fallout 3, and reviewers all over are saying how they experienced numerous bugs and glitches, with very powerful computers that can handle the game's specs crashing? And the game gets 9/10 scores?

All I can say is, I smell a rat.
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This!
 
D Borous said:
Could a similar thing happen here; could Fallout 4 have some very unforgiving bugs and crashes, but could its positives actually be worthy enough for it to be considered a great game, in spite of such faults.
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I too had to endure some of the worst bugs ever encountered in a game such as this with Fallout: New Vegas. Like you, I even lost hours of gameplay in one playthrough. Even to this day, I'm still a bit miffed I cannot complete Aba Daba Honeymoon and fool the NCR into thinking I neutralized Motor Runner in Bounty Killer due to a dialogue glitch with the aforementioned Fiend commander never being ironed out properly.

Nevertheless, I stuck with New Vegas though because it more resembled Fallouts 1 and 2 as opposed to 3. I got damn good characters, factions with an interesting dynamic between them, decent story, player agency, choices and consequences, ending slides, and vast replay value that keeps me coming back to the game, again and again, almost six freakin' years later.

If I had to put up with the same horse shit for the shallow experience offered by the likes of Fallout 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, and what appears to be Fallout 4?

I would have turned that game disc into a drink coaster.

But that's just me.
 
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