

In the end we're left with a mishmash of gameplay features that were mostly stolen from mods that somehow did a better job than a AAA studio could produce. All in all, fallout 4 is a bunch of ideas the developers wanted to shove in, implemented very poorly. The story also deals heavily with the advanced technology of the institute, but this feels incredibly jarring and at odds with the rest of the fallout universe. Bethesda try and railroad the player into getting emotionally attached by having the player go after your "son", but it feels forced and I cared little about him as there's little reason to care. Instead of the semi freedom that you got in the previous 2 games, your character ends up feeling railroaded into a couple of life less dialogue choices of which there are only 4 at any given time, which the player has no way to tell what the player will actually end up saying. They tried to attempt to make a more focused personal story with the voice protagonist, but end up alienating the player even more. Your character will be basically identical to everyone elses. Also with the removal of skills in favour of the perk system, bethesda has essentially thrown out any incentive to replay the game, and further waters down progression, where a level 40 character feels almost the same as a level one character and all the characters feel the same as every character has access to the same perks, there is no way to specialize or make an interesting character build at all. The small wasteland makes for a claustrophobic feeling sandbox, which can get over whelming when you first head into boston, which is a far cry from the anticipation that you got in fallout 3 as you headed out into the wide wasteland. Not only were the new additions poorly implemented, but they stripped out any of the good things they did in fallout 3. The settlements, companion romances, weapon mods all seemed like interesting additions, but serve very little purpose in the game, giving little to no reward for the time invested in them. Not only were the This game is ultimately an unfocused mess, the developers putting in features that seemed good on paper but ended up being half baked and not gelling well with the actual game play.

This game is ultimately an unfocused mess, the developers putting in features that seemed good on paper but ended up being half baked and not gelling well with the actual game play.
