Evaluating Fallout 4- An analysis on the game's story, mechanics and structure

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Fallout 4 Dialogue options: 1. What? 2. Yes (funny) 3. Yes 4. Yes (but later)

I still remember the best joke Fallout 1: I need to find the water part Fallout 2: I need to find the G.E.C.K. Fallout 3: I need to find my dad Fallout 4: I need to find my son Fallout new Vegas: Who the fuck shot me in the head

It's odd that the MC doesn't bury his wife before heading out to Boston. There could be a timelapse after talking with the butler bot that has a lamposted grave site and some dialogue amounting to "its done - yaddy yadda - I swear I'll find our son!" Anything but leaving her to rot in some metal tomb like a vault that's right outside his house.

I never realised Maxson is 20 in FO4. He must be like the oldest looking 20 year old I've ever seen.

You know, would've been really cool if Kellogg kept coming up as a second personality in Nick rather than that one, singular time.

The best experience I had with the railroad was the first time I found them. I literally followed the red line, went to the basement, realized it was a code lock, and guessed railroad as a meme. It was fucking hilarious; double so when Desdemona refused to believe I guessed the password

I think what gets me most with the settlement system, in Fallout 4 you are a lone survivor trying to find your missing kid. In 76 you are trying to repopulate the commonwealth. In FO4, you go around building an eff-ton of settlements. In 76, you build one that is portable. I think Bethesda got confused somewhere.

Fun fact if you show up to the railroad meeting in power armor with the bright headlight you can actually see them standing there in the dark

"I lost my son, i have no idea where he is and I just awoke in this war torn land" Preston: "damn, that sucks... anyway we need to build a base"

I had a friend spend 3 hours customizing his wife and himself. His face was priceless.

I always found it ironic that there is a faction called “the railroad” in a game in which you, the player, is railroaded for the entire length of it.

I remember playing through the "Father twist" and being so mad that there was no option to have the character not believe him. like even if they wanted to force that as the truth, would it not make sense for the character to be unable to accept everything he is saying? Every dialogue with Father leaves no room for you to disagree with his morals at all, you can only choose to act against him.

Nick just walking into the Prydwen and nothing happening would be like Boone going into Fortifacation Hill and just making a snarky remark at a legionary.

Wife dies Main character: oh no! Anyways.

Electronic signals actually don't react well to radiation, so the glowing sea would be the perfect place to hide from synths who need to be given orders via electronic signals

If anything, the Railroad seems pretty consistent. I mean, in Fallout 3, the Railroad lady from the Rivet City quest literally just walks up to you and announces that she's in the Railroad and has been keeping an eye on you since you talked to the Institute guy that one time. She doesn't know going in if you're on the Institute's side or not. She just blabs everything to you immediately with no prompting and allows you to continue her side of the quest even if you outright tell her you're not on her side. The Railroad are impressively stupid and always have been.

Here is the thing that really pissed me off about settlement building. I spent hours making Sanctuary Hills really well defended. Put Steel walls up around the whole thing, with only one gate in. That gate defended with mines and turrets and traps. Aha! I thought that is impregnable. No such luck. I happened to be there trading with Carla one time and an attack spawned. And all the raiders spawned INSIDE the fucking walls. Made the whole base building thing completely fucking pointless. Why bother building all these defences if they can just spawn in the fucking middle?

Hey, remember how in New Vegas your Companion Boone hated the Legion so much that he would attack them on sight and the Legion turns hostile if you have him in your party? Why the hell was it so hard for Bathesda to make the Brotherhood be hostile towards you for having Nick? They do it with Danse when he is revealed to be a Synth!

To be fair, the path to the underground railroad in FO4 is the Boston Freedom Trail which is a 2.5-mile red-brick trail through Boston's historic neighborhoods. It starts at the Boston Common and ends at Bunker Hill, but it has 16 main points of interest.