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

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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

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

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.

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

The best thing about Fallout 4 unironically is exploring the map with Classical Radio on

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.

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

Fallout NV, Caesar literally brain cancer and you can cure him using your post-war wasteland knowledge Fallout 4, father is “sick”, he lives in possibly the most advanced society in the fallout universe. He dies anyway Excuse me, what?

"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"

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.

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?

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 plot point about Shaun being father was so unbelievable that I kept waiting for the speech option to get him to admit he was lying to pop up.

Fun fact, after you kill Kellogs, the Prydwen only appears if you exit through a specific door. On my second playthrough i went out using another door and was wondering if the game bugged me out of the main quest.

Wife dies Main character: oh no! Anyways.

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

The Deathclaw having to stop to swing at you bothered me so much for such a relatively small problem. Like they could’ve just imported the werewolf lunge attack from Skyrim and it would’ve made a deathclaw battle at least a little threatening.