2 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
8.2 hrs last two weeks / 1,042.6 hrs on record (36.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Sep, 2021 @ 8:13pm
Updated: 7 Dec, 2022 @ 3:36pm

First, I'd like to tell you that y'all really need to add some interior walls, I'm kinda sick of the fact that I can't apply wallpaper to both sides of the wall. Oh, and make it possible to build sinks inside the shelters.

Second of all, some actual criticism:

My previous review of this game hasn't been as good as I desired, as I was enraged by the direction this franchise is going, and the addition of chinese soldiers as Daily Operation enemies added specifically during a spike in anti-asian, specifically sinophobic hate crimes in the US. However, now I'd like to give a more comprehensive opinion.

"Violence is funny! Let's all just own up to it! Violence done well is f***ing hillarious! It's like Itchy and Scratchy or Jackass - now that's funny!" - Todd Howard, CEO of Bethesda Game Studios

I've seen a lot of people say that Fallout 4 is "a good game, but not a good Fallout game", and I'm afraid the same criticism applies to this installment even more. Despite bearing the title of Fallout, and having many iconic symbols of the franchise, this does not feel like Fallout. Why? Because the first two Fallout games and even New Vegas were criticisms of capitalism and war. The idea Tim Cain, producer and lead programmer of the first Fallout game, had in mind when designing the game, was "to explore more of the world and more of the ethics of a post-apocalyptic world, not to make a better plasma-gun". And now, we can just launch nuclear rockets for funsies and to spawn some bosses. And what critique or satire of capitalism can you have, when your own game is literally the very epitome of it, with all the micro-transactions, paywalled features, and the new main quest literally being about a heist for pre-war gold to bring back capitalism to the wasteland?

Even though I enjoy this game, love playing it and have several hours in it, this isn't a direction this series should be going. But what can I say? I can't change anything. People will keep buying this, people will keep supporting this direction, people will forget what Fallout used to be and what Fallout should be. It's sad, but there's nothing I can do and nothing I can change.

But please, fullfil at least one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ promise. Where is our mod support, Mr. Howard? It's been 84 years.

P.S. If you're not gonna give mod support then at least fix the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deafness bug. This bug makes me angry to the point i want to scream directly into every single BGS employee's face.
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