Fallout 4 launched five years ago and fans of the series have maintained drastically different perspectives on whether or not it’s worthy of the series’ iconic name ever since. Amid plenty of polarizing opinions about the game, one person recently decided to have a couple of drinks and offer their honest verdict.
The review was recently published on Reddit, and is titled, “Drunk 21 year old reviews Fallout 4.” In many ways, it’s a pretty standard review, separating the game into its best and worst parts and judging it accordingly. However, it’s slightly more colourful than some of the reviews I’ve read over the last five years - most of which were published within a week of launch, like any normal review would be.
“First of all I am not hating on Fallout 4,” writes Redditor User_not_10. “I will be stating the good and bad of the game. Let us proceed.”
Under the section titled “Da Good,” our drunken critic notes several of Fallout 4’s more impressive aspects. The combat is better than that of its predecessors, in that it’s more gun-focused than it is reliant on VATS. He’s also pretty impressed by the improvements to power armor, which is more vehicular in nature than its level-gated counterparts in previous games.
There’s also a lengthy segment of the post that praises the world of Fallout 4, focusing on how fleshed out it is while lauding its emphasis on visual storytelling.
But it’s not all good. Eventually, every review has to arrive at “Da Bad.”
“The game expects me to be able to care about Shaun and my wife when I’ve only seen them for five f*cking minutes,” notes the poster. “That is not how you invest someone in a character.” He’s also rather unenthused by Fallout 4’s depiction of factions, and reckons the character development is all a bit fan-ficcy.
“The dialogue makes Oblivion NPCs look like Harvard grads,” he writes. For those unacquainted with the fourth instalment of The Elder Scrolls, it is known all over the world for the fact that if you stop actively playing for a split second, you’ll notice that every single aspect of the world around you somehow makes less than no sense.
Before concluding with a “peace out,” the poster also mentions that he hates the voiced protagonist, only liked two side quests in the whole game, and thinks that Fallout 4 is more Borderlands than it is Fallout.
What do you reckon? Do you agree with our drunken, five-years-late-to-the-party critic? Or do you think Bethesda’s strongest suit is having its NPCs talk complete and utter nonsense? Personally, I think all games should have Oblivion-esque dialogue.
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