A Review by some die hard, old "Fallout Fan", after more than 900 Hours of gameplay.

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1: Special Perks/Skills:

2: Engine:

3: Karma-System:

4: Popularity-System:

5: Building-System:

6: DLC's:

7: Special-Items:

8: Mainquest:

9: THE LORE:

10: Mapdesign:

11: Dialogue-System:

12: Copy-Paste-Quests:

13: Factions:

14: Nuka-World-Raiders:

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Obsidian Entertainment.

Spoilers included. Swearing included. Truth included.Let's get right into it.They don't influence anything! In previous Fallout titles, every perk, every skill you've achieved, no matter if it was for charisma, strength, intelligence and so on, influenced your game experience with unique dialogue options and other things. Its gone now!The fact that you guys still use this old, heavily modified morrowind-engine, not only shows how you guys are unable to evolve as a game development studio, it also shows that you probably don't want to evolve, because you think your games are the pinnacle of open world RPG's - well hear the news - THEY ARE NOT.The karma-system is missing! Despite the fact someone have thought that this won't be a problem afterall, it's a huge problem and another step downhill for a once great game ! While FO3/NV had a karma system, Fallout 4 does not have it, and it takes away the feeling that the world is reacting to your actions! It takes away the soul and everything else which gave immersion for the choices you made ingame! Cause nothing actually really matters now! "Eradicate Diamond City? Who cares, go on, you lost your stupid son so I will forgive you!"This one was also cut, or was never planned to be ingame because Bethesda didn't want to spend time on this! FO:NV greatly introduced this system, and it was absolutely great having the choice to be friends with nearly EVERY faction present ingame - depending on the choices you've made!Despite the fact I've spend tons of hours building settlements - which at the end didn't served any real purpose than being cosmetic crap like everyhing else in this game - this system is so unbeliveable broken and almost unusable, that the easiest constructs sometimes made you grind your teeths because of frustration! Thankfully to your community, all the mods helped eradicate the undone stuff you left over!Excluding Far Harbor and Automatron, all the other DLC's are an absolute joke, and an underwhelming experience, and not worth their money. Too much workshop stuff, which wouldn't be so bad if settlements - like I said before - would serve more than just an cosmetic purpose.And Nuka World ... Holy fu**, how I hate it! I even prefer the horse armor! I wouldn't even mind it, if it just was some small addon in the middle of other DLC's, but the fact that it really is the last DLC, is such an complete disappointment, I have no words left for it. The quests, the raiders, the wasteland - everyhing is mediocre at it's best, probably much worse.None of them actually has some special design or some special "enchantment", nothing feels unique, everything is just the same stuff! At least in Skyrim some of the special items were unique, not all, but some, but in Fallout 4 nearly every special item isn't special! Copy paste at it's finest! Every reward is just underwhelming. Think it's not important? Well, maybe it ain't imported for some kiddos with low standards, but for true fans - IT IS IMPORTANT!Probably the most miserable mainquest I've ever saw in a game, and the fact that I really don't have another choice than blowing up this or that faction at the end, is just lazy writing and lazy development.GIVE ME SOME REAL ALTERNATIVE!THATS THE PROBLEM WITH PRE-DEFINED CHARACTERS IN AN PSEUDO-RPG. YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE IT "YOUR" CHARACTER. YOU ARE BOUND TO A BACKGROUND STORY. FO:NV DID A GREAT JOB WITH THE COURIER! THATS WHAT I CALL AN RPG-ELEMENT.Some big problem with Fallout 4 !WHAT THE **** DID BETHESDA HAD IN MIND WHEN MAKING THIS LORE ******* X-01-Quantum-Power-Armor and putting it into Nuka World? The X-01 - Advanced Power Armor - Was made by the enclave in the year 2215, put into duty in 2220, served until the year 2270!YOU CAN'T PUT THIS ARMOR INTO NUKA WORLD! NUKA WORLD IS PRE-WAR! IT MAKES NO SENSE! YOU CAN'T JUSTIFIE IT! EVEN IF BRADBERTON HAD TIES WITH PRE-WAR GROUPS OF THE MILITARY, THE ADVANCED POWER ARMOR NEVER WAS INTENTED TO BE A PRE-WAR PROTOTYPE ! IT NEVER EXISTED PRE-WAR! IT WAS MADE ABOUT 150 YEARS LATER BY THE ENCLAVE!IT ALSO NEVER MADE SENSE THAT THIS MANY PARTS OF THE X-01 ARE SCATTERED AT PRE-WAR MILITARY-CHECKPOINTS! WHY WOULD THEY! IT'S ENCLAVE... IT-MAKES-NO-SENSE!AND WHAT THE **** IS THE T-60 POWER ARMOR SUPPOSED TO BE!? I COULD UNDERSTAND IT'S EXISTENCE IF IT WOULD BE MADE BY THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL AFTER THE EVENTS OF PROJECT PURITY AND THE ADAMS AIR FORCE BASE, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE IF IT WAS AN UPDATE OF THE BROTHERHOODS T-45 POWER ARMOR. BUT IT ISN'T!THE T-51 WAS THE PINNACLE OF PRE-WAR POWER ARMOR! NOT THE T-60! IT'S PRE-WAR EXISTENCE IS OBSOLETE! AND THIS MAKES NO SENSE! IT'S ANOTHER FAILURE AT RESPECTING YOUR OWN WORLD!AND WHAT ABOUT THE GHOUL-CHILD LIVING IN A REFRIGERATOR FOR 200 YEARS! GHOULS ALSO NEED FOOD AND WATER! THEY ALWAYS DID!IT'S NOT ABOUT REALISM, IT'S ABOUT THE CONSISTENCE OF YOUR WORLD! YOU JUST CAN'T CHANGE THIS CONSISTENCE! BECAUSE IT WILL END IN A NON-LOGICAL MASH-UP!J.R.R TOLKIEN ONCE SAID YOU HAVE TO RESPECT THE RULES OF THE WORLD YOU CREATED! OTHERWISE YOUR WORLD IS DOOMED!Excluding Far Harbor AGAIN, the overall Mapdesign is just terrible and horrible boring! Even the mojave desert is far more enjoyable - AND IT'S A DESERT!And nuka world's wasteland... Just some flat piece of dirt with mutated inhabitants and a theme park! And the locations, well, most of the time they don't serve any real purpose than being cells for loot! I can't remember one cave, one location which awarded me with some real special gun or armor, or quest!AND THE MAP IS SMALL! ♥♥♥♥! NEARLY 1/3 OF THE COMMONWEALTH IS WATER! IGN 2/10 - TOO MUCH WATER!PROBABLY EVERY GAMER AROUND THE WORLD IS ON MY SIDE AT THIS ONE!THIS CATCHPHRASE-DIALOGUE-SYSTEM IS SO MESSED UP! DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT ANYWAY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY IN THIS GAME, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY EXACTLY! ITS QUICKSAVE AND RELOAD EVERYTIME, UNTIL YOU GET AN ANSWER THAT FITS YOUR STYLE!WHY ARE YOU ******* GAME-DEVELOPERS ALWAYS TRY TO FIX SOMETHING THAT AIN'T BROKEN!AND COMPARED TO OTHER FALLOUT TITELS, WHICH OFFERED DOZENS OF ANSWERS, THIS NEW SYSTEM LIMITS THOSE OPTIONS TO A TOTAL OF 4! WHICH IS SO RETARDED! YOU MUST BE A REAL OBSCURE PERSON TO COME UP WITH SUCH AN IDEA!BUT THATS THE TYPE OF GAME WE ARE FACING TODAY! KEEP IT SIMPLE, MAKE IT EASIER, BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE WILL BUY AND PLAY IT THEN!You recycle quests from previous titles. What is going on with your writers?The Factions. They all are somehow boring. Esspecially since the most epic nemesis - the enclave - doesn't even get more than two mentions in Fallout 4 - like they've never ever existed.Institute: Canon-Died-Pseudo-Enclave-Replacer.Railroad: PETA of the wasteland.BoS: Technology hording troglodyts.Minuteman: Faction you are somehow bound to without any other choice.Again nothing more than cosmetic trash. I can't progress with them in the mainquest. It doesn't matter that I joined them. Preston says kill them - EVERYHING IS GOOD AGAIN.While there are still many things I'd like to mention, I guess it's enough if I say that Fallout 4 is an absolute waste for every true fallout fan. It's nothing more than a cosmetic silhouette, an outline of a once great game.If theres any hope for Fallout, than it's name is