Last November, I made a review for Fallout 4, based on my impressions after a weeks or so with the game. I actually was planning on moving the review over to Real Gamer Reviews, but as I was re reading it, I was amazed at how my impressions of it now are so drastically different from when I played it back then.

I was actually shocked at how much I found myself playing Fallout 4 after the fact of beating the campaign, and one of my original complaints was how I felt like the game had little replayability after beating the campaign. That’s still true to a certain extent but what I didn’t consider was starting over with a new character!

I have about 4 or 5 different characters now, each of them playing very differently from each other and in each one I got a LOT of quests that I never found or encountered in my original playthrough. I didn’t play any of my secondary characters nearly as much as I did my first but I have close to 200 hours loaded into the game now and I can absolutely say that this game has replayability.

Another thing that I really didn’t appreciate on my first run, was the different factions. Some of my initial complaints are still completely valid, they all have repeatable side quests or as they’ve been come to be known as, “Radiant Quests” and those are completely pointless other than cheap money and EXP. But some of the story quests were actually WAY more interesting than I gave them credit for.

Take the Railroad for example, probably the second faction I’m least interested in supporting but they have a quest where you infiltrate the Brotherhood of Steel and there are character checkpoints you have to get through. Just having charisma is enough to get through it, but from a story perspective it was REALLY entertaining!

As far as Fallout 4 goes in comparison to 3 and New Vegas, I can absolutely see the faults that people complain about. Fallout 4 really doesn’t have the same depth that it’s previous two titles had when it comes to dialogue trees, or situations, or consequences but I rarely see people complimenting Fo4 on what it did well.

Graphically, it might not be outstanding by today’s standards but it’s leagues above New Vegas and I can absolutely appreciate that. A lot of people complain that having “Good” shooting mechanics takes away from the game but I frankly disagree. It’s one thing to have intentionally bad shooting because you’re not trying to be an FPS, but when 90% of your gameplay is shooting, and you can’t talk your way out of it, it’s not BAD to have your primary gameplay mechanic be usable.

If I had to give a reason as to why a lot of aspects of Fallout 4 lack depth, it would be because they put so much effort into making Fallout 4 from the ground up. As a sequel, it’s a little weak, but as a base for future games, it has AMAZING potential. As I see it, Fallout can only go up from here and developers from New Vegas have expressed interest in working on a new Fallout game using the Fallout 4 engine!

Fallout 4 is still a great game! Not many games have held my attention this long. I can absolutely see why people complain about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth complaining about.

If you want to see my original review of Fallout 4 you can find it in the link below and if you have any comments or thoughts on this re-evaluation I’d love to hear them! Thanks for reading!

Fallout 4 Review