

What’s more concerning is I’ve only really found maybe one or two other sizable towns in the game, outside the ones the player is supposed to build and develop. There could be all kinds of interesting characters and stories in there, but I haven’t found them yet. Since the early parts of the main quest I’ve spent barely any time in Diamond City or any settlement. I ended it by expressing hope that maybe the pacing would change once I reached settlements like Diamond City.įrom what I can tell 70 hours in (with still a lot left to find and do), it really doesn’t. In my post back in November I noted concern with how two hours into Fallout 4 you’re decked out in power armor shooting at a Deathclaw - which is usually high-level stuff in Fallout games. The point is, the main draw of Fallout 4 is shooting things and getting loot rather than interacting with characters and stories. In my previous post I said it sort of felt like RAGE 2. As the review, by “NIPPON STRONK,” put it at the end, it’s not really Fallout 4, but more like Borderlands 3. I think Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez wrote a pretty good summation of how it feels, and it referenced a Steam review that also puts it into good terms. I guess most people who’ve played the game have already figured it out by now, but the rest of the game pretty much continues that pattern.

When writing the last post I realized I hadn’t really followed up on my initial post about Fallout 4’s opening and how it felt more like a first person shooter than a role-playing game.
